Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-05
BREyITIEs.
The Fair Monday next.

The Boards of Common Council and
Aldermen meet this afternoon.
Quite change in the weather; it is
cool and bracing and promotes the sale
Of ready made clothing.
Rev. James Young delivers lecture
on Temperance, at the Central Metho-
dist Church, in Union street, tonight
Seats free.
Gen. Albert Pike delivered beautiful
and impressive address at the Lodge Of
Sorrow, held under the auspices of the
Grand Consistory at Louisville, last
Monday night.
Quite an improvement has taken
place in the appearance of the post
office bailding. The first story has been
transformed into the resemblance Of
brown stone, which relieves the bare
walls and increases the strength.
In the County Court yesterday J. G.
Moffatt was elected Coroner Of Shelby
county. The services Of Mr.. w. P. Will
son were retained as County Attorney
until January |, 1871, over all oppo-
nents. The election of Notaries Public
will take place to-day.
Memphis may well be proud of the
triumph gained by Messrs. James d
Roosa, of this city, at the St. Louis
Fair. We were shown a private dis
patch yesterday, stating that the wagon
manufactured here took the first pre-
MUM. This shows what our people can
do by reasonable effort.
At grand hop given at the Phoenix
House in Lexington, Ky, last week,
during the Fair, jenkins, who was
stranger in the assembly, says: Miss
Ny, of Memphis, wore black silk
dress, short, with an entire white illusion
over-dress, in simple taste, setting off
appropriately one of the purest speci-
mems of womanly beauty and grace ever
seen in any assemblage."
Colonel Tom W. Neal editor and pro-
prietor of the Dyersburg Gazette, is in
the city on business His paper is one
of the most lively and valuable of our
interior exchanges, and circulates in
rich region of country. Dyersburg has
steamboat communication with Mem
phis the year round, and trades here al
most exclusively.
We had the pleasure yesterday of
meeting Colonel ]. B. Heiskell, Attor-
ney General and Reporter of the State.
He looks hearty and cheerful; the East
Tennessee air agrees with him. The
Supreme Court has been hard at work
at Knoxville, and Colonel Heiskell was
kept quite busy for few weeks. He is
here on official business, as well as upon
visit to his home
Two policemen looking for drunken
man in the woods on the bluff, in front
of the old Gayoso House, found the de-
caying remains of a white infant child
enclosed in a raisin-box, the fruit of
somebody's shame 1t is whispered
about that there is no clue to the pa
rentage of the murdered innocent, for it
had evidently been strangled out of the
world-but somebody knows.
We regret to learn that our young
friend Mr.. Eugene Greenlaw was thrown
from his buggy last evening and had his
elbow dislocated. DR.. r. W. Mitchell,
however, being promptly in attendance,
the sufferings of the injured man were
speedily relieved, and we are happy to
state that he is now as well as ever, with
the exception of little soreness.
AT meeting held at Grace Church
last evening, measures were adopted
looking to the organization of society
for mission work within the bounds of
the church. The following committee
was appointed to draft constitution
Jacob Thompson, James A. Owbery,
Miles Merriwether, W, Jack Smith and
G. V. Rambaut The next meeting
will be held this night week.
A grand ball in honor Of the r. W.
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of the
State of Tennessee will be given at the
0verton Hotel on Thursday evening, the
Goth of October. The Committee of Ar
rangements consists of Messrs Gus W.
Jones, W. H. Moyston, j. E. Russell and
Jas. Granauer. Floor Managers: Geo.
Mellersh, chief; 0. F. Prescott, Billie
Miller, c. A. Beehn and E. Ackman.
Reception Committee: Marcus Jones, j.
d. Danbury, C. Carroll, E. F. Risk, John
Beamish, John Linkhauer, B. Bingham,
W. s. Bruce. J. Z. Randall, John John
son, A. Humes and Jos. Uhl. The event
promises to be one of interest and en-
joyment, and will no doubt be worthy of
the large and respectable body known as
! Odd Fellows