Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-28
TEN CENTS PER WEEK.
THE CITY.
Friday Evening, March rs, 1879.
LEDGER LINES.

pdllOIS lOT JUG aG IaNlgle >.
Pedestrians perspire freely to-day.
New maple syrup. Lyle & Shields.
Wind south and some dust stirring
at noon.
Weather clear all over the southwest
last night.
Those:who own cotton continue ia
feel buoyant.
Almost summer warmth during the
middle hours of the day.
Francisco \ Co., matters, have the
latest nobby styles for spring.
Wire and rustic work made by Male
4 Lamb, florists, 355 Main street.
The shady side of the street is de-
cidedly the most attractive to-day.
Those strawberries that Lyle &
Shields receive daily are extra fine.
A strictly choice lot of creamery
butter received by Lytle & Shields.
The growing wheat in the country
round looks fine and promises a good
yield.
The moon changes and enters its
first quarter at 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Promenaders are out in numbers to-
day and more may be expected to-
wards evening.
1t will be on Thursday evening next
that the Irish Literary Association
will r~eOrganize.
A fresh supply of Savannah river
shad and fresh oysters received to-day
by Victor D. Fuchs.
And still the gap is closing. We
are now within 1900 bales of last
years cotton receipts.
The Louisiana Lottery drawing
takes place on April 8th. Tickets two
dollars each at the usual place.
Thermometer at sunrise this morn
lug 60. The highest yesterday was
79'i the lowest, 53'; variation, 26o.
A dispatch from Greenville, Miss.
states that the steamer Charles Morgan
will pass up at twelve clock tonight.
Natoma Temple of Honor and Tenn
perance, No. l, meets tonight for in
itiation and the consideration of i'm
portant business.
Efforts are under way. to revive the
Irish Literary Association, an intel
lectual body that iourished before the
plague Of last year.
B%utter-cup boutonieres are worn in
coat lappels by a few Main street
beaux. The fair sex appear to have a
run just now on %violets.
A coal feet is now coming down the
Ohio to replenish short stocks in the
yards south of Cairo. A tow for this
market is due here to-day.
II. NJ. S. Pinafore words and music
complete eighty page book, sheet
music size, only thirty cents a copy, at
Mansford's, 298 Main street.
Sunset this evening seventeen min.
utes after six. Moon sets six minutes
before midnight. Sunrise in the
morning eight minutes before six.
Should Sunday be a pleasant day
Estiyal Park will be open from 3 to
. pm. Concert during those hours
by Handwerker's band. Admission
ten cents.
The butterflies are fitting among the
early garden flowers, and house flies
have commenced to annoy the kitchen
maid. No cold weather after butter
flies appear.
Total receipts Of cotton here last
week 8723 bales, against 9O23 bales
the week before 1888 bales the same
week last year and 3774 bales for the
year before.
The investment of two dollars in
the purchase of a ticket in the Louis,
vile Lottery, which draws on the 3lst,
may result in a prize. Get a ticket al
the usual place.
An artist has been engaged to make
faces in soap of Henry Ward Beecher.
They are for signs in barber shops
saloons and other places where look.
Eyeglasses hang.
We received 1900 bales of cotton
alter this date last year. From the
way 1t is now coming in we may safely
count on $4,000 bales from now to the
close of the present season.
The bonds for faithful performance
OF duty offered by Receiver Minor
Meriwether have been accepted. Al
present there is little for the new
receiver to receive, but when attor.
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