Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-23
THE CITY.
LEDukA LIMB.

Sweet cider-Buckham & Campbell
Francisco's latest, Mumm, extrad rJ
The moon changes to its full to-
morrow.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
China dinner sets, 1s6 pieces, foI
SIS, at G. N. Erich's,
Telephone s. w. Garrison for en-
craving, rubber stamps and stencils.
Chamber sets sold retail at whole
sale prices, H. Wetter & Co.
All kinds Of Christmas groceries
can be found at Z. R. Ryan & Co.'S
342 Main street.
Provisions are steady in the Liver
pool market today, says a ~cablegram
received at DOOn.
Those wishing san oysters for
Christmas shonld call on John Sturla.
337 Main street.
Thieves, pickpockets and unsafe
characters are numerous in u city at
the present time.
The public schools give holiday
from tomorrow noon until a week
from Monday morning next.
Carpets-352 and 1854 Main street.
G. W. NALL is closing out 100 rolls OF
Brussels carpets, at greatly reduced
prices.
The handsome cakes and fancy
articles will be sold at the orphans
bazaar tomorrow, Friday, at 2 o'clock.
Barney Hughes, a%uctiOneer.
The Liverpool cotton exchange is
to be closed tomorrow, and will not
open until Tuesday next. The New
York exchange closes on Saturday.
The city councillors, or business
managers, we're to have met yesterday,
but only a few were there, and no
quorum converting, they did nothing.
G. w. Taylor & Co., No. Z Adams
street, will sell a few barrels of best
Kentucky crab apple cider, to suit
customers, at forty cents a gallon.
Send demijohn or jug.
A single hens egg is now worth a
whole nickel in this market, il it is
fresh. Egg-nog and floating islands
will be high this Christmas, and many
will drink their tangle-foot without
the egg this year.
Grand Christmas ball and rattle of
fine French clock at Mannerchor hall,
Saturday evening, Dec. %. Admission
SOC, including a chance on the clock.
Ladies free. Ticketsfo sale at the hall
and at B. Hilberth's, 1921 Main St.
The LEDGER carriers will call on
their subscribers on Friday of this
week to collect weekly subscriptions,
as there will be no LEDGER issued on
Christmas day. They hope each sub.
scriber will be ready and prompt to
pay.
The orphans at the asylums are, or
ought to be remembe cd by the phil
anthropiC. They have no enviaple
time, aud it is through no fault off
theirs that they are orphans. A boun-
tiful Christmas dinner should be given
to the orpba7s.
In these Christmas times laborers
are exceedingly scarce, and hard to
obtain at any price. Several of the
small steamers plying on the tributary
rivers at the present time are com.
PEELED to pay $50 and $50 per month
for deck hands and cotton rollers.
In ordinary seasons the pay ranges
from s25 to S35 per month.
Memphis Bethel, corner Adams
street and Charleston avenue.--This
noble institution, which has accom-
plished so much good in our city, will
give the children their annual Christ
mas dinner at noon, Christmas day.
The public are cordially invited, that
they may familiarige themselves with
the merits Of this very prosperous
institution.
James Brown, colored, now at work
on Colonel L. Ensley's plantation,
below this city, and sent to the state
~penitentiary for robbery, in 1874, to
,er's eighteen years, has been par
9Onea BY Governor Marks. The par
arrived this morning, and will be-
= OhriatmaH gift 70 Jim and his worthy