Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-19
TEN CENTS Pc WE E X.
THE CITY.
Thursaay EvenIng, De. 10. Is7s.
LEDGER LINES.


The cold weather continues.
The streets are crowded with people
every day.
The stores are full of good things for
Christmas.
Recorder Quigley has determined to
punish wife-besters.
The courts viii adjourn tomorrow for
the Christmas holidays.
The mercury reached 2eo this morning,
and ice formed in bedroom pitchers.
No city in the Union presents a more
animated appearance than Memphis.
Judge E. S. Hammond will deliver a
lecture to the law class tonight at 1880.
The Probate Court in the past two days
has transacted a large amount Of business.
Red ears, red noses and red eyes, the re-
suit Of cold weather, are to be seen on the
streets.
The Slater relief bale Of cotton will be
sold at the exchange at 9 o'clock this af-
t%ernoon.
The Adah Richmond Opera Boufe
Troupe will play at the Memphis Theater
next week.
Many persons who come to Memphis
visit the Shelby county jail, which they
generally admire.
John BenzeI, the man who swallowed
sixty grains of q%uinine, was carried to the
hospital last night.
Since the end of the epidemic, October
%, 1919 bales of cotton have been re.
eeiyed in this city.
Every kind of JOB printing executed a
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office
10 Madison street.
Saturday an election will be held 70
aoater to represent Shelby and Fayett
counties in the legislature.
For Michigan pure apple cider call a
w. F. Oltman's, corner of Fifth an,
Greenlaw streets, Chelsea.
The mar who took poison yesterda!
with a view to commit suicide, died at tn.
hospital this morning at four o'clock.
Cotton receipts to-day 1850 bales; tota
for the season 1923 bales, and 24,7S
bales short of last year at the same date.
Ten cents a week for the DAILY PUB
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by goo,
carriers. Leave your orders u this Office
Ryan, the insurance man, was release,
from Jail yesterday. Last night he board
ed a steamer and is said to have gone VI
the river.
The opposition to the proposed granting
of the right of way along the wharf t
any railroad is determined on the part @
our citizens.
Cotton buyers were active this morning
New York spots were firm and future
weak. Liyerpool-uplands 8 Lied; fl
lures unsettled.
What will be done with the Bayo
Gayoso and the decayed Nicolson pave
ment, are questions of grave importanc
to the people of Memphis.
John Epperson, news agent or tn
Memphis and Paducah and Norther
railroad, will deliver the LEDGER duly o
the line Of his road for Soc per month.
A communication elsewhere on beha.
of the orphans and Others in charge of tn
Sisters of the Good Shepherds Home,
entitled to a careful reading and considers
ton.
Colonel w. S. Pickett's residence, n,
81 Adams street, caught fire this afternoo
and was damaged to the extent of $500
partially covered by insurance. The o.
eupants lost a great deal by FIRE and waite
The purchasers at late Chancery sal,
, Of Trigg property are notified to com
forward instanter and pay the purcha'
money due, or judgments will be entere
up against them and extra costs incurrel
The city engineer has not repaired Il
man-trap on Orleans street, near Tat
: In answer to the complaints of sever
Is citizens we will say hat there is no pro-
: ability Of the engineer doing anything
the matter.
Mr.. Ben K. Pullen, of Unity LODI
. No. q Knights of Honor, has adjusted Il
benefit for 5000 each in the cases Of J
Bloomfield, A, II. Goodman and F. Ss
rer, members ofthe lodge who died durir
the yellow fever.
Yesterday at the United States Cou
y the motion Of Lauderdale county va. Jof
l. B. Lent and John NJ. Edmonds, to enjo
the judgments rendered on the bonds
the county issued to the Mississippi ra
road, was refused.
Sharp practice on the part Of adraymi
yesterday was to sell his dray for sos, al
then get another person to claim tho pro
erty and demand $40 this forenoon. T
8 party Of the first part may have troub
should he pursue this kind Of business.
The city mandamus cases were argu
OF before the judges of the United Sta
= Court yesterday. and taken under adyi
. ment. The object Is to compel the city
make an additional levy and collection
Is taxes to satisfy the mandamus creditors
Justice Fould,of Greenville, Ill, is in
, city in search Of his son, who is report
a., hova hoon lrnoclyod o-o-hoa-d frcr,