Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-04

Clsmants Atscs brand oysters are
excellent
Brown & Jones. coal dealers, go
Main street.
Prairie hay in carload lots received
daily by Ike A. Chase, go Front.
Gardeners and yard trimmers are
busy with their early spring work.
Jugs, jars, crooks and churns. Ike
A. Chase, 220 Front. Also 10000
second hand sacks,
Choice dressed chickens and tur-
keys; also fresh lot salmon and perch,
at Clements, Sc Beal.
Nh. Long will preach on the cure Of
modern skopticism at the Strangers
church to-morroE night.
Two big sensations the past week;
the attempt on the Queens life and
the "k'lishun" between an editor aAd
a judge.
The steamer John 0verton will
leave the foot of Jefferson street at 2
pm. Sunday for Marion. Fare for
the round trip, 81.
Copper plate, wedding and visiting
cards, engraved and printed in latest
styles at moderate cost at c. L. Byrd
& Co., 275 Main street.
An adjourned meeting of the Cotton
Exchange to report upon relief to
sufferers by the food occurs this af-
ternoon at three o'clock.
The eyer-popular Little Havana
Lottery will hold another drawing
next Saturday. Many Memphians
have won prizes during the past year
in the Little Havana.
Four stores were burned out carly
this morning at Augusta, Ark. One
Of the sufferers telegraphed to his
merchant here: Don't send any
goods; the town is burned up"
The river at Cairo is now two feet
below its stage of a week ago, when
the highest water level of the present
season was attained. This decline
will soon make itself felt here and
below.
The price of cotton on the spot ad-
vanced yesterday in New York 1-16c,
and Liverpool is 1-16d above yester-
days figures. Future dealers. how
ever, find little comfort in the figures
shown in the chalkmarks.
No attractions at the theater next
week. On the 10th inst, two weeks
from Monday next, Mccullough
comes. This great actor closes at
Nashville tonight with the "Gladia-
tor" which after "Virginius, is his
best assumption.
On Monday next Judge John L. T.
Sneed will leave for a business trip to
Sumter county, South Florida, away
down in the peninsula of that attrac.
tive State, some distance back of
Tampa Bay. The Judge will be abb
sent some three weeks.
The young folks had a delightful
time at Major Berry's last night, and
gave a really ereditable and well US
tanned entertainment. They acquitted
themselves handsomely, and went
home happy. These bright little
workers are making a good start.
For the benefit of Crittenden county
sufferers, Mr.. c. B. Clarke, who owns
a fine farm partially submerged below
the foot of Forty, gave a check for
fifty dollars. If others would do like
wise, according to their means, none
in the submerged region need 60
hungry.
The railway trains have generally
been arriving off time slightly for a
period. The Louisville 4 Nashville
trains came all right at the proper
hour last night and this morning, and
the Tennessee roads trains are rather
precise about coming and going, but
the others are scattering.
The last number of Harpers' Weekly
c~ontainsa very fair half page sketch BY
Mr.. Fred I. Anderson, Of this city.
Its title is "The floods on the Missis-
sippi-Rescue of settlers by night"
Like all his work, it is faithful and
expressive, and the details are wrought
out in the style ola painstaking artist.
The interior cotton movement, tele.
graphed to the Cotton Exchange to-
day, reports the stock at twenty-six
leading points, including this, at 343,
.572 bales, and 2O,6l4 more than last
year at the same time. The receipts
this week were 1866 bales, a decrease
from last year for the same week Of
1850 bales.
Mr.. Edward Landstreet, of the firm
Of Towner, Landstreet & Co., the
rubber manufacturer Of Baltimore,
of which Towner x Dixon, the Good
year Rubber House Of our city, is a
branch, departed to-day for home.
He was very much pleased with
Memphis and thinks it the best loca.
ton in the Southwest for a branch
house, and predicts in a few years it
will lead the parent firm.
Last evening Mrs. Hattie Irrelevant
gave her music class a reception and
hop at the residence Of Mrs. RedfordI
1872 Court street. The parlors wero
filled with the bellies and beauz Of
youthful society; good band OF music
Inspired the best Of spirits TO the
dancers and wall flowers" The
ladies wore the modest y%iolets, while
the beaux donned the more estheti-
cal suniower. The entertainment wss
one Of the most enjoyable events Of
the week.