Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-03
PUBLIC LEDGER.
0fiCsi Is Madison Street.
cEMTs Pc WE E X.
THE CITY.
tuesday Evening. June 5. 1879
LEDGER LINEs.

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The Knights of Innisfail parade aud
picnic this afternoon.
Elmwood lots attended to by Male
4 Lamb, florists, 1856 Main street,
The cheapest place to buy shoes is
at Big Boot shoe store, 344 Main st.
The gas Office has removed to the
Masonic Temple building, on Madison
street
School closing exercises to-day At
ST. Mary Episcopal school on Poplar
street.
The ST. Mary church people go on
an excursion TO night on the Yint
Shinkle.
List of the Louisville drawing at
Rob YOungs book aud news depot,
corner Of Second aud Monroe streets.
Everybody paid up as closely as
possible yesterday. and all hands re
rpOrt collections good.
The legislative council and sanitary
society have their heads together to
to clean and preserve the health of the
lefty.
Bon Aqua Springs is now open for
visitors Greatly reduced rates viii
he made with families going there in
the next twenty days.
The Louisiana Lottery holds an
other grand drawing On the 18th.
This ha fine opportunity for some
individual to draw a fortune.
Those who fail to pay privilege. poll.
merchants and property taxes by the
18th inst, for the current year, are ia
have collectors tent after them.
Those who live in or own shamie.
up about the jail must teal then.
down by tomorrow or they will be
palled down by the authorities.
The skies presented a most beauti-
ful spectacle last night. Not a fcck
or cloud obseured the blue vault OF
the armament, and wayfarers were all
attracted by the splendor Of the celes-
tial scenery.
The armories Of the Grays and the
Chicks we're illuminated last night
The soldiers were doubtless consult
ing or praeticing. The Mcclellan
Guards have a picnic at the Exposi.
ton tonight.
The gas company's new Office 10 the
Masonic Temple presents a less dingy
look than the old one. The more
CHEEKY surroundings causes a man to
ray even a steep bill for light with a
better grace than before.
Augerona Lodge, No. 1853, r. and
4. NJ, held an election of officers last
night which resulted as follows: W.
X. Kendall, W. NJ; G. W. Kealhofer.
is. W.; John Beamish, J. W D. c.
Trader, Sec'y; Marcus Jones, TT.
A stalk Of green cotton over a foot
in length, and with at least a dozen
squares upon it, was brought to thi,
Office to day by Gilbert Hall, Of Crit.
tendon county, Arkansas. He hai
twenty acres just ike the sample, Sc
he says.
The public weigher and his patrons
the grain dealers, are at loggerheads
and the breach continues to widen
An effort is now being made to fore,
everybody to weigh everything they
receive, and pay full fees for the same
under penalty Of fines to range from
one to fifty dollars.
Chicken. filters are at work in tn
vicinity of Orleans and Tate streets
Hen-roosts have no chance in tina
: neighborhood. The pFowling thieye,
a few nights since, stole every chicke.
from a hen-house, then took a Iadde
d over to the next aud carried OF tn
pullets roosting in the tree-tops.
, For the sum Of $4,000, over. du
interest on the coupons, the Selm
railroad and its rights, franchise,
property, etc, lying between this CT,
and Selma, Ala, is TO be sold by orde
Of the United States Court, at sue
time as may be designated by tn
clerk Of the court. The terms al