Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-24
tuesday Evening, August "a, 1850
LEDGER N

The fruit stands present an inviting
appearance.
Brown u Jones, coal, Office 2S2
Main street.
Another pleasant moonshiny night,
but warm to-day.
The darby and the luscious water
melon are still boon companions.
Wanted-Young man to wrap bun
dies, Apply to j. H. Johnston, 283
Main street.
The city scayenger has very little to
do now, as the dog killing has ceased
for the present.
Three thousand blank warrants have
Just been printed for the city. Things
are beginning to look bilious.
Thos. c. Burlington and Miss Lutte
B. Norton were licensed to marry
yesterday, and also a colored couple.
According to the signal service re-
port, the weather will continue warm,
and we are likely soon to have a light
rain.
On the registers book for Saturday
appears a copy of a mortgage executed
by Martin Enright in favor of j. 7.
Walsh & Co.
In consideration Of the state debt,
bond and coupon agitation, it might
be opportune to repeat the saying. the
children are the coupons to the bonds
of marriage.
The reporter frequently receives in
vitations to spiritualistic seances, often
from those he never suspected of the
ghostly belief. Seances are held in
some part Of the city every night.
The increased width of the side.
walks on Madison and Adams street
is an inducement to the ladies to take
evening p%romenades. Numbers Of
them may be seen taking the air in
the cleaning.
A very pretty piece of music has
just been published by H. G. Hollen-
burg, entitled, Dixie Land am Good
Enough for Me-" music and words by
W. G. Woodward. 1t is very pleas
ing and a good hit on the exodus ques-
ton.
1t is said the most miserable man
is the fellow with a girl on each arm,
three ice cream signs in sight and only
fifteen cents in his pocket. That is
true anywhere, but I'm Chicago es.
pecially, the young fellow would have
drowned himself in the lake.
While the wife is off to the springs,
the lonely, woe-begone husband
mournfully makes his way to the bill
lard hall and sorrowfully shoves the
classic billiard ball until he has worn
out the small end of the cue, and
somehow can't chalk it anywhere but
in the middle or at the big end.
There does not seem to be any par
ticular style Of mems hats worn here
this summer. OF dozens Of different
shapes no one can be said to be more
popular than the other. Some prefer
the beaver hat, some.the straw hat.
many still cling to the Derby, while
the great majority year old hats.
The next theatrical season promises
to be one of unusual brilliancy. We
are to have Janauschek, Cavendish
Denier, Pixley, Lotto, Raymond, Joe
Jefferson, Mary Anderson, McCul-
Tough, Byron, the Abbott troupe, anC
many new faces, among them Sarah
Bernhardt, considered as a leader il
the profession.
Higher rents are almost a certainty
Several landlords we're around las
week notifying tenants that they mus
pay more rent from the first of Sep
TENDER or move out. At one plac,
the rent of a residence was RAISED
from thirty to sixty-fve dollars, anC
a saloon raised from seventy. FIVE t,
one hundred and twenty-five dollar
per month.
1t was a touching scene-quit.
touching. He had managed to stea
the buttered side of his little bah.
sisters bread. His mother saw hin
take gently hold Of her hand, an,
heard him say LET bubber take z,
old nassy 'tuff off baby's bread max
baby sick. De ole margine bad 70
baby" Then he crooked his fin
ger, quickly transferring the butte
to his own slice. 1t didn't make hir
sick till afterward, when his mothe
raised him gently up on her knee an
applied her slipper as an antidote.
Jerry Calhoun was robbed thi
morning while drunk, Of some sixt
or seventy dollars. which he la