Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-06
LEDGER LINES.

FIFTY and four"
Moon rises at Q pm.
From 100 to 960 yesterday.
Vote Accepted" tomorrow.
LEDGER job printing office, 10 Madison
street.
Let the compromise be carried at the
election tomorrow.
The days are now an hour shorter than
they were six weeks ago.
But one train a week now runs between
Little Rock and Forest City, Ark.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
The steamer 0uachita Belle left St.
Louis for this and other ports South last
evening.
Partly cloudy weather, local rains, east
to southeast winds and warmer, is to-day's
weather prognostics.
The steamer Milt Harry broke a shaft
in White river a few days since and was
compelled to lay up for repairs.
The Tenth ward citizens committee
were in consultation at the courthouse to-
day, and it Is said will wait on the general
committee again this evening.
The Towards have attended to 80 sick
persons, of whom 62 were white and IS
colored. Of these - have been cured and
S died.
To compromise the State debt at fifty
cents on the dollar and four per cent in
terest, or not to do it, will be voted on tc-
morrow.
The State debt bugbear which has been
a n incubus for years can be fairly and
definitely settled tomorrow by voting
accepted"
The LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison, executes everything in the job
printing line as neat and cheap as any
house in this city,
A careful survey of the Tenth ward has
disclosed the fact that but two families are
in want. Arrangements have been made
to relieve them.
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.
Our plague-stricken city should be no
refuge for idlers. The camp is where
all should go who have nothing to do,
more especially all that may be liable to
yellow fever.
Anchor Line steamers, prosecuted for
carrying more cOlored folks than the law
allowed on a single trip, have been re-
lieved of all fines and penalties by the
courts and authorities at Washington
city.
No rations have yet been issued by the
government for the ~sustenance of yellow
fever people here or elsewhere. A thou
sand tents came, nothing more. Another
instalment Of FIVE hundred tents will be
sent us.
If it don't get any worse than we are
having it now there isn't much to b,
frightened ut. Even the whisky soakeri
who filled up at the first alarm are sober
ing down and carry less wild and scary
countenances.
The thunder ratified overhead yesterday
afternoon, and We were on the very edg,
Of several rain showers, but only a few
scattering drops fell over us. The wind
varied from southeast TO west, and seyera
sudden changes occurred.
The sum of $40 was received from va
rious citizens yesterday to feed the poo
in camp. The subscribers were: j. r
Goodwin, $780, j. w. Calhoun, $50 j. w
Clapp, S25; Edward Goldsmith, $25; {
Mason, SIS; @. W. Metcalf, s..
The brow-beating, or knock-down an
drsg-out style of argument, is not the kin
to win even in such troublous times as tn
: present, any more than is the abusive an
%backbiting style. Those who practiC
d either may hold up for a period, but the
fall will follow rs sure as fate.
A box ofmustard, a bottle of castor Of
a tried nurse of experimental close
hand-with the liver and bowels
ID healthy working order, are now essentia
to the happiness and serenity Of ever
person liable to Yellow Jacks embrace
The steamer Annie p. Silver passC
here this morning on her way from Ne
Orleans to 81. Louis and did not stop. III
Paris G. Brown, for the Ohio, left Ne
Orleans last night. The Lucy Castro