Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-03


May, the shirt tailor.
Cotton in good demand.
The mercury dropped to 81 at sun
rise.
The churches we're we'll attended
yesterday.
We will not have any Mardi- Gras
to speak of.
The river has fallen nearly two feet.
1t continues to shrink.
Fresh pine-apples are to be seen on
the fruit stands, and they sell at fifty
cents each,
The popular mind strongly indorses
the new order of things and a wiping
out Of the old.
In the Criminal Court it is motion
day. The calendar viii be printed
tomorrow morning.
This is the j659th year OF the world
according to the Jewish account, and
the 6592d Of the Judian period.
Ladies day at the Tennessee Club
tomorrow. A musical soiree will be
giveni in the clubs p~arlors at night.
Johnston's 65c unlaundried shirts,
warranted linen fronts. Bestshirt ever
offered for the price. 2S3 Main street.
Cotton receipts to this date last year
were 295,Ol2 bales, against 3l9,6OS
bales at the same date the year before.
Sale of seats for Fanny Davenport
engagement commenced this morning
Pique will be presented tomorrow
night.
Wayfarers throng Main street to.
day. The fair sex will be out numer.
ously this afternoon the beauz
likewise.
1t was a keen breeze from the
north yesterday, but a large number
enjoyed the air and the scenes from
the bluffs on the river front.
Salt has been a very scarce commod-
ity in this market for some weeks past.
4 new arrival last week ~replenished
the stock and lowered prices.
Visitors at the cotton exchange this
forenoon we're NJ. G. Hally, Court
land; w. D. Roberts, john L. Webb
and }. 5. Dangeau, Dyersburg, Tenn.
The regular monthly drawing of the
Louisiana Lottery takes place on the
llth. Now is the time to secure tick
cts. Call at the usual place in this
city.
The value Of cotton sold in this
market during the present season ex-
ceeds $4,000, 600. Low prices, how
ever, will leave very little in the hands
Of the producer.
VIM. Lucas, black, who killed Phil
Lewis in his saloon up town some
weeks ago, by firing a pistol in the
dark after the lamps we're put out, has
been arrested and is now in the county
jail.
The honorable members Of Shelby
IRE having a jolly time shaking hands
With their constituents. They pass
the present week at home and 60 to
Nashville to resume legislative labor
on the 18th.
The receipts Of cotton after this
date to the close of last season was
l2S,2l9 bales. This amount added To
the receipts Of the present season to
date would give us a total this year Of
31S,52S bales.
The elegant steamer Robert Mitch
ell leaves Glenn's wharfboat to-mor.
row morRing at 10 am. for Cairo,
Louisville and Cincinnati. Captain
Glenn will make engagements and re-
ceive for her at his wharfboat.
An election comes off next Thurs.
day, the people to choose on that day
a fire and police commissioner and
three commissioners of public works,
under the new taxing district bill as
passed by the legislature last week.
The ri rose this morning ten min.
utes before seven and it will set thirty.
eight minutes after five this evening
days length, ten hours and forty-eight
minutes. The moon sets tomorrow
morning ten minutes past four o clock
The poor and the rich mans friend
John 0vertOn, jr., is prominent fol
the place Of commissioner before the
people. For the three positions on
the board Of public work the onl,
namesso far spoken of are Henry G
Dent and John Gum.
In this city last week there wer,
thirty-one deaths, Of which twelvl
were from pneumonia, three from con
sumption, FIVE from debility and elev
Ell scattering. One was sovsu,x 6v