Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-18
PUBLIC LEDGER
Ten CEMTS PEA wEKK.
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

Ozanne& Mays new store, 257 Main.
Malaga grapes. Lyle & Shields.
Best brick for sale. Telephone
John Cubbins.
New molasses. Lyle & Shields.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Snowflake biscuit. Lyle 4 Shields.
One hundred snd t~wenty-four ar
rivals at four city hotels yesterday.
A few cars square cedar posts, very
low. Ike A. Chase, 22O Front.
Satin and satin brocade button boots
and slippers, and white, light pink
and blue kid slippers at Zellners', 300
Main street.
Major Burke is not likely to be pop
lar with the lawyers. He can't see
the difference between tweedle.dee
and tweedle-dum.
Cotton is declining in all markets to-
day. and its value here tends down.
ward, with indications Of lower quo-
t%stions ruling this afternoon.
Dealers in cotton report themselves
miserable, like the weather to-day.
The condition of the market excites
the gloomicst forebodings to sellers.
Mike Burke was tried by a Judge Of
the same name yesterday, for being
drunk. He was discharged, as the
Court could not well impose a fine
on himself.
Cotton picking is slightly inactive
this kind Of weather but the gins are
fairly booming and the movement into
market here and elsewhere will be
heavy from this time forth.
Our Congressman, VIM. R. Moore,
made a speech to a few Of his admir-
ers and others out on the bluff last
night. The weather was dismal. and
the speech likewise.
You can safely assert, without fear
Of contradiction, hal Sol Coleman's
cigar establishment is the most com.
plete in all lines of goods, and is not
surpassed by any other in the South.
A large number Of wealth seekers
in the Taxing District are buying
tickets in the next drawing Of the
Little Havana Lottery, as one Of their
number drew $500 in this lottery last
Seek.
A wild steer woke up various people
in the lower part Of the city yesterday.
Several people made narrow escape.
from injury, and the animal was finally
cOrralled or laid low by a policeman
pistol bullet.
Col. Josiah Patterson and severaI
fellow candidates, are speaking TO.
day out at C~apleville. They will b.
at 0akville tonight, at White HaveI
to morrow, and at Ensley' slplantation
tomorrow night.
Red snappers, Mackinaw trout
white fish, Lake Erie salmon (of fry.
ing size), and choice st. Louis bee
tenderloins, are the Injuries received
to day at Victor D. Fuchs market, 3.
and Al Jefferson street.
An ignorant Swede named 0. Der
nett hid in a doorway last night wher
he heard the officers coming, ant
when pulled from his hiding plac,
tried to bride them to release him. hi
=. foe was five dollars.
1t was raining heavily early thi
morning at Y~icksburg, Miss, an,
Shreveport, La. Over an inch and
quarter Of water fell at the latter an,
9 nearly three-quarters Of an inch at th,
former during last night.
? The mercury here will have to drol
y y or 10 degrees lower than It wen
. this morning before we have any frost
! but it may do tL.at on short notice nov
!. as the season is far enough advanced
2 to expect the hOary Jack at any time
? Many planters say frost would not b,
= an unwelcomo visitor now. The rang
of the temperature yesterday was 8!
: to 81 degrees.
Cooler weather is close ahead
{ Away up at YanktOn, OAK, thi
morning IL was tracing and In Al,