Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-06
THE CITY.
LKDaER LnHs

Monarch -four, Lyle & Shields.
For bricks, telephone JnO. Cubbins.
0Eanne& Mays new store, 257 Main,
Use Lytlc & Shields prepared buck.
wheat -four.
Brown 4 Jones, coal dealers, 2s2
Main street.
Thirty-nine was the mercury's low
est this morning.
Nearly fifty pcople.are in the Hess
Acme opera troupe.
The proposed tax levy Of 81 40 viii
be popular with the people, if it is not
with the officials,
T. s., Clair was sentenced to sixty
days and 6ned fifty dollars, to day, for
aourishing a pistol.
Those who went to the opera last
night were delighted, and those who
go tonight will also be.
THE World" company will use It's
own scenery entire all but a single
scene, aud it takes a car to carry it.
Licenses to marry were given to day
to James Sullivan and Kate 0'Con.
ner; Caleb Jacobs and Annie Taylor,
Wealth-ssekers should secure a
ticket to day in the Little Havana
Lottery. The drawing takes place
Monday.
"Kit:" A Memory. A new novel
by james Payn. Illustrated with /.
full page illustrations. Price % cents.
at Manslord's.
The story or drama of Don Cesar
De 2azan" furnishes the plot los the
opera Of Mariana, and the e.usiS
is by William Vincent Wallace.
The Hon. Jack Walsh was really
chosen to succeed himself as a School
Visitor, iday before yesterday, and il
was all wrong to state otherwise.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book manufaetOry, IL
Madison street, execut Sc every class Of
such work 10 good style and at Low
rates.
Anyone to beat Bate" was the
expression Of N. I. Polk, frequently
heard during the canvass last summer,
as he openly espOused the name Of
Hawkins.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office constantly receives new type Of
the latest styles, aud the Office gener-
ally is kept up to the highest standard
Of excellence.
Good looking ChickasaW Guards;
fine silky wrappers; rich, oily sub
stance-a smoke for the Gods-ten
cents straight, at Samslson's, opposite
Peabody Hotel.
Folks place has been worth about
$500 per annum, and out of it one
aequaintace saw MIN wager $500 each
on four different horses last summer,
all Of which he lost.
All the choice eatables Of the season
can be obtained at Victor D. Fuchs
market, 80 and Al Jefferson street.
Leave orders to day for something
nice for Sunday dinner.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads,
bills Of lading, cards and all kinds Of
commercial printing done as well and
as cheap at the Pubic LEDGER Office
as anywhere in the United States.
The Merchants Exchange promises
to be a great success, aud = charter
has been applied for, The members,
knowing. the value Of such an enter
prise, are working 1t up 10 the right
way.
The tendency Of nearly al Office
holders is to have their pages revised
and increase the taxes. Our Legisla-
tors at Nashville struck a keynote
when they cut the tax levy down to
$l.A5.
The sale Of seats for The World -
II be performed at the theater next
week, lie now 10 progress al Holleu-
berg'S music store. The company
will reach here from Louisville next
Monday morning.
pillows Pet" was the back door
nickname applied to Marsh Polk by
jealous rivals in the early part Of the
civil war. when Marsh Polk hauled his
battery up the banks Of the Missis-
sippi with oxen.
Rain fell this morning at New Or.
leans and along the Texas Gull coast,
also at Nashville and Chattanooga
II was freezing at Fort Smith and in
north Texas, while at many points in
the Northwest the mercury was below
zero.
Only a few days since Marsh Polk
telegaphed to his daughter, a brilliant
young lady, visiting friends in this
city, to return home forthwith. He
Of course knew the storm cloud would
burst over his head within a briet
period.
The total rainfall here last month
was but II inches, and rain fell on
niue days Of the month. 1t was the
dryest December since 1871, when the
rainfall was 10. In December, 1879.