Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-25
LEDGER LINES.
Cotton advancing.

Cotton advancing.
LEDGER job printing office, 10
Madison street.
The moon entered its first quarter
yesterday forenoon.
Aqueous yapor has been plentiful
for the past three days.
First-class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER job printing Office, -
Madison street.
Yellow fever deaths last week, &C.
cording to be board of health reports,
we're thirty-eight,
Several persons are reported sick
with fever to-day in Chelsea, all taken
since yesterday morning.
The City of Alton for St. Louis and
the Cherokee for the Ohio left New
Orleans Saturday night.
The street force, under Captain
Jewell, some 20 in number, were
drawing their pay to-day at noon
Charles Matthews died, of hem
orrhage of the lungs, neal jackson
Mound, Fort Pickering, yesterday.
The river has been swelling here
since Friday last the total rise up to
last evening being ABOUT six inches.
The silvery moor will drift through
the sky and will not sink to rest until
close to the midnight hour tonight.
A nurse was sent to Whites Station
yesterday by the Towards to look
after the case of ThOs. Hicks, colored.
The minute men now on duty are
serving free of charge, feeling a pa
triotic interest in the peace and well
fare Of the city.
The temperature was down to 63'
early this morning. 1t promises to be
slightly warmer with westerly and
southerly winds,
The LEDGER job printing office, 10
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
The music of the soldier band on
the bluff yesterday was very enjoy
able. The performers exhibit marked
Improvement in their practice.
Three orphan children of the Hill
cher family are yetliving, their father,
mother and a brother having been
carried off by the yellow malady.
Another branch of the quarantine
has been established at Buntyn Sta
ton, on the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, four miles from the city.
The sum of $40 has been received
from W. c. Vosburgh & Co., of
Brooklyn, New York, by the Plumb
ers and Gas Filters Association here.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will be
mailed to any address for fifty cents
per month. The subscription must
in every case, be paid for cash in
advance.
The Shoulder to Shoulder club, of
the st. Andrews Society, N. W.
Lamb, secretary, have appealed to
their sister societies elsewhere for
financial assistance.
The SHOWS that ,;glittered on the
disc of Mars have melted, and the
planets fiery orb rolls in the crimson
summerof its year" not quite as warm
as 1t did last month, but still warm.
The wind blew from almost every
point of the compass yesterday, and
toward noon it bordered on a gale.
blowing thirty-three miles an hour.
To-day the breeze comes gently from
the west.
Oliver, Finnie & Co., 500; A.. NJ;
Scarborough, $50; NJ. P. J@arnigan,
$50 were the cash receipts by the
citizens relief committee to-day and
Saturday last.
The moist life of all that breathes
shall die should they inhale the air Of
dew-drenched, poison breeding night.
So at least says the astute Esculapean,
Plunket, through his chief of staff in
this city.
The grocery of Mr.. L~uccarina. at
the corner of fernando and Gayoso
streets, has been entered from an in
secure doorway and with a view of
robbery. AS far as known nothing of
value was carried off.