Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-11
LEDGER LINES
Cotton is looking up.

4 LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
The towboat John Gilmore passed VI
last night, all well on board.
1t was chilly enough to wear o~vercoat
at an early hour this morning.
First-class printing at low rates at tn,
LEDGER job printing Office, 10 Madison
street.
The highest temperature last week wa:
So and the lowest 60. Rainfall for the
week, 1877 inches.
No toll will be charged physicians.
nurses or Howards at the Poplar street
boulevard toll gates.
Temperature 6So at an early hour this
morning. and SO yesterday morning.
Rather cool for August.
The cold air strikes through to the bone
among the campers not well provided
with bed clothing these chilly nights.
The board Of health declared the yellow.
fever epidemic last Saturday evening.
The people declared it so some time back.
Crops in the country are in splendid
condition. Cotton promises well and corn
is made. A good yield Of both is as
sured.
The Odd Fellows relief committee have
ten sick persons under their care-all
doing well as far as developed. Two are
new cases.
Persons at way stations on the Lii S
sippi and Tennessee road sending orders
here, must in all cases, have permits
attached.
The steamer Hard Cash passed up on
her way from Helena to St. Louis last
Saturday evening, and no landing was
made here.
Sam Lewis, who was charged with being
concerned in the murder of uncle Billy
Mcdowell, has been discharged by Esquire
Galloway.
A number Of third-rate citizens in the
interior voted last Thursday under the
vain delusion thatthey were going against
the dog tax.
The LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison, executes everything in the job
printing line as neat and cheap as any
house in this city.
Accepted, 1911; against, 1l4s, was the
way the vote stood as far as heard on Sat
urday evening, and six precincts in the
county yet to hear from.
The daily PUBLIC LEDGER will lie
mailed to any address for fifty cents per
month. The subscription must, in every
case, be paid for cash in advance.
The board Of health report of yellow
fever cases last week sum up l9S, Of which
G2 were white and Il black. The total
cases to Saturday evening were 84S.
sneakthieyes raided three orfour houses
on Court street Saturday night and carried
of a few chickens, also other goods Of mi
nor value. The raseals were not identi-
fed.
The lines are not so tight now as they
were some days ago, and folks can move
over roads %unmolested, provided they do
not seek shelter at houses along the high
way.
Six persons belonging to the crew Of the
Ouaehita Belle were before DR.. Porter's
Court this forenoon. Five we're sentenced
70 60 to the camps, and the othdr was put
under $50 bond.
Deaths in this city last week q. of
which 20 were yellow fever. The total
yellow fever deaths as reported by the
board Of health since the fever first ap-
peared is %, counting up to Saturday
evening at 6 o'clock.
Professor Tice is still predicting that
this will be the hottest summer for two
hundred years, and Professor Smith. Of
Scotland, announces that a hot wave of
seething, blistering sunshine is yet to
sweep down upon us.
Camp Langstaff has been established
for the benefit Of the Tenth ward, about a
mile southwest OF Camp Marks and seven
miles bclow the city. Fifty tents have
been put up and some thirty families will
move there without delay. The camp is
located in a shady grove of forest trees.
The old Scotchman j.. II. Goodlett says
now that the disease preying on this city
has been declared epidemic, he is ready to
stay or leave as the banks desire. Ifthey
wish their paper protested he will remain
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