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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
wednesday Evening. August 10. 1881.
LEDGER LINES.

Fair weather all around US Ia. day.
j. w. Alley, ash wood, foot Beal st.
Brown 4 Jones, coal dealers, 90
Main street.
Not a shower in sight anywhere
within hundreds of miles.
Best home made brick mOlds at A.
Kohlbry & Co., "a Main street.
From Is to SO yesterday with clear
skies and a sultry atmosphere morning,
noon and night.
Haberling's Rubber Stamps are the
cheapest and best. Call before order.
ing elsewhere. 281 Second street.
Several invalids absent at watering
places desire to keep shady and dom
want their names in the public prints
Various persons with back salary
and other unpaid claims kept Acting
Secretary Bowen in rush yesterday
and to-day.
There will be fine, old fashioned
barbecue at Lucy Depot on the Pa
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

The Old Raleigh road, one Of the
most important highways Leading to
the city, has bad bridge about
two and half miles from the edge Of
the city. 1t has been in bad repair
for ten days or more, so bad, indeed,
that passing vehicles were in danger
of being wrecked in crossing. The
county Magistrates. when they went
to select the poorhouse site, indulge
in a good dinner and plenty Of effer-
vescing ice water. few days since,
passed over the spot and saw its con-
ditiOn. If they didn't their eyes were
In an eclipse. A day or two
since an old darky patched up the
rickety affair with few timbers found
lying about loose, and now he sits
astride of a pole and asks wayfarers
for five cents as toll. Some pay and
others do not. AS voting residents Of
the county pay Sc per head per annum
or work the road six days, and many
have paid the Sc, it looks slightly
queer that the collectors may be seen
sitting and hanging about street cor
ners sleek and fat, and SEEM
ingly pay no attention to the condition
Of the roadways. The derelict off.
Gals seem to invite criticism and they
are likely to get it freely even before
the bad weather of winter sets in.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
PERSONAL.

Buy your shirts at Mays. 1861
Mrs. Chris. Lutz and son left o.day
for Dewitt, Ark.
Nashville Banner, 9: Miss Ellen
Beatty Murray, of Memphis, is in the
city, guest Of Miss Norvell, Of Cow
dey street. 1t is this Miss Murray
who painted the very satisfactory por-
trait of her uncle, Butler P. Ander-
son, which is now the property of the
Tennessee Historical Society.
Col. NJ. G. Galloway, senior editor
ofthe Appeal, after fighting it out on
this line all summer, will leave TO-
night to join Mrs. Galloway at Bailey
Springs. This is their favorite sum-
mer resort, and near their starting
point in life. Many friends wish the
worthy and devoted couple a pleasant
sojourn, safe and happy return.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Buy Sewer Connections Of Browne
Freezing Himself out.

With the mercury up among the
9Os, man was actually frozen to death
last Saturday in New York City. A
letter to the Philadelphia Ledger
says: "a poor fellew named Louis
0ttersen, was actually frozen to death
this morning at 3ls Fourth avenue.
He was proprietor OFFS saloon known
as The College Hotel, and after clos.
Jog up his place little after midnigh.,
it seems he entered an immense ice
box in the cellar, probably TO cool off,
but falling asleep he was frozen to
death, and at daylight he was taken
out as cold as ansiciOle. At the time
he entered the box it is known he was
little the worse for beer, and that
fact may have accelerated his sad fate.
He had been complaining Of the heat
for the past few days. He waa forty
years old. and during the rebellion
held tho rank Of adjutant in the Sixty
sixth regiment. lie was ALSO mem
Der of the Grand Army Of the Repuh-
lie, and Secretary of one of the Ger
man vocal societies,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

