Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-21
PUBLIC LEDGER,
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THE CITY
Thursday Evening, July Fl, 1881.
LEDGER LINES.

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Jeans Senator'S.
Francisco's new style Nobbys.
LEDGER Bindery, IL Madison.
Golden hams. Lyle & Shields.
Erancisco's Feather Weight Hats.
LEDGER job printing office, ID Mad
son street.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Best quality fresh roasted coffee at
Lyle & Shields.
A general rain all around the circle
would do million dollars worth Of
good to the crops.
The river is rising slowly opposite
this city, and is three fathoms deep
from Cairo to the Gulf on the shoalest
places.
From Y to 96l degrees in the shade
yesterday the breeze coming from the
southeast, the west and other d.
rectiOns.
People carrying baskets and pack
ages on our street cars are required to
keep them in their laps or pay an
extra fare.
Several car drivers on the Vance
street line now sing out the name of
the cross streets as they pass. Sounds
metropolitan.
Over three and half inches of rain
fell last night at Lacrosse on the up
per Mississippi. Oh! for such wa
terry descent hereabouts.
Messrs B. Lowenstein & Bros. this
morning bought the four-story brick
building on Jefferson street immedi-
ately in rear of their Main street
stores.
A shipment of choice fresh fish,
including Mackinaw trout, white fish
and red snappers, will be received to-
night by Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and Al
Jefferson.
Up at Pittsburg nice little shower
fell last night while at Cincinnati the
rain fall was three-fourths of an inch.
Fort Scott, in Kansas, also enjoyed
taste of the moisture.
Prospects indicate that corn will be
needed among the cotton plantations
during the next season in large guam
titles. The present extensive drought
has cut the crop down to slim pick
ings.
Several of our leading houses are
already filing heavy orders for fall
goods, and many orders are coming
in, with instructions to be in readiness
to fill them by the end Of this month
or before the middle of next.
Cotton planters whose lands in the
river valley were overAowed during
the high water of last spring have
poor chance for a yield Of cotton,
their lands having baked and clodded
so that their cotton stalks are stunted
and slim.
A lot of hen eggs half cooked by
the heat during the passage arrived
several days ago from Nashville, and
the cohsignSe had to sell them as low
as FIVE cents a dozen. Hucksters in
the suburbs like this sort to sell to
transient customers.
The first shipment Of beef tender
lOins of the season will be received
to morrow by H. Seessel, ST., & Son.
This firm will continue to receive
them fresh daily. The tenderloins
make a fine dish that is very enjoyable
during the heated term.
Those who permit cattle to prowl
upon the highways are liable to arrest,
and properly. Two we're captured
yesterday. If a COW is worth owning
it should be cared for and kept up or
herded. No business roaming about
and foraging Oh the public.
The Water Company are still con-
sidering whether or not they will
, accept the resignation Of their presi-
, dent, Judge Latham. Meantime the
public take very kindly to water for
/ they can't get half as much as they
like even Of the Wolf river solution.
The arrangements for the grand
picnic and free barbecue, at Fitzdb-
bon Grove, Sunday, July "A, are now
about complete. Tho affair promises
to be the most attractive of the season.
Tickets are selling rapidly, and all
: should secure their ticket at once, as
!. the number is limited to 1000.