Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-16

Cotton COMPRISING, one dollar per
bale
The roads around Memphis are in q
bad condition.
Judge Rose, of Little Book, was 10 the
city yesterday.
Joe Jefferson Monday night The tick.
cts are going, going, going.
W. B. Miller, Esq, declines to be a
candidate for Mayor.
Only eight cases we're disposed of at
the police court this morning.
One independent candidate is running
for Mayor. He mayor may not be
elected.
Col. A. P. Burditt, Police Commission
err, is spoken of as the Radical candi-
date for Mayor.
Captain T. W. Meevin, Of the Charles
ton 7al1ahatchian-one of our most
lively interior exchanges-is in the city.
J. Devote, corner Adams and Third,
has the incest lot of dressed Kentucky
turkeys of the season.
Prof Sabatzky's concert, at Assembly
Hall, for the benefit of the Mission Chapel,
will doubtless be largely attended by the
elite Of the city.
Colonel John b. Mckinney, of Hew-
kins county, East Tennessee, is in the
city, visiting his brother-in-law, Colonel
Heiskell.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany is to have branch Office for COM
mercial purposes in the Stanton Block.
Msjor Will O. Woodson will preside.
The intimation We made yesterday that
Colonel Lacey was Radical was caused
by Misrepresentation, and we take plea
sure in stating that be is of the white
man party, and fully with US.
COL George R. Fall, for twenty years
proprietor of the MississippiGn, and
most favorably known ali over the State,
died at his residence {" Hermitage J, on
Deer creek, on the llth instant.
The Theatrical Bulletin appears this
morning double the usual size and chock
full of business cards. We congratulate
our friend McKis on his success, as we
know of no one more entitled to it.
Senator Cubbins telegrAphs to Acting
Mayor Black that q special bill had been
passed, authorizing the Commissioner of
Registration to hold the municipal cleo
ton on the 9th of January. That settles
it.
The stockholders of the Middleton,
Ripley and New Albany railroad were to
hold meeting OF Ripley yesterday, the
18th. The object was to organize and
prepare to 60 to work on the road at the
earliest possible moment.
The United States Court was not in
session yesterday, owing to the non'arri-
val of Judge Trigg from Nashville. he
arrived by train last evening, and BUSH
ness was resumed in court at 10 o'clock
this morning.
Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi,
is at thb Peabody with his family. He
has bought the elegant new residence
lately erected by r. P. Walt, on Poplar
street, and will in future make this city his
home. II is understood that he is going
into the banking business.
Mr.. James Garden, Mr.. and Mrs. Lam
agan and Miss Charlotte Champion, all
we'll known to our thester-goers, arrived
in the city yesterday, en- route 10 Louis
vile, from Galveston, Texas, where they
had the misfortune to lose their yard
robes in the burning of the theater.
Now that Brevet President Frank Ma
han, the single-bsrreled stakeholder Of
the Little Rock railroad, is in town, it
would be healthy season for an indig-
nation meeting to be held, and the cor
porsl publicly spanked as much as his
size and constitution will bear.
Mr.. E. B. Julio, the artist from ST.
Louis, who has bad the Heroes of
Charlottesville on exhibition at Rocco
Hall for some two weeks, has taken down
mia sign, and will soon leave the city. We
regret that SO meritorious sn artist and
gentleman should suffer a pecuniary loss
which he can poorly afford, from Tack of
support and proper encouragement, and
we wish hin better fortune elsewhere.
Several months ago, while Mr.. Cherry
was President of the Chamber Of Com
merce, he appointed W. B. Greealaw, W.
a. Stephens, W. 2 Moore, G. L. Denni-
son, Mr.. Eyeritt, W. R. Hunt, f. S Da-
Wis, B. j. Semmes, Il. NJ, Loewensline,
D. 6. Trader, W. NJ. Harrington aud ].
NJ. Pettisrew q Gonmitiee TO memorslize
Congress for customhouse to be estab
lished in Memphis. We would like to
hear from the committee.
The Asalqache of last Sunday con-
graduated the country that Grant had
appointed one Colonel Wood, Of Flor
snes, Ala, United S atss Circuit Court
Judge, and states that be was in the Con-
eederaie army four years. The New
YorS Tribune says that Wood was &
Colonel in the Federal army, from Ohio,
and that be sstllsS in Alabama since the
war. Both journals are good authority, |
but one Of them is slightly mistaken.
An ACT was passed by tue Legislature
on the Tlh Of December establishing
nau- eountr IN he known BIZ the name OF i