Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-12
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Memorial day is one of the topics Of
interest in many circles at the present.
Telephone Haherling. 81 Second,
for rubber stamps. stencils and seals.
The Knight Templars are drilling,
and they nightly warm up at the
work.
The painters, the carpenters and the
white washers have all they a do
just now.
The veteran Bluff City Grays have
met and agreed upon a programme for
memorial day.
Backwater is worrying many plant.
ors. 1t sOaks their cotton fields by
backing up through the swamps.
Plenty of Barbour's strawberries,
wholesale and retail, at Oliver, Finnie
4 Co.'s, received four times a day.
The district conference of the
Methodist church meets here to-mor-
row. Bishop McTyeire will preside.
The country roads have dried and
driving about the suburbs is fine sport
at present, where the roads are
smooth.
The genial mosquito is here. He
has been rather slow about coming,
but is expected to be supple enough
from this time forth.
D~epredators are foraging on our
country neighbors' chicken roosts and
they disturb the rest of those who
labor to real their broods.
An abundance of home grown green
peas are now Offering in this market
at a dollar a bushel, and may be had
much cheaper by the cart load.
The Cotton Planters association of
the Mississippi valley are to meet in
annual convention here on the 9th
instant, and twelve days from now.
The cotton exchange members are to
meet this evening to consult over the
projected Holly Springs railway and
hear the report of a committee on the
subject.
The Bluff City Grays' concert comes
off at Estival park tonight. A rath-
er odd omission in the advertisement
of this entertainment is the fact that
no date is mentioned.
The dog killer is doing slow work.
A thousand dead dogs could be hauled
to the dump every day, and the popu.
lation would not be missed much in
side Of a week or two.
A rapid fall of the river is close
ahead. The decline at Cairo was an
entire foot yesterday, and it is over
five feet lower there now than it was
on the 18th of last month.
The coal merchants are filling up
their bins, and the ice dealers their ice
houses. Six thousand tons of the lat.
ter are now in course of being housed
from barges at the public landing.
Summer heat was noted by the Their
mometer in sleeping rooms at the sun
rise hour this morning, and though
the temperature is not up to the
scorching point, it is pretty warm, even
for the season.
Last week San Francisco enjoyed
Robson and Crane, Kate Claxton,
Willie Edouin, Gus Williams aud
John Robb, the latter until lately a
Memphian. The show business ruled
lively out there, according to Robb's
report.
The school children, rather big
children, too, have a habit of turning
their clock backward to lengthen their
tine ofrecess, and forward to bring
their study hours to an early close.
The teachers don't know it, but they
to. s
Cooler weather is close ahead, but
no rain is indicated unless a local
shower or two of light dimensions t
should pass over US. The tempera-
ture fell from 8 to 20 degrees up in
northwest last night, and a few q
whifs Of the chill are moving this {
way.
Strawberries tumbled yesterday in
value. They can be had to-day at lOto {
cents per quart in any quantity q
Shipments TO northern markets have I
been going on for a day or two past
Bartlett, near which there are
several hundred acres Of splendid
berries.
Ifyou have any doubt Of the efficacy
Of Persian insect powder, inquire Of
Dir. John Castor, proprietor of Gas
hotel This powder is imported
by Pahlen 4 Kleinschmidt, corner
Beal and SECOND, and is not manufac-
tured by them as one of our printers
made the types say yesterday.
The big brick four stories high, built
by John NJ. Lea on Main street two
years ago, has been bought by its pres
ent occupants-Joyner, Lennon &
Gale paying $H 900 for their side and
Wetter & Co. $34, 600 for the other.