Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-13
LEDGER LINES.

LEDGER job printing Office, IL Mad
ison street.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
1t rained q inches here yesterday
and last night.
The cotton crop oflast year is nearly
all in the market.
Clements Arrow brand oysters are
the best. Try them.
Office of Scuppernong Wine Co.,
No. 4 Madison street.
Martin Walt has just received plen-
ty choice Western butter; cheap; try 1t.
Choice dressed turkeys and fresh
celery at Victor d Fuchs, 80 and Al
Jefferson street.
Five hundred choice turkeys, live
and dressed, at S. Clements, for Sat-
urday's market.
Our streets and highways generally,
also cellars, we're well washed by the
heavy rain last night.
Fresh homemade leaf lard, snow
white, at John Mergle's, No. 450 Main
street, 12lc per pound.
The choicest staple and fancy groce-
ries, and fresh meats, at John
Mergle's, No. $50 Main street.
Go to John Mergle's, 400 Main st.,
and get your coal oil at l5c per gal
Ion and headlight oil at Zoe per gallon.
The Peoples Insurance Company of
this city declared a 5 per cent divi.
dend yesterday, out Of the earnings of.
the past six months.
Early this morning it was raining
heavily at Nashville and Vicksburg,
and lightly at Little Rock, Shreveport,
Galveston, Louisville and Pittsburg.
The mercury this morning at u n
rise hour was 80, and II degrees warm
er than yesterday at the same time.
The range yesterday was from 80 to 81.
Colonel w. P. Dunnavant and Mar
tin Kelly, Of this city, have secured a
large construction contract on the new
railway projected between Meridian,
Miss, and New Orleans.
The "Scimetar' is expected out to-
morrow week. 1t promises to be short,
sharp and incisive, and though its
edges may be slightly curved, it will
doubtless hew as straight as a shingle.
The building of the railway between
this city and Holly Springs, thence on
toward Selma, Ala, is expected to be
one of the enterprises of the near fu-
ture. How near, is not indicated at
this time.
The moon changed and entered its
last quarter near noon yesterday but it
caused no change ofthe weather. Per-
haps when it changes to a new moon
next Thursday it will have an in-
huence on the elements.
Owing to the inclemency of the
weather the lecture of Rev. DR.. Sam
field, on "Guiteau and the Theory Of
Inspiration" will not be delivered at
the Synagogue tonight and is post
poned until further notice.
Ofthe many who trudged through
the mud to witness an expected mar
rlage ceremony at a church on Her
nando street, and which did not &C.
cur, not n can now be found willing
to admit being disappointed or sold.
The School Board committee to
whom was referred the question of
paying teachers during the Christmas
holiday week, met yesterday and de-
cided to recommend that the Board
pay the same for their season OF rest
as they do when work is performed.
The Secretary of State has not yet
forwarded the commissions of the re.
Gently elected city officials. Sheriff
Athy telegraphed him this morning to
send them without further delay. The
old Council will probably meet to day
and adjourn sine die without transact
ing any business.
Among the visitors to our city at
present are Miss Maude Bailey, of
GAINESVILLE, daughter of ex United
States Senator James Bailey; also
Miss Blanche Winter, of Mississippi.
Both Of the charming young ladies are
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Bryan,
on Lauderdale street.
The thousand dollar prize money
for the best bale Of cotton at the At.
lanta Exposition will soon be in the
hands Of the grower, Mr.. Compton,
who resides a few miles from Bates
vile, in Pamela county, Miss, a region
that produces the best cotton on
earth, excepting sea island.
The dividend notices and financial
advertisements which appeared in the
New York Tribune Tuesday, occupied
one entire page of hat paper. This
is believed to be a larger quantity than
has ever been published in any other
New York paper, and is regarded as
marking the food-tideu of financial en-.
terprise since the tremendous ebb
after the great panic of 1873.
Attorney General Turner is making
an effort to check the indiscriminate
issuance of warrants upon trivial
charges for the arrest of persons By
several county Magistrates. A letter
has been addressed by him to Criminal
Judge Horrigan, citing a case in
point, and asking the Judge t. decide
upon its merits, SO that others Of like
character may be properly disposed Of,
and the costs saved to the county.
A little stir in the upper country
nail market has caused some confusion
in quotations here, and figures are a
dollar a keg out Of the way in some Of
the prints. The real price at the
factories is now 50 40 per keg for ten
pennies, an advance Of Is cents over
previous ruling prices. The usual
discount to the trade enable our deal
ers to sell at prices ranging from Is to
% cents per keg above factory quota
tions.
Dir. Henry Hotter, as chief Secre.
49, a.l 4A "