Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-07
TEN CENTS PER WE E X.
THE CITY.
Monday Evening, April :. 1879.
LEDGER LINES.

Temperature at sunrise 81.
Street brooms at Sherwood's.
Buy shirts and collars at Mays.
New roe herring at Oliver, Finnie
& Co.'S.
The law class will meet tonight.
Judge Pierce lectures.
Strawberries and green peas are get
ting to be quite seasonable.
Lyle Il Shields continue to receive
daily shipments of strawberries.
Pinafore hats and Buttercup bon
nets will be numerous after Easter.
The most exciting topics in feminine
circles are Pinafore and new spring
rigs.
The Beal street boys defeated the
Causey street nine yesterday by a good
score.
The morning train over the Louis
vile railway now leaves here at eight
o'clock.
The streets are alive with people
to-day, and business is lively in every
branch.
The Emerson minstrel party play at
Nashville tonight, and go thence to
Louisville.
The amphibious BOyton may be
looked for here beiorethe close Of the
present week.
1t was dusty and gusty yesterday.
stormy last night, and warm and
threatening this forenoon.
Our cotton receipts at noon to-day
we're 1861 bales short of last year to
the same date. We will catch up yet.
Funeral services by the venerable
DR.. White was held at the grave of
the late Judge KOrtrecht, in Elmwood
Cemetery, yesterday afternoon.
People to the south Of us are now
enjoying new potatoes, cucumbers and
small berries. We have not gone be-
yond lettuce and radishes so far.
Even members of the State legisla-
ture and the legislative council know
how to slide into a side door and lift
in a refreshing glass of beer on Sun
day night.
1t is learned through the agent of
Henry Ward Beecher that he will
positively lecture here the latter part
of this month. The date will soon be
announced.
To-day closes the sale Of tickets in
the Louisiana Lottery, as the drawing
takes place tomorrow. Fortune seek
crs should make an investment. Call
at the usual place.
Over half an inch of rain fell last
night and this morning. 1t also rained
at shreveport, Galveston, Indianola,
Nashville and Louisville, and other
places South and West.
How young folks will trip in the
dances of next week. Ever so
many tcrpsichorcan festivals are pro-
missed, and a number of the deyout
are real hungry for a real good dance.
Five more days of Lent, then we
will emerge from our p|enetential garb
of sackcloth and ashes, and the FORTY
days Of fasting and prayer will give
way for the most joyous season of all
the year.
1t is the general impression that
peaches, pears and apples were pretty
well used up by last weeks severe
lrosts. A few apples may survive the
ordeal, but other fruits are gone for
the season.
The Interstate cooking main be-
tween Mississippi, Arkansas and Ten.
nessee, for $1,000, comes off at Correlrs
garden, Poplar street boulevard. Tues.
day and "Wednesday, Sth and 9th. at
pm. sharp, each day.
The flowers of spring are now OK.
pected to bloom in %profusion. The
rain of last night will bring them Out
rapidly, and soon the odor of the red
red rose will emit its fragrance upor
the ambient evening air.
The Towards meet tonight to elec
officers. The dead and living mem
bers Of the society are to have thei
counterfeit presentments in the form
Of Photographic pictures, hung il
appropriate frames, in their rooms Oh
Madison street, near Front.
According to st. Chrysostom thi
week is called great week, mot tina
1t consists of a greater number of day
or that the days are longer, but O.