Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-07

Meal is selling at present at $3.50
per Dbl, in ten barrel lots, Potatoes
S225@2,5O per Dbl, the latter for
choice. Opions S2.5O@3.5O per Dbl.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will be
mailed to any address for fifty cents
per month. The subscription must
in every case, be paid for cash in
advance.
The Teutonia relief association
gave a vote Of thanks to my =" friend
Hertz for his good offices in making
collections for the poor and suffering
Germans.
I'VE are not prepared to do Mem
phis BUSINESS at present" is the reply a
cotton buyer gets to a letter of inquiry
regarding a chance to ship cotton to
other points.
Considerable local rains and much
cloudy, threatening weather in 0cto-
ber,n says Tiee. 1t always strikes d.
rectly the other way whenever Tice
makes a prediction.
Mrs. Julia Lang, Kirkwood, No,
$3.50; concert at Staunton, Sl7; Car
ter & Livingston, s46.75 and a sack Of
hams, were the contributions received
by the city government yesterday.
Twenty carloads of paving stone
continue to be locked up by the quar-
antine at HOpefeld. We need it badly
for u streets, but the Arkansas peo-
pie are afraid to let it come over.
Over fifty persons attended divine
service at st. Mary's Episcopal church
last Sunday. The congregations at
several colored churches were larger
than have collected for several months.
1t is stated that when Judge I. D.
Eldridge and Clerk R. j. Black enter
ed the city yesterday they looked very
shy and their eyes wandered as if they
expected to be hit by a sporad on the
shortest possible notice.
Feeding the hungry squirrels in the
square affords amusement and occu-
patton for many at present. A larger
number are, however, occupied in the
more urgent and necessary business Of
trying to feed themselves.
The cast iron Adonis of the Appeal
has hauled down his tuberose jim
son weed turnip top adornment, and
now roams at large with a wild and
vacant air, but he is regarded as limo
cent and perfectly harmless.
Parties interested now wish to raise
money by subscription to prosecute
Mr.. McDayitt because he kept a
vicious dog who bit ex-Sanitary Ser
geant Rogers when the latter was
trying to get to a sick colored man.
The Porter Reserves at their meet
ing last night added ii active mem
bers to their corps and conferred the
title of honorary member upon IL
others. The Reserves are fourishing
and move steadily forward on the
highway of success.
What right has a picket to stop, or
attempt to stop, people from coming
toward the city when they are in the
peaceful pursuit of their business ?
1t is an outrageous proceeding, indeed,
when a traveller must be raided on as
if he were a jayhawker.
We predict that the wind will shift
to where it backed from last night
eastward-and that during the next
t~wenty-four hours we will have plenty
Of rain. This rainy spell will last
probably two or three days, and will
be followed by a cold northerly wind.
An object of extreme solicitude
just now is the prospective changes of
the weather, 1t is a subject which
has excited the credulity Of mankind
in every age the one above all others
which superstition and imposture
have succeeded in establishing Me
widestandfirmest dominion. Even the
fair and frosty" pages of the almanac
prophet are now objects of interest by
persons who have little faith in their
o%racles.
He decides the Galloway i%niunc-
ton null and void and no protection
to any n who violates the rules and
regulations Of the State board Of
health, and he refuses to restrain or
yacate the injunction because he is
acting in chambers and not in open
court" This was a part Of ex-Judge
Archibald Wright's dispatch to the
chief Of the State board of health re.
garding the recent decision at Browns
vile. Attorney Wright got things
slightly mixed, it would seem, but he
offers TO go in and have it tried
over until a fiat can be brought in a
shape as he wants.
The Chiekasaw Guards.
The Chicks break camp at St. Louis
to-day and proceed to Columbus,
Ohio. where several crack militarv