Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-11
LOCALS IN nRrEr.

evening.
Seventeen cases we're disposed ofand
s245 in fines were collected in police
court this morning.
Two festive CHANDELIERS Of the keno
persuasion were fined each 500 by Com.
missioner Richards this morning.
We were pleased to receive call this
morning from F. W. Marin, Esq, of the
Charleston Miss Tallahatchiam
One hundred dollars in money and
two hundred in valuable notes, recently
stolen from S. G. Thomas, have been re-
covered.
The establishment of Mr. j. G. Mo-
bresbadt, near Fort Pickering, was Wis
tied last night by thieves and valuable
horse stolen.
"A receptacle for stolen goods at the
corner of South and Causey streets has
been broken up by the police Of the
Southern District.
10. Lipscomb, the negro man who
shot James Aston in Bob Church's sa'
loon yesterday, has been arrested
Alston's wounds are not thought to be
serious.
Detectives Robertson and Sweat re-
ported to police headquarters this morn
ing, three horses and mule, recently
stolen in this county and recovered by
them last night.
j. II. Good was arrested this morn
ing on writ sued out by Mary Woods,
charging him with receiving stolen prop
erty. He will have hearing before Es-
quire Gibson tomorrow.
"A negro man, named Mack, was up
before Squire Gibson this morning,
charged with selling horse upon which
he had previously given q mortgage.
Mack should peruse the law.
The Last Sensation, Waverley, Har-
per's, and all The current periodical lite
nature of the day. have been received by
Joe Locke, % Jefferson street, where all
the latest foreign and city dailies can also
be found.
1t transpires that P. d. Beecher,
who was arrested on Monday upon q
charge of carrying concealed weapons,
was taken out of the hands of the officer
having him in charge and released by
Judge Hunter, sans ceremony.
Patrick Trainer and James Ed
| wards have sued out writ before Els.
quire Gibson against Mary j. Callahan,
charging her with perjury in case in
which they were defendants. Mrs. Cal
lahans examination upon the charge has
been set for tomorrow.
AS the down train on the Memphis
and Louisville road was leaving Hum
boldt last evening, passenger, in at
tempting to get aboard, was thrown upon
the track and run over. The rear trucks
of one of the coaches passed over his
legs and crushed them so seriously that
immediate amputation was deemed
necessary. The name of the unfortu-
nate party we have been unable to asoer-
tain.
-Ballou's Magazine and Peterson s
for April are already on Emmons coun'
ter, 10 Jefferson and 1893 Main street;
also, the Round Table, Scientific Ameri-
can, New York Mercury, Six Cent Pic.
torial, Last Sensation, Waverley, Wilkes
Spirit, Southern Opinion, Irish Ameri-
can, La Semaine, Boston Pilot, Irish
Citizen, Metropolitan Record, La Crosse
Democrat, the New York, ST. Louis,
Cincinnati, Louisville, and Chicago
dailies.
A HOPELESS CASE OF SUNSET ON THE
BRAIN" N. M" who writes charming
little gossippy letters from Memphis to
the New York Day Book, goes into costa
ces over our sunsets, which, we fatter
ourselves, are about the best free shows
in this latitude. IN, NJ" who is evil
IDENTIFY lady-no male "cuss" knows
anything about dead leaves" dead
years and I" sedge-grass has taste
for the beautiful and magnificent, and
we wonder why she doesn't marry an
editor:
Talking of driving reminds me to mem
ton one of the unsurpassed beauties of
Memphis: the sunsets o, they are
beautiful Last evening, or rather yes
terday afternoon, / was invited to drive
to the Mound" spot justly celebrated
tor its natural beauty, and, taking an
easy seat in an open buggy, was soon
whirling around the high road behind
one of the fastest trotting teams
in Memphis. Away from the rush and
tumult of the busy city, away from the
haunts of men, where the greed of gain
murders philanthropy and love- away,
past quiet cottage homes, nesting under
vines and cedar boughs; past stately
country residences, round which even
the ivy twines in stiff and cheerless
way; past meadows yellow with sedge-
grass, or green with the carpet unrolling
for the fairy, tripping feet of spring;
past fields whose brown, fallow burrows
are ready for the early seed and wood
lands, where the dead leaves of dead
year lie crisp and wan, waiting for the
coming of the green leaves over.
head-to the banks of the liking of
Waters" to the mound where sleep the
Indian braves, and to the Lovers
Leap" jutting over the waves rolling
sullenly TO the sea; where the dusky
maid chanted her death-song and sacri-
feed herself to love even as the Hindoo
widow casts herself on her funeral pyre;
far away where the Ganges holds her
babes, under its smiling ripples, in the
sleep Of death. twin brothers to love. F"
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