Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-26

Preiate HIP Woodland, Senior Warden;
Richard Parker, Junior Warden; D. c.
Trader, Treasurer N. j. Wiggin, Re-
corder.
The GERMAN DRAMATIC CLUB will
give another Of their interesting perfor-
mances tonight at Turner Hall. The
performance embraces two splendid
pieces, and we doubt not that the young
amateurs will do all in their power to
please the public Give them a full
house, they deserve it, After the per-.
Torrance the Hall will be cleared for
social dance. Lll9
The GREEYLAw OPERA HOUSE. The
Daughter Of the Regiment was the at
traction at the Greenlaw Opera House
last evening, Emile Melville's rendition
of Josephine" being well received and
her singing, as usual, encored Tonight
the Pearl of Sacoy is announced, with
Miss Melville in the pearly character
Ir is midsummer madness to suppose
that any genuine transatlantic perfumes
are for sale in this country, and moral
insanity to purchase the wretched imita-
tons when Phalon's " Night Blooming
Cereus," the rarest scent in Christen-
dom, is sold everywhere at one dollar
per bottle Burlington Sentinel 20
CRY TAXES The City Tax Collector
has beeI Instructed to allow a discount
Of one per cent. a month to the first of
July next to the date OF payment, on all
city taxes for the fortieth corporateye
on the personal and real estate OF the
city-all city Indebtedness to be received
by him in his settlements at par,
CHOLERA AND How TO PREvESr 1T.
Use Humphreys Homeopathic Cholera
Specifics. They are pal ticularly valua-
BILE as preventives used morning and
night, and prompt in subduing the diar-
rhea or the fully developed cases Fam
lily and pocket cases containing full d.
rections, at S. 90 and So 90 %
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LEAVE your orders for signs at AZ Mon
roe street
Police CouRT cases were
disposed of in the First District this
morning, and $47 so collected. Among
those fined was Thomas Lynch who was
charged twenty i've dollars for whipping
his wife. Being without funds, he was
sent on the chain gang for fifty three
days
Is NoTloE. Any one wishing to engage
| in the drug trade now has an Opportu-
nifty to purchase an interest in first
class drug store, on Main street. AID
dress Druggist" lock-box 24l, Mem
phis, Rapidly declining health is the
cause Of sale.
MEMPHIS, Sept "A, 1866. y
Cry WARRANTS. - The ordinance
passed in August last requiring all war
rants to be signed by the City Treasurer
before they could be lnrde payable has
been repealed by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen AL warrants in future
will be made payable to orderr.
FoR any kind of palnl,"s leave you
orders at Frank Popes. H
FREIGHTiYG CoMPANY.-Th Memphis
Freighting Company, after being denied
a bearing in lower Court, have taken
their case to the Supreme Court, now in
session at Knoxville Col. John Baxter
and Mr.. Geo. CAN'T have been em
ployed as counsel by the city.
Cry BoNDs.-The City Council have
reconsidered the ordinance passed las
week for the issuance of $2j0,OO0 II
bonds, bearing six per cent interest
PAYABLE in New York, making the inter
est ten PEI cent, and payable in Mem
phis
The ATTEMPT . ASSASSINATION Mr.
John Wires, the railroad Waterman, wbC
was shot by cowardly assassin yester
day morning, is still very low, and hi
recovery is considered doubtful. Detec
lives are on a track that may lead to thu
arrest Of the miscreant who committed
the deed
\ STEAM PowEa-We refer our reader
to the advertisement of sixty hors'
power engine and boiler in anothe
column, which is for sale cheap on goot
terms. 1t is in good order, and any OH
purchasing it will obtain bargain.
CHoLERA.-Twenty SIX new cases wer'
reported to the Board of Health yester
day, and ten deaths-fve white and five
colored This morning six new case
had been reported to the Sanitary Polic'
and two deaths-negroes.