Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-25

Brown & Jsnes, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
Those fine photos only 81 per dozen
at the Cottage Gallery.
Strawberries at Seessel's market,
SSl Main street, this evening.
New genuine North Carolina roe
herrings, at G. R. Ryan 4 Co.
Best roasted Rio, Java, Mocha and
Maracaibo coffee, Lyle & Shields.
Pebble spectacles and fine window
shades, at E. Wright's, 365 Main.
Croquet and lawn tennis grounds,
utensils and costumes are being
looked up.
Thirteen carloads of race horses ar
rived at Nashville from this city last
Monday night.
All kinds of choice groceries de-
livered promptly free Of charge at d.
G. Shelby l. Co.'s.
Various persons report light frost
this morning. Others assert that it
was only heavy and very cold dew,
Inspectors of fertilizers are to re.
ceive instructions next week, and the
standard for Tennessee will be adopted
this week.
AS far as heard. between eighty and
ninety persons were killed, and over
300 wounded by the recent cyclone in
Mississippi.
A few old listers were paraded yes.
terday and fire in the crate was com.
Portable all of yesterday, last night and
this morning.
A meeting of ex-Confederates will
be held at the Cotton Exchange tos
night to arrange for the observance Of
Memorial Day.
A choice lot of fresh country butter
from Bartlett and Stanton, Just re-
ceived by D. G. Shelby & Co., corner
Vance and fernando.
The sixty-fourth anniversary of the
Order of Odd Fellows is to occur to-
morrow evening, when the brethren
are to assemble at their hall to cele.
brate the occasion.
The new race course will be located
on the south side of the boulevard a
short distance beyond the city. The
price agreed upon for the grounds is
reported at $4,000.
The lecture room of the Presbyte
rian church, corner Third and Pop
lar streets, is expected to be ready for
occupancy By January LIST next. John
Reid has the contract for rebuilding
the burned edifce.
The report of the Merchants Ex-
change committee on a mutual life
insurance charter was adopted yester>
day. 1t provides for a first payment
of $l2, with 81 annual dues and $40
death assessment, $1,000 benefit.
That enterprising and entertaining
citizen, Colonel Eli Perkins Digs, is
AGAIN moving spryly over these bluffs.
He is just back from a tour in the in
terror, and he comes SO mueh i'm
proved in health and general appear
snce that many of his most intimate
friends fail to recognize his genial
features. The Colonel has recently
made a raise, and he is now amply
supplied with funds.
On yesterday afternoon Mr.. Nolan
Fontaine was chosen as one of the
thirteen directors of the First Nation
al Bank, the selection having been
made to I'll a vacancy. The gentle
man is one Of our best known and
most solid as well as experienced bus
mess men, and his advice and infu.
euce are valuable acquisitions to any
financial institution.
1t is a factthat Genin the NewYork
halter paid $225 for the first choice of
seats to hear Jenny Lind when she
came to this country 81 years ago, and
it is also a fact that Byron, fashion
able saloon keeper of st. Louis, paid
$3.50 for choice in that city when the
Nightingale" went there. The sa
loon man raised the halter $25, Bar
mum tells all about it 10 a book he
wrote about himself nearly p years
ago.
The County Court yesterday recon-
sidered the action Of the forenoon, and
agreed to levy ten cent tax for turn.
pixies, and ten cents extra was levied
on property outside of the city for
public highways, Half of this twenty
cent tax can be paid in labor. R. Z.
League was appointed notary public.
County Trustee Harris was empowered
to collect the highway tax in the
Fourteenth Civil District, in place of
E. Erb, who declined to serve. Cor
oner Spelman's petition for 5000 for
services as ex.oficio Sheriff will be
considered at the January term. Or
derS were made to allow Magistrates
fees for lunacy, except when tried in
the Police Court. Petition for $500
extra compensation for poor house
plans was not allowed Il. G. Jones.
Wall paDeFs eheaD.