Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-28

man last Saturday, A mistaken ex-
preston in the item last Saturday led
many to believe different.
The Mccullough dramatic troupe
arrived last night by the regular train
from the west, something ahead of its
usual time. 1t don't often come in
that way, but did on the occasion
alluded to.
Several excursion partieSare coming
to see John Mccullough from along
the lines Of 4he different railways.
Low and very liberal rates have been
fixed to encourage visits from our
country cousins.
No overflow in sight here yet
awhile. The upper Missouri is the
only stream full at the present time,
and at Omaha the river is even with
the danger line. Here it lacks about
seven feet of high water mark.
During the Mccullough engage
ment the theater here is wholly under
the control of Manager Connors, he
having rented the establishment for
the four nights and a matinee per-
Torrance. The free list has naturally
been curtailed.
A clean cut yard of foolscap came to
this Office to-day fresh from the swamps
on the opposite shores, and it vas COW
cred with a poem to spring in twelve
cantos. 1t is a splendid composition
too good, indeed, to enrich the col
umns Of a daily journal like this.
Everybody is influenced by the
weather. In genial spring days like
these people are naturally b%uoyant
and hopeful. While hope is in the
ascendant, get a ticket in the Com
mOnwellth lottery and a prize may
result. The next drawing is on Thurs
day. Get a ticke at the usual place.
Many suburban residents complain
that it is almost impossible to culti-
vate flowers with any success on &C
count OF The odOriferous sneak thief.
One lady on Vance street had her
flower beds stripped last night Of every
dOurishing bulb.
On Tuesday next Mr.. John McCul-
Tough will sail from New York for
Europe on board Of the steamship
Arizona. He and the company leave
here after the performance next
Thursday night, the star for the east,
the troupe for st. Louis.
A fine Chickering piano, finished in
bird's.eye maple, and presented to the
actress by the manufacturers, is one
Of the ornaments in Mary Anderson's
special palace car, 90 be here next
week, with the fair histriOnic star,
accompanied by DR.. Ham Griffin and
Manager joseph Brooks.
Hens eggs sold as low as fifteen
cents a dozen in many of the grocery
stores last Saturday. Dealers who
asked sleeper prices, and were told of
the cheaper offerings, said the latter
were perhaps a little stale, as the
wholesale value ranged from thirteen
to sixteen cents a dozeu.
That usually precise aud orderly
race, the Chinese, have not behaved
themselves as we'll this month as
usual. The average number of arrests
heretofore has not been more than
half a dozen a year, but that number
have been before the court in the last
month. The entire number Of Chi
nese in the city is seventeen.
One of those dare-you-to-do it.sort
Of matches was checked in the bud
suddenly last evening in the central
part Of the city. The couple, both
well known in social circles, actually
started, arm in arm, in search of tie
license and a minister to tie the nup-
tial knot. They were headed off by
n Of the parties backing square out.
The death list in this city last week
was twenty-eight, of whom fourteen
we're colored. The measles carried of
two children. We have had no small
pox in the city during the winter
season. A couple Of not clearly de-
fined cases of chicken -pox we're re
ported, and several hundred thousand
sensational rumors few about on the
wings Of the wind, as it were.
Resolved, That the celebration of
Mardi Gras is detrimental to public
interests and morality" This is the
question to be debated by the Irish
literary association tonight and at
successive meetings. The association
meets every Monday night at the
Knights Of Innisfail hall, over Witt.
mans music hall, on Second street.
Visitors are always welcome.
Those who are observing Lent will
regret to learn that fish are scarce and
high. The fierce equinoctial storms
in the gulf Of Mexico, as we'll as on
the Atlantic coast and among the
northern lakes, havp prevented the
fishermen from plying their trade.
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