Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-02-18
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

main street IL now pa'eu iron "a
change to Beal-eleven squares.
Frank Burns is In limbo for having
counterfeit money in his possession.
Order ash wood from Bigley, Mel
lersh & Co., coal dealers. Price low.
Mercury, Jupiter and Venus will be
visible to the undressed optic this eve
ming
&C. c. Robbins is under arrest for
attempting TO rob Mr.. Albert Godsey, on
Wolf river, Sunday night.
Yesterday Messrs. Williamson, Hill
& Co., sold nearly ~ thousand bales of
cotton in one lot at 2llc.
Mr.. Peter Essig, an old German resi-
dent, was badly bruised by falling under
street car Sunday afternoon.
This morning Esquire Gibson fined
Ed. Willis (colored) fifteen dollars for
disturbing religious exercises.
George Washington, of the colored
persuasion, has been arrested for steal
ing watch in Fort Pickering.
Yesterday afternoon Geo. Morrill,
(nig) threatened to kill Henry Jones
(nig) with razor and was arrested.
While at the circus yesterday after
noon, James Anger, "a young man from
the country" had his pocket picked of
$500.
The bankrupt petitions of G. G.
Sharp, Joseph B. Whitley and II. Lemon
are incorrect, and will not be acted on
until corrected.
Jack Walsh's saloon, Promenade
street, was burglariously entered night
or two since, and robbed Of money and
various articles.
The wounds of Mr.. David Wolf, who
was shot in Webster Block Sunday MORN
ing, are rapidly healing, and he will be
out in q short time.
1t was reported yesterday morning
that John Cunningham, shot by Jack
Winters, would recover; but he grew
rapidly worse and died during the day.
The chain gang will no longer work;
on the streets. No service can be OBJ
tanned from prisoners of this character
worth the $4OO or $500 per month re-
quired to pay overseers.
AN old gentleman, from Shelby de-
pot, had his pocket picked of wsllet
containing $40, at the Memphis and
Louisville depot yesterday. A sus-
pected individual was identified and
locked up.
S. M. Guest, fernando road, hs,s a
full supply of groceries and feed; also
Henderson & Flemings celebrated i'm
ported garden seed. Among them will
be found the great Cedar Hill early to-
mato. Best pink-eye potatoes-for seed
cheap for cash.
"A jury was obtained in the Marie
Malatesta murder case yesterday, as fol-
lows: s. Dyer, Joseph Tappianna, John
McMahon, Joseph Boggianno, M. Dan
heiser, N. Ii. Henry, John Rudolph,
Thomas McCowill, William Mooney, j.
l.. Willeford, W. Cohen, J. P. Murphy.
The body of newly born negro
child was found Sunday in a vacant lot
on GayoSo street. The Coroner's inves.
tigation revealed that negress, named
Tennessee Somers, had given birth to the
child, and thrown it into the lot.
Whether the child had been born alive
could not be settled satisfactorily by
physicians.
Street Commissioner Helm is work.
ing theoretically in cleansing the Nicol.
son pavement. Tenants sweep the dirt
in piles to the middle of the street, and
the city carts carry it away. Main street
is being relieved of its superhuous dirt
to- day. After the streets are once or
twice thoroughly swept, little trouble
will be required to keep them in good
order.
-Emmons q Son, No. 10 Jefferson
street and 1893 Main, has already received
Demorests Fashion Monthly (for March,,
the Army and Navy journal, Illustrite
Zeitung, New York Mercury, Last Sen
sation, La Semaine, Courier des Etats
Unis, Round Table, Scientific American,
and many others. The Minor Drama,
and large variety of works of fiction,
as well as daily papers from Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis, Louisville and New
York
Frank Lesie's last illustrated, which
is just received at 10. Locke's, % Jetfer-
son street, is accompanied by superb
painting" The Fisherman's Pride -
which is worthy to adorn any parlor or
gallery Of art At the same establish
ment we had the pleasure, last evening,
of examining all the popular magazines
and sensational literature of the day.
Among the number were the Last Sensa-
ton, New York Clipper, Police Gazette,
Army and Navy Journal, Round Table,
Sporting Times, Home Journal, South
ern Opinion, and everything else desired
by wide-awake and well posted reading
public. One can find almost everything
worth reading in the way of current lit
erature at JOS.
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