Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
FrIaay Evening, Nareh ia, Issa.
LEDGER LINES.

Saxby's tonight.
Francisco's latest, the Tingle.
Prof Sarby's select hop tonight.
Snowflake biscuit. Lyle & ShieldG.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
Prairie hay in carload lots received
daily by Ike A. Chase, 22O Front.
Choice cocoanut candy, plain or as
sorted, l5c a pound. Lyle & Shields.
Especial inducements in Brussels
carpets, mattings and rugs, at G. W.
Nails, 352 Main street.
No rain fell anywhere south of the
Ohio river last night, but the indica-
tons say showers are close ahead.
Some lucky individual will draw
$50, 900 in the Commonwealth Lottery
on the 3lst. Get ticket at once.
A variety Of the choicest gulf and
lake fish we're received to-day by
Victor D. Fuchs, 80 and IL Jefferson.
The services Of feminine teachers in
public schools are dispensed with in
several Northern cities, after they get
married.
1t warmed up thirteen degrees this
morning. At sunrise the mercury
recorded $50. The range yesterday
was from 390 to Gle.
Some lotteries put 100000 tickets
in the wheel, but the Little Havana
uses only $1,000. The next drawing
takes place on the 18th.
The river here has fallen sixteen
inches in all, and at Cairo it has drop
ped more than nine feet below the
stage it was month ago.
Mr.. VIM. Fl. Mulligan, a cotton shed
clerk, now confined to his home BY i'll.
ness, desires to have it known that he
is no relation to George Mulligan,
timer by trade, who figured in the
Police Court yesterday.
A negro prisoner named Scott
Smith escaped from the Jail at Marion
several weeks ago, aud while in dug
out was capsized and drowned, about
four miles northwest Of the jail. His
body was discovered yesterday.
Reelfoot trout and striped bass,
Savannah river shad, Mackinaw trout,
Lake Erie salmon, gulf red snappers
and white fish; fresh Baltimore oys
tiers, New York Counts, at j. A. Sig
naigo's, 278 Second and 92 Beal.
Oscar Dear" is the title of new
comic song. with waltz chorus, com
posed by NJ. II. Resented, and pub
lished by +. w. Helmiok, Of Cincin.
natl, Ohio, where it is for sale at fifty
cents per copy. The publisher has
kindly forwarded copy to this Office.
A dead COW has been lying loose in
the bayou near Causey and Vance
streets for more than a week past,
much to the disgust Of the people who
gaze upon it, and inhale its offensive
odOr. The authorities appear TO be
careless as to whether it isremoyed or
not.
The influx Of gnats from the swamps
and valleys was never known to equal
the present time. Many about this
city have ceased to milk their COWS
and have turned them out to run with
their calves, keeping both well oiled
A number of mules have been killed
near the city by the pests.
Owing to the death of Mrs. Binns,
OF heart disease, this forenoon, the
theater box Office was temporarily re-
moved from Hollenberg's music store
to McCarthy's furnishing store, on
Main, below Madison street. 1t will
continue there to-day and tomorrow,
and on Monday next will again be
found a. Hollenberg's.
Mr.. Job NJ. Nash, retired capital.
ist of Cincinnati, is in this city, on his
way to Hot Springs, and will remain
among US until to morrow. This lib.
eral-hearted gentleman is the same
who, some time since, offered to sup.
ply public library here with all the
books necessary TO make it both orna-
mental and useful, provided the people
here will furnish the building. Such
offers as this are not made every day,
and it is only necessary for proper
steps to be taken to secure prize
worth hsvlng-one, too, which does
honor to a great-hearted gentleman
and friend. A communication else
where to-day touches up this subject
in pointed manner.