Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-28
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No. 3O5 Main street, is zellner 4 Co.'s
new and elegant shoe store.
No electric lights for several nights
past. The engine doesn't work right
and miller bugs are too numerous.
Don't fail to attend the lawn enter
tainment aud festival stWhite Station
tonight. Train leaves at s O'Clock.
E. B. Britt is making things lively
as an independent candidate for Mag
~istrate in the Fourteenth Civil Dis
trict.
Various people along Beal streets are
ashy at the delay in the paving of that
thoroughfare. The stone expected to
be here by the middle of this week is
still invisible.
Many of our wholesale dry goods
and boot and shoe dealers are receiv.
ing liberal orders from interior mer-
chants for goods to be delivered next
month and the month after.
Poverty is a curse, and hence all
men try to escape it. Get a ticket in
the Commonwealth Lottery, which
draws nexo Monday, and the curse
may be removed from you.
3O9l This is the most popular figure
in Memphis to-day. Zellner & Co,
the famous shoe dealers, have just re
moved to No. 300 Main street, and
will be open for business to morrow
The public lamp cleaner up town
has been changing the m of vari
Gus streets lately by swinging corners
on the glass plates after taking them
out for a cleaning. Perhaps the young
man can't read.
Many of the cedar blocks laid on
Monroe street have holes large enough
to put two or three fingers in, with
enough rotten wood around the holes
to let in a wayfarer's foot after awhile,
unless the holes are filled with pitch
aud gravel.
Captain Webb had an examination
before Esquire Galloway this fore.
noon, regarding the shooting of Ben
Bogart, and from the testimony elici-
ted through a statement made by the
latter, he was houorably acquitted Of
all blame in the matter.
W. NJ. Randolph, of this city, has
b,en appointed by Governor Hawkins
to serve on a committee with w. Y.
Elliott, of Rutherford. and V. G Cos
sett, of Knox, to consider the exprdi
ency of removing the State peni.en-
tiary beyond the limits of Nashville.
The rumor in circulation that the
GermanD Democrats intend to scratch"
Andrew Harris or any other nominee
Of the party, is without any founda-
ton whatever. 1t is on a par with
other canards that inventive genius
promulgates on the eve of elections.
Mr.. Uhl's friends will support the en-
tire ticket unanimously.
Light southerly breeze and tempera-
ture 760 at sunrise. Range yester-
day 10 to 79o, and the rainfall meas
ured a little more than a third of an
inch. In the southern environs Of
the city the rain was much lighter
than up town. When the u rose
this morning it was raining at Vicks-
burg, Omaha, Leavenworth and Iudi-
%auola, Texas. Local rains are indiea.
tel for to day over the west gulf
States, the lower Missouri and Ten.
nsssee and Ohio valleys.
A lot OF money is in course of dis
tribution by the Republican Office.
holders, among the colored people. A
free handing out has been in progress
FIR several days, in a back room down
Main street. 1t is stated that $50, 600
has been raised through Jay hubbell's
assessments Oh Federal o~ficeholders
to influence the election in Tennessee
alone, and the first installments are
now in course Of division. Those who
expect to work for the oficeholding
Republican ring should call upon
those who handle this fund, and claim
their share.
Under the present management it is
only necessary for goods coming from
the South by rail and river to be ac
cOmpanied with a certificate of in
spection by an officer Of the National
Board of Health. The goods can then
come in. The House of Representa-.
tives has consented to let the National
Board have $98, 600 to run it through
to next year, though the Senate has
yet to sanction the measure. The
Board has not withdrawn its inspect
ors, as it threatened to do some time
ago, and it is not likely to Withdraw
them as long as the money holds out.
OId Reliable