Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-11

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night.
Dead horse lying on Dunlap street,
near Poplar.
Seven drunhards paid IS each to the
Police Commissioner this morning.
Lucy Mcneil, dark wench, was very
drunk and disorderly yesterday.
The latest attractions in showcases
are fall hats with red feathers.
The October terms of the Law and
Criminal Courts commenced to-day.
Tweuty-ihree deaths in our city last
wesk-sixteen whites and seven blacks
The fall races of the Chickasaw Jockey
Club commence on the 9th of November
next
Thirty six delegates from this city to
the Louisville convention left last eve.
ming.
All our churches were crowded yester-
day, good sign Of religious comma-
nifty. 49,
Amanda Todd (colored) toddled off to
prison this morning for robbing her
neighbors. =
If more delightful weather can be found
anywhere than in Memphis now we should
like to know where tits.
A benefit will be given this evening by
the managers of the Memphis Theater to
the Confederate Relief Association.
The Radicals of Little Rock have
nominated niger for City Marshal and
another for Street Commissioner.
Four Rsdemptionist Fathers com
mepce a mission next Sunday in St
Pstrick's church, South Memphis.
A Methodist church edifce is to be
erected on the corner of Vance and Lau-
derdsle streets at an expense of $35, 900.
The Haywood County Fair opens at
Brownsville on the l9tb, and the Shelby
County Fair in the suburbs of this city on
the 25lh' IT .sr,tri1T fxaA
Merchants who are not members Of the
Chamber of Commerce will after to-day
be excluded from obtaining information
from its books. y vat 3i4laASf
Tickets are being widely circulated
and freely purchased for the orphans
at the Memphis Club He'll.
Memphis delegates to the St. Louis
Irish Immigration Convention have re-
turned. A State organization will be
formed in q few days.
Matt Burton and Fannie Boyce (both
colored) had fsticuff engagements yester-
day, and this morning were arrested on
warrants issued by Squire Elliott.
The company which played the last two
weeks at the Mem phis Theater left yes
terdsy for New Orleans. A new COM
psny will appear with Miss Marriott to-
morrow might. f laFa aIf
Bring in the bier and "Iet the
coughin' pass are old gags of Glenn's,
and have been repeated here in Memphis
a dozen times before Dominick Murray
crossed the ocean.
The "author and pioneer of industrial
exhibitions and fairs in Louisiana
during a period Of more than thirty
years" is Pongh-ing Memphis. Every
step he takes he exelaims; I" Let it be =
A dispatch from Nashville states that
Col. Leon Trousdale, one of the most ac-
complished scholars and best hearted
men of Memphis, 10 likely to be elected
State Librarian.
Charley Gsrnett, colored rsg.picker,
became very unruly on Saturday night,
! and this morning had to pay IS in pc.
lice court. He will have to sell whole
junkshop to get over that loss.
Doc Woods (colored) has been con.
demned TO eighteen years in the peniten'
tiary for burglariousiy enteripg the house
of Col. 7. A. Alexander, near Eoncon'
nah, attempting to set fire to it, and bru-
tally beating its inmates. ss
The Young Mons Terpsichorean Club
of this city will give selset SOCIAL party
at Cochran Hall on Thursday night next.
As all the young men belonging to this
club are highly respectable, the party,
we opine, will be brilliant affair.
Three days mail from New York was
received yesterday evening by the
Charleston railroad, and all the late
! periodicals. can he Lad ct W J Mans
lords, 1854 Second street, near Monroe.
Call and see him.
Capt. W. L. Trask has been reelected
Secretary of the Chamber Of Commerce.
This shows our merchants can appreciate
good services, for the Captain has been a
faithful and enthusiastic worker for the
Chamber ever sineehs beeSRe connected
with it.
On Saturday evening man named
Fox, on board the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad, became very drunk and
quarrelsome, and when near rApguille
assapltpd the conductor of the train, who
10 self-defepss shot him. A jury Of in
guest returned q yerdist that the homi-
eide was justifable.
Logan Thomas. Lizzie Cobb, Stephen
Jones aud Henry Murphy TALL colored)
we're on rough and-tumble spree yes
terday. For thus desecrating the Sab
bath they were arrested, placed in the
Second District cslsboose, and will have
to pay foe of $40 each this evening.
4 LADY ykq formerly kept millinery
store on Main stfset, bst now resides in
South Memphis, met With 9 sss.ogs acci-
dent this morning. Jumping on sofa
in q playful mood pair of scissors
pierasd hor side, INJECTING a dangerous
wound, which vss Immediately dressed
I'D attended IN nv mr. Kimhro