Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-20
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able antidotes in demand at present.
Fishermen are getting ready 70
frolic and fun, the season for which i
close ahead.
John Maddox & Sons royal semi
porcelain dinner sets, 1876 pieces 70
SIT so, at Erich's.
The steamer John Overton leave
Memphis for Marion and return at
am. and 2 pm. daily.
Many merchants found it NOR
pleasant to day to work with theil
coats off than to wear them.
Beware of worthless limitations o
Persian insect powder. The true i'm
ported article at Fahlen & Klein
schmidt's.
Mary Anderson is drawing full
houses at Nashville. She does mos
everywhere, in spite Of DR.. Ham anC
the critics.
A few mosquitoes are heard hum.
ming around after nightfall, and lots
Of bugs and winged insects have com
menced to circulate.
The county court persists in declin.
ing to deduct $1,000 from the rental Of
the former ~lessees of the county
wOrkhouse farm on Presidents island.
Poll Tax Collector George B. Fleece
is to be allowed until the first Mon
day in July to collect the poll taxes.
He will have to hustle to get it all in
by that time.
The meat market was wild to-day
out west. A telegram announced a
fall in pork of 81 cents per Dbl.
S nee last night, the quotation being
SIT 30 per hid.
Colonel George Washington Gill,
ex- policeman, garden artist,seWer con-
tractor, Mississippi political orator,
ETC., etc., etc, is now employed as a
roustab5ut on a steamboat.
Mrs. Hauser, a German lady, sixty
one years old, fell dead while at din
ner yesterday, at l49l fernando
street, the home of her daughter.
Heart disease was the assigned cause.
The Silver Moon" Royal" and
"Pillsbury's Best" new process Aours,
sold by by Oliver, Finnie & Co., bake
as light and white as snow. New
process fours are taking the place of
all the old process -four for family use,
The famous towboat John Porter,
over which so much terror arose near
ly four years ago, passed by here this
forenoon and Rugged close along the
opposite shore as if to steer clear of
this end Of the Chickasaw bluff.
Late last night a rain storm was
gathering over in the Indian territory,
and if it moves this way we will catch
a few showers. The weather bureau
reported the barometer lower in the
Indian nation than anywhere in
America.
Clouds and possibly rain showers
are predicted to-day for the lower
Misso1ri valley and west gulf states,
and fair weather is announced for the
Tennessee and Ohio valley. This
makes the weather outlook uncertain
for our section.
A colored child named EGie Read
was discovered in the slough near the
bayou, and not far from Johnson's av-
enue and Jackson street, uptown, yes
terday. 1t had wandered away from
home, and tumbled into the water
when no one was near.
The Mozart society will meet fol-
rehearsal this evening at 1880 sharp
at Casino hall, corner Second and
Union streets. There will be no re-
hearsal tomorrow evening, so as to
allow the members to attend the con.
cert of Miss Jennie Jones.
An area Of low barometer, prevail.
ing hereabouts yesterday and to-day,
had an unpleasant effect on live PEG.
Pies bones, sinuosities, bumps and
bunions. Some proclaimed rain clost
at hand, but it is not always the cast
that rain follows a low barometer.
The county court have elected W
P. 0rne, Louis Erb and Geo. B
Fleece road commissioners for tn,
Fourteenth civil district. Good men
who believein smoothing up and givinl
a solid foundation to the highway
leading from the city, especially tn,
fernando road.
The mercury climbed up o85' yes
terday afternoon, and in the shade a
that. It never dropped below So
and many who are not used to warn
weather, called it scorchiDg. Thi
morning at sunrise the mercury re
corded 65', with a light southerl
breeze, ard prospects of another res
warm day.
The late Charles C. Baugh, who die
in New Orleans q few days ago, wa
not a son Of OK Mayor Richard Baugl
as some have it, but was a nephew an