Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-18
LEDGER LINES.

the shirt tailor, makes them.
Not an item Of news could be picked
up about the courthouse to-day.
Mr.. John H. West, an old and we'll
known citizen, died at his residence in
South Memphis last night.
The Eurekas and Milahs will attend a
basket picnic next Sunday under the
management of Mr.. E. May.
The month of July will lose thirty
minutes Of daylight, but yet it has FIVE
Sundays, FIVE Mondays and FIVE Tues
days.
Tomorrow Mayor Flippin will leave
for the Eastern cities to induce the bond
holders to exchange old bonds for new
by way Of a compromise Of the city debt.
The letter signed Pipe" received. If
the writer will meet the owner with it on
the bluff north of Court street at 81
p N he will receive his reward on the
terms named.
A postmaster out in Wisconsin says:
1T an edict is issued that ofice-holdors
shall not edit political papers, we shall
cling to the Office and change this to q
Sunday school Journal"
Quite a number of excursionists awaited
themselves last night of the river trip on
board The steamer James D. Parker,
given under the auspices Of the Penny
Club Of the First Methodist Church.
The French club picnic will take place
on Sunday, July 29th, at Fitgibbon's
grove. The tickets issued TOR the picnic
which was postponed on account OF the
weather, will be good for this picnic.
Delinquent water consumers are in.
vited to step up to the Office OF the Water
Company immediately and settle up their
back dues, OF their water supply will be
cut off, etc. See advertisement in anoth-
er column.
Quite q number Of building aud loan
associations have been organized in this
city, aud now an effort is being made to
organize a cooperative grocery store for
workingmen under the Rochedale plan,
Of England.
Many hundreds Of citizens will leave
town and be absent during the summer
months, but many thousands OF Mem
phians will remain on the bluffs and hold
the passes against all invaders until the
absentees return.
TIE clerk Of the weather takes quite
an interest 10 the sanitary condition of
the city aud pours out rain when most
needed. The general council should aid
and assist the clerk Of the weather as
much as possible.
Has Memphis a charter or has she
mott is the constitutional and municipal
conundrum of the day. The ablest legal
and non.legal minds are now strsining
over the query with a view to eliminate
an explanation worthy of a philosopher.
Already letters from Memphians loca-
ted at springs come back foil Of the finest
puffs of the hotels, proprietors, clerks,
cooks, barkeepers, walters, etc. These
interesting letters are expected to be
published free Of charge by the papers,
The Appeal, Avalanche and LEDGER
have asked, why has the Adams street
engine'house bell ceased to toll the mid
night hour, as it has done for eighteen
years pagt2 No answer has as yet come
up from the engine-house. Who muzzled
the bell2
This morning the recorder pro tenn
disposed Of the following cases. ]. Pat
tersoD, drunk, Rned IS; Richard Beaten,
peddling without license, fined s.; Mol.
lie Msrphy, sleeping on sidewalk, fined
s.; Henry McClenand, prowling, dis
charged.
The steamer Coahoma arrived in port
to-day bringing one hundred and twenty
bales Of cotton, one hundred and thir.
teen of which were shipped by P. c. Dick
ason, a planter Of Coahoma county, Mis-.
sissippi, and we're consigned to Hill, Fon-
tame & Co., Of this city.
In many sections Of the country ada
cent to Memphis the only trouble seems
to be to get laboring hands. The many
idle and unemployed persons who loiter
around the atty by day and by night will
find in the country an opportunity to
work aud earn an honest living.
Foll smells arising from eratings
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along the sidewalks entertain the noses
of pedestrians as they walk around town
by day and night. When the atmosphere
is heavy most Villainous perfumes aoat
upon the air, but when the barometer
rises these perfumes doat heaveuvard to
the great disgust no doubt, Of the fowls
Of the cir.
The Jsrusgin %ckanQeTy bill is creating
a lively newspaper discussion, but the
courts only can settle the legal questions
raised in that bill. AS to who granted
the fat seems a disputed point. Chan
eailor Morgan, in his letter to Mayor
Flippio, said be did, but the fat itself,
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