Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-05
LEDGER LINES.

See 0zanne 4 Nays oil card.
New books daily at Williams.
The coolest Fourth in forty years.
Snowflake biscuit. Lyle l. Shields
Board of Public Works meet to.
day.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 28Z
Main street.
Only scrub games Of base ball were
played yesterday.
New mackerel in kit, just received
by Lyle & Shields.
The Chickasaw Guards are to drill
at six this evening.
The indianapolis Daily Journal to
be had daily at Mansford's.
Prairie hay received daily in car lots
by Ike A. Chase, 22O Front.
The Criminal Court and grand jury
will be in session tomorrow.
Stop your leaky roofs by using Wat
sons paragon red oxide paint.
The rotunda OF the courthouse is
headquarters for the log rollers.
Three colored couples celebrated
the Fourth by getting married.
Whippoorwill and other stock peas.
Also choice seed corn. H. Dow.
Watson's paragon red oxide paint,
best and cheapest paint in the market.
Just received-Grated cheese for
macaroni, at John Mergles, 45O Main.
Temperature this morning, 69 de-
grses. Range yesterday, 20 to 81 de-
grees.
The GOODNESS stiffened flies up so
they couldn't circulate freely this
morning.
1.-THE tubs is racin. guess" was a
darky's description of a whistling
racket on the river yesterday.
Fifty cents month will secure the
mailing OF a copy of this paper each
day to summer or any other absentees.
Dry weather is not likely to dry up
the rivulet of business which triekles
through the Probate Court. 1t goes
all the summer.
Persons leaving the city for the
summer can order the DAILY LEDGER
at 80 cents per month in advance, with
the privilege of changing postOfice.
About three -iourths Of an inch of
rain fell at Nashville, Cairo and Little
Rock yesterday. 1t was also raining
at Indianapolis, St, Louis and Vicks-
burg.
Private subscriptions toward paw
ing the various streets will be consid
cred at the Council meeting to-mor-
row, and contracts will be let where
they are most needed.
Politics are the most exciting sub
iect row before the people, and the
next one of most interest is who will
win the capital prize in the Little
Havana Lottery drawing next Satur-
day.
The following dispatch was received
by Mr.. J. Handwerker this forenoon
from st. Louis: Expressed orchestral
parts Of Patience Signed, W. W.
Furst, Director Of Ford's Opera Com
pany."
The Chesakeake & Ohio railroad are
doing large amount of paving on the
levee, which is now in frst.class con
dition. The Beal street pavement
will be put through at once as the
stone has arrived.
President Hadden has ordered the
practice in vogue at the various engine
houses Of hitchiug up at noon and at
8 o'clock discontinued on Sundays on
account Of the proximity of some of
the engine houses to places Of religious
worship.
The name Of the lad who shot Mrs.
Dow below the knee joint yesterday,
while practicing with a delringer, is
Bruce Sheppard, and he is II years
old. If nothing else will bring that
boy to a sense Of prOpriety, a $50 fine
for shooting within the city limits
ought to. Such outrages should be
stopped, and at once. Back yards are
not good places for target practice.
A private letter received from DR..
W. B. Rogers, dated London, June
18th, says after spendinga short while
at the Vienna hospital, he went to
London, where he is now located, and
where the hospital facilities are very
fine. The Doctor tells Of having
travelled through the south Of France,
Switzerland, Italy and Austria, but
gave up an intended trip to Germany.
He mentions a heavy snow storm in
Scotland on the 18th Of June, and
says he is pursuing his studies ear
nestly, and not wasting time frolick-
ing.
Oscar Wilde considers the deco
rated china, printed or enamelled, on
what is known as Ivory clay, the
most chaste and beautiful products Of
the crematic art. He is said to abhor
ware decorated on DELPHI or stone