Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-18

ms, and will be followed BY the mem
bers Of the company tomorrow o.
next day. The Bluff City Grays ar,
also going to GAINESVILLE for a camp
Captain Cameron will leave to select 1
favorable location tomorrow.
The total rainfall last night meas.
urcd slightly more than half an inch
! The signal service observer reported
the temperature at 79' this forenoon
at IL o'clock, and this is TO- cooler
than it was yesterday at the same
hour. After ten o'clock to-day the
wind shifted from the northeast to the
northwest.
A. w. Bigelow & Co. have received
Popular Monthly, Young Ladies'
journal, Demorest, Pleasant Hours,
Harper's, etc, which they will always
have ON hand for customers through
out the yellow fever season, as they
are determined to keep their stand
open to the public, Be sure and not
forget the number, 1856 Main street.
Many poor people who would be
only too glad to find summer quarters
elsewhere are without e to pur-
chase transportation tickets. and it is
a serious question with them how to
get away from the city. 1t would be
much cheaper to send them off than
to supply nurses, medicines and physi-
clans in case Of sickness.
Folks continue to fume and fuss
over the publicity made to the yellow
fever cases which have occurred here.
The doctors are 1t daggers' points
about it, and many private citizens are
sour, and even quarrelsome. In times
of public excitement many people will
be unreasonable in spite of fate, and
the stubborn-minded believe the world
should wag just as they themselves
wish, or not at all.
A card is published announcing
that the Memphis Presbytery will
meet the Dist inst, which is next
Monday. at the Second PreybyteriaD
Church of this city, to- dismiss, if the
way be clear, the Rev. S. D. Boggs, Of
the Coyington Church, to Ebsnezer
Presbytery, and to dissolve the pas
toral relation between Mr.. Boggs and
the church of which he is now rector.
What has Mr.. Boggs been up to?
In 1853, when yellow fever ragged in
the city Of New Orleans more violent.
ly than has been known since, DR..
Frayser, of this city, t'eated over
forty cases here, of which a part were
brought up the river, and the re
mainder originated here, perhaps from
contact with other sufferers. No
scare vas created at the time, no one
left the city, and but little was thought
Of it. The times have changed, and
so have peoples minds.
A timber drunk citizen went wob
bling slowly along Vance street after
dark last night, tumbling against
gates and picket fences at every step,
and finally setting down to rest near
the bayou. There he muttered and
gfowled until the rain storm opened
out. After a good d%renching the in
cbriated biped passed on, none knew
where. Should that fellow be sick
to-day some would swear hat it was a
genuine case Of Yellow Jack.
A contract is to be made by the
authorities with j. A. Louden for
from three to five thousand yards Of
dimension street paving stone, to be
delivered on the landing by the middle
of next October. A contract has also
been closed with John A. Denie for
one hundred and twenty-five car loads
Of dimension stone, and another with
w. II. Order for one hundred car
loads Of stone, to be delivered by the
LIST Of November next also with A.
NJ. Adams for two hundred and fifty
car loads of stone. The Louden
will come from the Ohio river,
and the remainder from Alabama.
The electric light, as far as this city
is at present concerned, will lie at rest
until it can be improved and rendered
cheaper than at now. The city
engineer, Mr.. Meriwether, yesterday,
read a letter from Mr.. Brush, the
at Cleveland, stating that he
had not been able to divide the light
so that it would become available for
street lighting or domestic use, and he
doubted whether it could be made to
compete economically with gas. At
so far made to subdivide it,
decreases its power and renders it too
expensive for lighting small areas.
To the present time it has only been
adapted to advantage in the illumina-
ton Of large open spaces, halls and
public buildings. This is an open
confession on the part of a famed
inventor.
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