Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-01
LEDGER LINES.

m your irlend.
Warren, at 287 Main, will discount
anybody's price on lemons.
The colored societies aud brass band
went out blackburying to-day.
Charles Dudley Warmers new book,
Mummies and Moslems, just received by
A. +. bod & Co., 34l Main st.
To-day is the first day of August, a
fact discovered ere this by delinquent
debtors who have been haunted by the
monthly collectors.
We are in receipt of an invitation to
attend q river excursion on board the
City Of Augusta, to be given next Thurs
day night by the c. D. Club.
In to-morrow's LEDGER the letter Of
acceptance Of Governor Tilden will, in
all probability appear, that being the
day announced for its publication.
In view Of the county election Thurs
day next the political cauldron has com
menced boiling iercely, and candidates
are skipping about in a lively manner.
The Danberry No. l engine-house, on
the corner of Adams and Second, is I'M
dergoing repairs which will give light,
air, and more space for both men and
horses.
Colonel Logwood, our candidate for
Judge of the Criminal Court, left the
city last night for Florence, Alabama,
whittier he was called by telegram an
n ,uncing the dangerous illness of his
child.
The government has refused to re
ceive the C~hickasaw Guards and the
Irish Volunteers or to send them out to
scalp Sitting Bull. This is a shameful
snub put upon us by Grant aud his SEC
rotary Of War.
Lager saloons o put out monuments
Of empty beer kegs on the streets livery
morning. The number of empty kegs
gives a fair estimate OF the amount OF
lager de itroyed the day and night previ-
vious by the bibulously inclined citizens
Tourists and summer absentees ar,
slowly returning to the bluffs. They spesl
Of the heat and dust up North, and th,
disagreeable time spent in looking
through the philadelphia Exposition OF
account OF the heat and crowds Of pee
pie.
The thermometers only indicated
eighty-four degrees maximum heat o.
yesterday. The ine breeze that existed
all day made living q pleasure, TIL,
climate Of Memphis is as pleasant a
$ any in the world, and is quite as health.
: also.
!. The Appeal localizer asserts that p"
young widow is the most interesting oil
= ject in nature" he might have adde
the words "or art without v%iolatin
the principle of truth, but we dislike
see our contemporary give himself ava
so innocently.
v The police pulled in several drunke
and roudp characters last night. 1t b
ing cool and pleasant a portion Of h
mainly got drunk, that being, in the
minds, the very acme Of happiness. III
enjoyment of the beastly habit WI
o. taxed FIVE dollars oy the Recorder th
st morning.
To-day is the festival Of St. Peter {
s. Uiacula. This is known as the festiy
y. of St. Peters Chains, when Her,
he Agrippa, King Of the Jews, caused 5
Peter to be cast into prison, in the ye
A, intending to have him put to dea
\. after Easter, but an angel released t
apostle from his chains and conduct
him out of prison to a safe asylum.
on LIE Malta, the proprietor of the r
1n' taurant and saloon at Cochran Hall, /
for parts unknown yesterday, leaving
number Of creditors and hii own fam
in the lurcb. The creditors held a me
IT. ing on yesterday, withdrew their alta
of ment suits and permitted Mrs lie Nal
nit a most worthy woman, to carry on
lsiness, which has been and is quit
l.. profitable one
To day you could see a Radical
the one friendly to the cause, Whisper
1RS in the ear of some member of the She
County Democratic Executive Conn
= tee, all of which reminded our poeti
ieci editor of the lines Of Milton in descr
on. on ing the tempting of Eve by Satan:
"Hin, there they found, squat like a toad,
- Olese to the ear Of Eve; essaying with deVl
arts
To reach the organs of her fancy"
There is trouble in local political
Giles at present that may produce a st
ling effect in the future. The De
cratic Executive Board having refu
- to make a nomination for magistrate
.tRSii the city at large, a meeting Of the b
any utive Committee Of the county is ca
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