Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-19

walker DrOtnerS 20. mdue an as
Segment yesterday. Liabilities $780,
900, assets unknown.
The LEDGER job printing Office, ID
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
Choice selections of music are heard
each evening at the theatre, rendered
by Handwerker's band. The Turkish
patrol is always encered.
Those who left their windows open
last night breathed air pure, fresh, in
MIGRATING and free from all faint in
the early hours of to-day,
A beautiful frost was that of this
morning. The earth, the house-tops,
the fences, all exposed objects, were
covered with its white coating.
A week from tomorrow is Thanks
giving day, and turkeys are getting
dearer. Circus time is three weeks off
and Christmas is five weeks away.
Deciduous trees in Court Square
now run under bare poles, in sailor
lingo. Their recent summer costume
has been dropped, raked and burned.
The Mirror is a neat eight page pro-
gramme issued each evening by Mr..
L. R.. Jack, for the inspection and
use of those who patronize the theatre.
Intrinsic malevolence," is what a
writer in a morning paper thinks
afflicted a person who pitched into
him. That must be clean cut with a
metallic ring. .
Delightful are the new opera chairs
of the theatre. One can recline
gracefully in them and rest easily too,
while your rear guard cannot use your
coat tail for a foot mat.
The only known antidote for yellow
fever is a temperature of 800 or de-
population, say the medical gentlemen
of Memphis, and they never hit the
nail more squarely on the head.
Too much talk through the tele-
phones during the past summer, set
nearly every one in the city half crazy.
The members are at work getting
them in good shape again.
Numerous persons are waiting for
coal to come down to 30 cents per
barrel, ere laying in their winter sup
ply. That was about the: average Of
prices last season. 1t is now rs cents
per barrel, or 30 cents per bushel.
Upon reading a telegram this morn
ing that 80 Chinese had fallen down a
mining shaft and broken their necks
all at once, the champion inquest
holder, Esquire Spellman exclaimed,
How secluded a sinner am 1! No
such good luck falls to me-" The
squire would have been contented
with half as many.
Now that the steamers are about to
resume active operations in our local
river trades, a larger consumption OF
coal will follow, and the present scant
supply will barely hold out until the
middle of next month. There is no APP
~prehension of a famine here however.
We are too close to the Kentucky
mines, as well as to those lying along
the river between Cairo and St.
Louis.
Walnut Hill plantation, some fifty
miles south of here, is the place Col.
+. NJ. White visited last week and
where exposure to the weather's in
clemency brought on a severe cold,
with threats Of pneumonia, and which
the same has been m%agniied in the
streets to all maladies flesh is heir to.
The colonel is anxious to start out for
exercise this evening, and he will be
able to do it by tomorrow.
The unanimity of expression at the
recent meeting Of the medical society
here, as to the cause, the action
and the cure Of yellow fever, was a
surprise to even the members Of Il e
society. There seemed to be but one
opinion OF the subject. The doctors
expressed themselves sensibly and in
t~elligently, yet that squad up at Nash
vile, afflicted with an epidemic of
quarantine, would not listen to them.
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