Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-21
TEN CENTS Pc WEEK.
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

Light breeze from the northeast at
noon.
A new moon this afternoon at 3.45
O'Clock.
Shifting winds and colder weather
is the forecast.
When is beautiful Beecher coming
to give us that promised lecture?
Wire and rustic work made by Male
4 Lamb, florists, 355 Main street.
After the present date last season
our receipts of cotton here were So
600 bales.
DeSoto Lodge meets this evening at
u o'clock. Every member is requested
to be present.
The price of cottOn-seed has ad-
yanced a dollar a ton, and is now
worth eight dollars.
The bank suspensions at New Or
leans is a leading topic among our
financial and mercantile people.
Temperature this morning at break
fast-time 81, a higher or warmer con-
dition than has been indicated for a
week.
The temperature varied IL yester-
day, rising to 62' near midday, and
touching 45' in the cold morning
hours.
Receipts of cotton here are now
within 1896 bales of last year at the
same time. We are gradually closing
the gap.
No weather report has been put up
at the bulletin on Adams street, near
the Worsham House, since the 18th
Of last month.
Cotton here advanced &c per pound
at noon. This is the highest price of
the season, and a total advance of &c
within two weeks.
The emigration fever has not vet
touched the colored people of this
vicinity. So far North Louisiana is
the only section afflicted.
On April 9Th the Louisiana LOTTERY
will hold its regular monthly drawing.
Procure tickets, which are only two
dollars each, at the usual place.
Simon pure male donkeys are among
the salable stocks Of our horse mer-
chants. No two legged ~he-donkeys
are announced, though scores are to
seen on the streets daily.
Insane Golly left for Nashville last
night to take up his abode in the
l%unatic asylum for a period. Sheriff
McGowan had charge of the crazy
man, and he was in shackles.
Sam Ellison, pressman at the Ar.
peal, accidentally fell into the Masonic
Temple cellar yesterday, and his in
juries were SO severe that it was found
necessary to send him to the hospital
Paul Boyton, who has had a yora-
cious appetite for swimming during
the past dozen years, cam near being
swept to Davy Jones locker by the
current on the Louisville falls yester-
day.
The chamber Of commerce meets
tomorrow to debate the propriety Of
sending delegates to the river i'm
provement convention to meet at
Cincinnati on the last day of the pres
ent month.
Only a few days are left in which to
buy a ticket in the Louisville Lottery.
the drawing Of which takes place on
the 3lst. Fortune seekers should be
represented in hat wheel of chance.
Tickets can be had at the usual place.
Those who have examined the
peach-buds report many un;niurod l.,
the late freeze. The impression pre.
walls that the blossoms were only
killed in spots. Pears, however. suf
fered extensively. Apples we're not
hurt.
An efioreseent youth, name not
given, has a habit Of getting out a mar
rage license every now and then.
authorizing his alliance with some
lady totally unacquainted with him.
1t is a little annoying to the party Of
the second part, and the general i'm.
preston is that the fellow is cracked.
We knew dc Lord would provide
said an impecunious darky female en-.
grant from North Louisiana at St.
Louis the other day. II was during =
freezing cold day, the thermometer at
zero, and the old woman had been
shiyering in the open air on the land
ing for several hours. A committee