Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-04-29

BUSES will run from corner Of
Poplar and Manassas streets, and from
corner Of South and Main streets to
Elmwood u m. to 6p.m. tomorrow.
A park on the blufwould be good
thing, and prove useful as well as or
namental. Let US have the park, and
the sooner the better.
The recent showers helped the
young crops in the country to the
west of us very much. They were
rather dry and needed rain.
Tomorrow is the last day of the
month, and the first Of the week, a
fact which is generally known to folks
who may happen to think Of it.
For a superb Sunday dinner, call on
Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and Al Jefferson
street, and get a choice pompano,
Potomac shad or Lake Erie salmon.
The area Of cotton in the Mississippi
valley is expected to be reduced this
year. Planters will doubtless culti-
vate a more liberal acreage in corn.
The ever popular Little HAVANA
Lottery holds another drawing next
week. Securea ticket at once as this
scheme only uses $1,000 tickets in
the wheel.
Decoration day cars will start for
Elmwood cemetery from corner Main
and Court streets, from ! to 4 o'clock
pm, every five minutes or oftener if
travel will justify.
A big heart-Mr. John CASTOR,
with a liberality for which he is noted
all over the country, sent big break
fast to the pedestrians this morning
with his compliments.
The electric light in the Peabody
vestibule, and other places where the
thirty or forty lamrs are to hang, is
expected to be ready for their first
public illumination this evening.
"They formed an injunction against
us, did the gang at Nashville, " said a
leading orator and politician this
morning, when telling Of the way they
worked affairs at Nashville, the other
day.
The Ohio river is rising its entire
length, and is now deep enough for
coal fleets. 1t lacks more than twenty
feet of high water mark at Cairo,
however. The water is also swelling
some here.
The Rev. James o. Steadman, for
forty years a resident here, and the
pastor of the first Presbyterian
Church established in this city, died
at his residence, al Alabama street,
last evening. The funeral will take
place at three o'clock tomorrow after
noon from the family residence.
Mr.. Edwin ones, son Of Mr.. Marcus
jones, of this city, died at No. 20
PontotOc street, last evening, between
seven and eight o'clock. The young
gentleman, who was in his twenty
third year at the time Of his demise,
will be buried at four o'clock this
afternoon from the family residence
on Pontotoc street.
Talk about enterprise why look at
the prices of sToWner & Dixon, Of
the Goodyear Rubber House. 10 JEFF
ferson street, are offering hydrant, hose
and reels, 25 feet inch hydrant hose
and nozzle complete, 81 %; 80 feet 4
inch hydrant hose and nozzle con-
plete, s. 90; 50 feet with nozzle and
reel complete to all standard 3-ply
hose, 81 5O.
The Office safe of the burned Golden
City contained $44l05O in cash, of
which $l450.5O belonged to passengers
and the remainder to the boat. 1t was
under water just four weeks, yet the
contents, after being dried, we're Ss
good as ever. One passenger, who
sued the boats owners, claiming a
money package in the safe variously
sta ted to contain from $500 to $1,000,
had no package there when the safe
was opened, and another claiming
$3.50 or more, had about one.third Of
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