Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-05
PUBLIC LEDGER
LEDGER LINES.

Bear steaks and roasts at Clements
Oysters every style. Crystal Palace.
Three choice bear, at Clements, sc
Beal.
Brown 4 Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Office Of Scuppernong Wine Co.,
No. 4 Madison street.
The Societa di Unione e Fratel-
lenza Italiana meet tonight.
The winds came fercely from the
north this morning. Yesterday they
were southerly.
Business houses along Main and
Front streets are humorously closed
to-day. Election did it.
The situation is mixed, very much
SO. AT noon twas hard for the wisest
to tell how it will result.
Martin Walt has FIVE hundred choice
Kentucky turkeys, cheap; also plenty
Of fancy Western butter.
Bad paper and miSerably written
was a printers complaint regarding
the t~elegraphic copy to-day.
Mr.. Frank Evans; a well known and
very talented actor, is to play here
next week with the Galley Slave"
company.
Mr.. H. A. McCarty and wife arrived
from Russelvillc, KY, this morning.
Mrs. Nee. until a day or two ago was
Miss Clark.
A heavy snow fell up about Cincln-
natl yesterday. This morning it was
foggy or rainy all along the lower
Mississippi river.
General G. P. NJ. Turner's claim for
$3.50 for unofficial services was disal-
lowed by the County Court yesterday,
because he failed 10 obtain the order
OF a court Of record to render his
claim legal.
The egg market is droopy, with a
plentiful stock, and the fruit of hen
can be bought along Front street to-
day at 2Oc per dozen.
AT several Of the voting places this
morning tickets we're late, and voters
came VI smiling, but slow, all because
they didn't have the kind of tickets
they wished to vote.
The next drawing of the Little
Havana Lottery is on Saturday, and
every voter should have a ticket. II
is a popular lottery, and has paid
many prizes to Memphians.
On D set OF tickets this morning
Mr.. Iladden was set down for a term
Of two years; on another for four years
There may be a squabble over this
feature, though the gentleman is likel.
to pull through, by a large majority.
Miss Matte W. Baker, who died a.
the residence of her mother last night
aged twenty-five years, is to be buried
tomorrow forenoon, the funeral bein,
from the family residence corner o
Breedlove and Valentine avenues. Z
Mr.. Albert Dual and Miss Mamie
Bowles were united in wedlock las
evening, by the Very Rev. Geo. White
at st. Lazarus church, after whicl
Mr.. and Mrs. Duval held a reception
at their residence on Shelby street.
Doses Of bad sounding and discor
dant music were administered yester
day and last night along the publ
highways, in efforts to arouse the en-
thusiasm of many voters. A wheel.
cornet blower appeared to be tn
worst afflicted Of the several paradin.
squads.
The wretchea condition of Bea
street continues to be a subject t
growl about by all who have to ru,
vehicles over that thOroughfare. Sew
en- red line cars left their track an,
sided into a mud sink, opposite tn
market between eight and eleven las
night.
10 the funeral yesterday afternoo
of the late Michael McFadden, Chic
of the Fire Department, Arnold.
band, a squad of the police force, tn
fremen in uniform and a long line {
private c%onveyances formed the Pre-
c%ession to escort the hearse c~ontainin
the remains Of the lamented gentle
man.
The collection Of taxes to liquidat
the old city debt is o to commence
and will be ten cents on one hundre
dollars in the Ninth and Tenth ware
and fifty cents in the other ward
County Trustee MCGOWAN has bee
called upon by the Court to give SIS
/; 600 bond to handle the proposed co
lection.
. Another effort is to be made I
arrive at an agreement regarding III