Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-09
News I'm Brief.

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More beggars than usual in the city.
Captain DeHaven left yesterday after
noon for Vicksburg. .4.u
Remember the Steinkuhl benefit to
night. s4if
Judge Trigg will decide to-day whether
keno be " correct"
Yesterday was very dusty. Hurry W
the street cleaning.
Gen. J. L. Alcorn and family, Of Mis-
sissippi, are at the Peabody. m
The Cosgrove case still occupies the
attention of the Criminal Court.
Services in the First Baptist church
this evening by Rev. d. E. Burns.
A contemporary intimates knowingly
that keno has the jaw-bone-cheek-o
q lawyer.
Court Square is rapidly assuming the
| foliage of spring, and will soon lool
green, shady and attractive.
Ten arrests in the southern district
yesterday. Four of them we're State
cases, and warrants were issued.
Colonel John W. Dawson declines L
act as one Of the Marshals in the recep-
ton of ex-President johnson.
A lady named Lake, from St. Louis
died on the steamer Great Republic
yesterday while at our landing.
| A negro named Henry Sale attempted
yesterday to murder one of his fellow
citizens with nice butcher-knife. Gol
arrested.
Rolfe s. Saunders is still Revenue
Collector, but three or four hungry
patriots are squabbling for the position in
Washington.
The Episcopal Church Home is about
to erect building for charitable purposes
four miles out on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad.
The notorious female known as Annie
Gallagher was arrested in the southern
district yesterday for an assault with
intent to kill.
Mr.. Will. ]. Mansford, at $685. Second
street, has the Bazaar, Chimney Corner,
Banner of the South, and all the popular
literature of the day.
Captain Humphreys, the City En-
gincer, is at work laying out Bickferd
Park, lately presented to the city. 1t is
situated between Fourth and Fifth,
Bickford and Henry streets.
Col. John Donovan, Col. ]. 81. Ed
mondson, DR.. E. Woodward, G. W. Mil.
Ter, Esq, and Mr.. Geo. s. Robbins, dele
gates to the late Turf meeting in New
Orleans, returned last evening.
Our clever young friend, Mr.. Will
Locke, has returned after an absence of
-aral months in the unreconstructed
s,o,s. Of .he South. His many friends
cord;allv welcome him back.
The bail in the Patterson 'ASe was w
by mistake of figures yesterday stat " ~
$4,000, when it should have been $2o,-
600. Messrs. Wade Bolton and E. NJ.
Apperson went on Captain Patterson's
bond. ~
When did Rome how'll Ante mrba
condita when as related by Livy, the
wolf-suckled Romulus. When will some
one again "make Rome how'll" Not,
forsoo,h, until it shall be consistent with
the ends of justice
Messrs. ]. P. Dromgoole & Co. will
ship by the steamer r. E. Lee over one
thousand dollars worth Of their msnufac-
tured medicines to fill an order from
Houston, Texas. This looks like Mem
phis is extending her field of trade.
Many young men in the city are out
Of employment. Let them go to the
country and prove their manhood on
farm. There's chance to show pluck
and make an honest living beside. Rail-
splitting is better tonic than whisky
cocktails.
Mr.. Henry Farmers concert will GER
tainly come off next Tuesday night, the
18th inst, unless il rains; in that event
the affair will be put of. Mr. Farmer is
determined to give fine musical enter
tainment, aud that in good weather when
the public can attend without incon-
venience.
Weather quite warm. Spring has
come at last - the farmers sing for
Joy. The merchants complain that no
country people call to buy goods.
The air is already glowing with the
breath of summer, and bright, joyous
spring will have but short time to reign.
Registration commenced to-day in
room under the County Court building,
on the corner Of Second aud Union
streets. Up to neon abOnt two hundred
aud City whites bad been registered, and
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