Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-04-14
LEDGER LINES.

The cotton market is booming.
Gallon apples. Lytle & Shields.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 49,
Main street.
Prof. Saxby's grand hop tonight al
Cochran Hall, lS4 Main street.
Prairie hay in carload lots received
daily by Ike A. Chase, 220 Front.
200 kegs Of nails on the levee for
sale cheap by H. Fitzgerald & Co.
The sun rose clear this morning,
but it soon hid behind a cloud bank.
0kra and tomatoes, asparagus, sue
cotssh and baked beans. Lyle &
Shields.
New potatoes, new snap beans, new
peas and new caulihowers at Matt
Monaghan's, pa Front.
Licenses to marry we're issued to-
day to Willis Green and Patsy Bur
ton, Caesar Cole and Belle Armstrong.
Smoked salmon and sturgeon, Ham.
burger eels in jelly and Thurber's No.
Al coffee at John Mergles, 450 Main.
For information about Royal Hs-
vana Lottery call at No. 6 West Court
street. Grand extraordinary drawing
April 18th, with oEly $1,000 tickets.
A lot on the corner of Main and
Georgia streets will be sold by order
of the Chancery Court to morrow, at
noon, in front of the courthouse, BY
R. ]. Black, Clerk and Master.
Harper's Weekly Of April 18th con-
tains illustrations of Mississippi river
overflow aud destruction of the Golden
City at Memphis, by our artist, Fred
Anderson. Manford, 29S Main, can
supply the demand.
If the weather remains cool n
Seessel, ST., & Son will receive on to-
morrow spring lambs, choice fresh
meats, fresh northern lake fish. new
vegetables of all kinds, etc. etc. Leave
orders to morrow for Sunday dinner.
The Criminal Court is busy with the
case Of r. M. Schiller, for attempt 10
outrage a little girl named Nellie
COOney. A session was held last night.
at which half Of Pinch were present
1t is the liveliest case of the season.
The fewer the tickets, the greater
chance each ticket holder has ia a
lottery drawing. The Little Havana
Lottery will draw with only 1900
tickets in the wheel on next Wednes-
day.
A cottage house with four or fiy
rooms, and lot about 5Oxl48 feet was
raffled at Gaston's Hotel last night.
and the holder of ticket 1856 won. The
chances we're two dollars each, and
there were three hundred and fifty of
item.
Sheriff Athy has received a letter
from w. j. Cronk, Flint, Michigan
inquiring if the body OF his brother
l.. h. Cronk, who was proprietor of
OF the sideshow and who was lost with
the steamer Golden City, has yet been
recovered.
The COW roaming ordinance is to be
rlgidly enforced after Thursday next.
Every man who looks about and no
tees these brutes reach over a mans
back fence and chaw his shrubbery
of, will be glad to hear that cows
must be kept at home, or herded.
A foater was found near the mouth
Of NoncOnnah, some five miles below
the city. about 10 o'clock this fore
noon. 1t is supposed to be one of the
Golden City victims. Esquire Flem.
ing, Mr.. Jack Walsh and Captain Nc.
lntyre all went down to view it as soon
as word came Of tho discovery.
The Knights Tsmplars had ban.
quet at their temple last night, many
visiting brethren from Nashville and
elsewhere being present. A hand
some silver service was presented the
Eminent Commander, R. G. William
son. A number OF ladies were pres.
ent at the entertainment.
The remains Of the four.year old
daughter Of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Stowe, lost on the Golden CITY were
brought up from Star Landing yester.
day, and are to be forwarded TO their
surviving kindred in New York. The
body OF the child was identified by A
diamond earring which was In its ear
when found.
The offense for which Officer Nc.
Partland was suspended yesterday BY
the Police Commissioners was for
going into q saloon to take a drink
Varloy was under arrest and resisting
with all his might when Mcfarland
struck him, and would have been
taken to the lock up except for the
sntreaties Of his wife. The C)mmis-
sloners we're less than three minutes
making up their minds after hearing
the testimony.
The subject of letting brick ward
ornament the bluff near the foot Of
Jefferson treet is under Consideration
by the authorities. 1t will not look
any worse than the Customhouse mar.
aphernalia, and by next winter the
unslghtly old bluff would be convert.
ed into handsome brick walls A
dozen or two years back proposal
was made 70 do this, which, if accept.
ed, would have given us a handsomely
graded river front long ago. The
authorities, at the present time. are
better business men than the old
crowd used TO be.