Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-20
ONCE: Is Madison Street.
TIE GENTS Pc WE E X.
THE CITY.
tuesday EVENING. May 20. ASIA.
LEDGER LINES.

Paris hats at Layigne's.
1t crept up to $50 yesterday.
Elmwood lots attended to by Male
& Lamb, florists, 355 Main street.
Open air concerts in Court Square
and the Fourth Of July are the next
sensations.
Twenty half barrels of Blue Lick
water, fresh from the springs, just
received. G. A. Eckerly & Bros.
just received twenty-five hampers
Of RHEIMS Settler water, fresh from
Germany. G. A. Eckerly 4 Bros.
Cotton advanced here at noon to-
day to 10 cents for middling with an
excited market and quotations nomi-
nal.
About Sl3j was contributed last
night to the foreign mission service at
the meeting Of the Cumberland Pres
byterians.
From the way seats have been sold
in advance, Pihafore will be well
patronized tonight and tomorrow
afternoon.
SOribner, St. Nicholas, Popular
Monthly, Demorest, Young Ladies
Journal, all for June, can be found at
Bigelow 4 Go. $, 1856 Main street.
Many people sat out in front of their
offices and domiciles last night to
catch a few cool whifs. This is the
first real sultry spell of the season.
Rev. A. j. MeGlumphy, DID,,
President Of Lincoln University, Hi
nois, breaches tonight at the Court
street Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.
Of the cash receipts in the store Of
Menken Brothers on Friday next five
per cent. is to be contributed to the
Butler Anderson fund. A liberal
action upon the part of the proprietOrs
of that enterprising concern.
Reuben Holley, crazy, an aged col
Ored citizen of Bolivar county, Miss.
rested last night in the station house.
He is in charge of Captain Robert
Wilson, who will leave to- day with
him for the insane asylum at Jackson.
Miss.
Mansford, 2s8 Main street, is the
place to get the latest in fashion mag
%azines, Review de la Mode, Leslie.
Demorest, Milliner and Dressmakcr.
Cooley, Peterson, and the largest line
Of cheap Libraries and new books in
the South.
Our County Court was badly swim.
died in the purchase of the Oyerton
courthouse. In ten years time the
cost Of repairs aud improvements will
amount to as much as would have
built frst-elass building suitable for
all court purposes.
Cotton is now higher in this market
than it has stood at any time since
March. 1876, at which time gold was
quoted at 1l3. The march of the
staple is still up hill, and from the
dispatches to-day there is ne telling
where it is going to step.
Nothing venture, nothing gain"
Venture a small amount in a ticket in
the grand drawing of the Louisiana
Lottery and You may gain a large
prize. The drawing is June 18th. and
tickets are $40, which may be divided
into tenths at 81 each. 100000 il
the capital prize.
Pineapples from the tropics are sell
ing at forty cents each in this market.
The %succulent banana also offers in
moderate quantities, and though a
quarantine of twenty days is imposed
on all vessels from West Indian ports.
below New Orleans, yet the fruit i.
selling here at fair prices.
Over $500 is the net result of IN,
operate performance of Fra Diavolo
and that amount will be added 10 III,
Butler Anderson fund. Judge G. w
Heiskell and General w. j. Smitl
eKerted themselves to make the enter
prise a success, and they were re
warded by the returns as reported.
The Criminal Court in the case 0
NJ. s. Gardner, alias d. b. Davis
found him guilty Of swindling mil
liners and representing himself a
an agent Of Appleton 4 Co. on min
charges, and an indictment was foun.
giving him one year in each case NTH
peniteutiary. Five years we're sus