Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
LEDGER LINES.


From $50 to $50 yesterday.
Temperature re at sunrise.
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
The atmosphere was slightly smoky
last night.
Broezes from the south and west to-day,
and slightly warmer.
The clerk and master of the Shelby
Chancery Court is located at Mason,
Tenn.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
The river here is lO1l feet above low
water. There is 8 feet between Cairo and
St. Louis.
They ease off by calling it malignant
dysentery in places where the cholera has
appeared.
Captain Randall's steamer Batesville is
at Evansville, Ind, where his barge is
undergoing repairs.
The ferryboat John overton, with
freight from the OHIO river, is expected to
arrive here from Cairo.
The steamer Hard Cash will leave 81.
Louis this evening for points below here
will also have freight for this place.
Several physicians, failing to appreciate
the board of health, decline to make re-
ports regarding their yellow fever cases.
The LEDGER job printing office, 10
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 pei;
month. The subscription must, in every
case, be paid for cash in advance.
Still warmer is the weather to-day. We
may expect the caloric of nature to be
rather close for half a dozen or more hours
each day and for six weeks to come.
Nearly one-half Of the inhabitants at
Camp Marks are Catholic in their relig-
ion and nearly ALI of those at Camp Father
Matthew are Of the same religious faith.
All the late daily and weekly papers
will be delivered by Bigslows sccommo-
dating clerk, c. Ryder, by leaving your
orders at Bigelow's news stand, SS6 Main
While ~ex-Sanitary Sergeant Rogers, Of
the Howards, was going into some ones
back yard, a vicious dog nipped bis hand.
The animal was arrested and executed at
the lookup for the offence.
A few days since the towboat Z. N. Nor
ton passed here going south. A report
went forth that it was the old yellow fever
boat John Porter. The latter craft has
not been below Cairo this season.
Jealousies among doctors, jealousies in
State, National and local boards Of health
circles, and several other evils, including
that Of experimental iends and the rem
edy genius, will be the death Of many A
poor fellow this siege, as it was the last.
They are now trying to make out that
ice taken from dirty ponds carries yellow
fever and other sickly germs into peoples
stomachs. 1t is good thing for US that
ice is procured from the pure water Of the
upper Illinois and Mississippi rivers.
Harper's Monthly and Sunday Maya
zine for September, also all the late Sea-
side Library, and all the late Cincinnati
st. Louis, Chicago and Louisville dailies,
also all the late pictorials Of the week, can
be found at Bigelow's news stand, $50
Main.
No mail four days Of every week over
the railroad between here and Louisville
is Of the evils we are forced to under
go, willing or unwilling. Our people
seem to be powerless when it comes to the
exercising of influences, other than to
their own disadvantage.
The sum of $3.50 was added to the citi.
zens' fund yesterday. Of this Hon. jacob
Thompson sent 500; VIM. II. Wood
$780, j. h. Flippin, $50; John B. Drake
Co., 800. The total receipts so far ar,
about $1,000, not $4,000 as was errone
ously reported two days ago.
Mayor w. S. Reynolds, Of Corinth
telegraphs that j.. G. Simpson is a myth
dispatches announcing yellow fever Their,
frauds, and that he, the board Of healtl
and the entire populace are healthy, heart,
and would be active if they could fin,
the bogus Simpson TO kick at.