Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-30
LEDGER LINES.

This nipping air is nice.
NObby suits are numerous.
Franchises winter styles are out.
The staple is slightly depressed to-
day.
Ten dollars a day and tin medals are
no more.
Raw winds with an icy tinge are
wanted here.
Again it comes pure and straight
from the north.
LEDGER job printing off IS.
Madison street.
Gaston's Hotel is now op = and
ready for business.
The boys are already inquiring when
the circus is coming.
| Crowds continue to come in by
every train and steamer.
Highest thermometer yesterday, 76'.
Lowest this morning, 49,.
Rents open out twenty-five to thirty
per cent. under last years figures.
Rushing business on Front, Shelby
and Main street yesterday and to-day.
For good boots and shoes go to Zell-
ner & Co., corner Of Madison and
Main.
Zellner & Co.'S hoe store is the
best and most reliable in the Missis-
sippi valley.
Next Tuesday is election day in
New York, Mississippi and several
other countries.
a heavy storm prevailed in Nova
Scotia this morning, and delayed cable
reports concerning cotton.
Freight blockades are now the order
of the day, quarantine blockades hay-
ing been scattered to the winds.
The new Union Express Companys
cards have been hung up in nearly
every business house in the city.
Forty pigeons in a few hours is now
the average when a hunter can strike
a neighborhood where they frequent.
State School superintendent Leon
Trousdale has a circular out stirring
up delinquent and slow county school
superintendent.
Pleasant faces are those seen about
the cotton exchange, the hotels and
other resorts where business men
usually c~Ongregate.
The LEDGER job printing Office, 13
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will be
mailed to any address Tor fifty cents
per month. The subscription must
in every case, be paid for cash in adj
vance.
The cool northern breeze which we
feel this morning comes direct from
La Crosse and Davenport on the up
per Mississippi river and the region
tbereabouts.
The arctic wave struck us about one
o'clock this morning, and the tempera-
ture fell ten degrees within a short
time. It lowered about the frost line
toward day break.
Two dozen squirrels in an afternoon,
with no other help than a shotgun and
a small terrier, was a short job for
Mr.. Charles J. Phillips during his
summer hunts about Florence, Ala.
Some Of the weather prophets say
this will be the coolest winter known
in Memphis since 1864. They
base their calculations on the high
temperature Of October. and on the
similarity Of the weather this fall and
that Of the fall Of 1863.
Merchants and others viii remem-
Der that the PUBLIC LEDGER bindery
Il prepared to furnish all manner Of
binding. from a pamphlet to a full
bound ledger, in the best style and at
moderate rates. Office y Madison
street
Receipts Of cotton this morning
Nere Per " and c. railroad, 293
bsles, ~ and T. railroad. 80 bales.
L. aa1 r. railroad. 100 bales; L. r.
rl..raj. IL bales. =. and NJ rail
raa9 - bales steamer Osceola
De.le 3g baia
Jteret igj H0OCD bushels Of
e2al tessy 70 ~ bestsoufh from Pitts
bug "a aDDa ~ he water viii admit
Tie Dpboau 90 70 BE- able 70 move
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