Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-17

Rain.
More mud.
Cotton firm.
Middling nine cents.
Some drizzle and some rain,
Cotton went up 4c here to-day.
Motion day in the Chancery Court.
Two weeks more in which to pay
taxes.
The Williamson party will arrive
here Sunday.
The January term of the Criminal
Court begins Monday.
Collections of taxes have fallen off
considerably lately.
Bond-funding quiet; mandamus-
filing decidedly lively.
A perfect down-pour Of cold rain
came upon us neal noon to-day.
There is no session of the Criminal
Court to-day, nor will there be any to-
morrow.
Peterson, Cooley and Harpers'
Monthly for February, at Spangler'S,
1856 Main street.
The total amount of mandamussuits
brought against the city since 1874
figures $847, 14O.
The temperature at Z o'clock this
morning was 4O' the highest yester-
day was 43' and the lowest 39'.
The officers of the County Grange
were installed yesterday at a meeting
held in the County Court room.
The police could do good sanitary
service by insisting upon people clean
ing their streets, yards and alleys.
H. C. West, St. Louis, and DR.. j.
H. Crews, Mississippi, were visitors
at the cotton exchange this forenoon.
Letters offering to adopt orphan
childreR are received almost daily by
the mayor from people in other cities.
Henry Marshall, colored, charged
with stealing skids at the landing, was
arrested and imprisoned this morning.
Manager Frank Gray will place on
sale tomorrow morning reserved seats
for the great Williamsons entertain
ment.
Now for some time the by-words
will be, I've come back" " Excuse
me, if you please" and but let that
pass"
Tomorrow afternoon, beginning at
2 o'clock, work will be resumed in the
industrial school of the Second Pres
byterian Church.
Justice Quigley tied two marital
knots yesterday, one of the couples
being police officer Jesse Woods and
Mrs. NJ. Marshall.
Since 1874 two hundred and twenty
three mandamuses have been issued
by the courts against Memphis, and
the end is not yet.
No. 452, An Odd Couple" by Mrs.
0liphant, the latest in Seaside Ii
brary. Spangler, 1856 Main street, has
it. Price ten cents.
The price Of the staple went up
One-fourth of a cent at noon to-day.
The demand is good. One firm sold
a table Of 800 bales.
The finest house of the season was
that at the theater last night. 1t was
estimated that between $1,000 and
$llOO was taken in for the perform
ance.
Receipts of cotton since September
LIST in this market now aggregate 30
374 bales, against 25s,72S bales to this
date last year, and 1893, O66 bales to the
| same date the year before
Thomas Shayers, for creating a dis
turbance at the Eigth ward polls yes
terday, and for carrying a pistol, was
fined SO by the recorder this morning.
He was also put under $3.50 bail.
Gayoso street, between Main and
Shelby streets, is in a horribly muddy
aud almost impossible condition. -
[Appeal. Yes, aud the same can be
said Of every street in the city.
John McDary and james Sweeney
we're each fined FIVE dollars for drunk
enness this morning. Neither had
paid up to noon, and the chances favor
their going on the gang at fifty cents a
day.
George Carey, for being drunk and
carrying a pistol, was fined t25 by Re-
corder Quigley this morning. His
friends were moving, through a writ
Of habeas corpus, at noon, to effect
his release.
Mr. s. II. Lamb, treasurer Of Ten
nessee Council, No. %, Royal Ar
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