Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-18
LEDGER

DTOWn ~ JOues, cOal, ouce AoA
Main street.
Gardens hereabouts look thirsty and
need moisture.
From 81 to SO degrees was yester-
days range of temperature.
The atmospheric GOODNESS continues
and no signs of rain appear.
Beard at Glenn's springs for July
at twenty dollars per month.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office
and book bindery, 10 Madison.
Red raspberries strawberries buckle
berries, peaches and wild goose plums,
at Clements Sc Beale.
More fresh New York papers came
this morning through the favor Of the
Southern express company.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the Pubic LEDGER Office.
The entire south, from the Ohio to
Texas, was swept by a gentle north
easter yesterday and last night.
Our cotton receipts are now 2O,439
bales in excess Of last year at this
time and 1870 bales short of year be-
fore last.
H~oroscoping theaction of a political
convention is as uncertain as that Of
guessing at the probable verdict of an
American jury.
The LEDGER book and job printing
office, together with its book bindery,
is prepared to execute work with
neatness and dispatch.
Why throw away your illustrated
papers and magazines wnen you can
have a nice book made from them at
the LEDGER bindery?
The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, 10 Madison, axe
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house.
Anything from a druggists label up
to a three-sheet poster done with
neatness and dispatch at the LEDGER
job Office. Prices as low as the lowest,
An ordinance making smoking on
street cars a punishable offense would
be welcome news to many ladies and a
very respectable number of the other
sex.
The Chelsea Phoenix club give a
picnic at the Leath orphan asylum
grounds this evening, and as usual
with that club, it promises to be a de,
lightful affair.
Complaint of labor scarcity is gen.
eral, especially among the steamboats,
and deck laborers or rousters received
from $50 to $50 per month on vessels
plying to and from this port.
Parties having old magazines oil
newspapers.and who wish to make {
handsome book, should call at tho
LEDGER bindery and see how cheaI
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they car get a library together.
Several ladies who contemplated {
summer trip northward, in view Of
recent mortuary reports from the up
per country cities and the healthfu
situation here, have postponed thei.
departure indefinitely.
Review de Ia Mode, Demorest, Nil
liner and Dressmaker, Cooley ant
Peterson's fashion magazines for July
having arrived, parties wishing any
thing in hat line should call at Mans
ford's, 298 Main street.
The national greenback- labor ticke
for Shelby county Offices, as worke,
out by the Central club yesterday, ar
John Powell, for sheriff; Samue
Taylor, for county trustee; Harry N
Hill, for criminal court judge; an.
W. w. Mcdowell, for chancellor.
RumOrS continue of lucky fellows i
the lottery drawing line. At first
went around that a fifty thousand dol
lar prize had fallen to a lucky holde
here. Now it is down to a thousand q
two, and perhaps a farther reductio
will be talked Of by tomorrow or mex
, day.
Estival park will be the most a
tractive place in town tonight.
: grand promenade concert and no.
with the park Int up with Transporter
! lanterns and delightful music is SUI
to draw an immense crowd. Admit
. sion 25 cts.
: Our national holiday will be eel
brated on the 9th proximo with
| boat race on the river, in front of IL
city. The champion crew at presel