Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-24


Well helm-ee not William Jay.
Can get your horse bearded in
good style; cheap, at Park stables.
Earth closets. emptied promptly
G. H. Becker & Co., q Court street
Thirteen and a quarter hours is
now the time between sunrise and
sunset.
Buffalo gnats swarmed through
the suburbs last evening and this
morning.
-Wilhelmj at the German Casino
hall, in grand sacred concert, to-mor-
row night.
Several cotton buyers, with orders
to purchase, were moving about lively
this forenoon.
Judge G. +. Trigg is reported to
be dangerously i'll with paralysis at
Bristol, Tenn.
Blank books Of all kinds made at
the LEDGER Office book bindery, 10
Madison street.
Our city has a numerous and
varied representation at the Nasl-
vile centennial.
Colder winds from the west aud
northwest, is the forecast of the
weather for this evening.
The positively last appearance Of
Herr Aug. Wilhelmj, tomorrow night
at the German Casino hall.
-SignOra Marie Salvotti, the well
known prima donna, at. the German
Casino ball, to morrow evening.
TO keep out mosquitoes, bugs and
flies, buy wire screen doors of G. W.
Shafer, corner Union and Second.
Business men will find it to their
interest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
The Riversides and Memphis
Blues play a match game of baseball,
at Olympic park tomorrow afternoon
The Wilhelmj party leave here
after a sacred concert tomorrow
night, and appear Monday night at
Nashville.
Don't fail to go to the German
Casino hall tomorrow evening, to
hear the great violinist, Herr Aug.
Wilhelmj.
Three months in Colorado" is
the title Of a lecture to be delivered
at the Greenlaw opera house next
Tuesday night.
From 60 to 81 was the range of.
temperature yesterday. 1t is about
the same as they have all the season
in south Florida.
Two weeks from Monday next,
any fruit brought here from the West
Indies must undergo inspection, to
keep out infection.
The lady visitors of Leath orphan
asylum will hold a lunch and straw.
berry festival, during the first week in
May, at 3O2 Main street.
The LEDGER Job Printing Office
and Book Bindery, IL Madison, exc
cuteS everything in their line as neat
and cheap as any house. +
The Barlow, Wilson, Primrose &
West minstrels appear at the thoater
next Tuesday night. They are a gro.
tesque, funny and lively party.
People should take care not to OBJ
struct sewer pipes with tin cans.
kitchen garbage and the like. The
sewers are to carry off dirty waters,
and nothing else.
The Commonwealth distribution
company, of Louisville, has another
drawing on the 10Th. Get a ticket at
once, and fortune may smile on you.
TO the pleasing qualities of a
cultivated and charming voice, dis
tinct enunciation makes Salvotti's
singing suDurb and adds much 10 ;,s
charm.
The annual convention Of the d.
ocese Of Tennessee will meet in St.
Mary cathedral, this city, next Wed.
nesday, 18th. Bishop Quintard will
preside.
When chalk marks on the cotton
exchange blackboards were marked
up 10 points this forenoon. the bears
whistled and groaned, while the bulls
laughed.
The coronation extravaganza, to
be given Tor the benefit Of the Church
Orphans Home, is making fine pro.
gress and is likely to draw paying
houses. Tickets are now for sale.
The dramatic readings of Mrs.
Scott-Siddons, TO come of at the
theater next Monday night, promise
to be well patronized. Much interest
is felt in the proposed entertainment.
The Light of Asia" by Arnold;
"Farrar's Life Of Christ" Life and
Works Of St, Paul" aud other fine
works in tho cheap series. Serb
ner. North American, ""Contempo-
rary, "Fortnightly' and Nineteenth
Century" reviews, new novels, pa