Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-03
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

-Wanted-City and county scrip
Apply at Sc Union street. A
Eight arrests we're made by the police
of the Southern district yesterday.
Fruit is still being shipped in small
quantities from this point to the North.
Five cases wsre tried, and five dol
lars collected, in police court this morn
ing
Thirteen miles of stone and Nicol-
son pavement has been laid in the city
up to the present time.
The cattle in Maury county are re-
ported to be dying off in large Numbers
of some unknown disease.
ALL the favorite brands of imported
and domestic cigars at Kaufman's, cor
ner of Second and Jefferson.
The collections for August, as shown
by the books in the Internal Revenue
Collectors Office for the Eighth District,
were $20,33l IL.
Major G. N. Rambaut, of the well
known firm of E. M. Apperson & Co., has
just returned from an extended summer
tour through the North.
The Young Mems Independent
Democratic Club was addressed last
night by Colonels R. f. Looney, j. s.
Kerr and Fl. NJ. Loewenstine. Esq.
I The grand ball at Raleigh, for the
benefit of the old l54th Regiment Relief
Society, comes off this evening. The
attendance from this city will not fail to
be large
Joe Locke's, % Jefferson street, is
the headquarters for the news and litera.
ture OF the day. All the Northern dailies,
weekles and monthly magazines con-
stantly on hand.
Tickets for Miss Nora Bradford's
concert may be had at Katzenbach's
every day this week. We advise our
friends to apply early. as the best seats
are being rapidly taken.
An old darby from the country was
robbed of his wallet, containing four dol
lars, by VIM. Ryan, mackerel, last eve
ming. Ryan was fined twenty-five dol
lars in police court this morning
Parties who came up the Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad this morning,
represent the boil worm as playing havoc
with the cotton in Desoto, Pamela and
Yalobusha counties. The same report
comes also from Marshall county.
Jake Alderman, captain of the
mackerels, is again in limbo. He was up
in police court this morning, charged
with stealing watch, pin and seal from
]. E. Jones, bucolic specimen from
Mississippi, and fined fifty dollars.
This afternoon, at five o'clock, the
subcommittee on the proposed politi.
cal demonstration will meet at the Still
man Hail. 1t is earnestly requested that
every member be present. If any are
absent their places will be filled by other
appointments.
In the Criminal Court yesterday sen.
tence was pronounced upon the following
prisoners: Lewis Cross, burglary, TWEEN
tyrone years; W. II. Donnelly, burglary,
twenty-one years; J. II. Carmichael,
horse stealing, fifteen years; W. E. Car
michael, horse stealing, afteen years.
"A colored Democratic Club has been
organized in the Fourteenth Civil Dis
trict. The following are the permanent
officers: President, j. W. Smith; Vice
President, John Williams; Treasurer,
Hiram Scott; Secretary, William Jolly;
Committee on Enrolment, j. W. Smith,
John Williams, Hiram Scott
The Tdllahatchian, published at
Charleston, Tallahatchie county, Missis-
sippi, offers to the business men of this
city most excellent medium for adver-
Using. 1t has a large circulation in one
of the best cotton growing regions of the
State, and trades almost exclusively with
this city. Its terms are liberal. 1854
We are authorized to state that per-
sons attending the grand Democratic
mass meeting and barbecue at Tuscum-
bia, on the 9th, will be charged only half
fare on the Memphis and Charleston
railrOad-psy going and return free.
Passengers can leave Memphis at 1880
pm. Friday, aud returning leave Tus-
cumbia at pm. Saturday, or s;45 Mon
day.
Worms or insects in fruit or shade
trees may be elfectually gotten md oil BY
boring small hole in the body OF the
tree, and filing it Sish colonel Trees
thus treated, however full they may be
of insects, are speedily relieved Of them,
and soon regain their woDted healthfui
snd aourishing appearances. Those hsv-
ing trees which are suffering from the
depredaiions Of insects should give the
remedy trial, aud may be assured Of