Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-30

School commencement exercises
will run lively during the next three
weeks.
The Agricultural Fair Association
are nearly $1,000 short on their display
Of last week.
Best creamery butter received daily
by express, fresh from the churn, at
Oliver. Finnie & Co.'s.
The decoration exercises at the
National cemetery commence at four
o'clock this afternoon.
H"Mother Goose" will give a recep-
ton at Miss Higbee's school on Friday,
June 3, at 10 o'clock s.m.
A large supply of Lake Erie salmon
received this morning by Victor D.
Fuchs, 80 and fl Jefferson.
Strawberries went up to % cents a
quart on Saturday, and were difficult
to obtain at that steep figure.
No cotton kilograms came from any
quarter to-day, it being a holiday in
New York and many other places.
Captain Harry Aliens company ar
rived home at New Orleans yesterday
forenoon and were royalty received.
Where to go during the heated term
is a question revolved in many minds.
Plenty of places if the go always have
the money to pay the expense.
The wind came from the east this
morning, the mercury at sunrise mark
ing 50. The breezes will probably
shift to the north and west to day.
A sporting fisherman went over to
Hopefeld lake Saturday, and came
back with nine fine perch. He is out
again to-day for more of the same
sort.
565,3OO Of Sol COleman's celebrated
No. los have been sold up to date.
The sales are now increasing daily.
The los are unquestionably the best
So cigar on earth.
To-day closes the sale of tickets in
the Commonwealth lottery, as the
drawing takes place to. morrow.
Everybody should call at the usual
place and get a ticket.
A stalk covered with green cotton
bolls is to be seer at the cotton ex-
change to-day, it being from a 400
acre field in Pamela county, Miss. and
grown from Egyptian seed.
The arrangements for the benevo-
lent picnic and concert, at Estival
park, by our leading citizens, to-
morrow, arc Of the most extensive ma.
ture. Arnold's band in attendance.
We had a quarter Of an inch Of rain
last night, and the dry earth needed it
very much. Out in Texas it rained
from J to I of an inch last night.
They have had more than they want
in that region.
Riyersides 10, Athletics 10, at
Olympic park yesterday afternoon. Il
fine crowd, excellent game and all
much pleased. The Athletics led
until the 9Th inning when the River
sides scored 6 runs and Won the game.
TOO much culture; the Athens Of
the south knows too much about
arithmetic; two one-hundredths Of a
poin. regarded as mighty fine mark
ing" is the appropriate headlines over
an article in the New Orleans Sta ties
about the hair splitting decision of
the Naehville returning board.
Sure Of the second, confident Of
the FIRST" was the way a Crescent
Rife telegraphed home last week,
after the Nashville drill The young
man evidently thought his company
should have them both, though he
went home satisfied with second
second honors and $500 in cash.
Leading themes Of discussion yes
terday we're the new version Of the
scriptures the late military drill at
Nashville, the agricultural fair last
week, also the Cotton Planters con.
yention, the mails in and out Of this
city and the proposed mammoth com
bination Of nineteen leading cotton
firms 70 erect congresses and a storage
warehouse covering from thirty TO one
hundred acres neal the southern
limits Of the city. Certain uDplcas-
act features and incidents connected
with all except the first mentioned
topic afforded an ample fund for lively
discussion. a number Of other topics
came in for occasional remarks, not
the least important Of which was the
Stanley Fits concert next Wcdnee-
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