Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
LEDGER LINES.
Dusty highways.

LNO AAAHANNAN1 - 49,
day regarding cotton.
Big day, this, all over the country.
Elections are always interesting.
People continue to arrive in crowds
BIZ every train and every steamer.
A perfect purifier was the crisp and
frosty air last night and this morning.
Yesterday and to-day 1892 bales of
cotton will be received in this market.
For good boots and shoes go to
Zellner & Co., corner Madison and
Main.
Zellner & Co.'S shoe store is the
best and most reliable in the MisSis-
sippi valley.
First-class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER job printing Office, No. ID
Madison street.
The atmosphere is no longer full of
sporads, small PARTICLES of dust having
taken their place.
Highest thermometer 5l' yesterday.
Lowest this morning 90 by the signal
service thermometer.
The N. Q. AS are to meet on Sat
urday evening next to cali the roll and
learn the fever record.
Our Governor has announced a day
for thanksgiving. We should observe
it carefully, and be thankful.
Suburban thermometers, close to
the earth, recorded a temperature as
low as 90 this morning shortly before
daybreak.
The wind shifted to the eastward
just before daybreak this morning,
and a more moderate temperature is
anticipated.
Business men will find it to their in
terest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER office, IL
Madison street.
Elections t~o-day-Maryland, Mas
sachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and Wisconsin.
A real Yellow Jack killer was the
temperature Of last night. 1t went
down to 29' here, 23' at Louisville
and 24' at Nashville.
The LEDGER job printing office, 10
Madison executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
Gathering nuts for the winter has
been a healthy occupation with the
refugee during the past few weeks.
He is now in better business.
The leaves Of the mulberry, walnut
and other deciduous trees are falling
to the earth in great showers. The
recent frosts have knocked them cold.
A soup house for the benefit of the
poor is talked of. The enterprise
should not end in talk but in action.
1t would do a sight OF good during the
ensuing winter.
The tax collector opened out this
morning, and took in over a thousand
dollars in a few hours. He is ready
to receive as fast as delinquents are
ready to pay.
Frost, welcome frost, was again Wis
ible this morning. 1t has frozen out
the enemy completely, and we have
nothing more to fear for the next six
months from Yellow Jack.
Nearly 400 bales of cotton have
been shipped south from Captain VIM.
Forrest President island plantation.
The crop will not be all gathered be-
fore the end of the present year.
Those who had Their doors and
windows open last night need have no
farther fear Of being caught by Yellow
Jack. Forty dozen bad colds are
more enjoyable than a single case Of
genuine yellow fever.
The cotton bales fairly swarm in
upon us. Nearly 600 bales came
yesterday. But for Plunket and hi,
tribe cur receipts here would be close
up to a hundred thousand bales. a,
it is we have only a quarter Of it.
Merchants and others will remem.
Der hal the PUBLIC LEDGER bindery
is prepared to furnish all manner O.
binding, from a pamphlet to a full
bound ledger, in the best style and a
moderate rates. Office 10 Madison
street.
Did any one ever see so sudden
transformation? The rapid move
ments Of the lone fisherman in thu
play are nothing to the rapid chang
: of base of a Memphis citizen when h,
hears that yellow fever has vacated hi
I favorite domicil?
: Tramps tramp this way numerously
E Hordes Of them are to be seer s%teerin
in this direction. The street-pavin