Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-21

AT noon to-day L. & N. railway
stock was worth 1921 in the New York
market. So said a telegram.
The accomplished violinist VIII
helmj, aided by the fine singer, Sal
votti, and the pianist, Yogrich, will
appear at the Greenlaw operahouse
tomorrow night.
Our cotton buyers all agree not to
buy any more of the staple baled in
inferior fax bagging, and those who
persisted in using the stuff must suffer
the consequences.
That splendid artist and fine
reader, Mrs, Scott Siddons, is likely
to have a large audience when she APP
pears here next Monday. Tickets are
already in active demand.
Gen. Marcus j. Wright has re-
turned from a visit to Fayetteville,
Arkansas, where he went to see Gen.
D.. H.. Hill, president of the state uni
versity, on official business.
The intellectual progress of the
colored people was learnedly explained
at the LeMoyne institute, last night,
in a lecture by Professor B. X. Samp-
son. He had a large and an attract
i've audience, chiefly colored.
The banana and pineapple sea-
son has come, while West India, Flor
ida aud Louisiana oranges retire for a
season, giving place to sourer and less
p~erishable yellow-skinned fruit from
the shores of the Mediterranean.
Gen. W. B. Bate reached the CITY
this morning on has return from Tex
as. He is enjoying fine health and is
in the best of spirits. Time and for
tune have dealt kindly with him. To.
night he goes on to Nashville.
The back tax collecting agent for
the state and county is whooping up
delinquents, and to prevent a transfer
of ownership on realty, with a good
title attached, it is necessary for said
to settle at an early day.
No rain at any point south at sun
rise this morning, say the signal SER
vice kilograms. Here a light two
mile an hour breeze blew from the
norteast, and the temperature was "a.
1t was 20, and foggy at New Orleans;
also foggy at Little Rock.
General complaints prevail of
dullness in the wholesale markets Of
our city, all owing to the decline in
values, and the activity of agricultur.
lists. Other points have no advantage.
and that is our only consolation.
though its a poor way of experiencing
1t.
The republicans made a father
cool start evening before last, at the
GreeDlaw opera house, owing to the
plucity Of numbers, but after drum
ming about by the band, a large crowd
gathered, and before the meeting end
ed considerable enthusiasm was
aroused, chiefly for Grant.
Tongues have begun to wag at a
rate over local politics, and the
prospect favors a lively contest be-
tween the various factions. The ma
tionals and the radicals are at outs,
and the breach seems to widen like
the split between Tammany and Til
den. Coalitions are, however, talked
Of in other quarters.
The Bluff City Grays enjoyed a
very delightful "%soiree d~ansante," on
board Ofthe steamer Virgie Lee, last
The soldier boys looked sol
dierly and picturesque in their hand
some uniforms. There are sixteen
men among tho grays who are over 6
feet in height, and nearly every one Of
tallest were present at the party.
Several Of the longest are lovely dan
GERS.
The LEDGER Office book binde ry
ID Madison street, is in the same
building as the newspaper and job
printing establishment; is owned by
the same proprietor, embraces all
and material used in a first
class book bindery, and is conducted
by competent workmen capable Of
executing work in as good and sub.
%stantial a style as can be done any.
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