Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-09-17
SUNDAY LOCALS IN BRIEF.
A foeey Sunday morning

fall.
The churches we're literally at
tended by worsAipers on the warm
and beautiful Sabbath day.
Several new street ears are in course
of construction at the City Railway
shops on Main street, corner Of LinN
den.
The leader Of the new Mendelssohn
Society, Mr.. Carl NJ. Dorster, is rec
Gently from the Conservatory Of Music
at Leipsic.
The dust was laid by a gentle show
er which fell in the early hours before
day, the first moisture from the clouds
for twelve days.
Barely one-fourth Of the usual yield
Of peanuts is expected nVirginia, but
in West Tennessee the outturn will be
fair, though not perhaps a full aver
age.
The extended drouth over about
Little Rock was broken Saturday
night by nice and very refreshing
rainfall, whish was a boon to unma-
tured cotton.
Miss Conway's seminary will open
for the season to>day. The Christian
Brothers have 176 pupils and all the
schools are reported to have corre-
spending prospects.
The authorities some two months
ago ordered all the weeds about town
to be cut, but they have neglected to
chop down any themselves. At least
the public lots are full Of them.
A funeral more than half a mile
long followed a colored citizen to his
last resting place yesterday. Several
societies turned out in full force, and
it was a sultry as well a solemn occa>
sion.
A number OfmerchAnts here believe
wheat will drop to 700 per bushel be-
fore it quits, and our cotton people
continue to estimate all the way from
five and a half to six and a half million
Of bales.
The Pioneer Cotton Mills are now
giving work to 14O persons, aud a
dozen more will fill the list to full
working capacity. The mills are very
busy, and find ready sale for all they
can turn out.
A colored woman died in this city
last week just a century old. Think
OF the gossip that aged person could
have ventilated about people of three
generations ago if she could but have
remembered it all.
From 68 to 92' here on Saturday was
equal to the hottest days Of August,
and there we're but three days in that
month any hotter, these days being the
LIST, 18th and 22d, when the temperaN
ture rose to 90 and 949.
The railway depot at Collierville
was destroyed by fire early yesterday
morning. Loss, $1,000, more or less,
and covered by insurance through
New York agencies, in the Globe Of
London, Or some other foreign com
pany.
After the first Of next month post
age on a letter will be only two cents.
The department at Washington began
the sale Of the new stamps and en-
velopes Saturday, and took in nearly a
million of dollars for the new style Of
postal papers.
An increasing demand for cottage
residences auses rent rates to keep
climbing upward. A young married
mas OF yesterday offered s35 per
month for a six room domicile, and
there we're sixteen others who want it
at the same figure.
This is the harvest season for the
doctors. The months of September
and October are always sickliest in
West and South, and the presents no
exception to other seasons, therefore
the doctors nearly all have as much as
they care to attend to.
The Ada Richmond troupe will be
here the 18th Of next month and will
also visit Jackson, Cairo, Paducah
and Henderson, KY. few days after.
The Calamity Jane Company is now
at Peoria, ILL.,, and the time of proba-
BILE visit here is yet unaunouuced.
A prominent young citizen quite
popular 10 medical circles is to wed
one of Nashville's brightest and most
popular bellies on Wednesday next,
and the gentleman is preparing to
journey thitherwaad, despite efforts to
make him believe there are numerous
broken bridges on the route.
Many Of the cisterns in this city and
vicinity are empty and the wells are
more or less muddy from over use. At
some Of the subj ban wells people for
a quarter Of a mile aud more around
go 20 get water to Qaenoh thirst and
for culinary purposes. The flower
and vegetable gardens all dried out
weeks ago.
The mOrtuary list here last week
was 80, Of which but IL we're white.
-Four Of the latter we're children and
two died at the hospital. OF the total
eight died Of various forms Of conges
tion, three Of consumption, four Of
malaria, and one named Jane Flana-
gan, who was an even 100 years old,
died Of old age. Last year for the
same week 20 people died and IA we're
white folks.
The Memphis Cooperage Works,
near the upper end Of Front street,
were injured $50 by FIRE near 10 o'clock
Saturday night. Sunday morning
about 2 O'Clock Ries' bakery, SO Vance
street, a two story brick, was partially
destroyed by FIRE, the loss being set at
about $1,000 and is fully covered. The
first FIRE was caused by heat from a
boiler, and the last in the baking por-
ton Of the bakery.
The Hess Opera Company, to visit
us after a bit, are now at Cincinnati,
and will play at Philadelphia next
week. Abbie Darlington is still prima
donna and George Appleby. who was