Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-12

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licked for
The sheriff wants hls ballot boxes
AroueAlin, They viii Be needed b.
| fore Iona,
The County Court substituted Jas
Theirs for 7. J. 0'Nsil. As clerk IN
che First Ward, to-day.
Mr. Sid Cook, the brother Of the
great aesthetic architect. is now an
honorary member Of the Waldran
Guards.
The river has declined a foot at
Cairo since Sunday, and it rose two
inches here on yesterday, and is about
its top level.
Captain NJ. r, Harry dispatched
from Devalls Bluff that his steamer,
the Josie Harry, will arrive here Fri
day morning.
Licenses to marry were issued to-
day to Lawrence Waterford and Alice
Brady, S. L. Countee and Laura
Poindexter.
The Remy Clarkes, champions of
New Orleans, play the Reds at 0lym-
pic Park next Sunday. A close game
may be expected.
Sol Coleman sells Kelly's BoQuets,
strictly 6rsts and in rich cOlors, at ten
cents straight. He does not handle
any other grade.
To kill flies, reaches, mosquitoes, use
True Persian Insect Powder, import
ed by Fahlen & Kleinschmidt. Joe
Walter, agent for North Memphis.
A thunder and heavy rain storm
passed over Nashville at sunrise. The
rain fall here yesterday and last night
exceeded an inch in measurement.
Persons leaving the city for the
summer can order the DAILY LEDGER
at 30 cents per month in advance, with
the privilege Of changing postofice.
A temperate breeze from the north
west cooled the atmosphere to q
delightful grade this forenoon. Yes
terdsy it was very hot and awfully
close.
The mercury at six this morning
was 7S0, and the range yesterday
720 to 800. 1t is several degrees cool
er to-day than it was yesterday all
over the South.
The contractor on Beal street is
again delayed for stone. He is doing
a good job, and when finished Beal
street will be one of the best paved
streets in the city.
The United States has condemned
the land of Mrs. Anna j. Saunders
for marine hospital site, and agree to
pay $2S64.65 for it; also the land of
Mrs. L. F. billiard for s2lO9.35.
The editorial rooms of a newspaper
are unsuited for visiting lecturers.
They should engage hall where lar
ger and more appreciated audiences
could enjoy the beauties of their or
atOry.
" A rigidly honest, open and plain
performance Of duty by the inspec-
tors" is an ominous paragraph in the
protesting resolutions of the Cotton
Exchange on the National Board of
Health question.
The Odd Fellows of this city dis.
tribute funds among the widows and !
orphans of Montana, Colorado, Texas,
Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, |
Massachusetts, Illinois and many
other parts Of America.
Showers have fallen freely all about
u.s. 1t was raining yesterday and last
night down at Vicksburg and over at
Starksville, Miss; also at Port Eads,
at Nashville, at Little Rock and at
other scattering points.
The couuty's assessments for taxing
purposes are as follows on the property
named: Chesapeake & Ohio railroad,
$500; Memphis & Little Rock 1880;
Mississippi & Tennessee, s41, OlO;
Louisville & Nashville, $l46,866.
Mr.. Napoleon Hill, President Of the |
Cotton Exchange, telegraphed last
night to the hons. Ishsm G. Harris
and VIM. R. Moore synopsis Of the
proceeding Of the Cotton Exchange in
relation to the quarantine inspection
service.
The head Of Jack Walsh is as level
as floor, on the position Of building
school houses with borrowed money.
By careful economy enough might be
saved out Of the seventy odd thousand
per annum taken in for city schools 10