Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-01

| A large party will come here from
Sardis, Miss, when the music festival
comes of.
The distinguished educator DIR.
Mayo is to lecture at Leubrie's Thea.
ter tomorrow night.
Ouida's last novel, Wanda, in Sea-
side, price 20 cents, at Corwin's news
depot, No. 283 Main street.
Darlington Msson, general insurance
agent, has removed to 290 Front south.
east corner of Madison ST., basement.
Five Tuesdays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays in this month, and four
each of the remaining four dsys of the
week.
The bookkeeping community were
busy and kept late hours last night,
and to-day collectors are having a
busy run.
Cotton advanced 10 on all grades in
New York at noon to-day, and the
market here is firm with an upward
tendency.
| Grand Prairie grass butter, highly
favored, very fine, by express daily.
S. L. Moore & Co., corner fernando
and Vance.
Flags are wanted by the Mozart
festival committee to be used in
decorating the interior of the EXPOSE
ton building.
Delegates to the Philadelphia Land
League convention are coming home,
and Mr.. Thomas Moffet, Justice OF
the Peace, arrived from there on yes.
terday.
From now until September next the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange will close
daily at pm, except on Saturdays.
This is an hour earlier than during the
active season.
The old towers of the First PreSby-
terrain church were threWn down yes
terday, by excavating on the side of
the direction it was desired they
should tumble.
At 10 o'clock this forenoon Mr..
Frank Gray opened the sale Of season
reserved seats for the music festival
at Mansfeld's, and he will continue
same throughout the week.
Mr.. j. w. Mitchell and Miss Annie
W. Harrison, of Crittenden county,
over the way, are to be married at the
parsonage of the First Presbyterian
church at half past eight this even
ng.
The Ladies Library Association
held a meeting at the Odd Fellows
library yesterday afternoon, and good
progress resulted in their work of
making a success of the object in
view.
The Shelby Court docket is under
consideration by the Supreme Court
at jackson, and several attorneys from
this city are up there. Among others
Major w. d. Beard and Judge j. W.
Clapp left for jackson last night.
The Grand Commandery, K. of P,
to meet at Lebanon, Tenn, to-day,
will have as delegates and attendants |
from this city, G. W. Mosby, j. CIV;
Marcus Jones and Z. A. Keeling. |
The gentlemen left for Lebanon last
night.
kilograms to-day announce an adj
vance since last night at Chicago of
l2lc per cwt on clearrib sides, and 15c |
per Dbl on pork; Kansas City of 37A to |
SOC on pork and III to l5c per cwt on |
sides; at st. Louis Of l0c per cwt on |
or 5, and zoe per Dbl on pork.
People of the interior expecting 10 |
visit this city during the Mozart |
musical festival can obtain season |
tickets for reserved seats by sending |
orders to G. V. Rambaut, the Presi- |
dent of the Mozart Society. The
earlier the orders are forwarded the |
better.
Next week the regular drawing Of |
the Little Havana Lottery will take
place and the sales Of tickets are pro
crossing very satisfactorily. Only 3d. |
QUO tickets are used in this scheme,
increasing the chances of a ticket
holder four fold over those in lotteries
with 100000 tickets.
The people Of the southeastern por-
ton of the county are out in an earns
est and digDifed protest against grant
ing turnpike and toll gate privileges to
a corporate body who desire to i'm
prove that highway and make profit
out OF it. They say the Pigeon Roost
is more travelled over than any high
way leading to the city, and they have
had toll gate experiences in the past,
which were burdensome and outrag
eous beyond endurance. They want
no more oft.
Theodore Thomas is on his travels
to give seventy>iour concerts, and
after playing at Baltimore opened at
Pittsburg last night, giving miscel
laneous concert to an audience of
1000 people and assisted by a chorus
of 300 voices. The soloists of the
troupe we're Minnie Hauk, Mrs. Huns
phrey Allen, Lillian Norton Hartde
gen, Belle Cole, Fred Hervey and
Franz Remmertg, all of whom are to
be here on the l4th inst, except
Minnie Hauk.
The tobacco men are busy to-day
making up blanks for a rebate on
tobacco in accordance with IA law
passed March 23d last, by which they
are allowed 8 cents per pound on
smoking tobacco and chewing tobacco,
% per thousand on cigars and 81. % on
cigarettes. No unbroken packages
go he na,ntnl IL IL -.