Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-27
LEDGER LINES.

to-day.
LEDGER job printing Office, 15
Madison street.
The river here has been rising since
yesterday afternoon.
Meeting of the Medical Society this
evening. Important business.
The north wind of the past few
days has run its course and is about
to swing corners for a spell.
The sum of fifty dollars came to
the citizens relief committee yester-
day from R. L. Cochran & Co.
First class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison street.
The temperature yesterday ranged
between 63' and 81. Winds north
and northwest throughout the day.
Providers have a wholesome dread
of the mounted patrol in the suburbs.
The riders exercise good influence.
A camp for ~convalescents from the
hospital is to be arranged some four
miles or more out the Poplar boule-
yard.
Mr.. Ed Schloss wore a happy smile
to-day when Mr.. George Holmes
brought him a fresh young squirrel
from the country.
The LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
Little Rocks first bale sold for "A
cents at St. Louis last week by Day &
Proudit. 1t had previously. sold for
21tc at its starting point.
A cannon gun new ornaments the
center of the camp on the bluff, and
it contributes largely to the martial
adornment of the tented field.
1t was c. B, Bryan & Co., who do
mated 100 bbls of coal to the citizens
relief committeeman Mrs. Bryan as
has been enormously stated.
If hat blistering wave of holiness
is coming this way as has been pre-
dicted by old Tice, it will have to
hurry up or frost will catch it.
The St. Andrews society of New
York has sent 800 here directed to
R. w. Lamb of the Shoulder to
Shoulder order for relief purposes.
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.
Warmer weather is coming. We
have been sleeping under cover toe
much for the good of our health, SC
the clerk of the elements appears to
indicate.
Sixteen thousand people in the city
independent of the ration department
as a drove of 10000 pigs on an ice.
field 1900 persons in camp not quite
so much that way.
Captain G. B. Davis of the fire de.
partment now commands engine No
l, and Captain James Madden No. 4
The two gentlemen have swung cor
ners or changed places.
The Port Eads when she passed u
yesterday was running with one en-
CINE, the other evidently being dis
abled. There were Eve barges in he.
tow. She was getting along quit,
well considering.
The towboat Port Eads and barge
passed up yesterday afternoon, ant
the Commonwealth went down nea.
sunset. The City of Alton went III
early this morning. All ran clos
over to the sandbar opposite.
Delightful is the music of the sol
der band each evening during dres
parade, and after. Hail Columbia.
Sewanee River" Sweet Bye an,
Bye" and about half a dozen more O
the same sort, are the favorite airs.
The order to oyacuato the publ
streets after 9 o'clock at night work
beautifully, and is the most sensibl
edict yet issued by our State board O
health. Our public highways are a
quiet as a graveyard after nightfall.
A new steamer called the Roseyill
will be ready tor business in q iel