Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-30
LEDGER LINES.

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Business of all descriptions is improv-
ing.
Our bluffs are lined with country
wagons.
Self-rising buckwheat for sale by all
grocers.
One hundred fire kindlers for 81 at Oil
yer, Finnie & Co.'S.
The Washington street varieties will
open tonight with a good troupe.
-Four coaches daily pass over the Little
Rock road going West, loaded with pas
sengers.
The LEDGER is a great favorite in Mem
phis. Its circulation is general and daily
increasing.
Four thousand bales of cotton have been
shipped from Hopefeld to New Orleans
since the fever.
Annual election of the Memphis City
Fire and General Insurance Company
next Monday.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office,
10 Madison street.
TEN cents a week for the DAILY PUB.
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by good
carriers. Leave your orders at this office.
The survey boat being built in VOL
river will be finished in a few days and
stationed near the wreck Of the City Of
Chester.
Buy your Sunday reading at Spangler's
Late papers, magazines and a large assert
ment of Libraries-the cheapest reading
in the world.
To-day the government employees viii
finish another mattress and Monday they
will place them in position and sink them
at the mouth of Wolf river.
The government pile-driver to be useC
at and on our harbor front is nearly com
pleted. 1t is seventy feet leng, twenty
six feet wide and three-foot hold.
Mrs. Aehle has released her tenant, MI
Harpmann, from paying rent during tn,
fever. This is but an act Of Justice, ant
we hope many others will follow this ex
ample.
The advertising picture car Of the circu
arrived in the city this morning on tn
Little Rock railroad. The little folks ar
waiting ~anxiously for the clown to put il
an appearance.
A grand concert will be given to-nigh
at Joe Emmerich's saloon, 34K Adam
street, by Professor George Handwerker
orchestra. Fine wines and liquors vii
flow freely, and the best beer in the cit
will be on tap.
Main and DeSoto streets, also the pave
ments, are in a fearful condition especial
in front Of the fire engine houses, and it
almost impossible for them to get in q
out of their houses.
Tickets for Uncle Toms Cabin are e
ing off lively to-day at Hollenberg
music store. This is a frst-elass attractio
and will be sure of a good run all nel
week. Matinee Wednesday and Satul
day.
. Colonel r. G. Brinkley's remains a
rived to-day at II IN. from Iuka, and wi
be followed to Elmwood at 3 o'clock tn
: evening. He was one of the old Ian,
marks, loved and esteemed by all WI
" knew him.
John Dewitt, aged about forty-tv
, years, was found on the levee late yeste
day evening very sick. He was CARR,
TO the station-house and died there II
morning about 4 o'clock. Esquire Spe.
man held an inquest over his remains.
II The two Hebrew congregations Of Il
city win hold a united memorial servi
in honor of their dead at the Synagogr
corner Of Main and Exchange streets, {
morrow evening at 7 o'clock. Rev. l
Samfeld will deliver the memorial a
: dress.
The action of the general council y,
B. terday afternoon makes the city school t
for the ensuing year ave cents instead
ten cents on the hundred dollars, as heI
u tofore. Iii is announced that this will
q b sufficient for all purposes if properly c
=. locted.
Attorney General G. P. NJ. Turner |
summoned the whole police force Def,
his august presence in the Criminal Coz
to give testimony, next Tuesday mornil
Meantime, who will run the town VIII
he is interviewing the police on what til
q ought but do not knowH
N We are glad TO that Gool
B. Fleece, county trustee, has called 10
re assistance in the Office as cashier, d.
Slaughter, Of the Sixteenth district. \
Slaughter il an old oficer and wae sho