Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-28
LOCALS IN BRIEF.
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from Jefferson street rapidly progresses.
= Billy Allen. colored, has been ar
rested for kidnapping young ebony
image.
Center alley is being graded pre-.
paratory to receiving the stone pave
ment
= Workmen commenced paving JEFF
ferson street with the Nicholson this
morning
No burglaries were reported at the
station house up to noon to-day. What's
the matter2
- Jim Waller (colored) was gobbled
early this morning for stealing from
Messrs. Choate & Co.
- The business in police court this
morning comprised eighteen cases and
netted forty.one dollars.
- We learn that Mr.. Il. J. Conner will
be one of the Radical candidates for
Sheriff in the March election.
= Coroner Cotton yesterday afternoon
held several inquests on persons who
died suddenly from natural causes
The Board of Aldermen contemplate
opening and extendS several streets,
whose use is demanded by the public
interests.
-Messrs. Louden & Co. have nearly
completed the stone pavement on Front
street to Madison, leaving only two
squares unfinished.
- Jim Galloway (colored) Dick Tur,
pinized yesterday to the extent of pick
ing George Washington's pocket of one
dollar and Fifty cents.
Two Of the negroes against whom
Mr.. r. f. Scudder swore out peace
warrant the other day, were yesterday
committed for trial by Esquire Miller
"A young African named Charles
Warren was arrested yesterday for a
slight mistake relative to the ownership
of some chickens in Happy Hollow I"
hen-roost
The Fenian picnicers are having a
good time at the head of Vance street
Many went out this forenoon on the
street cars, which convey visitors to
within short distance of the grounds.
1t depends upon the disposition of
the property holders on the line whether
Madison street will be paved between
Third street and the bayou this fall
East of the bayou the pavement will be
laid.
- Last night Sheriff Winters left for
Nashville with four candidates for peni-
Tertiary honors. They are Winter
Payne, larceny, five years; Jacob John
son, larceny, three years; Lucinda Lee
and Wash. Smith, larceny, one year.
Our friend and well-known fellow
citizen, s. G. Toof, Esq, who has been
North, health and pleasure seeking
during the summer, returned this morn
ing, bearing in his face indubitable evi.
dence of not having failed in the object
OF his trip
-Messrs. F. p Sullivan and James
Lynch, charged with robbDg Kitty bud
ley were taken before Esquire Moore
yesterday afternoon, and required to
give bail in $4,000 each for appearance
at the Criminal Court. They failed to
establish an alibi.
-Emmons & Son, No. 10 Jefferson
and 1913 Main, have received the New
York Citizen, Waverly Magazine, Albion,
Police News, Wilkes Spirit of the Times,
Blackwood's Magazine for August, Every
Saturday for August, Atlantic for Sep
TENDER, Eclectic for September, London
Art Journal for August, and dailics from
everywhere. Call at Emmons & Sons
for your reading matter.
"A young woman named Julia West
was arrested last night for the too preva-
lent olfense Of street walking. This
morning Julia, becoming irate at some.
thing said by a negro boy, seized brick
bat and introduced it to the glistening
worries of the young voter. The sudden
extraction of tooth was the conse-
quence, for which she was fined $40.
Miss Fannie II. DeHaga, who, last
year, presided over the musical depart
ment of the State Female College, has
accepted similar position in the Fe-
male College at Helena, Ark. Miss
DeHaga is most estimable young lady,
and one of the brightest lights of the
Memphis musical world. We regret her
loss, but congratulate our Helena friends
on so valuable an acquisition. We shall
be surprised if she fails to produce rev
olution in the musical circles IF that
hourshing community.
--Messrs. H. Wade & Co., booksellers,
283 Main street, Memphis, knowing that
some editors use pens as others do boots
when they have the good luck to get
them, have sent us a gross Of superior
pens called Merchants, selected as a
sample and for extraordinary quality |
from large lot just received. We have
tried them and pronounce them the best |
steel pens we have used. If our edito-
rails should improve any over the old
quill driving, our readers viii know the
reason.