Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-06
SUNDAY LOCALS IN BRIEF.


D public Library comes off on the l4tI
. inst,, at Estival Park.
2 The Citizens Committee, headed
i by Mr.. Nap. Hill as president, are Il
meet to-day to discuss the Wolf rive
problem.
Numerous persons are seeking othel
persons willing to bet that the com
; munity will be using Wolf rivGl
water five years hence.
There will be no more base ball al
Olympic Park until its owners repair
the stand and rebuild the fences bleWn
down during the last big storm.
The active men of the Joeky Club
are busy trying to arrange Memphis
stake tor q mile and halt race with
a fat purse OF $4,000. The canvass for
the money will begin to>day.
A line Of narrow guage railway now
runs straight through from Cairo to
Gainesville, Texas, crossing Arkansaw
river ct Rob Roy, thirty miles from
Pine Bluff, on 100 foot bridge.
The new Menken building will have
the largest plate glass windows in the
city, aud they will cost steep figures
Thirty pieces Of mahogany for counters
have been purchased alta cost ofg5O0.
Cruelty Inspector Lane reports a
decided decrease in rough treatment
TO animals and an increase of badly
used children. vi the former be had
but IL TO attend to last month and OF
children 22.
About one hundred knight Tenn
plars left early Sunday morning
by special cars for Cincinnati, con-
veyed by Passenger Agent Robson,
and gone to attend the cOlored convo
cation Of the United States to be held
at Cincinnati.
The Globe Oil Works have been
paid $62, 757 50 insurance money for
their loss on 260O barrels of oil burned
at the Front street FIRE nearly two
weeks ago, through Q, B. Wexford &
Co., who represent the companies In
which the policies were held.
The reflection of the powerful elecs
trio light on the White river steamer
Josie Harry can be seen at the quar-
antine station, twelve miles below
here, By people on the public landing,
provided OF course, the steamer is
lying at the quarantine station.
The Telephone Company have put
up line of fifteen miles or more OF
poles on the projected route to
Brownsville. The Geographic line |
from Clarksdale, on the upper Sun
flower river, to this city, a distance OF |
i3O miles, is making rapid progress
toward completion.
At the Second Presbyterian church, |
next Wednesday evening, Miss Lulu |
Barbiere; charming young lady OF |
UolEervile, and who has host OF ad |
miring friends in this city, will be led |
to the matrimonial altar by Mr.. j. Il.
Gentry, of Kentucky. DR.. Latimer
will ofieiate. The happy couple will |
reside at the grooms home in Ken
lucky.
The unfavorable condition of the
cotton crop in Texas, as we'll as in
this vicinity and in Georgia and Ala
bama, has Influenced an advance in
the value Of the staple during the
past three days oil I to 10 per ID in
New YOr and Bloc at New Orleans,
while futures have advanced from IL
to 80 points, the late month deliveries
advancing most.
The great Exposition at Louisville
has had good start, but everything
will be ready for big show by the end
OF the present week. TIE musical
features in the way OF concerts N
Floral Park are highly praised As
usual regarding public exhibitions, the
home people we're slow and backward
about getting their displays 10 trim.
but they are now exerting themselves
to put things 10 order.
President Latham, of the Memphis
Water Company. says it will cost
800, 900 to bring Horn Lake water
here for the public use, and there is
no certainty oft being good were we
to get 1t. People living in the Yazoo,
Miss, valley swamps are not addicted |
to the use Of lake or swamp water.
except for washing purposes, and
Horn Lake water will hardly ever be
better liked than Wolf river.
The mortuary report in the city last
week was ", of which IS we're colored
Consumption, as usual, leads the list
Of fatal maladies, carrying of three
victims. Two persons died at the
hospital OF pernicious fever, one of
remittent and one OF typho malarial
lever; two infants died Of dentition.
Que Of spasms and two Of cholera
lntantum, aud IL Of the q were chill.
dren under three years of age. Last
year for the same week 26 persons
died.
The English grain crop report
cabled Saturday says the acreage of
wheat in the British Islands is much
less than in 1882, aud rust is spread,
Ing rapidly, while other troubles CON
stitute to make the prospect unfavor.
able. Trade in wheat last week was
dull, with the tone in sellers favor.
Oats are in a forward state, and barley
promises we'll. Traffic in oats is dull. 4
Flour was slow to sell all last week |
and off coast wheat met little inquiry
Corn slow aud wholly unchanged. {
Uhas. S. Tinker, General Superin.
tendegt OF the Western Union tele.
graphic SERVICE, says within the last
ten days they have almost reached
perfection in the transmission of news.
Hr, y, y. Golsan, of the Brokerage
Association here, says the service is
aboml9able, and his business is greatly
lpl urod BY irregular delivery and IN.
blunders, The latter is a
pat patron who pays for what he gets
Inc other Is trying to throw cold
WQfnr nm tho oat1oa o( A. oA-.l II :