Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-02
LEDGER LINES.

anniversary,
Strawberries were scarce and high
yesterday and to-day.
The Pinafore performance last night
is the leading sensation to-day.
Lemons twelve and a half cents a
dozen at Oliver Finnie & Co.'s.
A number of excellent seats for the
Pinafore matinee remain unsold.
Cotton went up &c on all grades at
noon in this market. Middling is now
lac and the highest of the season.
The doctors closed their sanitary
session here yesterday, and some of
them took their departure last night
or to-day.
Josephine" "Hebe'' and Butter
cup" are the stellar attractions of our
Pinafore and around them all lesser
satellites revolve.
The second lecture on SUNDAY
laws will be delivered by Rev. DR..
NJ, Samfeld at the Hebrew Reform
Synagogue tonight at 8 o'clock.
Cool northerly breezes yesterday,
with the temperature vibrating be-
tween 53' and 680 a range of 150
only. Warmer air is promised.
A merchant saved one hundred dol
lars yesterday by weighing a boat load
of corr on his own scales. The buy
ers were all satisfied with the job.
Rev. B. Jacobs, formerly of New
Orleans, will hold service at the
Congregation Beth FL Emeth, corner
of Monroe and Second streets, this
evening and tomorrow morning.
Horse trots and baseball matches
now make up a part of the suburban
Sabbath amusements now enjoyed by
our people. 1t is healthy exercise
both for man and beast, but awfully
impious,
At the Pinafore performance last
night a number of vacant seats in the
balcony would have been filed had it
been generally known that the usual
price, fifty cents, was the rate. Re-
served seats only are advanced.
Young & Spangler, at the corner OF
Second and Monroe streets, willreceive
tomorrow their first invoice of the
celebrated Chief Justice smoking
tobacco. 1t is much cheaper than Old
Judge, and just as good, some say
better.
The children will all be sorry to
hear that the author of Mary Had a
Little Lamb died yesterday. 1t was
Mrs. Mary Josepha Hale, who lived to
be eighty years of age, and who mas
for over fifty years past been the edi-
tressof the magazine known as Godcy's
Lady's Book.
There are hundreds of x-Confeder-
ates in Memphis who desire to be pres
ent at the decoration of Confederate
graves but who are unable to attend
on any other day but Sunday, and it is
hoped hat that the committee will
select that day SO as to give everybody
an opportunity to be present.
Rainfall here last month 5.54 inches.
The winds were chiefly southerly and
they travelled over this station during
the month 1896 miles, the most rapid
being "a miles an hour. The highest
temperature was So and the lowest
36'. This information is from the
weather bureaus monthly circular.
Several dozen gentlemen of the saw
bone persuasion had a ~frolicsome time
on the river Yesterday afternoon. The
barber tugs carried them on flying
excursions above and below the city,
and the visitors appeared to enjoy it
just the same as if they had been very
jolly tars all their lives. In the even
ing they nearly all went to see Pima
fore at the theater.
When a Memphis boy wants to play
of a good original joke he goes to the
County Court clerk, obtains license to
marry and puts the document in his
pocket. Next morning when the
names appear in the papers contrary
10 his expectation he tells the joke.
This explanation may satisfy his
mother but hardly goes down with the
public.
Lectures on both sides Of the Sun
day law business are now among
the leading sensational topics like
the Mardi Gras discussion of a few
years ago which was warm while il
lasted, the liberals are certain TO win
in the long run. The enIighted
people Of this generation cannot be
cramped into the narrowness that a
few bigots apparently desire they
should be-
Votes Of thanks were returned yes.
terday by the council Of doctors hold.
ing a session here to gentlemen who
supplied river tugs tree Of charge for