Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-23

e~DHNAaNAAN AAAo AaNAAAhS ~
: 1t was also down to 49' at Nashville.
Several new twenty dollar suits gar
nished with derby hats fresh from the
North have appeared on the streets.
: Summer busters may be laid by for
the season. The Appeal man must
borrow a heavier garment or freeze
stiff.
Cotton is lc a pound higher than it
was two weeks ago. 1t went up &c
yesterday and &c during the past two
days.
The merry day when absent friends
may all meet about the social hearth
is close at hand. Patience, for a few
days MORE.
1t is limited and limited strongly
that the lint cotton prohibition fea-
ture, known as number six, had its
origin right here.
The crew of Plunket & Co. have
commenced sending in their resigna-
tons. The people have been resigned
for some time past.
The LEDGER job printing office, 10
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
If the wind continues from the
northwest to-day aud drops to a dead
calm at sunset, we may expect a visit
from uncle John Frozendew.
Valorous have been the deeds OF
the picket, and their children may
listen with appalled, ears in future at
the stories of their deeds.
1t was two o'clock when the wind
sprung up this morning. 1t comes
straight from the northwest and is bet
ter than a dozen light trosts.
Old Thompson's colors on the bluff
hung at halt-mast this forenoon in
honor of the death of Yellow Jack
and the days of quarantine.
The Porter Reserves have begun to
drill with a view of becoming experts.
They we're put through tho manual
exercises last night in fine style.
Weshould all sing raans and praise
each individual genius who has
burned our bedding, or granted us
permission to pass the picket lines.
The winterish tiDge in the early
morning air makes one feel buoyant,
and its door is most delightful. Our
neighbor's jimson ornament is nowhere
to it.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will be
mailed to any address for fifty cents
per month. The subscription must
in every ease, be paid for cash in ad-
vance.
The Appeal of this morning made
DR.. Brown say ten (1O) drawings in
stead Of two (2), which, if successful,
would raise the necessary amount of
money.
Wayfarers teeth chartered and their
fingers we're benumbed by the cold as
they moved along the highways in the
early morning hours. 1t was glorious,
they said.
The imposing display of authority,
as illustrated by sword and sojer
clothes, will not worry US much
longer. They will go to the real with
Yellow Jack.
Clouds of sand were raised from the
bars in the river and went flying in
huge drifts toward the south this
morning, carried on the wings of the
wind, as it were.
Several matrimonial alliances are in
prospective, and there are mysterious
hints out about others. Those floral
souvenirs do not pass to and fro so
often for nothing.
Some wcli-soaked citizen has been
sdging about the Appeal man and
talking soft nonsense to him. and he
didn't like it. Even the Towards
yesper service is more enjoyable.
A hundred or more absentees came
in yesterday and to-day to make al
reconnaissance. Many we're covered
with moss and cockleburs. The
ruStics will soon cease to r%usticate.
The people Of the world at large
will never know how to appreciate a
genuine norther until they have a Wis
itation Of Yellow Jack and quarantine.
The last is the worst by ever so much.
There has been a fearful amount Of
lying done since this epidemic set in,
and a deal Of praying to the saints will
be essential to wash out the many
stains made upon the cscutcheon Of
many characters.
Several dozen drays went flying
about the streets this forenoon, many
loaded and others going for loads.
The business boom has begun, and ere