Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-28
LEDGER LINES.

Our country friends are pulling
fodder.
Fans have been in disuse for several
weeks past,
LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison street.
The fever scare among our rural
friends is slowly wearing off.
The stiff movements of the amiable
mosquito suggests rheumatic"
Hops and festal gatherings occupy
the chief attention of our refugee
citizens.
First-elass printing at low rates at
the LEDGER job printing office, ID
Madison street.
People out on a prospecting tour
seeking places to locate have not been
here much recently.
No visitors have registered at the
clubs, cotton exchange or other resorts.
for the past forty-fve days.
Too much rain last week for the
good of the cotton crop, SO say our
watermelon peddling visitors.
DR.. Z. NJ. Wright, a State board of
health travelling Inspector, Is due here
to-day from Nashville. Is the doctor
acclimated?
The LEDGER job printing office, -
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will be
mailed to any address for fifty cents
per month. The subscription must
in every case, be paid for cash in
advance.
The orphans Of the Church Home
have received S2l, the proceeds of an
entertainment managed by Mrs. Jesse
X. Bell, of New Orleans, at Beer
sheba Springs, Tenn.
Letters from all points up the coun-
try give accounts of cool weather and
tell how comfortable winter clothing
is as well as the necessity Of fires to
sit by in the evening and early morn
ing hours.
Temperature at sunrise this morn
ing, 66'. The highest yesterday was
$50, and the lowest So. Winds north
ard northeast throughout the day.
This morning the wind shifted to the
southeast.
The remedy 6end continues to crop
out in spite of all efforts to squelch
him. Like Jack.in-the- box he pops
up with a new trick every day or two.
The latest, and doubtless least objec-
ticnable both to patient and the dis
ease, is the watermelon antidote.
The mounted patrol, a hundred or
SO strong, under Captain Key, con-
tinue to keep the suburbs in a state Of
quietness that deserves the highest
praise. Evil-doers have a most whole
some dread Of their ubiquitous dispo-
sition.
Persons five weeks out from Mem
phiS are refused permission to pass
through or to carry fumigated baggage
to Hot Springs by the Little Rock
board Of health. The same authority
have extended the time necessary to
be away from here to forty days.
An acclimated Criminal judge is
called for by the fever-proof people.
Our State governor being in the habit
Of disregarding the wishes Of the ma
jority, and as the bulk of our people
are away, may possibly be induced to
favor the appeal. The chances are
the other way, however.
Young children and fine calves are
reported plentiful all through the
Arkansas country. A traveller who
recently crossed the Arkansas at Red
Fork and made an extensive tour
Though the agricultural districts re-
ports the best crop prospects for the
past twenty-five years.
The steamboatmen, over twenty in
number, met yesterday and issued o
call on their fellow-craftmen for fnan-
cial aid. 1t is stated that there are
thirty families of riyermen in the city
and the total number Of persons will
reach nearly one hundred. They also
have a number of orphans that need
assistance,