Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-04-11
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Gold, raw and rain this forenoon.
Snowflake biscuit. Lyle l. Shields.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Best fancy cocoanut candy. Is cts.
a pound, at Lytle 4 Shields.
Prairie hay in carload lots received
daily by Ike A. Chase, 220 Front.
Pompano and fresh can oysters at
Victor D. Fuchs, SO and Al Jefferson.
Prof. Mook's last hop of the season
tonight at Casino Hall. All are COR
daily invited.
New potatoes, new snap beans, new
peas and new caulifowers at Matt
Monaghan s, pa Front.
Reel6oot trout. red snapper, Lake
Erie salmon and pompano at j. A.
Signsigo's, 27S Second and 80 Beal.
ut is a remarkable fact that we all
ways get a man the first time he slips
up" His Honor said when a plain
drunk was marshalled in.
The police are. rushing property
owners since they were furnished
with the new blank notices to serve.
A dozen or so are before the court
every Monday.
A gentleman from the interior took
passage on street car yesterday and
told the driver he wished to get off at
Raleigh. He was asked to stay aboard
until the car crossed the Alabama
line.
The outer end of the red car line
is in course of extention a hundred /
yards or whereabouts, so that the tuin
table will be in front Of the ElmWood
gate, instead Of the street car stables
as heretofore.
The Illuminated programmes used last
evening atthe Calvary church Sunday |
school anniversary fully merited the |
many compliments they received. |
They we're designed and gotten up by
Tracy, in gold, crimson, purple, green, |
red and blue colors. 1t was a novel
and exquisite piece of work.
Myriads of buffalo gnats swarmed
through the city and gathered about
stock like bees yesterday, and over in
fields across the river pillow hands car
ried smoke buckets and torches to
keep the pests from driving man and |
brute into mad fits. 1t was too cool
for the insects to stir about to day.
Mr.. 81. Ilsch has adjusted his late
financial troubles and resumed bust
ness at his old stand, 2l7 Main street,
corner Adams, under orsham House.
lie solicits the patronage Of his old
friends and customers, confident of
supplying them with as good cigars
and tobacco at as low rates as any COM
petitor.
The mercury fell 90 from s. to 45'
between Sunday morning and this
morning, but vegetation as far as
known has not been sinjured. Its
growth may be slightly checked, but
10 other harm is likely to result.
Snow fell yesterday about Cincinnati.
in the lake regions, in New England
and in the Northwest.
We enjoyed twelve-mile- per-hOur
norther this morning and last night.
and the same breeze blew over the
Northwest at from thirteen to twenty
miles an hour. At Cincinnati, early
this morning, the mercury was two
degrees below freezing point; at
Louisville one below, aud at Bis.
marck, up in Dakota, seven degrees
below, while at St. Paul it was FIVE
below aud at st. Louis two below.
The temperature here early this
morning was 44o in the open air, and
but for the wind frost would have
nipped tender vegetation. North of
the Ohio river the mercury fell from
20 to 400 between Sunday and yester.
day. In many localities along the
upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys
the temperature was close to freezing |
point, and the indications are that
fruit and other growing stuff have
been seriously injured.
The Ford opera troupe, to open here
next week. is said by those who have
seen and heard it to be oee Of the |
most finished and complete Grganiza. |
tons in the country. The operas TO |
be rendered here will be seen just as
their respective authors intended they
should be seen and heard. The visit |
OF this company is due wholly to |
private enterprise. not with view Of |
realizing any profit, but because it |
was believed the seven operas to be |
performed would afford Unreasonable
delight to large portion of our in
habitants. The price of admission is
to be only dollar and reserved seats
nothing eXtra-certainly a reasonshla