Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-09-11
LOCALS IN BRIEF.

Clubs are being organized throughout
the city. Object: Social amusement and
intellectual display.
The Jones-Lake case was continued
this morning by Commissioner Pesrne
for further hearing on the 18th.
Henry Tshndy and wife for INDUCING
in few specimens Of choice billingsgate
toward one Augustine Hueg, will be
before Justice Willard next Monday.
Squire Foley disposed Of six peace
warrants yesterday, which rather war
rants the belief that many Of our people
are not as peaceably disposed toward
one another as they should be.
We we're shown this morning speci-
men Of cotton produced near this city,
and cleaned by the Gullett gin. The
sample is clean, clear and beautiful, and
if put on the market would rule at the
highest figures. The Gullett gin seems
to be rapidly growing in popularity.
The notorious Missouri Forrest (eol'
ored), who, it seems, will never learn
honeat ways, was sent to Jail yesterday
by Justice Foley on q well substantiated
charge of appropriating pair of slip
pers belonging to sister Of the same
charcoal hue.
We are just in receipt Of some beauti-
fully bound books from Cleaves, Smith
wick & Hatcher, booksellers, 2s3 Main
street. These gentlemen have on hand
the most choice selection of all kinds OF
reading, unequalled by any thing of the
kind in the city.
Two street beggars, mother aud son,
both blind, stole 50 80 cents yesterday
from Julia Kane. They we're brought
before Justice Willard, and plead
earnestly to be sent to the county Jail.
The Squire thought they were little too
anxious to &c fed at the public expense,
and therefore released them on their own
recognizancss.
Joseph Conklin, the most intolerable
and chronic vagrant with which our city
ia afflicted, was fined twenty five dol
lars this morning at the First district str :
ton. He is suspected of being concerned,
with another chap of about equal social
standing, in an attempt last week to- beat
gentleman from the country out Of
twenty dollars.
Cow thieves continue to operate in the
suburbs without molestation. We learn
that Mr.. M. Nealis, living a few miles
from, the city, on the Pigeon Roost road,
was relieved of two valuable cows on last
Thursday. The fact that they were both
heavy with calf is rather unpleasant in
formation for the beef eaters of Memphis,
as stolen cows are invariably disposed OF
in the markets.
As an evidence of the correctness OF
our views on specialtes in the wholesale
trade of this city, Messrs. Friedman
Brothers yesterday sold to three North
Mississippi merchants, who are on their
way to New York to lay in their fall
stocks. their entire bills of boots aud
shoes. This shows enterprise on the
part of the house alluded to, and should
be initiated by our wholesale merchants
in other lines of trade.
Michael Glancey--no relation OF our
worthy Alderman, but Waterman for M.
E. Cochran, lumber merchant - some
DAYS since inhumanly struck little
girl about eight years of age, named
Mary Leonard, across the spine with
stick of wood, and so severely injured
her as to cause even the best physicians
10 entertain serious doubts as to her COM
plete recovery. The little girl, with other
children, was picking up scraps of plank
in the undergrad, and Clancy at
tempted to drive them away by using the
severe means above alluded to. He will
be before Justice Willard this evening.