Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-04
A hsnk hollday Il EaElahd to.day


cerning the state OF the cotton marke
in Liverpool.
The telegraphic strikers have beer
resting on their oars, and expect Il
fight it out while off their lines if j
takes all summer.
Spring lamb, veal, chickens, water
melons on ice, etc., at Seessels mar
ket, 33l Main street. Leave ORDER
for Sunday morning delivery.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have ell their JOB printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER tol
printing Office, ID Madison street
River excursions to morrow. Eek
ert leaves at 2:30 pm. for the grand
camp of the Macaronlaps. and at 8
pm. for a moonlight ride up the
river.
At the DeSoto street enginehouse 9
fire alarm was sounded last night by
mistake when 9 o'clock should have
been rung. The engines we're hitshed
up, but did not turn out.
Sol Coleman has but few boxes
left of the three year old B. +. Grave
ly tobacco. The new goods on the
market cannot bear comparison to the
old stock, which is very rare article.
The cOmmodious store to be occu.
pied shortly By Menken Bros, begins
to present merry attractive appear.
ance. 1t will be an ornament to the
city, and as useful as it is ornamental.
There's a tide in the affairs of men
which taken at the food lead on to
fortune. Get ticket in the Little
Havana Lottery which draws next
week, aud it may prove to be food
tide with you.
A new building 40x148 feet andIfour
or five stories high will be erected on
the southwest corner of Gayoso and
Main. opposite Meuken's new store,
next Summer by Mr.. Napoleon Hill,
the owner Of the property.
The construction train on the Selma
railway runs over street crossings at a
very lively pace, and people residing
along the line have an idea that there
will be some one hurt ere long, unless
the locomotion is reduced.
The value of potatoes have almost
lost their interest to people in this
vicinity, but it may not be out Of
place to say that at Cincinnati yester.
day single barrels could be had at
81 20 to 81 % per barrel.
The Merchants Exchange telegram
from Chicago this morning quotes Q r
s T.l5 and unchanged from last night;
corn, 5ltc, and 10 above last nights
close. st, Louis reports IT s 74c and
unchanged, and corn, 46sc, and to up.
Engineer c. E. Ringwald and
Switchman L. Smith, of the Louisville
and Nashville railway, we're yesterday
bound over in the sum OF $1,000 each
to answer for their part 10 the slaugh.
ter Of the twelve year old girl Lila
Bartlett.
The subject of paving Bayou
Gayose at a cost Of a quarter OF a
million is talked about. But for the
necessary outlay, it would certainly
be good thing to pave and cover it
from end to end. Butt would cost a
pile to do it.
The following papers were registered
to-day: 0verton Lea to W. S. Bruce,
a lot on Monroe street, between Third
and Fourth; consideration, 1880
John S. Claybrook to w. S. Taylor.
part of lot corner OF Court and Sec.
ond streets; consideration, $500.
Extra large and choice home grown
Eatermelons on ice, canteloupes
on ice, chickens, red snappers,
Macklnaw trout, and fresh meats
OF all kinds, at Victor D. Fuchs,
80 and Al Jefferson. Leave orders.
to-day for free delivery tomorrow
Sunday morning.
The services at St. Peters church
to>morFoE are expected to be of IN,
usual interest. Resides . sermon By
Bishop Rademacher, Che choir will
render Mozart's popular Twelfth
Mass" and it is expected, that
eighteen or twenty voices will partici-
pate In the vocal features.
The crossing Of the Selma railway,
at fernando street, is one of the
poorest along the whole course, vet
this dirt road is more travelled than
any other leading into the city from
tho South. General complaint is
made regarding TIE shabby and slip
shod work performed at that crossing
The temperature here at six o clock
this morning was $50, with the wind
light from the Borthesst. The winds
yesterday we're from the northwest
and west, and the mercury osciIlated
between u and so. II was O. cooler
here than at Nashville this morning.
and at many points in the Northwest
it Ess 10 to 10 cooler.
As an Offset to editorial sdyica to
farmers regarding what they should
plant, and 10 capitalists REGARDING The
way thsy ghoBld invest, and to labor.
ers as TO the hours they ought 10 work
a New Orleans editor the other day
urged his readers aud neiebbors 10
eschew heavy diet aud eat fruit for
breakfast freely during hot weather
Another editor 10 the States says it Is
all very well tc RECOMMEND fruit but
scarcely practicable for everybody,
when one considers that peaches re
20 gnd 60 cents dozen, pears IS cents
and and the few bananas 10 market
scarcely fr TO esf,
Last MARCH when the great Swedish
sODgstress, Christine Nilsson, was az
nOuneed 10 MARBLE at Buffalo, n. Y.
her manager-Abbey-refused to Al,
low it and broke the engagement be
cause only 1890 worth OF advance
seats we're sold. 1.-THE tender HEATED