Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-26
Local Brevities.
Weather clear and cold.

| Taxpayers buy city and county scril
7S@sO cents.
The Democratic Executive Commute,
meets at three o'clock this afternoon a
Willetts.
| The new police force will be in the GeIl
about the first Of next week. Their uni
form will be cadet-gray.
Brignoli, the celebrated tenor, and Mis-
McCulloch, the talented prima donna
accompanied by other artists of meri
and reputation, will appear at the Mem
phis Theater next Monday evening.
The Buckley Serensders continue tt
have fine houses OF the Memphis Theatel
and to give capital entertainments. Las
evening the bill was excellent and thu
house good. Tonight grand burlesqul
will be given of the opera II Trovatore
1t costs one dollar and twenty cents
per hundred pounds Of compressed cottor
for transportation between Memphis snC
New York. The cost between New Or
leans and New York is, by steamer, sew
enty.fve cents; by rail, Gfty cents
Col l.. B. Eaton was confirmed Mon
day as United States Marshal for The
District of West Tennessee, vice j M
Tomeny, removed. Tomeny will now
have an opportunity to make that trip tc
Europe which he long has desired.
Capt. John E. Ford, so long and favor
bly, known here in connection with river
matters, leaves to morrow for New Or
leans, where he will be connected with
the coal firm of McClusksy, Bigley 4
Co. We wish him success and pros
perity.
The Attorney General requests that all
Justices of the Peace having in posses
sion papers in State cases, appeals, etc.,
returnable to the present term of the
Circuit Court, will Immediately file the
same, or citations will be issued against
them at their cost.
The noted case of Ruby vs.. Rogan,
was taken up 10 the Law Court yester-
day, Judge Anderson presiding. This
suit was commenced in May, 1866, being
suit on a cotton contract involving
$4,000. The trial of the case will con.
tinue for several days.
Two noted burglars, connected with
the Dow robbery on Alabama street, es-
capped from the upper station house night
before last, and have not since been
heard of. They have various names, in
Guiding Smith, of course; and the other
fellow claims, among other appellations,
that of Sipling.
The Boston Shoe and Leather Re.
porter says: "We find that 22,7O0 cases
of boots and shoes were shipped from
Boston for Memphis during the year
1862" and out of this number we learn
that one of our leading boot and shoe
houses-Messrs. Friedman Brothers--re-
ceived 5000 cases. This certainly speaks
well for Memphis.
Capt. L. R. Patton, gallant and we'll
known ex.Confederate of the city, and
formerly of the Fourth Tennessee, sur.
rendered yesterday to the silken bonds Of
matrimony, his worthy and accomplished
captor being Mrs. Cordelia N. Cooper,
daughter of Col. Bedford. leading citi-
zen of this county. The affair occurred
at Col. BEDFORD S residence, near the city.
Both parties have many friends to wish
them joy, constancy, and long, useful
life together. May they never be less
happy than at the marriage altar.
NJ. Combs, jr., claim agent, etc., has
gone up--up to the county Jail he has
been conspicuous for several years in his
position, and has been srrsigned before
the courts on various char yes; but this is
the fret time he was ever fairly cornered.
An ex. Federal soldier named E. G. Bate
man, from Psducah, Kentucky, came
down to see about claim he had had in
Combs hands. OF course his money was
not ready. But Combs borrowed fifty
dollars from Batemsn on check drawn
on the Citizens Bank. The check
wouldn't draw. Justice Willard furnished
a warrant that would draw though, and
the gay and festive claim agent, who
parts his hair in the middle, was locked
up in the cold county jail, without the
benefit of clergy. The bonds required
for his appearance at the Criminal Court
is two thousand dollars. He couldn't
give it.