Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-07
LEDGER LINES.

a qulet election DAY,
Temperature 740 at sunrise.
LEDGER job printing Office, Is Madison
street.
The moon rises at 20 minutes to II
o'clock tonight,
1t was melting hot yesterday, but 1t il
pleasant to-day.
The river here is close to eleven feet
above low water and falling slowly.
Frst-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
The relief committee are issuing ratioNs
to 1900 people at the camps and in the city
together.
The cemetery people and the under.
takers say the times are duller than they
ever knew.
Nearly 800 men, women and children
are ration-drawers on the State troop OF
militia list.
Havana had 1877 yellow fever deaths last
week--an increase of twenty-four over
the week before.
"Grub struck" is the way one of the
third class terms the mania of his brethren
out on a ration hunt.
1t was up to 1902 in the shade at st.
Louis last Sunday and three cases Of
sunstroke occurred. Cool place that.
An address to absent citizens has been
prepared, and it will be sent to ask for
help to feed our poor in the camps.
Over a thousand people now live and
draw rations at Camps Father Matthew
and Marks. Only about fifty are oolored.
The LEDGER job printing Office, lS
Madison, executes everything in the job
printing line as neat and cheap as any
house in this city.
R. B. Snowden; 800; Porter, Taylor &
Co, $3.50, and Day & Proudft, $50, have
been the subscriptions to the citizens re-
lief fund since yesterday.
Our colored citizens are taking more
apparent interest in the 5O4 compromise
than Others from appearances, and a toll
erably fair vote is looked for.
Ripe figs and grapes in the way of fruit.
and blooming Grape myrtle bushes among
the shrubbery, are a part Of our garden
attractions at the present time.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will b,
mailed to any address for fifty cents pc
month. The subscription must, in every
case, be paid for cash in advance.
What a set of chronic grumblers We
have among us. Nearly every one growli
like a bear with a sore head, just because
things are not run as he wishes them to
The fever situation was not Aatterini
either yesterday or to-day. The past few
days Of heat appeared to the feve
germ into an unpleasantly lively temper
The steamer w. p. Halliday, with Cap
tain John c. Crane in command, left 81
Louis Saturday heavily laden, and ha,
freight for this point as well as other way
side places.
The appeal to the world for charity
prepared by the colored people of Mem
phis, appears in the Cincinnati papers G
Monday last. Executor Froman is engi
neering the business.
The Fort Pickering citizens broke u
in q row among themselves last night
and Messrs. L. P. Dunn, T. Davidson an
t Mr.. Shuler withdrew from further associ
alton with the party.
The steamer Hard Cash left Cairo fc
Helena last night. The City of Helen
passed here going up near sunset and di
not stop. The John A. Scudder left Ne
Orleans for st. Louis yesterday.
A telegram to DR.. Porter, sent by Ii
Hon. Casey Young yesterday, announce
that the secretary of war had returnc,
and that he would order 500 addition,
+. tents to be sent here without delay.
e Occasional wind whifs, known as " cat
! paws among sailors, raised showers
sand from the exposed bars in the riv,
opposite the city yesterday. The sal
afterward spread itself upon the water
, Bayou Gayoso is as healthy and sweet
a any other part of the city, in the estim
ton of Thomas Cubbins, and he is a 20,
Judge. The frequent rains clean out Il
bayou, but they do not clean out all 9th
filthy places by a great deal.
Letters from points south and west
merchants in the leading Eastern citiC
give encouraging accounts Of future bu