Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-08
THE CITY.
LEDGER LIHKs.

New moon Tonight.
Cotton Is very quiet,
Very foul weather this.
Fine black eorsets. LAnge'p.
AN Mag zines at WilliAms's.
For bricks, telephone JnO. Cubbins.
0zsnne& May new store, 257 Main.
Brown L Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
la the Jewish calendar to. morrow
is ROsh Hodcsh Shebat.
One car Jugs. jars, etc, Just received,
Ike A. Chase, 22O Front.
ATWenty- Eve persons died in this
city last week, and of the number IA
we're cOlored.
Wide Awake" for January, aud a
new supply for December, received to.
day at Mabsford's.
Creamery batter in small packages,
new cabbage, celery, lettuce. at Matt
Monaghan's, ga Front.
Marsh Polk, it is reported, has been
captured at San Antonio, Texas, but
the 500, 1000 Is yet to be heard from.
The chain gang have been in retreat
for several days. They like this kind
of weather, whether other lks do or
not.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
office AID blank book mandatory, 10
Madison street, execut IS every class Of
such work in good style aud at low
rates.
The PUBLIC LEDaER job printing
Office constantly receives new type Of
the latest styles, and the Office geuer.
ally is kept up to the highest standard
Of excellence.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills Of lading, cards aud all kinds OF
commercial printing done as well and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office
as anyThereiu the United States.
The Lawrence Barrett Company
begin a weeks engagement here next
MOsday, and if the scenes can be
furnished Barrett's new play, Fran.
cesca di Rimini," will be presented
during his visit.
This is the anniversary Of the bat.
tie at New Orleans fought sixty-seven
years sgo. The day will be celebrated
BY a military parade at New Orleans,
and At New York the Hon. John G.
Carlislt : to deliver an address.
The great sOngstress, Christine
Nilsson, is to appear at the st.
Charles Theater, New Orleans, to-
morrow night, aud is to appear in
three concerts. The seats cost 50 80,
50 and 81 each, according to location.
Our State Treasurer, NJ. T. Polk,
was reported to be buying blankets,
ammunition and other eOmpauiOn par.
aphefnalia when be was taken at San
Antonio. He was doubtless preparing
to make an iocursiOn up IN Mexican
territory.
With about $4,000 Of back or
delinquent taxes 10 collect and s1.
pend If collected. it is evident that
DIR. Potter and bis Legislative coadju.
tors have an idea that the city govern.
me0t can worry through next year on
a levy Of xIs45 per 500.
Plain Mrs. John Wood is the way
Miss ST. Quinten Is addressed at home,
when Of the stage. Mrs. Woods
husband travels with Bis wife, and be
has the appearance Of being a real
we'll kept Englishman. He is a mem
Der Of the Savage Club in London.
and the LOtOs Club IN New York.
London assurance by the Chan.
frau troupe at Columbia, Tenn, to
night aud "The World" here. To.
morrow plight "The Mascotte" ia to be
presented at Columbis BY the Ford
Opera Troupe, with Blanche Chapman
as rrima donna aud Marie Bockel,
George Denham and Charles II. Drew
are in this troupe.
A little rain, some slice. and few
fakes Of snow descended from the
clouds this forenoon. II was also
rainingat Little Rock, showing at
Cairo, st. Louis and up the Missouri,
and sleeting at Cincinnati. The tenn
p%erature here this morning early
was 499, while at St. Louis Il
was only l4o above zero. 1t was from
lO0 to l5' below zero up in Wisconsin,
Dakota and the Northwest.
The steamer Henry Frank is re.
ported lying at Donaldson, seventy.
five miles above New Orleans with a
broken shaft and the shaft had been
Forwarded to New Orleans by the