Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-06

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Office and blank book mandatory, u
Madison street. execut IS every class of
such work in good style and at low
rates.
Robert Coleman was acquitted to-
day ia the Criminal Court Of the
charge Of breach oftrust, and Henry
Sohasen si carrying concealed
weapons,
Gardeners made il count during
last weeks dry and genial weather,
and the rain Of last night and this
morning will make the seed come up
beautifully.
Red snappers, MackinaR trout,
white fish, Savannah river shad and
Reelfoot perch, at Seessel's markets,
ia Main, near Market, and 33l Main,
near Union.
The PUBLIC LEDGER 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.
A large lot Of strictly choice timothy
hay, wet at fire, can be seen at 2O8
Front street, for sale low by W. j.
Chase & Co., 182 Main, or Ike A.
Chase, 22O Front street.
Savannah river shad, Lake Erie
salmon, oysters, veal, dressed turkeys,
celery and meats of all kinds, all
fresh and choice, at Victor D. Fuchs
market, 80 and Al Jefferson.
Over 1000 bbls of potatoes have
been received here within the past 8
days, while nearly double that number
Of barrels have been sent to the
country for seed and other use.
A title on the circumlocution
order is in the report Of the recent
debt settling committee. The con.
structors have evidently read Dickens
story Of the How Not To Do 1t" bus
mess.
AS the last incoming train over the
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
railroad passed through Ripley, Tenn,
yesterday afternoon, fire was raging
there. Its extent and its sufferers
we're not known to those who saw it.
The people on Jefferson street are
complaining about the failure of the
authorities to make good crossings at
the corner Of Third to accommodate
the general public, including theater
goerS, as we'll as the school children.
The stable of George Stewart, ON the
new Raleigh road, about a mile north
Of the city limits, was destroyed by
fire at two o'clock this morning. Two
COWS were burned in the building.
The stable was valued at $500; no
insurance, 1a
Numerous planters Of the valleys
below here are very indignant at the
manufactured special dispatches sent
from below here regarding food disas
ters, and they ought to be. Many of
the dispatches are worse than a real
crevasse would be, except that they
won't kill.
Mr.. E. L. Banning has married
Miss Addie Heaner, the niece of
Captain james Ralston. The nuptial
knot was tied by the Rev. j. p
Walker, Of the Methodist church, and
the ceremony occurred at the resi-.
dence Of 4. i. Banning, Chelsea.
Many friends congratulate the happy
couple.
The lower ST. Francis basin is rapidly
filling with the food water which went
over the banks from the Mississippi
into the sunk land country, The
rise from back water down at DR..
Peters plantation, fifty miles south of
here, was nearly two fept inside of 49,
hours, and at Mariana the swell has
been rapid.
1t was raining this morning at Lit
tie Rock, Shreveport, Nashville,
Louisville, Cincinnati, St, Louis, along
tho upper Mississippi and in North
west Texas. The rains were light,
however, and did not exceed half an
inch at any point heard from. Local
rains promise to continue throughout
to-day. and colder YestLer is indicated
in the Missouri valley.