Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-08
LEDGER LINES.

0oe hASAt was NVpis
Business is daily improving.
There was a light rain yesterday after
noon.
PUBLIC LEDGER JOB printing office, 10
Madison street.
Ask your grocer for Gaf Fleischman &
Co.'S compressed yeast.
Cotton ink, red and black, at G. W.
Jones & Coz, 2j7 Main street.
New buckwheat -four and new sugar
house molasses just received by Lytle &
Shields.
Two hundred and twenty refugees az
rived yesterday on the Cincinnati bost
Vint Shinkle.
Lytle & Shields have just received a
shipment of extra nne creamery and
Western butter.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office,
Is Madison street.
The city council will probably meet
next week. At present there are only three
aldermen in the city.
Robert Church, the ~well-known proprie-
tor Of Church Hall, Second street, has re-
turned from the North.
The Protestant Pastors Association
have resolved to devote next week to
prayer and thanksgiving.
Where have you. how have and what
are you, are the questions Of the hour
among returned refugees.
Lyle s. Shields are this day receiving,
both By river and rail, heavy shipments
Of groceries, both staple and fancy.
Job printing Of every kind executed in
the best style and at the lowest price at
the PUTLIc LEDGRE job printing Office,
10 Madison street.
The Little Rock Democrat says that it
Is believed that in order to suppress ex-
element the health officers are not re-
porting new cases" Of fever.
Major Benyauri, Of the Z. S. A engi-
neer corps, has resumed work on the levee
improvements below Wolf river. The
steam tug. Nght Hawk, is engaged in
towing for this work.
The tax collector IL pushiug delinouents
for payment Of Licences. While the off
Ger is required by law to collect ta1es. vet
in view Of the great distress and general
interruption o. business, it is only fair to
give the people an opportunity to straight-
IN up affair.
We arc indebted to Williams & Manse,
publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio, for 4 sweet
song, entitled @Oh God, Hear Their Cry"
written and adapted by hrs. Clara Richie
The song was suggested by the terrible
yellow fcyor suferii - in the South.
Divine services are held again at the
Synagogue Of the Reformed Hebrew Con
gregation, corner Main aud Exchange
streets, this evening at 1870 o'clock. and
tomorrow At 10 o'clock am. The Sun
day-schoOl will b. reopencd next sun
day at $ am. Teachers snd pupils are
requested 10 attend.
John Linknauer, the only member OF
the relief committee Of the /. o. 0. +. that
escaped sickness during tho yellow fever,
is additionally happy because Of his wife
yesterday giving birth 70 q tyelye-pound
boy. May the nov heir he as noble and
true as his respected father. This ia BY
far tho dearest presentation made to a vel
low fever hero.
The Sisters Of st. Agnes Academy will
commence q session next Monday AT La
Salette, on Third street, nour Poplar.
They will receive day scholars ard board.
ors. Tho reputation Of the Sisters as edu.
Gators stands second 10 mons in this sec.
ton. and hence it is expected that their lisi
Of SCHOLARS viii reach the usual number al
soon as the reopspioa Of their academy il
known.
Last night the engineer Of the Louis.
vile and Nashville and Great Southern
railroad train discovered that the Vol
river trestlo was giving way. The engi,
neer, with commeudable bravery, 40.
J coupled no train and took the engia,
oyer the trestis. THIS brave act doubtlc..
saved many hgmsp bye, apl also mucl