Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

LEDGER LINES.
Irancisco's feather weight hats.

w HllJakeT nauS, dJ hylle q Dulelus.
Brown & Jones, coal, Office 2&
Main street.
Peaches in liberal supply and low
prices, at Lytle & Shields.
Paving work is in a state Of suspen-
sion to-day, owing to the elements.
Damp, bad day for the barbecue up
the Paducah railway, at Woodstock.
Fifty bushels choice peaches, at %
cents per peck, at Clements, Sc Beal.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printingofice
ard book bindery, 10 Madison.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
Wooden garments are comfortable
to-day and b~ed.cOvering with closed
windows were necessary to the rest of
sleepers last night.
&Chancellor Mcdowell is home from
Bon Aqua, and held session fora brief
hour this forenoon to sign the minutes
Of his court.
Services at the Central Baptist
church to night, on which occasion a
discourse will be delivered by the Rev.
j. H. Eager, of Virginia.
The Sixth ward Hancock and Eng.
lish club held an interesting meeting
last night, and were addressed by
Colonel Luke W. Finlay and others.
Persons permitting water pipes to
remain open so as to cause a flow in
to the streets and alleys are to be ar
rested and fined from this time forth.
There will be a meeting of the Han
cock and English club, in the Fifth
ward, neal the r of fernando
and Pontotoc streets, to morrow
night.
The remains of David McGruer,
who lost his. life yesterday, by falling
from a third story rear window, in the
jackson block, we're inferred yester-
day afternoon.
The young mems Hancock and
~
English club will hold a meeting at
the Jefferson street opera house next
Monday night, the 10Th inst. Judge
j. W. Ulapp and others will speak.
The river men are moving toward
the work of a legal effort to check the
Mississippi and Tennessee railway
company in their progress Of laying an
iron track along the river trent.
A requiem mass was chanted at St.
Peters Catholic church this forenoon,
for the repose of the soul of the late
Thos. Kirnan, whose remains now lie
in Calvary cemetery, he having died
last year about this time.
One Of the best steps toward reform
and cleanliness SO far impaired by our
city authorities, is hal which puts a
stop to hogs roaming at large. The
misfortune is that the order don't 90
far enough and include other animals.
An ~agitatiDg question at present
worrying the minds of many is that Of
the water supply, and which is the
better, that used from Wolf river, or
that likely to be used from the Mis-
sissippi river. Both are bad enough,
unless they are settled.
The Chickasaw Guards have re-
ceived a beautiful flag, nine by fifteen
feet in size, made of silk, with stars Of
gilt; also a large gilded ball to sur
mount the staff. 1t was a present from
Mr.. Fred Anderson, a friend and warm
admirer of the company.
The Bluff City Grays are just now
without a captain, their recent com.
msnder, Captain T. Avery Lamb
having resigned a week ago, owing tc
the position requiring so much Of his
attention and time, and the same
being needed in his business pursuits
Harry Hill carries around with him
and reads the bill of faro of the Pea.
body hotel, where Judge Horrigar
boards, and compares it with the far,
served on Presidents Island. Thi.
is one way for a candidate for the er
mine to make votes among the ne
groes, and it is presumable that JudgI
Hill has a h%ankering to board at thu
Peabody.
The Lone Star base ball club, Will,
at st. Louis, played several games ant
lost all but one. They had bad luck
the weather proving unfavorable dur