Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-11

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nuisance of the sport on the public
streets.
Our local cotton men are quite busy
to-day, but work on news Of last eve
ming in the absence of fresh kilograms.
The market is strong and holders are
confident.
The cotton exchanges at New Or
leans and New York are closed to-day.
Our own is not, showing II cotton
men to be less devout than are their
neighbors.
The streets were thronged with
church-gOers all this forenoon, After
divine service many strolled along
Main street for exercise and to peep
at the fashions.
The range of the thermometer yes
terday was 13', the highest being 67'
and the lowest 54'. This morning
early the temperature was 53', with
brisk and ftful northerly winds,
Rome and the Vatican statues, the
fight Of Mercuryandthc Rock of Ages
are among the views to be exhibited at
the Grecnlaw Opera House tonight
for the benefit of the Leath Orphan
Asylum.
Well worthy of patronage is the ex-
hibition at the Greenlaw Opera
House, for the benefit of the Leath
Orphan Asylum. Half a dollar adj
mittance for grown and twenty-five
cents tor young people.
The question of reducing the stand
ard rate of interest from eight to six
per cent. on all loans is one that now
engages the attention Of our leading
bankers and insurance people. The
prospects indicate that the measure
will be carried into effect at an early
day.
The tropical fruit trade will be
knocked higher than a kite after the
LIST of next month. The promised
quarantine of twenty days on each
vessel sailing from any point south Of
the trOpic of cancer will spoil the
business.
The legislative council yesterday
passed a resolution to require the
owners of wharf boats now mOored at
our levee to give bond in the sum of
5000 that in case of sinking the
wrecks will be removed without ex-
pense to the city.
A rascally fellow undertook to steal
a couple of bales of cotton from the
landing last evening, but was caught
in the act Of trying to load it on a
dray. He escaped capture in the dusk
of the evening. A few doses of shot
gun would be a healthy remedy for
cotton bale thieves.
An appropriating railway agent
named Goodwin while under arrest
and on his way to Little Rock jumped
from the train and escaped through
the woods. He was in charge of a
United States marshal and his offence
was alleged to be the purloining of
registered letters from the mails.
A bill is about to be filed in behalf
of the heirs of the McLemore estate
to reclaim the Court Square and bluff
vacant property. 1t is believed by
the claimants that if the legislature S
repeal of the city charter is valid the
property referred to should revert TO
Its early donors or their succession.
Tomorrow is Holy Saturday. the
anniversary of the time when dark
ness covered the earth in consequence
of the execution of Christ. Pagans
and other unbelievers of Christianity
account for the darkness of that time
as being caused by an eclipse. Chris
tians believe it to have been the
Almighty's direct action.
The ceremony Of breaking a saucer,
as practiced among the Chinese when
they are sworn, is a beautiful one. 1t
illustrates the Celestial idea that a
broken oath cannot be mended, and
the Celestial violating it is e~ternally
condemned by an offended Almighty
to perdition. The Christian doctrine
is less exacting, for a pcrjurcr may re.
pent and be saved.
The front show-windows of the
leading stores have been arranged in
the most becoming and attractive
manner. In one this morning a live
female figure occupied a graceful pose
to eat her lunch. Several passers
stopped to view the picture, thinking
it was wax, but discovering the ham
and biscuit features, its realistic spirit
was apparent, and they went for the
window next door.
This is the greatest of all of the
solemn days of Holy Week, each of
which has its ceremonies interpreting
something in the life Of Christ. From
its earliest hour the whole day Is sacred