Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-22
BREyIrIEs.

INTO the city daily.
There was heavy frost this morning.
Ice was found in abundance.
Go to Joe Lockes for all late papers,
pictorials and publications.
The thermometer at ~ m. to-day
stood at 47o, and the barometer at 297-lO
inches.
The Mobile Board of Health has de-
clared the epidemic of yellow fever at an
end, and that it is now safe for absentees
to return. -
Go TO Mansford's for all late papers
and periodicals. Frank Leslie and De-
morest magazine for December just re-
ceived.
Seven jurors we're obtained yesterday
in the murder case Of the State vs.. Sell
Howell, on trial before the Criminal
Court.
Adrummer boy (not of Shiloh, named
August Shoffheimer, was fined ten dol
lars this morning for running and drum
ing without license.
Recorder Scales tried thirty-two cases
this morning One hundred and ninety
FIVE dollars were assessed, and sixty-five
dollars collected.
The Main and Beal street cars will
leave Cochran Hall at eleven and twelve
o'clock each night during the continu-
ance of st. Patricks fair.
John O'Brien was bound over this
morning by the Recorder in the sum OF
three thousand dollars to appear before
the Criminal Court to answer to the
charge of shooting with intent to kill at
james McCune.
Emmons & Son, the veteran news
dealers, on Jefferson street, have received
the Courier-Journal Missouri Democrat
and Republican of yesterday. All the
Eastern city papers and pictorials can
be obtained at this stand.
We regret to learn that the Rev. DR.
Burns, the pastor of the First Baptist
Church, who has been sick for some
days with dangerous attack of malig
nant remittant fever, Of congestive
type, lies dangerously i'll. His recovery
was regarded hopeless this morning by
the attending physicians.
In the First Circuit Court this morn
ling, a judgment was rendered for the
defendant in the case of Francisco 4
Wiggin VS.. r. G. Brinkley ct al. The
suit was for damages-placed at $1,000
for damage done to stock Of goods o
the plaintiffs, caused by exposure o
said goods while the defendants were
repairing the Peabody Hotel, of which
establishment the defendants were own
ers.
The telegraphic weather reports thi
morning are interesting. The state o
the thermometer at the following places
was: Baton Rouge, 400; Cleveland, 1929
Chattanooga, 400; Cincinnati, 350 will
snow; Fortress Monroe, 49, Houston
4s'; Havana, Cuba, 750; Jackson, Miss.
snow storm, 400; Key West, 10; Louis
vile, showing, $50; Montgomery, 430
Nashville, showing, 400; Natchez, $40
New Orleans, heavy frost, 390; ITALIA
hasse, 490; st. Louis, 260; Indianapo
| lis, $40.
An important suit on two bills Of ex
change, each for the sum of $2S04, wa
commenced this morning in the FRS
Circuit Court. The suit was styled tn
President and Directors of the Bank O
West Tennessee VS.. f. Lane * CO
This is an old Memphis war claim, dc
pending on the removal of the assets G
the bank by the Confederate authorities
and notice Of protest properly made
The defendants file plea Of no deman,
at maturity of bills of exchange. TIL
case will probably be decided tomorrow
No. 206 Front street was the scene o
an Amazonian fight last night. The re
spective champions of the first and sec
ond floors engaged in pugilistic contest
Miss En- Stanley of the first floor, an
Miss Lizzie Walker of the second floor
engaged in the first round on the rooi
and fought the last round on the stree
in the presence of police officer, VIII
took them both to their corners, know
as the Adams street station-house. TIL
fighters were fined ten dollars each thi
morning by the Recorder. The caus
of this war Of Roses" was a question @
fashion. The young ladies differed Of
the question as to which Of them wor
the most stylish waterfall. At the clos
of the contest it was impossible for tn
Judges to decide the question, for eac
had parted with their waterfall durin
the contest.
Some law, despising individual in tn
Appeal of yesterday morning suggest
the propriety of establishing Lynch la'
in this city, and startles the communit,
with the bloody proposition that it !
more than likely that the next murdere
will be taken out and hung like a dog
We do not believe that there are tel
good citizens or ex-soldiers in Memphi
that will endorse this sentiment. We O.
not fear any danger Of Lynch law. Il
almost every case Judge Lynch's oour
has been composed of greater criminal
than its victims, and men insisted o.
hanging others when they feared the rop
themselves. Memphis was never so FIRE
from crime as at present. Where ar
the big robberies, the murders, the SHOOT
ing and cutting affairs that in days q
Radical rule and under Beaumont
Metropolitan police system were so CON
mon2 A city reporter can scarcely pre-
cure a respectable criminal item fron