Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-12
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Raw and rainy.
From AZ to 4Sle yesterday.
Oysters every style. Crystal Palace
A big river is coming down upon
US.
LEDGER job printing Office, ID Mad
isen street.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
Office of Scuppernong Wine Co.,
No. 4 Madison street.
Our local cotton market is quiet,
with a firm feeling to-day.
Fresh homemade leaf lard, snow.
white, at John Mergle's, No. 45O Main
street, l21c per pound.
The choicest staple and fancy groce-
ries, and fresh meats, at John
Mergle's, No. 450 Main street.
Thirty-nine was the thermometric
record at six this morning.
Go to John Mergle's, $50 Main st,
and get your coal oil at 15c per gal
lon and headlight oil at zoe per gallon.
First-class watch and jewelry re
pairing by J. N. milford 4 Co., man.
ufacturing jewellers, 1913 Main.
Country roads are too soft for haul
ing Just now, and interior people find
it convenient and pleasant to stay at
home.
Carnival posters, telling about what
is expected on Shrove Tuesday at New
Orleans. are. hanging in conspicuous
places about our city.
The german at the Peabody last
night lasted from 10 to2:30 o'clock and
was a pleasant social affair, in which
many young people and some elderly
ones participated.
The recently elected city officials
expect to receive their commissions
from the Governor to-day. They will
enter upon the performance of their
duties without delay.
Competition among coal oil dealers
has reduced selling prices to loo per
gallon, when one wants a barrel or
more. Few wish that much, however,
unless they are in the business.
At the hour when the sun should
have risen here, it was raining. net
only in this vicinity, but at Little
Rock, Shreveport and throughout
Texas, also ove at Chattanooga.
A wrecked coal cart on Beale street
near the market, with a red flag hung
out from a broken spoke and uppro-
priately inscribed, is an object of in
terest to w~ayfarers passing that high
way.
Captain Sam Brown, the wealthy
coal merchant of Pittsburg, and the
partner of Mr.. N. NJ. Jones, of this
city, was here on a brief business visit
yesterday, and left late last night for
Next Monday week elections for
Magistrate will be held in the Fourth
and Eighth Civil Districts in this
county, to ell vacancies caused BY the
resignation Of Esqulres Hammoptree
and Acred.
A suit involving some $1,000 as re.
on cotton brought by
Gruning & Co, of Europe, against
& Co., Of this city, was de-
cided in the United States Court yes
terdayin favor Of the latter.
The wretched condition of Beale
street is a theme oflively comment, by
all who are obliged to peregrinate that
thoroughfare. A mar could get lost
in the deep mud down that way after
dark and not half try. And yet next
to Main and Front streets, more bust
ness is transacted on Beale than any
other of the city.
No ice has yet been harvested for
the supply here up TO the present
time. In the upper Illinois river,
from whence our stock is mainly
drawn, the water has not frozen more
than FIVE inches so far. and it will re.
quirc another severe cold snap to Gu
able gatherers to house enough for
Southern markets.
Mr.. j. 4. Wharton and wife, the
latter until yesterday Miss Sallie NJ.
Gorden, OF this city. lett by rail for
Little Rock and Eureka Springs. their
future home, last evening. Miss Cor
don became acquainted with her
spouse at Eureka Springs while on a
visit there sometime ago. The gentle
mar is arising young attorney Of North
Arkansas.
Between s230,0O0 and 100000 is
the estimated cost OF ~macadamizing
six Leading highways, thirty feet in
width, from the outer city limits to a
point FIVE miles away. TIE inside
figures are for stone six inches deep
and the outside for twelve inchee. The
Pigeon Roost, fernando, Horn Lake.
New and Old Raleigh and Big Creek
reads are the ones upon which the es-
Inmates are made.
The ticket at the Cotton Exchange,
chosen yesterday. with Mr.. Napoleon
Hill at the head for President, was
elected by a large majority. In fact,
there was hardly a dissenting voice.
General r. +. Patterson, one of tie
directors, says be voted the ticket
with enthusiasm, all except one, and
that one he never had and never could
be induced TO vote for under any cir
conference.-the same being General
X. K. Patterson. The officers chosen
were the same as those who served last
year.
POPULAR ADDITIONi
CHARLEY MEYERS, 30 Monroe,
has added q Restaurant