Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-22
LEDGER LIaEs

LEDGER LIHk2
Ash Wednesday.
Roll corred beef, at Deans.
Dry Saratoga chips, at Deans.
80 cts roe shad, at Signaigo's, 27S
Oyster bay asparagus. Lytle&Shields
90 cts roe shad, at Signaigo's, 92 Beal
No cotton kilograms from any quar-
ter to-day.
Prof. Saxby's class tonight for la
dies and gentlemen. Hop Friday.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
The flies have begun to bite. Gnats
are close ahead.
"Cusin joe will be played again
next Friday night.
A full line California canned fruits,
at Lyle & Shields.
PUBLIC LEDGER bindery and Job
Office, Is Madison street.
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office
and book bindery, IL Madison.
"Spring Chickens" at Wills &
Wildberger's, 3l7 Main street.
Envelopes, Xxx, high cut, cheapest
in the city, at LEDGER job printing
Office.
Shaker dressed turkeys and Shaker
eggs, at Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and IL
Jefferson street.
jugs, jars, crooks and churns. Ike
A. Chase, 22O Front. Also 10000
secondhand sacks.
Mardi-G ras was quiet, owing, per-
haps, to its being the eve of the ami
versary of Washington's birth.
Temperature at sunrise, 33o, and 80
below yesterday at the same time.
Yesterdays range was 30 to $50.
The rains have quit to the north
ward, and the flooded rivers look less
threatening to-day than they did yes
terday.
The sale of tickets in the Little
Havana Lottery is progressing with a
rush, as the drawing takes place on
Friday.
For the latest style of boots and
and shoes go to Voegeli & Cos, new
store, 81 Main street opposite Court
Square.
Rev. E. P. Hammond, the world
renowned reviyalist, will commence o
series of meetings in this city next
Saturday.
Private residences in the city must
be cleaned at once. The house-to-
house inspection is going into force
without delay.
Public latrines for private use are to
be built at the Poplar and Beale street
markethouses, the same not to cost
over $500 each.
The Water Company are fixing to
supply the city and the people with
all the water wanted, so the water and
the city officials say.
The bluff from Jefferson to Union
streets will be a public hack stand.
except where the customhouse blocks
the way and obstructs the view.
Mr.. Fred HUM is the scavenger for
a year to come at $50 per month, and
w. l.. Stillman shoes the city's horses
at $l.4O each for the same period.
A fresh twelve mile nor wester this
morning and a frosty atmosphere
made early wayfarers' fingers and toes
ache as they havn'1 done for weeks
past.
A hundred head of cattle were
driven through the city this forenoon,
all from a submerged plantation down
the river, and seeking a high, dry bluff
like ours.
To pave Poplar street thirty feet
wide from Front to Manassas with
Nicolson will cost nearly S24, 900 at
Sl.25 per square foot. The DISTANCE
is $500 feet.
DR.. Gustavus B. Thornton was
chosen to succeed himselfas President
of the Board Of Health yesterday, by a
large majority. The vote in his favor
was unanimous.
The property owners on the south
ern part OF Lauderdale arc generally
laying new plank sidewalks. Several
dozen miles Of new ones have been
ordered on other streets.
Yesterdays storm, which emptied a
water spout over Illinois and Indiana.
has moved northwest, and this morn
ing had reached the st. Lawrence
valley and New England.
The highest barometric area to day
is in the West Gulf States, and no rain
fell anywhere South yesterday or last
night. 1t was clearing up this fore
noon all over the upper Ohio valley.
After the tenth of next month
everybody living where the sewers run
must carry their own garbage to the
public dump. The city fathers will quit
this filthy business at the time named.
The drawing Of the Commonwealth
Lottery takes place next Tuesday.
Get a ticket at once or they mayall be
sold several days before the drawing.
as was the case with another lottery
this month.
In the Mundinger embezzlement
case yesterday the required bond of
$4,000 was given, with Messrs. J. w.
Caldwell and j. J.. Busby as sureties.
the defendant to answer before q
higher tribunal.
The penitential season opened this
morning in sober earnest. An inns
mense throng of people attended st.
Peters church for devotional services.
and other churches were also largely