Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-18
LOCALS In BRIEF.

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brief visit to St. Louis. t4ft
The Board Of Health have organized
and will shortly show some Of the fruits
Of their labor.
Some indecent folks are in the habit
of bathing near the mouth Of the bayou.
The police should look after them.
The ever accommodating Mr.. McCor-
mick, Of the Southern Express, has our
thanks for repeated news favors in
advance ofthe mails.
Several persons have offered their
services to Col Beaumont to serve as
special policemen ON election day.
Volunteering, in that line, is not brisk.
No business was transacted in the
Criminal Court this morning. The cases
set for to-day were postponed, when
Court adjourned until to morrow morn
ing. ...t rI ~
A negro named John Greenlaw shot
another darkey accidentally yesterday
on the levee. He was arrested, but dis
charged this morning by Commissioner
Richards.
Manager Thompson has been very sue.
cessful in obtaining a company and
engaging stars in New York. He has
made arrangements for Ristori to appear
here once more.
The jury in the case of Billy O'Heru,
charged with mule stealing, has given an
opinion that he is entitled to three years
imprisonment in the penitentiary. Billy
wants new trial.
The attic ndance was not large at the
Freiligrath entertainment at the Germ an
Casino last evening, but the exercises,
led by Prof. Sabatzky, we're highly rel
ished by the audience.
In the lack of silver and a suilicieney
of small currency, Messrs Mansfield &
Higbee have issued gutta percha cheeks
good for one glass of soda, or the
equivalent at their counter.
Reliable physicians inform us that the
cholera has made its appearance among
the colered people in some suburban Sec
tons Of the city, and that number Of
the more cautious are leaving the city to
avoid danger.
A man named William Watson, alias
Atkins, has been arrested in this city by
Detective McCune for committing a
heavy diamond robbery in New Orleans.
The detective will get five hundred dol
lars reward. seaaa sa 81
Nine cases were tried in the Police
Court this morning, SIC so being as
sessed for fines and $40 collected. A
hackman was fined ten dollars and costs
for oyercharging; he appealed.
A colored girl named Fanny Day, en-
ployed by DR.. A. A. Burleson, at his
residence on College street, between the
State Female College and Elmwood
Cemetery, disappeared last night with
about two hundred dollars worth of
ladies' wearing apparel and jewelry. (
We learn that three vacancies have
occurred in the Board of School Visitors
in the First Ward, Second Ward and
Sixth Ward. Mr.. Peres resigned from
the Second and Mr. Harvey from the
Sixth, owing to their change ofresidence
We trust good and worthy men will be
elected to control our school interests.
Mr.. B. D. CastIeman, of this city, who
has been travelling through the greater
portion Of the State of Mississippi, had
the kindness to call on us this morning
and report as to the crops. The corn he
thinks remarkably fine, on good and
average ground almost everywhere. In
some places there has been too much
rain, and consequently the crop is grassy
and backward. But all in all the prom
Use is good, both for corn and cotton. In
some portions of the State the blacks are
not generally registering. 1t is doubted
whether the people will vote for a con-
vention.
We are pleased to learn that our friend
Col. S. w. Duvsll has been appointed
United States Inspector Of hulls for this
port, duty for which, by his former
connection with the navy, and long ex-
perience, be is eminently we'll qualified.
He married daughter of Commodore
Lavslette, and was more lately of the
firm of A. B. Shaw q Co. and Duvall,
Algeo & Co, in the wharfbo and ice
business. He is a heightened and wor-
thy gentleman, and probably no other
selection so singularly suitable could
have been made for the Office, nor one
which would more fully meet the appro-
baton of all interested in such matters
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