Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-26
LOCALS In BRIEF.


Nothing ofimportance transpired in
police court this morning
This morning the work of paving
Main street, below Monroe, was resumed
Col r. G. Wintersmith has returned
after several weeks absence in Ken
lucky.
Capt John W. Megib6en, of Megib-
ben & Bro, has returned after several
months absence in Kentucky.
Cole. W, S. Brown, general agent of
the Little Miami, and Capt. M. E. Scott,
Of the Pennsylvania Central railroad,
are at the Overton.
On Sunday night Madam Guilmard's
store, on Jefferson street, was burglari.
ously entered and robbed of about one
hundred dollars worth of human hair
goods.
Charles PEBBLES (colored), was ar
rested last night for obtaining So from
Violet johnson (colored), by false pre-
lenses. This morning he was regularly
committed for trial by Esquire Miller.
= The name of the young man whose
attempt to commit suicide we mentioned
yesterday, is Henry Duggan. He is
supposed to have been laboring under
temporary alteration of the mind at the
time. Captain VIM. Mengall, of the tug
Nettie Jones, rescued him from a watery
grave.
Belle Clover, a we'll known bagnio
keeper, is under arrest, charged with I'M
lawfully appropriating fine gold watch
belonging to gentleman who had Wis.
tied the house. A man named Charles
c. Rogers was also arrested for alleged
completely in the affair. The case will
be heard tomorrow afternoon.
The Memphis Agrarian is the title
of small, neatly printed weekly, whose
initial number appeared day or two
since. 1t is devoted mainly to the pro.
pagation of agrarianism, but the number
before us "pitches in p" generally on
current issues. The Agrarian contains
the name of neither publisher nor place
of issue nor editor, but its articles seem
to bear the earmarks of well known ex-
journalist
Joe Locke, % Jefferson street, has
just received Frank Lesie's Magazine,
The Land we Love, Every Saturday, New
York Weekly, Monthly, Eclectic Maya.
zine, Harper's Weekly, Scientific Amer.
lean, National Freemason, Base Ball
Chronicle, Irish American, Freeman's
Journal, Irish Republic, Boston Pilot,
Irish People, Irish Citizen (Mitcheps
paper, Courier des Etats Unis, Leslie's
Zeitung, Democrat, Stats Zeitung, Army
and Navy Journal, Belletrisches Journal,
Police News, Police Gazette, New York
Mercury, Southern Society, London
News, London Times, and all of the
latest magazines and dailies. Keeps
constantly on hand books, stationery,
etc.
-Emmons & Son, No. 10 Jefferson
street, and 1893 Main street, have re.
ceived the Independent, Harper's
Weekly, Police Gazette, Frank Leslie,
Day Book, Italian papers, Observer,
Scottish American, Gleason's Compan.
on, Country Gentleman, Rural New
Yorker, Scientific American, Southern
Society, Weekly Herald, London News,
Freemason, London Weekly Times,
London Punch, Round Table, Army and
Navy Journal, New York Mercury,
German Leslie, True Flag, American
Union, Fire Side Companion, Southern
Home Journal, Galaxy Magazine, Her.
I'D of Health, Land We Love, Frank
Leslie's Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book,
Demorest's Magazine, Eclectic Maya
zine, all for December, London Art
Journal for November, and dailies from
everywhere; Madame Demorest's Bulle-
in of Fashion for lS676S; also, new
sheet music.
FATAL ACCIDENT yesterday while
'epairing a cistern on the premises of
lis brother-in.law, the well known mer-
liant, Mr.. A. Vaccaro, near the city,
Mr.. Augustine Vaccaro fell to the bot.