Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-18
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Office: Is Madison Street.
TEN CENTS PER WE X.
THE CITY.
wednesday Evening, June u.s. 1879
LEDGER LINES,

The staple is quiet, with little doing.
The medical society will meet this
evening.
The cotton exchange now closes
daily at 4 pm.
The soldier boys are industrious
and drill nightly.
The Big Boot shoe store, 344 Main,
sells good shoes at low prices.
Shelby County Medical Society will
meet this evening at s O'Clock.
To-day closes the taxpayers time to
settle their dues without penalties.
The temperature yesterday ranged
from go to $50 with wind northeast.
Three young ladies will graduate
from Miss Conway's school, on Third
street.
The moon, Sweet regent of the
sky" will change from old to new to-
morrow morning.
Prices of cotton were reduced &c
on all grades in this market at noon
to-day. Middling is now l2Bc.
The work of making up the list Of
school children in the city has been
awarded to Mr.. ZenO T. Harris.
The closing exercises Of Miss Con
ways school will take place at l96
Third street, Thursday morning at 10
O'Clock.
The sanitary inspectors are working
as earnestly, but with less publicity,
than they did last week. The associ.
alton will meet this afternoon.
A musical entertainment of Miss
Monsarrat's pupils will be held at her
residence, No. 107 Mill street, Chel-
sea. Street cars pass the door.
The board of school visitors meet
tonight, and will look into the matter
of an alleged unreliable scholastic
census said to have been made out last
year.
= Peter Donaldson, a fourteen-year
; old colored lad, was drowned while
bathing yesterday afternoon near thu
: foot of Webster street, South Mem.
: phis.
The leading gentlemen who expect
to arrange preliminaries for the Gus
! tOm-house corner stone laying eere
! monies on the 24th instant will NEE.
: this afternoon to consult Over tn,
q matter.
: The following are the lucky mum
bers that drew the principal prizes il
: the Louisiana lottery yesterday
No. S,495, first No. 1887, second
No. 24,7O3, third No. 1896, fourth
No. S2,325, fifth.
81 The theater was last night tn.
scene of a large gathering of people
who attended to witness the diploma
conferred on the graduates Of tn,
+ Presbyterian Grammar High School
n eleven in number.
= The Anchor Line packets that hav.
been carrying the mail from here t.
st. Louis will leave hereafter at Il
am. instead Of 5 pm, during tn.
d summer. Their days of departure 70
], st. Louis are Mondays, Wednesday,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
u The leading sensation about the cit
last night was the attempt Of Mis-
a Lizzie Voss to shoot her alleged Sc
Queer, James j. O'Brien, in the Cir
cult Court roem, during the proceed
y ings yesterday afternoon, in the tria
I. of the cause for $1,000 damages, Pub
L lie sympathy is largely in the girl
g favor.
IL Wouldn't Believe Him, Woul
Your words and music by John ]
Rutledge, as sung by Lolita, Aime,
e. Eme ROseau and others publishe
by w. c. Woodward u Co. Ais,
- Every Day G'wine to be Sunday" b
r. the same author, and dedicated I
: Barney Hughes, are late musical pull
lications, copies of which have bee
g, generously sent to this office. +,
D NJ sale by all music dealers.
!. In March. 1892, there was not
vestige of a house on the ground tn
city now occupies. At that peric
the steamer Robert Thompson, Car
George A. DOrhman, passed SOU
from Pittsburg to New Orleans. al
on the way down landed below Il
mouth of Wolf river to lay all nigh
The nearest houses to where the DO
lay were at Fort Pickering. II
vessel mentioned was the first tn
ever assembled the Arkansas river
- Fort Smith.
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To RESTORE the APPETITE and purify I
blood use Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic. I'd.