Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-03

ing. Ihose most out of order are al
follows: Over Bayou Gayoso on Front
street, across the same at Mill street,
Market, Court. Madison and Adams
streets and on DeSoto, between
Unisn and Gayoso. SO says Engineer
hcriwcther in his report Of the stu
alton.
The eldest son of the late Henry
VosS is reported to have arrived in
the city from Pine Bluff a couple Of
days since. His self-murdered father
is said to have been a hard-working,
industrious, worthy man by all who
knew him. Mr.. O'Brien, the person
accused of having caused the wreck
of the family, has emigrated to other
fields, it is also stated.
A number Of insurance adjusters
have been in the city for several days
past, the recent destruction of the
cotton and wooden mills engaging their
attention. 1t is understood that the
several companies will pay to the
stockholders on losses over $4,000,
and that the work of rebuilding the
factory will be commenced forthwith.
1t will cost $4,000 for ordinary re-
pairs and to curb and gutter the
streots-$7O0O for labor and 5000 for
extra engineering aud other items.
These items, with the proposed $1,000
to be used for the west side of Main
street, make the total expenses
$4,000 for the current year on the
streets, not counting a cent for new
improvements. Streets and highways
are az expensive luxury, or necessity.
A few dozen Kansas-bound colored
people from North Louisiana and vi
cinity passed up the river yesterday
on the steamer City of Alton. An
appeal has gone forth to the country
from a party of colored ministers at
st. Louis asking %pecuniary aid to
help these nomads on their way to the
land Of promise, which, however, they
will not find to be flowing with milk
and honey. They can get forty acres
out there, but no mule.
The Adams block, at the corner Of
adams and Second streets, has been
handsomely renovated and reprinted
1t is one Of the finest buildings in the
city, and in its new dress is conspicu-
Gus and inviting. The Memphis
Club, which has its domicil therein,
is Z Of the most beautiful and spa
ciOus places of the kind in the South.
1t is richly furnished aud the club
members are naturally proud of their
quarters.
Dealers in the staple Watched the
chalk marks at tue cotton exchange
this forenoon with a sharp eye and an
eager, calculating mind. The news
was unsettled, but the tone of the
market is strong and exciting, with an
upward tendency in prices. The ad-
vance in cotton here during the past
two weeks is fully one cent on the
and those who own the lead
ing staple Of the South have good
cause just now to feel buoyant.
The necessity of putting the APP
Droaches to the city in respectable
travelling order as soon as the weather
will permit is urgently advocated by
City Engineer Meriwether. Shelby.
DeSoto, Union, Yelling
on aud Lauderdale streets are the
eading ones used by people coming in
rom the country. johnson and Mar
'hall avenues and the one leading
toward Randolph are also much
Used as highways by travellers to and
the city.
Where arc you destined said a
conductor to a passenger the other day
IN One Of the trains. ITO Memphis. -
vas the reply. Memphis? don't
Snow where that is. There is no
such place on the map. At the other
of this road there used to be a
place called Memphis, but it has no
legal existence now, and a Taxing Dis
irict is all that remains, and the
pup1iier turned off, leaving the
stranger under the impression that he
was a lively wag, or something else.
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KAHN e. FREIBRRG,S