Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-10-20

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Tnesday Evening. October go 1888:
THE CITY.
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PrrrsBuRo and Kentucky coal and gas
coke. Brown a Jones, Office 2s2 Main
street, Bethel Block. I
LAusprr 0ryIcr. 40 Jefferson st. I
HAYS Coal CoxrAsY.-Best Pittsburc
coal, wholesale and retail. We weigh on
the city scales. Office, 22i Madison ct.
REMovAL.-Msyer, Marshuetz 4 Co.,
Wholesale iobacconists and cigar manu-
facturers, removed TO 300 Main street. 81
II. b. PACKER, Pittsburg coal and gas
coke. 2e0 Main (Bethell Block). So
SHEET STEALISo.-Kate Kenney, a
colored wench, was arrested by officer
Chamberlain this morning and locked in
prison until she answers to the charge Of
stealing number Of sheets from the
house of MrG. Livingston on Washington
street.
The very best vegetables of all kinds
kept by Guest, 4l2 Main. A
No NUMBER.-A drayman impressed
that all drsy numbers, like lottery num-
bers, are generally useless, took, it into
his head to run without a number yes
terday. He was soon convinced that be
was "going it too fast" and had to
4" fork over" s. to the police treasury
this morning.
II. WADE & Co., 297 Main street, have
the new music book called Christian
Harmony" at5f Is
A MACK, BUT NO MAcKEREL.-A little
newsboy named Jenny Mack, but nc
mackerel, went into hotel selling
papers last evening There being an
ordinance against this sort of traffic, the
little news.vender was arrested by officer
Coll, and fined five dollars in police
court this morning.
MATTRESSES of all descriptions on hand
and made to order, at Martin Eyke's, 81
Madison street. . 43
BLACK AND WHIrE.-It is said there
are three blacks registered to one white
at Captain Sears Office. In the Tax
Collectors office It does not appear that
half dozen blacks have paid even poll
tax. How is that? Can man, white
or black, vote without paying his poll
taxi Look to the law. and see.
ONE hundred dozen ladies' white me
rino hose, at rs cents, Rice d Engel,
233 Main street,
No NEED.-0ur morning cotempora-
ries are quoting kilograms and para
graphs from other papers to convince
the honest and upright people of Mem.
phis that the late baptism of Arkansas
arms was Radical trick. There is no
need OF such proof, as every intelligent
man in the city is convinced of the fact.
O. FALLEN Est. Louis) -four, the best
only $l3 rs, at Guests, Az Main. "A
"OE THE Go."-Two Milesians and q
= ollander wers "on the 60" last eve
ming. bu. they evidently went too far, as
annears from the fact that they were ar
rested while "going it by officers Hem
pie, Hope and Holleran, and fined w
each in police court this morning. ION
the go" with common men is come"
with the police.
S. M. GUEST, Az Main street, formerly
on fernando road, will sell groceries
cheaper than the cheapest A
ASSAULT. "A Pinchite, showing the
way Tim O'Flanigan used blackthorn
stick at faction fight, struck person
by severe blow on the nose.
This wasn't relished bit, of course, and
the assauIter was mulcted in the sum of
$40 by the Police Commissioners this
for his exhibition of the stick
exercise and the bruising of nose.
EVERYTHING purchased of Guest, Az
Main, is delivered free of charge. "A
CorToS FILoHERs. -Lee Rumsey and
Dan. Smith, colored gentlemen" were
gobbled by officer,Libey last evening, on
4 charge of filching cotton from Mr.. d.
L. Coruth, at Presidents Island. The
pair of gay gonnofs were conducted into
the august presence of Squire Heinrich
this morning, and received that justice
which the law allows filchers.
The best ham and eggs in the market,
1T Guests, ALI Main. ~
WooD AND WEAPoNs.-If a man takes
i into his head to root up the Nicolson
blocks, after the city puts them down
1t heavy expense, why he must bear the
and if man carries side
arms concealed, when the Police law says
be shau't, he must also bear the conse-
luences. Consequently, man who tore