Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-05


Monarch hour. Lyle 4 Shields.
R. D. and Tuileries cOrsets, Lange's
For bricks, telephone Jno. CubbiEs.
Damned Mays new store, 257 Main.
Singing cold north Of the Ohio
to-day.
Use Lytle 4 Shields prepared buck
wheat -four,
Brown 4 Jones, coal dealers. 2s2
Main street.
II was a tame affair, that election
for School Visitors, yesterday.
Extra lot Of choice dressed turkeys
and fresh celery at Seessel's markets,
l24 Main and sSl Main.
The World Combination, to come
here next Monday, is we'll advertised
on the inside Of this issue.
Thee Memphis and Charleston ex
press train will hereafter arrive at
1880 am. The cA nge was made to-
day.
The St. Elmo Commandery is to
meet at Odd Fellows Hall to night,
aud the AngerOna Lodge vii! also
meet for degree work.
Fresh smelt, dressed turkeys and
chickens, celery aad fish. meats Of all
kinds, at Victor d. Fuchs market, 80
aud Al Jefferson street.
Our city. officials are inclined to the
belief that the tax levy proposed by
Legislature is not enough. The tax
payers think the other way.
There are people who actually assert
that the city cannot be governed on a
tax levy Of 81 As per 500, but the
indications are that it will be.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printin.
Office and blank book mandatory. Il
Madison street, exeeut % every class Of
such work 10 good style and at low
rates.
This weeks Ledger, Weekly, Fire
side and Family Story Paper, can BE-
had at COrwin's news stand, No. %;
Main street. He has received extra
supply.
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.
Up at Omaha this morning the
mercury was doBn to zero, and farther
to the northwest it was 100 10 20e
below. II hat cold wave moves this
way well be apt to catch cold soon.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills Of lading, cards and all kinds Of
commercial printing done as well and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office
81 anywhere in the United States.
Sol Coleman again on deck A
crossing in front Of his elegant estab-
lishment, and the only one on Main
street. Why is It that other merchant.
do not do likewlse2 The public de-
mand it.
Tomorrow the sales Of Tickets in the
Little Havana Lottery will close. as
the drawing takes place Monday. The
sales are generally large in Memphis,
as several prizes have been drawn here
and more may be reasonably expected.
Lowest temperature this morning
AZ degrees, and range yesterday 80 to
81 degrees. 1t was calm here all yes.
terday afternoon, last night and this
morning, while a very dense aud q
very gray fog hung low over the
waters Of tho river.
Before Roper & Flanagan failed they
sod five bales Of cotton l. Freeman
aud Z. Davis, and they claim the firm
failed to put them among the list Of
creditors, thereon charge fraudulent
breach Of trust, aud the grand jury
has indicted them.
1t was showing this morning at st
Louis and along the upper Mississippi
an raining at Nashville, Chattanooga
and down in southwest Texas. Fog
we're reported at Little Rock, down il
central Mississippi and along nearl,
ell southern rivers.
Our receipts Of cotton here thil
season to date are within $3.50 bales Of
last years total, and we are 50, 26t
bales ahead Of last year at this time.
After this date last year the receipt,
were lO5,543 bales. New Orleans re-
ceipts at this time are Il 1000 bale,
behind last year.
The Hon. John Walsh was defeated
yesterday by three votes, and Jehn ].
Mason, whose name appears in the
directory as %jailOr, is now School Visi,
tor from tho First ward. The follow.
ing were chosen in the other wards
Second, John NJ. Rourke; Third, J,
j. Duffy; Fourth, Il. j. Badinelli.
Fifth, S. B. Williamson; Sixth, T.W,
Pickett; Seventh, G. V. Rambaut;
Eighth, George A. Hessen; Ninth, L
LawhOrn; Tenth, Thomas Fleming.
The Merchants, or Produce Er.
change movement is making 6ne bro.
gress and is bouyantly booming, sixty.
n firms having Joined, with good