Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-09

Taxpayers yet have chance to have
their property assessed without penal
ty, but the days to do it IRE drawing to
a close.
The apple crop of this vicinity is
about ready for gathering. A few
wagon loads we're shipped north from
here yesterday and to day.
Persian insect powder is not poison
GUS, vet sure death to all insects. I'm
ported direct by Fahlen & Klein
schmidt, Second and Beal.
A nice rain fell at Nashville last
night, and in the vicinity of Cold
water, to the south of this, fine
showers fell night before last.
Wagoners from the interior are
bringing in plenty of new potatoes,
and half a dozen Front row merchants
are busy packing and shipping them.
Wheat is ready for the harvest in
West Tennessee, and the yield prom
Uses we'll. Not much Of the crop will
be ground here, but some will be con-
sumed after it is ground.
The Plummer case is reset for to-
morrow. The ownership of the pistol
has been fully settled by various par
ties making affidavit hat it was the
property Of Ed McKissock.
The alluvial bank above the mouth
of Wolf river is rapidly erumbling of,
and floating away. Cabins erected for
the use of the government hands will
o o be toppled over unless removed.
A quantity Of marriage banks in
accordance with the new law have
been received, and will be handed out
to magistrates. The record of each
marriage will occupy a page of a good
sized book.
A young man named Carr, while
riding a wild horse this morning, was
thrown to the pavement on Poplar
street, at the intersection of Alabama,
and badly hurt. He was senseless for
several minutes.
A camp feast or basket picnic will
be enjoyed next Sunday by a number
Of our Italian fellow-citizens, their
wives, daughters and sweethearts. 1t
takes place on Kerr avenue, near the
southern limits Of the city.
1.-THE White Rose of Memphis" by
Colonel w. G. Faulkner, can now be
had at Mansford's, 298 Main street.
This work is One Of intense interest
aud promises to be the novel of the
season. Cloth binding, price $3.50.
Strange as it may appear to the
masses, there is but one cigar estab-
lishment in our city that has sufficient
enterprise to furnish a cooler Of fresh
ice water for the accommodation of
customers. The b~enefactor is Sol
Coleman.
A car load Of new prairie hay, the
6rst of the season, and two weeks
ahead of last year, arrived this fore
noon from Grand prairie, 100 miles
west Of here. 1t Vas grown by A.
EaersOn & Co., near Carlisle, and
they have over 1000 acres of it to har-
vest.
A lady residing two miles in the
country sent in yesterday to get a
quart Of filtered Wolf river water.
When passing the store in the city
where a cooler is kept with a supply
she invariably stops to get a draught
of the same. She says it is delight
fully refreshing, and SO it is.
"a few days ago not less than a
dozen cart loads Of dirt we're dumped
into the various pits along Beale
street, and we now gaze proudly upon
our model highway" writes a resi-
dent Of that thoroughfare, who also
wishes to publicly announce his feel
ings Of profound gratitude for this
marvellous municipal muniicence.
Some of the potato patches are
turning out a hundred barrels to the
acre. While out driving yesterday
for recreation. a well known citizen
saw forty men digging the esculents in
a single field. The diggers are paid
l5c per Dbl for their labor, while an
experienced cooper and packer gets
81 50 per day, only one cooper being
necessary for each farm. 1t is thought
that 10000 bbls Of potatoes will be
sent to the northwestern cities from
this vicinity within the next five or
six weeks.
DEALERS