Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-17
LEDGER LINES.

Brown Il Jones, coal, Office 80
Main street.
Visitors from the country are mum
erous to-day.
The prospects of agriculturists CON
tinue Aattering.
The moon shines until 1;30 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printingofice
and book bindery, - Madison.
Tishabeah comes tomorrow, ac-
cording to the Jewish calender.
Tomorrow is the eighth Sunday after
Trinity, and the 1920 day of the year.
Wagon loads of watermelons have
made their appearance on the streets,
Summer quarters at the Presidents
island farm are not popular, by large
majority.
Grand moonlight excursion by the
ladies of St. Patrick's church, next
Wednesday, Dist.
Five hundred boxes Concord grapes
and fifty boxes peaches for sale cheap,
at Clements, Sc Beal street.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
The democrats of the first ward
will meet at the corner of Main and
jackson streets to night to organize
a club.
The wind squat of evening before
last blew down ever SO much corn in
many fields in the valleys, and some
on the hills.
The time now between sunrise and
sunset is IA hours. The sun rises 4
minutes past 5 am, and sets 4 min
utes after z pm.
The southwest corner of Elliott and
DeSoto streets is in a very unsanitary
condition, and the health authorities
should attend to it without delay.
In the Havana lottery drawing Of
the 18th, ticket 1905 drew 100000.
pesos; ticket 3945, $4,000 pesos, and
ticket 1857, 800 pesos.
That brutal, savage and stolid
American voter, Edward Spears, Esq,
still languishes in the county Jail, but
he is not supplied with a black strap
to lash convicts.
During the storm Of Friday after
noon a number Of tall trees in the
bottoms we're hit by flying electrical
bolts, and many limbs we're scattered
and knocked to earth.
A weak invention of the enemy,
was bogus Southern Democrats re-
cent production. 1t has borne good
fruit, but likely Of a different flavor
than its author anticipated.
Nothing farther has yet been zen
tilated regarding the inhuman slaugh-
ter by the Tunica masked night hawks.
We may hear more in a week or so,
alter the next man falls, perhaps.
Milliner and Dressmaker, Cooley
and Peterson for August; "Rienza,"
by Bulwer, and a full line Of other
standard and new novels in cheap
series at Mansford's, 298 Main street.
Sunstroke remedies supply copious
space in the upper country news
papers at present. We have no use
for such nostrums hereabouts, our
weather being SO delightful at present.
The Seventh ward democratic club
will meet tonight in the rear of
Kings grocery, corner of Lauderdale
and Vance streets. Some speakers
have been invited, and a good attend
ance is expected.
Complaints are general of the un-
blushing personal exposure of nude
bathers along the public landing
about and after dusk, when many la
dies and others seek the canopies on
the bluff to enjoy the fresh breezes.
Such exhibitions should cease.
Full three hundred strong we're at
the Memphis Light Guards Estival
park fete last night, and a fair profit
! was realized. At the same time it
was a most enjoyable success. Ser
' geant Latting carried off the prize as
! the best drilled soldier in the Light
Guards.
/, Heavens pyrotechnics played fancy
> darts all around the barbecue boy
/. out at Greer's farm evening before
{; last, and the main party left the woods
for open fields, preferring rain.soakeC
. clothes and wet whistles to the chance
r of being struck by lightning. Only
: the stragglers kept themselves under
l cover of the timber, and Of this END
of the line there were several who