Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-11
News i'm Brief.


Leidy has changed his front
General R. S. Ewell is in the city.
The weather continues very Marchy.
Three street walkers were arrested last
night.
Mayor Leftwich has returned from
Washington.
Captain Asa Hill returned from Little
Rock yesterday.
The tea meeting tonight will be novel
and happy affair.
Major W. Il. Scruggs, of the Corinth
HOTEL is at the Peabody.
Shelby County Agricultural Society
meets next Saturday at Bartlett.
Election of Public School Superin-
tendent next Monday by the Board.
st. Patrick's Day will be observed with
more than usual eclat in Memphis.
Eleven cases appeared on docket at the
First District stationhouse this morning.
Alarm of fire last night at eleven
O clock-chimney burning on Washing
ten street.
The stationhouses are draped in
mourning for Sergeant Finch, and the
police are wearing Grape.
Ex-President Johnson is coming to
Memphis in two or three weeks to stay
two or three days. We tender him the
freedom of our arctum.
Mr.. Charles A. Fields, of the Green
vile Miss Times, and Colonel John A.
Glass, of the Trenton Gazette, are stop
ping at the Peabody Hotel.
Mr.. ]. P. Gentry, of Paducah, who, not
long since, was married to Miss Bar
bierre, well-known Memphis lady, is
stopping at the Peabody Hotel.
An alarm of fire this morning at one
o'clock was caused by a fire in the cellar
of McCaffrey & Cornelius, undertakers,
on Second street, which was extinguished
without much trouble.
Colonel Sidney A. Jones, General
Ticket Agent of the Cincinnati and
Louisville Mail Line and the Little
Miami railroad, has been in the city q
few days on business.
Mr.. Doran, the man who killed Cap
tain Ed. Whitfield, and was graRted bail
| in the sum of three thousand dollars, has
not been able to give satisfactory bond
for his appearance, and is still in Jail.
Tom Pruitt (white) who killed police
man Rogers, on Market street, on the
night Of June 4th, 1867, was found guilty,
| in the Criminal Court yesterday of volun-
tary maaslaughter, and be was sentenced
to the penitentisry for five years.
At some places in the city the Nicolson
pavement has almost disappeared be-
meath new dressing Of old fashioned
Memphis mud. The head of Adams
street is an example when the soft, oozy
mire runs down out of Brinkley avenue,
like river, and floods the pavement for
,.veral hundred yards. The only differ
suce between that place and streets with
out the pavement is that it has bottom
and some of the latter have not. If the
city feels able TO dig up the Nicolson
pavement and put down q new one every
two years, all right, let the mud rise; but
if the present pavement is intended to
last seven or eight years it should be kept
clean summer and winter.
The remains of acting-Sergeant d. ].
Finch we're followed to the Memphis and
Louisville depot yesterday afternoon BY
all the members Of the police force that
could be spared from duty, including Su'
perintendent Pearne and Commissioners
Burditt and Richards. The hearse was
drawn by four splendid white horses, and
| the coffin was Of elegant finish and was
partly covered by rich national Gag
The police presented an imposing ap'
pearance, and ten hundreds Of citizens
who paused on The sidewalks TO witnesl