Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-29


at it.
People about the city are paying
from twenty to fifty dollars each to
privy-cleaners, earth box makers, and
cistern, e%mptyers.
The city government officials meet
and consult this afternoon. The gov
eminent is in the Planters insurance
building at present.
The Commonwealth Distribution
Company draws on Saturday. To-
morrow is the last day of sale oftiOk-
cts. Call at the usual place.
The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, Is Madison, exc
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house in this city. t
The valley planters to the south
Of us have just completed gathering
their last years crop Of cotton, and
they are now fixing to pillow for the
new crop.
The weather here is entirely too
mild for uneasy peoples comfort. If
the upper country arctic wave would
only pass this way, how happy all
would be.
There is a strong feeling and an
upward tendency in the price Of cot
ton and wooden goods. Those who
have spring harness to pay for this
season are likely to feel it seriously.
Small hand-bills posted on lamp
and Geographic posts, abusive Of one
Of the deputy officials of the county
excited comment and a deal of gossip
this forenoon, on the public streets.
Sixty dollars worth of hogs, goats
and COWS were sold yesterday at the
public pounds. There were in all IA
head of stock. People must keep
their cattle from roaming or suffer
loss.
-Unhaltered mules and horses gal
lop through our streetsat times, much
to the disgust and danger of way
farerS. Let one or two droyers be
caught and fined, and the business
will cease.
The planters who ship cotton seed
to Memphis are requested to meet at
the Peabody hotel Monday, February
End, at II o'clock, to discuss the plan
Of building an oil mill.
The towboat E, H. P%ierrepont,
with 1880 barrels of salt, all con-
signed to Speed & Co., will arrive here
to-day, the Colorado having passed
the feet 100 miles up the river. One
barge goes to Helena and the remain
der is for this market.
The value of cotton sold in our
market yesterday was about 1927, 600,
and that sold since Monday would
sum up fully a million dollars. Since
the season opened, 10000 bales of
cotton have been sold here. the value
being close to So, 900, 900.
-Mardi Gras excursionists to New
Orleans began to pass here yesterday
going South by steamers. The Mary
Houston had forty people for the
round trip, and the Guiding Star is
coming out of the Ohio with one hun
dred and thirty-6ye more of the same
sort. A dozen others will be along
with all they can take care of.
"A genuine polar wave has been
passing over the country north of st.
Louis. At st. Paul, La Crosse and
Yankton, on the upper Mississippi and
Missouri rivers the mercury was
from G. to 10 yesterday afternoon,
and fresh northerly winds prevailed.
Here we had a gentle four-mile breeze
from the northwest.
1t has been just eight DAYS this
evening since we had a shower here.
A violent thunder storm passed over
this section a week ago last evening
and the rainfall here was nearly a
fourth of an inch. The storm did
considerable damage to property in
the northern edge of this county, and
several persons were injured.
Frogs have always been deemed a
delicacy among the lovers of good eat.
ing, and Partisan epicures are especial
ly fond of them on account of their
rich flavor and excellence. Sol Cole
man has selected ten of these juicy
fat, a%mphibious animals to represen
the virtues Of his celebrated No. Il
cigars, which always give as much sat
isfaction to a smoker as the frog to tn.
genuine Partisan. The ten animal
are done up in oil on a large sign il
front of his popular establishment, 81
Main street, to symbolic to the passe
by the d~elicacy Of the goods within.
Parties on lines where the sewers q,