Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-01
SUNDAY LOCALS In BRIEF.

Character.
TIE two cent postage law is now in
force, and our postmaster's wages has
been raised from 5000 to 1890 per
annum, both to commence October
LIST. - s.
The Strangers Church on Union
street commences another year Of its
career free Of all debt Their church
is in good repair, and the work has all
been paid for.
The cotton crop is opening very
fast in every direction, and it is be-
lieved that il the weather continues
dry all of tie hill crop will be picked
and housed BY the middle Of next
month. 3
Instead Of calling people by name
through the telephone as heretofore,
it is now the style to call them by
number. 1t may work a little awk-
ward for awhile, but will come around
in good shape in due time.
The paving Of Rayburn avenue
from South street to Broadway
has been agreed upon, enough money
having been raised for that purpose,
and also enough to pave it on out for
halfa mile beyond Broadway.
Preacher lines, of the Congrega~
tional church, missed it in not attend
ing the colored convention recently
held at Louisville. His ideas venti-
lated there would have yielded fruit.
Here they fall in barren places.
The people Of Chelsea, some at
lead, are talking Of seeding from
thcpreseat government, not the ma
tional, but the municipal. They pay
taxes to build streets for the fashion
able and aristocratic part Of the city,
while their highways are turned into
COW pastures and grazing patches.
The death list here last week was
%. half white and half colored, and l6
ofthe whole we're children. Six died
of malarial troubles, three Of denti-
ton. 6ne of consumption. and the rest
ofseattering diseases. Last year for
the same week % people died. The
deaths at our city hospital for the past
two weeks we're 4 total.
Sunday morning two weeks ago a
slight sprinkle from the clouds laid
the dust for few hours. This Sun
daya Similar drizzle did the same
thilg. We have had no rain in the
interim, and the total rainfall during
September has been less than an
inch. 1t was the dryest September
for years. Indeed, the summer has
been an extraordinary one. We have
had no ground soaking rain in this
immediate vicinity since the 22d Of
June last.
Instead Ofturning the highways into
grazing fields, like Chelsea has been
doing, the southern or Fort Pickering
part Of the city has had hers all dug
up for railway crossings and depots,
and The residents don'tlike the change
much better than DO those at the
Other end Who have 90 change at all.
The people Of the Eorldars given to
grumbling more or less, and the less
are ss1srAlly afflicted With jsAloa.y
OF something VOrss. But il really Is
4 little rough 70 run . railway into
a man trontyard or doorway without
bis leave, and never offer 70 pay q pic
ayune for the privilege.
Tie price df cotton is the same here
as it vas . week ago, but it is worth
! to &c per ID MORE on the several
grades than Il vas = month ago. 1t is
lower at New Orleans than it vas a
week back, and also lower il New
York, Some Of our buyers, especi.
ally those who purchase for Eastern
spinuers, complain that We have the
highest market in the country. The
fact is that holders or owners of cot
ton At present feel confident that
prices will be higherlater on than
they are at the present time. A de-
crease OfOyer ], 10000 bales from last
years yield is couated on, and this
alone will drive values upward.
Another COW accident happened
Saturday night, this time On the new
railway building, hence to New Or.
leans, and this side ofthe Nonconnah,
some three or four miles below the
city The construction train, with
twenty-five hands and lot of imple-
meuts while bickins in toward the
city, was derailed aud rolled down
twenty foot embankment, crippling a
white man named St. Clair and crush.
ing in the ribs Of Will Fields, a
colOred labOrer, from the effects of
which he died during Sunday. a.
number Of others were considerably
bruised, some by the picks, shoyels
and other implements tumbling on
and over them, but we're not crippled
or seriously damaged, except the two
whose names are given.
A couple Of dozen people, more or
less, chiefly more, Of this city, are in
terested in Florida orange culture.
owning groves Of greater or less extent
IN various portions Of the orange
growing porticrof that semi-tropical
region. They have orange orchards
OF from ten to twenty five acres in
various stages Of Advancement rang.
ing from two to eight years, and these
latter have already become source
Of profit to several, as an orange tree
begins to bear fruit the seventh wear.
and often yieldsquite freely the eighth.
A ten-acre orange orchard Of bearing
trees is worth annually from $4,000
to 100000, and one man with fifteen.
acre patch the past season sold his
yield for S63,700 cash. Stories of
an almost fabulous description are
related Of the enormous profit of
orange culture, and Of the beauties Of
Central Florida, where Memphians or
ex-MenphiAns have located. The
iavorite disirictis about Gainesville.
Oeola, and up tho Sewaneo river val.
Icy region, in the northern and Cen.
trail portion Of the peninsula, between
Jacksonville, on the east Atlantic side
and Cedar Keys on the west. This
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