Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-05
LEDGER LINES.


Juicy lemons. Lyle & Shields.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Potatoes and onions, very low. Ike
A. Chase, 220 Front.
Dried beef, roll beef and pickles in
bulk, Lyle & Shields.
A first. class grocery clerk wants a
situation. See wants.
The United Irishmen of this dis
trict will meet tonight at 23O Second
street.
II. Brooks q Co., 81 Beal street,
have just received a supply Of wheat
bran.
Merchants, fill your orders for Gin
Betting and Hose at the Memphis
Rubber Store. Towner d Dixon,
agents, No. II West Court street.
Our City Boiler Inspector is Mr..
w. II. Goddard, and he will see that
boilers about town are kept in good
order.
The cotton seed hulling invention Of
Mr.. Lanier, it is expected, will save
from five to eight dollars per ton to
the cotton grower.
The oppressive temperature is a
subject of comment in all circles. Ao.
cording to the calendar summer quit
last Thursday. but its warmth fingers
with US yet.
To get through the ensuing winter
Season, people are fixing to shorten
their respective bills Of fare. The
price of bread and meat promises to be
so steep that many will not be able to
supply themselves with ~luxurieS.
The genuine Solar lip misses and
children's and youths school shoes
have a label on the sole marked Solar
Tip" warranted by Zellner & Co ,
who are sole agents for Memphis and
vicinity. All others are base imita-
tons.
Planters, merchants and residents
generally are busy in the eastern por.
ton of the county getting up petitions
10 the Governor, asking him to call the
Legislature together to pass a law for
the postponement of the collection Of
taxes. The short crops is the cause
Of the trouble.
A new freight depot is in course of
construction by the Louisville and
railway at their terminus in
city. 1t will be large and airy,
built of wood and ready for business
bad weather. The front will
be close up to Main street and the rear
back to Second.
Victory again perches upon their
banners. The Eclipse base ball club
Of Fort Pickering defeated the Light
ming Stars of Scotland yesterday at
Olympic Park by a score of II to s.
is the same nine that defeated
the Eckfords Sunday before last. A
challenge to the Reds is next in or
Ter.
In commercial circles the probable
result of the cotton crop is the chief
.opic of interest. Some we'll known
,ottonfactors estimate the yield at
1905, 900 bales. Others figure at Eve
md a half and five and three-quarters.
Still others, not cotton men, however,
believe there will be over 1000,
100 Of bales.
A public well with a pump and the
whole neatly covered is one OF the
blessings Of Bartlett. 1t is heavily
oatronized. The city OF Louisville is
lumerously provided with wells and
Jumps along all the leading streets,
md many have been in use for more
han forty years. The water is SPLEEN
lid. This city could use a dozen or
TWO with advantage.
At a meeting of the city fathers
asst Saturday they rejected three petit
.ions-one made by the L. & N. rail
way for the base Of a piece Of ground
upon which the Southern Oil Works
once stood; one made by Mr.. Alley
for the use Of a plat Of ground at the
and the other made by Messrs.
Speed & Graves to lay down a track
near their mill on Promenade street,
so they might run ears to the front
door TO unload corn.