Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-20
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The churches were well attended yes
terday.
Quite a large assemblage was present
at Estival Park concert last night.
Cotton bales will soon be arriving and
tie fall trade will open up aud out.
The Union street sewer, a private en-.
terprise, is approaching completion.
Weather getting hotter, thermometer
rising and people perspiring once again
The brain basin" is the prevailing
style of hat worn by fashionable young
gentlemen.
Qaite a coterie Of Memphiars "eat,
drink and sleep at Gresnbrier White
Sulphur Springs,
The physicians aud u~udertakers agree
in %pronouncing the city remarkably
healthy at present.
People should not mix their politics
with their religion, because politics cor.
rupts religion, and religion does not in
spire politics.
The morluary report for the past week
shows the total number of deaths occur.
ring in the city to have been rs, of which
ID we're whites and IL blacks.
William Kuhn, the wife murderer.
whose bail was fixed at $4,000 by Judge
Ray last week, has not as yet been able
to bring up s%ureties as bondsmen.
Is the city in a good sanitary condi.
ton? is the conundrum now being coz.
sic cred and discussed by The board Of
health, the engineers office and the gen.
eral council.
At the United States District Court a
petition in bankruptcy has been fled by
Robert II. Blskemore and John w
Gould, firm Of Blakemore & Co, of
Memphis. Liabilities, about $50, 900;
assets, about $4,000.
1t has been announced at Huntsville,
Ala, that owing to the opening of the
business season the C~hickasaw Guards
have declined going to Huntsville in
October to engage in a competitive drill
with the Porter Rifles.
The mosquito crop is getting percept.
IDLY larger and more vigorous. The
newly imported Arkansas mosquito is
the strongest and heslthiest specimen
seen here for years, and undoubtedly the
most f%erocious and enterprising,
Barbour Lewis, who never had any
children by his first wife, has been
blessed with an heir in Utah by his
young wife, to whom be was married a
year or two ago. it is said by his friends
here that he is as happy as a boy with
his first pair of breeches and a bag Of
marbles thrown in.
A lake containing bull frogs and fish,
besides any amount of decayed vegeia
BILE matter and filth, sends up unhealthy
exAalations from the cellars of the un.
finished Masonic building, on the corner
Of Second and Madison streets. The
cellars should be pumped out by some
body.
Chicken stealing by negroes continues
to flourish nightly in the suburbs. Sew
eral residents on Rayburn avenue, in
the southern portion of the city, dis
posed Of their chicken crops at a very
low rate to thieves on Friday night last
The thieves also broke into outhouses and
kitchens and carried off supplies of pre-.
visions.
The village of Bartlett wants the
Changers to locate the county fair at
that point, but the Changers prefer the
old fair grounds on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, near this city, which
grounds already contain the necessary
buildings, stables, stalls, etc requisite
and suitable for fair purposes, and it is
certainly the best location.
On Georgia street, between Main
street and Rayburn avenue, on the site
Of the old wood and box works, a pool
Of staguant water Of considerable extent
and depth furnishes most unhealthy air
to those residing in that neighborhood.
The stlgnant pool is greatly disturbed
daily by ducks, geese and hogs. The
offensive hole should be drained some
time.
Local politicians who will be candi.
dates for municipal offices in January
next and pot.house politicians who want
to borrow money or secure free drinks
during the campaign, are already astir
and liking politics in the usual style.
II is forcing the season as yet, so the
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