Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-03
Local Breyities.
False alarm Of fire yesterday.


Three persons. sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary Yesterday 10 the Criminal Court
for stealing.
Gen. A. Bnford, Of Kentucky, has ar
rived with his fine stable OF horses to at
tend the races next week.
Go to L,cke's, 1864 Main street, for
the latest news. He has It in great pro-
fusion scattered on his counters.
The new City Charter will probably
become law without the property quail
fcation provision.
ST.. Andrews Society meets in the Mu.
nicipal Courtroom this evening to elect
officers.
I'D. Mallory, Esq has returned from
q trip to Vicksburg. We are obliged to
him for late papers.
CHAprELL, at postoffice, has all the late
papers, magazines; also good envelopes
and paper, pens, inks, etc.
The deplorable death of yong Elliott,
promising and well-known youth of this
city, is mentioned in our river column.
It is likely that the performances at
the theater will begin after this week
half an hour earlier than at present. We
hope 30.
An audacious attempt was made yes
terday at the Exchange building BY a
wretch to rob an almost blind man OF his
hard earnings.
The stockholders of the Memphis and
Sslma railro Dad meet at Aberdeen next
ednesday to elect Board OF Directors
for the year.
The bill to repeal the law creating an
additional nu mber of justices of the peace
for Memphis has passed both Houses OF
the Legislature.
Last weeks proceedings of Barbour
Lewis Board are out this morning in the
official organ. We commend the whole
batch to the next Grand Jury that has
| leisure.
Il smells horribly and at long distance,
and we advise the persons owning same,
and the police especially, to see to 1t.
| Apply at rear northeast corner Poplar
and Fourth street.
| Very agreeable to snoozers snoozing
| in the locality at the head OF Fourth
street, where at the fifth hour of the
night negro church (2) music is furnished
free gratis. Quit or move.
On Sunday morning a man was run
over by the cars near Paris, Tennessee,
and his body was horribly mutilated. de
| is supposed to have been under the itfia
snce of liquor.
1t is very unklnd for the official organ
to be poking fun at Barbour Lewis. Bar
bour remarked in the Board the other
day that he was not aware that anybody
had ever called anybody thief, and that
he expected to be put down in the calen-
dar of Saints next to STINT Peter.
The jury in the Curtin murder case in
the Criminal Court failed to agree and
we're this morning discharged. One OF
the jurymen figured ont that the average
residence of the jurymen in the juri,dic-
ton of the court is nineteen years, their
average age forty-one years, number OF
children thirty-six, and total weight
eighteen hundred pounds.
At the last term of the Circuit Court
eight or nine negroes were sentenced to
the penitentiary for larceny. Their az
gregate time is about seventy-fve years.
When the Judge asked if they had any
thing to ssy, they every one replied thai
they had DO obj e:ion to going 10 the
penitentiary; that they would be glad to
90 there or anywhere else to get out Of
the c.unty Jail, where the food was poor
and scanty, and where they were allowed
little air end no exercise.
B. Fl. Sheppard, United States Reve.
ma Collector for the Third district O!
Mississippi, was shot and killed last Sun.
dsy in bed at Oakland, on the Mississippi
4 and Tenuegsee railroad, by his eldest
SON. Lsmuei Sheppssd. The Colonel
was confined to bis bed BY Q stroke Of
paralysis, and the son 10 supposed to
have been temporarily insane He was,
however, not too insane to break for the
woods and run three miles before he was
captured. At present he is in the Oak
land Jail.
Rev, A. Young, a gentleman of ex' en-
sive experience 10 the hotel business, has
leased the WhiteRors House, on Adams
street, and is about to open it as q FIRST
class house for families as we'll as tran.
sient bosrders. Mr.. Young has been
proprietor of the st. Cloud, Commercial
and City Ho.els, in Nashville, and has
kent hotel in Rockville. Washington
City and Other Ilsces. He has a fine
reputation, and the public mag ssly upon
IL that the Whitemore House will be q
desirable place to stop under hi, man.
sgement.
| Last night, about 9 o'clock, a very
young orange csiored child, without any
visible parents or means OF support, was
found under the steps of the Greenlaw
building, on Union street, between Third
and De Soto. The blood Of Africa is in
its veins, but whether coming through
father or mother, has not been ascer
tanned. a. TIC little one was quite reti'
cent, and refused 20 Ensyer any ques-
tions, or to give references 1T was nsst'
" dressed up, as if going ont to look for
some friends. Officers Keser and
Wands took the waif in charge, and left
IL at the house of one Caroline johnson,
| on St. Martin street, where the parents
/ can call and ace it st any tips. Past
eyents cast their shadows after them.
The Young Mems Christian Associa.
ton was organized at the Cunt erland
Presbyterian Church under very favor
she circumstances. Addresses OF az
inter lting character WIRE made by
Messrs, Jaruagin aud Henry Craft. The
consutuGsH and bylaws submitted re-
ceiyed about seyeniy signatures, but il
was decided not TO sleet q president OF
other officers until the membership is
larger. Quite q number Of ladies we're
present aud signified their willingness to
co operate with the Association. Nearly
all denominations we're represented, and
~ -raas.nz ga so.snosed Of our best