Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-21
LEDGER LINES.

NoH
LEDGER job printing office, Is Madison
street.
1t always makes a big difference whose
OK is gored.
Six o'clock is a good healthy and sea.
sonable hour-to go home.
The quarantine at Cairo has been raised
against all points except Memphis.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing office, 10 Madison
street.
The mail yesterday morning brought no
contributions to the citizens relief SOM
mittee.
The winds have shifted around to the
southwest once more and warmer weather
is indicated.
A range of go was observed in the
temperature yesterday, the highest being
SO and the lowest $40.
Uphold the authorities in all things.
good or bad, even the board of health or
ders, human, or otherwise, and let us have
peace.
The State National Bank continues
open for business, says a card elsewhere
signed by Mr.. Samuel A. Taylor, the
assistant cashier.
The LEDGER job printing office, 10
Madison, executes everything in the job
printing line as neat and cheap as any
house in this city.
The mails have found a way to circum-
locute the three times a week movement
over the Louisville railroad, and they now
come with less irregularity.
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.
We cannot expect a share Of that ma
tional fund except to pay sanitary inspec-
tors and fumigators, unless we obey or
ders there fore let us grin and bear it.
The A. o. U. W report l. D. Conway
up, on Second street, as convalescent S.
II. Gibson recovering fast; General John
Sktington doing well, both on Union
street, No. SO.
A check for $500 has been rendered to
the Towards, to be drawn when they get
short Of finds, by J.. L. Power, general
secretary Of the relief fund of the State of
Mississippi.
Minute-men dissatisfied with the pre-
sumptuously arbitrary appointment of
their company officers, are impatiently
awaiting an opportunity Of themselves
choosing their leaders.
The Towards are about to make a call
upon the charity of the world to replenish
their treasury, so it is stated. 1t has been
rumored for some days past that this ac-
ton has been under consideration.
After many delays the steamer Lucy f.
Gastrell left New Orleans last Saturday
for Cincinnati with $50 tons. She is FIVE
days out this evening. The Common
wealth left st. Louis for New Orleans last
night.
The yestibule of the Leclede Hotel, at
st. Louis, is said TO be much like our W
Peabody during the business season.
Crowds Of Memphians collect there each
evening to hear the news and talk over
the prospects.
The purchase of rations for people in
camps, near this city, is under c%onsldera-
ton by the National board of health. 1t
is meet that we observe all sanitary and
other regulations IL we know which side
Of our bread is buttered.
The steamer Cityof Helena passed up
at 3 o'clock this morning and did not land.
The John A. Scuddor is expected to pass
up to-day. The Halliday passed up
shortly after noon yesterday, and coaled
by means Of a fat here.
Ten boats and eighty-seven barges Of
coal are under way from Louisville to
Cairo, in tow of the Andy Fulton, Hiram
Campbell, Wood and Williams, in all
10000 bushels. There is nearly ten feet
of water over sboal places in the lower
Ohio.
About forty feet Of old board awning at
the sorner Of Union and Second streets
was totally demolished this forenoon by a
pair Of horses and a hack No. 8, belong
ing to Thoms & Speers. The animals
started on a run from Main near Adams
and came to a stand at the point named.
The hack was wrecked.
This day fifteen years ago the Southern
troopers under General Forrest. made a
gallant dash from the interior into this
city. An attempt to initiate such a mill
tary feat at the present time by our
Chicks and Bluff City Grays need not be
expected.
John Devote, who is now in jail for
stabbing Charles Thompson, from recent
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