Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-18
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

Police Court this morning.
--Mrs Mary GladstAne, who will soon
be here, is playing in Jackson, Miss.
Mr.. Ferguson has Withdrawn from
the company at the New Memphis
Theater.
Mr.. John 0'Connor has entered the
Mayoraliy race, making the fourth Rich
mond in the field
The proprieton Of the Overton
Hotel publish card elsewhere, TO which
public attention is invited.
The Fanny Thurston lecture last
night was not largely attended, as 1t
should have been. Mr.. Flippin's lecture
was both eloquent and witty.
1t was not Pat Malone whom Jim
Turuage killed at Hsgan's Landing
Pat is in the city, and protests against
being regarded as "cold corpus"
1t is probable that Judge j. T..
Swayno and James 7. Leath, Esq, will
be the Conservative nominees for Alder
men at the Ninth Ward meeting tonight.
Henry Carter (colored) is under
arrest, charged with oniicing an I'M
sophisticated colored brother into levee
saloon, yesterday evening, and robbing
him Of $2S.
The Conservatives of the Fifth Ward
will nominate candidate for Alderman
tonight. Two candidates will be nomi-
mated to night by the Ninth Ward Con
servatives.
Intelligence has been received here
of the death, at Navasoto, Texas, on the
18th, of Mrs. Marian Luxton, mother OF
Gen. N. b, Forrest She was sixty.iour
years of age.
Mr.. Munford, of the Upton Record,
and Major Jones, late of the Jackson
Clarion, are in the city; also, Mr.. Cos
ling, the well known carriage manufac-
turer of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Louisa Payne Wray has OBJ
tanned dramatic company with which
to open the Little Rock Theater for the
season. She will leave with portion of
the company this evening.
= Yesterday afternoon detectives
Hastings and McCune recovered the bale
of cotton stolen from Col. Balls place,
on the Hollyford road, and arrested a
negro named Lob johnson, suspected as
the thief.
Joe Locke, news dealer, 20 Jeffer.
son street, keeps on hand all the princi-
pal magazines periodicals, weekly and
daily papers published in the United
States, and also good supply of books,
stationery, .etc.
-Mcssrs. Emmons & Son have re-
ceived the latest issue of Pollard
Southern Opinion-the Confederate pa
per par e1cellence--and Dickens Christ
mas story, mo Thoroughfare;" a
very interesting production.
PAUPERs. Large numbers of paupers
of both colors are daily brought to our
landings, for whom we are informed no
provision has been, or will be made by
the city authorities. If there were no
sick, made so by idleness and vagrancy,
the numbers thrown here might not be
so great as to become an unbearable
burden to the city. But as it is, i'm
poverished rs we have been from war
causes, and Indifferent as are proven
biaIly many who never suffer from such
causes, and enormously augmented as is
now the number of applications chiefly
from other towns and the country
around, it is understood no further pro-
vision will be made The hospitals are
already crowded, and the Secretary of
the Board of Health informs us applica-
tons are daily coming in from large
numbers he has no authority or power
to accommodate. Those who would
come here voluntarily seeking relief and
charity, we are requested to say, would
do better to stay where they are, as their
relief here to such an extent is impos-
sible. The citizens of Memphis are not
unwilling to bear their proper share Of
this burden. But there are not hospitals
for oue.fourth of the applications coming
from every direction around the city,
even if we had not also paupers among
our own citizens.
THE TEMPERANCE FAIR.-The fair is
progressing satisfactorily, the attendance
being nightly on the increase. Among
the ladies to be found at the tables are
Mrs. Henry Taylor, Mrs. Chappelle, Mrs.
Henry Knapp, Mrs. Flaherty, Mrs.
spickernagle, Mrs Cayce, and Misses
Katie Bruce, Katie Worsham, Lucy
Sherman, Laura Davis, Mollie and
Maggie Price, etc. The voting for the
different popular" gentlemen is be-
coming spirited, and those interested in
such contests should look to their favor
ties. The fair will be in full blast again
tonight To lend additional interest to
the fair there will be dancing tonight
and every evening during the week.
Those fond of this enjoyment should not
fail to attend. We are requested to an
nounce that children viii no longer
solicit contributions for the fair on the