Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-19


LEDGER LINKS
Xmas six days ahead.
No hop at Saxby's this week.
Oysters every style. Crystal Palace.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
Third line of Xmas cards, lovely, at
Williams.
The very shortest days of the year
are upon us.
Clements Arrow Brand oysters are
immense. Trylthem.
Spring like and balmy is this mid
winter season.
Steve Clements receives the famous
Arrow brand oysters every day.
Don't forget the orphans in making
preparations for the festal season.
Ladies, go to Mays and buy your
Christmas presents for gentlemen.
Watts & Williams, wholesale fruit
and produce, 3I2 Front street.
Ask your grocer or butcher for E.
B. Mallory & Co.'s famous Arrow
brand.
For the best assortment of shoes
and slippers for holiday presents go to
Voegeli & Co.
S. Clement, sc Beal street, will have
everything choice in his line for
the holidays.
The mercury recorded so early thi,
morning, and 16' warmer than yester.
day at the same time.
A mission commences to-day at th'
st. Joseph Catholic church in tn,
south part Of the city.
The best Christmas present is al
Alligator cooking stove. A.. KOhlbr.
g. Co., "a Main, are sole AGENTS.
The humorists, headed by Sol Smit
Russell, have gone to jackson, Tenn
) a1d play in that city tonight.
The GeDevieye Ward troupe arrive
in the city last night, and are to pre-
sent Forget Me. Not" at the theatC
tonight.
The Eclectic Literary Club meet
tonight ia one Of the basement room
Of the Cumberland P%resbyteris
church.
Prairie hay, red rust proof oatI
Tennessee lime and cedar posts, in ca
lots, Also 10000 grain sacks, very low
Ike A.. Chase.
1 The people Of New Orleans Ell
ljoyed halt an inch of rain early tn.
I morning, and more rainis threatene
down hal way.
Folks carried trunks on Saturda
last during the Peabody fire who nevC
practiced baggage Juggling before, an
they did it in haste, too.
The Strangers church was filed
=. usual by most intelligent audienc
/, last night, ard the sermon was full
power, thought and ~eloquence.
..1Among the arrivals this mornin
: are noted the presence Of Mr.. Et
James Howell, Of England, and Majc
John D. Adams, Of Little Rock.
Weakness in the value Of provision
4 aud lower prices for wheat 10 north
western markets we're themes Of intel
est in commercial circles this for,
noon.
~ 1t costs about 1925 to send a thea
rical party from here to New 0lleaI
by special train, hence a matin,
ought to be worth something to
troupe destined southwark after
D.. closes.
H. Memphis Lodge, X. Of H., wi
confer third degree tonight. Annu
election of officers. New policies
be issued. Good music. All mer
bers requested to attend.
The news went out Of the city Sa
urday that the Peabody had be-
wholly destroyed, and when peoI
came in last evening to find it
there as good as ever, they we
~agreeably surprised.
Twenty-seven deaths occurred
this city last week. OF these 4 We
at the city ospit al;consumptiOn CARR
off 4; pneumonia, 2; diphtheria, l, a
various disorders the remaindl
Whites, IS; colored, 9.
. As illustrated by the volume
clearings among our banks, busint
last week as compared with the sal
week last year exhibits a decrease
500, l72.67. The indications point
a dullness in general trade after {
holidays.
Vennor says to those who believe
him that this month will close with
cold spell on both sides Of the Alta
"a. tic, and that next month will be e
ceedingly wintry in Western al
X, Southern sections, with a repetition
last years snowfalls and wint
weather.
We have three competing railwi
routes leading eastward at present 4
o. in the market TO carry cotton, and WHIT
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