Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-01
Sunshine and clouds around the pO-


bill against the water company yester
day.
C. B. Bryan & Co., coal dealers
All kinds of coal, also good wood OF
hand.
Barbour's strawberries, at Oliver
Finuie & Co.. at % cents per quart
box.
Lytle & Shields have Barbour
strawberries at % cents per quart
box.
Blank books of all kinds made al
the LEDGER Office book bindery, Il
Madison street.
The amateurs have monopolized
our pretty little theater, for the re-
mainder of the season.
Barbour's strawberries are very
fine. A box Of them found their way
to the LEDGER Office to-day.
On Thursday night, Professor H.
Schultz's concert is to be given, rain
or shine, mOonshine, of course.
Business men will fad it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
From the northwest blew the breeze
all Of yesterday. They indicate a dis
position to shift to the southwest to-
day.
Estival park is to have a concert to-
morrow afternoon and night. Brass
and stringed instruments are to be
used freely.
The moon wanes and will not rise
until after the midnight hour to-
night. 1t changed and entered its
last quarter this morning.
Cotton opened unusual, said the
printer yesterday, and though the dis
patch said nominal" the printer
struck it nearly in the center.
The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, ID Madison, exc
cutes everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house. /
I'm to be queen of May, mother"
was not sung by many young ladies of.
the city last night. The girls retired
in their usual quiet style, by a large
majority.
Clapp on Colorado, for the second
time, occupied the attention of an
other small but exceedingly respecta-
bic audience at the Greenlaw opera
house last night.
louisiana" a new novel by Mrs.
Burnett, authoress of "That Lass of
LOwrie," together with a full line of
reading material, at Mansford's, 298
Main street.
Rev. j. NJ. Tribe, pastor of tie
Linden street Christian church, has
returned from Virginia. to where he
was called by the death of his father,
and will occupy his pulpit tomorrow,
as usual.
Compliments of George and Fritz"
said a neat card all covered with
flowers and pretty figures, this fore
noon. 1t came with a fine mug of
beer, and the beer soon disappeared.
Thanks.
Buy your Sunday reading of Chas.
Dickens & Co., No. 2S5 Second street.
Irish Democrat, Sc; Young Men of
America, &c; Danbury News, SC. All
other late papers and magazines at
New York prices.
A meeting at the cotton exchange
Of chamber of commerce takes place
this afternoon to consider the needs
Of the sufferers at Macon, Miss, where
a tornado last Sunday proved so
destructive to life and property.
Seventeen years ago tomorrow the
of Charlottesville was fought.
and in this celebrated engagement
Stonewall Jackson's life was laid
down. Sixteen years ago Monday the
Ofthe Wilderness begun.
A brilliant array of eloquent speak
ers are announced for a proposed ma
greenback- labor party meeting
at the Greenlaw operahousc next
Thursday. They wish to save the
country from arch enemies of freedom
and progress, they say.
On Friday and Saturday next, the
gods and goddesses, imaginary
inhabitants of the celestial as we'll as
the terrestrial world, will disport their
shapely forms, and sound their merry
melodious voices in a spectacular
fairy extravaganza, at the theater.
The telephone is a great convent
ence to the subscribers if they could
get prompt attention at the exchange,
when a subscriber is required to