Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-26

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teen thousand dollars towards the Gay
oso hotel enterprise.
Retail coal dealers T head over
heels in work at present, supplying
families with a stock for winter use.
Prices are low and roads excellent.
The burglar and house breaker,
Reub Shaw has been exceeding quiet
for SOM nights, but may break loose
in unexpected localities at any mo
ment,
A recent writer has a scheme for
p%hotographing the noon. 1t would
be interesting to know whether or not
he carries his umbrella like a cane or
a canopy.
A countryman offered nice water
melons yesterday at three cents each
and declared that rather than take
less he'd haul them home for his pigs,
and he did.
Sheriff Athy left this morning for
Dubuque. 1t is reported that he
carried along a pair Of handouts for
each ofthe Porter Guards, to be used
in case they do not take the first prize.
The Porter Guards have reache d
their field of glory, Dubuque, and
send kilograms home that they are
having the usual grand time enjoyed
by pleasure hunting excuasionists.
1t is hardly probable hal the fish
market will be sensibly affected by the
Adams street delegation who propose
spending to morrow upon the banks
of limpid lake, over to the west
ward.
Thatcher, Primrose & Vests min
strels iDaugurate the theatrical season
here, and Nick Roberts Humpty
Dumpty troupe do the same for New
Orleans at the Academy Of Music on
Wednesday next.
The aborigines on these bluffs used to
chase the wild game through the sur
rounding forest. The modern inhabi-
tants chase the almighty dollar through
the streets and buy tickets in the
Commonwealth Lottery.
In Northern and Eastern cities
people usually move in the spring, but
here nearly everybody selects August
or September for that unpleasant per-
Torrance. A number Of business
houses are changing quarters.
The Guy, Mcclellan Il Co. block
corner Front and Court streets, will
be sold at Chaucery sale next Satur-
day. This is the best opportunity for
investment in choice business property
that has occurred in several years.
1t is an easy matter during warm
weather to invent or imagine a scandal
about almost any lodging house. Peo-
pie generally have a delightful disre-
gard Of superhuous garments and the
proTrieties Of life.
Agentleman Of this city, who was
present at the recent large and en-
thusiastic Chalmers meeting" Of
Greenbackers, at Coffeeville, Miss.
says thsrp we're exactly twenty-five
men and three boys present.
1t is evident from the dispatches
that the Porter Guards will have to
exert themselves if they desire to win
the first prize at Dubuque. Several
Of the companies who entered at the
last moment have more than a local
reputation and will give the Memphis
boys a lively tussle,
The first bale of cotton of the season
went into Vicksburg last Wednesday,
sold for twenty-five cents per pound
and classed low middliDg 1t was
raised near Vicksburg. Our first
bale came in last year three weeks
before this time, but 20 symptoms of
a first bale are to be discovered at
present.
The matrimonial market is duller
than for months. No licenses to
marry we're issued yesterday, and none
up to noon to-day The young men
declare they are afraid to propose for
fear they will be accused Of wanting
TO marry just for the sake Of drawing
a premium from some matrimonial as.
ISOLATION.
Sol COleman's we'll known cigar
establishment is not p~atronized on
Sundays, simply because be will not
open his side or front doors on that
day for the transaction of any bust
ness whatever. He kindly keeps his
store open, however, on Saturdays till
II o'clock pm. for the accommodation
Of his patrons. To see his store packed
with we'll pleased customers on Satur.
day, or any other working day of the