Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-26

the same IS rendered By the famous
Sarah Barnhardt
The old Broom Operahouss on JEFF
ferson street is undergoing renovation
and it is understood will be used as a
Free Traders lecture hall.
In the Eighth Civil District, where
Withe Depot is located, Mr.. j. H.
Mercer has been elected Magistrate,
beating +. NJ. Hughes one vote.
The mammoth whale is to be ex-
hibitcd in the open space near the foot
of Poplar street. A pavilion is to be
put up about the car upon which it is
carried.
The mercantile firm of Taylor &
Arnold has been dissolved, Mr.. Chas.
H. Taylor retiring, and the business
is to be conducted from this time forth
by George Arnold & Co.
The applicants for teachers certif-
Gates are to be examined next Satur-
day forenoon at the Market street
school building by Superintendent
Collier ofthe city schools.
Mr.. John Livelar, formerly resi-
dent of this city, but now a successful
merchant of Canton, Miss, is to be
married at Yazoo City, Miss, tonight
to a charming belle of the latter city.
Our cotton market rules little
better to-day. In Liverpool futures
are 1-16d above yesterday, and in New
York the feeling is frmer, therefore a
slight improvement naturally results
here.
Those who like good eating have
been reveling for several days past on
fresh mackerel, from the banks of
Newfoundland, and fresh smelt, from
the waters of New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia.
The work of building forty-eight
miles of railroad from Monroe to
Shreveport, La, across the strip of
country lying between the Ouachita
and Red rivers, is to be put under
contract few weeks hence.
"Mr. Editor printer Office Madison
S T Jan the II 1882 nomber 10 Mem
phis Tennessee Shelby county Teen, I"
is the fac smile of an address on a
postal card received at this Office yes.
terday. 1t looked like a postmaster
had written it.
Last nights rainfall was light at all
points, Louisville catching it heavier
than anywhere else, and there it was
less than a quarter OF an inch. 1t was
raining this forenoon at Pittsburg and
Louisville, showing up in the Platte
country and threatening at st. Louis.
A week from Saturday next the
stockholders Of the projected Mem
phis & Vicksburg railway are to hold
a meeting at the company's Office at
Vicksburg, the object being consoli-
dation between it, the Tennessee
Southern railroad, the Mississippi
Valley & Ship Island, and the New
Orleans & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Company.
Over at Dodge City, western Kan
sas, the mercury was 20 degrees below
zero this morning, with twenty mile
northwest wind blowing. If that
breeze comes this way it will cool us
off. At sunrise to day the temperature
here was 81 degrees, and IA warmer
than yesterday, with twelve mile
south wind
Sew lot Of rawhides together, lay
them along the caving bank of the
river, and thus check the action of the
current in wearing away the land;
then when the trouble ends, you can
take up the hides and put them to
other uses" This is the plan recon-
mended by one of our well known
Main street merchants. He might
have further advocated the construc.
ton Of Golfer dam up and down the
stream outside of the hides. the cast
ing therein Of big lot OF tanbark, and
the manufacture thereby of tre-
mendous quantity OF leather. 1t would
fbe good scheme for somebody, even
though it failed to check the caving.