Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-24

requlsitl0ns Will be nlled as last as
made,
Light frost occurred Saturday morn
ing up in Gibsen county and further
North, but no harm resulted to vege-
tation.s
TIE thermometer here has not been
below 5l0 during the past week, and
it lacked 5or G. getting down to the
frost point.
Turaips are not doing well in this
y'sAfiS nor indeed anywhere else
sOGth Of the Ohio river. The lack of
rain is the cause.
1t was down to $40 here this morn
ing the lowest yesterday was 52s while
on Saturday morning L dropped to 5l'
and the highest that day was 730.
The Euphrates Lodge 1. 0. B. b.
met last night and the Memphis Com
mandery Ne, K. T. meet tonight,
also the Chickasaw Lodge, j, 0. 0. r..
Ex- United Stats Senator Branch
X. Bruce, colored, Of Mississippi, was
among the speakers at an emancipation
convention in Marietta, Ohio. last
week. g
The new posters announcing SO, 600
in purses for the fall meeting Of the
New Memphis Jockey Club have been
received, aud many will be hung on
the outer walls to-day.
The wife of Esquire P. NJ. Winters,
who died on Saturday morning, was
inferred at Calvary Cemetery yesterday
afternoon, services being held at St.
Bridget's Catholic church.
Railway workers get 81 and board
in some csses, while transfers receive
$25 per month and board. tie makers
2lc each at the stump, and spade and
shovel men IA to lsc per cubic yard
The Barlow. Wilson minstrel troupe
appear tonight at the thsater here.
also to1morrOW afternoon and night,
and on Wednesday night will play at
Grenada, Miss, proceeding thence
southwark.
The public schools Of the 18th civil
district, north ofthe city, open a week
hence, and the Shelby County Teach
ers' Association will meet a week from
next Saturday at the Market street
schoolhouse.
Mr.. R, Talley, colOred, states that
be has done all for the Garfield or
phans, eolored, that he promised to
do. He sent them 20 barrels coal and
some provisions several days ago, but
the orphans were still cold and hungry
on Friday last.
About q dozen bales Of cotton Of
the new crop have been received this
season at Withe depot aud eight or
ten at Brunswick. Further up the l.
and N. railroad the cotton yield pros
poet is very slim, and from half to
two thirds Of the average is all that is
expected around Humboldt.
The frost predicted by signal Ser.
vice folks was OF SO slight a character
in Tennessee, Illinois, Iowa and else
where hat the tenderest vegetation
was uuiniured, and the value OF yari
Gus products were not affected. It
did not hurt tobacco in Kentucky or
Tennessee as far as a~scertained.
While on a whisky swilling jam
boree, last week, a nan named Hill
stabbed aud killed a son Of Jas
MOnassa, at Atoka, Upton county,
moth Of here. The killer had no
p%rovoeation, as far as known, except
that Of a desire to slaughter q fellow.
He was cunning enough 70 escape
arrest after the deed.
According to the Signal Service pre-
dictionS We we're to-have local rains
hereaboats every day for nearly ten
days past, but not a drop has yet
fallen, The weather man misses his
rain calculations about as bad as he
did his frost predictions for Saturday
morning last, and that miss was not
far from adozen degrees.
A five months session in this city
is expected Of the Court Of Referees,
the Shelby county docket being large
enough to keep the Judges as busy as
they care to be for that period Of
time. The decisions Of this court.
while not fnal, will hardly be- re-
versed by the court Of last resort. the
Supreme Court, except in cases where
some grave omission or error oc
ours. nn9'I ,aidqmaM
The mortuary report for last week
in this city makes the total list 30, and
the same as last year during the cor
responding week. OF the number 7
died Of oOnjestion, 2 Of d~yseutery, 2 Of
consumption, ! Of malarial fever and
the remainder scattering, There were
five inqBests held, and two died at the.
city hospital. Ten Of the total were
small children. Fourteen were white
and l6 cOlored.
A FIRE Saturday night destroyed
some $4,000 worth Of goods and two
mules and a horse at 4l4 Main street.
in rear Ot'P MoGadden & Co.'s eros
Gerry store. The adjoining premises
lost fifty dollars. moro or less, 10 feno
ing. The goods destroyed were ia a
storage house in rear Of the Main
store and we're insured, while the anil
area total loss tothel owners 1t
il thought to have been fired by an
lncendiary. Hh "a
A much larger volume Of trade u
now carried on 10 this vicinity than
ast year at the same time. The bank.
lr's clearings here last week summed
Up 66O,O36an ne tsl2,696 in excess Of
annoy rifnwnFrI