Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-31
TIE CENTS Pc WE X.
LEDGER LINES.


Squally all around.
Memphis ex-roads.
The tramps are tramping.
The last of the first month.
The country roads are bad again.
Clean your payements, lazy sinners.
How those Internal coughs hang on.
The settlement opposite Hopefeld,
Ark.
Hen fruit is scarce at thirty cents a
dozen.
General Peter is a city father no
more.
The municipal government sine died
last night.
Wind northeast with a variable dis
position.
Moon sets twenty minutes past one
III the morning.
The Chickasaw bluff is the way
some call it now.
Now is the time to look around the
roots of your fruit trees.
You don't live in a city now. All
are country people alike.
Seedtime is close by. Farmers will
plant potatoes next week.
Our local insurance companies are
nothing out on the Mason'c Depot fire,
Dromio of Syracuse does not hal
from the town Of hat name in York
State.
Temperature at s o'clock this morn
ing AZ. The highest yesterday 80.
owest, 43'.
This is the last day for tax-paying
without ipenalty of four per cent and
a fee to the collector.
The Tennessee legislature adjourns
to-day for a rest. 1t %reconvenes on
the llth ofnext month.
Johnston's Coo u%nlaundried shirts.
warranted linen fronts Rest shirt ever
offered for the price. 283 Main street
Fresh fuel awaits those in the next
world who have failed to give a little
to the poor during the past hard win
ter.
Mccullough, a favorite with Mem.
phis theater-goers, visits Nashville
next week on his way to the Gull
cities.
The rain fall last night exceeded one
and a quarter inches. 1t was raining
to the eastward as far as Chattanooga
md elsewhere.
Mansford has the largest line Of
Valentines for wholesale buyers evel
brought to the city, and sells them al
publishers prices.
Our Bachelors will be the attraction
at the matinee tomorrow, and if the
afternoon is fair a crowded house O.
the fair sex will be in attendance.
Fanny Davenport will commence an
engagement Tuesday evening. Piqu,
will be the opening piece. Sale O
seats will begin Monday morning.
The late soft weather has beer
rough on the dealers in fresh game
The market has been glutted with al
kinds Of birds and four-footed var
minis.
The cutters, and in many places tn,
streets themselves, were converte,
into streams and rivulets this morn
ing The rain fell increasingly through
out the night.
!, No longer will the taxpayer walk u
to the collectors Office and turn in hi
three per cent. on all he owns to tn
municipal authorities. A little rest
ing spell is now vouchsafed him.
Major w. w. Guy and DR.. D.
Porter, both clear-headed bushes
men, III appointed commission
ers Of the new taxing district
formerly known as the city of Mem
phis.
The popular comedians, Robson an
Crane, will present an ex%traordinar
bill Saturday night. In addition t
the Comedy of Errors, Mr.. Crane an
Miss Alicia Robson will appear in tn
operetta Jenny Lind.
Look out for 6rebugs. Threat
have been made that houses close
since last summer will be destroye,
1t is limited hat more than one hi
already had the kindling torch put b,
meath it. House-owners should tax
warming.
. The Hon. John r. Flippin ho
wiped out nearly one and a quartz
million Of the municipal debt durin