Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-07
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

meets this evening.
Colonel Sam. Tate has been ap-
pointed Receiver of the Meridian and
Selma railroad.
Six cases were disposed of in Police
Court this morning, and twelve dollars
in fines collected.
1T is feared that the cold weather OF
the past two days has damaged the forth
coming fruit crop.
The First National Bank honored q
check for 1892 900, drawn by one of our
merchants yesterday.
Trains on the several railroads lead
ing from the city are running with re-
markable regularity.
The Supreme Court for the Western
Division of the State was in session at
Brownsville yesterday.
Numerous depredations by stock
thieves in the suburbs are daily reported
at police headquarters.
That fast and obliging institution,
the Southern Express, will again accept
our thanks for repeated favors.
The rain of the past twenty. flour
hours has rendered the unpaved streets
of the city excessively muddy.
- Money to loan on collaterals, room
I, Knickerbocker Building, Is Madison
street-up stairs. 3ls
The dry goods house of Cohen Bros. /,
corner of Front and Poplar streets, was
entered last night, and several articles Of
value stolen.
Hon. Landon c. Haynes will deliver
the next annual address before the Law
School of the Cumberland Presbyterian
University at Lebanon, in June next.
- The gunshop of L. Schuman, 1874
Beal street, was entered at an early hour
this morning, and about one hundred
dollars worth of guns and pistols stolen.
Alta meeting of the creditors of Hans
Lemon, R. E. Mason, W. s. Bond, B. w.
Williamson and 7. j. Gardner, bank
rupts, W. Y. Cirode was appointed as
signee.
j. E. Bigelow, it is rumored, has
received the appointment of Supreme
Court Judge, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the resignation of Judge
Hawkins.
Subscription books of the Merchants
Insurance Company will be kept open,
at the Office of the Peoples Insurance
Company, until the sum of 100000 is
subscribed.
Joe Locke, % jefferson street, has
received in advance of the mails the
very latest Northern and Eastern papers,
also all the magazines for April. Joe
likewise keeps his counter constantly
supplied with everything in the line OF
illustrated and sporting papers.
We ARE prepared TO furnish Wood, in
any quantity and of any quality, as low
as it can be sold; also, Sawed and Split
Wood by the load, and satisfaction guar
anteed. BIGLEY, MELLERsH & Co.,
rs South Court street, and corner Main
and Pontotoc. 80
Robbers effected an entrance to the
hardware house of 0rgill Bros, corner Of
Front and Monroe streets, last night, and
stole six navy pistols and quantity OF
cutlery, with which they made of un-
discovered. An old gray coat, probably
left by one of the thieves, was found in
the store this morning.
The case Of the Government vs.. ID.
q. Evans, charged with a violation OF
the revenue law in coneealing whisky on
which the tax had not been paid, will
come up for hearing before United
States Commissioner Morrison, this
afternoon. The business position occu'
pied by the defendant and the amount Of
the seizure, probably the largest ever
made in the South, render the case one
Of more than usual interest and i'm
portanee.
The recent arrests Of maekersls for
vsgrancy. together with the death of their
captain, Ton Porter, and the exodus to
other parts Of bis successor, Jake Aeker-
nan, seems TO have thrown the brigade
into state Of Generalization. Itisvery
noticeable that the juvenile offenders are
becoming scareer every day, and their
Ofsnsss diminishing propOrtionsisly-
We learn that = squad OF recruits Who
recently came down from ST. Louis have
retained in disgust They can very
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