Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-17

can not get away sooner the Eckert
will not leave before nine o'clock
Wednesday night, on the moonlight
excursion. j. Yves Owens, manager.
Wilson, the murderer, is enjoying a
feast of good things at present. lie is
not long for this world, and he smiles
at the prospect of leaving it. Wilson
don't belong to the set who always
growl, even if going to be hung.
The nail mills all over the country
on yesterday closed operations, add
the suspension is to continue four
weeks, the object Of it being to work
of surplus stocks, preparatory to an
advance 10 prices among manufac-
turers.
Colonel Sid B. Jones, the stalwart
aud always genial general travelling
agent of the St Louis, New Orleans
and Chicago railway line,is in the city
on his way to New Orleans, for which
point he will take his departure to-
morrow.
The programme for the hanging of
Robert Wilson, three days hence, is
that it will come off at the hour OF
high noon and will b. strictly private.
The officials necessary to conduct the
affair and half dozen news reporters
are alone privileged by law to witness
an execution.
Judge Hadden continues to watch
back alleys and yards for bad odors
and ofal, aud river men for iDiraction
of his sanitation ideas, but he refuses
to reform the flthcart system, or
throw his eye over passing railway
traveller. Perhaps he himself fears
infection if he runs too close to those
carts.
Tue School Visitors met yesterday
afternoon ard promulgated the list OF
public school teachers for the next
scholastic year. All of those selected
for the white schools are feminines.
In the colored schools there will be
FIVE or six male teachers. The total
number of teachers, including the
Superintendent, is seventy. eight.
The Sanitary Council of the Mis-
Sissippi Valley, our self-coDstituted
health guardians, refuse to back
down, So they say, and will keep their
inspectors on duty, even though moth l.
ing be dropped into the hat to defray
their expenses for sustenance. They
will work for nothing and board them
selves before they will give up the
ship.
Mercury ne at six this morning, 4o
cooler than yesterday at the same
time, the wind blowing gently from
the west. Range of temperature yes
terday 75o to 93o. Showers fell during
last night at Nashville, Cairo and Gin
cinnati, while Grenada, Miss, and
Tuscumbia, Ala, enjoyed comforta-
bic sprinkle during the "a hours end
ing last evening at sunset.
The jealousy of the jealous Chris
tian belonging TO theLauderdale street
Baptist tabernacle, and the Church Of
st. John on Beal street, less than a
stones throw from each other con-
tinues undated. The two churches,
while they worship in accordance
with the same general rules, do not
endorse each other, by a large ma
iOrity.
The Mozart Society of this city are
negotiating with the manager of the
Thomas orchestra to give a series of
musical entertainments in the various
cities Of the South, extending from
Richmond to Little Rock. and to the
gulf coast. There are about twenty
five points in the circuit where it can
be proitsbly given, provided the de,
tails can be perfected aud agreed upon.
A German lad named Charles Rock.
fifteen or sixteen years of age, while
going for water few evenings since.
was hit in the head with brick and
his skull was fractured. A darky
scamp named Grant Bradshaw, two or
three years younger than his victim.
did the work because the darby lad
been caught stealing, The injured
boy is in a precarious condition, and
the villain who hit him had not been
caught.
A prominent Front row merchant
shipped 40 barrels of choice early rose
potatoes in good condition to a Chi
cago dealer few days since, and be
has received in return a check for
~ 50, or an average OF l35c per barrel.
The empty barrels cost 35c each, con.
sequently he gets nothing for the pota.
toes and loses over 2lc each on his
barrels. The shipment was made for
grower whose crop yielded about
1000 barrels. He can stand the loss
very we'll, but naturally don't like it,
as a part Of the same carload sent to
another house returned him nearly a
dollar q barrel. paying him for the
empty barrel and about Csc per barrel
for the potatoes.
Nearly all of the trade dollars for.
merly in circulation hereabouts Lave
gone elsewhere, and they are seldom
seen in the city or vicinity. They are
now worth in actual bullion fraction
over SOC each. When the dollar was
first coined in 1872 or 1873 silver bull.
lion was worth in the London market
over 59d per ounce. Now it is worth
but a fraction over Sod. The bullion
value of a trade dollar when coined
was over l02c each, but the decline In
silver has caused their depreciation
as they have never been a legal ten.
der in this country. They were
coined for trade use in Japan anG
China. whera silver ciroulstes freely
and the object Of their coinage was &
furnish an outlet or a market for thu
silver production of this country.