Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-26
PUBLIC LEDGER
emSsi Is Madison Street.
EN- GENTS pc WE E x.
THE CITY
"Wednesday evening. Jan. &c, 1881.
LEDGER LIKES.


Brown & Jones, coal dealers, %
Main street.
Down in Texas they continue t
enjoy a lively norther.
DIR. Henry, the mesmeriSt, is lectur.
ing over at Little Rock.
The Camilla Urso party give a con.
cert at Nash vile tonight.
The receipts of cotton here are fall.
ing off. We are now only 1928 bale;
ahead of last season at this date.
The waters have been swelling the
river here nearly two feet each day,
and it continues to climb toward the
bank tops.
The school visitors at their meeting
last night decided to close the session
of the public schools on the first of
next month.
More snow and colder weather
ahead. The warmingu up this morning
was only meant by the TX Of the
weather to deceive the credulous.
Red car, number Y, has clean straw
laid on its floor for the comfort o! its
passengers, an event as unusual as it
has been lately to see a clear sunrise.
Navigation is resumed to all points
from this port, except St. Louis. Be-
tween that point and Cairo low water
aud ice continues to be an embargo to
river traffic.
1t is a veritsble fact that people
hereabouts witnessed the sun rise and
set unclOuded yesterday, and it came
up this morning only slightly obscured
By broken clouds.
Over three million bushels Of coal
re now under way from the upper
end Of the Ohio river for the markets
south. The quantity to be sent below
Louisville is at present unknown.
lIardi Gras and fun will soon be
here. The party who will enjoy it
most will be the lucky winner of a
prize in the Commonwealth lottery, of.
Louisville. Drawing next Monday.
Get a ticket at the usual place.
Four keystones have been dropped
into place and complete as many mar
bic arches in the doorways Of the
lower story Of the new customhouse.
The facade of the new structure be-
gins to show of in a rather pleasant
way.
The extravaganza troupe now play
ing at the theater, carefully repudiate
all actions or language that might be
distorted into a lack of cbasteness.
They endeavor to perform their parts
gracefully, and use nothing but gen
teel language.
One Of the fantastic features Of this
years Mardi Gras festival is the prob
able coming Of a herald from King
Rex on foot down the middle Of the
Mississippi river, announcing in trum-
pet tones tho approach Of his great
royal master and his retiuue.
Heavy ice.foes, some several acres
in extent and covered with black
mud, fosted by in the river yesterday
afternoon. The ice masses were sur
rounded by drift logs and debris of.
various kinds, and the whole kept in
mid channel as it moved in its passage
toward the gulf
Where the Dewdrops Brightly
Glisten," is the name Of a new song.
the words Of which are by Mrs. A.
Elmore and the music by Joseph p.
SHELLEY. A copy of the same has
been received at this Office, for which
thanks are returned. The publishers
are Spear & Dehnhof, No. III Broad
way, New York city.
The mercury rose five degrees higher
this morning than it was yesterday at
the same time, twenty.eight degrees
being the record Of the signal bulletin
at six o'clock. The range yesterday
was twenty-three to forty degrees.
The breeze is fresh from the south.
west to-day. No rainfall anywhere
south last night, but there will be
rainy areasto-dav