Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-15


The Lawrence Barrett company ar.
rived in town this morning and are
Quartered at the Peabody and new
Clarendon hotels.
1t is a little cold at present, but
many are getting ready for early garden
work aud potato planting, This kind
Of business is only a few weeks of.
DR.. Lemuel Richardson, a brother
Of the Rev. Morrison Richardson, Of
this city, died at Vicksburg, last
Friday, in the 10th year Of his age.
Eighteen hundred laborers are to be
set at work on the Selma railroad,
between Holly Springs and Aberdeen,
before the close of the present month
Lawrence Barrett has a large ad-
v nee reserved sale at Hollenberg's.
A number of applications for seats
were received from parties out Of
town.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, l3
Madison street,execut IS every class Of
such work in good style and at low
rates.
The revival is still in progress at
the Cumberland Presbyterian church,
Court street. DIR. Sanders will preach
tonight and, perhaps, during the
week.
Colonel Dan Saffaraus, we'll known
here, has rented out his cotton planta-
ton near Satartia, Mississippi, and
will shortly remove to Lexington
Kentucky.
The PUBLIC LEsGER job printing
Office constantly receives new type Of
the latest styles, and the Office gener-
ally is kept up to the highest standard
Of excellence.
The lowest temperature this morn
ing was 26' with a light northeast
wind. 1t was showing at sunrise from
st. Louis northWard, and raining
down in Texas.
The Barlow Wilson minstrel party
performed here Saturday afternoon
and again at night, before large audi
ences. The company will play at
Little Rock tonight.
The railway leading from New
Orleans to Jackson" Grenada. Grand
Junction, Cairo and Chicago is to be
known as the Illinois Central for the
next ninety niue years.
The great songtress Nilsson gave a
concert at the St. Charles Theater,
New Orleans. last Saturday afternoon
and was succeeded last night by The
World" lunatic asylum and all.
The sales of tickets in the next
drawing of the Little Havana Lot
terry are progressing rapidly, as the
lottery is popular in the Taxing Dis
trict, having distributed so many
prizes to our citizens.
AT regular meeting of Noph Lodge
No. 1877, o. X. S. B., the following
officers we're installed for the ensuing
term: President, Hardwig Peres
Vice President, Louis Goldsmith
Secretary, A. Meyer, jr.; Treasurer, NJ
Seelig; Guardian. Hensch Cohen
Outside Guardian, Chas. H%attendorf
Conductor, Henry Loeb Assistant
Conductor, Max Bextus.
Hon. A. v. Waddell, who canvassed
the Shoestring district in Mississippi
for Congress on the Democratic ticket
last fall, died Of pneumonia, a few
days since, at Birmingham, Alabama.
He had recently taken up his resi-
denee at that place. Mr.. WaddeIl at
one time represented the Sardis dis
trict in the Mississippi State Senate,
and has been otherwise prominent in
public Offices.
Cotton seed oil is classed in the
custom lists with castor, linseed and
other expressed oils, and the proposed
tariff reduction will make duty on
imported oils Of this kind 12l Ger Is
per gallon, instead Of 30 cents, as now.
Large quantities Of cotton seed oil is
made in the city Of Hull, England,
and the cotton districts of Egypt and
India supply the seed for its manufac-
ture. American cotton seed oil is,
however, worth three cents per gallon
more than English made oil.
In a recent interview Fred Wolfe,
the Erlanger syndicate man, said
There is a syndicate, consisting of
American, German and English CAPT
t~alists, with abundant c at its
command, engaged in building a line
from Memphis to Brunswick. That
syndicate has completed III miles Of
the line to the Chattahoochio river.
Six miles more is to be negotiated for.
This will give them a connection with
the roads leading into Brunswick,
which is the seaport. These roads are
being pushed forward, and there is no
question as to their soundness."
THIS WEEK. THIS WEEK.