Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-17

margia Of q newspaper. They are an
.aristocratic set OF citizens, jealous Of
their respective rights and routes, are
disposed to be profane, but yet are in
dustrious. In fact they are not unlike
older and more respectable citizens'in
many respects.
No ebivalric soul has left the city yet
in order to fight Sitting Bull and Sioux
braves out on the Yellowstone. When
the great chief camps along the banks
Of Hopeield lake. yer in Arkansas, it
will be time for volunteers to clean up
their muskets and s~hot-guns, and then
the ~ten.pounder Parrot aud Little
Democrat can be used TO advantage at
long range.
A specializing centennial year individ-
ual entered Floyd's confectionery, on
Main street, on Saturday, aud in order
to win a bet of FIVE dollars, drank thir-
teen glasses of soda water in succession.
After accomplishing the feat and win
mug the money, he called for another
glass of soda, saying that he felt thirsty.
He can regard himself rs the champion
soda water swigger of the season.
The roughness Of the street railroad
tracks is becoming a serious ~inconveni.
ence, as it furnishes rather too much
violent exercise during the hot weather.
In mid winter a little joltiDg does not
hurt, because it keeps the blood 10 cir
culation, but when the thermometer is
90o in the shade no such bodily exercise
is pleasant. There is such a thing as
giving a passenger too much for his or
her money.
The bluff at the foot of Madison street
is now visited nightly by hundreds who
go there for the purpose Of resting and
cooling off. The soft, cool breeze that
flows up the river. after dark invites
sleep from those who sit down, but
should the invitation be accepted the
s~neak-thief destroys the pleasure of the
hour by picking up a hat or any other
portable article that may drop from the
sleeper. Several little la%rcenies of this
character have taken place there of late.
That notorious chain-gang prisoner.
Frances Thompson, had to be taken of
the chain-gang and placed back in the
I ltion.house cell this forenoon, so great
was the crowd of both white and black
people who surrounded him as he worked
on the streets. The side. walks became
impeded and blocked with people, al
eager to get a look at the v~illainous ne
gro who has been passing himself off a
a negress for many years, and who swor,
so like a Radical before that Washburl
Congressional Investigating COMMITTEES
which sat on the Memphis riots, anc
whose testimony was Endorsed by lead
ing Memphis Raiicala at negro meeting
in subsequent campaigns.
The coolest and most methodic police
man that has been heard of lately ap
peared on one of the street cars yesterday
The car-driver stopped in response to tn
shouts and frantic gestures of an excite
citizen, who came running to the cal
saying: II want you, quick, to make a
arrest; come quick" The guardian
the city did not rise from his seat, BIT
coolly replied: 81 haven't time TO go
am going to roll call; get one of the me
On the beat to make the arrest" SOM
5 times it takes an hour to find the men o
the beat, as the beats are very large an
but one man is on each during tn
day; yet there's nothing like red tap
and method when engaged in publ
business.
! To secure a personal notice in a new;
paper is the supreme weakness of man
4 heads and the intense longing of man
hearts. The reporter knows this fu
: well and can tell in advance by the gras
? of the hand what is coming next from
: seemingly overjoyed acquaintance VIII
. begins to unfold a tale of absence froi
: the city for q week or two, what he sa
and when he returned. Others, lei
! modest, will ask you for a personal n,
tice in the coolest manner, and will nj
. be satisfied with less than a Geographic.
sketch of their lives, although their livi
may have been as uniuteresting al
sluggish as the waters of a bayou. II
business way to do such thingsi is to wri
n out your own personal notice, visit Il
business office of the LEDGER aud pt
for its insertion.
READ THIS AND BE HAPPY.
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