LIVERPOOL, August 10, 30 pm
Cotton dull and 1-16d lower. Uplands,
6sd; Orleans 6 l3-16d. Sales to-day,
5000 bales; receipts, 1850 bales;
American, ZOO. Futures are dull and
fraction lower,
New York, August 10, 1920 pm
Cotton dull and nominal Ordi-
nary, 8 7-18c; good ordinary, loo; low
middling, II a-16e; middline, l2c; good
middling, l2Ac; middling fair, l3lei
fair, 141. Futures opened quiet and
are now dull at slight variation from
last evenings closing prices.
NEW ORLEANS, August 10, lli3e
a.m.-Cotton dull. Middling, lite
Sales to-day, 100 bales. Receipts, q
bales. Stock, 67,743 bales,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

ducah railroad to-day. Captain Doug
lass seems to be one of the chief
managers.
Occasional rains fell in North Texas
yesterday and light showers along the
Texas gulf coast. 1t was as dry as a
powder horn almost las. night and
promises to run through to-day in
the same way,
We, is an amateur writer's pet weak
ness when he prepares a news or a pay
item for the daily prints. In a sixty
word piece sent in yesterday eight ives
were punched, yet two or three slipped
in by accident. 1t isn't good word,
except in spots.
At sunrise this morning the mercu.
ry recorded "a degrees here in the
shade, slightly warmer than yesterday,
and as a general rise in the tempera-
tare is reported from the gulf to the
lakes our prospects ARE slim to enjoy
a Whit Of GOODNESS for a period.
A prominent attorney Of this city
has about perfected an invention
which bids fair to reyolutionize the
present system of covering cotton with
bagging. The proposed substitute is
impervious to mud, dirt or water.
There is more in this than in Mulberry
Sellers turnip dinner or in Cowdon's
outlet system.
Mr.. |. N. Snowden of the firm Of
Friedman Bros, has submitted plans
to builders for the construction of a
very elegant two-story frame residence
on his beautiful lot at the corner of
Vance and DeSoto streets. The work
will commence as soon as a bid is ac-
cepted. When completed it will be
one of the handsomest residences in
South Memphis and will face on both
streets.
One day last week the weather re-
ports from Washington indicated a
COOLER breeze approaching from the
northwest, and each day since the
prospects favored that kind of a
change, but instead of it increased sui
tryness prevails. Perhaps "Old Prob"
will be as unreliable as Vennor after
a while, unless he keeps a sharper
eye along the line.
Neat car drivers should dust off the
seats of their cars in the mornings.
A lady in "a on its first trip this morn
ing carried the dust prints of two
dirty feet out on the rear Of light
summer Overdress as she left her seat
near Main street. Some one had
slept on the seats last night and lett
his mark. A feather duster hung in
the car, but it didn't look like it had
been used in month.
The vanity Of worldly men is as
as the universe. Weak
human nature can stand laudatory
without finching. Only ex-
cessively modest or real sensible ones
demonstrate if it is spread on too
thick. Let sighting word, however,
even in jest, be vented, and the popu-
lar points strike hard upon the SEN
sitive nature of those to whom they
apply. This logic is perhaps not equal
to that of the Jack Bunsby order, but
many can see the application of it at
a glance. There is a fine field for
such application in this vicinity.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

Rumored Purchase Of tue Etna
Mines--A Breach Of Promise
Case. ll
Special to the American

