Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-22

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Thunder storm last night.
What about the bribery, chr
The dog is dead. See special.
The Moore trial j. still progressiug.
A eapias out for Alderman Renner.
Andy went down with q stiff upper lip
Mr.. wn. Frye. the artist, has returned
An order out for arrest Of ex.Tsx Col.
lector Garvin.
The snow q Louisville was Eve inches
deep.
who killed cock robin IL" said
the Radical minority .. Nashville.
Rt Rev. Bishop Fsshan leaves to-day
for Nashville and Rome. rweNaw
| Stockholders to the Gsyoso Gas Com
pany requested to pay up.
The Wood and Willow Ware Company
Of Memphis Is to be incorporated.
The Holly Springs Reporter is to bt
enlarged and put forth in an entirely
new dress next week.
Our friend and Representative, John
Cubbins, seems to figure in the Senate
quite frequently. FL
Mr.. Charley Martin, the Jefferson
street oyster broker, has returned from
his Northern tour, looking quite rosy.
County Commissioners adjourned I'M
til next Monday. The best thing they
can do would be to adjourn sine die.
Rumored that the postofiice is to be re
moved to the Greenlaw building, corner
of Union and Second streets.
Mr.. George Moore. the passenger agenl
of the great Baltimore and Ohio railroad
line, is in the city on trip South.
J. 81. Athey, Of the Holly Springs Re-
porter, and H. b. Barksdale, Of Missis.
sippi, are at the Peabody.
The Memphis Conference Female In
stitute at jackson, has one hundred and
sixty pupils.
The silly Ku.Klux law is about to
be abolished. The grand-daddy Hunters
who passed it ought to be ashamed BY
this time.
| As Andy johnson has failed to be
elected to the Senate, where he expected
to vindicate his record, we will cheerfully
| publish anything be may wish made
known to the world at twenty csHts pei
line. The usual rates. 9IS
Col. Jesse F. Brown, candidate fol-
Controller of the State, returned from
Nashville yesterday. A competent,
Trustworthy man 10 sadly needed. and We
hope our friend will be successful when
the contest comes off.
Chancellor Harris has decided that the
election for Chancellor, contested by
Hunter and Smith, is null and void VIM
Fl. Smith, the defendant, has taken On
appeal to the Supreme Court at Browns
vile, which meets next April Conse
quently he holds the Office in the mean
time.
Among other arrangements for thu
great fair next week, Mr.. R. NJ. Bridge
ct the Charleston depot and Mr.. Tom B
Dunn, at 21s Main street, are prepared
to sell tickets including railroad fair anG
admission to any part Of the Fail
Grounds.
Il
A young merchant named Brooks, Of
the firm of Brooks, Lenderman 4 Co., al
Colliervile,on the Memphis and Charles.
ton Railroad, accidentally shot himself
last Tuesday with q pistol inaicting g
very serious wound in his left side neal
the heart. His recovery is possible
though by no means certain.
| The Ssyette COUNTY negroes have con
cluded that their Canaan is In Arkansas
The tales they have heard of the militis
doings have filled them with golden
dreams of spoils and silver spoons and
plenty of nothing to do. Let them 90
! the fever and ague over there is capital
this eesppp. They will find that country
a cheerful place 30 eMigrate from, in less
than four months, and d lot OF them will
Fl nd wooden overcoats.
The cars of freight train on the
! Msmphis and Charleston railroad were
! thrown lroR the track yesterday morn.
| ing, opposite Colonel hFeen!sys, just
after the Junction accom- modation had
passed, coming TO the city. The track
was Blocked in consequences until late in
Tho a}tegnssp, spd all the trains for the
| day we're throFn ont IF tins Bntjl DARK,
Two Of the freight CARS are still in the
ditch. No person was hprt Cause Of
the accident supposed 10 be soft rail
which gave way under the pressure OF
very heavy train.
Mr.. B. A. Massey, a prominent, tai
| entes saS respected lawyer of this city,
died at his residences q, Madison street,
last evening. he had been liz sa ssslth
for some time, aud his end, though not
sarprise, was q painful shock to wide
circle of friends and scquaintsnces. Be
fore the war be stood 10 the front rank at
the bar, and for the last four years has
practiced his profession quietly and sue
cessfslly. The funeral services take
place to- day at I pm, Dr.. Wheat oifci-
atiBg. The bar will csii p reeting to
take suitable action.
The Contest oyer.