Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-12
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Soggy clouds hang aloft to-day.
Fresh strawberries. Lyle & Shields,
Brown & Jones, coal Dealers 1872
Main street.
A treat is in store for those who
will attend Manager Gray's benefit.
Fresh strawberries, first of the sea-
son, received to-day by Lyle &
Shields.
The colored republicans are LAYING
plans to hold a convention herenext
moath.
Tickets for the benefit of Mr.. Frank
Gray, can be secured at the theater
box Office tonight.
Mercury sixty-one degrees this
morning at sunrise. Yesterdays
range was f~orty-eight to seventy.six
degrees.
The weather will clear away and
the air be cool by the time the
theator opens tonight for Mr.. Frank
Gray's benefit.
1t is showing heavily to-day up in
York state and areas of 10Y are
threatened in the Tennessee, Ohio and
Missouri valleys.
The heavy rain OF last week washed
gullies in many places where gullies
and holes had never been before.
They were dug still deeper by last
nights shower.
The Mary Anderson company will
exert themselves tonight, and
as it is the last performance to be
given by professionals, the occasion
must be a success
Two popular pieces have been Sc
lected for the benefit to be given
Manager Gray by the Anderson COM
pany tonight, and will not fail
to draw a fine audience.
The Hebrew festal season begins
Tomorrow, the passover, it is called,
concentrating the passage Of the
Israelites through the Req sea, over
four thousand or more years back.
The tri-state medical society, in
physicians from Tennessee,
Arkansas and Mississippi, is in session
here to-day, take an excursion on
the river this evening, and have a ban
quet tonight.
A telegram received near noon to-
day by Captain AID Storm, her agent,
announces the passage of the Ohio
steamer Golden City above Helena,
andthe vessel will be due here at FIVE
o'clock this afternoon.
For the benefit of the "Elks," Miss
Mary Anderson and her entire troupe
have volunteered and will present
"Ingomar" on the 9th instant at Gin
.cinnati. The lady goes from hexA to
Nashville next week, thence to Louis
vile and then to Cincinnati.
The palace car "Isaak Walton" in
which Mis- Mary Anderson and her
immediate family travel, now rests
quietly in the depot at the head of
Main street, and will mot move out
until Monday next, when the party
leave in it for Nashville.
Two lawyers locked horns on Madi-
son street near noon to-day and a big
crowd gathered. About that time a
shower turned loose from above and
the spectators scattered. Then the
sun came out and all we're in smiles.
1t wasn't much Of a row, mol a wet
shower, MOI a very hot sun.
The school board deliberated, snarl-
ed and discussed the charges against
Superintendent Collier until one
o'clock this morning, then voted that
the charges were not sustained, and
also to dismiss them. The vote stood
fifteen to dismiss and four against,
the latter being Visitors Walsh, Duff
fly, Carey and DuBose. The action of
the board was anticipated some days
ago by popular rumor.
Miss Jennie Jones concert is an
nOunced for Thursday night, the 2lst
inst. at Leubrie's thester. The lead
ing amateurs and professionals of the
city, VIC learn, have volunteered their
assistance, and a NEST attractive pro-
gramme is in course Of arrangement.
The Chickasaw Guards will appear in
full uniform, and the occasion will be
one of such attraction and interest no
doubt as to I'll the house to overflow.
ing. 1t will be a splendid and a we'll.
deserved compliment to one who is as
deserving as she is talented and oblig.
ing in her dispositi on