Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-20
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

TOMORROW IS the longest day OF the
year.
Cotton advanced 1-16o in New York
to day.
Mesquite bars and palm leaf fans
are active.
Brown & JsneS, coal dealers. 2S0
Main street.
| Gilt Edge Creamery Butter 300, s.
| L. Moore Il Co.
! zoo punches bananas for sale cheap,
at D. Canale Il Co.
The sun crosses the line at 2 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon.
Those fine photos only 81 per dozen
at the Cottage Gallery,
1t is nearly fifteen hours between
sunrise and sunset just now.
Pebble spectacles and fine window
shades, at b. Wright's, 800 Main.
1t takes a hundred tons of ice to
satisfy the daily wants of this city at
the present time.
Mr.. L. b. Sims has been appointed
administrator Of the estate OF the late
w. b. Satterfeld. anff
Leila Scott Lodge, +. and A. NJ,
will meet to night for the purpose OF
comforting the Masters degree.
The perspiring citizen desiring to
get cool should take summer drink
at the Walnut Palace Saloon, 81 Beal
street.
Lot No. Sc on Beal street has been
sold to c. r. Ryan by w. j. Polk for
$1,000, aud the sale was registered this
forenoon.
The Meath jury have been dis
charged, as they could not agree. They
stood ten for acquittal ana two for
conviction.
Sol Coleman's cigar palace is fast
approaching completion. That it is
daisy is the universal verdict of all
who have seen it.
A considerable quantity of rust is
reported in the wheat harvested in
many parts of West Tennessee, caused
by recent copious rains.
A house of refuge is badly needed
for the hosts Of young rascals growing
up about here who are ripe for mis-
chief, but not big enough for the pen
itentiary.
An absent minded young gentleman
left three books in red car 70 early
this morning, 1t is thought they be-
long to the Odd Fellows Library.
The car driver cared for them.
Fresh red snapperS, spring chickens.
spring lamb, veal, etc., at Victor D.
Fuchs market, 80 and Al Jefferson.
Regular delivery is made of al sup
plies purchased Of this market.
The four mile law Of this State
prohibits tipping within four miles Of
any chartered institution of learning.
The law says nothing about selling
liquor within fenr miles Of a church,
as some people have an idea it does. I
While the shower here night before
last was exceedingly light it was quite
heavy at Wythe, and in the eastern
edge OF this county. The people out
that way all complain Of having had
entirely TOO much rain tor the good Of
tie growing crops.
The closing exercises Of the St.
Agnes Academy came of yesterday.
and full reports OF the event appear in
this mornings journals. all correct
except the fact that q handsome paint
ing was presented 10 Miss Annie
Cronin, for embroidery work.
The continued hot weather makes
the perspiring citizen long for the
cool mountain air or the delicious sea
breeze. Some lucky individual will
pay the expenses Of Q summer trip
with prize drawn In the Little
Havana Lottery next Saturday.
The Chickasaw Guards will enter
tain the Macon Volunteers at the
armory Of the Ohickasaw's, Saturday
evening next. The Guards are ex>
pected to arrive here Friday morning
at 8 o'clock by Anchor Line steamer
City Of Providence, from st. Louis.
The most narrowing feature about
the swelling waters Of the river at the
present time are those hair raising
Helena kilograms. Floods may come
and floods may 60, but nothing can be
more 6z5T1ciating to the public than
the terror striking kilograms referred
to.
Theodore Thomas closed his season
ct SanFrsneisco and left for Salt Lake
| City last Wednesday. The receipts Of
the Thomas Concerts at San Francisco
we're S5l 900 and expenses $4,000.
There was guarantee fund Of S25, 900
and the total attendance was 10000
persons.
| The Macon Volunteers left Chicago
for st Louis last Sunday night, They
are on a sight seeing excursion. and
mot drilling expedition. While in
Milwaukee they we're the guests oil the
h rss Guards, and while at Chicago
thy we're given reception by Com.
psby 9 Of the First Regiment.
i lac discovery Of gold and silver
mine out in Hardin county, Tenn, is
said to be no joke By correspondent
who writes from Moscow in relation 70
the matter. No matter how rich the
discovery, however, it can be nothjpg
in wealth comparison TO the RFeaI
promise Of the bull bat and guanC
caves Of Magazine mountain over "a
the west Of this,
The mad dog season has opened and
J two children narrowly missed being
bitten by Fabid brute yesterday. The
promisc9ous dog tribe age s npisanet
on general principles, and beopi,
IshOpld be required to keep them a
s home, OE 10 mugzles, or have them
d slain in short order, Ehepeysr aaugh
), roaming about tha nnhl;o h;nb ,sa,,. !,