Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11
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Clements can oysters are excellent.
Brown 4 Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
Hearts of Steel, by Christian Reid,
at Mansford's.
Pecans in 10 pound packages at Ike
A. Chases', go front.
Lytle & Shields prepared buck
wheat speaks for itself.
Fine fat teal ducks. at SeesSel's
market, 124 and 33I Main.
Finest clndies, r%aisins, citron, nu Is
figs and Mince meat. Lytle & Shields.
The cotton crop win not all be
gpthered before the middle Of next
month.
Holiday novelties are among the
leading attractions at present-mainly
for preset IT,
Mansford calls attention to his line
Of Christmas cards. An invitation to
TO examine is extended to all.
Levee builders are hard at it, and
are doing big work all along the
Mississippi valley from here south.
Music books, magazines, illustrated
papers, ETC., bound at the PUBLIC
LEDGER bindery, ID Madison street.
Leave orders at the new meat mar
kot, corner Wellington and Monroe.
for choice fresh meats and vegetables.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER job
printing Office, 13 Madison street.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, ID
Madison street, executes every class of
such work in good style and at low
rates.
The chief gaiety this week is to be
the Mozart entertainment at the thea
ter Wednesday right, to which only
invited guests aud associate members
are to be admitted.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and book bindery is prepared to
execute work with neatness and dis
patch, and at as low rates as any com.
p%etitor.
Licenses TO marry we're issued TO-
day to Edward Shaw and Eta An
dersOn, John Macksy and Mary Ann
White, Reuben Harrison and Samani-
Ia Cooper.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office constantly receives new type Of
the latest styles, and the Office gener-
ally is kept up to the highest standard
Of excellence.
Evening dress, is the order for the
coming Mozart entertainment. The
men all know what they will wear,
but the ladies are puEzling their brains
about the problem.
Hand bills of all sizes, from the
smallest to a three sheet poster, done
with neatness land disrs.>h :. :he
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest.
The Woodruff saw mill is to be
rebuilt at once. The loss upon its
owners above the amount it was in
sured for, it is stated, will be upwards
Of ten thousand dollars.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills CT lading, cards and all kinds Of
commercial printing done as we'll and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office
as anywhere in the United States.
The Wunder murder case was called
in the Criminal Court to day and eight
jurors enpannelled. The case was
laid over until after noon to get a
jury.
Mr.. Richard Lightburn, IT,, and
Miss Lizette, daughter of Henry
Chilcs, Esq, were married last night.
at tho residence Of the Rev. N. NJ,
Long, pastor Of the Strangers church,
that divine tying the nuptial knot.
Ladies should buy Christmas pres
ents for their gentlemen friends from
Sam May, 1881 Main street. His
stock Of handkerchief, scarfs, gloves,
etc., etc, is not only extensive but Of
fine quality and Of the latest designs.
Sharp, clear and frosty this morn
ing, the temperature dropping to IS
degrees, and nine degrees lower than
yesterdays record. II has cooled off
from hVe TO twenty degrees all over the
South this morning as compared with
yesterday.
The heaviest cotton receipts for one
season ever recorded here was 5l1,452
bales, in 1870 and II, aud 272,534
bales Of X came in after the first Of
January. The next heaviest receipts
were 1886 bales 10 the season Of
1875 and '76, and Of this 2O2, 742 bales
arrived after the first Of January.
Steve Persons, oolored, who was
convicted by the Bartlett Court Of
assault and battery and sent to jail to
work out the costs Of the suit, escaped
about seven o'clock this morning. He
was sent BY Turnkey Gatzendiner 10
empty a pan Of ashes, aud climbed
over the wall.
The old Chickasaw LODGE. OO.F
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