Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-13

"Self-praisc deprcciatcs," said the
chivalric Don Quixote, but the
proyerb is not regarded with much
favor in these heroic days.
The board of health and several
medical gentlemen officially announce
that they have not seer a case of Yell
low Jack for more than a week.
Our receipts of cotton are now
5S,073 bales-459O bales in excess of
last year at this time, and 34,25l bales
less than the year before last at this
date.
The mosquito tribe has been
warmed into activity again, aud the
the pests never exhibited greater
agility and industry than they do just
now.
The tax collectors are stirring up
delinquents, and efforts are urgent to
make tax sales valid, so that any who
wish to own property must keep
square with the tax gatherer.
The County Court has extended the
time for paying poll tax to February
first Of next year. The county trustee
has requested the legislative counsel
to do the same, and the matter isto be
considered by Attorney Heiskell.
Merchants aud Others will rem EN-
Der that the PUBLIo LEDGER bindery
is PREPARED to furnish all manner Of
binding, from a pamphlet to a full
bound ledger, in the best style and at
moderate rates, Office 10 Madison
street,
We are permitted to enjoy all of the
luxuries of the tropics at the present
time, hot weather included. Oranges
may be purchased at two cents each,
bananas at 81 70 to g 50 per bunch
~cocoanuts, lemons and other choice
fruits are also cheap.
The Grand Lodge of Masons in
session at Nashville yesterday elected
Albert S. Meyers, Of this city, as
deputy grand master, and. r. w.
Mason, of White Station, grand war
den, while B. F. Price was appointed
one of the committee on appeals.
Our restaurants and hotels are
crowded with guests at present. The
families Of Q large number of our
leading citizens are yet absent, aud
until they can get home the lords
roam at large and dine and lunch in
pFomiscuous places.
The local insurance companies have
been caught to the extent of perhaps
eight or ten thousand dollars by the
accident to the steamer Belle St.
Louis. The only item known up to
noon was 100 barrels of -four on
signed to J. T. Frank & Co., and in
surod in the Bluff City.
If the meteoric shower failed to
come Of before daylight this morning
it will doubtless exhibit to great ad-
vantage in the early hours Of to-
morrow. Those who sat up last night
should not be discouraged, but try
another vigil. Perseverance is sure
to be properly rewarded.
The low stage of the river, now
down to a level as shallow as has been
knowa 10 eight years, renders navi-
CATION hazardous and accidents are
frequent. The sinking of the steamer
Belle St, Louis is related elsewhere.
4 boat is extremely lucky now to be
able to make . trip without hurting
herself
The new freight tariff over railway
and water lines running eastward is II
take effect on the 18th inst. The rytg
agreed upon is &c per cwt above ot
mer figures and will be 74c per eEtto
New York, zee to Boston, re tgPhil
adelphia and Tie to Baltimore, if all
rail. Water and rail Is to be two
cents per cwt less.
After Oliver Doud Byron, who is to
open the theater next Monday, We arc
to have Calle1der's colored minstrel ;
followed by Buffalo Bill, Then comes
Lolita, next w. J. Florence and wife,
and after that Sayille and Lees Pima
fore opera troupe also Mrs. Bowers
aud Thompson, Max Maretzek' 5
English opera company and Ada
Cavendish. The Emma Abbott opera
company is to be here in February.
Rcd @uappers,
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