Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-08
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THE CITY.
Tuesday Evening, April $. 1879.
LEDGER LINES.

LEDGER LINES.
Sunny and bright.
Cotton quiet and firm.
Street brooms at Sherwood's.
Buy shirts and collars at Mays.
Misses trimmed hats at Lavigne's.
Parti-colored Easter eggs are plen-
tiful.
Wire and rustic work made by Male
& Lamb, florists, 355 Main street.
Court Square begins to look fresh
and sweet in its new spring attire.
Our cotton receipts are now within
1923 bales of last years receipts at
this date.
The Masonic Temple shows up very
nicely with its new top-knot. 1t will
soon be completed.
German Maifest, May 9th, on which
occasion a thousand prizes will be dis
tributed to the children.
The weather at last wears a settled
appearance, and now the spring open
ings will reyel in glory and sunshine.
The thermometer this morning re-
corded Sc. The highest yesterday
was 6S' the lowest 81 a range of
IA.
The Howards met last night and re-
elected all of their former leading
officers, including Mr.. Langstaif as
president.
Pinafore hats for girls and boys
alike are in sailor shape with rolled
brims, and are set far back on the
head, There'll be ever SO many of
them after Easter.
A few healthy buds still remain
among the peach and apple orchards,
and though it is likely to be a scant
supply, yet there will be something of
fruit crop after all.
The people of Chelsea complain of
an overdose Of serenades. If the youth
indulge in less nocturnal chants and
more work they would confer an
appreciative favor.
The cock fight between Mississippi.
Arkansas and Tennessee game cocks
will be continued tomorrow at u
O'Clock m, at Correll's garden on
Poplar street boulevard.
A clear sky and a northeast wind
last night, and the same up to noon
to-day. A falling barometer, with the
breeze shifting to the southeast fore
casts the approach of rain.
Fresh pine-apples, directly from the
islands in the tropics, are now selling
in this market at three dollars per
dozen, and rich, ripe bananas at two
to three dollars per bunch.
The ice supply intended for this and
other Southern markets is held fast
in the Illinois river on account of low
water. A feet Of barges is all loaded
and ready to start South on the first
rise.
Flax bagging improperly cured con-
tinues to worry those who deal in cot.
ton. 1t is strange that planters will
persist in using a species of unmer-
charitable stuff that impairs the value
Of their leading product when good
bagging is just as cheap.
The Easter egg season is close, and
an advance in the price of hen fruit
naturally results. No respectable
chicken is willing to have her produce
tied up In a small rag and boiled I'M
less people are made to pay a good
round price for the luxury.
That amphibious and soft. headed
coon Boytouis under way for this port.
and ought to be as much as a hundred
miles this side Of Cairo at present.
unless he has tarried by the way and
used too much quinine in his whisky.
Thursday is the time fixed for bis
arrival.
An increase of travel nortbword by
steamers has been noticed for a wool
or so past, The usual summer bociro
will shortly begin, and railroads as
well as steamboats, will carry crowd.
on their annual journey to cooler lati.
tudes in search Of health, pleasure and
other varieties.
Mr.. G, W. Hall, the Museum man
|, agerr has a receipt for S45 cash mai,
for three weeks services in full Of al
, demands to date, from the biqbeo,
man Of the show, Mr.. G. W. Hopkins
who asseycredh isconnoction with N,
show to make room for other novel
ties In addition Mr.. Hall paid tn,
Z mans hotel bill. He has no busine,
! to become a beggar or a pauper, for
Z while at least.
: The effects Of ten bankrupts in
GLIDING books, notes, accounts. ind,
ments and other plundor, and all o