Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-03

MONEY loaned on collaterals, at the re.
liable 323 Union ST., Lenow Block. AL
Brownsville is to have the militia.
Speaker Richards has returned from
Nashville.
One hundred and forty two prisoners
are in the county Jail.
DR.. Thornton reports eighty-six pa
tients at the City Hospital.
Captain Sears will hold the election for
County Commissioner next Saturday.
An affray occurred Monday, at Ripley,
between Benz. Long and VIM. Knave, in
which the latter was killed.
The City Council adjourned over yes
terdsy to meet this afternoon at three
o'clock in the City Hall
The former officers and directors Of
the Memphis Gas Company have been
reelected Let US have light.
St. Andrews Society meets at "a
o'clock this evening, at the corner of
Union and Second streets.
Mrs. F. W. Lander, the great Ameri-
can Ristori, was at the Theater last
night. She is en- route for New Orleans.
A teacher in this city, with school of
nearly sixty pupils, reports that he has
no conveniences for them except two
dining tables.
The President of the Board of Educa-
ton announces an election next Satur-
day for two members from each ward to
serve in the said Board.
We are informed, just before going to
press, by a gentleman without an um-
brells. on corner waiting for street
car, that it is raining. Misfortunes
never come sipgly. We regard the in
formation as correct.
The Doran case, which has been pend
ing several days before Judge Hunter, on
motion for bail, was decided yesterday,
by granting the motion and admitting
Doran 10 bail in the sum of $4,000. The
testimony of the State alone was taken.
The defence offered no witnesses.
Major Josiah Earl, whose arrest was
so accurately detailed in yesterdays
LEDGER, wna taken before Judge Lee of
the Law Court in the afternoon and re-
leased until to-day on bond of $4,000.
he is to re appear this afternoon at
3 o'clock.
A railroad neeting was held in Ripley
yesterday, and was addressed by Colonel
Mitchell, President Of the Mississippi
River railroad. The County Court of
subscribed $4,000 to the
enterprise by a vote of eleven to two.
Lauderdale is coming out Of the woods.
The President of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad offers to deliver, free
of charge, enough of Tishomingo
gravel" from Northwestern Mississippi,
to pave few blocks, provided the city
will do the paving, with view of testing
the gravel
Five companies Of militia, of one
hundred men each, are to leave Nash
Vile. to-day, for Gibson, Madison and
Haywood counties, to be stationed as an
army Of observation at Humboldt We
pity Humboldt and all the chickens in
forty miles Of there.
The missing goober girl, from the cor
ner Of Main and Jefferson, was found
yesterday in South Memphis and licked.
Il turns out that she did not 60 of with
baggage master. She is able to carry
her own baggage. The fruits of her dis
obedience brought many tears, anHher
parents brought her home.
Mr.. John Eseriit, Of London, delivered
, very interesting address at the Green
aw Opera House last night, for the bene-
St Of the ST. Lazarus Church fund, on
he subject Of Little Things" which be
handled very happily. Il might have
been expected that be would feel COM