Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-31

| 0eOrgo ID. herDeFd 10 Herman ClOLl
for lot on Causey street; considera
| ton, $l400.
The thermometer fell 400 over |
campmeeting in Ohio last Saturday
night, and it chillsd the ardor of thu
forest worshipers.
The Louisville Exposition will b
opened tomorrow by the President o
the United States. and it is to con
tinue open for one hundred days.
| Business men will find it to theil
| interest to have all their job printinG
! done at tvs PUBLIC LEDGER jol
printing Office, ID Madison street.
The fall meeting of the Memphis
Jockey Club will be held at the Agri,
cultural Fair Grounds, beginning
| October I'D. and to last six days.
The cotton seed buyers continue t
pay SIG per ton for all sound seed IL
| good order, but say unsound or rotten
seed will not be received at any mill
A commercial tourist from afar who
upon arrival here hired himself to 9
merchant, then proceeded to sell his
wares, was yesterday Obliged to take
out regular drummers' license.
| Northeast winGg all Of yesterday and
the temperature varied between Gland
860. A shower tell yesterday up about
Paris and GAINESVILLE, but it was dry
everywhere else within a hundred
miles Of here.
Passenger trains to Louisville over
the Chesapeake, Ohio and South.
western railroad are to be run in the
quick time of q miles per hour, and
the schedule, it is said, will be one
hour quicker than by any other
route.
Receipts of cotton here are now
l72,2Ol in excess of last year for the
same time, and the total lacks 1915
bales of reaching the estimated $40,
600. The receipts, however, are ahead
of all previous seasons with a single
exception.
George Landers, who was charged
three dollars at the police court for a
spree he inGulged in paid his fine yes.
terday, and will continue his work as
mechanic on his own account instead
OF working twelve days for the city, as
was reported yesterday.
The members of the Merchants
Exchange are to meet tomorrow af-
ternoon to discuss the recent order of
the Insurance Companies declining to
take risks where more than % barrels
OF oil are stored except in warehouses
especially designated for such storage.
No telegraph reports we're received
this forenoon at the Merchants Ex,
channe regarding the condition and
values for goods on the spot, except
from ST. Louis, and -four is weak, with
crs at 81 20 and the same as last
evening, was all that came from that
point.
An excursion train with 100
Knights Templar will start from here
next Saturday or Sunday, going
through to Cincinnati without change.
The excursioDists 60 to attend the
Grand Convocstion of the colored
Knights Templar, which is to be beld
at Cincinnati next week.
1t was raining heavily, with thun-
der and lightning Accomplishments, at
Cairo this morning, also raining a
little at Nashville. The rain fall last
night at Nashville measured 64.1OO
and at Cairo l.23. The Signal Service
kilograms announce local rains as
probable over the West Cult States
and the lower Missouri valley.
Rumors are current that the Miss
issippi and Tennessee railway, ex
tending from here to Grenada, a dis
lance of 100 miles, is about to be
transferred by purchase to the Illinois
Central, or Chicago, st. Louis and
New Orleans system, and that com.
pany having, it Is also said, acquired a
controlling interest in the property.
Some parties out near the south end
OF the county amused themselves last
Sunday logging hogs. Inspector
Lane happened down that way and
interfere1. He was getting along
handsomely, as he thought, but the
folks let him know that he had crossed
the State line and he had no right to
bother them. The inspector lit out
and came home feeling bad.
A darky lad some twelve years old
knocked the eye out of S75 COW out
at the end of the red car line on Sun
day last. He threw 0 brick out of
pure mischief. The boys name was
Thomas Montgomery, and the COW
belonged to Mr.. Phelan. ESQ. Cole.
man fined the young rascal 50, which |
he paid. II be had been larger, he
would doubtless have been fined heav>
Ter, the rascal
Yhe total purses and stakes for the |
fall meeting Of the Jockey Club here |
reaches the handsome sum of $40, 900.
An effort is to be made to get up |
single purse of $4,000 to be called the |
Memphis Stakes, and it is believed |
such purse would bring the finest
Lorses in the world to contest for it. |
Among the rapid ones in saah 9 dis !
play would possibly be Leohidas, |
lrOquois, Passaic, Miss Woodford, |
Barnes, George Kinney and perhaps
ether noted Speeders.
The clearinghouse report for July
shows an excess Of transactions over |
July Of last year of $6Il 5000, and |
for the seseE pepths ending with to |
day as c0@psTsd with last Ve2r for the
same time the increase bas Been f6, |
5T6, 1882. To total transactions for |
this city through the banks since the
first Of January have been nearly
thirty millions OF dollars. and less than !
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