Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-06
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINKS.

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Monarch -four. Lyle & Shields.
Damned Mays new store, 257 Main.
Canned beeftongue. Lytle h Shields.
Birds are plentiful in the bushes
this fall.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Coles exhibition was at Tuscumbis,
Ala, last Wednesday.
BOneless herring. Lyle l. Shields.
One hundred and thirty three
arrivals at four Of our city hotels yes
terday.
Cotton is ripening rapidly, and
pickers are in active demand.
Planters pay from 60 to 70 cents per
100 pounds.
The price of the LEDGER delivered
in the city is ten cents per week, or
fifty cents per month, payable to the
carriers.
Reel Foot perch, Maekinaw trout
white fish, led snappers, and choice
celery at Signaigo's, 278 Second and 90
Beal street.
Interior people are pr,paring to SOW
an abundance of small grain this fall.
They want it to rain before they com
mence work.
Fresh Baltimore can and New York
Count oysters, wholesale and retail.
Families supplied by the dozen at
Signaigo's, 27s Second and go Beal
street.
At the second call of the future
board at the Cotton Exchange to-day
500 bales sold for November at 1866,
aud 800 for December at 10 So. The
general tone Of cotton is better.
There are people who proerastinate
until too late" is the record against
them. Don't procrastinate securing a
ticket in the Little Havana Lottery.
as the next drawing takes place on
Tuesday. !,
Several show companies are going
about the country telling how they
helped the people here when it was
scourged by sickness. The plan may
have the desired effect, but 1t seems
10 be a very small business.
The work of grading or preparing
the rOadbed Of the proposed railway
to Holly Springs has been commenced
at this end of the route. A few hun.
dred yards of the route is said to have
been finished at the Holly Springs
end.
A buggy, occupied by two ladies',
turned over yesterday on Mississippi
avenue, near the city limits. The
horse attached stood still while a
street car driver extricated the ladies
from beneath the capsized vehicle.
No serious injury resulted.
The Memphis and Charleston rail.
way is sending passengers through TO
New York in forty-six hours, and
furnish Pullman palace carr and
sleepers for travellers to ride or rest
IN. Details and charges can be as
certained by inquiring of Col. Barney
Hughes at the general ticket Office.
Colonel Josiah Patterson, after his
proposed speech at the Greenlaw
Operahouse tomorrow night, is going
to the country to talk to the people
for two weeks. He is a forcible
speaker, and he will be apt to con.
vince the voting population at all
points why the Democratic ticket
should be supported.
A couple Of Rae alligators are to be
seen at Victor D. Fuchs on Jefferson
street. The reptiles we're captured
near Friars Point, a hundred miles
south Of this city. AlligAtOrs some
times come within twenty miles Of
this city, but never voluntarily travel
any farther northward than the line
Of Horn Lake.
Sol Coleman, the indefatigable cigar
importer and merchant, has received
from M of his customers an order for
about seven hundred dollars worth Of
imported Havana cigars Of various
brands. This speaks we'll for the
trade Of Memphis and is especially
complimentary to a live, energetic
business man. That he will eli the
order IN a satisfactory manner is a fact
that will not be doubted by any one
who knows him.