Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-22

gress from this district excite great
hilarity and some ridicule in business
circles. The subject was a topic Of
general Sabbath discussion in many
upper crHsty circles.
"A few spring suits are to be seen
along the highways, and the wearers
all appear to feel that they are crowd
ing the season just little. On easter
day, n week hence, new harness
will not be so scarce.
The giving of the palms was a
beautiful ceremony in all the Catholic
churches yesterday and many a devout
person carried sprigs of green home
ward, to be converted into ashes for
solemn purposes on cruci6xion day.
New potatoes, from New Orleans.
were sold in our market Saturday.
They r worth about eight dollars
per barrel at present, and very scarce.
Green peas, from the same quarter,
are o plentiful and sell at cheaper
prices.
The Yallabusha and Yoceny
rivers are the only streams out of
their banks at present this side of
Grenada. The waters are subsiding
and the Coldwater, .Tallahatchie, and
other streams are now within their
banks.
Winds northwesterly all over the
south this morning, with a light rain
at Galveston. The forecast for this
evening here is southweSterly breezes.
warmer temperature and rainy areas.
The latter feature is expected, and we
are resigned.
Evidences of Mans place in
Nature" by Professor Huxley, fifteen
cents a copy; Contemporary Re-
view" for March. twenty cents a copy;
Memoirs Of Madame De Remusat,
third aud final volume, at Mausford's,
298 Main street.
The sparring match Saturday
night at the Jefferson street opera
house about cleared expenses. The
champion wrestler, Mr.. Mark Christol,
goes from here to Evansville by the
steamer Gaff this evening.
"A hogshead of sugar, weighing
from eleven to fourteen hundred
pounds, is now brought from New
Orleans to this point at the low rate
of one dollar, and a barrel of molasses,
of about four hundred pounds, for
forty cents. Cheap.
Joshua Perkins, colOred, charged
with stealing plOws from the Anchor
line wharfboat and G. P. Hunt & Co.,
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff u. B.
Britt, three miles west of Whites
station yesterday. Like Cinciunatus,
he was called from the pillow handle,
and will have to defer putting in a
crop.
The general manager of the Oil
City aud Ridgeway, Pa, railroad, Mr.
A. +. Kent, is in the city to-day, on
his way homeward from a prospecting
tour through Texas, with which
country he ismuch pleased. Nj. Kent
will be a passenger on the steamer
James W. Gaff this evening.
Among the troupe with Miss
OlaxtOn, is Miss Dollie Pike, a very
pleasant and accomplished actress.
who figured prominently here s~evera.
years ago, with the celebrated Fur
bush company. Several others vel
known are also in the party, and the
company is a good one.
Some six or seven years ago the
remains of General Pat Cleburne, of
Arkansas, were removed from the
grave in which they were r stinterred
a few miles from Columbia, Tenn, and
we're conveyed to Helena, Ark, where
= monument was erected to his mem
Dry. A large procession Of the old
soldier throng escorted the remains oil
The illustrious hero in their passage
through this city. A paragraph re
Gently started enormously states that
Cleburne's body is now buried near
Columbia.
People talk about Memphis being
dead, but she is not; and this was
forcibly brought to our notice to day.
from the fact that we noticed one of
our leading boot and shoe houses,
Nessrs. Friedman Bros, were ship.
ping quite a lot of boots and shoes to
Pulaski, Tenn, Elizabethtown, Ky,
Camden, Ark, Eutaw, Ala, and
Meridian, Miss. With such enter
prising merchants as Friedman Bros.
Memphis is not likely to lose any trade
in her legitimate territory, and by
proper effort trade can be turned 20
Memphis that has heretofore sought
other markets. This effort Friedman
Bros. resolv' upon making, and have
succeeded beyond their most sauguine
expectations.