Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-13
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Directory.
The thermometer indicated Sc of heat
yesterday afternoon.
Victor D. Fuchs received a shipment
OF red snappers to-day.
The city fathers will meet again at the
city hall on Tuesday next.
Eight "peelers'' are off Of patrol duty
at present owing to sickness, etc.
Get your shirts and underwear made
to order at Mays, and patronize home
industry.
Quite q number of strangers arrive in
the city daily for the purpose of purchas.
ing goods.
Advertisers should remember that the
Memphis Business Directory is uuequaled
as an advertising medium.
The warm days and nights which have
come again will have u good effect upon
the worm-eaten cotton crop.
An exchange says; IF the kAtydids
have not willfully lied we will have frost
on the 9th of October next"
Fresh lake salmon and red snappers
at q. Seessel, ST., & Sons, corner of
Jefferson and Second streets.
Lawyers and court clerks are getting
ready for the opening of the Criminal
and Circuit Courts on next Monday.
Quite a number of gentlemen with
guns and dogs will leave for the prairies
of Arkansas Saturday next on a week s
hunt.
1t is proposed to dredge the shoals in
the river at the foot Of jefferson street
so as to make the landing as useful as
possible,
The Avalanchian wakes w;oth when
ever the police force is criticized, and
the reason why is obvious to any local
politician.
If our business men would increase
their " and the city's business they
should advertise in he Memphis Bust.
ness Directory.
The canned oyster has returned 10
Memphis from IFS summer vacation, and
soon the shell oyster will arrive here from
coast watering places.
The employees of many Of our whole
sale business houses are working until II
o'clock nightly opening up and putting
away new stocks of goods for the fall
trade.
The DeSoto and Bluff City boat clubs
after all the talk about putting up money
on a new race, have failed to bring the
thing TO an issue, and the proposed race
is off for the present.
Successful efforts at suicide are not
popular in Memphis. The stomach
pump, emetics and other remedies
usually bring the would.be mortal coil.
shutters back from the shades.
Sending samples of cotton stalks GOV.
cred With cotton worms has become
common within the past week. At the
cotton exchange fine active specimens
Of the cotton worm can be seen.
Nightly the drummers haunt The hotel
rotundas and sit up to the man from the
country. They show the countryman
around town, and never give him up
until he purchases a bill of goods.
Monday night next the Fay 1'enpleton
Star Alliance troupe will appear at the
theater, The troupe will appear during
the engagement in Puck, a comic opera;
Spanish Pink Oominos, a comedy, and
an operate extravaganza entitled Aimee.
The insurance men complain that
ov ing to the absence Of fires the insur-
ance business is dull. A few fires stir
up property owners, and busines,t men to
the necessity Of fixing out policies of
insurance.
Every merchant, manufactures, mt
chanic, Law yer, doctor, hOtelkeeper, ex-
press office, steamboat, depot, etc, within
the country trading with Memphis will be
presented with q col Y Of the Memphis
Business Directory.
In order that the aldermen may
know their respective soats the latter