Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
LEDGER LINES.
Our city rulers meet this afternoon.
No rain has fallen here for seventeen

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LEDGER job printing office, L
Madison street.
The breeze, what little there is, ha
been coming from the northeast sine
yesterday at noon.
First-class printing at low rates a
the LEDGER job printing Office, l;
Madison street.
A writer estimates that we hav,
I2OO, 900 tons of filth within our pres
ent city limits, Great Caesar
The dust spreads a gray coating
upon everything and everywhere
How refreshing a good shower would
be.
From AZ to % was the range yes
terday The warmest portion OF The
day is generally between noon ant
SPIN.
The LEDGER job printing Office, ];
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap at
any house in this city.
A number Of the stamoeders are
home again and others are fixing t.
leave. None, however, just now seem
to be in a very great hurry.
Favorable accounts Of the growing
cotton cOntiaue to be heard. Corn is
suffering for rain, and it would do ever
so much good to all classes of vogeta-
ton.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will BE-
mailed to any address for fifty cent
per month. The subscription must
in every case, be paid for cash in
advance.
The yellow fever theorists are as
numerous as the dogs, and they con
tinue hard at the 1aborious effort OF
palming off some pet scheme upon
gullible people.
Too much bowling in the vicinity Of
Monroe and Main streets toward the
mid hours OF night. 1t has been com
planned of more than once recently
aud the noisy fellows should check up.
The wagon factory of James, Roosa
K Graham, on Jefferson street, mar
escaped destruction by fire last
The Waterman on duty extin
guished it before any damage re
Dedicated to Miss Sadie Urquhart
is a very pretty piece of music, b!
Davis, called Son the Bank,
Of the Great Mississippi" 1t is ,
pleasant waltz and is likely to become
popular. II. G, Hollenberg has it.
The PhGnix Insurance Company
have reduced their capital stock t.
$500 0 Their former capital was
SOL 900. Voters representing 1915
shares out OF the 2OlO shares were
present whom this movement wa de-
upon.
1t is expected that the earth dam
across the bayou near the Elliott
street crossing will be completed and
ready for turning loose by tomorrow
morning. Then 1t is to be cut or
exploded, and the bayou will be
partially cleaned out, if not wholly.
When the wind changed to the
evening before last many
hoped that the long heated term had
broken and that a more genial atmos.
phere would follow. Yesterday, how
ever, was as sultry as any Of its prede
cessors and to-day is also red hot.
The uproar made just before day
by scores of dogs renders sleep
ing impossible in various parts of the
1t would take an epidemic Of
the most violent character TO thin the
dog population to a proper quota. 1t
is estimated that there IS not less than
twenty thousand dogs here.
Numerous south bound steamers
to pass here without stop.
ping. The people at towns down the
are pretty scary. Tho worst and
most absurd case Of fright yet known
is at New Orleans. The St. Loui.
steamer Centennial, because she land
ed here on her down trip, was quaran.
tined four days at Kenneryille, eight
miles above the city.
Several scientists are cuggclling
their brains over the subject Of raising
funds for sanitary purposes. The pro.
posal 10 call the legislature together
to tax property holders fifty cents on
the one hundred dollars Is regarded as
impracticable. The granger portion
of the legislature could not be induced
to leave their fields this summer, and
it would be difficult to get a quorum
together just to tax Memphis property
owners. Even could this be acoomp.
Iished but few property owners would
De found within reach Of the tax
collectors.