Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-22
PUBLIC LEDGER
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THE CITY
Tuesday EveninE, DEC. Pc. lssI.
LEDGER LINES.

Kirkland, Peabody Hotel.
From 43lo to 63A0 yesterday.
Obtain costumes at Watkins's.
Xmas candles Lyle & Shields
Cotton is slightly easier to-day.
Oysters every style. Crystal Palace.
Election for city officials two weeks
of.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 22
Main street.
Orders taken for Christmas trees, at
220 Front street.
Genuine majolioa plates, $3.50 per
dozen, at Erich's.
Office of SouppernOng Wine Co.,
No. 4 Madison street,
Don't forget the masquerade ball at
the rink Friday night.
Ladies, go to Mays and buy your
Christmas presents for gentlemen.
Our receipts of cotton are now
II, 1853 bales short of last year at this
time.
The Leila Sect Lodge, T. A. A. NJ,
work in the fellow craft degree this
evening.
S. Clement, So Besl street, will have
everything choice in his line for
the holidays.
For the best assortment Of shoes
and slippers for holiday presents go to
Voegeli & Co.
Fine lot of Christmas trees, at 81.
Moore & Coz corner fernando and
Vance streets.
Chilled toes and benumbed fingers
fell to the lot Of wayfarsrs who strolled
forth early this morning.
Arnold's band and a masquerade
ball at the skating rink. You are in
vited and expected to be there.
Scuppernong wine is all the go. The
company has a large list of holiday
orders for individuals aud parties.
The best Christmas present is an
Alligator cooking stove. A. Kohlbry
& Co., 81 Main, are sole agents.
Prairie hay, red rust proof oats,
Tennessee lime and cedar posts, in car
lots. Also 10000 grain sacks, very low.
Ike A. Chase.
A beautiful Christmas tree, illumi.
mated with briIiaRt jets, is in prepa-
ration at the new Calvary Church for
the little folks.
The Orphans Bazaar, at the Park
Hotel, will close tonight, and Prof.
Barney Hughes is to sell of the stock
to the highest bidder.
Whether it's best to receive on Sat-
urday or Monday, is now one Of the
leading topics in social circles, where
pastimes are chiefly discussed.
A genuine steam laundry, where
work can be done by pure steam in
short order, is in course Of erection in
this city, and its managers expect to
be ready for work in a few weeks
hence.
1t was 20 degrees colder atSt. Louis
this morning than yesterday morning,
and a northwesterly breeze spreads all
over the country whereabouts and be-
yond. The indications point to colder
weather here.
The damp places in the earth sur
face were crusted with ice this morn.
ing-that is, exposed spots were. The
mercury dropped to 320 in the open
air, and l40 below yesterday morning,
record.
Several hundred boxes Of good
things for Christmas have gone from
here by the Southern express to Oai
girls and boys off at school in distant
places and unable to com home dur
ing the holiday season.
I, The monthly bills due to variou
persons by the city are wanted at tn,
Secretary's Office in the COURTEOUS
10 without delay. He wishes to close u
q his books and be prepared to settl
Z. the accounts promptly.
.. The wretched condition Of Bea
street is a theme Of general criticism
% among all who pass over or through
ne that thoroughfare. There is NOR,
business on this street than any in th
At city, except Main ard Front, and les
l. attention paid it by the authorities.
r Egg-nog and egg fxings general
will be cheaper this Christmas thai
g last. About the suburbs dealers ar
trying to get forty cents a dozen fo
(, their eggs, but along Front street thi
forenoon they were plentiful at fror
twenty-five to thirty cents per dozen
with a droopy feeling.
Some cruel minded genius started
rumor a day or two since thata beneY.
client citizen intended to give all o.
the news boys a hot turkey dinner and
9 q new suit Of clothes. The little fol.
Q lows were considerably stirred up
e over the prospect Of SO rich a treat,
! and It's a pity there is nothing in it.