Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-03
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

/ uC ob VIZ hOtNAs WIG haNs
ing were not numerous.
|rp-Six cases disposed of in Police
Court this morning yielded only eleven
dollars. ndbrt
Rev. J. f. Truslow will preach to-
nigh. at the Central Methodist Church, ON
Union. street. fn yfW frt
Iron castings to the value Of $40
were stolen from James Rand, on Beal,
between Main and Shelby streets, last
night. r.,rr 10 eQ
Detectives Hastings and McCune re-
covered last evening $500 worth of dry
goods, recently stolen from 202 Main
street. m ahgI llUs
The negro, Brown, who was assault
ed with Ratchet by the Waterman on
the steamer S. J. Hale, is recovering from
his wound. W
Mr.. Frederick Bynum, who was re-
lieved of $1,000 by pickpockets on Front
street yesterday, is citizen of Court
land, Ala.
One hundred and fifty dollars in
money, recently stolen from L. Laner-
man, was recovered by Detective Selkirk
last evening. isa0
Springfield, ILL.,, city of $1,000 in
habitants, has system of waterworks.
Memphis, with its fifty or sixty thousand,
has no such system.
William Murphy was arrested this
morning on charge of assaulting and
battering John Brittou, and will be held
to answer before Esquire Herman this
evening.
AT meeting of the creditors yester-
day in the cases of Thomas Batsford,
Thomas Murrell and s. M. Anderson,
bankrupts, W. Y, Cirode was appointed
assignee.
Owing to the bad weather and unfit
condition of the track, the trotting race
over the Memphis Association course,
which was to have come off last evening,
was postponed.
The officers of Shelby Division, No.
As, Sons Of Temperance, elected for the
present quarter, were installed last night
by the D. G. W. P. Bro. Dashield and
the G. Con. Bro. VIM. Chambers. IA
Everything late in the news line and
spicy in the way of literature can be had
at Joe Locke's, % Jefferson street. Joe
also keeps constantly on hand the popu
lar novels, magazines and reviews of the
day. p
We ARE prepared 10 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 4 Co.,
rs South Court street, and corner Main
and Pontotoc. 30
"A morning contemporary learns that
several large capitalists are making a
movement toward thro wing suspension
bridge like that at Cincinnati over the
Mississippi at this point, to be used by
the Little Rock Railroad Company and
for general benefit. The project is GER
tainly practical and commendable, and
will, we hope, be contaminated.
Henry Allison, a negro man, sued
out a warrant this morning against
Henry Lewis, another qualified voter,
whom he charges with having stolen q
large iron kettle. 1t would seem that at
ter stealing the kettle Lewis broke it up,
and was in the act of sellingit to junk
man for old iron when detected and ar
rested. he will have hearing before
Esquire Foley tomorrow morning.
All the new and standard novels are
kept on hand at Emmons, 10 Jefferson
and 1893 Main streets. Sue, Dumas, Bal
xer, Dickens, Scott, James, Marryattr
Lever and the rest He has received the
last Chimney Corner. New York Mer-
curry, American Agrieulturalist, Literary
Album, New York Ledger, Sporting
Times, Bazaar; French, German and
Irish weeklies, scientific, religious, spir-
itual End comic papers, and the New
York and Western daily papers.
Ia pursuance Of an order issued by
the Board Of County Commissioners,
Sheriff Curry last evening took forcibls
possession ofthe Register Office, turning
il over, with sllthe books aud papers, to
Greeley, the Radical Register elect
whose right TO the Office was being con
tested by Mr.. johnson, and the fnel de
cision In the contest still pending. Such
hiah-handed and unwsrrantsble proee-
aure il only too characteristic OF the
anscrupulous cliqneint whose hands the
sfsirs Of the county have fallen