Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-12-06
LEDGER LINES.

Lange's French corsets.
Call at n Beal for saddlery.
Game Is plentiful and cheap.
Oysters, lOe per dozen, at Clements.
q. Kaiser removed 10 Il Beal street.
LEDGER Office removed to II Union st
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2 Main
street.
Go to 22s Main for toys and holiday
goods.
Vance street payements are in bad
way.
@Go to Clements for elegant canned and
bulk oysters.
Vases, toys, glass and queensware at
Stoddards, 22s Main.
For holiday goods go to Stoddards, rs
Main.
Large quantities Of fresh fish, game aud
oysters at Clements market, s. Beal
Tin roofing, guttering and general job
work, Rspp, Verdel q Co. 40 Main.
Price Of coke reduced to s cents per
bushel. Sold at gas Office and by coal
dealers.
There Is no prospect Of cooler weather
for a day or two, and perhaps even
longer.
Dressed poultry, game, egg, butter,
spare-ribs, baek-bOnes, celery, etc, receiv-
cd daily by Kirk Allen d Co.
Pictures Of the pleasing actress, Minnie
Madden, are 70 be seen IN many show
windows and on the outer walls.
A trotting match for $1,000, best three
in Eve, between Beulah w. and Fancy
Day is to come of this afternoon.
just received, a full line'of meerchaum
goods Cigarette holders specially, at
Bergman & Wagner, 285 Main.
Christmas London Graphic and Illus
trated News with colOred plates have
arrived and few extra copies can be had
ut Mansford's.
Complaints are made that lumber deal
ers use toe much Of the public domain on
Union street, and also on Third in the
vicinity Of Union.
The cotton picking season is drawing 70
a close in all the country round The
staple continues 10 roll into market here
and elsewhere with wonderful rapidity.
A pleasant birthday party was given
last night on Rayburn avenue at the resi-.
| dence Of Mrs. Bruce IN honor Of Mr..
Joseph W. Bruce, who WIS twenty.one
years old on yesterday.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mis-,
Bessie, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs Ell Nc.
Gowan, 10 Mr. s Mcdowell at the Cum.
berland Presbyterian church, 4 O'Clock
pm, December l2lh.
The question rs 10 who will be chosen
to act as a city father few weeks hence
ia one which is topic Of interest among
certain people wanting Office, and alsC
among some who don't want anything o
the sort.
No ice has been cut or housed up III,
country ~ date. 1t has not been NOR,
than an inch thick 50 far anywhere soutl
OF Chicago. The ice machines bid fair /,
have plenty Of business next year
4 Lost--Monday, Decem Der Sd, probabl,
on Main street, u double cased lady 5 polC
watch with initials l.. G. on same
will pay liberal reward for It's return
Apply 10 james B. Cook, Architect, cor
ner OF Union and Second streets.
The Kansas City railway was bus,
yesterday, last night and this morninI
running many loaded freight cars out hi,
Broadway branch toward GilPs Station
the same 10 be forwarded East and Soutl
over the Memphis and Charleston rail
road 10 various points.
The Memphis Post No. 9, Grand Army
Of the Republic, elected It's officers last
night choosing General NJ. T. William.
son Commander; Humphrey Brook, Vice.
Commander j, w. Vernon, JuniorCom.
mander; J. o. Pierce, Chaplain; Geo. ii.
Sease, Post QLartermaster, and A. y.
Fisher, Officer ofthe Day.
Elk. Marshall, stage machnist Of the
Madison Square "Raiah" company, Wa
accidentally killed at Selma, Ala, one
night last week. While on his way 10
the water closet he opened the wrong
door and walked OF an exposed landinR
in the second story Of the Southern Hotel
falling 70 the court below, distance Of
twenty feet His neck was broken.
The financial and other complications
which have obstructed work on the Selma