Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-07

confidence appears among all classes.
I'VE have yellow foyer here now not
withstsnding the efforts made by that mo-
bic Institution known as the board o.
health to prevent its appearance among
u.s. So says a letter from New Orleans
and the writer of it IS evidently posted.
Heavenly pyrotechnics were copious last
night. They lit up, or brightly illumin-
ated the city except between flashes. The
dim fires Of the gas lamps were pale and
Intellectual, in fact siekly in comparison to
natures grand eleetrics.
A man straying about loose through
the county can vote Accepted to-day
any where he may happen to be, if near a
voting place. The sheriff has expressed
his willingness to offer no restriction as
to the place where votes are cast just so
the voter is a citizen of the county.
The acting postmaster informed the
Washington authorities that nothing short
Of a daily mail would satisfy this commu-
nifty. The authorities seem to be of the
same frame Of mind, and the matter will
doubtless be. amicably adjusted within a
brief period.
A dozen or more houses along Front
street are open for business, but very lit
tie offers. The same may be said of Main
street. Raise the quarantine and the STU
alton would become more brisk and live
ly. A number of our country cousins are
already running short.
81 have my own interests to look after
and l make the best terms with the enc
my that l can" says a prominent ship
owner and merchant, regarding the odious
quarantine laws and the old fogies who
administer them. 1t is hard hut must be
borne as long as the thing is official.
A general wall goes forth from every
retail tradesman-the saloon man, the
cake seller, the fruit peddler, all-that
money is scarce and receipts SO light that
no prospects prevail of any profit being
theirs this summer. Old topers appear
to have the toughest kind of a time to
sponge a nip or two.
A citizen of the vox popuh stripe has
taken ofFense at DR.. Mitchell, because he
said at Nashville tho other day that those
remaining here might be termed the third
class. In his exalted station, the doctor
doubtless feels he is right, and like a great
statesman, he would rather be right than
be President-even of the State board Of
health.
The general superintendent of railway
mail service at Washington photographed
to Acting Postmaster Lamont yesterday
that the postofice department is anxious,
ready and willing to do all it can to for
ward the mails, and will do so at all times,
when it can be done without u violation
Of quarantine regulations.
Efforts are urged and plans suggested to
test the legality Of the odious quarantine
regulations imposed upon maratime prop
erty at New Orleans. The people will
learn after a while that the quarantine
humbug is a costly piece of nonsense, the
chief benefits being enjoyed by the few
who hold Office under it, aud the annoy
ances by those who pay the costs.
The only cases of yellow fever so far
this season among Memphis refugees at
Cincinnati are; Mr.. Hook, dead; Mrs.
Kelly, his mother-in-law, convalescing;
Mr.. Myers, now well; Mr.. Nash, getting
we'll; baby Nash, a severe case, getting
well; Mr.. Walston, doing fine, and baby
Purcell, also getting well.
The steamer T., o. Stanard from New
Orleans to st. Louis, passed up at noon
to-day without landing here. A tug
towed a coal feet down in the bend be-
low the city to supply a fresh stock Of
fuel. The Ouaohita Belle, with freight
for this port is expected this evening and
a tug with a coal barge will meet the boat
up near Bradley's Landing to take off the
Memphis stuff.
Aman wants, but every man does that.
This one, however, wants all Of u
priyies cleaned out as early inthe autumn
or winter as shall be prudent. Perhaps
the person is after the job. The same
individual is anxious for every family and
Office to use only earth-closets to be re-
moved every day from April to October.
This would be a good business for him
also. Then he wishes a canal cut from
the head Of Bayou Gayoso through to
Wolf river, near Germantown. There is
a mania just for digging canals all
over the world, the Barataria included,
and perhaps the man is after a contract
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