Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-27

Farmers in the country set pillow
going this morning, to get ready 70
planting big crop Of potatoes.
The funeral of Mrs. Louise Quinn
occurred this afternoon from her lat,
residence, No. 453 Shelby street.
The recent gubernatorial appoint
ments to the Legislative Council hello
their first official meeting yesterday.
A perfect-ftting, superior-made
shirt is what Sam May guarantees to
all who leave orders at his establish.
ment.
Ten persons are already mentioned
as prominent for the departed Sher
if s place, and it begins to have coal
oil favor.
The next drawing Of the Little
Havana Lottery takes place next
week. The sales of tickets will, as
usual, be large in the Taxing District.
Skiffs and hand cars are now used
to transport mail through the swamps
and overflow west of Shreveport on
the railway leading toward Shreve-
port.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, ID
Madison street, exeout IS every class of
such work in good style and at low
rates.
The City Attorney has been direct
ed by the Legislative Council to col
lect delinquent subscriptions for new
streets according to the methods he
deems best.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
office constantly receives new type Of
The latest styles, and the Office gener.
lilly is kept up to the highest standard
IF excellence.
Celery and lettuce from New Or
cans, red spappeFs, Lake Erie salmon,
dressed turkeys and chickens, as we'll
IS fresh meats of all kinds, at Victor
D. Fuchs market, 80 aud Al Jefferson.
Charlotte Thompson and her dra
patic company will be here on Thurs
lay, aud will play ct Helena tn
morrow night. Sales of seats for the
ENGAGEMENT here commenced this
morning.
A neS Presbyterian church is about
o be erected on the old site corner
Third and Poplar streets. The au
horities have granted the construct
rs privilege to use the back alley for
tOring material while the work is in
,rogress.
The following passage from Long
elbow is peculiarly suggestive at the
resent time: And daily the shadow
f THE church spire counts the tombs,
epresenting a dial plate Of human life,
D which the hpgrs and minutes are
he graves Of men
Persons arriving from down the
liver report but little work in progress,
nd blowing has not commenced any
'here Ia the valley lands liable to
veraow. Planters are apprehensiVe
nd watchful, and hold themselves in
eadiness for the worst.
Tweuty-three racers are now stabbed
vi ct the race course, and they belong
0 Appleton, scHlly Brady and Nc
DANIEL. More than dozen are sx-
'ected to be added this week, and
yer a hundred are looked for by the
ime the meeting begins.
A thousand feet Of the newly cor :
ructed government levee on the
Arkansaw side below Arkansaw City
ave way last Saturday, and more, it
S expected, has gone eye nov. In
Iced, it is feared the entire works,
syeral miles in length, will be swept
way ia that vicinity.
A steam pile driver 10 pounding
,osts into the ground at a lively rate
'ut on the Selma railway a little west
II the fernando street crossing.
Another Of a newly invented type is
irving posts for the protection Of the
Chesapeake, Ohio sHd Southwestern
abroad near and back Of the county
all.
The telegram this, forenoon from
Jhicago to the Merchants Exchange
eports spot corn SIC, and Ic above
aSt night; wheat fl.O8, and 10 higher;
ness pork $500 and Sc up lasd
'll.37., and Sc up; clear rib sides