Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-01
LEDGER LINES.

This is May day.
Maifest on Monday.
Urania Club matinee to-day.
1t rained yesterday and last night.
No performance at the theater to-
night.
Beef tongues and dried beef at Oliver,
Finnie & Co.'S.
Another horrible murder was com
mitted yesterday afternoon.
The Grand Jury Of the Criminal Court
stands discharged and the court will adj
journ to-day.
A Main street drug store is embellished
with the following sign, "kRat oil. "
Where is the spelling iendP
The stock Of cotton on hand amounts
to 29,9Ss bales, which, at eighty dollars
per bale, shows up the value at $2,35l,-
040.
At Mansfords news stand, corner Mon.
roe and Second, can be found the latest
pictorials, periodicals and daily journals
from all points.
Charley Lofand has sold his circus
horse and has transferred himself from
the office Of the Little Rock railroad to
that OF the Paducah road.
The amateur and professional must
clans and vocalists of the city are re-
hearsing for Manager Brooks benefit at
the theater next Wednesday evening.
The Criminal Court stands adjourned
until Saturday, the 18th inst, when the
minutes will be signed and an adjourn
ment had to Monday, the 18th, the open.
ing day OF the Ma. term.
Messrs, German and Kavanaugh will
take a benefit at the Jefferson street va
rieties on Monday night, when a fine
programme will be presented for the en-
tertainment of their friends.
A prominent gambler in this city has
paid in costs and fines, during the pre-.
sent term of the Criminal Court, over
twenty-seven hundred dollars. This is a
class often bled, but never extinguished.
AT the Urania Club Tableau exhibition
last night, Miss Emma Etheridge, the
accomplished daughter of Emerson
Etheridge, recited in al artistic manner
TennysOn's charming idyl, the May
Queen.
The best planters state that the loss OF
stock caused by the attacks of buffalo
gnats is owing to neglect. An admix.
ture Of grease and tar placed on mules
will kill the most blood.thirsty gnat in a
few seconds.
Invitations, elegantly printed, are out
for the FIRST annual ball .of the Chicka
saw Guards, which comes of at the Pea.
body Hotel, Tuesday evening, May IL.
1t will be one of the most elegant affairs
of the season.
Already the military companies or
ganized in this State have spoken for all
the arms allowed the State by the gen.
eral government, and also enough more
to take up the allowance due in July
next. Crack military companies are
organizing all over the State.
Arrangements should be made to cele.
brate the M~ecklenburg Centennial in
this city on the 2Oth Of May. Why not
have one of our orators to deliver a
good old-fashioned speech on this
memorable Southern anniversary
Pool spelling has now become the
rage. A party Of young men have put
up q certain amount each in a pool
and the man who stands the longest
takes in the pot We suggest this
new invention to that mercantile picked
ten" OF spoilers.
The retail fish market furnishes the
following quotations: Reelfoot Lake
perch, l5c per pound; Northern lake
salmon (small), l29c-large, l5c; Mack.
NAV trout, zoe; red snappers, zoe. The
only game in market are snipe, which
are sold at 81 so per dozen.
The black-boards of the Cotton Elk.
change show the following facts and fig.
ures: Receipts of cotton for the past
week, 1920 bales; for the season, 3l4,
376; shipments for the week, 5249; fol
the season, 29O, 769; sales for the week
1890, equally divided between exporters
and spinners.
At a recent Nashville revival peeting
the congregation prayed for the saliva
ton of this wicked city. Nashville
should not put on airs of grace and vir
tue over her %neighbors until she becomes
purged of all wickedness, which event
we fear, will not be accomplished during
the next ten centuries.
1t is now proposed to investigate how
the police and fire departments werC