Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-28
PUBLIC LEDGER,
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THE CITY.
LEDGER LINEF,

The last of the month.
Fresh roe shad at Clements.
Dealers are in the dumps again.
Buckeye cook book at Williams.
Country roads are deep with mud.
Clements Arrow brand oysters are
excellent.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 281
Main street.
Temperature at sunrise $40, and
range yesterday 46 to 600.
IT. 0. Ellis and Mary &. Chambers
were licensed to marry to-day.
Our cottoa receipts are now 59,667
bales short Of last year at this date.
Thunder roared and lightning
flashed freely all through last night.
Planting and blowing is again sus-
pended, the weather being the cause.
Jugs, jars, crooks and churns. Ike
A. Chase, 22O Front. Also 10000
second hand sacks.
Choice dressed chickens and tur-
keys; also fresh lot salmon and perch,
at Clements, sc Beal.
A thunderbolt about 3 o'clock this
morning resounded far and near and
awoke many a slumberer.
Celery, new potatoes, new peas, new
tomatoes, cabbage and sweet potatoes
at Matt Mcnaghan's, IA Front.
The west side of Main street, north
Of Court, wears a gloomy aspect since
Menken Bros. and Leubrie quit.
Fresh lot of Savannah river shad
and red snappers just received by
Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and Al Jefferson.
Copper plate, wedding and visiting
cards, engraved and printed in latest
styles at moderate cost at G. L. Byrd
q Co., N5 Main street.
We are going to have cold weather,
the indications say. 1t will spread
through Texas and all of the West
Gulf States as we'll as hereabouts.
Two New York banks are reported
to have suffered q couple of hundred
thousand loss by the Menken failure.
VI course it is onlya nporary loss.
The proper names Of the two men
charged with blowing up and robbing
the safe of Henry Peil, of Little
Rock, are said to be 0'Neal and
Kelly.
After a weeks absence at Pine
Bluff, arranging Mardi Gras matters.
Mr.. Samuel May, came home Sunday.
He states that the Carnival at Pine
Bluff was a great success.
The Rice extravaganza troupe, with
burlesques on Patience, "Olivette, y
etc, are to be here the last of next
week, The theater is to be closed on
the three first days Of the week.
What does 'Menken's Mash mean.
pa?" said a little girl when look.
ing over a morning newspaper. 1T
is vulgar, my child, and l hope you
will never use SO indicate a word"
was the reply.
THE front door key is lost and they
have a blind man looking for it." said
a person yesterday morning when the
inquiring crowd wished to know why
Menken's store failed to have its doors
open.
VIM. Smith and wife to w. j.
Flaek, deed; M Gavin to John
League, ditto, r. ID. Frayser, IT,. to
Springfield & Memphis 4. r., ditto,
were papers filed in the Registers
Office to-day.
At the residence of S. Frank An.
dreYs, on Court street, this forenoon,
all Of the employees of the defunct firm
Of Menken Eros. were paid off. They
were confident yesterday they would
not lose anything.
The rainfall here last night meas.
ured q inches in depth, and the
amount to the square acre was 27C
tons. Over Court Square nearly 55C
tons of water fell, enough to load al
ordinary steamboat.
A Mardi Gras meeting last night al
the Peabody appeared to be harmo.
NOUS, though small. Several COCO
and earnest citizens advocated the
scheme, and another meeting wa,
arranged for tomorrow night.
Last nights heavy rains over thu
Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio
valley water shed are not as encourag
ing as is desirable, but it will be a dsy
or two before an estimate can be prop
eIly formed as to the effects upon tn,
rivers.
Jesuit priests from Chicago are con
Quoting j. mission at st. Patrick
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