Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-18
PUBLIC LEDGER.
once, 10 Madison street.
CITY CIRCULATION.
TIE CITY
Thursday Evening. May IS, 1879.
OLD P
"reminiscences Of the City In 1897,
FOrty.Nine Years AgO-The
First Paper Published
on the Bluff.
The Memphis Advocate and wests
err District Intelllgencer.
The Memphis Advocate and West
r District Intelligence.

months after the receipt OF the hrst num-
Der in each year, or 81 il not paid until
that time, was issued, and it was the
only and leading journal Of the town.
The motto of the journal was, THE
Tale of the Times That Are"
On the first page, in the first column,
was, it seems, the Poets Corner" for
there is found a poem taken from the
Nantucket Enquirer, which claims to be
original, yet in imitation of the Scotch
poet, Burns, and headed ITO a Land
Tortoise" The first stanzas Of the six
which constitute the poem will give the
reader an idea as to its literary merit:
Guild mornin' frien', ye're early c%reepin',
wiz head erect above ye peepin',
And steady s ait ye always keep in
Are sure an slaw;
1 doubt the time ye TAX to sleepin'
Is unc0' sma'
FOREIGN INTRLLIGENcE.
The European politics is dated Lon
don, January II, 1927, and refers with
satisfaction at the arrival Of the British
troops at Portugal, when Ferdinand was
King of Spain, and he was reluctant to
acknowledge a limited monarchy in
Portugal. The British press advises the
employment Of a feet to capture Cuba
and a reinforcement Of the'army at Lis
bon to act as to Spain as circumstances
may require.
MEMPHIs BUSINESS MEN,
At the time above mentioned I. D.
Carr was about to establish q new tau
yard upon Bayou Gayoso, near the in
tersection of Big creek and county seat
roads, where he proposed to tan on
shares for all those who may desire it,
and Thomas o. Parrau, agent for Mr..
Carr, would receipt in his name for hides
delivered at his store.
R. Lawrence & Co. had just received,
!. per steamboat Hibernia, from Louisville,
a lot of baling and rope, and expected
) cotton bagging in a few days,
: R. a. Wynne, proprietor Of the Jack.
son hotel, %solicits a continuance Of pub
s lie patronage.
Atwood 4 Merry had received, upor
y consignment, several barrels Of whiskey
n four boxes of shoes and 10, 1000 Kentucky
: Spanish cigars,
VIM. D. Fergassen, agent of Richard
Searcy, offers to sell a lot Of young ne
D groes, and several sections Of land il
Crittenden county, A. T., for sale.
id W. s. Henderson propose to sci
low, for cash, Mans Lick salt, sol,
leather and chewing tobacco, gunpow
1t der, saddlery, feathers, coarse shoes, etc
Thos. Il. Pearson offers for rent tw,
plantations on the north side of Non
& conner" creek.
10 Lemuel Ford offers for sale a valuabl
tract of land of FIVE hundred acres, situ
ated upon the waters of Wolf river, nea
- the mouth Of Fletcher's Fork and With
| four miles of Raleigh, and authorize
Mr.. Benjamin Robbins to act as his ager
and attorney.
J. Royal and T. Ph9bus announc
3 that their c%opsrtnership is dissolved b
mutual consent, and that Messrs. PARA
. & Phebus will in future conduct th
Memphis Advocate.
Thos. 0. Parran and VIM. B. Dal
likewise announce that they have di
solved partnership.
k, Doctor Pennington will practice me,
ioine in the different departments
S. Memphis and its vicinity, and may |
- found at DR.. Figures tavern, on Chick
saw street.
:. Wills 4 Richardson have received, p,
steamboat Dewitt Clinton, a lot of gr
ceries, stationery, etc.
r. r. A. ut. Young, having remove
their new store to Chickasaw street, off
: for sale a general assortment Of groceri
and garden seeds, low for cash.
Hezekieh Smith has for sale q lot
I'D saddlery and brides at the house Of M
} Painter, which stock he will sell low t
st' cash or cotton.
Charles Thomas, Assistant Quartz
master u. s. A., stationed at Memph
s%olicits sealed proposals. to. bridge t
We, streams on the Memphis and Little Ro
r road 1.-THE old military road now abs
I-lS doned),
N STEAMBOATS, IN PORT.
The water crafts plying to and fro
Memphis we're as follows.
Gen. Carroll, Muskingum, Patri
Te.cum-seh, CORTLAND, Emerald, Geor
~ Washington, Phoenix, Gen, Coffee, G,
WAYNE. Philadelphia, New York, Colu
bia, Belvidere, Dewitt Clinton, lib
MIA, Cavalier. These boats ran betwe
SGaE1,, Louisville aud New Orleans.
No, MEMPHIS AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY ]
65O sCRIBED.
med The proprietors Of the grant uI
his, which the city is now situated have
flaming advertisement in the AdVocG
0an setting forth that
! for The town is on the left bank Of
n. Mississippi river, on the lower Chiekai
ST bluff, 225 miles below the mouth Of
- Ohio, 800 miles above Natchez, and
miles above New Orleans. As to smoC
NAL high and beautiful surface no place
rdera the MISSISSIPPI is to be compared TO
Any town, nor has any place on that ri
been found equally healthy. 1t is {