Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-14

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over for this season.
The staple Of cotton this season is
of a very superior character.
Rio, Java, Mocha and MaricaI o
roasted coffees, at Lyle & Shields.
Mrs. Phillips viii open her board
inghouse this evening at IS Madison.
The bird shooters can open their
seasons sport, according to law, to-
morrow.
Haviland & Co.'S French china
plaques and odd pieces for decorating
at c. N. Erich's.
Sol Uoleman's elegantly painted and
complete cigar establishment will be
reopened this evening at $50.
New York Counts and Baltimore
can oysters, Mackinaw trout and Reel
foot perch at Signaigo's, $50 Second.
Paving laborers are active on Her
nando street, south of Union, and the
Jefferson street work is about finished.
A beautiful drop curtain, painted
10 New York, is expected to arrive at
the theater herein time forthe opening
night next Monday.
No rain anywhere South yesterday
or last night, and the clear skies with
warm sunshine, makes the cotton
planters heart glad.
A jubilee entertainment is to be
considered at the Cotton Exchange
to. night, and the preliminaries of the
programme will be arranged.
Cotton receipts at Galveston to day
were 2O42 bales; at New Orleans 8lS
bales; Savannah, 1888 bales; Charles
ton, 1912 bales, and at Mobile 65l
bales.
The autumn festivals set in last
evening, among the Hebrews, and
their places Of business are all closed
to-day. They will reopen at half past
six this evening.
The cotton buyers fol foreign &C
count were in the market yesterday,
for the first time in several weeks.
Spinners are anxious for the new crop
to arrive more freely.
0ur country cousins will throng the
city next Saturday to see the great
show. The only entertainment to
beat a big circus in drawing a crowd
is a Mardi Gras festival.
The regular theatrical season here
opens two weeks from Monday next
with Callender's COlored Minstrels,
eighty in number, Meantime we are
to have the Thatcher, Primrose &
West Minstrels, and cinderella" by
home talent.
The sidewalks are in many places
crowded with boxes Of new goods, and
this evidence of approaching business
activity is not alluded to in a spirit Of
complaint. Wayfarers, as a general
thing, are glad to see it, and can steer
clear Of Instructions without serious
inconvenience.
Cotton growers are especially anx
ious about the weather, and ask when
the first killing frost is likely to
appear. A killing frost, they say, is
one that makes a chip white on both
sides, and if that sort will keep away
for seven weeks, the cotton yield will
be all that the most sanguine can
desire.
To-day is an important one for Con-
gressional aspirants among the Repub.
%licans. That party hopes to win at
the Congressional election, but if it
expects to beat the Democratic candi-
date, be it Judge Horrigan, Judge
Sneed, Hon. Casey Young or Hon. c.
B. SimoUton, it will have to bestir
itself.
Black and white mackerels aud bad
little boys and girls are complained Of
by our Front Row merchants. They
roam along and dodge into doorways,
often picking up aud carrying off ar.
ticles Of value. The same sort throw
mud aud stones into street cars and
other public cOnyeyanees, greatly to
the annoyance as we'll as danger Of
travellers.