Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-21


signed yesterday to E. B. McHenry.
Liabilities about $4,000, only $500 Of
which is due here.
The sanitary condition Of the Pop
lar street market house. is reported
bad. Awful smells rise thereabouts,
and a thousand bottles Of cologne
wouldn't improve the situation.
Captain Clary, of the DeSotO engine
house, was suspended from duty yes
terday by Chief McFadden, the latter
not finding him at the end of a. tele-
phone when he wanted him there.
The city engineer, attorney and
board Of public works were down on
Linden street this forenoon examining
the gravel laid on the newly-paved
work there, to see if it was as it ought
to be.
A cotton stalk about four feet long
and loaded heavily with squares has
been received from Mr.. L. G. Hughes,
on Cow bayou, st. Francis river. A
bale Of new cotton from the patch
will be a good thing to have.
687,400 of Sol Coleman's No. 10
cigars have been sold up to date. The
figures are climbing towards the de-
sired million. The above is the heav-
lest sale of any one brand of cigars
that has ever been made in this mar
ket.
A heavy fall of rain was expert.
enced along the Missouri river last
night, the measurement at Omaha be-
ing 1.56 inches. A distribution of the
same kind over this immediate vicin-
ity would be doubly welcome at the
present time.
The people of Kerrville, up the
Paducah railway, are happy wei their
first cotton bloom, a beautiful cream-
colored, healthy looking affair found
in George Hays cotton patch yester-
day morning. The patch and Hays
are doing as we'll as could be expected.
At sunrise this morning the mer-
curry in the shade recorded s. degrees,
and Z warmer than yesterday at the
same time. Its highest yesterday was
95 2-l00, and lowest SO. Last night it
was very close and oppressive, the
mercury at 8 o'clock being 81 and no
wind from any quarter.
The friends of Mrs. S. B. Suratt Of
this city, WILDE panied to hear that
while taking a buggy drive with her
son Flournoy, heal COrinth, Miss, on
Saturday the 18th inst, the horse took
fright and ran away, dashing the bug.
BY to pieces, and injuring her very
seriously, though not fatally.
To see the lightning fash all around
us, while inky clouds move sluggishly
along the distant horizon, and then
read of heavy thunder and rain storms
through Ohio, Kentucky and other
northern regions, is slightly pleasant,
but if we could only enjoy a little of
the same it would be more refreshing.
Back taxes on city property for '78
and prior thereto are now being paid
to Collector Meriwether in scrips and
and other items cheaper than cash.
After the end Of the present month
bills will be fled against delinquents,
and then nothing but the clean cash
with a big lot'Of penalties will square
an account.
Twelve cents on the one hundred
dollars is the tax on property in this
city for lighting the street lamps when
the moon don't shine at night, and the
authorities have contracted with the
gas company to do the illumination
part for ten-twelfths Of the amount.
The rest Of it will doubtless be ex-
pended in making collections.
Fair weather in the west gulf states,
local rains in the Tennessee, Ohio and
the lower Missouri valleys, with
cooler breezes from the northeast, is
the signal service weather predictions
fer to-day. From this programme it
is doubtful about our experiencing re.
lief from the intense heat or dryness
in this vicinity to-day or even to NOR
row.
At a meeting Of Memphis lodge No.
l96, Knights of Honor, held last night,
the following officers were elected for
the next term J. II. Thompson, die
tator Marcellas Logan, vice-dictator;
A. E.. Kennedy, past dictator; Nicho-
las Williams, reporter; Robt. Lock
wood, financial reporter; Jas. S. vii.
kinS, treasurer; j. NJ. Jones, guide;
W. j. Brecknell, chaplain. Jas. Clary,
guardian; W. s. Rogers, sentinel;
Alex. ErSkine, medical examiner. NJ.
B. Trezeyant becomes past dictator.
Buy Gas Fixtures Of Browne.