Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-04
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For bricks, telephone Jno. Cubbins.
Damned Mays new store, 257 Main.
Use Lyle & Shields prepared buck.
-four.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers. 202
Main street.
The opera Of Martha" at the thea.
t'r to night. +.
OvershOes are in demand this raw
and rainy season,
The election Of ten School Visitors
is progressing to-day in a rather tame
way.
Our cotton receipts are now 58,lS3
bales in excess of last year, and the
heaviest GU record tOthis date.
Nye's Boomerang, Peck's Sun, Tex
as Siltings, Detroit Free Press and
Arkausaw Traveller, received regular
at Mansford's.
Last night Deputy Grand Chancellor
L. l.. Moore installed the officers elect
in the Memphis Lodge No, 6, Knights
Of Pythias. for the ensuing term.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, Il
Madison street, execut IS every class Of
such work in good style and at low
rates.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office constantly receives new type o
the latest styles, and the Office gener
ally is kept up TO the highest STANDARD
Of excellence.
The Tayleure -Chanfrau Combina,
ton closed at the theater last night
aud after playing Parted" departed
for Hopkinsyille, KY, where the!
hold forth tonight.
The next drawing of the Littll
Havena Lottery takes place Monda.
and parties desiring any choice ii
tickets should secure one at once a
they are selling rapidiv.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads
bills Of lading, cards and all kinds o
commercial printing done as well an,
as cheap at the Public LEDGER oficr
as anywhere in the United States.
The lowest temperature this morn
log was 80 degrees, and the range yes
terday was SO to 40 degrees. TIL
rainfall between ten o'clock last nigh
and six this morning was so one hun
dredths Of an inch.
The regular monthly meeting Of tn
Memphis Gymnasium Club take
place this evening, the 4th inst. Thi
is a promising young society wit
worthy objects, and all the member
will no doubt find it a pleasure {
attend.
"The World" a spectacular exhibi
ton, plays at Louisville ali the week
and opens here next Monday. Ate
their visit here. New Orleans will /
the next place favored. A full ca
load of scenery accompanies tn
troupe.
At the last meeting of Noph Lodge
No. l37, X. s. B., the following off
GERS we're elected: Hardwig Peres
President; i. Goldsmith, Vice Presi
dent; A. Meyer, jr., Secretary; n
Seelig, Treasurer and Representative,
Il. Hattendorf, Outside Guard.
The ptima donna for tonight, a
the theater, Miss Abbie Darlington, i
wisconsin lady, and her father es
tablished one Of the first newspaper
ever printed in that State. The lad
was here two years ago with the Hess
StrakOSeh troupe.
In the pest house, south Ofthis city
during last year 365 small pox patient
were admitted, and Of the number %
bad never been Yaeoinated. Til
death rate among the latter was 9
pr cent, and among those yaccinate
ooly rs per cent.
Miss Darlington, soprano, Mr.. A
Wilkie, tenor, and three or four othc
artists Of the Hess troupe arrived
the city last night by the Charlesto
railroad, from Huntsville, Ala. TIL
remainder OF the company stoppe
over to present the "Mascotte" Z
Huntsville, and arrived here this fort
noon.
The expenses Of the Cotton III
change are from slO,5OO to 1890
per anuum. Last years outlay W.
$l2,76396, and estimates for the pre-
ent year are $l0,565. The exchan1
is to hold its aunuul election f.
officers next Wednesday. The treai
ury Of the exchange at present hold
$7296 70, Of which al but Sl73.7
belongs to the building fund.
Julia A. Hunt, the actress, is no,
comfortably located with her husban
at the Clarendon, this city. A lett,
written by the lady FIVE days since 1
the Paducah News says she has NJ
been spirited away by admirers, nor
she i'll, either in humor or otherwis
She came straight through from Oh
cago to this city, and is not to appe,
before the public until she enjoys