Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-02
friday EVeniug, August ,, 1854,
LEDGER n

Fifty boxes choice soft peaches, at
Clements.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 90
Main street.
Potatoes aud onions, very low. Ike
A. Chase, 220 Front.
Five hundred large, fine melons on
ice, at Clements, So Bealc street.
Dried beef, roll beef aud pickles in
bulk. Lyle & Shields. +,
Sol COleman's No. los are on the
boom, watch the figures 10 to-day re-
port.
The Memphis Reds will play the
New Orleans Remy Clarkes at New
Orleans next Sunday.
Red snappers andwhite fish received
per express by Victor D. Fuchs, 80
and Al Jefferson.
The police did a good business last
month. Hot weather produces fights
the world over.
Merchants, ill your orders for Gin
Betting and Hose at the Memphis
Rubber Store. Towner Il Dixon,
agents, No. II West Court street.
Harry Hill, a drummer, arrested for
doing business without q license, de-
termined to make a test case and was
fined SIS. The test case goes upon its
merits.
Our local gardeners complain aud
say their truck patches are dried up,
and those who sOwed turnips sometime
since report that they have not yet
sprouted.
No ice famine preyailes here. Every
body can get as much as they want,
but it costs. At New Orleans just
now an ice famine prevails and
consumers are cut down to one fourth
Of their usual rations.
The well known Humboldt park at
at the head If Vance street, with four
acres Of ground containing many hand
some shade trees and a good house, is
offered for sale. LII a fine location
for a prime resort or a residence.
Mr.. John Powell is now Deputy
Sheriff in the Criminal Court room,
and occupies the place formerly held
by Mr.. Sam Dryfus. There is a ru-
NOR that the latter gentleman eontem-
plates returning to the city to reside
at an early day.
An old ignorant darky named
Horace Paine has been arrested for
passing three counterfeit silver
quarters which he says he took in at a
colored picnic where he had an eating
stand. He was committed yesterday
by U. S. Court McHenry.
A telegram from Captain 0'Haver,
at LaGrange, Ark, gives the bad news
of the death Of his little son Athy, a
bright little fellow about a year old.
He was the idle of his parents hearts,
and the sympathy Of their friends
goes out to them in this sore bereave-
ment.
A wife-Nhipper was sent TO the
Island for forty days, and will after
ward he compelled to answer before
Judge Horrigan. His name is Clai-
borne Anthsny, and though his sweet
heart is Of the same color as Cleopatra.
be is 20 relation to Marc, the old
Roman.
The "Yernen Waltz" is a new in
strumental selection, piano arrange
meDt, just received by L. Whitman 4
Co, the author being Mr.. w. S. An
dersou, through whose flavor the copy
is forwarded. he has dedicated his
composition to our fellow-eitizen, j. D..
Montedonico, Esq.
A scant supply Of fruit, vegetables
and dairy products appear on all hotel
tables Of Northern cities. So our re-
turning citizens say, and the drought
is credited with being the cause ofthe
trouble. Nobody, tits needless to say,
enjoyed any reduction Of rates, because
the bill offare was scant.
r. j. Black, Clerk and Master Of the
Chanccry Court, will sell tomorrow
at noon 10 front Of the courthouse one
house and lot on Madison street
near Second, two lots on Beal street
near DeSoto, a lot on Chester street,
between Huling and Trezevant, and
alse lots on Paul street.
A. Vsccaro & Co., the well known
wholesale liquor dealers, have re-
moved 10 278 Front street, in the
Frank block. The event was recog
nized by many Of their friends, who
called to offer their good wishes, and
we're in turn invited around a corner
in the sections Of barrels and casks to
take a glass Of wine.
A bale and a hall to the mule, is the
average cotton yield anticipated by
many bill or upland planters Of this
vicinity. The returns will barely pay
for the bread and meat consumed by
the laborer. while his mule feed and
the work has all been lost Yet a few
staple dealers continue to count on a
six million crop.
The only child and the idol OF her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. j. MeLen
don, is dead Of typhoid fever after a
lingering illness. She was a bright
minded, beautiful little girl OF barely
ten years and has been a general favor
tie ia every circle of her acquaintance.
Tho sympathy Of all friends is extend
ed the bereayed and childless mother
and father.
Mrs. Kate Genotti and Miss Ann
AgneW, who we're mentioned ss pugi-
listic females the other day, it is now
stated we're arrested at the instance Of
an iusolent negro, who made himself
troublesome and was ordered out Of
Mrs. Genotti's store. The difficulty
was not between themselves but with
a troublesome customer. They are
spoken Of as very respectable and