Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-25

the collection OF $3.50 annual tax as.
sessed against the company by the
County Court, and for the collection
Of which distress warrant has been
placed in the hands Of Constable Thos.
Garvey.
A sham battle comes off at Nash
vile to-day and several thousand SOL
diers will participate. The Crescent
Rifles drilled on yesterday, and in the
opinion of many will take the first
prize of $4,000. The Mobile Rifles are
believed by many to be their closest
competitors.
The Police Judge held ten min.
ute session this forenoon. There were
no speeches, no jokes, no lectures and
no fun. The lawyers all had poor
show, on general principles, aRd the
whole seance Was as dull, fat and in-
sipid as the Court Square bullfrOg's
chant.
The leading topic in cotton circles
is contract for 1000 bales of futures
for Nov. delivery made on day before
yesterday. and the way it stood at neon
to day one OF the parties was over 40
points out of the way, the amount of
loss against him at that hour footing
up nearly $1,000.
Three plain DRINKS each received
eight days on the gang this forenoon,
and j. Liden and Wash Peoples, for a
personal souffle or collision, had their
cases continued until Monday next.
A man charged with doing business
without license also had his case con
tinued until Monday.
A circle around the sun was an OBJ /.
ect of attention yesterday forenoon,
and many regarded it as a rather re-
markable phenomenon, when in fact it
was nothing more than the rays OF the
sun shining upon frosty PARTICLES in
the air two or three miles above the
earth's surface, where it is always cool
enough to be frosty.
Little gardens within the city and
big ones without suffer from the dep
relations of the pestiferous and cor
morant sparrows. They are especially
destructive to green peas, and in some
instances leave none at all tor the use
of the family. They, however, divide
berries fair enough, seldom taking
more than half the yield.
Meats fell again in the upper coun-
try markets to-day, the Merchants
Exchange telegram quoting Chicago
Zoe lower than last night on pork, So
off on lard and 7sc cheaper on r
sides. Cotton in New York fell / Ice
to day, while both Liverpool and New
Orleans are cheaper. The bears are
having fine time of it TO- day.
Mr.. Louis Toushish and Miss
Jennie Alprin, Russian refugees, we're
married last evening by Rabbi Sam
field at the residence of Mr.. f. Frank
lin, corner of Vance and Cynthia
streets. A fine table was set and a
number Of friends were present to
offer the strangers, who cannot as yet
speak the English language, their con-
CALCULATIONS and good wishes.
They are laying the Kansas City
railway track beyond Marion at the
rate of a mile a day and the forces
coming south from the other end are
now within seven miles of the St.
Francis river crossing, 100 miles or
thereabouts, by river, above Wits.
burg. The route through the st.
Francis swamp is now about all of the
incomplete portion of the road.
The new potato crop will commence
moving north from this vicinity in
about two weeks, and nearly 5000
bbls will be shipped from here and
the country within thirty miles OF
here. The steamer Baum, on the
present trip from the Ohio, brought
400 empty potato barrels for one
farmer, whe will have nearly 1000
barrels of potatoes to send to North
ern markets.
Judge NJ. T. Sanders, Of the Helena
Circuit Court, formerly an editor, was
shot at twice on yesterday by u. 0,
Moore, in the courtroom, and enc ball
passed through the Judges left hand
near the thumb. The shooter Is under
arrest. The people Of Helena voted
to retain their municipal charter on
yesterday, but will vote again, and
perhaps surrender the same unless the
bondholders of the corporation accept
an offer to compromise the city debt,
Theodore Thomas has a faculty Of
saying smart things to please each
place he visits at the expense of places
he will perhaps not revisit for some
time to come. His latest is the remark
while at Kansas City that the chorus
in his festival there was far better
than he found in Baltimore, Memphis,
Pittsburg or st. Louis. and for it's
numbers fully equal to that Of Cineluy
natl and New York. The great leader
when he alluded to Memphis doubtless
had IN mind the way the chorus broke
up in the last part Of HElilah," their
singing ahead Of time In one part Of
the Redemption and their wildnesl
10 one portion Of Beethoven's "Sea
Calm and Happy Voyage"