Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-27

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morning; also rainy et Vieksbufg aud
Chattanooga. Fair and cool weather
| is promised for this immediate section.
Quotations for cotton havenot varied
here during the past eighteen days.
The feeling was better aud sales larger
on yesterday than any day for more
than q week.
Wealth produces leisure, and leisure
produces opportunities to. enjoy life.
Wealth will be distributed next Tues
day by the Commonwealth Lottery, of
Louisville to its ticket holders. Get
a ticket at once.
my Partner" by the Aldrich and
Parsloe company at the theater last
night drew moderately, aud the play
gave good satisfaction. 1t will be re-
peated tonight and for the last time
tomorrow afternoon.
Major Warner, Hon. Duncan Coop
er and Mr.. Van Leon Polk, of Middle
Tennessee, left the city last night for
the COpalquin and San Francisco
mines in Mexico to contract for put
ting in new machinery and Fastening
the work.
The wind changed to the northwest
last night, and the veil Of fog hanging
low upon the river was quickly scat.
tered. Previously the breeze had
been straight from the south, and the
mercury yesterday oscillated between
So and SO degrees.
New pews for Calvary church are
now in course of manufacture by
CooverN& Co., of this city, the same
to be completed within thirty-6ve
days from the time the bargain was
closed, and designs furnished by
Architect James B. Cook.
No contagious sickness is allowed
to be treated at the City Hospital. The
smallpox patient who died some time
ago was treated at the pesthouse four
miles south of the city, where cases of
scarletfever and all other infectious
troubles are sent for medical atten-
ton.
From the way it looks, the river
will not rise many inches more on this
swell. At Cairo the waters appear to
have reached their highest, and here
it is about two and a half feet below
the greatest rise known. 1t is now
entirely too high for the comfort Of
many who reside in the low grounds.
The committee appointed by the
Cotton Exchange to consider ways
and means to check the caving Of the
river front held a preliminary meet
ing this forenoon at the United States
Engineer s efiee, where Major w. FL.
II. Benyaurd has headquarters. They
will hold farther consultations before
giving the results to the public.
The Mozart Society last Saturday
night gave up the use of the theater
that Booth might give Memphis his
rendition of Iago. On nextSaturday
night (28th) Olivette will be given and
all signs point to a full house, as the
society have given much attention to
its rehearsal, and its membership
comprises nearly every lover Of music
in the city.
Seven degrees below zero was the
mercury mark over at Dodge City,
Western Kansas, yesterday. Up at
Bismark, Dakota, it was five degrees
below zero this morning. The tenn
perature here this morning was f6o
cooler than yesterday at the same hour,
and northerly winds has driven the
mercury down from l0o to 28o all over
the country northwest of this.
The price of cotton in this market
at present is ) to &c better on mid
ding and the upper grades, and | to
lie higher on low middling and in
terior grades, than it was at the open
ing of the season in September last
Prices are also from / to &c higher
than ruled at this date last year, the
poorer classes showing the widest
difference owing to their relative
scarcity this season as compared with
last.
Travellers arriving here from the
Louisiana sugar districts report cane
growing beautifully under the inhu-
ence of the genial warmth which has
prevailed in that part of the coun-
try. With a favorable season
there will be the largest yield
Of any season during the past twenty
years. Strenuous efforts are in pro
Tess to make heavy crop. Sugar
planters all hope for favorable grow
ing weather.