Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-07
SUNDAY LOCALS In BRIEF.
New moon last evening.

4 ~ nlk y MGlI AAN VIZ $500 80
good rain shower would help all slasss:
Of field aud garden growth.
The amount turned over to the Sis
tiers Of the Good Shepherd yielded By
the recent concert was $60O.7O.
The children of Grace Church 10.
dustrial School will have their annual
exhibition a week from Friday next.
Wheat is heading out handsomely
and the harvest will set in four or i've
weeks hence. The yield promises well.
Inspector Lane, of the 5, p. Q. A.
had sixty five patients during April
an average of a little over two per day.
Fifty boys and girls can find en-
ployment to learn weaving and spin
ming at the Pioneer Cotton Mills, this
city.
The initiation fee Of the mutual aid
department of the Merchants Ex-
change has been reduced from Sl2
to $40.
This time last year corn was worth
$50 per bushel more than it is at
present. 1t is plentiful now, and was
scarce then.
Miss Emma Young and Professor
Harry Piano are TO be married at the
Central Methodist church next
Thursday evening,
An open air summer concert, under
the auspices OF the young folks Of st.
Mary's cathedral, Episcopal, will OcS
cur at Mrs. r G. Brinkley's next
"Wednesday evening.
Sixteen deaths in this city last
week, only four of which were white.
Consumption carried of two and
pneumonia two, the remainder being
from scattering causes.
The Eckford base ball club is ready
for business under the management OF
that expert in the line, Mr.. Albert
Beer. The club includes several OF
the most skillful players.
Tickets for single performances with
reserved seats at the Mozart Musical
Festival can be obtained at Mans
fields drug store. The sale began this
forenoon and will continue until
further notice.
Tho oratoriOs Of THE Redemption"
and Elijah" as they will be inter-
preted By Thomas orchestra and the
Mozarts choral forces, cannot fail to
be appreciated by every lover OF
refined and sacred music.
The jaybird whistle Of the Paris
Brown is worse, if anything can be
worse, than the mockingbird mourner
on the KYLE, and the Browns bad one
gave Us three separate and distinct
doses Of howl yesterday forenoon.
A mur6erous ,darky named Sidney
Brooks, who shot . lady through the
arm lev eTeuings since in Chelsea,
hEs plead guilty to the charge OF car.
-yinE EeEpoBs, and his fine Is $50 and
81 days BE pleads not guilty to the
charge Of shooting the lady.
The new city bonds for funding the
old CRY debt are ready for oistribu-
ton, and the debt funding business is
making slow progress. a good many
hold q, but what for Is not easily
understood, for nearly every bond
holder viii Be money ahead b. tund-
Ing, and getting the interest.
The cruelty to animal business is
falling Of in this city, and brute
owners have learned to treat their
animals with more consideration.
What a dirty and cruel set the popu-
lace would be without sanitary and
cruelty prevention laws to fine hard
hearted and unclesnly citizens.
A lot on Front street, and the
second south of Monroe, with the
improvements thrown in, the size
being 23a by Is feet, sold to Mr.. K.
B Snowden on Saturday last, for
5000. A 81 by "a foot lot on Poplar,
east of Third. with two story brick
residence on it, sold to Otto Clausen
tor 1880.
Our Exposition building rests on
solid ground, has no cellar uRder-
meath, and exits are many and capa-
cious on each OF the four sides.
Therefore its safety is unquestiOned.
Some one either timid or otherwise
has inquired about the safety feature,
hence this item. The building is as
safe as any church or theater in the
city.
Various industrious farmers about
Jackson, Tenn, have gone into small
fruit culture, and a Kentuckian
named Samuels, who commenced with
strawberries and fruit trees last sum-
mer, has been offered $4,000 for his
farm. The fruit shipping business
from that vicinity began early last
week.
The Abbott opera troupe closed
their season last Saturday, and while
it has not been as profitable as in for
mer years, yet money has been cleared.
The people thirst for something fresh
and new, and if the Abbott party will
train up q good choral force, and put
in a lew fresh people as leaders,
they'll do better next season.
A Gagged hooking bird in the
suburbs has been'taught to say several
small things, and it says them plain
as parrot could do. Had good
home but | left it, Garry Die Back
Carry Me Back to My Old Virgins
Shore" 1t is remarkable bird, ant
those who may doubt the talking Tea
ture are assured that it's fact.
The new Marine Hospital grounds
located close to Jackson's Mound
below Ft. Pickering, is to be stakec
off to-day by County Surveyor Burke
The buildings are to be completed ant
ready for use before December next
and the patients wards will bs o
wood, while the Superintendent ant
surgeons quarters wifi be brick.
The juvenile "Iolanthe" will b
Riyec to the public about four week