Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-16

NANJ 4 Adlo SCI las EOQc
to Helena, Arkansaw, on business and
will be absent two or three days.
The st. Elmo Commandery meet in
full dress at their asylum tonight to
work in the order of the Temple.
Nearly FIVE million bushels of coal
have been started southwark from the
upper Ohio during the past two
weeks.
For the latest style of boots and
and shoes go to Voegeli & Co.'S, new
store, al Main street opposite Court
Square.
| Jno, r. McDonough, an actor who
played Yuba Bill here last season with
Annie Pixley, died of cancer yester-
day at Philadelphia.
A merchant of Batesville. Ark
named Abram Baum, suicided yester-
day, the act being caused, it is said, by
financial complications.
Fresh fish, including Savannah
river shsd, Mackinaw trout, red snap
pers, perch, etc., can be had of Victor
ID. Fuchs, 80 and Al Jefferson. His
prices are low as the lowest.
Miss Julia Rosewald has been i'll
since yesterday and was confined to
her room to-day. The management
therefore announce that the mad
scene from Hamlet will not be rem
dered TO- night, as was expected.
Our "Olivette" amateurs who Wis
tied yesterdays performance were
edited and entertained. Several per-
sons wished that our entire amateur
cast could have witnessed the way
the Abbott Troupe went through
The too utterly utter musical
craze" Patience" is the operatic
attraction for to night. 1t is by Gil.
bert d Sullivan, authors of Pima
fore, and was first presented at the
Opera Comique, London, on the 23d
of April last.
We had nearly haitian inch of rain
before dawn this morning, but it wasn't
everybody that found it out. 1t was
raining heavily at Louisville when the
sun, rose and it was also raining at
Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Nashville
and other points.
Miss Ellen Shanks, one of the most
charming young ladies of Memphis
society, has returned from a stay Of
three months in st. Louis, where she
was visiting her relatives, the family
of Mr.. Richard Allen.
Three grains of corn each grain an
IN inch long and three quarters of
an inch wide has been received by
Mr.. Nathan Cohn from the place
where it grew near Springfield, Ohio.
1t is called mammoth corn, and is ex-
actly what it is called.
The cotton market wore a little
more cheer this forenoon, though but
little confidence is manifested. The
Liverpool market showed up a frac.
ton higher, while New York futures
we're from six to nineteen points
better.
A little three year old, ran in front
OF an omnibus near the corner of Main
and Madison streets yesterday after
noon, the horses passed over the child
and she was taken from under the
vehicle without having received the
slightest injury. 1t was a remarkable
escape and afforded a theme for ex-
tended comment during last evening.
The ice is giving way at all points
up the country through the influence
OF the warm weather, and the season is
three weeks or more earlier than last
year. The Hudson river is omen to
navigation, and vessels can now pass
through the Straits of Mackinaw in
the Northern lakes The upper Mis-.
SOUR IS about to open in the vicinity
Of Bismarck.
The Little Rock Railway Company
chose officers yesterday and made Mr.
T.. A. Marquand, President; Il. X.
Sibley, General Manager; B. {. Brown
Attorney; Thomas Essex, Land Agent;
A. H. Galley, Treasurer, and NJ. w.
Goodwin, Secretary and Assistant
Treasurer. The Directors are jaw
Gould, 4. A. Marquand. c. a ESSEX
b. K. Sibley and B. c. Brown.
Captain Irwin Dugan, a well known
and popular citizen Of years ago. but
for the last decade resident of Louis
vile, was here on a visit to relatives
and friends yesterday, taking passage
on the steamer Golden Rule early this.
morning for the South. Captain Du-
gan, in connection with his brothers
own the new steamer Emma Ether.
ldge, which vessel passed here for
down the river two or three days ago.
The Nashville World of the 18th
says: General w. w. Murray of
West Tennessee, is in the city. He
IS United States attorney for that dis
trict, and has been for a number of
years. Recently the President nomi-
mated W. Il. Poston of Brownsville as
his successor, but Senator Harris itI
IS understood. declines to vote for the
latter s confirmation. upon the ground
that ne Is too young and inexperienced
TOR the position. The Senator is
warm friend Of General Murray
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