Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-26
LEDGER LINES.


street.
The mails to all parts where mails go
close at six o'clock each evening.
The ferry between this and the Arkan-
sas shore stopped running two days ago.
The steamer Belle Memphis leaves St.
Louis for this port tonight.
First-class printing at low rates at the
LEDGER job printing office, 10 Madison
street.
A telegram from Halifax, Nova Scotia
states that they have one case of yellow
fever there.
Two refugees from Memphis died of
yellow fever at Opeli6a, Ala, on the 22d
and 28d inst.
From zee to S9' yesterday, the wind
being from the south and southwest ex-
cept at intervals, when it swung to the
northwest.
The steamer Coahoma went to St. Louis
last Thursday with her 200 people, all
well. The passengers we're permitted to
land without trouble.
The steamer Batesville, from st. Francis
river, passed up this morning with a model
barge in tow. She goes to the Ohio river
for the summer.
The LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison, execute everything in the job
printing line as neat and cheap as any
house in this city.
The city governments headquarters,
with DR.. Porter in charge, has been re-
moved to the Planters Insurance build
ing, on Madison street.
AT the First Presbyterian church, cor
ner of Third and Poplar streets, service
will be held at IL o'clock am. by the pas
tor, Rev. Eugene Daniel.
All persons who are willing to 60 to the
country and provide for themselves, can
get tents for shelter free Of charge by ap-
plying to the authorities.
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.
Seven persons were arrested last night.
DR.. Porter fined two of them a dollar
each this forenoon. A lot of chicken
lifters operated on Tate street last night,
but were not caught.
Twenty men were selected this forenoon
to take a census Of our present population
without delay, so hat the public safety
committee may know who and how many
they have to take care of.
An engine will be dispatched each day
over the Memphis and Charleston rail
road, to meet the train. for the exclusiy,
purpose of carrying the mails to and from
this city.
Stone workers are busy paving and re
pairing Main street below Union. The
stone work on the new customhous,
has closed for the summer, and the Pine,
looks like a deserted ruin.
During the coolest houra Of this morn.
ing the temperature, as recorded by the
signal service observers, was 75o and al
noon it marked 79Ho. The breezes ar,
from the west or northwest and there i,
much less sultryness in the situation thar
heretofore.
Captain james Glass drilled the McClel
Ian Guards, and Captain Brown drile,
the Zonayes, yesterday. The MARTA
bearing of each company impaired a ton,
of confidence to all timid persons who saw
the exercise.
II. Parthesius was in a rather bad wa,
(, yesterday. He is the only patient undo.
care of the "a. 0. U. VS." Tn,
knights Of Honor have buried six o
their brethren, and they now have onl,
the Hester family under their care.
Give a man a sixty to hundred a dollar
per month clerkship or some such subor
dinate place, and in nine cases out Of tel