Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-04-06

Al lAuh AID A htlf 81 Shln gli a
Little Rock last night, and over half
az inch at Cairo.
New potatoes, new snap beans, new
peas, new beets and new eaulihowers
at Matt Monaghan's, PA Front.
Quantity, selection aud variety Of
style above all others is justly claimed
By Mansford for his Easter card stock.
Camphor 80 cents per pound; true
Persian insect powderonly at Fahlen 4
Kleinschmidt's, cor. Of Beal and I'd.
Victor D. Fuchs will receive to.
night full assortment of choice lake,
as we'll as gulf, fish for Good Friday
dinner.
Cotton receipts here are now l07.5ll
bales less than last year at the same
time, counting the total since Sep
TENDER LIST.
To- day is the day that was set for
the hanging of Robert Ross, whose
sentence has been cemmuted to i'm
prisonment for life.
Gnats aud overflow has caused an
unusualinhux Of beef hides into this
market, and dealers are having their
hands full to handle them.
The Cotton Exchange is to meet
tomorrow to consider a petition to
Congress about protecting the Mis-
sissippi valley from inundation.
Ice is selling at fifty cents per cwt.
at the factory where it is made in
Nashville, but the solid stuff is not
delivered at peoples houses at that
low figure.
The State Medical Society are in
session here to-day. The tri-State
Medical Society completed their labors
yesterday, adjourned and went home,
most of them.
Select mackerel. salmon, halibut,
white fish. Goldfish and Russian her
ring, and fresh stock of canned vege-
tables and fruits, at John Mergle's,
No. 450 Main street.
To see two chairmen trying to run
single political meeting in single
room was splendid fun for those who
went as lockers on at the Republican
meeting, evening before last.
Mr.. j. P. McCown, a prominent
citizen, for years a clothing dealer, is
lying very low at his residence. on
Court street, suffering with paralysis
and softening OF the brain.
Recipe for becoming aesthetic:
One dictionary of art terms, three oil
paintings, and a job lot of old crOckery-
ware. Mix. No brains required"
Extract from The Colonel" souvenirs,
to be presented to the audience when
the Eric Bailey Comedy Troupe ap.
pear here next week.
No rain fell Ia the cotton belt yes.
terday, except a sprinkle down in
South and West Texas, but the show.
ers were numerous and liberal this
forenoon. Northwest Texas. the Mis-
souri, valley and the upper Mississippi
country also enjoyed copious showers
yesterday and last night.
Lawrence Barrett is to act Master
Yorick, comedian of the Globe
Theater, London, as be is supposed to
have figured in the ShakSpearian
period, on Tuesday evening next at
Nashville, and on Wednesday will ap
pear as Csius Cassius in the six act
tragedy of Julius Cmser in the same
city.
Mr.. Charles Z. Maurer. a we'll.
known cotton man connected with ].
C. johnson & Co., and skilled tele-
graphic operator, was married. near
noon TO day, by the Rev. George
White, rector Of Calvary Church.
The couple went south on the mid
day train to enjoy their honeymoon
mid the breezes and roses Of the Gulf
coast.
The cotton seed men and dealers in
oil cake and the production Of cotton
seed have been here for several days
consulting over matters calculated to
improve their condition in the future.
There we're representatives from Ar
kansaw, Louisiana, New York and all
over the country. They enjoyed a
fine banquet at the Peabody, last
night, as a harmonious wind-up.
Criminal Judge Herrigan insists on
Dir. Gillespie paying the fine imposed
OF $500 into the treasury of the
county, despite the action of the
County Court in RENTING $500 of the
amount. After it is paid in, then i'll
the county wish 10 make the gentle
man a present Of the 800 it is all
right. Meantime Mr.. Gillespie, it is
SAID, will appeal his case to the Su.
preme Court.