Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-12
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

Mince meat. JOS. P. Carey & Co.
Malaga grapes. Lyle & Shields.
Pork hams, John Reid, 366 Front.
Christmas oorsets in e%olOrs, Lange's
For bricks, telephone Jno. Cubbins.
0zanne& May new store, 257 Main.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
See S. L. Moore & Co.'S. fine display
Of Christmas goods.
Min. temp. this mOrning3Se. Range
yesterday 81 to so.
Fresh oysters by express daily at
S. L. Moore & Co.
Lytle & Shields prepared buck
wheat speaks for itself.
Pecans in 10 pound packages at Ike
A. Chases', 900 Front.
All books reduced in price at vii.
liams', Call and see; 279 Main.
Finest candies, r~aisins, %citron, nuts
6gs and Mince meat. Lyle & Shields.
Pure strained honey, mincemeat and
preserves Of all kinds, s. l.. Moore
& Co.
Those elegant scarfs at Nays, 1854
Main street, are very suitable holiday
presents.
Licenses to marry we're issued to-
day to j. D. Mumiord and Elizabeth
Banks.
Golden Grown -four in barrels and
halves, finest in the world, S. L.
Moore & Co.
Music books, magazines, illustrated
papers, etc, bound at the PUBLIC
LEDGER bindery, IL Madison street.
School Visitors visiting the schools
last month were e. c. Burke and H.
Gronauer. Other visitors failed to
visit.
Impouuded stock will be sold at
public cutlery next Friday at the
corner of Washington and Second
streets.
The city school pupils enrolled
number 1880 on the LIST inst. Increase
during the month, 100. The high
school has So.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done At the PUBLIC LEDGER job
printing Office, l3 Madison street.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, -
Madison street,executes every class Of
such work in good style and at low
rates.
A prisoner named Steve Perkins
escaped from Jail yesterday by climb
ing the fence while on an errand in
the front yard.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and book bindery is prepared to.
execute work with neatness and dis.
patch, and at as low rates as any COM
petitor.
After "Esmeralda" next week, we
are to have Katie Putnam and her
company in LENA, the Madcap," and
perhaps Little Nell in Dickens
"Old Curiosity Shop"
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office constantly receives new type Of.
the latest styles, and the Office gener-
ally is kept up to the highest standard
Of excellence.
Wishing to prepare a paper on color
blindness, DR.. Sinclair has been
granted permission to examine the
children in the public schools, thereby
to gain certain information.
Hand bills Of all sizes, from the
smallest to a three sheet poster, done
with neatness and dispatch, at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest.
The man who shot and killed Levi
Preston, some months ago, in the
south part Of this county, a dozen
miles or so from this city, Nj. John
Clark, is lying low with ~eryaipelas.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads.
bills Of lading, cards and all kinds Of
commercial printing done as well and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office
as anywhere in the United States.
Mr.. Marc Klaw, buisuess manager
of the Madison Square Theater Es
meralda troupe, arrived in the city
yesterday, and takes his departure to.
morrow for Nashville, going thence to
ot' LOuS o Ohlcag0.
The Mozart Musical Society are to
rehearse privately at the theater TO-
night, and give a choice entertainment
before an audience Of invited guests
and society members o-morrow night.
No tickets are to be sold.
A cotton stalk with l64 we'll devel-
oped bolls is at the Cotton Exchange
1t grew on the plantation of p. G.
Dickinson & Son, Coahoma county,
Miss. A field Of such cotton would
yield two bales to the acre.
Heavy sales Of land slougthe line Of
theSelma railroad in Mississippi were
made in the U. s. Circuit Court to.
day, in the CASE Of L. P. Blackburn
vs.. the Selma railroad. It brought
from $40 to $50 a qlar or section.
The wife of Chancellor W. w. Nc.
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