Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-09

The newspaper men "excurted" on the
St. Bernard coal tug 0riole up to Hatchie
Lake yesterday.
Our Tennessee exchanges are full Of
obituary notices and life sketches Of the
late Senator from Tennessee.
The Mississippi is on exhibition at
present and has its back up; it is on its
periodical Ian is still full.
If you wish to know how many friends
you have, get elected to Office but if you
wish to know how many friends you
haven't, get in jail.
The picnic Of the Y. B. S. Club twill
positively come off to night at Leath Or
phan Asylum grove. Street-cars will
run until l o'clock.
We are getting cut of the rain areas,
but should the rains continue a LEDGER
correspondent will be sent off at once
in search of q Mount Ararat.
The romance has been knocked out of
female tears by a chemist who has an
alYsed them. They contain a little phos-
'phate of lime, some chloride Of sodium
and water.
Some days since a rainbow appeared
in the heavens; another would be in or
der, as many wicked planters in the
bends begin to doubt the promise that
mankind are never again to be destroyed
by food.
Last summer was extremely hot, and
we had very little rain, which was fol.
lowed by a very cold winter. This sum
mer has been mild, with plenty Of rain,
and it is predicted that next winter snow
storms will prevail, but no extreme cold
will be discovered.
DR.. Marable opened the stomach of a
COW which died in the suburbs last week
and found therein a handful of nails,
tacks, pins, scraps Of iron, etc., which
has been sent to this Office for inspec-
ton. That COW favored a sound metallic
currency, but took too much of it.
For several nights past Aocks of wild
geese have been flying southwark, they
having left the Northern feeding grounds
and lakes on account of the cold weather.
This is remarkably early for the wild
geese to be returning south, and mary
on thereof predict an early
winter.
Henry Smith and John Baugh, (nigs),
were arrested this forenoon by patrolman
Cheek on the charge of stealing two
pairs of shoes from the house Of Thos.
Ellis, on Main street, near South. The
property was found in their possession
aud they we're attempting to sell the
shoes when arrested.
Captain j. j. Freeman, late Cashier
of the State National Bank, has retired,
and his place has been filed by Mr..
Addison Hayes, late Cashier of the Me-
chanics and Traders Bank, and his place
has been filed by Mr.. Grifing, late as.
sistant cashier Of the same bank. Capt,
Freeman goes to Jefferson City, Mo-, to
take charge of the financial Office of the
Missouri penitentisry for the %lessees.
Uncle Nelson Mynatt, the colored
courthouse %janitor, died Of rheumatism
last night, much to the regret of the
clerks, judges and lawyers who frequent
the COURTHOUSE building, Uncle Nelson
was a mixed breed Indian and negro; he
was honest and honorable and had been
courthouse %janitor for many years and
had been a resident of Shelby county
yer forty years.
A street car driver was arrested yester
day on Beal street because his mule ran
against q child, doing it serious injury.
The driver was going down grade at the
time, and the child was getting off Of
the platform of an ~up-coming car, and
not seeing the down car collided with
the mule. The Ease will be heard BY
the Recorder to morrow morning, when
several citizens will be on hand to ties
tify. From all accounts the driver was
not responsible for the unfortunate acct
dent, but we have always thought tha'
the cars were driven rather too fast down
the Beal street grade, and this the super
intendent should correct, but it is use
less to ask that official to do anything
in behalf Of the public.
The Appeal editor-in-chief and Shak
speare have locked horns. The Appea.
man in yesterdays issue asserted thai
"a cynical poet has said:
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft inferred with their bones.
We maintain that the reverse Of this il
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