Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-13
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THE CITY.
Monday Evening, Feb. rs. 1852
LRDGER LLEEo,

A short crop Of ice is assured.
Tomorrow is st. Valentines day.
Best roasted coffee. Lytle & Shields.
Gloves cleaned byMrs, Gray ,404Main.
Brown & JONES, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
The opera of Martha" tomorrow
night.
Pixley had the biggest matinee of
the season.
Cotton futures went down with a
run this forenoon.
Mardi Gras is a week off, but we'll
have none Of it here.
A heavy fog enveloped the river and
the city this forenoon.
The Vokes Family are to play at
our theater next week.
Extra quality mixed pickles, by the
gallon, at Lyle & Shields.
Prof Saxby's class tonight for la
dies and gentlemen, 1874 Main.
A temperance meeting is to be held
tonight at the Brick church, Chelsea.
Envelopes, Xxx, high cut, cheapest
in the city, at LEDGER job printing
Office.
License to marry was issued to-day
to Sheldon Wilton and Miss Ellen Y.
McGavock.
1t is expected that trains will be
started hence to Louisville by way of
Bowling Green, tomorrow.
No prospect of cold weather to day,
according to the Washington Signal
Service telegram sent out at noon.
Choice pickles and kraut, cheap.
Seed potatoes. General commission.
Watts d Williams, 342 Front street.
Those who deal in cotton and have
investments based upon anticipated
higher prices, are all in the dumps to.
day.
Our cotton receipts at noon to day
showed the total for the season to be
40, 299 bales behind last year at this
time.
Mr.. Jno. B. Black, of Cherokee
Springs, S. G., was buried at EImwood
yesterday afternoon by the Masonic
fraternity.
Those who expected to plow for
potato planting to day were disap.
pointed by yesterday and last nights
soaking rain.
The cruelty to animal agent I'M
harnessed lame mule out of dIay
this forenoon at the corner of Main
and Madison streets.
G. Monnier, 128 Beal street has
just received another fresh lot Of vac
cine virus from the New England Vac
cine Co., Chelsea, Mass.
The Nashville American will now
probably speak Of that "old fellow
Jack Williams" as the Hon. Judge
Williams, of Winchester.
Application for a receiver to look
after NJ. G. MundiBger's interests and
the claim of B. Lowenstein is before
the Chancery Court to-day.
Emma Abbott and her company
appear at Cairo tonight, and here to-
morrow night. Edwin, Booth opens
for week tonight at St. Louis.
At half-past eleven this forenoon
cotton futures in New York we're
quoted 26 to 20 points below Satur-
day closing prices, and spots fell &c
on all classes.
The annual meeting Of the State
Grand Lodge, knights Of Pythias. is
to meet here to morrow, and the del
egates are to be escorted through our
city in proper style upon their arrival.
The Louisville railway sends regular
trains over their route hence to Nash.
vile by way of Mckenzie, but the
Bowling Green trains are still sus-
pended because Of high water.
The dark Of the moon is the time
TO plant potatoes, though the earth il
too damp for it just now. Some who
planted When the moon was tull last
year had fully as good a crop as those
who did it during the dark season.
The Cowdon Lake Borgne memorial
still had but one signature at the Cot
ton Exchange to-day at noon, while
that asking an appropriation to pro-
tect our harbor had seventeen. The
latter is apparently the most interest.
ing to our inhabitants.
Colonel Barney Hughes, who at
times is called Professor, has issued
the first number of the sixth volume
Of the Railway Record, a publication
Of unbounded wealth and popularity
The issue under review is rich. rare
and rollicky, not collicky, mind you.
The new steamer Emma Etheridge
recently constructed for use in the
Engineers Department for service al
and about Lake Providence. La
under orders of Lieutenant MARSHALL
United States Engineer Corps left
Cairo yesterday afternoon destined
SOL Tn, and is expected to arrive here
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