Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-09
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

Cotton is weak and tends toward
lower prices.
Temperature at sunrise 81, and at
noon red-hot.
LEDGER job printing Office, IL
Madison street.
In the Jewish calendar yesterday
was the fast Of TamOOz.
Good shoes at low figures at Big
Boot shoe store, 344 Main.
1t will be within twenty minutes of
eleven when the moon rises tonight.
Arrangements for the Maennerehor
excursion next Sunday are progressing
nicely.
Cotton declined &c in this market
at noon to-day. Middling is now lie
per pound.
First-class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER job printing Office, Is
Madison street.
The recent excited sentiment con
corning johnson, the rapist. has been
smothered into quietness.
The LEDGER job printing Office, Il
Madison, executes everything IN the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
Tomorrow will be the last day in
which the customers of the Water
Company can pay bills and save pen
atty. Call up and settle.
Olympic Park had a half nile horse
race yesterday afternoon for a hundred
dollars, Button, Of Byhalia winning
over w. G. Smiths Daylight.
The concert in Chelsea for the
bsgeft of the Presbyterian Church
last nigh, vas 2 most enjoyable affair.
so at least say persons 9h8 attended.
Several stray dogs were found by
their former owners lying dead in the
streets yesterday and to-day. The
dOg-eaFt mads mere than mi trip tC
haul their carcasses to the dump,
Madison and Adams streets ara Il
be paved with stone during the pres
ent summer and ensuing fall months
Calhoun street FROM Main to Shelb!
will also be psyea il the same style
The Maenneehor club viii iasgga
rate the river picnic excursion seasor
on Sunday next. A steam tug, Will
canepiaa bprges, arranged with pleas
ant arbors, wi, be the mode of con.
yeyanee.
The continued good health of oui
city ia Q subject widely and general!
commented Oh BY all classes. TIL,
prospect is so favorable that man!
migratory citizens have joined tn,
sant-get-aways.
The II, Peters Orphan Asylum
festival at Estiyal Park and the lunch
room festival on Main street netteG
between a thousand and fifteen hun
dred dollars for the support of tn
parentless children.
A bathing barge, to cost about $500
is the plan suggested to supply tn.
populace with an opportunity to cleal
themselves, the expense of keeping i
ia proper order to be betrayed b
charging each bather five cents.
Since the first Of April 1900 squar
yards of the public landing belo,
Main street has been paved. If tn
entire leyee could be neatly coyere.
with stone it would be as good
steamboat wharf as there is in tn
West.
The waters Of tie river here ar
now declining, and the chances ar
rather unCayorable for the a%scensio
Of the United States war ship Wachu
sett to this pOiut. The kilograms
last night reported the ship still lyin
at Vicksburg.
Heavy drift logs have been aoatiu
in the piyer southwark toward til
gulf for several days past. The pre-,
ent condition of tbs greatest Of a
rivers Is exceedingly dirty, or mudd.
the recent rise being mainly from III
turbid Missouri.
The county bosses are stirred,
fact much riled, over the President
Island expose. The grand jury fl
opeo ventilated the true inwardness
the situation aEl the bosses don't Ill
the kind Of thunder their repo
= has rolled forth.
Tbs highest temperature ytStcrdi
was ST. the lowest, zoe. Pleasar
southwesterly breezes tempered Il
suns %scorching rays, and rendered IL
3 day comfortable, except in cloi