Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-28

pearance In the city.
There are thiriy.four prisoners in the
Adams street lookup.
Twelve cases in police court this
morning netted ten dollars.
-wanicd-Ciiy and county scrip
Apply at &c Union street. 4
"A grand Democratic mass meeting
and barbecue comes of at Shelby depot
to-day.
The traveller will find comfortable
rooms, an unequaled table, and the best
of attention ct the Worsham.
The police continue to gobble up I'M.
protected females found upon the streets
at unreasonable hours Of the night.
Kaufman 4 Bro, corner of Second
and Jefferson streets, are sole agents for
Bagleys celebrated fne cut tobaccoes.
Prof Leo Wheat left the city for
Bolivar this morning. Joining Henry
Farmer at that point, they give a concert
tonight.
-Egbert II. Osborne, Esq, of Medon
Division, No. los, has been elected
Grand Lecturer by the Sons Of Temper
ance for West Tennessee.
The purser of the steamer Msy
Flower will accept our thanks for late
files Of Arkansas papers.
"A little lad, nine years Of age, the
son of Mr.. Chas. White, No. III Court
street. left his home about noon yester.
day, and has not since been heard Of
"A large stock of Seymour and Blair
badges, just received, at Goodspeed Il
Co.'s 24s Third street. Clubs furnished
at wholesale rates. l54
Has our worthy Mayor advertised
yet for bids for the construction of
workhouse as he was requested to do by
the Council some six weeks ago2 II not,
why not2
Our clever young friend Joe Locke,
% Jefferson street, continues to receive
daily, in advance OF the mails, the latest
and racies! of everything in the news and
literary line.
The sleeping room of Mr. A. j.
Lloyd, over Pooley 4 Barnum's jewelry
store, was entered yesterday, and cloth
ipg to the amount of one hundred and
fifty dollars stolen.
Mr.. Joe Gaylord, dUant courier of
Skiff & Gaylord's Ministries, is in the
city, making arrangements for the APP
pearance of the troupe here on the eve.
ming Of the 9th prox.
We are requested by Father Schni.
der to again call attention to the grand
fets to be given for the benefit of st.
Mary 8 Catholic church, at the Ford
place, Chelsea, on Monday next, the
3lst inst
NASHVILLE papers of the 26th contain
the following: Married, at the resi-
dence of sacob McGavock, Esq, Spruce
street, on the 25th inst, by Rev. DR..
Bunting, Bon. Connolly F. Trigg and
Mrs. Sersphna McGavock."
Little Mss Katie Gilbert, by volun-
teering her strvices for dance between
acts, has addd mother attraction to the
already excellent bill to be produced at
the New Mem his tonight Her friends
will doubtless assemble en- massc to wit.
ness her performance.
We were pkased to meet our friend
and confrere, Jthn B. Green, of the Clar-
endon Democrat who is in the city on
business conneced with his paper. We
would recommend his able journal to the
business men of Or city, as a medium of
advertising through the White River
country.
The trial in Ii, Criminal Court of
the case of the Stat VS.. W. Fl. Donnelly
and Lewis Cross, Indictment for house,
breaking, was closet last evening. A
verdict was returned " the jury at late
nOur, HuQlnR buc uciohuHntS BuiijyY uuu
fixing the period of Imprisonment at
twenty one years in the,penitentiary.
The soft and mello%days of autumn
are drawing near. The insects in the
fields buzz with lazy d,llness, the air
grows hazy, and all natd % tells of the
near approach of the time when
The apples are ripe in the pchard,
The work of the reaper istone,
And the golden woodlands pdden
In the blood of the dyinghn.
--The Tdllahatchian, published at
Charleston, Tallahatchie conty, Missis-
sippi, offers to the business men of this
city a most excellent medium for adver-
Using. 1t has large circulation in one
of the best cotton growing reghns of the
State, and trades almost exclusively with
this city. Its terms are liberal. 1884
1t is understood that web known
citizen is contemplating establishing a
paper collar mandatory in this city, and
also that the establishment of clinical
works or Wolf river, north of thshity, is
being talked of by another gentletan of
well-known capital and enterprise We
doubt not either investment wouldprove
a paying one.
-Emmons & Son received last hight
the New York Ledger, Chimney Cdner,
Sunday Times, Banner of Light, Bhton
Pilot, American Agticulturist (forP Sep.
tember), New York, Chicago, ST. Luis,