Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-19


at Mat Monaghan's, 244 Front.
Rabbi Sam6eld is absent from tn,
city, but is expected home to-day.
Telephone S. L. Moore & Co. fol
everything nice in the grocery line.
Pride and Passion, a new novel BY
May Agnes Fleming, at Mansiord's.
The lowest temperature this morn
ing was 550, and the range yesterday
was Sc to 100.
Vegetables are higher and scarce in
the markets. The weather is too COO
for them to thrive.
Just reoeived-A carload Of jugs
jars, crooks and churns. Ike A.
Chase, 900 Front.
Strawberries, Arkansas prairie and
Kentucky grass butter received eaily
by Kirk Allen & Co.
The harvest time for wheat has sci
in throughout West Tennessee, and in
some sections the yield will be heavy,
Sandy Matthews and VIM. Rivers
had their pictures taken yesterday in
handouts, and they are now ready to
die.
The thirtieth inst. will be Decora.
tion Day at the National Cemetery.
seven miles out the Louisville rail.
road.
The great organ at the Court street
Cumberland Presbyterian church has
been dedicated to the late G. w,
Goyer.
A large class Of young communi-
cants are to be confirmed in the Jewish
faith at the Hebrew Synagogue next
Wednesday.
Two more candidates announce
themselves for the County Registers
place. There are now about two dozen
seeking that Office.
The Rev. N. NJ. Long will deliver a
public lecture on Prohibition" at
Temperance Hall, No. 1872 Main street
tonight at 8 o'clock.
The drawing of the Little Havana
Lottery takes place tomorrow, and
the sale of tickets close to. day. Get a
ticket in this popular lottery.
Wires for an electric light are in
course of erection on the bluff to illu
inmate the path of the soldier boys in
their night time drill practice.
James Gains was given three years
in the p~enitentiary to day, for stealing
$500 from Cornelius Hefy. The
money was taken from its hiding place
under a bed. Gains was engaged by
Hefy to make a new mattress.
1t rained all up and down the cas-
tern slope of the Rockies yesterday
from Dakota to the lower Rio Grande
Valley, and also sprinkled some along
the Atlantic Coast up in the Yankee
States, but it was dry everywhere else
in the United States.
Our markets were bare Of fish this
morning. The receipts were exceed
ingly limited and all that came were
from the Northern lakes. They we're
quickly bought by consumers, and
many fish eaters had to do without or
eat old mackcrel or salt salmon.
The Estival Park summer concerts
open up next Sunday with a grand
flourish of music by Arnold's full
band. The manager, Mr.. James
Kirkland, puts his card before the
public to day and relates in full, de-
tails as to how the festal occasion will
be conducted.
There are three factions among the
Porter Guards, and they are all broke
up since Captain Waldran and Lieu
tenant Kellar Anderson resigned.
One set wanted the latter for Captain,
another want N. B. Camp, aud still
another-Majof Wildberger. The
end Of the matter is not yet.
The Independent Order Of Immac-
ulates will give their king Celebra
ton Of the Season." at Estival Park,
next Thursday, the 18th inst. There
will be dancing and a forty minute
drill between the two commanderies
and other brilliant lectures not yet
announced except Oh the small bills.
An invitation TO attend the examina-
ton of the Hickory Wythe Male and
Female Academy next Friday, has
been kindly forwarded to this Office.
There will be a concert at night and
music by a string baud. Prof. Chas.
Thompson is principal and Miss
Tommie E. Bone assistant at this in
The air was as calm as a duck pond
this morning, but a pleasant
breeze sprung up from the southeast
during the forenoon. The weather
forecast is that we are TO have local
rains to-day all over the southwest
and up the Ohio valley, also that it
will be warm. 1t was raining this
morning at several points in Texas
also along the upper Mississippi. The
lowest barometric area this morning