Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-16

Int railway gu JehelSOh stIcet IL
reported to be in very bad order, and
is to receive the attention of the au-
thorities.
-Lytle & Shields have received for
the holiday trade an immense stock of
r%aisins, %citron, figs, c%urrants, candies
and nuts.
The Southern Express Company
again tavors this Office with a late
New York paper, for which thanks
are returned.
Tho congresses work night and
day and for all they are worth, yet
they are all far behind in the labor of
pressing cotton.
"A small fire occurred in Centre
alley last night, burning the roof Of a
house belonging to Mr.. Cooney, and
occupied by @. Casey.
1t was a long wait between acts
at the theatre last night. The play
will doubtless run through to the end
in an hour less time tonight.
The Home Insurance company
declared a dividend of five per cent.
yesterday, the amount to be credited
on the stock notes of the corporation.
The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, - Madison, exc
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house in this city. +
The Shelby county delegation to
the State legislature left last night for
Nashville, and the General Assembly
convened there to- day in called ses-
sion.
"A charter to run a railway from
this city to Jefferson, Texas, by way
of Wittsburg, Brinkley, Pine Bluff
and Camden, Arkansas, was fled at
Little Rock, last week.
The business at present so rush
ing extends to all circles of trade, and
dullness is unknown in any. Visitors
from everywhere express surprise at
the immense volume Of trade here just
now.
TIL, price ofcotton fell &c here at
noon to-day, and middling is now
quoted at lice. Our receipts are now
1895 bales in excess of last year at
this time, and $50 bales ahead of year
before last.
Numerous cotton-sheds have been
compelled to decline taking any more
of the staple to shelter. They are now
storing it in the open air along the
streets, and in many places it is piled
three tiers high.
The signalserviee weather bulletins
we're turned back side TO the front at
the cotton exchange and on Union
street to-day, and persons wishing to
read would find it necessary to stand
on their heads to do it.
AT 2:l7 o'clock this afternoon a
telegram to the Cotton exchange an
nounced a further decline of lc on
cotton middlings, being quoted at
l2ic in New York. The 5 nm tele-
gram from Liverpool quoted futures
heavy and 1-32d below quotations
previously given.
Marriage licenses were issued yes
terday to f. T. fleetwood and f. R.
Bond; Alex MORRISON and Sallie Nor.
gan; l. j. Davidson and Mamie 4.
Evans; John Z. Myers and &. Hopper;
Walter S. Moore and Laura L. JOY
ner. The latter are to be married at
the Second Presbyterian Church this
afternoon.
The earth-closet system continues
to be the pet project of the authori-
ties and the pet aversion of the pub
lie. Experiments, however, being in
order just now, it is just possible that
after folks get used to the new tangled
thing it will become endurable. We
are likely to have to grin and bear it,
whether the plan is good or bad.
The price of cotton has fallen
during the past six days &c. in this
market; &c. in New Orleans and tic.
on spots, also 40 to $50 points on fu-
lures in the New York market. The
value Of the staple is now about the
same as it stood two weeks ago with
the difference that now the prospects
are droopy, while then it was bouy.
ant.
There is a peculiar feature notice
able to all who frequent the theatre
concerning the audiences. 1t is al.
ways observed that on Monday nights
the dress-circle and parquette is liber-
ally patronized by strangers, while the
the boys gather numerously in the gal
leries and the balcony. On Wednesday
and Friday nights only f~ashionables
attend, and on Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday the audiences, ifpumerously
attended, re~decidedly cosmopolitapil
their structure. Saturday afternoon
draws out the feminine sex by a large
.