Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-09

trinsic value of the silver set at the
st. Peters church bazar, and designed
for the most popular dry goods house.
1t will be worth a thousand to the
firm that wins.
-Scavenger work at S24 per month
was last night awarded by the au-
thorities to Bejach d Brash, while
Mrs. Begley will shoe the mules and
horses of the city, and Mrs, Morton
feeds the prisoners.
An invitation has been extended
to General Grant and party to attend
the theater next week, and wit
ness the Pirates of Penzance. As it
is understood there will be no ban
quet, it is likely he will go.
The school board is to meet next
Monday night, when the efforts of the
pupils to produce articles and literary
efforts to be exhibited at the coming
Nashville centennial, will be ready
for the boards inspection.
The mail hinderers, Farren and
two others, from Galloway, in Fayette
county, were bound over by Commits
sioner Etheridge yesterday. They
gave bond in $500 each to appear
before the United States court TO
answer.
The steamer Syria lost at sea
while voyaging from New Orleans to
Liverpool. May have have had both
cotton and oil cake from the mill. As
yet no advices as to whether our in
surance companies are caught have
been a%scertained.
We are now getting fresh grown
beets, snap beans, green peas, lettuce,
and new potatoes from the gardens of
the gulf coast. A few table green's,
radishes and one or two other items
are all the surrounding country has so
far sent us this spring.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills of lading, and all kinds of com
mercial printing done as well and
cheap at the LEDGER Office as any
where in the United States. Mer-
chants would save money by calling
at LEDGER Office before giving their
orders to drummers.
Colonel P. H. Skipwith, of Ok
ford, Miss, who for many years has
been prominently identified with the
planting and commercial interests of
that section, was a visitor at the Odd
Fellows library yesterday. The colo
mel is within himself perfect ency-
clOpedia of information.
From IS to 20 cents per cubic
yard for grading, and from $40 to
SIS per square yard for furnishing
and laying stone and gravel are the
contractors bids before the city coun-
Gil board. The bidders are Messrs.
Loudon, Larkin and Fossick e. Co.
AT the city hospital last month
lao sick persons were admitted; 6 died
and IL remained at the close of the
month, the daily average being 1l9.
Hospital disbursements during March,
Sl,O8S.64, Of which the United States
owes 1919 for marine patients, which
are included in the above.
Five boxes Of cotton samples ar
rived here from Liverpool yesterday,
aud are a center Of attraction among
dealers at the cotton exchange to-day.
The types range from ordinary to good
ordinary. When the market is dull
here, the type termed ordinary would
be classed as "dog-tail" by some of
our buyers, especially the guerillas.
The New York papers Of Tuesday,
the 9th inst, were placed in the LED
GER Office yesterday afternoon, the 9Th
inst, by our polite young friend Mr..
Yerger, of the auditors Office in the
Southern express company, in this
city. This is about the shortest time
ever yet made, though not unusual
We are much obliged to the company
and its accommodating employees.
The LEDGER Office book bindery
10 Madison street, is in the sam,
building as the newspaper and joI
printing establishment is owned b,
the same proprietor, embraces al
t machines and material used in a first
: class book bindery, and is conducte,
by competent workmen capable @
executing work in as good and sub
~stantial a style as can be done any
: where.
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