Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-10

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Smoked jowls. b, M. Stratton & Co.
Not quite but nearly summer heat.
Zephyrs 1Oc an ounce at Johnston's S.
Warm in the sunshine, but dusty,
very dusty.
Whittaker's Star hams for sale by
B. NJ. Stratton & Co,
Marsh & Co., wholesale agents for
Elgin polish, 347 Main.
Judge Pierce will deliver a lecture
to the law class tonight.
The moon will rise tonight ten
minutes before 8 o'clock.
A little rain would be welcome to
the gardeners and farmers.
Choice oranges fifteen cents per
dozen. B. NJ. Stratton e. Co.
Choice lemons fifteen cents per
dozen. B. NJ. Stratton & Co.
Wire and rustic work made by Male
4 Lamb, florists, 355 Main street.
The staple holds its own well and
exhibits a disposition to go higher.
The birds are nest-building and the
squirrels of Court Square are making
their usual spring beds.
The time between sunrise and sun,
set to-day is eleven hours and three
quarters. The sun arose at els and
will set at G.
Business men will find it pays to
call at the PUBLIC LEDGER office. see
samples and prices before giving their
job printing to drummers.
Fresh papers directly from New
York are supplied this office almost
every day through the courtesy of the
Southern Express Company.
Cotton at noon to-day was steady,
but &c higher on low middling, mid
ding and good middling. Other
grades the same as last week.
Hector, a general favoritc with
every one, was poisoned this morning
by some malicious person. He was a
large Newfoundland dog, and the
property Of the late Ed Worsham.
Our receipts Of cotton here for the
season continue to show an increase,
and are now only 1906 bales behind
last year at the same time. The
difference is gradually diminishing.
Spring flowers of all kinds are in
bloom, so are pear and peach trees all
along the railway south of Sardis to
Grenada, so says Captain Robt. Leach,
tho veil known Mississippi and Ten
nessee railway conductor.
Out of total Of thirty deaths last
week in this city nine were from
pneumonia and three from other pull
monary disorders. No one died of
fever or of any infectious diseases.
Five were over forty one died of old.
age at eighty twelve were white and
eighteen colorcd.
The churches were all we'll attended
yesterday. Last night the Catholic
and Episcopal pastors again held fort
to a large collection of people, but
churches of other denominations wer,
closed TO permit their several hocks to
attend the annual meeting of TIE
Bible Society at the Cumberland Press
byterian Church, on Court street.
In the baseball contest between
the Rivarsides and the Ellecks yester-
day at Central Park, the catcher of
the former was disabled in the third
inning. So they were compelled to
complete the game with eight men.
The score ended Ellecks, nine Riy-
.ersides, six. There was good playing
on both sides, aud a large crowd wit
messed the sport.
That dark goddess, Erebus. ruled
all nature for an hour before moonrise
last night, and about the time stray
people desired to attend church. The
gas lamps were not lit and the gloom
was only relieved by the lights Of an
occasional beer saloon, the frosted
windows of which prevented people
on the outside from knowing what was
going on within.
Many a glass Of alfand 'alf, and plain
juice was spriHkled on the dust
of the law yesterday, judging from
the number who moistcned their clay
TO that extent that their ideas lost
their distinctive characteristics and
ran into one another. Several squads
wobblcd along Main street about
time in the evening. aud were
very drunk or were making be-
very successfully.
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