Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-12

they grew piles Of merchandise are
now to be seen.
Ninc-tenths Of the people in and
around Bartlett will sign a petition
for the abolition Of the Circuit Court
ofthat place.
Business men will find il to their in.
tereSt to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER office, Il
Madison street.
The LEDGER job printing office, 1s
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
TIE price of cotton went up &c
here to-day, and from to &c yester-
day. Middling is now 1llc. 1t also
went up l-16c in New York.
A considerable quantity o. I'M
picked cotton has been beaten out by
the recent heavy showers, and it will
be lost or greatly impaired in value.
A wild and very irregular wind blew
from the southeast through all of last
night. 1t is swinging the circle to-
day and will be coming from the west
by dark.
Several thieves, who p~urloined
household goods during the past sum
mer, while their owners were absent,
are now being Swallowed by the police
authorities.
The persons lately released from
Jail by Judge Horrigan we're all in for
trivial ofenses, and their liberation
was recommended by the magistrates
WHO caused them to be incareerated.
A fire occurred last night up some
where near the Wolf river bridge.
The fire department ran out to the
edge of the city, but, it being beyond
the water supply, they came home
without doing anything.
Ellen Lee, colored, while cleaning
somebody's house on Second street,
was beset by her husband aud badly
threshed. His name is Frank. He
works on the landing, and a warrant is
out for the vicious fellow.
Merchants and others will remem
Der that the PUBLIC LEDGER bindery
is prepared to furnish all manner Of
binding, from a pamphlet to a full
bound ledger, in the best style and at
moderate rates. Office Is Madison
street,
Judge Eldridgo has named one
colored man on the grand jury at
Bartlett. 1t is limited that the judge
has promised to put six Of the same
class on the petit jury. The general
opinion is that the race of the Bart
lett court is nearly out.
"Ifyou build ten or twelve miles Of
sewers you must double the capacity
of your water works. 1t will not do
to build sewers and then have no
water to wash them out" This is
what a practical citizen was heard to
say this morning.
Numerous houses have been con.
demned as nuisanees, and are to be
torn down by the authorities. They
are likely to conflict with the ideas Of
the owners. The latter do not believe
their possessions are filthy, but the
~sanitarians regard them as fostering
rOokeries.
The star showers come off tonight
and tomorrow night. Those who
wish to see them in all of their great
est glory had better sit up until
toward morning. Ifthey make such
q show as many predict it will lay a
Fourth of July ~pyrotechnic exhibition
entirely in the shade.
Our Nashville correspondent com.
plains that the delegates to the Crane
Lodge we're detained fifteen hours al
Mckenzie. We learn that q change
of schedule was made about the day
they left for Nashville, and that tn,
ticket agent here received no notice o
the fact until after they were gone
Hence he was not to blame, and, VI
are assured, regrets the occurrence.
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