Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
THE ITY
Tuesday Evening, april IL, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.
Shell oysters at FsrrelIs, 1856 Nam.
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a luxury by the Memphis geurmands.
Red snappers, Lake Erie salmon and
shad, at Victor D. Fuchs, Al Jefferson.
The 26th inst. will be celebrated by the
Odd Fellows as their annual anniver.
sary.
The legal street.csr fare is a nickel,
and no person should pay more to satisfy
the rapacity Of a monopoly.
Captain Hop" johnson, city editor
Of the Appeal, has been off duty for sew
eral days, owing to i'll health.
Thieves have become sentimental and
now indulge in the habit Of stealing flow.
ers from front yards and gardens.
In the spring the gentle student decks
him in his best array, and goes forth in
search of maidens, wherewithal to play
croquet.
Already numbers Of citizens have
begun to make arrangements for their
summer tours in search Of health and
pleasure.
The fashionable young blood Of the
period is much given to wearing q but.
ton-hole bouquet and kid gloves about
this time of the year.
This season ice will be plentiful and
cheap, a big ice crop having been
gathered up North and a rival ice com
paRy having been established in this city
1t is rumored that the United State,
supervising architect will be here during
the present month Tor the purpose of
commencing work on the proposed
custom.house.
Even the ladies are now putting in the
mule boxes a nickel as fare. 1t is unfair
for the monopoly to charge the fair an
Illegal fare when they purchase a quar-.
teri worth of tickets.
The cimex lectularius is beginning to
bloom and work already, very much to
the annoyance of housekeepers. The
little but offensive animal is more com
monty known as the bed-bug.
The long expected picnic season is ap.
preaching rapidly. The first of May
will open up the amusement for the MIN.
ble-footed youth and maiden-Billy and
Katie, Hans sud Gretchen, or FRANCHISE
and L'zette.
1t is rumored on the streets that a
hostile correspondence passed between
Colonel j. A. Forrest and Captain 7. P.
Cha nbers looking toward a settlement
of the la.e street difficulty by an appeal
to the code duello.
Now that the daily papers have COM
menced publishing the proceedings of
the Recorders Court the reporters are
too often bulldozed by the request that
no names be published. The best way
to keep your name out OF the papers is
to keep out of ugly scFapes.
The flower season has opened up, and
hence the florists have been enabled to
fill the city with choice varieties of flow.
ers and of all kinds. Even wild roses
are offered for sale, such as those the
poet sang Of
wild roses by the abby towers:
TTney came o. race OF funeral flowers,
A templar's knightly tomb"
There are many lovers of blooded
dogs in this city, ard they uhould know
that a famous dog faucier in England
states that all dogs of high breed turn
their tails to the right, and low bred dogs
turn their tails to the left, and are sub.
ject to hydrophobia. No one should
purchase or keep a left handed dog.
Considerable dissatisfaction exists
among the huRdred applicants for the
Offices of deputy United States marshal
because Marshal Waldran Las not yet
put out the "ins" and pat in the outs"
Gentlemen office seekers, there are not
enough ~sub-oHioes in the gift Of Marshal
Waldran to go one hundreth part Of the
way round the circle.
A lady can get rid Of a wart by steal.
Ing a piece Of pork and burying it under
a stone. A horse chestnut carried in
the left pocket is equally effective. The
wsrt can also he charmed of 0y repeat.
ing in a soft, imploring voice the invOca.
ton "anamana monsnieke barceloea
bona strike hard ware from hack, halico
balico we wo wsck," and the wart will
vanish.
Lieutenants Brown and Caldwell, oil
! the Porter Rifles Of Nashville, are in the
city for the purpose of inducing the
Chickasaw Guards to change the place
selected for the competitive drill, Hunts.
; vile, Ala, to Louisville, KY, and the
time to be at an earlier date than thai
proposed by the Porter Rifles, the 18th
: Of June. The "Chicks," at a meeting