Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-05
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINKS,

Buttered side down.
Ice chests at Turnbulls.
Refrigerators at Schwarzenberg's.
Water coolers at 0zanne h Mays.
Red raspberries. Lyle & Shields.
Children's skeleton waists-Lange's
Malskoff Bitters, j. P. Carey & Co
Brown & Jsnes. coal dealers. 282
Main street.
Cotton fell &c on all classes in New
York at noon to day,
Boudoirs at the Cottage Gallery 81
per dozen. New sceneries.
Y. III. H. A. entertainments at Esti-
val Park tonight. No pOstpOnement.
Green apples, of home production,
are beginning to appear in the market
here.
The Boys Literary Association will
give basket picnic at Fitzgibbon's
grove Sunday.
South Memphis Lodge F. and AM.
will meet to work in the Master Ma
sons degree to>nlght.
The most select and enjoyable affair
Of the season will be given by the Y.
NJ. II. A. at Estival Park tonight,
The curtain will rise promptly at
half past eight o'clock. Those who
wish to witness a fine performance
should be there in time.
Those who missed hearing Miss
Greenwood sing, lost an opportunity
Of hearing something thoroughly
beautiful and enjoyable.
The new cottage residence Of VIM.
II. Paine, at Coyipgton, had its front
wrecked by lightning during thun-
der Storm last Saturday afternoon.
Henry Pate, from Texas, is the
white man who shot and killed Jacob
Hemphill, oOloerd, a few miles from
Covington, Tenn, last Saturday. No
cause is given, and Pate escaped.
Seessels market, 33l Main, is well
supplied with all the choice eatables
in season. They deliver purchases
hree times daily, before breakfast,
dinner and supper. Leave orders.
The Little Havana Lottery, which
holds another drawing Thursday, pays
larger per eentage in prizes than any
other lottery in the United States.
Tickets are only ", and the capital
prize is $4,000.
Mr.. A.Y. Stevens, travelling passen-
ger agent of theNashVlille Chattanooga
and st Louis railroad is In the city on
his way from Texas to Nashville to take
charge of large party Of school girls
On their Tptur9 70 their homes in Ar
kansaw and Texas.
Values of leading articles Of trade
appear to be inclining downward.
New potatoes per Dbl measure of
choice sell here at s2 loose from
wagons. In Chicago this forenoon
pork declined l5c per bbli lard 7lc per
cWt; corn JIG per bushel and wheat lac
per bushel.
Among eight contestants a few days
| ago at the Columbia Tenn Female
Institute, Miss Lulu Jones, formerly
of this city, proved successful for the
medal offered for proficiency and i'm.
provement in science and elocution.
She reoited THE Sioux Chief q
Daughter" on the occasion.
The mercury touched 9O' yesterday,
and didn't get below GO in the cool,
est part Of the morning. The wind
came from the southeast all day and
the rain fall was tVenty-Ono one.
hundredths Of an inch. The temper.
lture here at 8 o'clock this morning
was ZOE. Wind still southeast.
The Railway Commissioners Of
ArkapsaW, which include the Cover.
nor, the Auditor and Secretary Of
State, have been eDjoined from assess,
ing the property of'the Memphis and
! Little Rock railroad for taxation. Thu
| Iron Mountain road led of and applied
Tor an ipjunstion several days ago.
Iii worth the while Of every lady
and hOusekeeppr ~ the city to visi
the Tennessee Renovsting COMPANY
and see some Of the fne work done b,
this company. This institution hal
long been needed. All work done b.
the Tennessee RenoYating Company i
done by experienced wOrEmen, there
fore satisfaction is guaranteed.
The names Of twenty.t two person
from this county appear as hayinl
been pardoned by Governor Bat
/ within little more than two month
past, convicted for violating the fou
mile law. carrying pistols, stealing
e lighting or cutting. OF tho numbe
: twelve Of the latter we're guilty q
!, selling liquor unlawfully, but hav
y promised 10 reform.
The darby Alex Hill, who 40 cruell
. murdered an old cOlored man and h;
wife while he slept and cat il tbei
81 mouse and after he he'd been clothe
by them, was found guilty BY a Iury I
the Criminal Court yesterday But m
jury recommended the man 10 IN
Courts mercy. The only mercy N
court can mete, according 10 law.
3 to sentence Hill 10 be hanged