Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-31

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all the best companies. Office, 3 Mad
ison street.
Zellner & Co. have completed the
removal Of their stock to their new
store, at No. 800 Main street, and will
be glad to receive calls from their
patrons aud the public at large.
The Democrats of the Eighth Ward
have a rally in front of the drug store,
corner Poplar street and Carroll
avenue, tonight. Several we'll known
speakers will address the meeting.
Wealth is power next to knowledge,
and men strive for wealth even more
than for knowledge. Some lucky in.
dividual will secure wealth in the
next drawing Of the Little Havana
Lottery.
The regular nominees of the Demo
cratic convention for justices Of the
peace in the Fourteenth Civil District
are the present worthy, capable and
efficient incumbents, Thomas Fleming
and John T. Elliott.
Constable 7. S. Mallory has a fine
peach farm out on Mississippi avenue,
and the fruit is as luscious as the most
fastidious could desire. Mr.. Mallory
left a basket of his best at this Office
to day, and they were heartily enjoyed
by the recipient.
Ed Shaw & Co. had a 800 audience,
all colored, out at Brunswick Satur-
day afternoon, aud many walked ten
miles to hear the orators. Nearly all
the colored people out that way are
strong for the high tax wing Of the
colored peoples party.
Parties joining matrimonial insur-
ance companies will consult their own
interests by examining the principal
features Of the Memphis Mutual Aid
Society. Office, 7 Monroe street. The
only company paying ten per cent Of
the amount due on certificate at once
upon receipt of proof Ofmarriage.
On Saturday last over HOO packages
of fruit were sent North from Bart
lett. Peaches were in the lead, but a
large proportion consisted of plums,
apples and pears. More than $50, 600
has been realized by farmers in the
vicinity Of Bartlett the present season
for fruit alone.
A new bale Of cotton, weighing 75N
pounds, raised by a Mexican, twenty
miles from San Antonio, sold in the
latter city at auction, last Wednesday,
for sixteen cents per pound. 1t
classed middling. The cotton pros.
pect in hal vicinity is excellent, and
three-fourths Of a bale to the acre is
the anticipated yield.
When an orator at a mass meeting
expresses surprise at the unexpected
honor Of being called upon, and pres
emily produces a stately manuscript
and begins to read from it, the crowd
wonders why he didn't memorize the
document and have an able bodied
prompter under the platform.
The Cotton Exchange of this city
held a meeting on Saturday and ap
proved the river and harbor bill also
sent a telegram to President Arthur,
unanimously and urgently requesting
him to approve the same as passed by
Congress, adding that he would confer
~incalculAble benefit upon the people
Of the valley and the entire country
by such action.
The death list in this city last week
was %, Of whom only four we're white,
aud Calvin Gibson, aged 60 years, was
the only adult white person, two others
being infants and one a child Of three
years. OF the total, whites and
blacks, four died of consumption three
of congestion, one of remittent and
one Of typhoid malarial fever, one of
Whooping cough, n of awputation,
and the remainder Of scattering disor-
ders.
Shelby county ranks third in all the
counties of the South as a cotton pro-
ducing county. In 1880 the total
yield was 1888 bales and the total
value exceeded two and a quarter mil
lion of dollars. The same year YazoO
county, Mississippi, in which Yazoo
City is situated, produced 1891 bales
and Washington county, Mississippi,
Of which Greenville is the capital,
54,873 bales were produced All other
counties fell short of Shelby.
A grand socisble hop is to be given
at the M@nnerchOr Hall on Tuesday,
August l, 1882. l3l
The Equitable Endowment Mar.
rtage Association
Of this city is one of the best institu-
tons of its class. Its officers are well
and ~favOrably known and its affairs arc
we'll managed. Seeit its card in another
column.
The best coal yet discovered fol
steam and oooking nprnoees "a