Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-31

Ivory toilet sets at Lavigne's.
The law class will meet tonight.
Soda water at YOung's. $40 Second.
Lavigne's grand opening Thursday.
Pinafore syrup, Young, $40 Second.
A strictly choice lot of creamery
butter received by Lytle & Shields.
The spring h~and-organ has burst
into bloom and the cowslip blossoms
in the vale.
Seaside Library, Monsieur Lcooq,"
second part, at Bigelow & Co.'S, 3S6
Main street.
Benefit ball discovering at Cochran
Hall for Mrs, Matt Shelby. Admis-
sion fifty cents.
Another shipment of red snappers
and oysters received to-day per ex-
press by Victor D. Fuchs.
Tomorrow is All-FoOls' day, and
several traps have been fixed for the
unwary. Look out for them!
Melancholy COWS are lowing for
calves that are not, and immature
veal invades the sanguinary market,
The turtles are shouting to one an
other across intervening marshes and
boast of posthumous terrapin soup.
Several merchants and boatmen left
here yesterday to- attend the river
mems convention, which meets at
Cincinnati to-day.
The apple tree is now in bloom and
the tall sycamore is putting on its
green robes, while vernal carpets are
covering the lawn.
Rab Young will give a cabinet with
five drawers and apartments to the
person purchasing the greatest number
of cigars at five cents each. Call and
see it at 80 Second ST., corner Monroe.
As modest as the violet, as fair as the
lily and as lovely as the rose are now
the favorite phrases of the youthful
swain as he goes about with tufts Of
fragrant blossoms and hands the same
to his lady love.
Some of boys Matched up dodge
the other day to palm off a bogu:
BoytOn on the unsuspecting as an
April-fool for tomorrow, but the
real water idiot is yet too far off to
make it a success.
Hill, Fontaine & Co. offer for sale a
lot of extra silk cotton-see from a
crop that they sold for eleven cents
round in January, before the late ad-
vance. They commend them to plant.
ers as a paying investment.
The temperance cause tarries with
and exercises a little influence among
US yet. The Shelby Lodge of Coco
Tomplars arc to have a reunion OF
Wednesday evening next at their hall
corner of Second and Adams streets
1.-The Philosophy of Religion wa.
the subject of Father Reyielle's lee
ture at st. Peters Church last even
ing. The reverend divine is an elo
quent speaker, and wherever he has
lecturedt in the East crowds ATTENDED
to listen and be instructed.
The scavenger force were busy thi
forenoon cleaning up DeSoto street
one of the flthiest portions of tn
city. A loaded wagon was stalled i
one of the mud pools neal Linde.
street early this morning, and nearl
an hour was expended in extricatin
the team.
1t is now limited that Gilmore
great New York band. accompanied b
Levy, the wonderful cOrnet player
will be here shortly. This is n
April-fool, for the simonpure ban.
performed at Cincinnati last night. !
is making a Western and Souther
professional tour.
The next fun in store for us i
the advent of Emerson's minstrels o
Thursday evening. The company
: provided with a real, live man-hute i
the person of Don Ferreya, and sevC
raj Of the party rank high in thei
profession, while Emerson is unrI
vailed as a delineator of eccentric min
/, strelsy.
A congressional appropriation
suggested as the only chance remain
ing to provide gold medals for all VIII,
s through necessity or otherwise, re
NAMED here last summer and survive
the epidemic. The influence of I'll
old flag and an appropriation shout
o by all means be invoked in behalf
: such a scheme.
Captain Robert w. Wise, who is a
especial friend of the little folks,
fixing to give a superb May par
\ a few weeks hence to his youthful a
quaintanceS hereabouts. The Ca
Il, tain's boat Is expected to arrive he
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