Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-26
BREyITIEs..

Chptain HACK WllkerSOn can see
friend from Missouri at the Worsham
House.
Col. Z. McDavitt has returned from
Lookout Mountain, looking very much
improved.
The Memphis and Little Rock rail
road has ceased to run Sunday trains.
The schedule is unchanged for the rest
of the week.
A meeting of the bar will be held this
evening at the Office of Humes & Posten
to make arrangements to attend the fu-
neral of the laniented Edward Hamlin,
Esq
The survivors of the old Fifth Confed-
crate Regiment will be pleased to learn
that their old Brigade Surgeon, DR.. A. A.
Lawrence, lately of Houston, Texas, is
in the city. We learn that DIR. Lawrence
has some intention of locating in our
city, which we hope he may do.
Yesterday afternoon was close, sultry
and dusty. The air was oppressive, and
it was difficult to breathe. Toward night
a dark thunder cloud arose, and after a
heavy wind, which filled the air with
dust, relief came to over-taxed nature in
shower of rain that was most grateful
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to man, and all nature seemed to rejoice.
The night and this morning were cool
and pleasant. We hope the hottest
weather is past now, and that cooler
weather will soon permit all our summer
refugees to return. 40 NE
An intelligent gentleman, who has re-
turned from business trip in North
Alabama, reports that crops are the best
raised in that fertile region for the last
twenty years. The people are in fine
spirits, and talk, of trading more than
ever ia Memphis. They prefer our mar
ket to any other, but where Memphis
has one agent soliciting trade, Louisville,
st. Louis and even Cincinnati, have half
dozen active men each; hence, Mem
phis merchants lose cotton and good Gus
toners by not competing against other
markets. Many planters who sent cot
ton to st. Louis, and Louisville for the
last two or three years got bit, to use a.
familiar expression, and would like to
renew Memphis business connections
Now is the time to secure much of this
rich trade for Memphis, but it calls for
an effort.
Selling the Daily Extra" is dull bust
ness with the poor little newsboys. The
issue has been so much in excess of the
demand and sale that the boys are sew
eral days behind A sickly looking lit
tie fellow, second edition of Oliver
Twist, was on the street yesterday try
ing to make shadow and few nickels,
in both of which he was singularly un-
successful. Here's yr Extryl" he
sauaked in voice as thin as mud
dauber caught under tin cup. A gen
tleman who mistook the unfortunate lad
for an applicant for charity took the
bundle Of badly worn slips of paper in
his hands and was surprised to find that
they we're Extras" of the 10th, which
the boy was still trying to sell. No
doubt the old ones sell rs well as those
of present date. The boy received some
nickels, but the giver did not take an
Extra. F."
The Knoxville Wing has been sold by
j. A. Mabry & Co. to Rolfe S, Saunders,
Esq, of this city, who, with his former
partner, /. s. Clark, will continue the
same under the name of Clark, Saunders
4 Co. The name of the Knoxville Regis
ter, paper with which Mr.. Saunders was
connected many years, has been revived,
and hereafter the paper will be the
Knoxville Wing and Register. The
names may jingle very well together
now, but in 1860 and '6l they fought
each other to the knife and to the hilt
1t was a death struggle in which many
fell to rise no more. The Register was
founded August 3, 1916, by Major F. S.
Heiskell, an honored citizen of Knox
county, who is still living in the enjoy
ment of a good, green old age. The
union of these two names shows that a
revolution indeed has taken place in the
land even since the war. Col. +. Y.
Rocket, the polished gentleman, gifted
poet and brilliant journalist, it is under
stood, will occupy the chair of editor-in-
chief. The combination is a good one,
and the gentlemen have frst-class abili-
ties, and we hope they will succeed
beyond their highest hopes.
The people of West Point, Georgia,
are unwilling to give up the remains of
Gen. r. C. Tyler, who fell there in the
last battle of the war, nobly defending
Fort Tyler, named after him, and a mag
nifrent flag presented to him by the la
dies of West Point. The Confederate
Soldiers Relief and Historical Associa-
ton have had under consideration plan
to remove the body of Gen. Tyler to our
beautiful Elmwood, where SO many of
the Confederate dead repose, Gen. Ty-
Ter was not by birth Tennesseean, but
this was his adopted State. He went