Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-17
TEN CENTS Pc WE X.
THE CITY.
Saturday Evening, May IL, 1879.
LEDGER LINES.

Large assortment Of travelling bas-
kets at Sherwood & Co.'S.
Order flowers for Decoration Day
from Male & Lamb, florists.
Tomorrow is RogatiOn Sunday, the
last before Ascension Day.
The forecast is warmer and partly
cloudy weather, with occasional rains.
The Garfield colored orphans have
a new clock donated by the Leubrie
Brothers.
Twenty half barrels Of Blne Lick
water, fresh from the springs, just
received. G. A. Eckerly 4 Bros.
just received twenty-five hampers
Of RHEIMS Seltzer water, fresh from
Germany. &. a. Eckerly & Bros.
Red Snappers, Mackinaw trout aud
white fish received to-day per express
by Y. D. Fuchs, 80 and IL Jefferson.
The children of the late Butler P.
Anderson are TO receive 500 from
DeSOto Masonic Lodge as a donation.
Our present city fathers had their
heads together yesterday consulting
over the affairs of the live portion of
the corporation.
The time between sunrise and sun
set is now thirteen and three-quarter
hours. A month hence and the long
est days of the year will be upon us.
Ten cents for the round trip, with
trains every few minutes, is the pro-
gramme of the Charleston railroad to-
day, between their depot and Elmwood
Cemetery.
Mr.. Peter Tracy has published a
verbatim report of Henry Ward
Beecher's lecture at the Exposition
building on the 18th inst. 1t is for
sale at the news stands.
The grand drawing of the Louisiana
Lottery, on June 18th, offers several
large prizes as inducements to pur-
chasers Of lottery tickets. Tickets are
$40 each, and tenths at 81.
On Tuesday next the Ladies Chris
tian Association will hold their ami
versary meeting in the First Methodist
Church to hear reports of the condi-
ton and progress Of the society.
Reign of the Common People"
Beecher's lecture. in pamphlet form.
can be had of Mansford, 29S Main
street, where can be found the finest
selection of reading material in the
city.
The Rev. William Troy, an able
eolored minister from Richmond, Va.
will preach tomorrow afternoon at 3
O'Clock, at the Central Colored Baptist
church, on Causey street. Subject
" Time passes"
Hundreds were busy making ever
green wreathes and crosses and gar
nishing them with flowers last night.
They will be taken to Elmwood this
morning to be laid on the graves of our
departed soldiers.
The Bluff City Grays, of Forests
old cavalry command, will decorate
their comrades graves, twenty-six in
humber, a week from tomorrow.
There will not be any parade. but
efforts are in progress to make the
noral ceremony a quiet tribute of re
spcct to the dead.
Inc suburban parks and resorts be.
You'd the jurisdiction of local authori.
ties will be crowded as usual to-mof-
row. A few missionaries sent among
the wicked throng could End a field
of work fully as profitable as is TO be-
met in China and Japan, and the son.
yerts would not require interpreters.
Last Thursdays rain aud thunder
shower passed oyer a narrow track
the upper portion Of the city, and the
southern confines only feeling a VIC,
lent stirring of the dust by the pow.
erful wind. More than half an inch
Of rain fell over the city, and several
places within its limits were struck b,
lightning.
Heroes should be known by theil
deeds and not loaded with medals,
said a prominent member Of the Jew
ish convention during its debates il
: this city a few days since. DR.. T. 0
Summers, jr., writing from Cuba says
There are no yellow fever heroe.
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