Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-22

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be present.
Squirrel hunting is among the en-
j1yable sports now largely INDUCED in
by those of our country cousins with
time to spare for it.
A large sycamore tree standing on
the corner of Linden aud Mulberry
street was blown down yesterday,
blocking up the street.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER job print
ing Office, ID Madison street.
Young cotton is in a sorry condition
in all the country round, and many
planters are replsnting.I Seed is scarce
and worth thirty-6ve cents per bushel.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, 13
Madison street, execute every class
Of such work in good style and at low
rates.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and book bindery is prepared to
execute work with neatness and dis
patch, and at as low rates as any COM
petitor.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office constantly receives new type of
the latest styles, and the Office gener-
ally is kept up tOthe highest standard
Of excellence.
The Commonwealth Lottery will hold
another drawing next week. Lottery
ticket purchasers should supply them
selves at once so as to be represented
in this drawing.
Numerous plantations along the
river, south of us, are already satu-
rated with water from the threatening
river, 70 that portions of the tillable
lands are unfit for cropping.
Hand bills of all sizes, from the
smallest to a three-sheet poster, done
with neatness and dispatch at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills of lading, cards and all kinds of
commercial printing done as we'll and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER office
as anywhere in tina United States.
The Jeans Senator'S summer night
entertainment will take place at Esti-
val Park two weeks from tonight.
This club always makes a grand sue
cess of whatever they undertake.
Some injury by worm and rust has
been sustained by wheat in scattering
interior neighborhoods. This impor
tant cereal is about ready to harvest
hereabOuts, and the abundant yield is
driving the price OF -four downward.
A fresh six miles nor'wester drove
the mercury down to $50 early this
morning, and 100 lower than yester-
day at the same time. 1t promises to
warm up from this time forth, how
ever.
The through accommodation pas
senger train No s over the Louisville
& Nashville railroad changed time to.
day. Hereafter it will leave at 1855
am, forty. five minutes later than
heretofore and it arrives at 2:4O pm.
is twenty minutes earlier than
the same train has been coming in.
The Pickwick Club at New Orleans.
celebrated for tWenty-four years past 80
keeping the keys to the dea of Comus
and bis mystic crew, have arranged to
build a club house to cost several
hundred thousand dollars, and to be
the finest in the country. 1t will be
located on the corner of Carondelet
and Canal streets.
1t vas raining this morning. at
chattanooga, Louisville, Cincinnati
Pittsburg, and Nashville had
nearly half an inch Of rain last night.
Clearing weather is promised to- day
all over the section alluded to. Upat
this morning the mercury
was four degrees below freezing point,
and over in the Indian Territory and
North Texas it was below the Irost
point.
Considerable uneIsiness is mani.
tested by persons familiar with &e
situation, regarding the caviDg banks
ofthe river above Hopefeld, and OPP
posite the head of Presidents Island
on the other side of the river.
Some assert that there is no doubt but
that a cutoff will occur in the near
by way Of -Four Mile Bayou,
which is now less than three miles.
and when it does, if it ever does,
Memphis will be an inland city.
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