Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-10-29
LOCALS In BRIEF.

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&C, ]. Phillips, Esq, of Toof, Phillips
4 Co., is very i'll.
IS. M. Guest, groceries Where is he
fernando road, south of South street.
Judge Rives not arriving, the Circuit
Court did not resume its session yester-
day.
AN effort was made Sunday night to
rob Mr.. E. II. Flynn's provision store on
Beal street.
An unsuccessful attempt to break
the city Jail was made by some prisoners
Sunday night
Esq. John G. Creighton returned
from Minnesota yesterday, much i'm.
proved in health.
We learn that Henry 4. Hubert
died at his residence on Poplar street
this forenoon.
Only eight cases we're disposed of
in police court this morning. The col
lections amounted to So.
Business at the hotels is very dull,
the new arrivals being, like angels
visits, few and far between"
-Maginley, Carroll & Co.'s circus is
coming down the Memphis and Charles.
ton railroad, and will be here soon.
MIR. Owen Smith, the we'll known
undertaken, is lying very i'll at his resi-
dence, near the State Female College.
In future the government funds will
be deposited in the First National Bank
of this city, instead of being forwarded
to Cincinnati, as has been the rule for
several months.
There were seven yellow fever inter.
ments during the twenty.fnur hours
ending at 8 o'clock last evening The
sudden atmospheric changes have in
creased the number Of deaths.
The October term of the Comm on
Law Court, Acting Judge j. o. Pierce
presiding, convened yesterday, but with
out the transaction of any business an
adjournment was had until the 18th of
November. -1N
"A man named Jim Cobb was arrest
ed yesterday while emerging from Mr..
Themes saloon, on Monroe street, with
a gun and some other stolen article.
This Cobb should be shelled into the
penitentary.
Mr.. Harry Weatherbee was last
night presented with a cane by a number
of his friends. The presentation address
was delivered by Mr.. d. NJ. Philip. Mr..
W. responded briefly, after which there
was a clinking of champagne glasses,
and gurgling sounds could be heard in
fifteen or twenty throats.
Ed. Worsham is fully up to time in
all the late literature, and he has on his
shelves the Chimney Corner, Harper's
Weekly, Frank Leslie's, Scientific Amer
lean, Police Gazette, La Crosse Demo-
crat, Clipper, Sunday Mercury, Army
and Navy Journal, Base Ball Chronicle,
Southern Society, Phunny Phellow, Jolly
Joker, chronological journal, Land we
Love (for November), Atlantic Monthly
(for November).
--Emmons & Son, Nos. 10 Jefferson
and 1893 Main streets, have received the
New York Mercury, Southern Society,
German Leslie, American Union, Italian
Paper, Blackwood's Magazine (for Octo-
ber), Army and Navy journal, Police
Gazette, Round Table, Scientific Amer
lean, Day Book, Gleason's Companion,
Scottish American, Rural New Yorker,
Observer, Police News, Frank Leslie,
Country Gentleman, and all the maya
zines for November, and Harper's Week.
", Irish Citizen John MitchslPs new
paper); also, new sheet music, writing
paper, envelopes, blank books of all
kinds Call at Emmons & Sons, and
Try them. They also have dailies from
everywhere.
Our Own SOUTHERN BITTERs is recon-
rlended by the Faculty as the best rem.
sdy ever given to the Southern public,
for diseases caused by miasmatic infec-
ton. This celebrated tonic imparts
elasticity to the frame, tone to the sys-
tenn, and, to persons recovering from
yellop .ferer, bilious, intermittent, re
mittent fevers, or any other prostratiug |
iiseases-they are exhausted natures
great restorer; just the thing for weak
and delicate females, and all persons
requiring gentle tonic and stimulant
Sold by all dealers. Depot, Memphis,
Tennessee. oil
ARREST OF MURDERER.-A couple of
weeks since a negro named Chas. Brown
vas shot and killed on the late Sheriff
Felts' plantation, a few miles from the
,ity. The particulars we're published at
he time. The murderer, known as An
rev Jackson, disappeared from the
ieighborhood, and the efforts Of the de-
ectives to find him proved unavailing