Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-28
News i'm Brief.

World, is at the Peabody.
General Pennypacker, commander o
the Northern District of Mississippi, ar
rived in the city yesterday.
We will have a first class opera at the
New Memphis oil next week.
|. Fred. Wilson'S Minstrels open at the
Greenlaw Opera House o-night for the
remainder of the week.
| Gen. j. W. Gordon, of Pulaski, Tenn,
has been in the city day or two, stop
ping at the Peabody Hotel.
The Finance Committee received over
$4,000, yesterday, towerd defraying the
expenses Of the Commercial Convention.
| A delegation left the city yesterday to
attend the Annual Session of the Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance,
which convenes to-day.
Col ]. j. Donegan, Gen. j. G. Bradley
and Judge L. M. Douglass, of Huntsville,
and General s. D. Wheatl',y, Of Florence,
are at the Peabody Hotel.
johnson county is coming to the Mem
phis Commercial Convention. They have
| appointed all the Justices of the Pesce
and such others as may be willing to
serve.
| One hundred and twenty-five Illinois
| editors, with number of ladies and
children, have been to Mobile on visit,
and efforts are making to induce them to
pay Memphis call.
The Memphis Law Association will
hold their second annual anniversary OF
/ the Federal courtroom, in the Waldran
Block, this evening. An Grafton will
be delivered by Captain Hearne.
Twenty-seven cases were disposed Of
at the police court this morning. Henry
Cross, white man, charged with steal
ing, was turned over to the State. Several
men who left their teams were fined.
Messrs. Patterson, Patton & Co., pro-
pretors of the City Omnibus Line, will
please accept our thanks for recent ia.
vors. Their excellent line is quite POP
ular, and secures a full ahare of the pub
lie patronage.
The Sardis Miss newspaper, Our
Country, has changed its name to that of
The Sardis Locomotive, and comes out
in new and greatly improved dress. 1t
is now one of the neatest country papers
on our exchange list.
A new Democratic paper has been
started at Corinth under the name Of
The Harbinger. The FIRST number
comes to us looking fresh, newsy and
vigorous. We wish the enterprsing pub
fishers and editors abundant success.
There will be musical and dramatic
entertainment at the State Female Col
lege on Friday evening, Both inst, COM
mencing at eight clock. 1t will be n
splendid affair, and largely attended from
the city. The street cars will run to the
city after the performance.
Cousin M. Usquiio, Esq, prominent |
citizen of Louisiana, who has bored with |
great perseverance at artesian wells for |
some years, arrived by steamer last
night, and has taken an apartment at
the Peabody Hotel, where he will be
found by any Of his old army comrades
all summer.
The prospectus of the Southern I'm
perialist, owing to its length and other
reasons, is crowded out to-day, .but it will
appear tomorrow. The projectors ex-
pect to issue the first number on the All
Of July. They propose to demonstrate
the failure Ct all republican governments,
and to advocate limited monarchy un-
tquivocally.
Two hundred and ninety-one blacks
registered yesterday. To-day the fire.
men and police will be registered and to-
morrow the blacks again. On Friday
the Registrar will visit Germantown, and
on Saturday, Bartlett Monday and
Tuesday of next week will be devoted to
the completion of the city registration,
and the balance of the week will be spent
in the country.
The Memphis Sun of yesterday con-
tanned an announcement that it had
changed hands, Messrs. L. ]. Dupre d
Co, having sold the paper and all its in
terests to W, A. McCloy 4 Co. Col.
Dupre wall retain connection with the
paper. Mr.. Mccloy is worthy gentle
man. and we give him a cordial welcome
back to the editorial fraternity, for be
was proprietor of the Memphis Democrat,
a paper suppressed by the military in
1865. We wish him success and power
in his new undertaking.
The old man named ThOs. B. Mellau,
who vas arrested two or three days age
for circulating obscene documents, was
discharged yesterday before Squire
Griffith on the ground Of insanity. His
madness has lots Of method about it, and
if he persists in his course he may learn
that there are some very tough, long,
Sweet, ironical kind Of oOvhides in Mem
phis, and that the people here 60 mad