Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-31

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arrests among those who haunt the side.
walks in front Of churches on Sundays
and who form lines through which the
ladies have to run the gauntlet Of the
s%tarers. Several complaints have been
made as to this growing nuisance com
mitted by the church tends.
Yesterday morning conductor Harry
Childress, Of the Mississippi and Tennes-
see railroad, brought up from New Or
leans twenty old orphan children, each
of whom carried a jug Of whisky. but
who were in crippled condition in fact,
it was a palace a full Of rich old rsost-
ers from the Crescent City, on their way
to the Hot Springs Of Arkansas.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is now a hos
pital "a lazaretto, where the lame, the
halt and the blind, as well as the posset-
sors Of all disorders and diseases, con
gregate, which is sufficient to cause a
well man to lose his appetite. Hot
Springs has also become a sort Of Baden
or Monacca, where big gaming is carried
on by leading professionals and anna
teurs.
The number of negro chicken-thieves
now infesting the city, and their success
full raids in the suburbs, where hardly a
chicken is alive to greet the dawn, have
made II necessary for the chicken owner
to abandon his couch at night and sit out
on the porch with shotgun in hand to
protect his " lares ct %penates," called
roosters and pullets, from the raids Of
the blacks.
Special through tickets can now be
purchased to St, Paul, Minnesota, at the
Office Of the Memphis and St.
Louis Anchor Line Of p~alatial steam
ers, at the elevator, foot of Beal street.
These excursion tickets are good to Oc-
tober Is, Call on Captain Ad Storm or
Colonel Billy Dill, at the elevator, for
full particulars as to this delightful route
of travel up the Mississippi
1t has become fashionable to turn all
sharp corners with that peculiar aon-
committal euphuism; HE fought for
what he thought to be right not for
what he knew to be right. This extreme
fastidious delicacy of language is apt to
muddle history, but it explains what
Tallyrand meant when he said; Ian
gusge was given to US for the purpose of
conceafing our thoughts"
The Appeal Of yesterday informs the
people Of Memphis hat in the National
Cemetery "a solitary brave Texian lies
buried among the many heroes Of the
other States, he having departed from
the Lone Star State to fight the battles
of the Union" This gentleman must
have travelled at least two thousand miles
to indulge in the privilege Of fighting
against his State, his friends and rela.
tives.
"A welLknown Judge has been in the
habit Of speaking of the dog tax in the
presence Of his family. The youngest
hopeful, a girl, who has a pet puppy,
happened to see a carpet put down with
tacks, and recollecting the conversation,
gravely stated. IL don't want any tacks
put in my doggy; it would hurt him.
The difference between tax and tacks to
her was a profound mystery, as indeed
it is to many older and wiser people.
Men are often blamed on account Of
their politics, but scientists have discov.
cred that politics is often a matter of
temperament. Octave F~uellet, in Ca
Dors," says; I'm politics we take our
principles from temperament; the bilious
are d~enagogues; the sanguine, Demo
Gratis; the nervous, %aristocrats. One
both nervous and sanguine may take
choice; he may be an a~ristocrat in re.
gard to himself and q democrat in rela-
ton to others" This is a French view Of
the matter, and the term democrat is
used in contradistinction TO the term
aristoGEat, without any reference to the
term democrat as used in this country
to designate a political party, but there
is some wisdom and pith in the remark
Of M, Fuellet.
Hans Margerum, who a few days since
with Fannie Malone, a soiled dove, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years on the charge of malicious stab.
bing, possesses a charmed life. BE is a
%well-known rough who has been in scores
of bad scrapes for which he has been
arrested, tried and convicted, but has so
far managed to escape on new trials and
appeals to the Supreme Court. The
bright oasis in his worthless life is the
Spartan-like devotion of his old mother,
who sticks to him in all adversely, and
begs and pleads for his release just as if
he was a worthy citizen instead Of a pro-
fessional criminal, There is a sublimity
in the devotion Of this good mother to