Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-05
LEDGER LINES.

The heavy rain yesterday afternoon
thoroughly cleansed the city's avenues.
IF you get choked, drop on all fours
aud cough is the advice of a Cornell
professor.
He was q splendid penman, a system
attic b%ook-keeper, and an accomplished
Grinker, concludes an Omaha obituary.
The Independents are now allowed a
respite in which to chew the cud of their
folly. Many of them will snever again
reach the surface.
John Davis, decidedly colored, had a
hearing before the Recorder this morn
ing for carrying frearms and disorderly
conduct yesterday.
The Memphis Reds and Riversides
play a match game of base ball to.mor-
row afternoon at Central Park. Adnis-
sion twenty-five cents.
The excursion on the City of Augusta
tomorrow, under the supervision of Mr..
Jake P6ster, will be recreating to the
overworked citizen. An excellent band
of music will %enliven the occasion.
Sam Bizzell, the colsred barber who
killed Columbus Stewart last WeN61ay
in the vicinity of Bob Church's saloon,
on Second street, was committed by Re
corder Duff to the county Jail without
bail.
The Appeal calls the attention Of the
charitably inclined to the destitute con-
dition Of a sick man and wife at No. &c
Market street. Liberality to the poor
and helpless is not overlooked in tie
hereafter.
A number Of the delegates to the
Democratic State Convention will leave
Monday evening or that night, in order
to be on the ground a few hours in ad-
vance and see how the land lies. This
is a good idea,
Servants wages are falling in New
York. Cooks are getting $l5 a month
instead of $40; chambermaid wages have
fallen from $l2 to $40; nurse girls to
Sc aud IS, and coachmen from $35 and
so as low as $40.
The handsome residence of General
King White, nine miles below Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, was burned to the
ground last Monday night. The loss
was $l2, 900, but insured Tor $4,000 in a
Little Rock agency.
We are favored with delightful weather
in this latitude at present. The oppres-
sive heat of O few days ago will probably
not put in appearance again this spm.
mer, which would be quite agreeable to
the can't-get-aways.
Tramps are becoming as numerous in
this locality as elsewhere. Along the
Central Pacific road in Nevada conduc-
tors and workmen are scarcely q match
for them, Its feared that if they con-
tinue to go in gangs armed guards will
have to be sent with the trains to protect
passengers. Charitable people are often
imposed upon by these intinerant vaga.
bonds.
A lecture will be delivered by Rev.
Father Magevney tomorrow evening al
8 o'clock OF St. Peters church for the
benefit Of the Sisters of the Good Sher-
herd. The Rev, Hugh Magevney is q
native of Memphis and a nephew Of the
lamented Colonel McClannaban. His
scholarly attachments and uprightness oil
character have secured him an enyiable
position in the Catholic church.
The mortuary report for the month
ending July 3lst shows that the mortality
was: Whites, 76; colored, 63; total, 1879
The rate Of mortality for the six months
ending June 30, 1876, was %. l6 per lOOC
per annum The rate of mortality o
the white population was only 1902 pei
1000 per annum, while the rate of the
eOlored population was 9s.O4 per 1901
for the same period.
I Alderman McCloy has introduced al
= ordinance which provides that for al
taxes due prior to 1876 the city shall re