Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-10
LEDGER LINES.

"M'liss"
Tonight
By Annie Pixley.
Prof. Saxby's hop tonight.
Snowflake biscuit. Lyle & Shields.
Fine music at Saxby's tonight.
Gloves cleaned byMrs. Gray ,4O4Maiu
The staple Auctuates and wabbles
badly.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Temperature 429 early this morning
Range yesterday AS to $50.
Remember the sociable this evening
at 800 Lauderdale street.
The play of Mills" is from Brete
Harte's popular Western sketch.
The Abbott troupe open in Flotows
Martha" Tuesday evening next.
The fremens' payroll last month
was S23O8.63, and the police $2727.
A hundred and eighty penniless
people lodged at the stationhouse in
January.
Savannah river roe shad at Sigma
COS 27S Second and 90 Beal street, at
60 cents each.
Rev. n. NJ. Long will preach Sunday
night at the Strangers Church on
Eternal punishment"
Seven thousand punches bananas
cheap. One thousand boxes oranges
and lemons. D. Canale & Co.
1t is said that half million or there
abouts has been lost by operators in
cotton here within the past ten days.
Fresh mackerel, Canadian smelt
and Savannah river shad received to-
day by Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and Al
Jefferson.
G. Monnier, 1913 Beal street. has
just received another fresh lot of vac
cine virus from the New EnglandVac-
cine Co., Chelsea, Mass.
The City Engineer is to investigate
the cost Of laying wooden pavements,
the system including cedar blocks
laid after the Nicolson & Wyekoff
plan.
The few who deal here in wheat
futures and the like are little short
in sympathy with the cotton specula-
tors.
The sale Of seats for the Abbott
opera engagement progresses at Hol
enberg's music store. There are any
lumber Of good ones yet to be dis.
posed Of.
The new grocery store OF w. Nc
| Donald x Co., corner Main and Poplar
streets, is filed with fresh stock Of
choice goods worthy the attention oil
lhousekeepers.
The cheapest and most effectual
means Of cleaning tie cityis to be in
lguired into and reported upon By
| Messrs. Gavin, Burke and Graves. Of
| the Board Of Public Works.
Tie old mansion at the corner Of
Main and Beal streets is to be torn
down. The authorities decline to al
low it to be moved over on to an sd.
Joining lot for future service.
Private dispatches reported Tennes
see Is down to 81 yesterday. but they
went up a little before the close Of
| business. They we're reported active
but weak-yery weak indeed.
Mr.. +. T. Callahan, the builder, al
236 Second street, has taken in part
ner since the 9Th Of this month. 1t il
a boy, and weighed thirteen and a hal
pounds outside Of his stockings.
The cotton news from Liverpool al
4 o'clock to day reports futures 32d t
| l-l6d better. New York also shows
Improvement to the extent Of II to l.
points over last nights closing REPORT
They'll be wanting the President
Of the, Board Of Health to take up
spade and go to work like a scavengel
next, said prominent citizen thi
forenoon. He struck a center shot
upon making the remark.
The decline 10 cotton on the spo
has been &c per pound and 10 in New
York, while futures during the pres
ent week have dropped from 30 to 6.
points, or ] to 90 per pound. The fall
made many poor fellow suffer.
The Annie Pixley dramatic troup,
arrived from Nashville last night a
1870 o'clock. The lively little lad,
will play and sing tonight, tomorrow
afternoon and tomorrow night, rem
dering all Of her latest and most poru
lar songs.
. Clear skies all over tho South yes
terday and last night. The energeti,
thunder and rain storm, which wa
; central before daylight yesterday
: hundred miles to the southwark o
this point, passed off to the eastward
and has gone beyond the seas.
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