Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-01
TEN CENTS PER WE K.
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

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LEDGER job printing office, ID
Madison street.
Greab bargains in shoes at the Big
Boot shoe store, 344 Main,
First-class printing at low rates at
the LEDGER job printing Office, ID
Madison street.
From 65' to So was the tempera-
ture yesterday, and cool northeast
winds blew all day.
The fireworks, done up in twenty
nine boxes, arrived here to-day by the
steamer Parker from the Ohio river.
The Louisiana Lottery has another
drawing on the Sth. Tickets are only
g, and everybody should be repre-
sented.
The Presidents Island prison sensa-
ton is one Of those things that cannot
be- squelched. Like BanquO's ghost
it will rise.
A shanty occupied by colored people
burned at Az Lauderdale street yes
terday afternoon. Loss about $500
no'insurance.
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 orphan children and the fami-
lies of the fire and police force are to
have free seats at the fireworks exhi-
bition next Friday night.
The Havana Lottery has borne a
fine reputation for many years. Tick
cts for sale at the usual place in thi:
city. The drawing is next Tuesday.
House owners on Front street have
been notified to increase the strength
of their awning posts in view Of the
crowds that will be there next Friday
evening.
The New York cotton exchange i:
to be closed ON Thursday. FRIDAY anC
Saturday next. No kilograms will BE-
received here regarding the staple
during those days.
The opiumSmokers have beer
scotched by the legislative council
unless, like Sunday beer drinkers
they go beyond the city limits and the
councils authority, or else smoke OF
the sly.
The river has fallen IL inches here
within the past two days, and there il
not much over TO feet on the shoa
crossings below hence the naval ship
W~achusett, will be unable get herr
before the next rise.
Our First Baby" just from tn,
press Of Collins & Co., New York, ha
had a much larger sale than " Helen
Babies" did some time ago. Rol
Young has only q few copies left
Corner Second and Monroe streets.
The outraged girl, Lizzie Sherwood
has been conveyed to the house Of thu
Ladies Christian Association on Prom
enade street. johnson, the bruta
scOundrel, has been sent to the Jail a
Brownsville, Tenn, for safe-keepinl
and protection from violence.
There will be a main of cock.
fought on the Fourth of July, between
the States of Alabama and Missis
sippi, at Correll's garden on Popla.
street, commencing at 10 o'clock il
the morning and finishing in time 70
all to attend the races in the afternoon
The Cbjckasaw Lodge, l. 0. o. +.
last night elected the following off
GERS G. G. Bill, N. G.; W. G. Good
man, V. g.; R. A. Burton, IT,; B. X
Pullen, Sec'y; John Beamish, librar.
trustee; Il. j, Black, grand repre-
sentative r. D. Frayser, relief com
mittee.
The officers of the city are to hay
newly furnished rooms, and commit
tee rooms are also to be secured. I
Brown is to be awarded the contrac
for paving Madison street. The. pc
lice aud fire commissioners are to ad
vertise for seven hundred.car loads, q
less, of sand and limestone.
Nearly ten thousand barrels of pr
tatoes have been shipped from this
, Northern markets, and It is safe
: calculate that not less than 5000
has been returned to the growers. I'll
prices realized range from So 80
s. so per barrel, a few special 10
reaching a still higher figure.
A stone pavement will be laid q
Adams street, to be ready for busine
hv navt fall Tho Nicoleon ,yb;oL