Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-07

modious establishment suitable to the
wants and importance Of the Cotton
Exchange and Chamber OF Commerce.
Two ellknown gentlemen, one a
merchant and the other a professional
man, met a few days since on Main
street. Says the methodical business
man: my dear friend, let me give you
a piece Of good advice: / never knew a
man to get rich who kept his hands in
his pockets continually, as you do" The
lawyer studied a moment and said:
My dear friend, you are right; people
nowadays only get rich by keeping their
hands in other peoples pockets"
Two negro women reached the station
house on Saturday evening and wanted
warrants for each other on account of
their husbands and jealousy. One ne
gress upbraided the other, saying: you
are a member Of church, and ought not
to go after my husband" Yes" re-
piled the other, Use a church member,
and the spirit of God is in me yet" She
then set up a howl and sang a hymn in
so boisterous and disorderly a manner
that the station-house keeper had TO lock
her up.
Last winter it was the custom in st.
Louis to ship her smallpox patients to
Memphis, and Chicago at the opening
of the winter season shipped her unem.
ployed paupers South, it being adver-
tised in the Chicago press and in hand
bills that there was plenty Of work along
the Mississippi river coast and in Mem
phis. Paupers are also shipped here by
rail and river from other points. This
sharp practice Of our up country and
other neighbors should be closely watch
ed, as Memphis has about as many sick
and poor of her own as she can well
take Gaze OF.
Who will be our next Mayor IS a
c%onundrum %propounded by the Appeal.
We think we hear several dozen or more
small voices answering 81 will" The
present incumbent has proven the folly
of selecting a politician for the position,
and a politician who protested to be the
candidate of no party, who proudly pub
lished himself a true-blue Republican
when in Office, and in a few months af-
forwards recanted his vile faith and was
converted into a halfshell Democrat one
Saturday night in a back room by Col.
Heating, of the Appeal, who published
his recantation next morning; but it was
a Londonderry profession of faith.
That was a " stifish bit O breeze " on
Saturday afternoon. Eolus and Plu-
vious put their heads together and went
on the rampage. The dust flew, the rain
fell, the thunder roared andthe lightning
flashed, while in man was aroused what
ever little piety there was left in poor
human nature. The only exceptions to
this piety produced by the commotion in
the heavens were the Signal Service
men, who put up their umbrellas and
calmly took observations, and the news.
paper reporters, who impatiently waited
for things to blow over, so that they
could rush out and gather up items from
the rout and wrecks left by the storm
tends throughout the city.
Mons. Bergb, the 'cruelty.to-animal
man of New York, who recently wrote
a letter to the Appeal in favor of estab-
fishing a branch of his brute.protecting
society in this city, does not seem to
stand high with the editor of the Detroit
Free Press, who says: "Bergh hasn't
been heard from recently. Every time
he makes a jackass Of himself he settles
down for a few weeks" Some months
since Bergh had a Broadway grocery
man arrested on the charge of working
a dog to a cider mill, but mex day a
young darkey took the dogs place in
the mill and Bergh never interfered,
the animal man not belonging to the
brute creation, although he often acts
the brute.