Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-21
LOCALS In BRIEF.

the New Memphis Theater Saturday
afternoon.
The Canterbury Music Hall, on the
corner OF Main and Monroe streets, was
enjoined yesterday,
Candidates for offices at the ap.
preaching municipal election are be-
coming plentiful as hops. Send in the
names.
Just received by j. B. Sutton 4 Co.,
24i Third street. Chimney Corner, La
Crosse Democrat, and the New York
dailies
Mr.. d. H. Feger, the we'll known
railroad agent, who has been absent
several months in New Orleans and
Texas, has returned.
Among the arrivals this morning
we notice our neighbor, Mr.. John Aims
lie, of the Appeal, who has been absent
a short time in New Orleans.
Mr.. William r. Moore has been
appointed foreman Of the Municipal
Court grand jury, vice Colonel W. w.
Coleman, relieved at his own request
The first Gayoso hop of the season
will be given at that hotel tonight
These fine social reunio MS long ago
became famous, and that this evening
will not prove less agreeable than any OF
its predecessors.
"A few days ago we mentioned the
death of the esteemed Mr.. H. Clay
Yancey. Last night his sister, Miss
Rosna L. Yancey, also died, and will
be buried this afternoon. Thus within a
few short years three brothers aud a
sister have passed away.
"A colored swain from. Salisbury,
who yielded to the charms of an ebony
Delilah in Rotten Row the other day,
was pounced upon, Ia panel game, by
couple of her paramours, and COM
PEELED to disgorge about $50. The girl,
who is known as Alice Clark, and two
black fellows named VIM. Bell nd VIM.
Persons, we're arrested for the Il ansac-
ton.
We were pleased to meet this morn
ing Mr.. M. Munford, editor of the Record,
published at Covington, Upton o,ou nty,
and one of the best of our country ex-
changes. Mr.. Munford's paper circu-
lates in country acknowledging Mem :
phis as its commercial entrepot, aud Is,
therefore, valuable medium for adver-
Using He is stopping at the Wo rsham,
and will remain several days.
-Godey's, Frank Leslie's and Mad
anne Demorest's Magazines, and .Har-
per's Weekly Bazaar, are on the cou inter-
of EmmonS& Son, 10 Jefferson str eet,
who have just received the London Art
Journal and London Punch, the O. in
cinnati Commercial, Louisville Courier,
St Louis Democrat and Republican,,
and Chicago Tribune and Times, with an
immense variety of literary, comic,
scientific, agricultural, religious, Eng
fish, Irish, Scotch, German, Italian and
French weeklies.
That brief edition Of humanity, little
Charlie Decker, has returned to the city,
after several months absence in the
East Charlie, who is about as large as
an oyster can, has been exhibiting as a
dwarf, and made good thing of it. He
is out in the full glory of spike-tail
black coat, with other clothing to match,
a gorgeous looking watchchain, blazing
cravat and Shakspeare>collar. We're he
in Liliput, the dwarfs of that renowned
country would crown him king here he
enjoys the reputation of being smaller to
the square inch than any other huroan
atom.
--Jo Locke, % Jefferson street, has
Demorest, Cooley, Peterson, and the
Ladies Friend, Harper's Magazine, Nick
Max, jolly Joker, Frank Leslie, Pleasan
Hours (all for December; National
Freemason (for 10th, New York Weekly,
Scientific American, Home journal,
Police Gazette, Police News, New York
Mercury, Army and Navy Journal, Base
Ball Chronicle, Courier dos Etats Unis,
Southern Society, Every Saturday, Frank
Leslie's Illustrated, Waverley, Harper s
Weekly, Wilkes Spirit, four different
German papers and five different Irish
weeklies, and all the late dailies; and
keeps constantly on hand books, sta
tionery, etc.
HOME testimony as to the excellence
of home medicine is the best that can
be produced. In this connection the
certificate of DIR. r. B. Shore, well
known and reputable physician residing
at Morning Sun, in this county, relative
to the celebrated Hungarian Balsam,
will be read with interest:
MoRSING Sun, February 2. 1860
Messrs. Mansfield x Co.. Memphis:
GENTLEMEN SI have always had a dis,
inclination to use, in my regular prac-
tice, any medicine of which / did not
know the component parts; but l have
noticed for several years, a medicine
which you prepare, styled Hungarian
Balsam of Life, for the cure of coughs,
colds, consumption, bronchitis, asthma,
and other affections of the throat and
lungs, which has proved, in every in
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