Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-30

premises in a proper sanitary condi
ton.
Indications for the Ohio Valley ant
Tennessee, fair weather, winds mostly
southerly, stationary temperature anC
pressure.
An old chronic female vagrant sail.
ing under the name of Margaret Dona'
hue, sailed down to the Island fol
forty days.
eastman alias Whitley" is the only
criminal Of note in the countyjail nov
that Sanders has been removed to (
more coDgenial sphere.
Merchants, fill your orders for Cir
Betting and Hose at the Memphis
Rubber Store, TOwner X Dixon
agents, No. IL West Court street.
Sheriff Skil!man says Mcdonald, the
horse thief, was at the Covingtor
banging, riding around enjoying the
fun, and trying to trade the stoler
horse.
Mr.. +. j. Jones, a butcher at the
intersection of Poplar and Alabama
streets, was assaulted late Saturday
night on Poplar street but succeeded
in making his escape.
The sale of tickets in the Common
wealth Lottery closes to-day, as the
drawing takes place tomorrow. Get
a ticket at the usual place and a prize
may be the lucky result.
A colored barber and a day laborer
who got into a scrimmage yesterday
about the price of putty or some other
momentous question, plsnked down
three dollars each this morning.
Military fervor, or fever, still heats
many a young and chivalric heart.
That they always NEAR business is an
apparent fact from their custom Of
always appointing acompetent surgeon.
After tomorrow the rules of the
Cotton Exchange are to be strictly
enforced regarding the employees of
members, and the latter desiring ad-
mittance will be required to secure
cards from the secretary.
An item in a morning paper is to
the effect that its failure to appear on
Monday mornings is a bonanza to this
journal. The Twilight Twinkler,"
as it is termed, can twinkle the
twink out of the morning number
any day in the week.
At an election held at. the First
Baptist church, colored, Sunday, for
officers, it was necessary to have a
squad of policemen on hand to prevent
bloOdshed. 1t was at the request of
the pastor, who anticipated trouble.
The affair, however, passed off very
quietly.
A cotton rope about four feet long,
to one end of which was tied G. N.
Mcdonald, the other end held by
Deputy Sheriff Skellmau, of Corinth.
Mississippi, walked into the station.
house yesterday and departed for Cor
inth last night. Mcdonald is an
alleged horse thief.
Many prominent citizens who are
also lovers of horse flesh were
to be seer on the boulevard Sunday.
Many a poor clerk deprived his wash
erwoman to afford his best girl a
chance to display her charms and fine
slothes-all in spite Of the dust.
The future of Memphis as a great
cotton manufacturing center is gener-
ally discussed. Other manufactures
are spoken Of which, if inaugurated
would make a visit further north un-
necessary. The idea is to supply Gus
toners not only with cotton goods but
with any other manufactured product,
This mornings Signal Service re-
port says, the hurricane which Satur-
day morning entered the South Allan
tic States near Savannah, has moved
with constantly diminishing energy
to the northwest and is now central in
Kansas and Nebraska. Rains has ac-
cOmpanied its track. Elsewhere fair
weather has prevailed.
Constable Dock Jones arrested John
AlexandeF yesterday for completely in
the robbery Of Mrs. Mary j. Carroll,
who lives four miles out on the Pigeon
Roost road. The warrant charges
that Nancy Alexander and two Others
broke into her house, and while
robbing her Of a lot of clothing,
cursed, abused and threatened to kill
her.