Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-19
LEDGER LIVES

The Sheriff is after delinquent tax.
payers.
Brown 4 Jones, coal dealers, %:
Main street.
Pecans in 10 pound p. ckages at Tx
A. Chases', 22O Front,
Oliver, Finnie e. Go. will keep open
till 10 o'clock every night this week.
Eggs and butter by the package.
lover than the lOwest,a MOI Adams.
800 boxes fancy Florida oranges in
6ne shipping order, D. Candle & Go,
One hundred cases choice Florida
oranges received direct, Lyle &
Shields.
Music books, magazines, illustrated
papers, ETC., bound at the PUBLIC
LEDGER bindery, 10 Madison street.
Lena the Madeap' will be Katie
Putnam's play on Thursday night and
at the Saturday, and"Little Nellp on
Friday night.
Don't forget that Zellner & Co. are
now located in their new store, 800
Main street, corner alley, opposite
Peabody Hotel.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their Job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER job
printing Office, 10 Madison street.
The Cotton Exchange members are
discussing the propriety Of aboIishiug
their furture board aud stock CON-
pany.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, 10
Madison reet,executes every class Of
such work in good style and at low
rates.
The Public LEDGER job printing
Office and book bindery is prepared to
execute work with neatness and dis
patch, and at as low rates as any com.
petitor.
A lecture will be delivered at the
Beal street Baptist church tomorrow
night by Hannibal G. Carter, on "Tbe
Political Future of the Negro in the
United States"
The PUBLIC LEDGER Job printing
Office constantly receives new type Of
the latest styles, and the Office gener
ally is kept up to the highest standard
of excellence.
Hand bills Of all sizes, from the
smallest to a three sheet poster, done
with Deatness and dispatch, at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest.
As usual Zellner & Co., 300 Main
street, are in the field again with an
unprecedented line Of embroidered
slippers Of new designs, for holiday
presents, at very low prices.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads.
bills of ladiDg, cards and all kinds Of
commercial printing done as well and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office
as anywhere in the United States.
A suit involving $47 900 worth Of
the assets Of the former firm of Men.
ken Bros. has been decided by Chan.
cellor Mcdowell in fryor Of Mrs.
Rachel and Mrs. Cornelia Menken.
Seessel's markets, l2 Main and 33l
Main, will make a grand display Sat.
urday Of all the choice eatables Sc
cared for Christmas dinner. House
keepers Will find the best at s~eessel's
Dixie knight, aged twenty, who
shot and killed W. L. Dickens, aged
less than eighteen, has not 50 far been
captured. Dixie has doubtless emf.
grated toward Northern Mexico ere
this.
A thousand dollars reward mas been
offered for the arrest and conviction
OF the parties concerned in the assas
sinatiOn Of Richard p. Greer, at T. G..
james store, Sharkey. Miss. on the
9th inst.
The case Of Werner White and
Moses Brady, indicted for the mur-
der Of Mr. Leigh, the merchant At
Charleston, Tallahstchie county, Miss.
has been postponed until the next
term Of the court.
No Christmas present this year will
be more valuable or more appreciated
than the capital prize given BY the Lit
tie Havana Lottery to a lucky ticket.
holder IN the drawing next Saturday.
1t is hoped that some Memphiau NAV
be the lucky man.
DR. Fly. Carr, for many years a res.
ident here, died on Manassas. near
Poplar street, yesterday, aged 60. His
funeral occurred this forenoon, under
the auspices Of the Memphis Lodge.
o. o. r., Of which the deceased
was a respected member.
The beautiful and very valuable +.
steamer Kate Adams arrived A the
landing late las. night, and was . cen.
trail object Of attraction to-day, many
hundreds Of people going % The land. T,
Ing to inspect aodadmirs the gorgeous
vessel. The Adams h 10 leave On her +,
lrat trip 10 the ArksnsaS City trade
on thursday evening next.
Sol Coleman was offered ti.75 Der
pound for his stock Of y. Y. Grave. I
.ey's chewing tobacco. but declined to
although Il was . GOOD margin :
.or profit, as be preferred % keep Il
'or his retail customers Sol always 1
tbe best 70 be had 10 he eigar
md tobacco line.
Dressed turkeys aud chickens. :
pies. etfeed rounds C,..h .