Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-22
LEDGER LINES.

LEDGER job printing office, 10 Madison
street.
The temperature ranged from 67' to Ole
yesterday.
The minute men have organized a
squad for special service.
A Northern mail came in between 10
and II o'clock this forenoon.
Six in the evening Is a good healthy
hour for elderly people to retire.
Passers make passages through Chelsea
without passes now and hereafter.
From to-day forward we are to have a
daily mail over the railroads as of yore.
Good.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing Office, Is Madison
street.
The steamer Annie P. Silver, from st
Louis for New Orleans, passed down this
morning loaded heavily.
w. L. Vance, $50; w. Messick, SOS; J.
7. latin, of Somerville, S., were received
yesterday by the citizens committee.
The agency of sturm & Hirsch held a
risk of S15C0 on the Market Square
houses, damaged by fire on Wednesday
last.
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 per
month. The subscription must, in every
case, be paid for cash in advance.
Forty-two minute men are going On
duty at once for special police service in
daylight. If they catch an offender they
will skin him or they ought to do it.
-Four children of the filthy Forbes fam
lily, whose house on Walker avenue was
destroyed a few nights ago, have been
quartered at the city hospital for several
days past.
The mails for up North should be
dropped in the evening. They start at
eight o'clock in the morning, but it takes
several hours to fumigate the departing
matter.
The steamer James w. Gaff has gone to
st. Louis after a load for the Ohio river.
Captains james and Stack Lee, father and
son, and Captain j. Henry Cooper are
sojourning at st. Louis.
The National board of health has con-
sented to issue rations to camp refugees
under certain restrictions and modifca-
tons. Doubtless they intend to issue only
to the sick at the camps.
The mercury climbed among the nine
ties yesterday for the first time in two
weeks or more. 1t will be even warmer
to-day than it was yesterday, and the
winds are coming from the southwest.
A yellow flag has been run up over a
house in the suburbs after the yellow
fever patient recovered and left. The
Hibernian housekeeper's temper is natu-
rally at a high fever altitude in conse-
quence.
About roo people are now at Camp
Father Matthew, all fat, healthy and
happy. Persons desiring to take up
quarters at this camp will be shut out
after the present week, and will have to
hunt a fresh location.
A squad of plundering darkies robbed a
grocery store on Latham street, near Trigg
avenue, last evening, holding a shooting
iron to the head of the keeper while
they did the work. This kind of business
Is growing monotonous.
Volunteers from a distance are Offering
their services to nurse and care for the
sick ifthey are needed. They will doubt
less be informed when to come, if il is
necessary for them to come at all, which
many regard as very doubtful.
W. will accept, in factwe demand your
military rations IN military order, but we
will not comply with your military regu-
%lations, is the way our colored brethren
put the question. In addition to being.
beggars they also wish to be choosers.
Any unfeoling house owner or other
citizen who has gone or and left others,
white or black, to take care Of their goods
and left no means behind to provide ne
c~essities for their guards should be pub
lshed and criticised. Send in their names
and let the world know them.
Twenty thousand Federal soldiers onet
occupied this city, and they totally failed
though strenuous in their efforts, to pre-.
vent Confederates and others passing II
and out. This is another argument IN
favor Of the theory that guarantees Dc
not quarantine.
-Four hundred and s~eventy-fve death
from yellow fever in Havana last montl
in a population of nearly 100000, is les