Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-29
Legal srsritfes.
Rain yesterday.
Tomorrow St. Andrews Day.

Hebrew Fair begins next Monday.
Quorum Court meets next Monday.
Great mortality among the lawyers.
Ward registration closes tomorrow.
Mayor Lsftwich gone to Washington.
Dr. Plough is still turning up the soil.
Five arrests in each district yesterday.
Jefferson Davis at St. Lazarus yester.
day.
Slow work--cleaning the Nicolson
pavement.
Calvary Church to be intellectually
remodeled.
Memphis has not single elegant
church ediice.
A recent belligerent correspondence
terminated amicably.
Judge Hunters funeral took place yes
terday afternoon from Grace Church.
The bill amending the charter of Mem
phis will probably be taken up and
passed to-day or to morrow.
Charlie Williams, of Jefferson street,
has returned from trip to his old home
in England.
Gen. Albert Pike cordially indorses DR..
Plough's great project of marine and
industrial exhibition in this city.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars stock
subscribed by the merchants to the Ar
kansas River Packet Company.
Jefferson Davis visited Julio's painting
of Lee and Stonewall jackson Saturday,
and complimented the effort Of the artist
very highly.
Captain W. L. Scott, q worthy and ex-
cellent gentleman, has been suggested as
delegate to the State Constitutional
Convention.
The stockholders of the Brownsville
and Dyer County Railroad hold meet
ing OF Brownsville to-day to elect Direct
ors.
The store of Brodnax & Son, at Ma
sons Depot, was robbed about week
since of $4,000, which was taken from the
safe while the clerks were at supper.
Hon. VIM. M. Smith was admitted to
the bar as solicitor in the Chancery Court,
Saturday, after Chancellor Morgan took
his seat.
Two children went to Whites Station
to get married last Friday, but were
found by detective on Saturday, and
restored to their agonized parents before
any great harm was done.
The meeting at Greenlaw's Opera
House Saturday night was we'll attended
and highly interesting addresses in favor
of a monumental church were made by
Judge Brown and Col. W. FL. Stephens.
Barbour Lewis has been found. His
trial, on the charge Of embegElement, in
three separate cases, will be called this
week in the Criminal Court; also, f. W.
Louis, VIM. II. White, j. E. Merriman,
and VIM. Hook, charged with the same
offense.
Since the reported advent of the st.
I Louie, Chicago and Cincinnati medical
students, with plain black caps and long
capes, in search Of four Memphis darkies
for their dissecting rooms, very few ne
proes have trusted themselves on the
streets after dark. The idle and the
guilty only are afraid; the honest and
| industrious have no fears, and need have
none.
Tonight Rev. Arthur Bogdan, the Mes
torian Presbyter, will deliver highly
entertaining lecture for the benefit OF the
Young Mems Christian Association, al
Assembly Hall, beginning at y o'clock
Subject: "Habits, life and manners of the
people of Turkey" Tomorrow (Tuss'
| day. evening be will deliver another lee
ture at the sane place on the Eastern
subject aud Eastern churches"
A primary meeting has already been
held in the 9Th Civil District, we learn
and delegates of the straight white strips
were appointed to attend the County Con-
yention next Saturday. DR.. A. Beatty
and II. c. Brewer, Esq, were chosen
and Mr.. J. F. Herring as an alternate
We hear that the LIST, 9Th and other Dis
tricts are thoroughly aroused Oh the is
sues before them, and will be heard from
| az TIE proper time. The county shou.c
send full delegation by all means,
House servants were never before SC
scarce in Memphis as now. The allure
mants of $l2 per week to pick cotton, has
taken several hundred TO the country
and many, we learn, have concluded to
stay, but many will come back to take
.heir Christmas frolic, and when here
may eopslris To remain. They are
pretty we'll up to snug, like the servants
of New York, and are learning to attach
vast Importance and big price to their
services. Without any organization they
seem to kDoy the market PRICES, and to
sudeSD;snd each other perfectly.
Last Wednesday night msn named
James Roach, returning home intoxi-
Gated from the little town of Denmark,
ip HsdjqOp county, became too stupid to