Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-08
THE CITY.
Thursday evening, July 5, IssO
G LINES.


A brilliant season is promised, at
the springs.
Brown 4 Jones, coal, Office 282
Main street.
Large shipment of peaches received
daily at Lytle & Shields.
Warm work, hat at the exposition
building this afternoon.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printingOfice
and book bindery, 10 Madison.
Free. stone peaches, 20 and % cents
a box, at Oliver, Finnie q Co.'S.
The troubles at Horn Lake be-
tween white and black residents is
not threatening.
Wolf river water is good for young
swimmers, being thick with mud at
the present time.
Thanks are returned by this Office
to Mrs. B. Chafin, Of White station,
for some delicious fruit.
The city managers, entitled the
legislative council, were in session
this forenoon at the courthouse.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
Gentle south winds with the mer-
curry at 70 degrees this morning at
sunrise. Range yesterday II to 80
degrees.
Julia Edmondson, colored, wa the
feminine found dead in south Mem
phis yesterday. Cause, concentrated
I've, turpentine and jealousy.
Procure tickets for Louisiana lot
terry before it is too late; Monday is
the last day. you may draw a fortune.
Call at old place, No. 6 Court street.
An inquest was held on the body of
Columbus johnson, a colored infant,
at II Bradford street, this forenoon by
Esquire Spellman. Verdict: consump-
ton.
Our ueighbors, G. B. Bryan & Co.,
who have for so many years occupied
the Office next us, have removed to
more spacious quarters at No. 20
Madison, the old DeSoto bank. Their
former Office is for rent. See card.
A few Of the old cross-road habits
still cling to us, though many think
they live in a city and have only city
ways, but the roaming at large of cat.
tie, goats, hogs, and other brutes, is
country town fashion despite all argu.
ment.
Mr.. John Powell is pledged to the
national greenback labor interests,
which pledge makes it incumbent for
him to use his power, influence or
whatever else he may control, to put
only nationals in Office, regardless OF
race, color or condition.
Nearly $4,000 in cash, earned by
our various banking, insurance and
other monetary institutions, is in
course of being divided among their
stockholders, mainly in this city.
Flush times prevail here as we'll as
elsewhere in this country.
The Selma railway sale to Major j.
}. Busby and Others for 100000 has
been confirmed by the United States
court. The major and his coadjutors
will now begin the work of prepara-
ton to put the road in operation from
here to Holly Springs and further to.
ward the southeast.
The Waco, Texas, Examiner Of
June Both, contains an extended no
tice Of the marriage at that place Of
Mr.. A. c. Hamilton, of Milan, Tenn.
to Miss Kate M. Downs. The happy
couple departed north on an extended
tour. Mr.. Hamilton formerlylived in
Memphis, and is still we'll known her,
and highly esteemed.
:. The river has been rising quite rap
: idly here for several days past, and i
: II feet below extreme high waite.
mark. 1t is also swelling considerabl,
I. at Cairo, much of the rise being from
the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers
. A general rise of the water is in pro
r gress above st. Louis, and along tn
Ohio from Evansville up.
d About as mean and contemplate a
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