Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-01


Of he Bal stEsas passmBat has !
aOsen more are necessary 20 finish. IL
will be q week or more before it Is
done.
The street car drivers were all care
fully studying their new schedules
yesterday all the spare time they had.
From this out each car is to u on
time, the same as a steam railway
train.
A COW has no right to be turned
loose to roam and browse on other
peoples grounds, therefore put 'em in
the pound, and keep Oh at it, until the
last one is caught and Gagged.
Mr.. E. B. Britt, candidate for Mag
~istrate in the Fourteenth Civil Dis
trict, is still in the race, and has no
intention of Withdrawing, as certain
parties have reported he has done.
1t rained nearly an inch last night
up around the head waters of the
Ohio, and it was still raining at Pitts
burg this morning. Cincinnati also
enjoyed a fine rain and thunder storm
early this morning,
The regular nominees of the Demo-
cratic convention for Justices of the
Peace in the Fourteenth Civil District
are the present worthy, capable and
efficient incumbents, Thomas Fleming
and John I. Elliott.
William, Sam and Lee have re-
turned from an extended trip West
aud East, and they have publicly as.
serted that they came home hungry
for a good smoke, and went to Sol.
Coleman to get it, and they got it.
The Monroe street pavement laying
work is the best and most numerously
inspected Of any known to have been
laid in this city for half a generation.
1t don't keep the partly rotted blocks
from going in, however, the inspectors
not being under regular pay.
Receipts Of cotton are now
l29,3l5 bales short Of last year,
but the quantity handled this
year has brought nearly as much
money as did the previous crop. 1t
was better cotton, and vas worth
more, while prices have ruled higher
throughout the season.
The difference in the value Of cotton
to day and a year ago is considerable.
Ordinary is worth &c more; good ordi.
nary, 2ic; low middling, l3c; mid
ding, ltc; and good middling, lc.
A bale of cotton is, therefore, worth
from five to fifteen dollars more now
than it was last season.
The EliOwood street car route has
another new coach, No. AZ. There are
six regulars on the route, and extras
during busy hours. They are to pass
every fifteen minutes, according to
the new schedule. Vance street has
ten cars and Main street six, besides
extras during the most active hours.
81 want to see if l can't get you
fellows to correct the statement about
the origin of the fire on Monroe
street. 1t didn't happen at No. go
any more than it did in this Office"
Thus spoke a visitor in this Office to-
day. There was thought to have been
a fire in the row Of which 80 is a part,
but perhaps it was only a little smoke.
The pleasurable practice Of target
shooting in a back yard enabled R. s.
Brown to kill a little seven
year old girl named Annie
Mcmahon. at Louisville last
Sunday afternoon, and the poor fell
lows feelings were much hurt at the
grief Of the little ones mother and the
breaking up Of his regular sport. If.
he had turned the point Of his gun
toward his own progeny instead Of
other peoples, there would be no just
cause to complain, but target shooters
never do hal way.