Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-04-19

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entertainments.
Licenses to marry we're issued to.
day to W. j. Cunningham and Ana.
stosia Byrne.
A quarantine has been ordered for
the Hrst Of next month upon ocean
vessels below New Orleans.
Vegetation was greatly set back By
last weeks cIld spell, but has recov-
cred its vigor since yesterdays showers.
Sol Coleman will probably leave to-
night for the East, in search Of novel;
ties in the cigar business, and import
cd cigars Of the new crop,
The Commonwealth Lottery, Of
Louisville, will hold its usual monthly
drawing soon, and ticket buyers should
supply themselves at once.
The northern light, or aurora bore
ais, was again visible last night, and
but for the clouds would have been as
brilliant as it was on Sunday night.
Raspberry vines are blooming, while
blackberries have been in bloom for
ten days or more. The first named
are first to ripen, though last to bios
som.
Strawberries lipen slowly, and the
few arriving into market retail at
about 40 cents per box, The boxes
hold little over pint and slightly
less than quart.
1t will cost the Memphis and Little
Rock railway as much as $4,000 to
repair overflow injuries between here
and Madison, forty miles west, so
observers roughly estimate.
For sale-Stock and fixtures in a
first class saloon and restaurant doing
a good business in favorable location.
Terms reasonable and to suit pur-
chaser. Address Saloon, this Office.
The stepping-stone improvement at
crossing corners is good, and the
authorities deserve credit for doing
this work-that is, if people are en-
titled to credit for performing their
duty.
A lot Of a dozen or more fresh green
turtles, recently captured from the
salt waters of the gulf and caribbean
sea, arrived here from New Orleans
to-day.
Captain Harry telegraphed to Cap
tail Lightburne this morning, from
Deyalls Bluff, that his steamer, the
Josie Harry, will arrive here to-
morrow morning.
The Supreme Court at jackson has
affirmed Judge Horrigan's recent de-
cision requiring Mr.. Gillespie to pay
his fine of $500 without the rebate the
county 'squircs wished to make.
A force Of workmen are as busy as
beavers tearing up the street railway
track aud foundation and the old Mic
olson on Beal street. The contractor
for paving there evidently means bust
ness.
Captain Waldran drilled the Broom
Guards at the Chickasaw armory last
night, and will give them another
training to morrow night The girls
do nearly as we'll as their rivals in the
opera troupe.
Subscriptions amounting to several
thousand dollars have been secured to
defrsy the expenses Of a spring and
fall meeting Of races. The proposed
scheme has every prospect Of being
success in everp respect.
1t will require several assistants 10
manage the future end of the Cotton
Exchange, and future deals are not to
be regularly introduced before the
opening of the next commercial year,
on the lst Of September.
The Odd Fellows Of this city are
going to celebrate their usual ami.
versary, the 18th of April, at Odd
Fellows Hall. aud all oil the Odd Eel
lows 10 the city, with their wives and
children, are invited to participate.
Those VINO keep COWS, or, rather,
who own and let them keep them
solves BY foragiRg on their neighbors,
are beginning to inquire how much it
will cost to get their animals out Of
the pound when they break in there.
The Mascotte" matinee to day
could be seen by children in the sec
ond tier for Is cents, and only six bits
was charged for reserved seats in the
dress circle Popular prices for an
excellent performance worth hearing
and seeing.
Several gentleman. whose head
quarters are about the Peabody, have
had fun made Of them lately about
their prolific fish oil farms over in the
st. Francis river valley sWamps, from
a dozen TO three dozen miles west Of
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