Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-26

imported cigar at SOILS house you can
bet all you have that you will get it, and
at a price within the reach of all lovers
of a good cigar.
The Memphis and Charleston railroad
will run special trains every half hour
Sunday, May 9th, between Memphis
aud a point near or opposite ElmwOod
Cemetery. First train at 2 o'clock p m.
Round trip fare ten cents. Tickets sold
at depot Office.
The divorce mania is breaking out
again, and it is feared that it will become
an epidemic.
I'm the spring the too much married
Lightly turn and seek divorces"
As Ben Jonson said to John Sylvester,
the above may not rhyme hut it is true.
Last evening the dead body of a white
man rose to the surface of the river in
the bend at the foot Of Butler street.
The body was nude, and ia believed to
be the remains Of John Clark, who was
drowned while bathing in the river at
the foot Of Poplar street on last Monday.
A gentle or heavy shower of rain would
not be unappreciated just now. The
dust on many Of the streets and in the
suburbs is almost intolerable when the
gentle west wind blows. We do not
know what would suit the grsngers, but
q ram for twelve hours would suit the
city people.
The patent outside newspaper bust.
ness is gradually dying a natural death.
The best and most sprightly weeklies
that reach us now are those which have
abandoned the patent outsides and 10.
sides. There is no journalism in such a
business, and consequently a patent out
side newspaper is valued but little by
anybody.
A personal advertisement appeared in
our columns on yesterday through the
failure of one Of our clerks to read it
before handing it to the cempositor. II
he had read it carefully it would never
have appeared in these columns, the
LEDGER making it q rule never to per.
nit persons to use its columns for the
purpose Of satisfying personal spite.
The special general council committee
on Gre-llarm telegraph, met yesterday
and decided to present a report to the
general council favoring the plan and
that the mayor be authorized to adver-
tiss for bids. II is we'll enough TO know
what a fre.alarm telegraph can be put
up for, even il the city should be unable to
that necessary and almost indls.
pensable protection to property and life.
At the request Of q number OF ladies
and gentlemen, Miss Jennie Hunter, who
took a prominent part on the occasion
of Miss Grace Lewellyn's debut, will
give an entertainment at the Memphis
Theater in the course of the next ten
days. 1t will consist Of recitatious and
vocal and instrumental music. The
whole of the net proceeds will be dis
tributed among the orphan asylums of
the city.
One hundred and fifty excursiouists
from Henry Station, McKenzis, Trenton,
Bells, Paris, New Boston and other way
points on the Louisville railroad reached
the city yesterday, and swarmed all over
town, inspected steamboats, and ~investi.
gated all places of public interest. The
excursionists are the pupils and their
friends of Professor Parker's school in
Henry county. The happy crowd will
return home this afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon the two Wolf
river fishermen, Hardin Ellsbury and D.
l. Robinson, who are charged with the
murder Of a negro named Nat Jefferson,
we're each placed under bonds of six
thousands dollars by Esquire Quigley,
for ten days, to await a requisition from
the Governor of Arkansas, the crime al.
legged having been committed on the
Mississippi, near the Arkansas shore,
3 ID within the jurisdiction of that State.
An American and a Frencbman, in
order to raise the wind, have established
what they call the Levant News
Agency at Constantinople. They have
sent us a lithographic letter kindly offer.
ing to write q war letter a week to the
LEDGER for a remuneration. The letter
received is dated April 10Th, and we fear
before another letter would arrive the
war would be over. We prefer trusting
to telegraphic dispatches for late and re.