Special TO the Americana
CHATTANOOGA, August Silt is
rumored on the streets tonight that
DR.. William Morrow, of Nashville,
and T. M. Mcconnell, Clerk and Mas
ter of this county, have purchased a
three. fourths interest in the Etna
mines, situated fourteen miles below
this city. These mines were the
property Of Hazelton & Harrison, who
wentinto bankruptcy hereabouta year
ago, owning at the time the Vulcan
Iron and Nail Works at Chattanooga,
their liabilities being sveral hundred
thousand dollars. The rumor is that
Morrow & Mcconnell have purchased
all the claims against the mines, and
have obtained a clear title. The mines
embrace 1000 acres Of the finest coal
lands in this section Of the country,
and are valued at 5000, 000 The prop
erty will cost the new purchasers not
over S50,0OO The output ofthe mines,
which is now ten car loads Of coal per
day, besides two car loads of fancy
coke, will be doubled at once.
Mrs. Mollie Massey, a widow, to
day sued Major Frank Gossett, wild
over of about three months, for breach
Of promise to marry and seduction.
Mrs. Massey made Gossett's acquaint-
ance about month after his wife
died. He appeared to have fallen
passionately in love with her, and be.
gun paying her devoted attention.
Their acquaintance soon grew
from friendship to mutual love.
He finally, it is alleged, asked
her hand in marriage, aud with that
in view, criminal intimacy sprang
up, which was continued for several
weeks. Last week Gossett unexpect.
edly married another woman. When
Mira. Massey was informed Of this she
grew into frenzy of excitement, and
ii she had not been restrained would
have done Gossett bride bodily harm.
She entered suit for damage, which
she gained. Gossett appealed to q
higher court. All the parties are
white,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
KILLED BY LIGHTNING IN
TEXAS.
Heartrending AfIictiOn to Ten.
nessee Family.

Troy (Tenn.) Nows-Banner
BY a letter from r. A. Hutchison.
of Montague county, Texas, 70 his
brothers in this county, we learn of q
very heartrending occurrence which
befel his family on the 9th Of July,
when out travelling in a two horse
wagon, returning with some lady
visitors to their homes who had been
spending some time with his family.
The morning Of this sad day was clear
and beautiful, but late in the afternoon
a cloud arose accompanied by much
thunder and lightning, which struck
with death dealing bolt the travel
ing party OF friends, killing outright
the two young ladies, Miss Henrietta
Lizzie Hutchinson and Miss Kitsie Cox,
a schooimate Of the former, besides
rendering insensible all of the
others in the wagon. The team first
received the electric stroke which was
more than likely transmitted to the
wagon, the left hand horse of the team
being killed first. What heart rend-
ing dispensation OF an Advise provi-
dence bringing grief and sorrow in the
twinkling Of an eye with families that
we're all JOY aud happiness Just a few
moments before. The two lovely and
joyous maidens had just finished sing
ing the song "Hear Him Calling"
when the storm overlook the party,
producing such sorrOwful scene Of
sudden death in the midst of life,
proving that these girls must have had
a premonition Of the end that was SO
hear. The immediate family have in
this awful dispensation q source of
solace in the implicit faith that the
Judge of all the earth will do right,
although His ways are mysterious and
His providences inscrutsble to mortal
ken.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
stocks I'm New York.

The speculative stocks dropped in
New York this forenoon, Memphis &
Charleston railway, Lake Shore, Wa
bash & Pacific, and Michigan Central
being the most prominent. The range
of decline was from to !. The II
am. telegram reported the opening
strong and generally higher, afterward
advancing to &c throughout the list,
Subsequently, however, the feeling
changed, and the three species named
led the downward movement.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
More Wolf water.

When the Water Company get their
apparatus in good shape they expect
to increase the daily allowance to
about 100000 gallons, which is
100000 more than at present. In
an emergency they might push it up
to 100000 gallons per day. This
amount of Wolf river water ought to
satisfy the most thirsty citizen, even
if he has done without for six months
past.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Mere First Cotton.

The FIRST bale at Nashville sold yes
rterday at fifty cents per pound. 1t
was grown by j. f. jenkins, near
Murfreesboro, and classed strictly low
middling. These early bales, from
ten days to two weeks ahead Of former
seasons, are indicative of a forced
ripening, and is regarded as an unfav-
orable sign.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

Detreit Free Press, Boys Of New
York and New York Boys, New York
Ledger, Weekly, Saturday Night and
Fireside Companion. We have on
hand 1000 Lakeside Libraries, which
we sell at One-third the regular price,
Dickins' Curiosity Shop, 2s5 Second
street, opposite pOstoaice,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Green Eyes.

