Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-07
THE CITY.
LKDeER LIKES.


Water coolers at Ozanne 4 Mays.
Red raspberries, Lyle & Shields.
Malskoff Bitters, ]. P. Carey & Go.
Plenty of spring chickens offer
now.
Brown & Jsnes. coal dealers, 282
Main street.
The monthly meeting of our city
fathers occurs this afternoon.
Old pictures copied and enlarged
from ink or water colors at the Cot
tage Gallery, Beal street.
They call ripe peaches and apples
stray shots" over at Pine Bluff, at
least Major Charles Newman says SO.
The Chickasaw Guards held their
annual election for officers evening
before last, and the Porter Guards are
to have a meeting toNnight.
The present warm spell will bring
cotton and corn out handsomely. All
classes of vegetables has been invig.
Grated and strengthened by it.
The work of preparing to pave Sec
ond street commenced yesterday near
the corner of Union. The street will
be in fine travelling order in time for
fall traffic.
Cotton is very quiet to-day here and
elsewhere. Meats are shade easier;
while wheat and corn are to per bushel
below last evenings closing prices in
the Chicago market.
The new potato yield is OF unusually
fine quality in this vicinity, and it is
estimated that nearly a quarter Of a
million of dollars will be realized by
the growers Of Shelby county for their
crop.
A French and German entertain
ment was given this forenoon at Miss
Higbee's school, corner OF Lauder
dale and Beal streets, by the pupils
who have been studying these Ian
guages.
Several ladies and gentlemen of this
city have gone out to Collierville to
attend party announced for tonight,
and to be present atGhe closing exers
cises of the Bellevue institute Of
learning. q
The night foreman of Milburn Iron
Works, a man named Mr.. Bevills,
has lost three fingers by an accident
With castings, and another man was
hurt yesterday in the same way and
at the same place.
1t was raining at Nashville early
this morning, and local showers are
announced as probable here and
throughout the Southwest to-day, the
same TO be followed by winds shifting
from southerly to westerly.
The new railway commissions,
Messrs. Savage, Gordon and Tyler,
have commenced active campaigning,
and their first effort is to be an attempt
to regulate a just tariff for the rail
Ways, the shippers and the travellers.
The bridge over the bayou on Mar-
ket street, near Fourth, has several
holes in it, one being large enough for
as big man as Judge Hadden to tum-
BILE through if he should happen to
visit the locality, and lose his balance.
Several dozen persons, including a
number Of ladies, went on an excur.
sion to Bon Aqua Springs this morn
ing, and they are to he absent some.
where between two and Eve days.
They inaugurate the opening of the
season.
Ripe raspbcrries are selling here, In
a small at twenty cents per quart.
A few Georgia peaches retail at four
for a quarter for choice; and dewber-
ries, not very ripe, arrive in a small
way and sell at ten cents per quart
measure.
Four counterfeiters named Rees
Fitzpatrick, Thomas Franklin, John
Silback and James Saulr, we're arres-
ted By United States Marshal Bentley
at M0rrilltop, Ark, last Monday, and
we're taken TO the penitentiaTy at Lit
tie Rock foT safe keeping. They have
been circulating bad money in the back
counties for sometime past.
The train robbing murderers Of
Conductor Cain, Cove johnson, Jim
Herndon and Monroe Mcdonald, at
tempted to bride the guards in the
penitentiary at Little Rock few days
ago. The effect of their effort has
been to increase the vigilance of their
keepers. The three men are to be
hung two weeks from tomorrow.
Vagrant dogs roam at large SO
numerously that those fed on dootored
meat by the police are not missed. A
census of the dog tribe in this city
would afford an interesting study for
their admirers, and at the same time
a basis to calculate the enormous
amount of food necessary to keep the
brutes.
Red snappers, Mackinaw trout, Lake
Erie salmon and white fish, were re
ceived to-day at Victor D. Fuchs
market, 80 and Al Jefferson. He also
effers choice lot of asparagus very
low, as we'll as a fine variety of fresh
meats, He makes q delivery morning
and evening Of all estables purchased
at the market.
| 1t is reported that work on the
Selma railway will be resumed on tht
| first Of next month, and that the route
hence to Byhalia will be pushed
through to an early completion, SO thai
trains may run between Memphis
and holly Springs by autumn. The
contractors, Green & Hamilton, it Il
said, have made the arrangements fol
resumption.
There is to be a wedding ceremony
performed at the Court street Cum