Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-10

depot, 357 Main street, where he
would be pleased to see his old friends.
A new bridge is to be built next
month over Bayou GayOsO, at the in
~tersection of Main and jackson streets,
South Memphis. The proposals for
bids are to be kept open until the
middle of next month.
The circus and the menagerie ar
rived during last nights rain.storm,
and this forenoon the canvass was
spread upon the bluff in front of the
city. Purturbed elements never stops
the circus folks or their bands.
Charlotte Thompson and Mrs. D. p.
Bowers appear at the theater, here,
next Monday night, in the new play of
Lady Jane Grey, and during the week
will present Hunchback, Mary Stuart,
Jane Eyre, and Court and Stage.
Drift logs have been rather plenti-
full in the river here for several days
past. The swell of the waters here
since the first of the month has been
two feet, and the river is now more
than 10! feet above low water mark.
There are a large number of
strangers in the city at present, as the
hotel registers show. The Peabody
never did a better business than now.
Over two hundred and seventy-fve
people breakfasted at hat hotel to-
day.
A thousand women voted in Boston
yesterday, and Prince was reelected
mayor by nearly a thousand majority.
He beat all three opponents 119
votes. Price is a Democrat. Hurrah
for female suffrage, and the women of
Boston town.
George N. Paine & Co.'s elegant
grocery house, corner Vance and Lau-
derdale streets, is the place to go for
fresh and good staple and fancy gro
ceries. They are just in receipt Of a
full line of Christmas groceries, that
will please every one. Sc.
Antonio LagOrio, who keeps a fruit
stand at 1853 Main street, last night
fell asleep in his chair, and while thus
doing, two enterprising tramps came
in and carried off his till, containing
the proceeds ofthe days sales, amount
ing to nine or ten dollars, and also a box
of cigars,
The printed reports of the condition
of the cotton crop will be ready for
delivery at the cotton exchange this
afternoon. Mr.. Sam. Gates, the in
dustrious and efficient secretary of the
exchange, has been very busy com
piling these interesting reports for
several days and nights.
Fount S%mithSon, of Pulaski, Tenn,
the Grand Dictator of the Knights of
Honor in this state, is to be here to-
morrow, and at night his brethren are
to present him with a gold medal, at
Odd Fellows Hall, as a token for
signal services rendered the order
during the late fever troubles.
At the recent meeting of the NJ. &
G. Railroad stockholders, held in
Huntsville, about ten days ago, the
road was leased for % years to the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad, and the lessees guarantee a
payment of per cent. interest on 81
225,OOO of bonds of the leased road.
The balance of the remains of a
child six or seven years old were found
this morning in an old we'll on the
premises of a place near the head of
Adams street, for which Mr.. Wheatly
is agent. The old we'll had been
ordered cleaned, and this led to the
discovery. No clue to their identity.
The present cotton crop has been
more than half sold, and considerably
more than three-fourths gathered.
The picking season will end about
Christmas, except on scattering
plantations. The crop yield of the
Mississippi valley will be fully equal
to that Of any former season. This is
conceded by all familiar with the sit
uation.
1t rained this morning at New Or
leans and several other points in the
South. 1t also rained, yesterday, in
Texas along the upper Mississippi and
the Missouri, and snow fell at Omaha
and st. Paul. The temperature at
the latter point was 80 and at Yank-
ton, on the upper Missouri, 28o. The
cold wave will strike US here after
a bit.
Mr.. Geo. N. Paine, formerly of
Oliver, Finnie & Co., and his partner,
Mr.. L. V, Dixon, formerly of School
field, Hanauer & Co., constitute the
new grocery firm on Vance and Lau-
derdale streets. They are aeeommo-