Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-23
LEDGER LINES.
School Board meeting tonight.

slosIppl cOtVOu nave aIrlVeu.
The waters of the historic and classic
Mississippi have finally gone to bed
Absentees come marching home from
springs, which are %springing up in every
direction.
The Centennial ladies will meet to-
morrow evening at the residence of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis.
Drummers, or commercial travellers,
or bagmen. are arriving ia Memphis
from the North.
The mortuary report of the Board of
Health for the past week shows the total
deaths at q; whites, ID; blacks, H..
Song of the belles-Backward, pin
backward, Obi skirts in your fight; let
the boys see me good, just for tonight.
Within the past two months the hem
roosts of Chief Of Police Athy have
been three times robbed Of ROSTERS and
pullets.
The Appeal and Avalanche quote
police and fire warrants at So to 9Oc, but
the LEDGER more correctly quotes it at
80 to 92e.
Many a mar now takes a slide or de-
parture from the sidewalk by stepping
on a watermelon or cantalo1pe rind,
castthereon by some reckless citizen.
Manager Joe Brooks, Of the theater,
has arrived, and viii go to work immedi-
ately renovatipg and painting up the
thester, preparatory for the forthcoming
season.
Greenbacks with the signature Of John
c. New have appeared in Memphis. Mr..
New has endeavored to copy the hero.
glyphical signature of old Spinner, and
has succeeded admirably.
Capt. George W. Gift, editor and pro-
prietor of the Napa california; Re.
porter and formerly of our city, has been
nominated as the Democratic candidate
for surveyor of Napa county.
An exchange informs the world that a
few pennyroyal leaves rubbed and spread
out in a room, or the uncorking Of a bot
tie Of the essence, will drive away the
troublesome and persistent mosquito.
The Danbury steam fire engine, oil
Adams street, Captain Madden com.
handing, is pumping out the Happy
Hollow lake to-day under the direction
of Chief McFadden and DR.. Rice, of thu
Board Of Health.
Up to IL o'clock last night not al
arrest had been made by the police o
the night patrol. This indicates tina
M~emphians we're behaving themselveI
in a proper manner on the Sabbath, o.
else so carried on their violations of Law
as to escape detection.
There is a dog in Memphis owned b!
a river man which displays strang'
sagacity. When the boat upon which
its master is employed arrives at tn,
elevator it recognizes the boat whist,
and displays its joy by INDUCING in
series Of gambols and loud banks.
Sabbath breaking is defined by Web
ster so as to express the New England
or P~uritanical idea. He defines it to be
All unnecessary secular labor, visiting
travelling, sport, amusement and th,
like Under the above rule but ver1
few Memphians fall within the restric
tons.
Complaints have been made that thu
Beal street market is kept in a filth,
condition. Rev. Mr.. Phillips, (colored)
who is market master, should pay NOR
attention to the market, since he is pal,
by the city for that especial purpose, an,
not for preaching and exhorting aroun,
the city.
Last night, a little before IL o'clock,
negro chicken thief, accompanied by
small boy, attempted to rob the hen
roost Of Mr.. R. Davis, No. l59 SeconI
stteet, and would have accomplished hi
work but for the appearance of Nj
Grit, who went to the rescue in time t
prevent the robbery.
AT the request of the Memphis Cham
Der of Commerce, the Signal Servic
Bureau of the War Department vii
establish signal stations at Johnsonvillt
Decatur and Chattanooga, on the Ter
nessee river. During the late floods tn
Tennessee and Wabash rivers shove
up their dangerous qualities.
A middle'aged man named Grihi
George, formerly Of Sunfower Landing
has been sick in a hut back of the Pi
uola Oil Works some time, and is in
pitiable condition. He has a wife an
little child. They subsist on the Chart
of their neighbors, and sleep on a pale
on the ground. We commend them t
the attention Of the proper authoritiel
1.-THE Appeal says the General Cour