Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-25
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

= Charley Decker, the Memphis giant,
is in Nashville. >st9 niFg
Henry s. King has received final
discharge in bankruptcy. QLo8
- Green corn is to be had in the mar
kets at fabulous prices. lcl 7sganm 81
Thanks to Felix Cross, Of the South.
ern Express, for late favors.
The stone PAYERS on Front street
have reached the Exchange Building.
. The Confederates surrendered at
Duvall's Bluff three years ago yesterday.
Ice for sale at ID! Madison street, at
e. J. Holahen's grocery. 76
Pickles, by the gallon, at Finnie Il
Buckham's. Ella rielr .ir,s5 I
The Law, Chancery, Criminal and
Municipal courts were in session this
morning.
The pleasant weather yesterday
brought out crowds to all the places Of
worship.
- Yesterday was observed by the Is
raelites of the city as the Feast of Weeks,
or Chag Hsshovuos.
The Memphis delegation to the
recent session of the National Medical
Association have returned.
20. f. Hunsaker, Texan carpet.bag.
ger and delegate to the late Chicago con-
vention, passed through the city yesterday
en- route home.
Judge B. c. Brown and Col. o. P.
Lyles, of Marion, Arkansas, have located
in this city and formed partnership for
the practice of the law.
Ham. Carter, Sam. ireland, and half
a dozen other negroes, are out in car d
condemning the lawless aud wanton pro.
ceedings of the pcnieing Africans at
Bartlettou the 18th inst. IiG r
"A meeting of the directory Of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad will
be held on Wednesday next, with view
to electing President, Col. Tate s resig-
nation having rendered that position
vacant. st4 " Ettl Mtll t.i
Only two matrimonial certificates
we're returned to.ths Office of the County
Court Clerk during last week. These
attested the union of Washington Lacey
and Mary Turner, and Daniel Hurd and
Sarah Hurd.
Gems B Buckner passed up the river
on the Richmond yesterday. He goes to
Louisville, where on his arrival he will
assume the associate editorship of the
Courier By those who had the pleasure
Of meeting him on the steamer here be
is spoken of as having grown prems.
turely old in appearance since the war.
His hair and whiskers are almost white.
The picnic of the Sabbath School of
the Church of the Good Shepherd, at the
Ford place, Chelsea, on Saturday, was in
every respect one of the pleassntest of
the many pleasant affairs of q kin dred
character which have taken place in the
outskirts of Memphis within the past
month. Upward Of a hundred of the
little folks accompanied their devoted
pastor, the Rev. ]. J. Vaulx, to the de-
lightful grounds, and participated in the
innocent psstimes of the day.
Joe Locke, at No. % Jefferson
street, has every interesting weekly pa
per that is published, including Harpers,
the Bazaar, waverley, Clipper Round
Table, Scientific American, the comic
papers, the Irish weeklies. French, Ger
man and Italian weeklies, all the month
" magazines, literary aud fashion, re-
ligious, spiritual. scientific and fashion
weekIies, and the Cincinnati Euquirer,
ST Louis Democra, aud Republican,
Chicago Times sHd Tribune, Louisville
Courier, and New York World, Tribune,
Herald and Times.
Lps Law. at 27ie per yard, .,
Rice Engefs q
cents Hosiery Of every grade, 40
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