Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-02
TEN CENTS PER WEEK
THE CITY.
Thursday Evening, Jan. 2, 1879.
LEDGER

january the second.
The staple is active.
The holidays are over-now the strange
realities.
Turn over a new leaf, and let bygones
be bygones.
A"cold snap " is a suitable way Of call
ing it to-day.
The cotton exchange holds its annual
meeting tonight.
Buyers of cotton were active to-day;
sellers stiff and steep.
The moon sets tonight at forty-fve
minutes after twelve O'clock.
Direct from the shores of Alaska came
the biting breeze this mcrning.
Ingomar, oRe Of Mary Anderson's best
pieces, will be produced Saturday night.
Only a few, avery few persons, drowned
their sorrows in the flowing bowl yester-
day.
Call at s~pangler's, 1856 Main street, for
your weekly papers. Andrews Bazaar for
January.
The soft mud Of yesterday and last
night was frozen as hard as stone this
morning.
"Crime must be suppressed" says the
attorney general, and all good citizens will
echo the sentence.
The banks are open to customers to-day,
but not to the weather. Yesterday they
were closed to both.
The general council could not get a quo
rnm together last night, SO adjourned to
meet tomorrow evening.
Muggy weather was that of yesterday.
Last night a drizzling rain set in. To-day
it is clear and singing cold.
Several vehicles broke axles yesterday
in their efforts to pull through mudholes
and over broken pavements.
One hundred barrels of apples slightly
frozen, for sale by Lytle & Shields, at
seyenty-6ve cents per barrel.
The mandamus business continues to
flourish in spite Of the discussion about re-
pealing the municipal charter.
Receipts Of cotton are now S1,1SS bales
behind last year at the same date, and
4,l2l bales short Of the year before.
Wild game in great abundance has been.
sold in u markets during the past week.
1t IS cheap, and good, as general thing.
Ten cents a week for the DAILY PUB.
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by good
carriers. Leave your orders at this Office.
The Louisiana Lottery win hold an
other drawing on the l4th. Now is the
time 70 purchase tickets. See advertise
ment.
The cotton exchange was closed a part
Of yesterday. Very little business was
done except by retailers in any line Of
trade.
Wallhowers were plentiful at the matt
nee yesterday. They enjoyed the play,
one Of the finest in Miss Anderson's rep
ertory.
The Criminal Court is in session to-day
trying minor cases. None Of special in
terest except to the parties directly con-
cerned.
The stock Of cotton now on hand in this
market sum up 9O,4S4 bales, against g.
6SS bales last year and 9O,950 bales the year
before at the same time.
Trading in stock is now a subject Of
concern to a number of people who think
they know all about the business, yet
have little or no experience.
Joe Murphy, the best Irish comedian
on the American stage, commences a
weeks engagement next Monday night at
the Memphis Thoater in Kerry Gov.
Miss Mary Anderson's audience yester-
day afternoon was the largest that has
assembledthis season. There were nospare
seats and no room left to stand around.
New Years callers went about yester-
day in pairs and quartettes. The Expense
Of a carriage to haul them through the
mud ranged from ten to twenty dollars
for the day.
The sun rises at four minutes before
seven this morning and sets twelve min
utes past five in the evening. The time
between sunrise and sunset ten hours and
sixteen minutes.
The 1870 dispatch from New York to-
day announced Futures" firm and n to
two points higher than the previous dis
patch, sent an hour before. The market
stood quiet and steady.
Andrew White, an ugly-tempered dar-
key, was fined IS this morning for fight
ing down at the wharf. The assaulted
person obtained a quick trial owing to his
desire to leave the city.
The city government is too poor to
scrape the muddy street crossings. and
only the philanthropic private citizen,
with a liberalhear and enterprising spirit,
can perform the good work.
In the play of Fazio Tuesday night
Mary Anderson was twice called before
the curtain between acts. At the matinee
yesterday the enthusiastic audience again
complimented her fine acting Of "Evadno'
in the same way.
Annie Higgins, a colored servant, in a
vicious moment threw broadax at anoth.
or other kind from the Central Point reoio,