Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-16
HE HAD BEEN TO MEMPHIS.
A Humorous Correspondent who
Told Part Of what He Saw.
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ARooLA, Miss, June al have
just gotten back from Memphis. Not
that | am the only nan that ever ac-
conplished that feat but had to tell
you hat | had gotten back that you
might infer that | had been there.
The main object Of this epistle is to
tell what | saw while there, and some
things that | head. TO begin, |
think Memphis is one Of the most
accommodating cities | ever saw. She
shows her kindness in building
Court Square" park. The park is
kept in most elegant condition. 1t
would be a splendid place for a strang-
er to 20 into and rest if he could get
some place to sit down. To be sure
there are quite a number Of nice rustic
seats there, but they are generally occu=
pied by a couple of negro girls-nurses
whose infantile charges are toddling
around, falling wei everything they
can, running in danger of being
knocked over by careless pedestrians,
while they (the n%urses) have a jolly
time with sprucy young negro BARRIERS
and porters, etc. | tell you it is a
wonderful accommodation to the
muses. aud bucks" but rather dan
-gerous to the children who are taken
there.
went to a church festival. 1t was
a sort Of social arrangement by which
the members are brought together oc-
casiOnally-with ice cream and straw
berry background. On this particular
night they had some missionary reci-
tations by the children and some sing
ing by the choir. Then a young lady
recited THE Lost Heir" a funny
something with the fun left out, that
might have been very appropriate at
a variety show. 1t GER
tainly was not appropriate to the
church dedicated to the exclusive
service of God. The services were
concluded by some sort of an incom-
~prehensible song, sung in an incom-
%prehensible way by Prof. Somebody.
| tell you be could sing if fuss counts
for anything. He rose up on his toes
inflated his singing apparatus till
his eyes came out on stems and looked
at each other-then he hoWled as
though he bad a sixty horse power en-
CINE to back him. They Cold me that.
1t was grand singing, and they were
right, for all | know.
The next day | went out to a Sun
day-school picnic on the Louisville
road: 1t was in every sense a model
picnic. Everything was conducted
so nicely and orderly that / will net
forget it soon, and when | have a
Sunday-school picnic in my church
some of these days, | am going to try
to have one just like the one I attend
ed near Memphis last Saturday.
Memphis does not seem to be- at a
loss on account OF business. 1t looks
more active and energetic now than it
did at this time last year. only
judge this from the amount Of ship
ping by the steam boats that [ saw
the few days | was there. They are
shipping lots of corn and bacon. The
wharf was the most active place about
the city. By the way, if the man who
thinks that railroads have done away
with steamboats,, superseded them as
IT were, could just step down TO the
Memphis wharf and see what loads OF
freight and the number Of passengers,
his opinion would change. 1 was
much gratifed at this evidence of
business prosperity in Memphis in the
dull season Of the year. Confidence is,
think, fully restored in the health OF
the city. | saw no evidence of fright
or flight on the yellow fever account.
All Joined in saying that the yellow
lever was not expected there this
year There seems to be an air of
confidence and prosperity that | have
not seen since I've been going to
Memphis. "The new revision was
talked over more than any one thing
while was there. Even New York
politics, Roscoe Conkling, etc., gave
way 70 the revised New Testament.
okepticism was laughed very heartily
over the fact that hell was left out
OF the new edition-ignorant of the
fact, that it was stronger than
ever In it. | was on the boat
coming down the river and over