Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-13
LEDGER LINES.

LEDGER job printing office, 10 Madison
street.
The Shelby County Medical Society
will meet this s pm.
Those now liable to a second attack
have begun to ponder.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
B. NJ. Stratton has just received a fresh
lot of choice groceries, direct from St.
Louis. Prices moderate.
East and southeast winds prevailed yes
terday. To-day southerly to westerly
winds, with warmer temperature.
The steamer Lcaore, of the Yazoo
river line, passed here several days since
on her way to Mound City, ILL.,, to repair.
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 steamer j. NJ. B. Kehlor, Of the
Kountz Line, passed south last evening,
hugging the sandbar opposite as close as
her pilot deemed safe.
There is a stock of nearly $500 bales of
cotton yet on hand in this market, and no
chance to move it is likely to offer for
three months to come.
They are dropping sympathetic tears at
the woes of Memphis while they dance
quadrilles and the German at Saratoga
and other u~p-country resorts.
al have had the fever and don't fear a
second attack" was the remark of an accu-
mated citizen yesterday, as if that would
save him from having it again.
A person of this city had two well de-
fined attacks of yellow fever last year a
couple of months apart. He did not stay
to have another. dose this time.
The daily Pubic LEDGER win be
mailed to any address for fifty cents per
month. The subscription must, in every
case, be paid for cash in advance.
Mrs. Ella Broadly was shot in the right
leg, above the knee, this forenoon, east Of
the Charleston depot by the accidental
discharge Of a pistol in the hands of her
husband.
The small tug 1.-TWO Brother" was
down yesterday from Deans island, some
thirty miles or SO above here. She has
made a trip or two before to carry the
mail and a few other necessities to the
people up that way.
flour colored brothers can take care of
themselves through the aid of contribu-
tons from abroad and the, assistance of
the Howard Association, and stay in the
city to have the fever and become accli-
mated, no one should complain thereat.
In this city, during the fever of 1873.
sales of cotton, often as much as 1000
bales, were made in a single day, and bus
mess went on just the same as if no yell
low feyOr prevailed. The surrounding
country was totally exempt all through
the fever.
All sorts Of lodges are in course Of in
v%ention to get a finger into the half mil
lion Of money appropriated by the last
congress for sanitary purposes. Even st.
Louis has lot of hair-brains at work
trying to rig a plan whereby part of the
money may be handled there.
An individual calling himself Sen
rab," which, spelled backward, has a
trampish, Housekeeping odor, has been
saying ugly things about various places
and persons in East Tennessee. The peo-
pie struck at have begun to strike back
vigorously, and are printing letters calling
the fellow a falsiher and a slanderer.
Few and far between are the s~trollers
on the highways after nightfall at the
preseAt time. The hotel v~estibules, the
beer saloons and other resorts, are really
banquet halls deserted in their truest
sense. The prospect is dark and gloomy
indeed when the shades Of night appear.
"rhe only use the fund has been put to, "
says a st. Louis paper regarding the Ma
tional sanitary half million, "has been to
send a number of wise-acre physicians 10
the infected districts TO write learned
theories and sp~eculations Of yellow fever.
When these germs have been discovered
1t is proposed to shoot them or wipe them
out Of existence" The trouble with all
bands, board Of health folks included, is
that speculation has been ~overdone.
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