Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-03
LEDGER LINES.

Two days more and the agony will
end.
Hop and festival tonight at Estival
park.
Brown L Jones, coal, Office go
Main street.
Last of the season-St, Patriok's
hop and festival tonight.
Swamp fever plentiful in the
swamps. Here it is healthful.
Hon. Casey Young will address the
meeting at EStival park tonight.
The Third ward democrats meet
tonight at the M@nnerchor hall.
The recent two weeks of dryness
has parched nearly everybody's gar
den.
No moOnlit nights for a spell. A
new one opens out Thursday night
late.
Summer resorts are not likely to be
crowded from this time forward by
our citizens.
Passage rates by rail from Nashville
to New Orleans we're reduced yester-
day to $40, and a further cut is looked
for,
Straight out Of the north came a
chilly breeze this morning, and it
whistled a mournful dirge around the
house corners.
The grand rally on the bluff to-
morrow night is expected to eclipse
all previous efforts in the way of rous-
ing political meetings.
Next Tuesday will occur the regu-
lar monthly drawing of the Louisiana
lottery. Call at the usual place and
get a ticket in the old reliable lottery.
A barbecue with political speaking.
is to take place on Presidents Island
to morrow. Mr.. T. NJ. Boyle ard
Col. A. H. Douglass will address the
gathering.
Cotton picking will be going on
briskly in two or three weeks. 1t is
already active in central Texas.
Nearly every cotton factor here has
received more or less open bolls.
The Louisville and Nashville rail.
way has cut passage rates from New
Orleans to Humboldt or Memphis to
81. The route circumlocutes a little,
but it is safe and cheap.
At Market square tonight there is
to be a grand democratic rally of the
First warders, and in the second ward
the democratic club will have an i'm
portant business meeting.
On the 14th inst. there will be a
chance to go to Chicago, by way Of
Louisville and return for $12. Ex.
cu~rsiOnists can stop at Cave City and
visit the Mammoth Cave during the
trip.
Corn is made and has turned
out a fine yield. Cotton is almost
ready to harvest, and a prolific return
is assured. There is likely to be a
good demand for every lock that can
be saved.
Hancock and English Union
March" is the title of piece of cam
paign music just received from the
publishers, Ludden & Bates, Savan-
nah, Ga. L. M. French is the COM
poser.
But two arrests were made by the
police for the last t~wehty-four hours,
one beinga trespasser, the other for
using vulgar language. The former
was discharged and the latter was
fined five dollars. {,
Thomas NJ. Quinn, formerly Of this
city died at Helena, Ark, yesterday,
from the effects of a pistol shot re-
ceived the night previous, fred by
Frank Tugoyne, a saloon keeper.
Quinn was watchman at Bennett &
Sons cotton seed oil mill.
The river dispatch yesterday an
nounCed the loss by sinking of Cap
tain Loudon's recent purchase, the
Resolutc. The vessel left here some
time ago, having brought a tow Of
paving material out of the Ohio river.
There will be a big democratic
barbecue and speaking at or near
Cuba to-day. Speakers will 90 out
from the city. Among others to par.
ticipate in the debate are General
Luke E. Wright, General G. P. M.
Turner and Captain j. H. Mathes.
A rousing gathering is going on TO-
day at Brunswick, or Shelby Depot,
twenty miles up the Louisville rail.
way. Several speakers went out this
morning to let the people there know
how the political horizon appears.
Coils. Patterson and Douglass, and
Mr.. Geo. r peters are tba o..fl