Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-23
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Creamery butter, Lytlc & Shields
Puppy slaughterers are moving
about.
Marriage season mild like thu
weather.
Brown & Jones, coal, Office %.
Main street.
Lytle & Shields expect a few casei
Of red raSpberries tomorrow.
Brownsville States, %: Mrs. j. R
Flippin and children, of Memphis
are in the city.
The third ward Hancock and Eng
lish club meet at the corner Of MaiI
and Adams street.
Candidate Ed. Shaw, colored, went
to the country this morning on al
electioneering tour.
The murder Of Annie Hardy is still
shrouded in mystery, and the diaboli
cal iend is still unknown.
Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and Il Jefer
son, has received a fresh lot of eggs
and chickens from Kentucky.
Business men will find it to theiI
interest to have all their job printing
dOae at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
A party Of hunters a dozen strong
went west over the Little Rock rail
road last evening on a sporting tour
Which way the political cat is Likely
to jump, is one of the questions nov
stirring the un ettled mind of many.
A large crowd of colored people, in
Guiding two cOlOred military compa
MES, leave here for Helena this even
ing.
In the criminal court this forenoon
John Walter was let off on a payment
of costs, his sentence being suspended
during good behavior.
The sewers, flush tanks included,
are pronounced a decided success by
experienced engineers. Those who
predicted their failure didn't know.
The courthouse is a dull quarter
just now. Politicians congregate at
the flags in front and talk over the
situation, but little interest centers
therein.
The Commonwealth distribution
company, of Louisville, will scatter
prizes broadcast among its patrons on
the 3lst. Get-a ticket at once at the
usual place.
Captain Bob Leach went out with
his train to Grenada to-day, for the
first time in a coon's age, be having
been laid up with rheumatism for
some time back.
We have been sleeping under blan-
kets and with closed windows fer sew
eral nights past. AS a summer resort
Memphis has so far this season been a
great success,
Mr.. Jack 0'Brieu, charged with
hitting Mrs. Jeffries, was slaughtered
in the stationhouse this forenoon
Belle Douglas was fined ten dollars
for disorderly demeanor.
The Eighth ward club will meet at
the Poplar street market house to
night. There will be music, banners,
roman candles, rockets, fine speakers,
and a general jubilee.
There are twenty letters in Win.
field Scott Hancock" in Jane,
Abraham Garfield" and in "Chestei
Absalom Arthur" The next presi.
dent will be the twentieth.
The bogus license vender Hugh j
Kelly, has been bound over in tn,
sum Of three thousand dollars to an
swer for the part he played with ex
Register McCloy's clerk, Dooner.
Manager Henry Fink, of the Littl,
Rock railway, has resigned, and ha
accepted the position of manager 70
the Selma, Rome & Dalton railwar
under the Cole and Wilson system O
railroads.
Mr.. Thos. Dunn, we'll known her
in years gone by, and now counecte.
with the treasury department of tn
Little Rock railroad, after passiD
several days here went home las
t evening.
: In all business circles the tone
buoyant and promising, and merchant
continue 10 do a brisk trade. As Ion
. as our health is as good as it is
+. present there is no danger Of du
: times. The prospect is favorable
an early, heavy and an active autum
. traffic in all lines.
At the meeting of the Fourth war
democratic club last night, it was d,
] termined to have a grand Fourt
ward rally next Thursday night at II