Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-26
News I'm Brief.


Nine arrests in the southern district
yesterday.
DR.. G. R. Sykes, of Mississippi, is at
the Peabody.
General Jubal A. Early, of Virginia,
arrived at IL o'clock last night and is
stopping at the Peabody Hotel.
The ball of the Irish Literary Society
has been postponed from Monday until
Wednesday evening next, 3lst instant.
Charles Swan and J. Howard, two
white Migrants, were fined ten dollars
each yesterday, and ordered to leave the
city.
Colonel J. P. Pryor, of the Water
Valley Eagle, is at the Peabody. His
live paper is one of our most welcome
exchanges.
Messrs. R. N. McKie and John G..
Lonsdale have been granted the use of
the lamp-posts for advertising purposes
for one year.
Colonel A. E. Reynolds, at Corinth,
was robbed Monday night last of one
thousand dollars, taken from his pocket
while he was in bed asleep.
An alarm of fire occurred at one
o'clock this morning, and was occasioned
by the burning of frame house back OF
SO Jefferson street. Loss light.
Madison is the acknowledged Wall
street of Memphis. The bulls, and cows,
and calves are to be seen every day just
below Main street, where there is a regu-
lar cattle market.
Crop prospects thus far are rather dis
couraging. Many of the farmers are
quite out of heart, and some of them
say that this is the most backward
spring since the year 1912.
Twenty-one cases at police court this
morning. Four Africans were fined for
concealed weapons. One robbery and
two stealing cases were turned over to
the State. Various drunks, etc., were
fined as usual.
Hon. Mr.. Bowles, the erFatic member
of the Legislature from Overton county,
died at home last Thursday after brief
illness. He left Nashville with the militia
for that section tive weeks ago, after
much dissipation about the capital.
The concert at the Memphis Club Hall
Monday night for the benefit of the
Christian Church promises in all respects
to be complete and happy success. The
ladies deserve the most liberal encour-
agsmeat in their noble efforts.
To-day is Good Friday, kept by the
Catholic and Episcopal churches in COM
memoration Of the crucifxion. Services
are held 10 all the churches. In Rome
the day Is csiebssted with great pomp
and solemni:y, it being tho lest day in
Lent.
Judge P. I. Scruggs resigns his posi-
ton as msmber of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Shelby County.
He tenders his resignation to the editors
of two morning papers, who will doubt
less signify their acceptance, and sp-
point some oas else to fill the arduouS
position.
The friends of the Sundsy-sehool cause
have been anticipating q grand rally at
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Sunday afternoon next, and an address
by the Rev. DIR. Green, of Nashville,
who also has been expected to deliver
lecture Tuesday evening. We regret to
learn that the reverend gentleman is
seriously i'll and will not be a6ls to Ilset
his engagements.
The Patterson case came up yesterday
at noon for examination before Justices
Hill, Hall and Grifith. and one witness,
the man who was wounded at the tiRs Of
the Dickens tragedy, was examined at
great length. The voluminous testimony
threw bat little light on the mystery.
To-day nothing has been done up to one
o clock, except liberal war in techni-
calities by <he lawyers.
We we're favored to-day by call from
Mr.. W, B. Duhring, agent of Wilson's
Minstrels, troupe which will appear at
The New Memphis Theatsr all next week
The company is spoken of by the press
elsewhere as one of the best in the conn
Try, and for the last five years they have
had an opera house Of their own in ST.
Louis. They are now on a Southern
Tour, and while ia Memphis we can
almost ensure them full houses.
AwSIxGs of ali description made and