Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-12
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

LOCALS IN BhlEE.
= Haywood, Carroll and Madison
counties went Radical on Saturday.
"A valuable horse was stolen last
night from Hendricks stable on South
street.
There are one hundred and ten
prisoners in the old county Jail on Ad-
ans street. ~
Fifteen cases were tried aud s27
collected in fines, at police court this
this morning.
The rains Of the last several days
have rendered the unpaved Streets of the
city extremely muddy.
Returns from the First Civil District,
received last evening, show thirty.five
votes to have been polled-all for the
Conservative party.
All the latest magazines, periodicals
and dailies have been received by Joe
Locke, % Jefferson street, and can be
found on his counter.
Charles Harrison, negro man, re.
ported to police headquarters this morn.
ing that he was robbed Of $3.50 in bag
MO on South street, last night
: A whole school of mackerels were
released from the Adams street Jail yes
terday. The authorities regard it as
cheaper to fight than to feed them"
The shop of Hoist & Quecks, mer-
chant tailors, 81 Jefferson street, was en-
tered by burglars at an early hour this
morning, and quantity Of clothing
stolen. pa
j. H. Good, charged with receiving
stolen property, and Mary ]. Callahan,
accused of perjury, were up before
Esquire Gibson last evening, and both
discharged.
Officer Dillon picked up the noto-
rious street-walkers Annie Gallagher and
Matte Hawkins, on Main street, last
night, and lodged them in the Adams
street station-house.
Detective McCune reported to police
headquarters this morning the recovery
of a stolen trunk, valise and carpet sack,
the property of Mr.. VIM. King, to whom
they were delivered.
The workmen engaged relaying the
sunken pavement on Main street have
been interrupted by the rain Of the past
two days. They have resumed their
labor again this morning, however.
Henry Curtis, for assaulting Frank
Mumford, was fined S25 in Police Court
this morning. James Boyle, of the Cave
saloon, was also mulcted in the sum of
$40 for interfering with the officer who
made the arrest.
= In an alteration between two pas
sengers on the steamer Mollie HANDLE
ton, while she was on her last trip to this
port, Esquire Diamond, st. Francis
river planter, was shot and severely
wounded by j. G. Berry, planter, of
Walnut Bend.
1T is contemplated running theater
trains on the several railroads leading
from the city during the engagement of
Mr.. Jefferson at the New Memphis. Our
country friends will thereby be afforded
an opportunity of seeing the great
comedian and returning to their homes
the same night.
The following from the Nashville
Press and Times will be read with in
terest by the devotees of base ball in this
city: I'VE understand that the Noun
tain Base Ball Club, of Chattanooga,
desire to play the Phoenix, of this city,
and then the Bluff City Base Ball Club,
Of Memphis, some time this month, for
the championship of Tennessee"
"A morning contemporary notes a
project to convert the imposing business
block on west Main, between Madison
and Monroe streets, into a hotel, so al
tering the interior of the structure as to
adapt it to that purpose. We hear from
good authority that the whole block has
already been rented for the above pur-
pose, excepting only the rooms immedi-
ately over Mansfield & Higbee's drug
house.
-Harper's Bazaar is the most popular
paper with the ladies' tits high authority
on the fashions Emmons, 10 Jefferson
and 1893 Main street, has It for sale; also
the Round Table, and the new paper,
The Week, which is filed with selections
from the last home and foreign papers;
the Chimney Corner, Home Journal and
the comic papers, with the New York
and Western dailiss, and the French,
Irish, German and Italian papers.
wAxrED-At Memphis Bank, $4,000
City Scrip; $4,000 County Scrip; s5,-
600 Metropolitan Scrip; highest market