Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-23


BroWp 4 seuos. Ccai dealers, 80
Main street.
The lontsn season winds up to-
morrow evening.
500 dozen fresh eggs, l5c per doz.
S. L. Moore & Co.
The most solemn Of all the days in
the Christian calendar.
keystone Easter egg dyes, 5 colors
for l0c. Sold by druggists,
Select oysters 1910 per dozen, Sig
naigo's market, 2IS Second.
Pebble speotscles ard fne window
shades, at E. Wrights. S6S Main.
Willard Hotel Lottery tickets
bought at PSI Main street--bssement.
Century Magazine. for April, can be
had at COrwin's news depot, No. 2S3
Main street.
About dozen fast steppers will
contest 10 the runs at the Jockey Club
course tomorrow afternoon.
A train will leave the Memphis and
Charleston depot at 2;2a.p.m. prompt
ly, to morrow for the race track.
Our legislators at Nashville ran as
wild on the railroad bill as a wild rail-
way train sometimes runs. Thisis no
Joke.
The bill TO settle the city debt has
passed its second reading ia the
lover branch Of the State Legisla-
tnre.
Mechanics. it is believed, will be in
big demand here few weeks hence.
Ever so many new buildings are to be
erected.
Our cotton receipts are now l31 ,063
bales in excess Of last year at the
same time, and the heaviest on record
up to this date.
The dry goods store Of Moore &
Bro, Up at MillingtOn. was destroyed
By Gre last Wednesday. Partially in>
sured at Nashville.
From the forecast Of the weather,
heavy garments will be more CON-
Portable on Easter day than the usual
light spring styles.
Reelfoot lake perch and trout, as
we'll as choice dressed turkeys and
chickens at Victor D. Fuchs market,
80 and Al Jefferson.
Rabbi NJ, Samdeld commences a
series Of historical lectures on The
Jews in Italy" to night. Services
commence at 7:3O clock.
DeSOto Lodge and Eureka Council,
+. A. A. NJ, meet to night, the first
to work in the K. A. degree and the
latter 10 the Royal Masters degree.
Several OF the representatives from
at Nashville, are undergoiA
an excoriation here which would
startle them, if they could only hear
it.
Strenuous efforts are in progress to
induce the Legislature at Little Rock
to extend the time or remit this years
taxes 10 the recently flooded dis
triots.
There will be a spring opening at
the South markethouse on Tomorrow
morning Of early vegetables, meats,
etc., such as spring lamb, veal, choice
beef, etc.
No Geographic reports come from
other markets day, either of cotton.
grain, meats and like commodities
Good Friday is observed elsewhere il
not here.
The general impression is that the
fruit crop was more scared than hurt
By the recent freeze. Early vegeta-
bleS we're nipped, and strawberry
blooms we're frozen stiff, but there are
plenty Of buds of the latter lett.
The weather station at Starkville,
Miss, Port Eads, La, DennisOn, Tex i,
aud Dubuque, Ia, are to be discon,
tinued as points of observation by the
Signal Service after this month, in
eeusequence0f reduced appropriations
BY Congress.
The Merchants and Cotton Elk,
change delegates to Nashville, Messrs
Fowlkes, Brinkley, Chase and Petit.
left for Nashville last night to tell our
legislators few things they do not
seem to know, or to have the $1,000
tax on futures modified, if possible.
A jockey named HOvey has been
ruled of the track at New Orleans
for Offering to dose a horse named
Pat CrOgan, the faTorite in a steeple
chase race run last Saturday. The
horse was beaten and it Is thought he
had been tempered With By the
Jockey.
FpHeFal services over the remains
Of the late Mrs, Mary <. ROgers, the
mother Of Mrs. c, u. Tucker and
Mrs. Julia G. Knapp occurred this
morning at the residence of A. j