Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-10-31
THE CITY.
LEDGER

tranclscos winter styles are out.
LEDGER job printing Office, 10
Madison street.
Gaston's Hotel is now op and
ready for business.
Avaunt forever ye yellow flag. Let
it be unfurled no more.
The refugee arrives numerously by
every train and steamboat.
Howling, wholesome and hoarse was
the blow of Boreas last night.
The fair, frail and fancy are as anx-
ious to get home as other classes.
Highest temperature yesterday, go.
Lowest temperature this morning, 45o.
For good boots and shoes go to
zellner & Co., corner Madison and
Main.
Strikes have struck this latitude,
judging from the way steamboat peo-
pie talk.
Our markets are much unsettled at
present, but they are Strengthening out
each day.
zellner & Co.'S shoe store is the
best and most reliable in the Missis-
sippi valley.
A shower or two would be welcome,
if but a dust-layer. Snow would suit
Us better, however.
The United States and District
Courts have been adjourned to the
third Monday in November.
No more sick visitors buggies, no
more nurses, no more ration hunters
collect in crowds along Madison street.
The steamboats, do not give us the
go by now. Business offers, and
blockades no longer annoy.
A magical change is that presented
on the public streets now as compared
with that which prevailed a week ago.
The fruit and peanut stands have
opened out, and run with a full head
of steam, just as they did in days of
yore.
The drawing of the Louisiana lot
terry takes place on the 18th. Every
body should get a ticket at the usual
place.
If we could have a good rain, a very
heavy frost would be apt to follow,
accompanied, probably, by a few sheets
of ice.
A splendid case of congestive fever
caught in the swamps Of Arkansas is
believed to be the matter with DR.. w.
Vim.
The staple is rushing in and the
stock is looming up. Many predict
we will yet receive 100000 bales Of
cotton here.
The Memphis Water Co.'S works
are to be publicly sold on the 18th of.
December, by order of the U. S.
Circuit Court.
The Bluff City Grays have been or
dered to meet at their armory, in
uniform, at seven and a half
O'Clock this evening.
The reception at the Peabody in
honor Of the Chicks and Bluffs" by
the Porter Reserves, promises to be
pleasant and successful.
The LEDGER job printing Office, 10.
Madison, executes everything in the
job printing line as neat and cheap as
any house in this city.
Coal is advancing and the river men
are complaining. In country towns
the article is selling at % cents per
bushel, almost equal to corn.
There has been a tumble in meats
and the whole list Of grain from wheat
to cheat in the markets Of the West.
The bears are happy and jubilant over
it.
The daily PUEBLO LEDGER will be
mailed to any address for fifty cents
per month. The subscription must
in every case, be paid for cash in adj
vance.
The small, black book, with a big
collector to carry it, will be around to.
morrow in the usual way. Both have
been sadly missed for the past three
months.
Apple trees have been in a bloom
ing state in the country all around
Cold weather close at hand will pro.
vent them from raising a crop this fall
and winter.
The Circuit Court of Crittenden
county, Ark, will not convene until
the third Monday in December. It
meets at Osceola, Mississippi county,
on the first Monday in December.
lndianola, Texas, was threatened
with a storm early this morning from
a northern direction, according to the
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