Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-17

Joe Jefferson is coming.
Thanksgiving and turkey tomorrow.
Mr.. Rutter, Of School Fund celebrity,
is drummer for New York house.
Mr.. George L. Harris, one of the rising
young men of the city, was admitted to
the bar yesterday.
The turfmen who we're with US last
week have gone toward New Orleans to
attend the Fall meeting there.
The Conservative Democratic Com
mittee will meet at their headquarters on
Second street this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Major Dick Wintersmith, formerly Of
this city, is suggested as a candidate for
the United States Senate from Kentucky.
The Postoffice will be closed Thanks
giving day at loan. The letter carriers
will make one delivery. All mails close
at 10 am.
Mr. Bosom, of Hardemau county, has
introduced bill in the Senate for the re-
opening of Hatchie river. We hope it
will speedily pass.
1t is reported around the streets that
Captain 10. Banfl has just inherited
$37, 500, left him by an old classmate
who died recently at St. Paul, Minnesota.
The steamer Msgentason her last trip
to New Orleans carried the magnificent
load of $500 bales of cotton. The largest,
perhaps, since the war.
A youth of sixteen, named johnson,
while out hunting, near Marion Lake,
Monday, accidentally shot himself 10 the
thigh, and bled to death. He was a
brother-in-aw of Capt. Mark Cheek.
The Young Mems Terpsichoreau Club
will give an elegant select social party at
Cochran Hall tomorrow (Thursdsy)
night. The Club, we are pleased to learn,
is in prosperous condition.
The members of the Bar met again
yesterday, aud adopted the majority
report, which accepted Judge Lees
resignation. and recommended j. A.
Anderson, Ed, for the position vacated.
An election for constables and magis.
trates throughout the county will take
place on the 18th of December, as will
be seen by Commissioner Boughner 6
notice elsewhere.
The bill reorganizipg tho Court OF
Shelby county became law yesterday.
1t provides that only the senior msgis'
trates from each district shall be mem.
bers of the County Court.
/ 1t being i'm possible to get jury in the
case of Thomas Leonard, charged with
! forgery and uttering a forged coupon
bonii, change Of venue was granted
Yesterday IN the Criminal Court. and the
venue removed to tEayette county.
Mr.. T. S. Mallory is candidate fol
Constable in the 18th Civil District This
announcement will be hailed with interest
aud pleasure by all whe know Mr.. Nal
Iory, and we presume there are few in his
District who do not know him in the
most favorable light. If elected be will
make competent, efficient officer, worthy
to bear the honor conferred by his appre'
ciative fellow.citizens. He is honest,
| faithful and reliable.
A petition 10 in circulation asking the
Legislature to abrogate the Charter OF
that thieving institution known as the
" Nonconnah Pike Company" which
jinersl ", J. Smith engineered through
the Legis.atsre in 1866. By this Char-
| ter highway robbery vas legalized and
| the people had to stand and deliver 9Th
out the privilege of appealing to the law.
ne bridges built by Shelby county were
frat sto,' EN- by this infamous corporation,
and then tho people who built the bridges
were required to pay toll for passing
over them.
Two of the morning papers announced
this morning that Jefferson Davis arrivea
last night-oue of them in particular.
A LEDGER reporter sailed forth with note
book and freshly-shsrpened lead pencils
to interview the distinguished visitor.
But the search was fruitless; Mr.. Davis
was not in the city, and the steamer
Great Republic, in which he left Vicks-
burg last Saturday, had not arrived. The
effect was demorslizing. The public, as
represented by an ardent sdmirer of the
ex-President who was never in the war,
but whose health has since greatly i'm
proved, was justly indignant that such
an outrage should be. committed on the
credullty of the public. The public took
cock. tail on the invitation of a friend,
and said it would cease forever more to
patronize those two newspapers aud our
senior had prepared leader in regard to
the Eminent in our midst, which is, for
prudential reasons, laid aside for some
future day. The Great Republic is be-
hind time and behind the news. If she
only had some of the extra steam let of
in Memphis she coul6 come up stream
forty miles an hour.
GKMPaIs THEATER.-Mr. Frank Mayo
gave finished, and we might say rather
original, rendition of Hamlet" last