Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-13
LEDGER LINES.
Try bored wells, 81 Main.

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The different churches were we'll at.
tended yesterday.
The city school board will meet to.
night at Odd Fellows Hall.
Five cents per box is the price of the
fruit OF the vine throughout the city. at
present.
Our Tennessee and Mississippi ex.
changes come laden with news concern.
ing good crop prospects.
The weather. is becoming warmer again
since the thermometers have succeeded
in investing the go point.
The city rortuary report for the past
week shows the number of deaths to hsve
been 80, of which II we're whites and q
blacks.
The Supreme Lodge of Knights OF
PythiaS of the World meets to-day at
Cleveland, Ohio, and will be in session
FIVE days.
Some wise mar says: On the farm is
bread, meat, milk and happiness. In
the cities is lack Of bread and meat and
happiness.
The London Lancet, the leading En-
glish medical journal, declaims against
the excessive consumption of ices and
iced drinks.
The building and loan associations are
building up several sections Of the city
1t is astonishing bow many residences
spring up around town as it were BY
magic.
AT Louisville the members OF the gen,
eral council are to play a game of base.
ball and for charitable purposes. A SUI.
geon has been specially engaged for the
occasion.
The Salvotti concert at Estival Park
last night was well attended. The
music was excellent in every respect.
Arnold'S band never played better.
Sal Totti was in splendid voice, and was
compelled to accept several eucores.
Already the pot-house politician, who
pretents that he controls votes in some
ward, is button.holing the prospective
~mayoraly and other municipal csudi
dates for a loan of five dollars, so that
ne can treat the boys. The pot.house
ward politician is a dead-beat of the
lowest order, and there are many of
them in this city.
Several Memphisns are going around
town Dragging on the size, heft, beauty,
amiability and genius Of their respective
new babies. This ~pardonable weakness
wear away in the course of time when
a new baby ceases to be a wonder and
becomes a commonplace person, not
particularly different from other persons
Of the same age and sex.
Memphians continue to leave the city
in search Of other climes where to
while away the summer hours like Lotus
Eaters or other INDECENT people who are
seeking to find pleasure by doing moth
ing Dolce far niente is their motto.
But to be able to do it in that style is
the great unraveled riddle with the i'm.
pecunious tay.at-home-hold the bluff
folks Of the city.
The Knoxville Tribune says that Mayor
Flippin of Memphis passed through
Knoxville a day or two since en- route
home from the East, whittier he had been
attending to the disordered finances of
the Bluff City. The Tribune adds:
" Mayor Flippin has succeeded, we are
glad to learn, in securing a basis for a
final settlement of the debt Of Memphis.
Most heartily do we extend congratula-
tons to our big sister city upon so good
a result and so promising an outlook
Never say diel'
At Glasgow, Scotland, q suit IN law
has been brought by Mr.. Duncan against
the police court for el2 damages for
killing an unmuzzled Scotch terrier dog
Of greet value belonging to the plaintiff.
The dog was killed by the police under q
proclamation issued by the commits
%sioners, and the plaintiffs attorney
claimed hat the proclamation twas a
violation OF the law OF the land with
reference to personal property. at last
accounts the learned judge Who had
taken the case under advisoment had
not given a decision.