Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-13

main street.
Cocoanut candy l5c per pound 81
Lyle & Shields.
Another lot fine country butter Zoe
at S. l.. Moore h %.
For stealing coat Farris White
side will serve year.
Select oysters l29c per dozen, Sig.
naigo's market, 278 Second.
Two carloads choice bananas for
sale cheap at D. Canals l. Co.'S
Prof. Saxby's last hep for the sea-
sen tonight at lS4 Main street,
Potomac river shsd Just received by
| Y. D. Fuchs, 80 and Al Jefferson.
| Pebble spectscles and fine window
shades, at 4. Wright's, 365 Main.
A german is to be given in the par
Tors of the Tennessee Club next Tues
day evening.
The streets are numerously barIi-
caded by building contractors. 1t is
a nuisance that's not nuisance.
Fresh meats, fish and vegetables
delivered every morning before break
fast by Seessels market, 33l Main.
Wind light from the southeast and
the lowest temperature this morning
was 81. Range yesterday Ole to $50.
The moon will not set until after
twelve to night, and it changes to its
first quarter early tomorrow morn
ing.
Kate Claxlon plays Louise in the
1.-TWO Orphans" at Nashville tonight,
and the same here on next Monday
night.
See advertisement in another COL
umn concerning mask ball privileges.
Proposals received up to noon to-
morrow.
The rise in the river here is Stacking
of, and people in the lowlands have
nothing to fear, until after the next
heavy rains.
Attorney General G. p. NJ. Turner
is at Little Rock as an attorney for
the prosecution in the Hollenberg~
Smith libel and SANDER suit.
The spring races at New Orleans
wound up last Wednesday, and ours
commence next week. The last ref
erence should not be forgotten.
Among others from this city at the
Grand Lodge meeting of the Knights
of Honor, at Nashville, and not heres
tofore mentioned, are the Rev. Warner
Moore and j. II. Thompson.
The only rainy area in the West or
South last night was along the upper
Mississippi river and the fall was light
up that way. Warm and growing
weather prevails all over the country.
A select social is announced in the
interest Of the Church OF the Good
Shepherd, to be given next Tuesday
evening at the residence of Mrs. G.
B. Aiken, No. 154 Fourth street,
Chelsea.
Leave orders at Victor D Fuchs
market, 80 and al Jefferson, for Sum
day morning delivery of Reelfoot lake
perch, red snappers, spring lamb and
green peas, and all kinds OF choice
fresh meats.
The value of cotton advanced yes
terday all around the circle. Here
middling and grades below went up 1c
pr ID; at New York Lice higher was
quoted; at New Orleans, &c higher;
and at Liverpool, l-l6d better.
General G.. W. Gordon, in addition
to his legal attainments,is a practical
civil engineer, and was engaged in
constructing bridges on the railway
between Nashville and Hickman,
KY, when he entered the Southern
army over twenty years ago.
The Milburn Gin and Machine Co.
were awarded the contract yesterday
for the iron work, amounting to about
$40 900, for the new Menken Block.
There is meyer any necessity to send
iron wor k away from home as it can
be done here as cheap and satistacto~
rily as elsewhere.
Yesterday the assessment commit
tee reduced the WsterWorks from
$500, 900 to $l50,000 elevator. from
$50, 600 to $50, 600; Chiekasaw Refining
Company, from $4,000 to $4,000;
Planters Insurance Company, from
$4,000 to $50, Vanderbilt Iusu-
rance Company, from $4,000 to
5000.
Among the attendants at the we'd
ding Of Miss Carrie Felsenthal. OF
Brownsville, and Mr. gabe Felsen
thai, OF Louisville, at Brownsville on
Tuesday last, we're Miss Sarah BAN.
berger and Miss Jennie Greenburg, of
this city. Visitors were there from
Chicago, Louisville, GAINESVILLE, Dal-
las. Texas, Cincinnati, Philadelphia
and Atlanta. The presents were val-
ued al several THOUSAND dollars, and a
grand ball and supper was given at
Mann's Operahouse. 80
The habit children are afflicted
with al present Of running BY the side
Of and jumping on street railway cars
while moving, merely for the fun of
it, is a very bad one, and will likely
result in accidents at an early day
unless it is broken up. The practice
pTeysils along Beal aud Lauderdale
Streets on the red car lins yoYse thaE
anywhere else, and . stop should be
put to it at once. A crippled or a
| dead boy will be worse for parents to
contemplate then it will be for the
same parents to Dse little corrective
authority.