Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-20

A full assortment Of fresh fsh,
oysters and celery at Victor D. Fuchs
market. 80 and IL Jefferson.
Fresh creamery and dairy butter;
also fat factory and cream cheese, low
to the trade, at Erb 4 Co., 326 and
328 Front street.
The Greenwood Club will hold a
business meeting tonight at the resi-
dence Of the secretary. Active mem-
bers only expected.
The theater opens to morrow night
with Fun in a Boarding School. and
the patronage promises to be good,
judging by the free sale OF reserved
seats.
Northern potatoes, apples, onions,
cabbage, krout, pickles, etc received
in car lots daily and offered low to the
trade by Erb 4 Co., 326 and 1913 Front
street.
The ruins Of the burnt stores on
Front street, near Gayoso, still emit q
considerable quantity Of smoke, and
smVuldering fires burn beneath the
brick there.
The insurance companies have
placed premiums on elevators at three
per cent, and talk of buying another
Babcock extinguisher with the ef-
fervescing soda attachment.
Fine v%enison can be had to-day at
Seessel's market, 33l Main. To.
morrow they will receive a variety of
fresh fish. Their supply Of choice
fresh meats is always equal to the best.
Marriage licenses we're issued to the
following parties this morning; Frank
Osborne and Miss Lucy Stephens,
Henry Falls and Miss Susan Sively,
Richard Duvall and Mrs. Matilda
Sanford.
Our orphans are $3.50 better of by
the premium of Latham, Alexander
4 Co., the New York bankers, who
gave the amount named to three Of
the closest cotton crop guessers Of
this city.
The long siege of dry weather has
made green vegetables scarce. Cab
bages from the North are now worth
seventeen cents a head, even if you
i take a thousand all at once. Two cal
: loads we're sold here yesterday.
Eighteen hands are enaged in tn,
manufacture Of the Ko Ko Tull
: chewing gum, and these, with the aiC
i Of the latest improved machinery, ar
kept busy. 1t is a home enterprise
that is fast assuming large proportion
since the public pronounce its claim
! OF merit Is genuine.
A very light fog again this morning
The great Barrett circus, with
. brilliant array OF curious attachment
is to be here next Wednesday. /
party Of nearly two dozen persons con
: nected with the show as advertiser
= agents, arrived in the city yesterday
: and are busy in their particular lint
The labor question is getting seriou
y among the river craft at a very earl
: period this season. The steamer Dal
Z ragh left port last evening with onl
SIX men as q deck crew, though wage
were advanced to $40 per month fror
s35 previously paid. About a doze
" men jumped ashore as the vessel WI
: backing away from the landing.
= The illuminated posters put up
= the agents Of BArrett's circus an
n. m~enagerie, are quite attractive, an
many people stop in front of sho
o. windows to peep at Miss Emma LAX
= as she is represented in her great AZ
on horseback, or at the artist WI
"a rides at a gallop and spins plates, or 1
= a number ofother curious and DARN
fests, which can only be accomplishe
by skilled and we'll practiced peopl,
An immense lumber trade is in pr,
gress all along the lower Mississippi
4 river and tributaries, and it is estimi
ted that upwards Of a million feet
: lumber await shipment north fro
points between this city and Cal
alone. Many saw mills are in courI
or Of erection at various points with
the timbcred lands Of the South az
the demand for saw mill machine
was never greater than at the preset
time.
L, The following delegates have bee
"a selected to represent this city at IL
!. Oolored rationale onvention.to be he
at Louisville, on the 9th inst:
n Froman, E Shaw, B X Sampson,
Wilson, R McKane, c Mosby, L Ho,
ard, j 7 Turner, H Tobridge,
Cooper. 7 + Cassells, the Rev Nigh
ingAle, W Porter, D Washington,
Harris, R Church, F Savage and r
y Brown.
' In q suit before Squire Colema
involving the disposition Of the big
mist Burdick's gold watch, the justi
S. declared it to be exempt from exec
y ten as it is indispensable to the own
10 his calling as a railway telegraph
operator. The case has been appeale
Mrs. Clemens placed an attachment
the watch for $40, due her for boar
y while Miss Thompson, the victim
Burdick's last bogus marriage, reple
!. ined the object,
!. In a note to the morning paper
Mr., W. R.. Stewart says there is
schism 10 the Cumberland Presbyt
{, rian church here, and no unpleasant
: ness between himself and Mr.. Jont
He also says that be spoke against spi
! itnnlism AZ the nhnroh last Sunday