Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-29
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Oyster Day asparagus, uylle
Shields.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, %.
Main street.
Several persons are already afterth'
position of City Scavenger.
A superior quality mixed pickles
by the gallon, at Lytle & Shields.
Prairie hay in carload lots received
daily by Ike A. Chase, 200 Front.
Ex-Judge R. ]. Morgan is specia
Chancellor for the street railway case
No more foods are threatened, but
we are to have another walking match
Any bootblack now plying his voca.
ton without permission is to be fneC
from one to fifty dollars.
A fresh supply Of GOODNESS is looked
for here by tomorrow. 1t is to come
in the air from the northwest.
Mr.. B. R. Spratley has been ap.
pointed deputy weight and measure
inspector, vice Mr.. |. Ozanne, re.
signed.
The city scavenger, Mr.. Fred HUM,
has resigned. It's not stated as yet
whether or not his resignation will be
accepted.
Beal street is to be paved with stone
as soon as bids can be properly re
ceived or adjusted and contracts
awarded.
Pompano, Spanish mackerel, red
snapper, salmon and Mackinaw trout
to be had at j. A. Signisgo's, 278 Sec.
ond and 80 Beal.
Cotton futures went off few points
in New York this forenoon. The
market here ruled very quiet and
wholly unchanged.
The Chickasaw Guards will visit
the Art Loan Association tonight,
A rare musical entertainment is in
store for VISITORS.
A fresh lot of pompano, Savannah
river shad and Lake Erie salmon were
received this morning, by Victor D.
Fuchs, 80 and IL Jefferson.
Tomorrow will close the sale Of
tickets in the Commonwealth Lottery,
Of Louisville, as the drawing takes
place Friday. Try your luck.
Captain John D. Waldron now com.
MAIDS the Broom Guards, all females
Miss Lizzie Waddell being First and
Rosa Kennedy Second Lieutenant.
HE got off some very good things, u
was an expression heard in many
quarters to-day, given by those who
heard Mr.. Curtis lecture last night.
An effort to revoke the Island prison
contract after the present term, and
to work petty offenders on street
chain gang, failed before the Board o.
Public Works yesterday.
The eldest and only surviving son o.
the Rev. Sylyanus Landrum, the Rev
VIM. w. Landrum, is to preach thi:
evening at the Central Baptist church
on Second street north of Beal.
Lucky numbers in Little Havan,
Lottery drawing yesterday: ll,6lS
drew $500; 7lS5, $1,000; 20,553, $1,000
| 1888, $3.50; 9l53, $3.50; 1856, 5000
l6026, $500; 1929, $500; 4247, $500
The Memphis Gravel Company
having completed their job of pavinI
Main street. the authorities now orde
the street car company to repair tn,
street two feet each side of, and be
tween their railway track.
Our Legislative Representatives ar,
to be requested to secure the passag,
Of a law by the Assembly Of the STATE
TO enforce prompt payment Of all pas
due taxes under pain Of confscatioI
ofproperty through tax sales.
J.W. Switzer, a former popular an,
we'll known steamboat clerk on Mis-
sissippi river boats,is now in charge o
the house Of Menken Bros, in the in
terest Of the new purchasers. Mr.
Louis Silk left for home this morn
ing.
Those who have complaints to max,
Of improper property assessments, cal
have a hearing before the Board o
Equalization, Of which Mr.. Jesse w
Page is Chairman, and Which will holt
forth at the courthouse throughou
the present week.
| An ordinance to inspect meats. fsI
and vegetables, at the rate OF 80 cent
per annum to be paid by each man il
the business, then % cents every tim
an inspector finds tainted truck O
flesh, was laid over for future consider
ton by the municipal board at il
meeting yesterday.
The bootblack ordinance is now
law and the sinners must have per
mission before they set up shop, thel
get tab with a number on it. Tn
next nuisance to engage the attention
Of the authorities should be an ordi
nance to suppress kite flying by tn
boys on the public highways.
The Board Of Health here held
meeting yesterday, announced a de
sire to cooperate with the Nationa
Board TO facilitate its administrator
of quarantine and river inspection
similar to tina. in vogue the past tw
summers; asked the National Boar,
to place inspecting officers on dut
here, at New Orleans and elsewhere
rendered the National Board the us
Of the quarantine station at Presi
dents Island and adopted a quarantin
ordinance to 80 into effect on the frs
Of May.
In the way Of amusements yester
day and last night was unusuall
active. The lecture drew 800 0
more, the Humpty Dumpty party a