Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-03

THE CITY.
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Monarch -four, Lyle & Shields.
r.. D. and Tuileries COrsOts, Lanse's
For bricks, telephone JnO. Cubbins.
O1aune& Jays new store, 257 Main,
Use Lyle & Shields prepared buck
wheat -four.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2&
Main street.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have al their job printing
done at tho PUBET5 LEDGER job
printing office, IL Madison street.
The PUBLIo LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory, IL
Madison street, execut IS every class Of
such work IN good style and at low
rates.
The Public LEDGER job printing
Office and book bindery is prepared to
execute work with neatness and dis
patch, and at as low rates as any com
petitor.
This weeks Ledger, Weekly. Satur-
day Night, Fireside and Family Story
Paper, have arrived and can be had at
Corwin's news stand, No. 295 Main
street.
Ten School Visitors are to be elect.
ed in this city to morrow. The Leg
islature, however. may address them
out OF Office before they can warm
their seats.
The PUBLIC LEDGER job priS5pe
Office constantly receives new type OF
the latest styles, and the office gener-
ally is kept up to the highest standard
of excellence.
Hand bills Of all sizes, from the
smallest to a three sheet poster, done
with neatness and dispatch, at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest.
The annual meeting Of the Memphis
Cotton Exchange occurs this evening,
and a report Of the general condition
of its finances and other affairs will be
promulgated on the occasion.
Letter heads, envelopes, bill heads
bills of ladiDg, cards and all kinds o.
commercial printing done as well and
as cheap at the PUBLIC LEDGER ofic,
as anywhere in the United States.
The fact that the Little Havans
Lottery has distributed a number 0.
large prizes to Memphians, always Sc.
cares good sales in this city Of tickets
10 its various drawings. The mex
drawing takes place Monday.
Tennessee State bonds we're down t.
400 in New York to-day, a decliue o
q since Friday last. and the compro.
mise bonds have dropped to 43 sinci
Treasurer Polk announced that thu
State will default the January i~nteres
thereon. A short time since the
were away up in the sixties.
One Of the yellow cars was visited
by a pair Of robbers late last nigh
near the Poplar street terminus, anC
the driver, named Leonard, had hi
pockets emptied by the racals undel
the influence Of a pistol trained upor
him. He lost SO 30 and his siIvel
watch, aud the highwaymen sot away
with their plumber.
Mrs. Lizzie Woods died at the cor
ner of Seventh and Carolina streets
1T, Pickering, last evening at tb,
advanced age Of rs years, and Mrs
Rebecca Drew, relict of the late An
drew Drew, died at 287 Poplar, asec
81 years. Mr.. Sam Griffin died a
Mason's Depot yesterday, and hi
funeral occurs from the Louisville ant
Nashville railroad .h:s afternoon.
Nearly three thousand dollars ba
been funded on account of the Of,
city by the liquidating berd, Of whicl
W. j. Smith is Secretary, and mad
up by Messrs. j. R. Goodwin, II. I
Dix and John j.. Duffy. TIE OK
penses for salaries OF the members 10
the past six months is $500 and Dos
tai stamps account 50. The boar,
have $O2,460.39 cash collected as baCl
taxes.
Mr.. Duncan s. Ross and Mrs. Molli
Lowry we're married at the Church 0
the Holy Comforter, Episcopal, a
Cleburne, Texas, by Rev. Charles L
Fichett on Christmas evening. |
was a very elegant affair, and is full
described in the Cleburne Telegram 0
the 9th ult. Mr.. and Mrs. Ross viii
spend the honeymoon in New Orlean.
The groom is well known aud ha
many friends and we'll wishers in thi
city, where be made his home for sew
eral years previous to going to Texas
1t is an understood fact that the lc
nearly opposite the Peabody HoteI
upon which stands ]. M. Hills sho
house, Sol Colomai's cigar emporium
ana Gus Bussey's saloon, will b
metamorphose6 into an elegant garde
by Mr.. Henry Luehrmann aboss Apr
LIST. The garden will occupy II
second floor over the handsome stor,