Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-28
Tuesday Evening. March IS, 1851.
LEDGER LINES.


Franchises specialties in fine hats.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Prairie hay in carload lots received
daily by Ike A. Chase, go Front.
Union revival services at the Her
nando st. Methodist church tonight.
Fresh Reelfoot trout and perch;
also snappers from gulf, at Clements.
Sc Beal.
The value of wheat was quoted
heavy and / to lc lower in New York
this forenoon.
A fresh supply Of Savannah river
shad is for sale very low by Victor d.
Fuchs, 80 and Al Jefferson streets.
The delinquent tax list for 1882 is
in Sheriff Athy's hands, and de
linquents must settle at once to save
additional costs.
Licenses to marry were issued yes
terday to ]. A. Erwin and Miss r. A.
Hathcock. Freeman Robinson and
Hannah Berkeley.
Pompano, Spanish mackerel, red
snapper, salmon and Mackinaw trout,
to be had at j. A. Signis COS, 278 Sec
ond and 80 Beal.
On Friday the Commonwealth Lot
terry, Of Louisville, will hold another
drawing. Ticket purchasers should
supply themselves in time.
Mrs. G. H. Fits will give a piano
recital on Saturday, April LIST, at Hol.
lenbsrg's Hall, with her pupils Of the
intermediate department, assisted by
several Of the minor class.
The rainfall here yesterday meas
ured nearly an inch and half. The
heaviest rainfall of last night occurred
at Chattanooga where the measure
ment was less than half an inch.
Mr.. GAribaldi, who lives at th,
fernando street car line curve thi
side Of ElmwoOd. declares that th,
Sunday row mentioned yesterday diC
not happen in his vicinity, but oc
CURED on McLemore avenue, som,
distance away.
1t was lie cooler this morning thar
yesterday, the lowest being 40. A
| light breeze came from the northeast
| The prospects indicate that the wind
will shift toward the south, AM
| by tomorrow it will be warmer. N,
more rain is threatened for spell.
The river has fallen foot below il
highest at Vicksburg, and tel
aud one half feet at Cairo. Over a
Madison, on the st. Francis, the waite
has receded over four feet, down q
Mariana nearly three feet, and fro1
all quarters for three hundred mile
south. the cheering news comes tina
the food is subsiding.
A slice Of the high bluff a hundre
feet wide and several hundred Ions
just below the big ice house south {
Trezevant street, tumbled off an
went into the river with a crash, o
Sunday last. lfthe ice barges, whic
arrived that evening had been moore
there at the time, they would have ru
big risk Of being swamped.
Workmen are busy along the lin
of the Little Rock railway shaping
up as the water runs of. 1t is dry
many places, and the managers e.
press the belief that they will hay
trains running hence to Madison /
the 10th Of next month. Edmundsc
Station, some twenty or thirty mill
!. west OF here is free ofWater, and mar
people Of that neighborhood. who We
driven away by the food are returDiI
to their homes and preparing to plal
their crop.
A citizen who wandered out on h
bluff this morning suggests that
would be a good location for a publ
library. With the customhouse {
q one bluff, the library on another, Il
] cars laundering along at the base
the bluff, the steamboats, putting al
D whistling on the waters 10 front
the bluff, the drays rumblipg up al
down the incline OF the bluff, q
e, other attractive features not in mi
at present, the library would have
a noisy time on the bluff.
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