Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-02
monday Evening. Jan. ., 1854.
LEDGER LINES.

LEDGER LlMEt.
Election four days ahead.
Williams bookstore busy.
Oysters every style. Crystal Palace.
Are you going to the concert to-
night?
The first and the coolest month of
the year.
Brown & Jones, GOAL dealers, 282
Main street.
Our streets are thronged with way
farers to-day.
Office Of Scuppernong Wine Co.,
No, 4 Madison street.
Second shipment of shad received
at Gaston's this morning.
Watts & Williams, wholesale fruit
and produce, 342 Frcnt street.
Clouds Of dust are in circulation,
and p~romenaders catch it in heavy
doses.
Cars for all lines, will be waiting to-
night corner Main and Union streets,
to carry parties from the Kellogg con-
cert.
At the matinee performance next
Saturday, Mulberry Sellers will be
presented instead of Fresh" as has
been announced.
No news from cotton markets else
where today. Our Exchange, and
others at home and abroad, celebrated
the New Year festival by keeping
closed doors.
The rally at the Greenlaw Opera
House Saturday night proved tame,
insipid and rather cool. The gather
ing was estimated at about three hun
dred strong.
Down to 1879 went the temperature
yesterday morning, and 280 was its
lowest mark this morning, at which
time a light, but very chilly, breeze
came from the southeast.
Total deaths ia this city last week
twenty-four, including three at the
hospital and five inquests. OF these
thirteen we're colored and eleven
white. None died Of contagious NAL
aides.
The costumes shown this morning.
by Mr.. Watkins for the Twelfth Night
bali are the most handsome things
ever seen in this country, and reflect
great credit upon the taste displayed
in getting them up.
In a spirit Of retaliation numerous
citizens now totally refuse to accept
gutta percha street car tickets in ex-
change Tor sisyer coin at the stores, all
because the storekeepers won't receive
q dime, quarter or half with a hole in
it.
An incipient fire in a young mans
sleeping room, we Porter, Taylor
4 Co.'S Front street store, brought all
Of the fire engines out in a hurryearly
this morning. A bucket Of water ex-
tinguishe1 the FIRE, and the engines
went home without throwing any.
Numerous young ladies feel cha
grinea because the Kellogg concert
aud New Years reception season hap
pened to fall on the same night. They
would all like to hear Kellogg, and
they don't like to miss the oppor
tunity Of entertaining their friends.
Several Of our citizens use water
from the Mississippi river for drink
ing purposes. They have a keg filed
with the fresh liquid every few days,
aud likeit better than any other sort.
Even distilled corn juice isn't half SO
good in the estimation Of some who
use it.
Mr.. Long preached twice at the
Strangers Church yesterday to large
congregations. Hereafter there will
be services morning and evening at
this church. Mrs Fits was at the
organ last night, and handled it with
an exquisite aud mastery touch, while
Miss Minnie Hunter led in the sing
ing with a sweet, faullless voice.
There was a Richmond in the ora
t%orical field at the meeting Saturday
night in the Greenlaw Opera House.
according to the papers Of yesterday
morning. Mr.. Ben Richmond, whs
says he never figured on that side Of
the fence in bis life, thinks it must
mean Mr.. Henry Reicbman, who in
the directory is set down as a lawyer
in the Webster block.
-Four different squads Of bootblacks
aud oilers warmed their shins and
cooled their heels around bonfres
on Main between Madison and Mon
roe streets about sunrise this morning.
The fires were made from Goals hauled
out Of the furnaces Of the city fire en-.
gines when they reudczvoused at the
point named and before they turned
back homeward. No open arr sport
more delightful to a Congo or Guinea
niger on a frosty morning than a
chunk fire in the street, by the road
side orr in the middle Of a cotton patch.