Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-09

England, they will act in different local
tiles during the summer months.
The Pigeon-roost road is now one Of
the best drives in the suburbs for three
miles out from the corporation line. The
road has been worked and repaired,
the bridges have been Fixed, etc, by road
supervisor Mr.. Mike, Nealis and his
force of road builders.
1t puzzles the foreign gentleman to
pronounce the following series of Eng
lish words, and, indeed, the native born
too often sinks at spelling matches be-.
meath the same curious words. They
are: dough, cough, through, tough,
plough, enough, bough, trough, etc.
1t is reported that the gap OF forty
miles on the Paducah railroad will be
closed this summer and that by fall a
continuous rail will extend from Padu-
cab to Memphis and on to New Orleans
via the Mississippi and Tennessee road
and the Jackson, Mississippi, route.
The Appeal local, who is posted up in
society matters, says; The wedding
season will soon close because Of the
warm weather" but the local fails to
state why this GOODNESS should now arise
among lovers matrimonially inclined
who reside in this parallel of latitude.
Crooked goods of short weight from
St. Louis and other cities are appearing
in this city and attracting the attention
Of purchasers who pay full rates for the
swindle. Let the Chamber Of Commerce
regulate the matter and expose the man.
ufacturers Of short weight goods"
A South Memphis lady says, 9 she
does not like the LEDGER. as it is too
small for 'bustles,' and for this sole
reason she prefers the Appeal or Ava
lanehe, although she admitted that if
elevating the mind is the thing desired
the LEDGER is superior to its hustle man
ufacturing contemporaries,
Last night a umo prevailed that two
gentlemen, owing to a difference Of
opinion about some small matter, had
arranged to fight a duel with pistols on
the bluff at the foot of Madison street at
daylight this morning, but at the hour
appointed both gentlemen were in their
beds taking their morning naps-and
the duel is off for the present.
Newspaper reporters will not let a
human being die now, as was permitted
heretofore. They make him pay the
great debt of nature" they " gather him
to his fathers" or they insist that the
world has lost another bright or shining
light" Fine writing is rapidly destroy
ing the old styles of business in this
world.
A well known cotton shipping agent
sat down on a chair in a railroad office
yesterday, and be now knows the exact
difference between tax and tacks. He
a now c~oDjugate the intransitive verb
to sit" but his style Of ~conjugating is
sadly intermixed with liberal profanity.
After getting up he made a blue linep
for home.
Packing big and little trunks and pre-
pairing to leave for springs and watering
places is the order Of the day at present
among those whose desire to travel cor.
responds with their financial ability.
The Cant Get Always" number many
thousands, and they will "hold the fort
(Pickering) until the return Of the ab-
sentees."
Yesterday it cost a well.known cotton
man FIVE dollars to express himself in
open court when summoned as having
formed an opinion in favor of hanging
the Express robbers. If such a forma-
ton or expression Of an opinion is an
ofense or contempt Of court, then sew
eral thousands Of people on the bluff are
guilty of the same.
The average Memphian now goes out
serenading in the back streets and
suburbs, and his soul is made happy
when q white form appears behind the
easements and a ghostly hand drors a
worn-out glove without a mate on tie
pavement, or hurls a faded bouquet, with
no little force and unerring precision, at
the head of the vocalist.
Our Jewish fellow. citizens are now
celebrating the Feast Of Weeks" The
ceremonies incident to confirmation
were held in the different synsgogues TO-
day. The Feast is something like the
4" Feast of Ceres" celebrated by tAe
ancients, it being a feast celebrated by
the Jews 10 olden times at the close Of
the harvest season, and in honor of that
event.
The Police and Fire Commissioners,
at a meeting held yesterday. adopted q
resolution to confer With the General
Council for the purpose of devising ways