Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-22

Inc muutoiie' ~~~'f -"
until tomorrow. a
st. Francis river Is frozen between
Wittsburg and Madison.
Mrs. No +. Oliver will deliver q
temperance lecture this week.
The well known steamboatman, Cap
tain ]. B. Archer, Of Louisville, is in the
city.
e. NJ. Hearn, Esq, has been adj
mitted to practice in the United States
Court
= Esquire Halls office has been re-
moved to No. 3l5 Second street, below
Monroe.
Dolly Peterson is under arrest,
charged with stealing silver watch from
Louis Perpoli.
The weather continues cold and
freezing. Skating is good on the ponds
and bayous.
james Warren, of McNairy county,
has been appointed United States Com
missioner by Judge Trigg.
Yesterday a boy named George
Handon was accidentally shot in the
house of Thomas Costello, by John
Joyce.
Rev. Bishop Marvin, of Missouri,
will preach at the Central Methodist
Church, on Union street, tonight at
I o'clock.
Yesterday Colonel David Taggart, OF
the Paymaster Generals Department
paid off the troops in the garrison. We
suppose "the boys" needed it.
H. G. Reese, L. Downing, Col W.
P. Adair, James Mcdaniel, Samuel
Smith, d. Tucker, J. P. Davis, A.
Scraper, delegates to Washington from
the Cherokee Nation, were at the Gayoso
this morning. @
j. Pat Farrely, Esq, formerly q
Memphis lawyer, has turned up in
Arkansas as Radical Presidential
elector from the Second Congressional
District of that State Patrick was once
a fiery Southerner, but has found it con-
yenient to bout face.
In the Law Court yesterday after
noon, the case of Joseph Behr, arrested
on requisition from the Governor of
Missouri, charged with obtaining $4,000
worth of goods from A. L. Lacroix, OF
St. Louis, by false pretenses, was con-
tinued till Monday next, bail being given
The charge against Mr.. Wilton, ar
rested for using abusive language toward
fellow named Beecher, who has fire.
quently been before the Criminal Court,
was dismissed. We lean that Mr. WIS
"cuss words" consisted in merely in
forming Beecher that he (B.) was low
down, thievifg, cowardly scoundrel, and
threatening to whip him in an inch of his
life.
-Jo. Locke, No. % Jefferson street,
has received Harper's Magazine, the Old
Guard, Every Saturday, Demorest Pc
terson, Cooley and Lady's Friend (all for
February, New York Weekly, Leslie
newspaper, Clipper, Sporting Times
Last Sensation, Dime Illustrated, Police
News and Gazette, Day Book, Turf
Field and Farm, Harper's Weekly Irish
Citizen, Irish People and American
Country Gentleman, Scientific American
Metropolitan Record; y Bricks last
Pen and Pencil, Harper's Bazaar, and al
the latest dailies, weeklies and maya
zines. Call on Joseph.
= Owing to the mail being locked up
Emmons, 10 Jefferson and 1893 MAR
street, has had delay in bis receipts
bat the papers and magazines came BY
the drsy load last night, and to-day ev
erybody can get what they want Among
a hundred others, are the Dime Illus
trated, Leslie's Illustrated, illustrated
News, Last Sensation, Police Gazette
New York Weekly, Merryman's Monthly
Nick Max, the. Round Table, Harper
Monthly flor February, Putnam
Monthly flor February, Lippencott
Monthly (for February, Madame De
morest's splendid Magazine of Fashion,
flor February, Courier des Etats Unis
La Semaine, with the story LA Till
du Chanoine." Call and look over tn
vast pile of new things, including Gin
cinnati papers, and the New York World
Times, Herald and Tribune.
NICE white handkerchiefs, l0c; bes
pins and needles, Sc; ladies' linen col
lars, Sc; hoods, 50c A No l nubias
SOC; breakfast shawls, Toe. }. Ii. Loew
| enstine A. Bros. CLAW building, open til