Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-09
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Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
1t is a dozen degrees cooler now
| than it was two days ago.
Best Cooking Oil, Lyle 4 Shields
The dog days are about at an end.
PITY we cannot say the same for ten
thousand surplus dogs.
The foggy season is close ahead,
Now We enjoy a hazy atmosphere, but
it will thicken up after a bit.
The price Of cotton advanced
here at noon to. day tc to to on all
grades. Middling is now llsc per
pound.
No surface sign of'settling the rail-
way warfare in the East, knocked the
hopes of the freight pooling advocates
sky high.
The value of cotton seed opened out
here at 50 per ton, but recently
advanced to $40. 1t looks upward
like other products of the soil.
WThose who enter cotton bales for
exhibition at the Shelby County
Grange Association Fair next month
must see that they weigh not less than
450 pounds.
S. W. Garrison, general engraver,
wishes his customers and the public
to know their engraving will be
promptly done. Office, corner Main
and Madison streets.
The rate Of freight on cotton to the
eastern seaboard has dropped l3c per
cwt. from yesterday mornings figures,
and is 22c lower than this time last
year. To New York rates are 52c per
cWt.
The value Of middling cotton in
Liverpool is higher to-day for mid
ding uplands than it has stood since
April 9th 1880, seventeen months ago
and on Orleans since September Both
last.
DOM be led into the mistake that
Solar Tip shoes are high-priced be-
cause they are so highly recommend.
ed. Zellner & Co. will sell you the
genuine article just as cheap as any
limitations sold elsewhere.
Since the first of May last we have
had 81 inches Of rain here. Last year
during the same time We bad IA
inches, showing a decrease this year
Of 81 inches, and we didn't have any
ever supply last year either.
At the temple Of the Hebrew
Reformed Congregation the lee
turing season opens tonight with
a lecture on the THE true object of
Jewish reform" by Rev. DR.. NJ. Sam
field. Services commences at 8 o'clock.
The residence of Mrs. General
F%lournoy, neal Mentor, on the Ar
kansaw river, was destroyed by fire a
few days since. All the furniture
aud $500 in money was lost. The
total loss by the fire was $500, on
which the insurance was $1,000.
There is some consolation in the
prospect ahead of high prices
for -four, meat and other
eatables, that we are to en-
joy cheap beer. The hop crop now
nearly gathered is a fine one, notquite
as heavy as was anticipated before the
late dry spell, but'still above the aver
age and Of excellent quality.
The value of cotton is to &c per
pound higher than it was a week ago.
It will have TO climb much more rap.
idly, however, to catch up with bread
stuffs, meat and tobacco, three Of the
leading essentials for sustaining life
in this vicinity. Raw whisky, an
ether prominent item of local con
sumption, has advanced 6 to Sc per
gallon recently, and it will go still
higher unless corn comes down.
According to the weather chroni
cler at Washington, we have a slight
chance for a shower within the next
fOrty-eight hours. In the West Gulf
States local rains are probable to-day,
and possible in the Ohio and Tennes-
see valley, while up in the lower Mis-
souri, valley fair skies aud warmer
temperature is anticipated. The at
m%osphere has cooled off from llo to
2lo along the New England coast and
@ to l20 in the Middle States.
A family Of owls have been foraging
on Court Square squirrels for some
time past. One was killed there ten
days ago while roosting in the daytime,
and another was brought down last
evening, both having an eye to genuine
squirrel meat. A few years ago a
wildcat was killed at the break Of
dawn in the morning, while making
his way out Of the Square with a fat
squirrel. Some believed that he was
after a baby, but compromised on a
bunny.