Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-21
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summer can order the DAILY LnDdt&
at so cents per month in advance, with
the privilege Of changing postofice.
Housekeepers wanting red raspber-
ries for preserving purposes should
leave their orders with Lyle & Shields
at once, as the crop is nearly exhausted.
General John Leslie, of this city,
is Sergeant.at. arms of the Nashville
Democratic Convention, and he won't
have time to 60 a fishing while he
holds the Office.
Shelby county has no candidate for
gubernatorial honors, but Colonel
Josiah Patterson, a railroad lawyer,
and an able one, too, is the permanent
Chairman of the convention.
The closing exercises of the Ursu-
,ine Convent, in Brown county. Ohio,
where dozen or more Memphis girls
are in attendance, will take place the
18th inst, a week from to-day.
The Memphis & Charleston railway
Directory meet in this city tomorrow,
to consider the question of merging
that highway into that of the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia road.
Heavy rain showers and too much
wet has injured crops in many parts Of
this country. The harvest has been
delayed and where grain shocks re-
NAMED in the fields many have been
damaged.
All of the bean poles and pea sticks
were bitten off close to the ground by
the last cold snap which visited Glib
son county, says the versatile man of
the Mirror, Mr.. j. NJ. Patterson, for
merly of this city.
The gap in the railway between this
city and Paducan, il is expected, will
be closed before the end of the present
week, after which trains will run
through from here to the Ohio river
without transfer or breaking bulk.
Nothing has yet been heard from
Mr.. Fred Wolfe, of the Erlanger Syn
dictate, in regard to the building of the
Selma railroad. Five bids for con-
structing the road were sent from
here and the time set for opening them
is past.
Round trip tickets to Louisville and
return for the drill will be on sale 1T
the l.. x N. ticket office, 2S7 Main
street, and at depot, on Saturday, Sun
day, Monday and Tuesday, at $11.25,
good till July LIST returning. Trains
leave every day at $50 am, 1910
am. and lilo pm.
The Odd Fellows of Memphis Lodge
and Gayoso Encampment attended the
funeral of the late K. +. Risk at 3
o'clock this afternoon. Mr.. Risk was
in his 64th year at the time of his
death, and he has been a hardware
merchant here for many years.
The alleged child poisoner, Mrs.
Newton, charged with the murder OF
Mr.. Slusser's little boy, is to be tried
for her act at Louisville ere long. The
stomach of the child was. analysed by
a chemist named j. E. Meyers, and be
established the presence Of morphine.
Fair weather in the west gulf States
local rains in the Ohio and lower Mis-
souri, valleys, aud southerly winds in
all three Of the districts, are the
weather indications for to-day. A
quarter of An inch of rain fell about
Louisville last night, and New Orleans
had little sprinkle, No rain fell
anywhere else in the South.
The central streets of the city are
rapidly becoming solid highways.
Gayoso, between Main and Shelby,
has been covered with stone, and will
be open to traffic in few days. West
Court street, between Main and Front,
will have solid foundation in week
or so, and South Court, in front of
Gaston's Hotel. from Main 10 Second,
will shortly be laid with hard stone
pavement.