Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-16
Local Breyftics.

Local Brevftfcss
Twenty cases disposed Of 10 Police
Court to-day.
Colonel Jack Frost was out this morn
ing in hoary suit
-Four thousand persons were present at
the Williamson county fair on Thursday.
The call upon Robertson Topp TO run
for Senatorial honors has caused sensa.
ton in Nashville. ~
John League and T. g. Ayres, Of this
city, are turning the political grindstone
at the Capital.
Ex-Governor Foote 10 advocating the
cause of the Celestials. Hes Q foot too
long for this world.
The Louisville Convention has adopted
the same report about the Pacific railroad
as the Memphis Convention. "a y
The Memphis delegates to the Louis
vile Convention seem to have been
lockers on in Vienna fE 1sS8t
Eleven inebriates paid IS each into the
Metropolitan fund this morning What
a splendid tax-levier bad whiskey is
Bill Henderson and George Holloway
have been sentenced to the penitentiary
for thirteen years for DEMONSTRATING. +.
The store of Messrs Brien 3 Thsxton
in Nashville was robbed on Wednesday
night of $500 worth Of goods.
A soldier knocked down and nearly
killed colored girl with slung shot in
the street at Nashville on Thursday.
About five hundred ladies, the hand
soonest eyes ever looked upon, were out
shopping this forenoon.
Selling without license is not q very
profitable undertaking, as q saloon
keener this morning found at an expense
of $40.
Job johnson and Bill Jones (colored)
we're arrested for committing nuisance,
but on a statement Of their cases were
discharged.
Ample arrangements are being made
at the Shelby county fair gr ounds for the
accommodation Of visitors and for the
exhibition of articles
Strange stories are leaking out about
carpet-baggers aud butchers. The latest
are about Mayne and Hayne, and are not
Of very edifyiHg description.
The Witherspoon.King difficulty, which
occurred at La Grange two weeks ago,
appears this morning in Contemporary
as something new.
McCsffrey b Corneius' bid for burying
psupers has been accepted by the County
Com missioners-$8 for an adult and "a
for a child, in county warrants.
Bill Nicols took fancy to some dry
goods yesterday, and Immediately ap-
propriated them to his own use. There
is cell nreparipg in the penitentiary
for dark Bill.
Three of the Manassas street lots sold
by Register, Trezevant & Co. Yesterday
brought respectively $24 rs, $26 and
$29 Is foot The sale will be resumed
this afternoon at three o'clock.
Capt. Mont. Pepper has been sp-
pointed General Agent of the news de-
partment of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company in this city, in place OF
the late W. Il. Cody.
An injunction has been granted by
Judge Lee restraining Policeman Pearne
from destroying the gaming Instruments
and property of James Wetter, unless
they have been condemned by due pro-
cess of law.
A gentleman taken into custody last
night for keeping a gaming house put up
forfeit of $50 for his appearance this
morning, but he failed to appear, and the
$50 were forfeited.
Two white men we're fined $25 each
this morning for vsgrancy. 1t seems
strange that men will loaf about the
streets in poverty while good living can
be made in the country by honest toll.
A thief entered the room of Mr.. VIM.
Fry, in the Commercial Hotel, night be.
fore last, and stole black frock coat, o
pair of gray pants, pair of calf-skin
boots, and lot of shirts, all valued at
S55. u 'ff
Bill Rhodes, Anderson Taylor, Frank
billiard, Tim Escott, Steve Dennison,
Henry Slsdge and Jim johnson. African
Jehus, we're arrested in South Memphis
last evening for fast driviRg. A fac of
IS each may compel them to progress at
e reasonable ss..ee. =
The hop and supper at the Memphis
Club Hall last night for the benefit of
the orphans at St. Peter Asylum passed
off very pleasantly. We have not yet
heard who won the horse and harness at
the rattle. fmn. f.kf .lgs'
The Memphis Boat Club offers re.
ward of $50, in addition to the reward OF
SlOO offered by Messrs. Wells Il Cell, for
the recovery of the body of the late James
P. Gallagher. A number OF the members
of the Boat Club have gone down as far
as Helena in search ofthe body.
A mule and drsy laden with cotton
seed backed off the staging of the steamer
Natoma at the landing this morning into
the river. The mule was drowned, hav-
ing been carried by the current under the
ST. Louis whsrfboat The cotton-seed
belonged to Cheek 4 Co., of the oil
works.
The lady managers of the Leath Or
phan Asylum return their most grateful
acknowledgment for the many generous
gifts received on yesterday for the benefit
of the institution, including timely sup
ply of shoes and clothing for the chill
dren, and money amounting to two hun
dred and fifty-two dollars and ffty cents
The agricultural and mechanical fair
for the Cherokee country of Georgia and
Alabama will commence at Rome, Geor-
gie, on the Sd of next month and con-
tinue four days. A grand tourna-
ment will take place on the last day Of
H. axnos;t;nn M which our gallant