Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-21
LRnGER LIKES.

Dress shields. Langes.
Refrigerators at Turnbull's.
Tinware, 0zanne, Dsnison 4 Co.
Fresh fruit is in scant supply this
season.
Cotton blooms and cotton bolls are
coming In
Brown & Jsnes. coal dealers. 2S1
Main street.
Angerona Lodge confers NJ. NJ.
degree to night.
Gilt Edge Creamery Butter 300, s.
L. Moore l. Co.
200 punches bananas for sale cheap,
at d. Canale Il Co.
OF some l25 people ia the county
poorhouse, some 70 are insane or de-
mented.
Business is slack in ell circles, and
even among potato shippers there is
decreased activity.
Old pictures copied and enlarged
from ink or water colors al the Cot
tage Gallery, Beal street.
Commencement exercises at Leu.
brie's Theater tomorrow night of the
Christian Brothers College.
Work on the Kansas railway is
pushing ahead rapidly, and trains will
be running through from this to Kan
sas City in the early fall.
Despite the hot and very sultry
weather, many visitors continue to
come to our city, as the registered
names at the hotels bear witness.
The potato diggers are getting l2Ic
per Dbl for their labor. The season
opened at l5e, but prices dropped
when potatoes went down in value.
The train robbing murderers of
Conductor Cain, Cove and James
johnson, HerndOn and Mcdonald.
are to be hung at GAINESVILLE, johnson
county, Ark, tomorrow.
SCOTS Calamity Jane troupe, with
Cora Van Tassell as the leading act
ress, is to be with as on their starring
tour next season. Many other attrae.
tons may also be expected.
The head workers of the Sanitary
Council of the Mississippi Valley, Of
which John Rauch, Of Illinois, is
secretary, are about to meet here for
consultation and future guidance.
The Grand Master Of the Masonic
order for the State of Tennessee has
been invited to oficiate at the corner
stone laying ceremonies of the new
Jewish synagogue here next Sunday.
Several prOsceniun boxes are prom
Used at Leubrie's Theater for next
season, and the building is to be fixed
up all over, so the managers and own
OPS say. A new drop curtain is also
promiaed.
Seesseils Market, a31 Main, always
keeps 8 supply of the choicest and
freshest meets and vegetables in the
city. Leave orders and the supplies
will be delivered in time for breakfast
dinner OF supper.
A man named Lawrence B. Smith.a
switchman on the Little Rock railroad
aud injured by a locomotive near the
transfer more than two years ago, was
granted verdict Coz $1,000 damages
tor injuries he sustained.
The Grand Jury failed to find
true bill against Webster N. Rhodes,
on charges brough by V. B. Thayer.
1t is understood that the latter will
compromise on promises to pay prop
erlg endorsed, ifar some $500, and that
this will be agreeable tp sll parties
Interested.
Samples Of wheat, rye, oats and
clover, grown by " Field Miller, on
bis Content plantation in BOLIVAR
county, Miss, some 200 miles down
the river, are ON exhibition at the
Merchants Exchange, and we're sent
here IS specimens Of what can be done
on Mississippi bottom lands.
The corner stone Of the new He
brew Synagogue Oh Poplar street, for
the congregation Of de Children of
Israel. will be laid with imposing Ger.
tmonies on Sunday next at o'clock
in the afternoon. The learned and just.
ly popular Rabbi Samfeld will deliver
an appropFiste address on the oooa.
sion.
No rain occurred anywhere within
a hundred miles OF here yesterday, but
this forenoon the skies were overcast
and at intervals thunder ratified and
showers were threatened. 1t was
raining about Nashville at sunrise. lso
at Louisville and Cincinnati. At St.
Louis a heavy rain fell during last
night.
A memorial concert is TO come of
tomorrow evening at Estival Park,
in honor Of and TO build monument
over the remains Of the late James
Kirkland, gentleman Of culture and
refinement who was highly esteemed
among all classes for bis many good
qualities Of head aud heart.
A man named j. W. Evans was
arrested at Brinkly, Ark. last Sunday,
and was afterwards lodged in jail al
Clarendon, charged with aiding in the
lynohing Of Granville Warden a few
nights previous. Evans is the person
who was indicted for violating the in.
ternsl revenus laws last fall, and be
was convicted on the testimony of
Warden and others.
The werk Of preparation to erect a
new cottonseed oil mill on Tennessee
street between Trezevant and HulinR
is progressing favorabS. The mill
will be provided with the latest i'm
provements in the way Of machinery
and is expected to be one Of the best
mills in the city. II will be ready for