Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-10
LEDGER LINES.

Inc city dog ordnance has become y
law ready to promulgate.
The Mammoth Cave exc~ursionists will
return home this evening.
Judge Walker is now City Attorney.
vice Mr.. Hanson, resigned.
The County Quarterly Court stands
adjourned until Monday next.
Bartlett Circuit Court in session next
Monday, Judge Ray presiding.
Nothing of interest is being transacted
in the courts of record to day.
Yesterday afternoon the mercury in
the thermometer danced up to 800 in the
shade.
The Carmichael-M adigAn homicide
case will be heard before Esquire Miller
this afternoon.
Workmen are repairing the Nicolson
pavement on North Court street, between
Main and Second,
An alarm Of fire was given last even.
ing caused by a lamp explosion on De-
Soto street. No damage done.
The LEDGER is the only daily journal
published in this city on Mondays, a fact
which advertisers will do well to recol-
lect,
The irrepressible small boy is endeav-
oring to exterminate the feathered tribe
from the groves of this city with the
sling.
Squads of fishermen left to-day for the
Arkansas bayous and lake, there to re-
main and enjoythe piscatorial pleasures
until Monday.
The Foley injunction ring hoped to do
the charter and Commissioner up brown,
but the ring is now the laughing stock Of
the city, and, like necessity, is said to
know no law.
On Wednesday next the law makers
Of the city will again squat around the
municipal Board and endeavor to make
a City Attorney.
Sol Coleman insists that he keeps the
best and cheapest cigars in the city at
his Havana cigar depot on Main, near
Washington street.
Judge Walker received the appoint
ment of City Attorney, pro TEN, from
Mayor League to-day, and will at once
enter upon the discharge of bis duties.
A continual sluice of filthy water run
ming out Of an alley on Madison street
below third, forms a disagreeable and
unhealthy nuisance hat should be aba
ted.
A dog belonging to a Main street mer-
chant devoured a box of compound ca
thartic or anti. bilious pills a couple of
months ago and has not been heard from
since.
No frame building can be erected
within the fire limits unless by permits
sion Of the Fire Commissioners, Chief
of the Fire Department and General
Council.
Quite a large crowd Of excursionists
went up among the islands last evening
and returned at a late hour, after enjoy
ing q good time in a social, musical anG
terpsichorean way.
A white man was arrested in North
Memphis last night, he having bitten a
piece out Of another mans thigh during
a fight. He should be placed under the
dog ordinance and be muzzled.
On Thursday last James c. Pollard, a
clerk in the employ Of Balls & Dickens,
B~atesville, Mississippi, was drowned in
the Tsllahatchie river while returning
from a fishing and SEEMING excursion.
Several Councilmen and Aldermen
talk of hopping away to cooler climes
for the summer months, where mandam
uses, vetoes, ordinances, resolutions,
charters, etc., will not be heard from.
Quite a demand has sprung up for
police and fire warrants wherewith to
pay the privilege tax. The boys" are
determined to hold the warrants until
they bring their real value, up among
the nineties.
The city has not as yet accepted the
proposition made by General Forrest for
the ch~ain-gang and other convicts. The
city is paying forty dollars per day for
the privilege of boarding and lodging a
set Of negro vagabonds and thieves.
The proposition to release ministers
from Sunday night preaching during the
heated term is meeting with favor among
the different Christian congregations.
1t is too hot to labor ali day long in the
Lords vineyard, and even clergymen
should have a rest.
The Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road company is to be allowed to lay a
track crossing Calhoun street and con.