Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-02
Local Brevfties.


A drizzling rain came down this fore
noon and prevented many ladies from
exhibiting the latest fall fashions on the
sidewalks.
The Maid Of Memphis, Pat Cleburne
and Retreat have been entered for race
over the old association course on the
18th inst. Great sport is promised.
The religious interest continues at the
Central Baptist church, on Second near
Beal street. Quite large number have
united with the Church during the past
week.
There will be religions services in all
our churches tomorrow, and we believe
each will be we'll attended, as almost all
our pleasure-seekers have returned home
from trips East and West
The old story. A Georgian named
Clark, in town yesterday, met few con-
fidence men who beat him out Of $50.
II q man possibly can, he should keep
his eyes open while "bobbing round"
Col T. A. R. Nelson having declined
the appointment of delegate from the
Second Congressional district to the
Louisville Commercial Convention, Gov
Senter has selected Mr.. V. Fl. Sturm, of
Knoxville, to gil the place.
The J. E. Spicer mentioned in this
mornings Avalanche as being fined SIS in
the Police Court for drunkenness, we are
requested to state, is not the late R. M.
Spicer's son, who is young gentleman
of moral habits, never gets drunk, and
consequently never gets into the Gala
boose.
An old and respected citizen, DR..
Thomas Anderson, father of our rising
young lawyer, Van A. W. Anderson.
died in this city yesterday morning, aged
80 years, and was buried this morning
DR.. Anderson formerly resided in Weeks
burg, Miss, and was loved and admired
by all who knew him.
Last evening in the Dickens habeas
corpus case bsfoye Judge Foute, in the
Municipal Court, witnesses from Ala
bama testified to the capture of Inman
and Morgan, and the finding on the per-
son OF one of them watch which was
stolen the night of the murder on the
Dickens place. The case will be resumed
on Tuesday afternoon.
The remains of the celebrated actress
and native of the Bluff, Adah Isaacs
Menken, have been removed to Mont
Parnasse cemetery, Paris As Adah
was child of beauty and ability, we
should not be surprised to find some
pious lady like Mrs. Stowe publishing
sensational stories of her life. The
charity of Puritanism seems to be in
abusing the dead.
The order of exercises at the Memphis
Literary Association tonight is as fol.
lows: Inauguration of President and
Vice President. Selected reading: Rain
upon the Roof" Defamation. Grafton
"Ececticism is the philosophy ofthe XIX
Century," by Prof P. L. Mitchell De-
bate-Question. RESOLVED, That in I'm.
perialism rests the future prosperity OF
our country"
In our rounds among sinners picking
up items for the public we frequently
meet persons leading rough lives who
possess many good qualities of head and
heart. Their faults may be great, but
their merits are many, and we believe in
the last day the tears of Mercy will wipe
out their sins. If all men and women
were angels we verify believe the world
would stop moving.
Louis Owens is to be hung on Friday
next. and Major Foster, of the Jail, has
the traps ready. We believe this unfor-
tunate darby was crazy when he COM
mitted the crime of which he was found
guilty; and we further believe that Judge
Hudson should have taken the recon-
mendatiop TO mercy OF the jury which
tried the case into consideration. We
believe in extending cleEeney even to
negro.
Mr. NJ. John o'Ccaaer, candidate for
Mayor few years ago and now one of
the lessees of Central Park, had very
uarroy escape from death last evening
While riding a spirited horse near the
railroad crossing on the Pigeon Boost
road, about three miles from this city, the
animal started and reared and kicked,
and finally killed himself against an en-
bankment. Although Mr.. OConnor
was roughly tossed to the ground, he re
ceived no bodily injuries.
The annual crop report from the De-
partmsnt Of Agriculture in Washington
shows the loss in corp tp.s yeaF to be
forty-niue per cent. ia Virginia. from
thirty to forty per cent. in North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Kentucky and Ten
nessee; and from enc to ten per cent. in
Alabama and Mississippi. The report
places the sottpn yield at 2, 75O, 600 bales,
and puts down sriperesooin Mississippi,
Louisiana snd Texas RESPECTIVELY Of ten,
twelve and fourteen per cent,
A woman who lately arrived here from
Nashville and put up at boarding
house of not very good name was yester-
day taken into custody on magistrates
warrant, issued at the iputigstiou of her
brother. Upon the woman statsog ;hat
she was twenty-one years of age and
married, she was released from custody
and no further questions asked. This is
all about the "Story of Young Cy-
prian," "beautiful in her guilt" which
appears In highly sensational form in a
morning contemporary. It's Hrespecta-
BILE but not poor parents of this woman
don't live in St. Louis, but in Chatta.
nooga; the truly melancholy case"
was moi tried hafora the Commissioner at