Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-25

The youthful moon will go to rest at
the early hour of nine tonight.
Walk up and pay your taxes. The
tax eaters are in needy circumstances.
The young wheat CROP is reported to
look very promising-all, indeed, that
farmers can desire.
"In the spring time a new iris grows
upon the FURNISHED dove" says the
poet. The time has come.
Temperature at eight O'Clock this
morning was 4S'. The highest yester-
day was 67' the lowest Az.
1t is asserted as a fact by our coun-
try friends that the peach buds were
only partially killed by the recent
freeze.
A fresh supply of red snappers, oys-
tiers and Reelfoot Lake perch received
per express this morning by Victor d.
Fuchs.
Two dollars will buy a ticket in the
drawing of the Louisville Lottery
which takes place on the 3lst. Call
at the usual place.
The staple toned off slightly to-day,
but holders are confident that the
weakness is only temporary. There
is no decline in price.
Farmers are very busy planting corn
at this time. Some have had a part
Of their crop in the ground for a week
past but none has yet come up.
A copy of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary was loaned by Captain P.
j. Kelly to a party in November last.
If the present holder will return it he
will confer a favor.
The Colyille Opera Troupe, over
forty in number, arrived in the city at
8 O'Clock this morning, coming through
direct from Cincinnati. The company
will next play in New Orleans.
A gentleman named Goldsboro,
from LaGrange, Ky, is in the city try
ing to learn the fate of a child of
Harrison Anderson, whose parents
died Of the yellow fever last summer.
The legislative council, at its meet
ing yesterday afternoon, decided to
permit confectioneries to keep open on
Sunday in the future. An effort to
allow fruit and cigar stands to do the
same failed.
The receipts of cotton here are now
l7,l54 bales short of last years re-
ceipts at the same time. After this
date last season we received 45,160
bales. This would swell our total Tor
the present season to $4,000.
The Emerson Minstrel party, to APP
pear next week, closes the theatrical
season here. After that strolling
companies may rent the theater at SO
much each night. Local opera com
panies and General Peter" are in
cluded in the last named.
Direct from the tropics came a few
dozen punches of fresh bananas yes
terday. They went off quick at from
two dollars to two dollars and fifty
cents a bunch, and the retail fruit
sellers now have the whole. Bananas
have been scarce here for some time.
The canary birds ceased chipping
this morning in front of the Main
street store, where they have hereto
fore been SO merry. Several persons
went there this forenoon to get birds,
previously engaged, and found them
roasted. A canary bird done up in
this fashion is not good, except to a
very hungry person.
Danger here; horse lost $40 re-
ward is the sign on an imitation
wagon-bed made from a dry goods
box, in which sits the upper end of a
man in efigy, down on DeSoto street.
where there is an immense mud hole.
The whole arrangement is we'll de.
viscd and a fine b%urlesquc on tn,
authorities.
Miniature steamboats, made up from
old boxes, with boot-legs for chimneys
adorn downtown mud puddles. On,
is called the r. Il. Lee and is an
, nounced to leave at 10 o'clock. Tn,
boys collect around such objects il
great delight. Boys must have thei
fun, evcn if it is at the expense O
those in authority.
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