Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-27

cotton stronger.
May, the shirt tailor.
Paris hats at Lavigne's.
Wind southeast at noon.
Sunshine and clouds to-day.
Judge Hammond will deliver a lee
ture to the law class tonight.
The temperature ranged between
So and 76o yesterday. A difference
of210.
Hay by day and foggy by night, is
now among the leading features of our
weather.
The price of cotton was advanced at
noon to-day &c on ordinary and good
ordinary.
There's joy in the ship from stem
to stern That is the way it is in H.
M. S. Pinafore.
We r now behind last year in cot
ton receipts 1874 bales, The gap
continues to close.
Victor D. Fuchs will receive this
afternoon a full supply of Lake and
Gulf fish as well as oysters.
Emerson's minstrels come next
week. Their cards already hang on
the walls and in the windows.
At nine o'clock this morning the
temperature marked co.; not quite
tropical, but it don't lack much of it.
Strawberries, fresh and ripe, have
been here for three days past. They
were grown along the coast of the Cult
of Mexico.
The river is steadily rising here, and
is now within IL! feet of extreme high
water mark. No overflow is threat
ened, however.
The sun sets this evening at GIG
o'clock the moon sets at II o'clock
the sun rises tomorrow six minutes
before 8 o'clock.
A requiem mass was celebrated in
the St Joseph's Catholic church, on
Georgia street. this forenoon, for the
repose Of the soul of the late Mrs.
Mary Dorfna.
Warm, spring-like weather fayors
US at present The nights are inter
mixed with fog, smoke, mist and mois-
ture; the days with less varied %caloric
compositions.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
which taken at its food leads on to
fortune. Get a ticket at the usual
place in the Louisville Lottery which
draws on the 31st.
The chief of police was told to.da,
that the chief of police of Natchez
Miss, was in the city, and would cal
at headquarters at noon sharp. Thii
kept Capt. Athy on hand, and at tn,
same time also kept him from findin.
out what was in the wind.
On the evening Of the l4th of mex
month a grand masked ball is to b.
given at Cochran Hall, for the benefr
of the widows and orphans of tn,
police force, made so by the epidemi,
of last summer. The leading spirit.
include Chief Athy, Captains Davi
and Arata, Esquire Quigley, Sergeant
Kunholz, O'Haver and others.
The Phoenix Club had a most enjoy
able entertainment at the ball at tn
Maennerchor Hall last night. 1t wa.
a merry-making long to be remem
bered by all who participated, anc
the best of our German and Hebrew
society were of those who took part
The managers of the ball exertec
themselves to make the affair pleasant
and they succeeded.
1t is to be hoped that by the end o
the next four years, when the custom
house is completed, it will present
more attractive appearance than doe
the shanties and workshops now scat
tered on the bluff. At present tn,
work Of construction progresses slow
ly and the course of marble has no
yet been laid. 1t will, however, 500
be commenced.
The talk among river men last nigh
was the purchase of the steamer iii
; nois and Phil Allin by Major John /
Adams, the mail contractor on tn
route from here to Yicksburg, an
the wrecking of the steamer Haiti
Rowland, by sinking neal Little Rock
The lost boat was insured in Cincin
natl Offices for $4,000. She wa
owned half here and half in Pittsbur,
/ and the owners are losers to a consid
cradle extent by the disaster.
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