Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-05

The Medical college here opens
next October.
The rose bushes and peach trees
are putting out.
Factors generally held cotton above
quotations to-day.
The season for greens-bacon and
greens-is upon us.
Two-thirds Of this community are
afflicted with the sneezes.
Elmwood lots put in .order by Male
& Lamb, florists, 355 Main street.
Winds variable, but yeering towards
the northwest. Colder weather to-
night.
Rain fall yesterday and last night
was one and twenty-eighth hundredth
inches.
Tomorrow is to be election day for
one commissioner and three superyi-
sors of public works.
Temperature at s o clock this morn
ing 42'. The highest yesterday was
So, and the lowest 3go.
The chamber Of commerce holds a
meeting this afternoon, important to
itself, but not to the public.
The committee on cruelty to prison
ers at the county work house on Pres
ident's Island are at work to-day.
Receipts of cotton here to this date
last year was 298,692 bales, against
322,0O bales at the same time the
year before.
The drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery comes off on February 11th.
Procure tickets now at the usual place.
You may draw a fortune.
The sidewalks were washed clean BY
the rain last night, and the street
crossings show improvement over the
condition they were in yesterday.
Mr.. Marcus Jones, prominent in the
order of Odd Fellowship, received
| from Memphis Lodge No. 6. last night
4 set Of silver, embracing eight pieces,
or devotion during the scourge last
summer.
The bondholders and judgment
creditors are lying low only waiting
for the new set to get fairly under way
that and nothing more. Catch a
bloated bondholder mapping not a
DIT of it.
There will be a general meeting of
3itizens at the Bethel Building, cor
ner Of Adams street and Charleston
venue, tomorrow evenings at 3 o'clock
concerning measures for the loan
exhibition.
The sun rose this morning at forty
light minutes after 8 o'clock. and sets
his evening at 5: Il o'clock. Day S
length 10 hours and 50 minutes and
4Ominutes longer than they were six
weeks ago.
The Pastors Association, who have
never been in its favor, are out in a
ard against Mardi-G ras obseryaHces
and %enioyments. In spite Of them the
people up North call us the champion
repudiators.
The old city police force has been
consolidated under Sheriff i. l.. Nc
Gowan, and the latter now has nearly
seventy five men under his command.
The county Jail will h%enceforth be
used as a calaboose. or lookup. for
petty offenders.
Valentines of all sizes, shades and
temper, including comic, serious
'enseless and stylish, are displayed in
plentiful quantities in the news deal.
ors and stationers windows through.
out the city. A week from Frida,
next is dedicated to st. Valentine.
Modjeska, Counties Bozenta. VIII,
stands at the head of the American
,tage to-day, will appear at the Mem.
phis Theater next week in Camille
Frou-Prou, East Lynne, Adrienn,
and Romeo and Juliet, and in all sh,
has filed the full measure Of the re
1uirements of her profession.
A rain wave Of colossal proportion.
truck upon US yesterday from tho
southwest. Two weeks ago a Polal
wave swept its chilly blasts over u.
from the northwest Last summer il
was the solar wave Of intense heat il
which we sweltered. Isitpossible 70,
us, to experience any other waves?
The present strength Of the fir.
department is iorty-four men, ant
their wages, as fixed under the new
taxing district regulations, has beer
set at sixty dollars per month. Thu
prospect at present is unfavorable :,
a continuance &c LII. nnnn u mnnn.