Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-07

Skies brighter.
Slightly warmer.
Serene is the situation.
Hen fruit is getting cheaper.
The clouds scattered this morning
The clouds have broken and scat.
tered.
Shifting winds, moving to the west
and southwark.
The wheeze of the compress lasts
through the night.
The newly-elected feel their oats
the others don't care.
The biggest inland cotton market Of
the world is Memphis that is a fact
not to be disputed.
Divorce at the theater matinee to-
morrow. London Assurance and
Oliver Twist at night.
Stephen Cullinan, late a well-known
~barkeeper of this city, died at New
Orleans on Sunday last.
James Morris, a confidence man.
was sent to Jail by Justice Quigley
to-day in default of bail.
Sterling exchange is higher and ex-
cited in New York to-day 50 says
cotton exchange kilograms.
Temperature this morning at seven
o'clock, 3O'. The lowest yesterday
was 30, and the highest 490.
The liquor dealing house of C. W.
EdmOnds & Co.. failed yesterday.
Liabilities $4,000; assets uncertain.
No smallpox here-not a case.
Clean up and there will be no danger
of that or any other disorder getting
a start.
The staple has advanced, prices
being put up ! to cents in this mar
ket at noon to-day. The market is
quoted firm.
Cotton receipts here for the past
week l4lO5, against 1886 last year
for the same week and 1929 same
week the year before.
Washington's birth day, and Albert
Pike Lodge hall, is the time and place
agreed upon for the magistrate cleo
ton in the Sixteenth civil district.
Camille, Frou- Frou. Adrienpe.
Camille again, Romeo and Juliet and
East Lynne are the plays announced
for Modjeska's engagement next week.
Now clean up your yards, or look
out for sharp sticks in the hands of
our new authorities. They intend to
stir up the monkeys and the cesspools.
They have a gutter-snipe at the
Appeal Office who goes about nosing
Tor nastiness. He is trying to borrow
a new nasal appendage for a day or
two.
The sale Of tickets in the drawing
OF the Louisiana Lottery will close in
three days. Great luck may follow a
small investment. Call at the usual
place.
Five car loads of Tennessee marble
Tor the new custOm-house arrived last
night, the first consignment. The
work Of construction will at once be
commenced.
When rogues fall out just men get
their dues, but when public officials
quarrel over the spoils of Office. then
the taxpayers find out what it costs to
run the ~taxeaters.
Some of the lawyers are now whet-
ting their knives to carve off a hun
dred thousand dollars or so as fees in
case the old city affairs are turned
over to a receiver
Rev. DR.. Samfeld lectures tonight
at the Main street Synagogue. Sub
ject The ancient rites and eere.
monies of mourning. Services com
mence at Z! o'clock.
A reward Of $500 is now offered for
the arrest Of the Glover brothers who
murdered Lawson Woodbridge two
weeks ago at SunAower Landing, Miss.
1t is expected hat the amount will be
increased to nearly $1,000.
Mr.. l.. Rosenthal was the recipient
of a solitaire from Miss Selma
kratchak also a gold ring from the
Milahs' of which he is secretary, on
the occasion of his birthday surprise
a few evenings since.
The Countess Bozenta, known as
Modjeska, and her party, numbering
twenty-five persons, have engaged
rooms at the Peabody Hotel, and will
them on Monday next upon
heir arrival from new Orleans. The
countess and her troupe travel BY
train and stop at irst.class
hotels. None other suit their style.
The very idea that a man would
'un for a high Office who cannot write
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