Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-28
PUBLIC LEDGER
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THE CITY.
tuesday evening. Jane IS, 1881.
LEDGER LINES.
rnnrR Rinderv. 13 Madison.

LEDGER Bindery, 10 Madison.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2l
Main street.
The Bluff City Grays choose a new
commander tonight.
California pear cider in bottles, at
Buckham & Campbell's.
ben Hur;" tale of the Christ,
just received at Williams's.
Mozart concert tickets on sale at
principal stores on Main street.
The colored folks have secured Els
tival Park for the day we celebrate.
Three car loads of lemons, and one
of oranges, in splendid shipping order,
just received by D. Canale & Co.
The Memphis Light Guards will
have a meeting at their armory to-
night. A full attendance is desired.
Ancient and modern, serious and
comic, is the programme for the
Mozart concert at EstiVal park next
Friday night.
Free lecture on Love, Courtship
and Marriage" at the Hebrew Syna-
gogue, on Main street, by Judge j. +.
Simmons, Of Mississippi, tonight.
The leading spirits in the coming
Fourth Of July festival are Captains j.
q. Oates, Dave Hukill and his son.
Several others are also prominent.
We had over half an inch of rainfall
yesterday afternoon, and added to the
shower of the early morning, nearly
an inch ofrain fell during the day.
Light fogs were encountered by
steamers on the river Saturday and
Sunday night, and several vessels
were compelled to lay by in conse-
quence.
The work of improving the Second
Presbyterian church, corner Beal and
Main, has been commenced. Artisans
have erected scafolding and are busy
knocking out old bricks to-day.
Westerly winds, with local rains,
followed by clearing weather, is to-
days prospect for the Ohio valley
region, according to the Signal Ser
vice kilograms from Washington.
The comet was an object of curiosi-
ty again last night, and in the early
hours Of this morning. Many stick to
it that there are tive comets now to
be seen, while others claim but one is
visible.
One lucky person drew $4,000 in a
lottery this month. Some other lucky
one will draw 10000 in the Common
wealth lottery on Thursday. Sales Of
tickets close tomorrow. Call at usual
place and get ticket.
1t started in this morning to be
warm. The mercury at sunrise was
| 78 degrees, six warmer than yesterday
and light breeze came straight from
the south. The range Of temperature
yesterday was 60 to 92 degrees.
Black superstition still fingers in
the center of civilization. A fight
which came up for adjudication to.
day was caused by neighborhood
well having been 'conjured" by an ole
; withered darky. The witnesses al
evidently believed in her power to &C
complish their ruin by this means.
The City Hospital has now abou
eighty inyalids, including marine pa
tients, old chronics and all classes
This is about half Of the numbe
usually on hand in the winter time
Among the list are a crowd from afar
afflicted with dropsy, heart, liver an'
bowel disorders, and other incurabl
ailments. Very few are suffering viii
; swamp feyers or other zymotic annoy
ances.
The st. Peters orphans have a pic
I. mic at Fitzgibbon's grove on Monda
next. The colored folks will frolic a
! Estival park, the young men managin
fishing, hunting, swimming aud othe
matters at a point down or up th
i river, have two steamers secured /
4 make excursions, and general hurra
! Of Fourth has been determined on
Q There will be no fireworks or poppin
2 crackers.
+. For the proposed entertainment b
= the Mozarts at Estiyal Park no1
Friday niehtarraugemonts have bee
:, made to run the street cars 80 one wi
u leave the park every Ten minut,
q promptly, and visitors will thereby !
Z, enabled 10 start for home within q fe
" minutes Of any moment they may d
/. sire. Heretofore the uncertainty
.. being able to 90 and come AZ will nil