Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-17
PUBLIC LEDGER
CENTa pa WICK.
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

New novels daily at Williams.
New molasses. Lytle & Shields.
Ozanne& Mays new store, 257 Main.
Malaga grapes. Lyle & Shields.
Cotton is weak and tending lower
to-day,
Best brick for sale. Telephone
John Cubbins.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Gallatin Cotton Mills Yarns. Fl.
Fitzgerald & Co.
The moon changes and enters its
first quarter Thursday evening.
Snowflake biscuit. Lytle & Shields.
Nothing at the theater tonight,
but tomorrow night Money Bags
will smuse play goers.
Next week is the jubilee time, when
cheap fares and great sights will draw
many people to u city.
"Faustine," a new novel, by Ritrs.
Harper, Leslie and Demorest, fol
November, at Mansford's.
Extra choice St. Louis beef tender.
loius and fresh red snappers received
to-day at Victor D. Fuchs market, Sc
and Al Jefferson.
Fair feminine friends Of flowers are
very busy just now potting and hQus.
ing their treasures, to protect then
from frosts and freezes.
No news from Check Raiser Nor
ton, a very shrewd as well as a very
dishonest genius, who, it is rumored
was bad long before he came to THU
city.
That rollicking old oysterman, Far.
rell, is sound, healthy and spry, and
has a pocket full Of rocks up at Gin.
cinnati. The rumor of his death was
premature.
$500 was the amount Of a prize Sc
cured by a Memphian in the last
drawing Of the Little Havana Lottery.
The next popular distribution Of prizel
in this Lottery will take place next
week.
The Fussellites have been much less
enthusiastic over their candidate
since they saw and heard him here.
He did not make a very favorable i'm.
preston on various blue skyites.
Satin and satin brocade button boots
and slippers, and white, light pink
and blue kid slippers at Zellners', 800
Main street.
Specimens Of silk grass were on ex
hibition at the Cotton Exchange yes
terday. 1t grows in the warmer
couDtrles under the tropics, includin,
the West Indies, Central Americi
and thereabouts.
Leslie's Popular Monthly and La
dies Magazine, Harper's Monthly
Young Ladies' journal and The Sea.
son, all for November, just received
by Jimmie Corwin, at No. 285 Mali
street.
A spokesman is speaking ouI
regarding the d%ocEage and paying of
process practiced at Plum Point b.
the government paymasters, and he
don't like the system in vogue
M~utterings have been heard about
the business before, but the present is
tho drst open remark on the subject.
Twelve or fifteen Idozen blue skies
ratified last night at the Greenlaw
The blue state of the weather, and
cause, kept the crowd from being
larger. Several speeches we're made
that Of Judge Archibald Wright
being the heaviest. The enthusiasm
was in accordance with the surround.
ings.
Colonel Josiah Patterson and other
Democratic nominees, aided by their
low tax Republican CONDUCTORS, are at
Baskerville, in the Ninth Civil dis
trict, this afternoon, and will be at
Collierville tonight. On tomorrow
afternoon they are to be at Oapleville
and Oakville at night, and on Thurs.
day speak at White Hayea in the
afternoon, while at night they appear
at Eusley's plantation. They 20 to
Raleigh and Bartlett on Saturday.
The Grand Lodge Of Tennessee 1.
o. 0. f., will convene in annual ses-
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