Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-19
LEDGER LINES.


Roasted coffee, Lyle & Shields.
Brown Il Jones, coal, Office 28Z
Main street.
A full line of finest teas, very cheap,
at Lytle & Shields.
1t will be half past two in the morn
ing when the moon sets.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printingofice
and book bindery, ID Madison.
Business men will find it 10 their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
Vagrant dogs roam abroad freely in
these hot July dog days. They
should be thinned out, by a large ma
jority.
Clouds hung low over head all the
morning, and at noon the welcome
rain began to patter in its descent to
earth.
We are indebted to Mrs. N. w.
Chafin, Of White station, for a basket
Of the choicest peaches and pears that
we have seen this year.
The signal service bulletins this
morning gave rs as the temperature at
sunrise, and fresh southerly winds
blowing six miles an hour.
Attorney General Turner has been
off to a greenback gathering at
Brownsville, and he made a speech
there Saturday evening last.
The river has fallen nearly four feet
here within the past week when the
decline set in, and it is IS inches
lower than it was As hours ago.
A temperature ranging from 20 to
50 degrees is splendid for sound sleep
ing, and that is the range of it here
abouts just now, after nightfall.
This is the time when the prudent
and the industrious housewife puts
peaches and other good things in air
tight cans for her table supply during
the winter season.
j. NJ. Marauchuck and Miss Jennie
Callahan, also Crisk Knoll and Mrs.
H. Buhr; also i. W. Laham and Miss
Florence Prescott were licensed to
get married to-day.
The Hon. Geo. B. Peters will ad-
dress the Second ward club at the
court house tonight, in place of Col.
W. L. Duff, who will be absent on
business at Collierville.
A Hancock club for the Second
ward, is to be organized at the court
house tonight; also one in the Fifth
ward, to be formed at the corner Of
Beal and fernando streets.
There will be a grand rally at Col
lierville next Saturday of the democ-
racy of that part of the country.
Speakers have been invited from the
city, and a big crowd is expected.
This Office has been favored with a
copy of the new and beautiful song,
Il forgive but can never forget"
Words and music by w. G. Wood
ward. Published by Il. Whitman &
Co.
THE study of languages, brought
back to its true principle" by C..
Marcel; "Knt. Leg. Honor" and "Hy-
patia; or, new faces with an old face"
by Charles Kingsley, f. A. s., F. l..
s., can be had at fifteen cents each at
Mansford's, 298 Main street.
Our back streets need rounding up
and working very badly. They seem
to be in worse condition than for
years past, and bridges, cutters, ETC.,
are also dilapidatod and shaky, in fact
dangerous in many places. 1t may be
all right to build new streets, but it is
certainly all wrong to utterly neglect
old ones.
The south Memphis colOred folks
have a military company termed the
Hannibal Guard, Captain Pettibone
commanding. They drilled consider
ably last year, but have never been
provided with arms until within a
few days past. A number of the
Guards and other colored companies
go on an excursion to Helena next
Friday to participate in the Masonic
ceremonies incident to laying a corner
stone for a normal and theological in
stitute.