Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-09
LEDGER LINES.

Ice cold melons az element 8.
Water is getting low in many els
terms.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
The legislative ceusCil met for con-
ference this afternoon.
The Angerona Lodge is to work in
the fellOwcraft degree tonight.
Old soldiers Of the last war held
gathering tO-day up the o., o & S.W.
K r.
Excursion of the Brotherhood Of
Telegraphers on the steamer Eckert
tonight.
The receipts of cotton here are now
1924 bales in excess Of last year at
this date.
New check books manufactured at
low figures at the LEDGER job print
ing Office.
A large consignment Of rolling stock
for the l. N. y. and L. railroad has
been received here.
Old pictures copied and enlarged
from ink or water colors al the Cot
tage Gallery, Beal street.
Music books, magazines, illustrated
papers, etc., bound at the PUBLIC
LEDGER bindery. IL Madison street.
The thing work for the Gayoso
House is to be done by a Chicsgo firm,
at cost Of some $500. more or less.
Sol Coleman has scale in his pas
ace Ehieh is the most novel contri-
vance that was eyer invented. Go
and see it.
1t cost the city $1,000 per AMMAN u
1 be supplied with water according to
the way the Water Company chooses
to furnish 1t,
| Indications point 10 9 season Of en-
iYening gsiety, both socially and the.
atrieally, in this city during the CON-
ling autumn and winter season.
| Business men will find It to their.
interest to have ell their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER job
/ printing Office, Ii Madison street.
The wsngfacturers of the Ko-Ko
a delicious chewing compound fol
| Indigestion, etc, ETC., have orders
ahead that will take at least fonl
weeks to Gil.
The gardens and tillable fields o.
ltniiss vicinity hsye not been Well soaked
with rain since the zzd Of June last
The total rainfall here during JUL
was less than 2 inches.
AT six O'Clock this morning The
mercury marked re and the atmos
, phere was calm. Range of tempera,
taTe yesterday Ga to 82s with westerly
, and northwesterly breezes.
I The members Of the Porter Guards
are preparing for trip North through
Illinois aud Iowa, and thky expect Il
: have nice time. They will start il
about a week from this time.
The funeral Of Mr.. Charles W
= Cooper, father of Jehn L. Cooper, VII,
died yesterday at the age OF 81, oc
CURED this afternoon from his lat
residence, Ne. 26 Ross avenue.
The crossing Of the Selma railwa,
and Mississippi avenue at the south
eastern corner Of the city, has bee
graded, plsnked and put in first clas
condition for the passage OF VEHICLES
Sam May will commence refxin
IS his store next week. Gentlemen j
want of 6ne goods will do we'll to ca
before Saturday next by which tim
all the goods will be sold oft ct grei
bargains.
!. DR.. Henry NJ. Jeter, a native {
Il Bedford county, Virginia, died on Ii
I'd inst, &C his residence near Cole
water, Miss, at the advanced age ,
> a. He had resided in Mississippi
for forty. three years.
n The ruins of the scene of the lat
fire on Front street smoke no lenge
IS and a workman was kept busy yestei
deg and to-day clearing the rubbis
9n from the old sidewalk in front
!" where the stores snee stood.
d. The superb state of the atmospher
z; for the past few weeks could not i
y surpassed BY oven the inyigorating oil
NJ n. mate and glorious sunshine of Mime
q sofa or California. But it has mo
q been healthy for the growing crops.
Il Mr.. Dennis Callahan has raise,
or some very fne sweet potatoes Mi
year, mile and a half out Secon,