Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-25
wednesday Evening, August rs. 1850
LEDGER LINES.

The aeecy staple is coming in.
Next-the Memphis excursion.
Brown Il Jones, coal, Office 282
Main street.
One lonesome laborer pecks away at
the customhouse.
The ragged edges of widened side
walks are being repaired.
At the Cockrill shooting grounds a
glass ball and pigeon match is in pro-
gresS.
Wanted-Young man to wrap bun
dies. Apply to j. II. Johnston, 283
Main street.
Zellner & Co. are selling summer
shoes at cost, and all other goods at
great reduction.
Sewer pipe is in great demand now,
hundreds Of places being engaged in
connecting with the mains.
AS soon as the streets are we'll fin
ished, the names of fast and reckless
drivers will begin to adorn the police
docket.
Some of the posters advertising
chewing tobacco are enough to disgust
the flthiest and most hardened AMBER
squirter.
A meeting of the peoples wing Of
the democratic party will be held at
IL o'clock Saturday morning, in the
county court room.
Mr.. Watkins is turning out, in large
quantities, an extra quality Of cotton
picking sacks, which speaks well for
our home manufactures.
One may skulk through alley after
alley nov without the suspicion Of a
stencil polluting his nostrils. Name
another city Of which that can be said.
People are about to lay in a winter
store Of coal and wood while it is
cheap. Would it not be we'll to lay in
some ice and straw hats at the same
time?
Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and Al Jeffer.
son, has received some fine damsen
plums and peaches from Kentucky.
He will receive shipments of peaches
regularly.
One of the children Of Mr.. Nc
Carthy, thrown from a buggy yester-
day, has since died Of its injuries, and
the life of the other one is almost de-
SPARED Of.
The weary pedestrians take advan-
tage Of every opportunity to walk
through the cool shades Of Court
square and under the spray of its
sparkling fountain.
Deeds were recorded yesterday
from R. A. Parker, treas, to T. II,
Allen, ct al; W. A. Goodman to T. H.
Allen & Co., and Isaac Morrison,
treas, to N. E. Andrews.
As it is generally understood that
Captain Davis will be the next CHIEF
Of police, some little anxiety is felt as
to who will be next captain and ser.
geant in the regular line of promotion.
Memphis has every promise Of a
big fall trade-larger, many think
than she has ever had. The mer-
chants certainly have confidence il
this, as many of them are already il
receipt of large new stocks.
A charter has been granted a cor
: poration entitled the Memphis Bro
kerage Association" for the purpose
Of doing a regular brokerage bushes
in this county and state. The char.
ter members are ten in number.
Fortune knocks once at every man
door. Be at home when she knock
by having a ticket in the Common
wealth distribution company, o
Louisville. The drawing is mex
Tuesday. Get a ticket at the usua
place.
The matrimonial business has bee
rather brisk for warm weather. SIEVE
couples were licensed to marry yester
day. John Lemser and Miss Lul
Callahan; Percy A. Steele and Mii
Julia A. Morgan; Frank Spenser an
Miss Mary MuleDix, and four cOlore
couples.
In a paragraph, yesterday, it W,
stated as an item of news, that it WI
likely that rents would be raised a
over the city. This will be a hardshi
on a great many who run SO heavi'
in debt during the last two epidemi,
that they have not yet been able
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