Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-13

zens will beSlOssd from sunset toby
to sunset tomorrow.
Local cotton gins are ready for
active duty, and anxiously await
activity in the cotton movement
New York Counts and Baltimore
can oysters, Mackinaw trout and Reel
foot perch at SignGigO's, 80 Second.
A lot Of fine saddle and harness
horses, aud fine dray mules, for sale at
Manor's stable, l64 Main street. OppO.
site courthouse.
A high mass of requiem will be cell
ebrated at ST. Peters church to-
morrow friday at 81 o'clock, for the
repOse Of the soul Of the late Michael
Clancy.
Sells Bros great show is to be at
Henderson, KY. on the S0th inst,
and Judge Simmons, who has been in
clover ever since he went there, will
then be hilarious.
Sol Coleman will Join his eo.relig-
iOnists tomorrow in observing the
Jewish New Year, and his cigar store
will consequently be closed from six
O'Clock this afternoon and remain
closed for t~wenty-four hours.
The Calender Colored company,
consolidated with Haverly's European
Minstrels, are at ST. Louis this week.
Web Sykes, of this city, is in the
troupe. They open the regular sea-
son here the second Of next month.
Charles @. Murdoch has become the
owner Of the interest Oft. L. Risk in
the Milburn Iron Works of this city,
aud be has filed a bill in the Circuit
Court here asking that a mandamus
issue to compel the transfer Of 10
shares OF the company's stock to him
The Jewish New Year will be
ushered in this evening, Appropriate
services will be held at the synagogue,
corner Main and Exchange, to-day at
$50 pm, and tomorrow at 10 am.
At the morning service a lecture will
be delivered by Rev. DR.. Samfeld,
rabbi Of the congregation.
Thelowest temperature this morning
was64e, and 50 warmer than yesterdays
lowest. The atmosphere was hazy in
the early hours; the breeze came fresh
from the southeast and at the rate Of
eight miles an hour. The coolest
spot in the South this morning was
over 1T Chattanooga, where the mer-
curry was down to $50.
The first bale Of cotton from our
neighbOring county, DeSoto, Missis-
sippi, was received on this evenings
NJ. and T. freight, consigned by j.
W. Foster & Sons, Of Horn Lake,
Mississippi, to the new and enter
prising firm Of billiard, Armistead &
Lundee, Of l6 and Is Union street,
who also received to-day over the
Memphis and Paducah road four
bales, supposed to be new.
On Saturday, Sunday and Monday
last over three inches of rain fell at
Wilmington, N. C; two and three
fourths inches at Augusta, three and
a half inches at Atlsnta, two and a
half inches at Savannah, nearly an
inch at Charleston, over two inches at
Montgomery and one-half Of an inch
at Mobile and New Orleans. This
accounts for the twenty FIVE foot rise
in the Savannah river at Augusta. 1t
was dry all over the South on yester-
day and to-day.
The news from Egyptis interesting
to-day. Our English cousins are very
likely to break the backbone Of the
rebellion in that distant country in
time for the new crop Of cotton to
come forward in good shape. Last
years total shipments from there was
AL 900 bales. Late adVices are to the
effect that the growing crop is in fair
condition, and promises to yield about
100000 bales less than last year.