Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-02

LEDGER LINES.

Brown Il Jones, coal, Office %.
Main street.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing fic,
and book bindery, ID Madison.
The Bluff City Grays had a nice
picnic at Estival park last night.
Next Mondays boat race continues
to excite interest in aquatic circles.
Your horse will get f~rst-class at.
t%ention at the Park stables. Boarding
a speciality.
Democratic primary meeting,
throughout Shelby county tomorrow
afternoon and night.
Business men will find it to theil
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
Whisky and watermelons will soor
be the leading beverage for the coun.
try darky and the crossroads lounger
The receipts of cotton here are now
I2O.17 bales ahead of last year, and
1913 bales less than year before last
at this date.
Our country cousins are in the city
to-day in great numbers. Cheap rail.
way rates1and the Hancock jubilee
brought them here.
Estival park will be ablaze to.mor-
row night with a grand display Of
fireworks, attracting 2 large crowd.
After the fireworks will be a concert
and hop.
Our cotton exchange is to be closed
next Monday for national holiday OBJ
servance. TIE New York exchange
will close tomorrow, also on Monday
and Tuesday next.
The waning moon will not rise un-
til after one o'clock tomorrow morn
ing. 1t will be Wednesday next be-
fore the new one shows its shining
crescent above the horizon.
1t will be 2 rolsing ratification ju-
bilee this evening for Hancock and
English, and the other ratifying par
ties, including that Of the greenback-
ers last night, will feel sick after they
sec it.
Already the days are perceptibly
shorter than they were q short time
back, almost four minutes less being
the time between sunrise and sunset,
as compared with the longest day
period.
Lovely place this as a summer re-
sort. The weather is so delightful
and vegetation so luxuriant." Thus
said a visitor to-day when talking Of
this city, and he said what many will
endorse.
Tomorrow night and Sunday the
steamer Osceola Belle will make river
excursions for pleasure, and those
wishing to enjoy a ride on the waters
will do we'll to inform themselves and
take a ride.
A we'll known gentleman who won
something on Garfeld's nomination
expresses the opinion that the repub-
licans will carry Vermont. Iowa and
perhaps Wisconsin. but does not think
Garfield will get any other state.
Mr.. j. j. Rawlings is out in a card
to-day, and announces himself a can-
didate for the position of county
trustee, a position he has creditably
filled before. His claims are fully ex.
planned, and his position as we'll as
character is well known to the com
munity.
The time table of the Miss. and
Tenn. railway is to be changed on
Sunday next, on and after which
time the New Orleans mail train
leaves here at 1890 pm, the Sardis
train at 4;45, and the freight accom-
mediation at 6 I'm. Incoming trains
will be at $50 am, from New Or.
leans, s am, from Sardis, and 4 pm.
for the freight accommodation.
The Brownsville States, after copy
ing an article from a Memphis paper
in regard to one DR." Langdon, re-
marks 1.-THE above %'lunatic' is nc
doubt the same DR.. LangdOn who fig.
ured so unfortunately for himself in
this place a few years ago. He was
not a lunrtic then bysany means, and
we doubt his insanity now.
The Zulus and their few white al.
lies ground out a ticket at the Expo
sition building yesterday after a tur-
bulent time of it. The wranple was