Jealousy of the greenest kind has
been brewing ever since the Maca-
romans went out on a lark to Post No,
8 the other day. The fact that foot
racing, palatable viands and iced
drinks rounded up the rotund figures
Of three dozen Mscks has since been
source of great envy, each time
fat looking Mack has shown him
self. Unable to stand it longer, the
Oorkonians have held council and are
bent on rivaling the Macks. They
are to have feast this evening, and
to it.their friends have been iAvited.
When they have filed up, the way
they behaved is to be retailed for the
benefit Of the world at large. The
gourmands expect to have a fat and
sultry time of it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Died Of. Morphine.

An efficient attache of the Ex-
press Office, in the person of Jesse T.
Maynard, died last night at 1O8 Ala
bama street, from the effects of NOR
phine. He leaves a sOrrowing wife
and four children. The deceased was
a slave to strong drink, and was una
BILE to resist his appetite, or he would
have long since been advanced to a
high position in the company for
which he labored
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Weather Ahead.

The noon telegram from Washing
ington predicts westerly winds, veer-
ing to northerly, and cooler tompera'
ture for the Tennessee and Ohio val
ley, and local rains in the lower Mis-.
souri, valley. When it cools off Of
rains in this vicinity people may fee
more grateful to the weather watch.
ing force, but the present insufferablt
temperature is narrowing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

In clear cut beauty the ENGLISH
women, from fifteen to twentvefve
are greatly the inferior Of ours. Their
profile, our outline, is generally baiI
Their chins droop. They are ianr0;5
as the breath from an odalisoue's Am
Here, in spirited comeliness, our. Girls
beat them out ofsight. The TensIisb
girls-l mean the best ten ant of a
thousand, for no class can ford N he
judged by bis poorest spe Aimabs@s pe
roster than ours, better formed than
ours, stronger and heal sbier than onrs.
while of the same ten under consider,
alton, ours are mcT witty mora n;
quaint, more dasAi No on;fe az sSs1s
far more inteP gent better dresssrs
and possessed OF more Of the onalit;ss
that VIVA Tlan.-r Inter. Ocean Letter
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
RrOnzes for Mr.. Vanderblit's
House.

Philadelphia Times.
All the bronze work for William H.
Vanderbilt's new house in New York
is being made in this city, one firm
having the contract and letting out
the work to different manufacturers,
This only embraces the stationary
ornaments and fixtures Of the build
ing, and does not include the artistic
hfonses that will be introduced for
sdornment after the house is finished,
An establishment on Race street has
completed some elaborate and beauti-
fully finished bronze lamps and also
some balcony ratings, part cast aud
part rolled, so as to resemble different
metals. At present the ratings are
gold color, but they will oxydize a
deep rich tint by exposure. There is
a central rosette, with wreath Of
smaller rosettes surrounding it, and
winding through the design thus
| formed y q delicate scroll tracery,
With brilliantly FURNISHED balls inter
sected at the points where the rosettes
and traoery meet This gives an ar
ranRete snt and contrast and relief Of
lines that is unique and striking, while
yet graceful and in good taste. The
work is all of the most expensive
character.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

Our market to-day is dull and with
out features worthy of note. Sales yes
terday were so bales, all to spinners,
closing quiet. Low ordinary, 61c;
ordinary, 7lci good ordinary, SC; low
middling, 1OIc; middling, l21c; good
middling, lie.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

The Lumpkin (da.) Independent
says a negro woman DIED suddenly 10
chat county the other day, and a Tor
oner's inquest found her death 70 have
occurred from an Overdose OF bacon
and green's
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Leo LiRhf.

Mary Hays, who lives out beyond
the cemetery and treated an orphan
shamefully, was fined IS to-day, and
the child has been transferred to M,
Lyons, who promises to rear it in a
humane manner. Mary Hays whipped
the life half out Of the poor little fell
low, and had habit of leaving it lay
ing round in the grass with the cats
and dogs eight or ten hours at time,
while she visited around. Mary got
off easy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
IMMENSE REDUCTIONI

All Fancy Goods regardless of
cost, 60 make room for new
stock.
GERBER d. METTE'S,
l14t 267 sHaIn Street.
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OLIVER, FINNIE & co.


