Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-20
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

Carload ripe bananas, very cheap.
D. Canale & Co.
The minstrels play at Grenada to.
morrow night.
The finest assortment Of lunch bas
kets received at G. N. Erich's.
Mechanics are quite busy on i'm
provements in and about the city.
Rio, Java, Mocha aud Maricsbo
roasted coffees, at Lyle & Shields.
The Main street lamp posts are to
be labeled with the names Of cross
streets.
Three new connubial companies ap-
piled for charters Monday, and one
yesterday.
The city inspector is to be allowed
two dollars for examining elevator and
rail va scales, and one dollar for
wagon scales.
The Memphis Jockey Club races
take place next month, but the draw.
ing OF the Commonwealth Lottery
occurs this month.
Golden Crown -four, best in the
world, Clipped beef, and creamery
butter, at S. l.. Moore & Co.'s corner
fernando and Vance.
The lumber inspector is to be al
lowed z cents for ash, poplar, cypress
and cottonwood logs, 10 cents on oak
and gum, and l2l cents on walnut.
The railway companies are to be
required to keep aagmen at street
crossings, and to 6ll up their tracks
with gravel flush with the streets.
The stricken people Of Pensacola
have had $1,000 forwarded to them
from collections made here, and half
as much or more will be sent after it
10 a day or two.
To. morrow is equinox, and the sun
crosses the equator, going south. Next
Tuesday is the drawing of the Little
Havana Lottery. Everybody should
get a ticket.
Mr.. Napoleon Hill declines to run
for Congress in respoDae to the COM
plimeDtary call Of maDy fellow citi.
zans. His mercantile interests will
not admit of the sacrifice.
No rain here for the past two weeks,
save a little sprinkle last Sunday, and
the entire cotton belt has been espe-
cislly favored by the dry, hot and ex-
cellent ripening weather.
Messrs. Lee, James and Graves, Of
the City Council, are to examine the
public wharf to see about improving it
near the water line, and to report upon
the needed work to protect it.
The directory men are taking down
people according 10 color, white and
black, merely. They will hardly 20 80
far as to designate blondes from bru-
nettes or grifs, and octoroons from
Philippians.
Property owners ia and about the
city are to be ordered to cut wild
weeds down and clean them up; also,
to clean out the cutters without delay.
The city is to do it along the bayou.
Monroe street, from Main to Sec
ond, is to be paved with stone. Her.
uando street, from Gayoso to Beal. is
tn Lave new sidewalks, and a crossing
is TO be laid at fernando and Elliott
streets.
A farm for the rearing Of Catalpa
trees is about to be opened in South
ern Missouri by the Iron Mountain
railway, the product to be used for
cros;ties. They last fifteen years and
eYen longer.
Collection boxes for the relief Of
the sick at Pensacola have been placed
in varioHs parts Of the city. One at
a prominent bank didn't have a dime
in it at noon to-day. Committees with
printed headlists will be likely to have
better luck.
Darrell Brothers again to the front
with a grand hop at their pleasure gar
den to- morrow, Thursday evening, Sep
TENDER q, All lovers of the light fan
tastic are invited to attend dancing, to
commence at 8 o'clock. The best Of
music will be furnished. Ladies free.
Cotton pickers are in demand, and
the city gins will soon be busy. The
employees Of the latter have had a long
siege Of idleness, to many so irksome
that they have been obliged to poke
about in a listless sort Of way, talking
on politics or on topics equally disa.
greeable.
The 26th Of next month is fixed for
jubilee day. At the meeting last
night proper committees were appoint.
ed and the details of the programme
arranged. There will be a procession
Of the fire department, music, dress
parlde, race at the race course, FIRE
work and a Steamboat excursion.
The au,horitise are moving in the
matter Of opening Short Third street,
near the Beal street Market. The
property of A. NJ. Boyd, Mrs. Mary
A. Cannovan, Jacob Weller and W.
l.. Vance is to be examined, and the
necessary legal measures instituted to
condemn enough to let wagons through
the narrow passage.
A brilliant meteor flashed across the
armament about half past ten last