Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-30
LEDGER LINES.


Hub punch at Crystal Palace.
Monarch -four at llytle 4 Shields.
Have you evcr worn a Watkins
dress?
Brown & Jones, coal, Office 282
Main street.
Get your fresh oysters to morrow at
W. Dean & Co.
Coles celebrated L. 4. T. G.. -four
for sale by Lytle & Shields.
The convention absorbs all other
topics among politicians to day.
Beautiful and bracing this morning.
Not quite frost, but close thereto.
The bill collecting force will be on
the grand rounds early and late to-
morrow.
Nice evenings, these, for the young
soldiers to drill, and they we're out at
it last night.
A lot of fine fish can be found to.
morrow at Victor D. Fuchs ,39 and Al
Jefferson.
A boy, with some experience, can
find a situation in the PUBLIC LEDGER
book bindery.
The last Of the ninth month, and
the two hundred and forty-seventh
day of the year.
Early wayIarers found their fingers
slightly benumbed by the GOODNESS Of
the morning air.
Cotton damaged at least 30 per cent.
is one Of the news items coming in
from many directions.
One license to marry was issued
yesterday, and the last sixteen taken
out were to unite pairs of colored
people.
A new bridge is is in course of con-
ssruction over the bayou on Lauder
dale below Vance street. 1t is badly
needed.
New moon next Saturday. The
waning crescent of the old one will
not rise until twenty minutes after
two tomorrow morning.
New suits have begun to appear in
public and the wearersare looked upor
obviously by those who cannot AFFORD
to buy anything this fall.
The iremen Of this city are abou.
to petition for $50 per mouth, ~insteac
OF $40, as now received. The polio,
force are also anxious for higher pay
The quarantine station at the foot O
Presidents Island is to. be abolished
to day, and steamers may pass and re
pass that point after tomorrow with
out annoyance or detention.
Oiling up guns and stirring up dog
for hunting purposes is now an exc
else with those who have the time t.
indulge in such sport. 1t is bette
than shooting at glass balls.
/ A light two mile an hour breez
from the northwest blewi in this morn
ing's early hours, and here was NJ
fog last night except ia low swamp
places, where the breeze did not cir
. culate.
The genuine solar tip children
and school shoes arc sold by Zellner 4
Co., and every pair is warranted b
them. They are just 4. cheap as an.
other kind of shoes, but last twice a
. long.
-Four dollars a day while on dut
and about seventy dollars as mileag
is the allowance of the state to thos
who serve as legislators. 1t is no bi
thing, but there is many a patric
anxious to get it
No rainfall anywhere south Il.
night and none is probable anywher
in this country to-day, except away u
in Washington Territory, on the Pa
cifc coast, so says the signal servic
bulletin ofthis morning.
There is a rumor current that Fat
Oyster Farrell, is about to propose
charter for the national quarantin
boat Benner, to be loaded with she
oysters, for a business excursion dow
the Mississippi and among the lowe
river tributaries.
The staple rolls rapidly into on
market meantime gloomy account
came in yesterday regarding the iujur
the crop has sustained by unfavorabl