SILVER MOON FLOUR
New Process, in use only short
time, a great improvement on the
old process. Our sales are now
very large. Won't you try iii
Silver Moon EASTPOWDEhsS-
Manufactured in our own store
and absolutely pure.
BUTTER
Best Creamery Butter received
daily by express.
COTTON NEED OIL
By the barrel or gallon.
LARD
Fairbanks bucket lard; always
the best.
WE ROAST
The very finest grades Mocha,
Java, Maracaibo and Rio Coffee
fresh every day.
CHOCOLATE
Cocoa, Cocoa Shells, Epp's Cocoa,
Oatmeal, CrackedWheat, Graham
Flour, Grits, etc.
OLIVER, FINNIE & co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

Raleigh News and Observei.l
A good story is told Of farmer
down in johnson county. He was
With his wife travelling in a buggy to
GoldsborO last week, when he was
startled to see by the roadside some
tents pitched and some men in and
around them. He pulled up his horse
and eagerly inquired what was the
matter. He was answered by a wag
that there was another war and the
whole country was in an uprising.
Frightened out of his wits, the coun-
tryman turned to his wife and saids
There, by goshl | told you SO. When
| seed that star and tail to 1t In the
element | was afeard Of just such q
thing as war. | knOwed it was com
ing. Mary, let's git back home" Ard
they got" 1t turned out that the
people in the tents were a surveying
party Of the North Carolina Midland
road.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

judge Gillian, of OgletAorpe
county, Georgia, often has applications
from men to buy marriage licenses on
time. He take lien on the bride and
then issues them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Chattanooga as a Cotton Market

Chattanooga Times, 9th J
VIM. Falls, one Of the most extern
sive cotton buyers in Memphis, and
part owner Of the Chattanooga cotton
compress, was in the city last, week,
with his wife. In conversation with a
Times reporter, Mr.. Falls, who is an
experienced cotton man OF great repu-
tation, expressed his great surprise
that Chattanooga was not being made
cotton market, and added that no
city in the entire South offered finer
opening to an energetic man with cap.
ital than Chattanooga for such bust
ness. He thinks we possess every con-
ceivable advantage, with no drawbacks,
to make this great market for the
Southern staple, and predicts that at
no distant day it will become such.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10
Eseape Of Desperale COnvIols.

Escape of Desperate COnvIcts.
New Orleans Special, sth.l
A report from convict camp, above
Washington, La, states that the con-
victs, headed by Johnson, q shipburner,
and Burgess, New Orleans desper-
ado, who was sentenced for lifetime
in the penitentiary for rape on a girl,
overpowered the guards while two Of
them were asleep, and taking posses
sion Of their guns killed the sleeping
men before they we're aware of their
danger; then rushing forward they
took possession Of the officers quar-
tiers, and before resistance could be
offered bad killed Capt. Hayden, who
was in command of the camp, couple
Of officers, and then bounced the re-
naming guards. C
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

LEDGER job printing office, 10 Mad
son street,
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Buy Gas Fixtures Of Browne.

Homemade Butter, Schmier
and Hand KRse, at FRITZ a.
GEORGE, No. Is COurtsIreet.
1000
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

Governor Wade Hampton. who is
spending the summer at Dagger's
Springs, Virginia, has been very sue
cess'ul at fishing this season. He has
already caught several hundred fsA.
There we're $50 copies of the North
American Review containing the dis
cussion between Bob Ingersoll and
Judge Jere S. Black, on the Chris
tan religion, sold in Atlanta.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

The best and coolest Beer and
best Of Liquors and Cigars, at
FRITZ e. GEORGES. 1897
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

AEHiER Bindery, ID Madison.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-10

DRICK- Bats suitable for filing, cheap.
ID Apply at Southern Oil Works grounds
1891 j. M. SMITH.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1881-12-20
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