Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-21
LEDGER LINES.

Pure maple syrup at Lytle & Shields.
The Probate Court has been in session
to-day.
The weather is bad and the streets are
muddy.
Chancellor Mcdowell viii hear motions
Monday.
The store windows are dressed in Christ
mas goods.
Writs Of mandamus continue to issue
against the city.
Remember the poor-not in your pray
ers, but in your Christmas gifts.
There are ninety-one pupils in attend
anse at the Christian Brothers College.
Preserves and j%ellies in 5-pound pals.
Price reasonably low. Lytls & Shields.
During cold weather gas meters should
be kept wrapped up to prevent freezing.
n. Williams & Co. have the largest as
sortment Of Christmas books in the city.
During the week ending to-day the
County Court Clerk issued forty-one mar
risge licenses.
A report is in circulation that a negro
tried to outrage a girl on Poplar street
Thursday night.
Lyle & Shields will have a shipment Of
one thousand pounds fine dressed turkeys
for holiday trade.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing office
10 Madison street.
Phil johnson, the escaped convict ar
rested in this city was yesterday taker
back to Mississippi.
There was quite a snow this morning
The snow melted almost as soon as i
touched the wet ground.
For Michigan pure apple cider call a
w. F. Oltman's, corner of Fifth anC
Greenlaw streets, Chelsea.
The next drawing of the Louisiana lot
terry takes place January l4th. Procure
tickets now. See advertisement.
Two thousand pounds plain and fancl
candies at a reduction of 10 to 20 per cent
over former seasons. Lyle & Shields.
Ten cents a week for the DAILY PUB
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by goo,
carriers. Leave your orders &C this office
Provisions, fuel or clothing will be NOR
serviceable to the poor this winter thai
religious tracts and other donations of thi
kind.
There will be a meeting of citizens q
the Greenlaw Opera House tonight to dis
cuss the municipal debt and the best plaI
FOR settling it.
Judge Tom w. Brown, of this city, ha
beca elected an honorary member Of tn
Philosophic Society of Davidson county
North Carolina.
The election for Aoater to represen
Shelby and Fsyette counties in the legiI
ture is being held to-day. A remarkabl
light vote will be polled.
The election of officers in DeSoto Lods
No. 300, f. and A. NJ, last night, resulte
as follows; B. F. Price, W. NJ; G. Mur
dinger, S. W.. II. B. Cullen, j. W. d.
Porter, %treasureri II. M. Raglan, seer,
tary.
The weather to-day is cold and drear!
but the streets are thronged with peopl
+ The old refrain, "Never mind the weath'
so the wind don't blow" is practically AZ
preciated in Memphis.
Cotton was in active request this for,
noon. Buyers were complaining Of II
inferior character Of the offerings, and Q,
pressed the opinion that large sales woul
rasult but for this obstacle.
Cotton receipts here to-day we're 81
Z bales total for the season, l05,S29 bale
b Should the receipts from this time for
be equal to last year during the same p
Rod, our total will reach 594,9ll bales.
1t is somewhat amusing to note Il
eager manner in which the charactt
s cause and treatment of yellow fever a
defined by physicians Of other cities vi
never have seen a case OF the diseaI
Hence are we doctors.
Coroner Caldwell held an inquest
the body Of John Benzell, the cigar m