Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-28

1t Is understood that tho Gayeso
will close on Tuesday next.
The Southern Express will accept
our thanks for repeated favors, .ls
Sixteen cases were disposed Of, and
$22 in zines collected, in police court this
morning. ..a
City scrip is buying at sixty.fve
cents and selling at from sixty-eight to
seventy cents.
"A number Of prisoners were removed
this morning from the old to the new jail
by Jailer Foster.
Arrangement are being made for
opening the spring races on the Memphis
Association course on the goth Of April
The dental rooms Of DR.. Hinson, 233
Main street, were entered by thieves yes
terday, and q coat and linen dustsr
stslen.
= We understand an excursion party
will leave the levee on the ferry boat
Peosta at half-after one o'clock tomor
row afternoon.
James Morrison, charged with steal
ing watch from A. Ballard, was ar
rested last evening, and will be held for
examination on Monday.
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Locke's, % Jefferson street. 10. has at
all times the very latest of everything in
the news and periodical line.
In bankruptcy yesterday, at meet
ing of the creditors of Joseph Groom, ].
W. Bawles and W. J. Boiling, W. Y.
Cirode was appointed assignee.
The residence of Mrs. A. M. Scott,
at the corner of Alabama street and the
Raleigh road, was entered and robbed in
broad day light, yesterday, by a negro
thief.
Stock thieving has been reduced to
such science in this vicinity that it is
thought there is not horse in the county
which has not been stolen at least once
during the past year.
George Vincent and R. Grinrad, two
suspicious characters, we're arrested by
Capt Perry, of the lower district, last
evening, and a quantity of stolen prop
erty found in their possession.
1t is expected that the Board of
County Commissioners will give their
decision in the contested election cases
on Monday. The argument was closed
last evening, and the cases submitted to
the Court
An excursion party of fifty Northern
gentlemen reached the city from New
Orleans on the Great Republic this
morning, and will take the morning
train on the Memphis and Louisville
railroad for home.
II. H. and W. E. Carmichael, charged
with house breaking and horse. stealing,
were up before Esquire Daley this morn
ing and recommitted, in default of $4,000
kail each, to appear at the next term of
the Criminal Court.
LeMonde Illustre is received every
week by Emmons, 10 Jefferson and 1893
Main street, also the Courier des Etats
Unis, La Semaine, Illustrite Zeitung, the
Week, Round Table, New York Clipper,
New York Mercury, Illustrated News,
Kelley's Weekly, Chimney Corner,
Harper's Weekly, Waverley, Literary
Album, and the Western and New York
dailies.
In the Municipal Court yesterday,
in the election case Of Taft VS.. Eaton,
on the question Of the right to appeal,
Judge Waldran decided adversely to the
right of appeal, and directed an order to
be spread upon the minutes inducting
Mr.. Taft into the Office of Clerk of the
Municipal Court, to which ruling the
counsel of Colonel Eaton excepted, and
leave was given him until Monday next
to prepare bill of exceptions.
Daniel Scanned, private belonging
to the 25th Regular q. s. Infantry, in
garrison at this post, was picked up by
Sergeant Atkins, of the Northern Dis.
trict police, on Adams street, in an in
sensible condition, at.au early hour this
morning and taken to the Adams street
station. tits thought that he was knocked
down by robbers and left in the condition
in which he was found. He was consid-
ersbly intoxicated at the time, however,
and unable to give any explanation of
the affair.
The following, from Memphis let
ter to the New York Tribuns, is very
fair specimen of the political effect cor
respondence which is constantly finding
its way into the columns of Northern
newspapers, HThe excitement here
among colored men is most intense
The high-handed attempt to assassinate
Judge Hunter. of the Criminal Bench,
for his official action. causes curses loud
and deep on the part Of the blacks, to
whom be has always been true, con-
sistent friend. Consultations have been
held among them, the result of which is
a resolve that an attack upon him will be
looked upon ss an open and direct at
tack upon the body Of colored men.
ST., JoHs's METHoBIsr EPIscoPAL
CHuRcH-seryioes in the Law Conrt
Room, Greenlaw Building, tomorrow at
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