Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-20


terest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office, Il
Madison street.
The LEDGER job printing office, Il
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
1t is just three weeks to circus
time. The boys are counting the days
and saving their picayunes and nickels
for the great occasion.
The stock Of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad has advanced $50
per share since last February. 1t sold
in New York yesterday at 81.
Memphis Floral Co., T. A. Lamb &
Co., proprietors, 355 Main street, new
lot elegant baskets and oceans Of
beautiful flowers this season.
A bond OF seventy-tive thousand
dollars was given by Mr.. S. Vendig,
yesterday to account for the full as
sets of Walker Bros. & Co.
The hotels and restaurants were all
thronged last night. Our visitors
from Mississippi made a good display.
and rOamed about with a very content
ed air.
A shipment of 400 bales of cotton,
purchased in this market for the cot
ton mills at Cannelton, Ind, on the
Ohio river, was made by steamer last
evening.
Matrimony is likely to be the next
epidemic we will have among us. The
quarantine epidemic no longer worries
us. May its departure be forever and
forever.
Numerous people from the country
collected in Court Square yesterday
afternoon to eat their lunch and feed
the squirrels. 1t is most too chilly to
enjoy such exercise to-day.
The old ice house near Auction
street, near the foot of the river, was
in course of demolition this forenoon,
and the hook and ladder company, of
the fire department, aided in the
work.
In mercantile circles considerable
complaint is heard because goods fail
to arrive as fast as wanted. Sales at
present exceed the capacity of the
trains and steamboat transportation
lines.
Professor Saxby's grand hop to-
night at his dancing academy, corner
Jefferson and Second streets, will be
a frSt.class affair. Positively no loaf
ers OIL improper characters will be
admitted.
THE Turkish Patrole." the latest
popular air, by Thos. Nicholas, ar
ranged for the piano forte and played
with great success by Handwerker's
Ochestra at the theater, has been re-
ceived by H, G. Hollenberg.
The practitioners at the bar of the
Cincinnati court expect to move for a
strict compliance for all rules that
governed attorneys under the late
Judge Ray, and it is the general wish
that they be rigidly enforced.
The freight rate on cotton hence to
New Orleans by river has been ad
vanced to Sl.2j per bale, while oil is
taken at zoe per bbl:, and cotton seed
cake at $500 per ton. The rate on
cotton heretofore has been S1.OO per
bale.
We regret to learn that Mr.. John
Temple, express agent running from
here to Covington, had the misfortune
Monday morning to be thrown from
the express wagon at the depot and
have his leg broken. He is at the
Central House, under charge of DR..
Rogers, and is doing well.
A hundred or more of wagons from
the country daily unharness on the
bluff in front of the city. Our int.
rior cousins come from twenty, thirty
and often forty miles to lay in their
supplies and haul cotton here for a
market. Twenty years ago the bulk
Of the trade here was transacted with
wagons, but now this class of traffic is
a mere triHe compared to other lines.
Between FIVE and seven hundred
people came up the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad yesterday. The
annual stock holders meeting of the
several roads always affords a chance
for the original subscribers to ride
with their families free Of charge.
This annual ride is all that many of
them have ever been able to enjoy
from their investment.