Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-08

The sale Of seats for the Oscar
Wilde lecture is going on at MoCar.
thy's.
Small boys will never patronizs q
swimming school while Wolf river Is
so near.
Many people watched and admired
the soldiers drill on the bluff last
evening.
The Iron Mountain railway will run
: peach train between Little Rock
and St. Louis.
The first new wheat of the season
sold at the Merchants Exchange,
Nashville, yesterday.
A good game of ball can be looked
for next Sunday between the Wetter
Nine and Memphis Reds.
Cotton advanced l-16o in New York,
and 1.16d in Liverpool to-day. 1t is
firm here and at New Orleans.
The auction sale OF seats at the
Theater this forenoon was light, but
the demand at McCarthy's is fair.
Temperature this morning early, 7Os,
and 10 warmer than yesterday at the
same time. Range yesterday, co. to
|75s.
Choice fresh fish from the lakes
and the gulf can be had tomorrow
friday of Victor D.. Fuchs, SO and
Il Jefferson.
Mrs. Rocco, oorner Adams and
Main, knows just how to get up a fine
macaroni lunch, which she does daily
for her customers.
Inquire of James Speed, agent L. &
n, Memphis, for full particulars
regarding the new route to Washing
ton, Baltimore and New York.
Front row gossips and idlers, and
court house habitues, have their
tongues busy at present over the
alleged effort to hire a juryman or
two.
The only line with Pullman sleepers
between Louisville aud Washington
via Virginia Springs without change is
the Chesapeake & Ohio railway.
The city debt is a staple topic Of
conversation and everybody agrees
that it ought to be settled before the
interest amounts to as much as the
principle.
To White Sulphur Springs and the
mountain and seaside resorts of Vir-
GINA take the Chesapeake & Ohio
railway via the Louisville & Nashville
from Memphis.
Officers Jackson and Chastaine wish
it stated that they were mistaken in
saying that Rev. F. A. NJ. Eastus, of
the Immaculates, was a bad character.
1t was a case Of mistaken identity.
Farmers are cutting the wheat crop
throughout the State rapidly, and
soon the wheat will be moving to
market in heavy volume. The crop
in Middle Tennessee is fine aud the
yield liberal.
After a session of more than two
weeks, the chancery suit trial Of W.
S. Pickett against Ferguson & Hamp.
son was closed yesterday, and Special
Chancellor Elicit has the case under
consideration.
The city was in a blaze of light last
night, and the street cars were we'll
p~atronized by persons going to and
returning from the parade ground,
church festivals, and viewing the cleo
trio lights.
The wife of Capt. James Glass, of
Mcclellan Guards, died suddenly at
Hot Springs Ark, on the 18th ult.,
of heart disease. She had been liv.
ing at the Springs for several months
prior to her death.
Solemnity of Corpus Christi, a holy
day of obligation in the Catholic and
Episcopal churches,i in commemoration
ofthe time when the Sayior's remains
disappeared from the tomb and as
cended bodily to heaven.
The rainfall over this station for the
week ending last Sunday was little
over an inch, and none worthy of
mention has fallen since. About
Knoxville, for the same time, it was
two inches, while Chattanooga had
about the same as fell here and Nash
vile about half as much.
At sunrise this morning it was
raining at Starkeville. Miss, New
Orleans, Chattanooga and at Eagle
Pass, Texas. LOCAL rains are promised
to-day in the west gulf states, the Ohio
valley and in the northern part Of the
Missouri valley. The weather has
warmed up considerably all over the
country.
The aesthetic lecturer, Oscar Wilde,
with a servant and secretary, leave
New York for this city tomorrow.
The trio will be escorted by General
Tracy on a lecturing tour from here to
Vicksburg, New Orleans, Galveston
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