Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-02

passports from health authorities.
The express wagon was seen NOV
ing over the streets this morning car
rying poultry and other stuff to va
rious merchants. Fresh arrivals were
they.
The quarantine geniuses have struck
it rich, in the language of the boys
who were in the mines, but their days
are numbered and they will soon go to
the rear.
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.
Open windows to sleeping rooms
are the most comfortable at present.
For nearly six weeks past we have
been sleeping under cover with win
dows down.
Succuoth to-day, Hoshanah Robah
tomorrow. Next Thursday is Shem-
inee Aseret, and the day following,
Sinhat Tarah, according to the jew
ish calendar.
The Porter Reserves were drilling
yesterday and will doubtless win pop
ular favor with the people when this
unpleasant quarantine trouble ends
and business resumes sway.
Cotton receipts at St. Louis this
season have been 32,El3 bales against
1883 bales to the same date last year.
Wait until Plunket r%etires, and see
how ours will rush the figures upward.
The new fashions and fall styles of
dress are not moving the fair femi-
mines Of this city just now. A month
Or so hence and their destinations will
have its effect. Too much quaran-
tine.
The Teutonia Relief Association
acknowledge the receipt of the fol-
lowing donations; w. Frank & Co, 5
blankets Adam Ittel, cash 800
Valentine Blatz, brewer, Milwaukee,
Wis, 5000.
A lot of 165 bales of cotton came up
this morning over the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad, consigned to Hill,
Fontaine g. Co., and with orders that
it be kept here until it is chuck full
of sporads.
But one case of yellow fever was re-
ported to board Of health this morn
Ing, and this was outside the city
limits-a little girl of 4 years named
Lula Lockwood, on Rayburn avenue,
near jackson street.
Numerous lovers of the ardent i'm
oibe freely in these days, even those
not often addicted to the habit are
every now and then to be seen a little
more than half-seas-oyer. Then they
lay up fora day or two and come out
fresh as a daisy, and tell how they
have suffered with a bilious attack.
The sun rises nov ) minutes before
6 o'clock, and sets Il minutes past 5
o'clock. Since it crossed the equinoe-
tial line, 6 minutes have been knocked
off, or been added to the days on the
opposite end Of the world in the vicin-
ity Of Australia, while that number of
minutes have been added to our
nights.
The Peabody Hotel vestibule and
the cotton exchange, the places where
men most do c~Ongregate, by night and
by day in times of peace and prosper
ity, will surprise their usual visitors
when they return from their refugee
haunts. Frescoes and fresh paint.
together with the cleansing powers
of soap and water, have changed their
compilations most wonderfully.
The lustrous moon will rise above
the horizon this evening twenty min
utes after the sun goes down.
Evening before last and last night
Dame Luna appeared in full-orbed
radiance, pouring a food of silver
light upon the earth and eclipsing
many Of the brightest stars. Though
now slightly on the wane yet she will
shine to night and for some nights to
come with brilliant luminosity.
The martial flag no longer Aies on
the bluff, but Thompson's colors still
futter in the breeze. 1t was a little
tight on the old mai to destroy his
shanty, and some 60 so far as to say it
was real mean. The old man has
been more of benefit to the bluff and
the public than to himself. But for
his presence the locality would be
used for filthy purposes. Now it is
a clean and pleasant place to sit and
while an hour away after dark.
The planet Saturn is now in oppo-
sition to the sun and shines all night.
He rises a few minutes after the sun
goes down to night. Mars rises a
little before 8 o'clock in the evening;
Neptune rises nearly an hour earlier,