Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-06


well worth a visit. 1t is a success and
has no rival in the world.
Our crowd is scattering out, but not
with a view to an early return to
Memphis. Some of us have been here
nearly two months and feel like chang
ing merely for the sake of change
Several families have removed to Tate
Springs. Mr.. Owen Lilly has gone to
Cleveland to be ready to get in first or
among the first on the home stretch.
He and his excellent lady will make
friends wherever they may go by their
quiet, easy manners and real solid
worth and character. Mr.. d. H. Pos
ton has taken his invalid wife and their
children to Greenville, but he is full
Of law business even up here and being
full Of energy also is much Of his
time on the go. His firm has been
retained recently in some big law suits
which will keep them busy all fall.
Mr.. Aaron Allen and wife have gone to
Greeneville to visit some relatives and
will shortly return to Huntsville, Ala.
General G. P. M. Turner has gone
down to Knoxville to spend a few
days but will be back again after his
family. He has raised the price of
his horse to $500 and will no doubt be
willing to pay railroad or express
charges accordingly. If not he can
easily ride through, Patagonian style,
by the time he will be needed at the
next term of the Criminal Court.
Perhaps this would suit him better
than the cars as it is rumored back in
the hills that he is to be brought out
or shot out next year as candidate
for governor on the National Green
back Republican ticket. He tells the
sovereigns thatif his father and moth
er had put off moving to Mississippi
only i've months longer he would have
been born in East Tennessee and is
sorry that he was not, yet | remember
that he told different story
when he was running for congress in
Mississippi on the Democratic ticket
about ten years ago. | have no idea
who Falstaff had in his mind at the
time, but do remember that he once
/. indignantly said Lord, Lord, how
this world is given to lying" Gen.
Leslie, our jailer, is still looking at
Holston river and talks now of build
ing raft and floating all the way to
Memphis. Mr.. George Rudisill has
gone to St. Louis. Mr.. Phipps Miller
and wife have also gone to St. Louis
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller have been.th
guests of Captain H.. B. Clay, Ken
tuckian and grandson of Henry Clay
whose accomplished wife is a cousin
of Mr.. Miller.
Miss Minnie Hunter left this week
for Staunton, Va, where she expects to
remain at school two years, taking a
special course in music, elocution,
French, and perhaps German and one
or two other studies. In music she
will have one of the best teachers in
the country, lately secured in Boston.
After leaving Staunton she expects to
attend the conservatory of music at
Boston. She is a modest but talented
and courageous girl who has an object
in her studies, and will doubtless win
name for herself and reflect credit
upon her many friends and we'll wish
ers.
Mrs. Flaherty, of Vance street, and
her charming daughter, Miss Eta, are
yet here and will probably remain un-
til the white winged angel" frost,
invites them back to Memphis. They
are charm to any society, and espe-
cially here where the real social quail
tiles and dispositions of people are SO
easily discovered. Mrs. Moon, whose
son Ed has recovered, wears a smile
that really does any one good to be-
) hold. We all rejoice that the great
J shadow of her life has been removed
in the recovery of her boy. Send him
f up. He would be heartily welcomed.
Captain Joseph Lenow, venerable
] with years, yet strong in the conscious
ness of well spent and useful life,
and as clear headed as ever, talks
much about the condition and future
of Memphis. He has the utmost faith
} in the outcome and future Of the
place, and is going back to call the
property holders together and make
square fight against all the enemies
/ seen and unseen, tangible and intangi-
BILE, of Memphis. He says the place
must not, cannot die or go down, and
that we must resort to the utmost
measures, even if it costs one-fourth
, we were worth to make the city proof
against yellow fever. The captain
talks business, and will be heard from
at the right time. l hope every prop
f erty holder and business man is max
ing up his mind the same way on this
subject.