Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-19
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

LEUtEk L1HEh.
Bad weather for fruit.
Easter cards at Williams.
French haircloth, Lange's.
Dat fakes, j. P. Carey & Co.
Easter eggs, 8. L. Moore 4 Co.
Ozanne d Mays new store, 257 Main
Brown Il Jones, coal dealers, %.
Main street.
Fancy creamery butter Acc per Ii
5, L. Moore & Co.'S.
Home rendered leaf lard l2lc pei
ID. s. L. Moore & Co.
Select oysters 1910 per dozen, Sig
naigo's market, 27S Second.
Those who iancied winter over
missed it as bad as Virgins.
A few barrels choice onion sets
cheap. Ike A. Chase, 22O Front.
Pebble spectacles and fine window
shades, at f. Wrights, 365 Main.
Fair, cold weather is promised here
and all over the southwest to morrow.
A liberal attendance was noted ct
nearly all the churches on yesterday.
Cotton is Lice cheaper in New
York to day, and rules very quiet
here.
The Mozart Musical Society meet to
practice the oratOrio OF Elijah" to-
night.
"BulliOu Flour" Roller Process,
gradual reduction, extra fine, 81 per
Dbl. s. L. Moore & Co.
Summer garments we're thought Of
yesterday. To-day cold feet, overcoats
and warm fires are fashionable.
Telephone s. L Moore & Co., corner
fernando and Vance, for everything
nice in the grocery line.
LOose stock, picked up astray and
lmpOunde1, we're sold to the highest
bidder to-day at AZ Adams street, in
the alley.
The leading topic outside of relip-
iOus circles yesterday was the swift
passage Of the Kate Adams from
Helena to this port.
1t was showing at Chicago to day.
and the thermometer was l60, and lOo
below freezing point, so says a dis
patch to the Merchants Exchange.
There is something wrong some.
where. Only one hundred birth GER
tidcates were returned 10 the County
Court last year in spite Of the fact
that there we're $40 marriages.
A good many people refused to DO.
lieve, on yesterday. that the indica>
tiOns favored rain, but we had a con-
siderable sprinkle Of it in the early
hours before dawn.
The Chicago telegram to the Mer.
chants Exchange to day quotes mess
pork sl9 20 per Dbl and loo above
Saturdays closing Ggarcs; lard, sll 90
aud unchanged T g, SO 80 and Zoe
up.
The wind whipped around TO the
nOrthysry SUDDENLY al 0 1t 7 o'clock this
morning, and from almost tropical
wSrmth, the atmosphere was in very
short time changed to a wintry tenn
persture.
1t will be a week perhaps before
trains can run through from here to
Little Rock. The water is now of
the track. but the roadway requires
considerable repairs, and a large force
is now at work.
Active preparations are making for
fitting musical celebration Of Easter
at the churches, Professor Wiukler
10 training the sixteen members of St.
Peters to render Haydn's second mass
at the morning service. .
Rev. N. NJ. Long was taken i'll
Saturday night at his residence on
Union street, and therefore did not
preach at the Strangers church yes
terday. He is resting easy, and bis
doctor says will probably be up in a
few days.
The "Stabat Mater, in its entirety,
is in rehearsal by Professor Hand
werker and the St. Peters church
choir, and the great, work of the cello :
DRAFTED composer Rossini is to be
given at a concert shortly to be an
nouHced.
The death list in this city last week
was twenty.fOu of which twelve were
white and twelve colored. Six died
OF pneumonia and four Of Consump-
ton, aud Of the whole number eleven
were children Of three years and
under.
No weather bulletins have been
sent out Of the station here since the
ilth inst, owing to the illness of the
observer. 1t is a rather skinny ar
rangement for al Of the work to de-
volVe upon Ouo man and to shut mp
the ofice whe, that man is sick.
Lest week some SIX or eight thou
sand dozen eggs we're sbipned from