Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-09
LEDGER LINES.


From SO to 75o yesterday.
Cotton improving in value.
Temperature at sunrise, $50.
Bad weather for the melon tradesmen
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
The moon rises at a quarter after ten
tonight.
The sunny side was the most pleasant
this morning.
Very scarce is the yellow fever new:
received from other points at present.
The price of meals now rule at twenty.
five, thirty-three and fifty cents each.
Woolens are necessary to comfort, and
bed comforts were comfortable last night.
The fifty and four business is beaten by
1900 majority, say dispatches from Nash
vile.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing office, 10 Madison
street.
The fever is gradually extending its
field and proStrating fresh victims in new
places.
After the LIST of next month d%elinauent
tax overs will have the penalty added IN
their bills.
Sirius, the dog star, rises and sets with
the sun, and will keep it up for the next
four weeks.
The old story Of "beggars wanting to be
choosers" is well illustrated in the colored
folks appeal far charity.
This city is 245 feet above the sea level;
Knoxville is 900 feet, and Greenville,
East Tennessee, 1851 feet.
Nearly FIVE inches eff rainfall here
within the past four weeks. This is about
$50 tons of water to the acre.
Services will be held at the Georgia
street Methodist Church tomorrow. at II
am, by the pastor, Rev. }. D. Stewart.
Camp Marks is free of all kinds of sick
ness, and the only yellow fever ease at the
hospital rear is Mr.. Lysle, who is conya-
lescing,
Thieves carried away nearly the entire
contents Of a grocery at the corner Of
Union and Wellington streets night be-
fore last.
The yellow fever excitement along the
line of the Memphis and Charleston rail-
road is fast dying out, and the people arc
tranquil.
Cool northerly winds with partly
weather, is the forecast for to-day
The barometer will rise and no more rain
is looked for.
1t is estimated that 2l,OO0 people have
died Of yellow fever in this country du-
ring the last ten years. OF these l4,OoO
died last year.
The LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison, executes everything in the Job
printing line as neat and cheap as any
house in this city.
Rev. H. I. Bell, pastor, will hold SER
vices at the Sixth street NJ. E. Church.
corner Of Sixth and jackson streets. To-
morrow at s pm.
At $40 per month for three months. #
will cost our 10000 absent citizens 81. 200
to live away from home. This don't
include travelling expenses.
There will be services tomorrow at Il
am at the First Presbyterian Church.
corner Of Third and Poplar streets. by
Rev. Eugene Daniel, pastor.
A donation of 500 has boon received
from Mr.. R. b. Snowden by the polioe
relief association. This is $500 in ali that
the gentleman has sent here.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will bo
mailed to any address for fifty cents per
month. The subscription must, in every
case, be paid for cash in advance.
The chilly air has stiffened the limbs
and wings Of the generally active mos
quito. The insects moved lazily and less
numerously last night than they have for
several weeks.
Mr.. John Savage leaped from his bed
room window last night near the Charles
ton railroad depot, and was considerably
hurt. A physician was called in, and
Savage will recover.
1t is charged that the Somervillo Falcon
man slips out Of town every night and
roosts on a rail in the suburbs, merely on
suspicion that Yellow Jack may catch
him while be sleeps.