Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-27


in this city among the little ones,
though in a mild form.
A plank sidewalk has been ordered
for the south side Of Poplar, from
Manassas to Ross avenue.
Investigate the twenty-day natal
plan of the Memphis Mutual Aid
Society. 1t is new and original.
E. P. Alexander, att Monroe street,
is the agent for the leading mstrimo-
NAL insurance companies of the South.
Many cedar blocks left on Monroe
street are half rotten. Perhaps the
contractor will reject the defective
ones.
Pastor T. ]. Rowan, of the Central
Baptist church, has been i'll for some
time and the proposed cream festival
has been indefinitely postponed.
A man ambitious to rival Levy on
the cornet has been practicing dill
gently day and night down on Poston
avenue, and his neighbors don't like it.
The low tax Greenbackers the high
and low tax Republicans, the straight
out Democrats and the soaptail ditto,
are all factions in the present local
canvass, with a few more not stated.
1t will costs4234 ~ to pave Orleans
street from Poplar to Jefferson, and
the necessary amount being sub
Scribed on the part of the citizens,
the work is to be done at an early
day.
The prophetic Vennor says August
will be full of storms and cold rains.
He also looks for snow in the far
Northwest, but then Vennor isn't
always reliable, for he said we were to
have snow in June and we didn't.
Thirty-two persons watched ten
laborcrs lay the foundation of the
cedar block pavement on Monroe
street yesterday afternoon, The
illers lolled under the shade of the
south side, while the workmen stood
in the open sunshine.
There will be a grand rally of the
Second Ward Democracy corner of.
Main and Poplar streets this evening,
at s o'clock. Colonel George CAN'T,
General G. P. M. Turner, Colonel A
H. Douglass, Major W. A. Goodman
and others, will address the meeting.
Wealth is a great blessing and con-
ferS on its posscssor opportunities of
improvement and enjoyment TO
which poverty is a stranger. Get a
ticket ia the Commonwealth Lottery
and wealth, with all its attendant
comforts and luxuries, may be yours
The next drawing comes off Monday
The city Of New Orleans is worse
off than We are about water. The
supply there is drawn from the Missls
sippi, and it is pronounced unfit for
drinking, bathing or clothes washing
unless filtered. 1t does for putting
out fires, washing the streets, sprink-
ling the grass and flushing the cutters,
and hat is all.
Mercury at six this morning 760,
with a light southeast breeze, the
proper quarter from which to bring
rain. Range of temperature yester-
day CO to 9O0. The Signal Service
weather predictions for to-day inGi
cate local rains in the Missouri and
Ohio valleys aud Tennessee, with fair
weather in the west gulf States.
The levee builders have gone to
work briskly at many points on the
river below. Until the last few days
the high water in the river soaked the
lands SO that nothing could be done,
but the river has shrunk into its ma
tural channel aud work can now be
pushed forward as fast as desirable.
Some garments found on the river
bank neal the foot Of Jackson street,
Tuesday, indicates that an unknown
man went 10 swimming there and was
drowned, or hal he committed sui
eide. A letter from a wife at Rocky
Mount, North Carolina, addressed to
George, and another frem G. /. Seats,
PIT. Rock Station, may lead to finding
the name Of the missing individual.
The Louisville & Nashville railway
company has been garnisheed by old
city creditors to prevent the company
paying rent to the present city govern
ment on navy yard property. The
authorities have been notified that the
following judgments have been found
against the city, but nothing has been
found 10 satisfy them; P. S. March,
Sl5,3sT so; Richard Luther, $4l89 92:
Andrew Read, 1896 IA: Chemical
National Bank, 1926 81 Thomas
Branch & Co., s7988 IA.
Many who do evil things cannot un.
derstand Why daily papers print arti-
cies in which they are prominent,
without first consulting them. 1t
seems so odd to pursue such a course
that they often wax wroth, or grow
negyops, or excited, or incoherent and