Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-16

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above here, early last summer, are ex'
pected to be brought back two oil
three days hence.
There were 80 bales Of cotton OF
the steamer Fawn lost in the Tennes.
see river on Saturday last, consigned
to merchants in this city and insured
in our local offices.
-Messrs. c. B. Bryan & Co., at l.
Madison street, are in connection
with the telephone exchange, and all
persons connecting with same can
ordertheir coal by telephone.
The staple at noon to-day was
quiet and steady here, at &c. lower on
good ordinary, low middling and mid
ding, other grades showing no fuctu-
alton.
For the first time here the quota
tionsf for cotton futures were to-day
posted at our cotton exchange. The
figures range from 1854 for February
delivery to 1885, to be delivered in
August Lext.
Our great river is in a muddy
mood and in swelling temper. During
the past four days it has risen a little
over six feet, and at noon to-day its
level stood just twenty.one feet above
low water mark.
Solemn requiem mass will be Of
fered at S! o'clock tomorrow morning
at st. Peters church for the late Mrs
Julia Semmes Tobin. Friends Of
Captain I. F. Tobin and B.. j. Semmes
are invited to attend.
"A barge load of sewer pipe is ex.
pected here to-day and another before
the close Of the week. The work OF
laying the pipe progresses on Monroe
street, near DeSoto, and close to the
bayou.
-Leap-year parties and Germans
every night, is the way river travellers
who have been to Mardi Gras, at New
Orleans, enjoy themselves. In the
daytime, i fits Sunday, and they reach
this pious city in time, they go to
church.
"A good deal Of squirming is appar-
ent in cotton future dealers here, and a
number are believed to be subjects for
indictment by the grand jury. Judge
Pierce's decision, that dealing in fu-
lures il gambling, is not palatable to
several dozen, by a large majority.
Fourteen and fifteen cents a
pound is the price paid for a few lots
Of choice cotton collected here during
the past few days for shipment east
ward. 1t has been several years since
it reached hat figure, unless it was
prize cotton entered for a fair, or a
first bale.
Our New Orleans Mardi Gras
excursionists all came home on Sat
prday. 1t has been estimated that
the hundred who went from here ex.
pended in the aggregate about $4,000
at the Crescent City carnival. Halt
that laid out here in a judicious man
ner would have afforded a pleasing
display, and been money in our peck
cts.
Dan Rice's New Departure and
Moral Reform" is the title of Uncle
Dams lecture. The Colonel inter
sperses it with humorous sketches Of
his life. Colonel Dan is sincere and
earnest in the cause, and has certain
ly reformed. He was a member Of
the Calvary church congregation last
night.
The first of the New Orleans car.
nival excursion boats, the Guiding
Star, passed here, destined to the
Ohio river, yesterday, with n hun.
dred and forty passengers on board
The vessel reached our wharf at al
early hour in the morning, and tn,
clever captain, being of a pious turn
lay in port until after church time
to let his guests attend divine service
The Grace church congregation
met the yestry of their organization
yesterday afternoon and responde,
very encOuragingly toward a sum nee
essary to defray the rector's salary 70
another year. The Rev. DR.. Dalzell'
first year has about expired, and hi
old congregation at Shreveport, La
are very DESTROYS to secure his retur
to his former charge. 1t is as yet I'll
certain whether or not he will renal
, with Grace church.
Don't Despair.
Disappointment, discomfort, priyation