Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-24

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Az q thoroughfare Beal street Is
likely to remain closed ten days or
two weeks more, owing to g lack of
sufficient paving stone. A supply is
expected about the middle of the
present week.
Total deaths in this city last week,
ten, half white and half colored, and
no two deaths occurred from the same
disease. Last year for the same week
there we're twenty deaths, of which
nine we're white.
There will be a grand Democratic
rally in the Sixth Ward %(corner Main
and Pontotoc s%treets) this evening, at
s o'clock. Judge H. T. Elicit, Colonel
Luke w. Finlay and other able speak
ers will address the meeting.
The highest barometric area this
forenoon was from the lakes to the
gulf, also along the south Atlantic
coast and up in Manitoba. The lowest
was away up in the Northwest, in the
Platte valley and further on.
The river has fallen nearly seven
feet here during the past ten days.
The sandbar opposite the city is be.
ginning to show its surface, and
steamers must now run the shape of
the river in ~voyagiug either up or
down.
Breeze light from the northeast and
temperature at sunrise 20 degrees.
The wind was from the northeast all
Of yesterday, and it was a delightful
midsummer day. It's going to warn
up a little more, however, in the near
future.
They are cremating from $50 to 200
dogs daily at New Orleans, and the
residuum is turned into soap, bone
black and soil fertiliEing material. III
we could only utilize our surplus dogs
that way there would be some good in
dogs after all.
Some night hawk left a first class
straw hat in Mr.. Van Dresser's back
yard, near ellis Station, two and a
halt miles east of the city, between y
and o'clock this morning. The Wis
itor, who was in a hurry at the time,
can get all the dogs left of the hat, by
calling for it.
Parties joining matrimonial insur
anc companies will consult their own
interests by examining the principal
features of the Memphis Mutual Aid
Society. Office, Z Monroe street. The
only company paying ten per cent of
the amount due on certificate at once
upon receipt Of proof Of marriage.
Specimens of fruit. Of corn, of d.
ton and of other productions are fire.
quently on exhibition at the Cotton
Exchange. The samples are some
times cOn6scated by visitors, and
sometimes they help to supply a
dinner for the Secretary; again, some
times the grower comes and carries
them away again.
The Sunday laws we're vigorously
enforced yesterday and the Peabody
cigar stand, as we're many other SINH
lar places we're closed at an early hour
in the morning. A few beer shops
kept a side door sjar and lot their
electric lights shine so that thirty
wanderers might slide quietly in and
get a refreshing draught, but this was
all.
From every direction the news
comes that corn is 10 splendid pron-
Use the oat, wheat and other cereal
crops have yielded bountiful harvests;
the potato crop up North is lu~xuriant,
and will be ready for the digger next
month and the cotton crop Of the
South, though still in embryo, with
many uncertain influences yet to en-
counter, is as good as could be ex
pected. Farther to the south, sugar
cane is splendid and rice is fine. The
latter is nearly ripe.
A requiem mass is to be chanted at
the st. Peters Catholic church on
Adams street tomorrow morning at
ten o'clock, for the repose of the soul
Of the late James Speed. The re-
mains Of the deceased are expected
here this evening. Emblems ofmourn-
ing decorate the Louisville 4 Nash
vile railway Office, corner Of Main and
Madison streets, where Mr. Speed had
his quarters for many years; also the
office Of the Memphis g. Ohio River
Packet Co.. on Monroe street.
The Committee Of Conference in
Congress last Thursday reduced the
river and harbor appropriations $780,
900, and among other changes made
the following. of interest in this Sec
ton: White river, Arkansaw. $l2 600,
stricken out; Current river, Arkansaw,
5000, stricken out; Smiths Shoals,
Cumberland river, Kentucky, from
$3.50 to SIS, Red river, Tennes.
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