Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-08

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heavy custom tomorrow. They should
/ provide themselves with an ample
stock Of beer aud other refreshing
beverages.
The drawing of the Louisiana Lot
terry takes places next Tuesday. Get
a ticket at once at the usual place.
Whole tickets two dollars, and halves
one dollar each.
Victor d. Fuchs has a fine lot of
Potomac river shad, and these make a
splendid dish for Sunday dinner.
Leave orders to-day aud send for the
fish in the morning.
The cavalry squad of society young
men, two dozen or so in number, will
be out on a raid and a gallop to-mor-
row. As usual the beer factory will
be their rallying point.
Young chickens-very young, in
decd, and with a skinny loek-have
been offered in the markets for a day
or two past. A few weeks more and
spring fowls will be nice.
Sol Coleman's strict adherence to
the Sunday law entities him to a great
deal Of merit and praise. A sacrifice
in sales of three thousand dollars a
year is no small thing nowadays.
The business revival since the
winter weather broke and the skies
cleared away has been all that the
most sanguine could desire. Our
spring trade promises unusual activity.
The streets have been pretty we'll
cleared of stray swine and other small
animals, but the gentle mich COW still
roams, and oft times o~ccupiesIthe side
walk, making timid strOllers circumlo-
cute.
Harry BUTLER, the artist, has been
busy for two weeks past painting new
scenery for McCullOugh's plays next
week. The classical drama will be
presented in superb style during the
Mccullough engagement.
The First National Bank is daily
filling orders for various amounts of
the new four per cent. government
bonds. Many thousands of dollars
collected by parties from societies and
life insurance companies have been
invested in these securities
The people always thirst for a sen
%sation. They had one to-day in the
App acquittal. 1t was variously com
mented on, but the general expression
was hat while human life is very
cheap, yet it is costly sport to kill a
man. Lawyers of acknowledged
ability 90 not work for nothing.
All Protestant churches are to be
closed tomorrow evening, on the forty
ninth anniversary of the Memphis and
Shelby County Bible Society, except
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
on Court street, where Judge G. W.
Heiskell will deliver an address, and
other appropriate ceremonies arc to
be celebrated.
If the sanitary inspectors will stroll
through the alleys, even in the most
central part of the city, they can see
sights aud have their stomachs
strengthened. A large quantity Of
dirt and nastiness is thrown from up
stairs windows in the night time, and
there are evidences every morning
that the alleys are often used as public
priyies.
III those who carelcsslythrow banana
Feelings on the sidewalks could be
made the only sufferers by breaking a
few Of their arms and legs, it would
result in a blessing in disguise and the
innocent would be immensely bene-
flied. There is a positive law against
this abominable practice, but it is
looser in its enforcement than the
Sunday order law
Rev. j. NJ. Tribe has arrived in our
city, and tomorrow will begin his
duties as pastor Of the Linden street
Christian Church. This church has
been without a preacher since last
June. Mr.. Tribe comes to us highly
recommended as a cultivated Chris
tian gentleman, and we feel sure he
will be cordially welcomed by our peo-
pie. He was pastor of the church in
Norfolk, Va, two years, but is more
recently from Franklin, Tenn.
That idiotic, water = on-the brain
character, Paul Boyton, is floating
along the Ohio in his rubber suit, and
in 4 couple of weeks may be expected
along here, unless he freezes to death,
OF some unlettered Hoosier fills him
full Of buck-shot as he passes old
Posey. A red-headed countrywide
saw Boyton floating along above Mari
eta, Ohio, the other day, and, taking
him for a wild water monster, ran like
a quarter horse for his shotgun. If
Boyton had not succeeded in making
himself known in a hurry we would