Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-07

100000, another evidence of our
financial prosperity during the past
six months.
The police and fire departments of
this city cost about $500 each month,
street lighting costs over $1,000
monthly, salaries of officers over $1,000
per month, and the public hospital
about 1920 per month.
The board Of health report for the
past six months shows an expenditure
of &,1C9.56. The total number Of
deaths in that time were 444, an aver
age of a fraction over II each week.
Children born number 284 or about IL
each week.
MIR. Isaac Barlow, a conductor on
the Louisville and Nashville railway
sleeping cars, was the person whose
horse was killed yesterday. The ami
NAL struck a rail near the corner of
Main and Adams, ran to the corner Of
Second, and fell dead.
A Swede came in from the country
with a spring wagon full of fruit and
garden truck, got gloriously boosy,
and was driven to the station house
too timber to tell his name. His
wagon and mule are in front of the
prison, and he is in a cell sleeping of
heavy doses of bad whisky.
During the past six months $4,000
cubic yards of stone have been re-
ceived for street paving purposes here,
and nearly all of it has been laid, on
5O,253 square yards, or p miles Of
streets. The outlay for street and
bridge work on the part Of the city
has been $9O.7O6.67.
One of Mr.. Brackets horses was
killed yesterday afternoon. While
running away he collided with a
plank at the corner of Main and
Adams streets and ended his race and
career. A visitor to the city had
hired the animal for a pleasure or
sightseeing drive, and it wound up
d%isastrously.
A thousand men are to be put at
work without delay on the railway
between Columbus, KY, and Cairo, it
being the extension of the Mobile and
Ohio railway, the northern terminus
of which for twenty-three years past
has been at Columbus, from which a
steamer conveyed people and freight
to Cairo.
The Manhattan bank has cleared,
during the past six months, $13, sos. 01,
and out of this a dividend of 5 per
cent is declared on the capital stock
of SOB 1000. AT the same time a like
amount has been added to the reserve
fund. The bank is especially strong,
and its prosperity is pleasant to re-
cord.
A number of people have gone, or
are preparing to 60 to summer quar-
ters in the interior, to the northward,
and in various places. They do not
hope to find a healthier or more
pleasant aud salubrious tarrying place
than our city is at the present time
they merely desire to be going some
where. The nomadic spirit is one Of
the strong attributes of modern Mem
phians.
DR.. 7. j. Turner, secretary of the
national board of health, with head
quarters at Washington City, and who
has predicted that the yellow fever
cycle will pass up the Mississippi
valley this summer, passed through
the city last evening, having arrived
by the quarantine boat H. H. Benner,
and leaving for the east by the night
train. His stay in the yellow fever
belt was brief.
Among recent aocessiens to the
Unitarian church in New York, is
Ada Monk, a handsome actress of su
perb figure and most excellent ability,
who some years ago won favor here
withthe Furbush troupe of players.S She
was especially fine in the character Of
Minnie Ten Eyck, a spoiled, lackada-
steal, manageable daughter of a man
aging mamma, in the highly popular
play of Divorce. Miss Monk was
also splendid in the Mons. Alphonse,
a translation from the French. She
married a wealthy Florida gentleman
shortly after her appearance here, a
person whom she had once discarded,
and whom she had not met for years.
The meeting was by chance and full Of
romance-sO was her marriage. She
has recently resumed stage life again.
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Free stone peaches, 20 and % cents
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