The Ledger of the 18th positively asserts that the milkmen who supply Memphis with milk, in many cases use too much water in thinning the lactel down, and says that a milkman furnished one of his customer, as usual a day or two since, with a pint of the chalky fluid, and at the same time unknowingly threw in a small sized minnow that had once, in all probability, sported in the filth of Gayoso bayou! Of course Memphis is a city now!

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 21 Sept. 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.