Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-31
LEDGER LINES.

The total fever cases reported at the
board of health to date numbers ia.
Sleepers find it delightfully."- pleasant
these cool nights.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
This semi-miiitary government of ours
is pleasing to all who are not made to feel
the rigors of it.
The Towards have forty-six nurses on
duty and have sent out ffty-seven in all
since they began operations.
Over 500 tents are up and ready for use
at Camp Marks, and 700 are in readiness
to be erected when the occasion demands.
1t was a hundred pair Of blankets,
equal to two hundred single ones that
Rice, Silk & Co., gave tor use at the
camps.
The LEDGER job printing office, Is
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.
Brooks, Nicely & Co., Memphis, 500
John NJ. Lea, Nashville, $500 Steamer
Batesville, crew and passengers, sllO75;
This foots up $4,000 as the total contribu-
tons 50 Gar.
The steamer Jamas y, Parker is under
way from Cincinnati 10 Cairo, and will
not come to this port. The sieamsF City
Of Greenville left st. Louis for Natchez,
last night.
Lot . man buy and pay for a car load
of ice and start it through the medical au-
thorities fumigation nil, and then hear
him express an opinion regarding the way
things work.
The pestiferous mosquitoes appear to be
as raven0us in the early hours Of the
morning as they are during the darkest
hours of the night, and their numbers are
not to be computed.
The steamer Gold Dust, from Yicks-
burg to st. Louis, passed up yesterday
afternoon without stopping. The City Of
Helena went down this morning with a
good load, and, like the other, never
stopped.
People should carry cooking utensils
and other necessaries out to the camp, if
they wish to locate there, but they must
be careful regarding the bedding they
take. The camp authorities exercise a
close surveillance oyer bed-clothes and
mattresses.
Camp Marks was visited last evening
by a couple of dozen persons from among
our present leading citizens. They went
down with DR.. Porter and other authori-
ties, including a number of the officers o.
the camp. They inspected the grounGs
enjoyed lunch and came home.
Refugees who wish to take up then
residence at Camp Marks must make W
their minds to remain there when one,
located. They will not be permitted {,
run back and .orth at will. This restrain
is necessary to preserve the health of tn.
camp. Free rations for all who go dow
to the tents in the woods.
Several gentlemen of the green cloth
otherwise sporting men, tarry among us
aud being in the main yellow fever eH
perts, are regarded with much favor. A
a class they are generous, often beyon
their means. Kind to persons in distre:
and humane TO a reckless degree.
The sound Of the soldiers bugle on tn
bluff each morning isa familiar one {
, old troopers, and it is not unpleasant in
asmuch as they don't have to answer roll
! call. 1t is all very nice to play Sunda
r soldier for a few months, but the reguls
D thing for a year or two is the other way.