Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-04
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isen street.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
Clement has choice white fish,
Mackinaw trout and red snapper.
One thousand choice rabbits at S.
Clements. Sc Beal.
Ice packers, up north, are gather
ing their harvest by installments.
Forty degrees this morning at sun
rise, with a light westerly breeze.
Over an inch ofrain fell last night.
The wind that brought it came from
the north.
City Weigher, Geo. B. DeGroat, has
fled his bond, with Thos. Kelly, j.
LaCroix and NJ. III. Reilly as sureties,
A surprise party by the Harmony
Club is announced for this evening,
but the party to be surprised is not
stated.
The rainfall at Nashville last night
was nearly an inch and a half, and it
still rained there, also atChattanooga,
at sunrise.
The prospects we're favorable yes
terday for an early decline of the
river, but last nights rain changed the
outlook considerably.
G. Monnier, at rs Beal street, has
Just received a fresh supply of bovine
virus from the New England Vaccine
Company, at Chelsea, Mass.
The ferryboat John 0yerton will
make trip to Marion Sunday, leaving
IRON the foot Of Jefferson street at ?
pm. Fare for the round trip, 81.
The Little Havana Lottery is one
OF the most popular in which Mem
phianS take any interest. The
drawing takes place next Wednesday,
Mr.. A. Karr lest his watch and
three dollars last night on Market
street By footpads, who handled him
roughly and did not LET him find them
out
The County Court appropriated over
$1,000 during its recent session. The
SQuires themselves got SS76.50 of the
amount and the expert examining
committee 4 liberal sum.
1t is limited that the Appeal, OF
tomorrow, will contain few lively
remarks regarding Mr.. joseph Brooks,
and that the subject will be in Colonel
Galloway happiest vein.
We had within fraction of thirteen
inches Of rain during the month Of
January, three times as much as fol-
the same time last year and fyeincheS
more than for any January Of the last
ten years.
Hot lunch from s to II pm. every
Saturday, served in frst-class style by
the genuine H. w. Goette, 81 and 80
North Court street, whose rooms are
newly fitted and furnished in first
class style.
The city authorities have agreed &c
pay the Kansas City railway company
one third Of the cost of building a
eulvert at Broadway in the southern
part Of the city, where the road is to
cross the street named.
The Cotton Exchange will hold q
business meeting this evening to con
sicer the river Gazing question, the
cotton tie subject and perhaps tht
formation Of a stock compa-
ny to deal in futures at the Exchange
| Not to have ever heard of Billy
BOkus is rather curious admission &c
make, by one Of our correspondents
The next time bright little Lott
comes here 90 and see her in M
settle, and Bokus will loom up in
shape never to be forgotten.
A we'll educated young lady frou
| indianapolis, with an errauc or wan
dering mind, was found a couple o
days since, setting by the road sid
several miles below the city. She wa
cared for and sent to the Missio
Home, until her relatives can be hear
from.
The proposed consolidation of th
Board of Health and the City Hos
pital, with one man to look aite
both, was regarded with disiavor b
/ the authorities. and atthe Leeislatiy
/ Councils meeting, yesterday, the mat
tor was finally disposed Of, by nc
adoptiDgit
: When Mr.. Karr was capsized La
! night on Market street between Thir
and Fourth, the gentle trio who di
him the honor to empty his pockel
took the key Of his SAFE. 1t cannot d
: the present possessors any serviC
= aud if they will drop it in some plaC
where it can be returned to Mr.. Kal
i he will feel ever so much obliged.
p In sermon preached in St. Peter
church, Father Kelly denied the tel
!. rible charges Mrs. Meriwether mad
= against the priests Of the middle age
u the Father taking the ground TIL
the priesthood had always been I'll
: friends of women, and that he hin
self believed in woman right Gas
, defined them Mrs. NJ. will give
I few words Of criticism to Father Kel
!. in her sermon tomorrow night.
t. A petition is in circulation askil
: Congress to build a turnpike from tn
!. city to the National Cemetery, al
J. the document already has more than
- hundred signatures. The docume
lie recites that the area of the cemetery
y forty acres, and thousands of the n
s tional soldier dead are inferred ther
in. The nation has built turnpikes
r its cemeteries at other places, and W
Ne doubtless do the same here when I
- matter is presented 10 proper shape.
n, The south side of Tate street. b
tween Orleans and Walnut, is to ha
"a sidewalks; those on st. Martin, b
ut tween Beal and Linden, are to be ]