Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-12
LOCAL BRayITIEs.

the city Ia daylight this morning.
The late Hon. Mr.. Leitwichs funeral
will take place tomorrow at two o'clock
in the afternoon.
The Chancery Court adjourned yester-
day until Monday, out Of respect TO the
memory of the late Hon Mr.. Leftwich.
Messrs. Halpine & Hays, formerly Of
this city, and more recently of Chicago
are getting up stock company in st,
Louis to start an Irish weekly newspaper.
A Nashville paper has an article OF
two and a half columns, headed, A
Word to Cincinnati" When the editor
concludes to write sentence the paper
will have to get,out a supplement-
The changing has been put in opera
tom and is likely to do good service for
the city. The members of this institu-
ton may fall into the habits of working,
which will be useful to them in after
days. fsbt ff4fitts 'ftl
II is stated by the Avalanche that
twelve thousand emigrants have been
brought to this city by one agency alone,
four thousand of whom settled in the
city, and the rest within the range of one
hundred miles around Memphis.
A new trial has been granted in the
case of Elisha Roberts, sentenced in the
Circuit Court to five years in the penn
Tertiary, for arson. This case has Gre
ated considerable interest in legal circles,
Able counsel is employed on both sides.
Congress is to be petitioned to make
Memphis port of entry. In view OF
the fact that several ports of entry now
in existence do not pay expenses as
such, we are not sanguine that Congress
will grant the prayer, although there can
be no harm in trying.
The Grand Jury has been looking into
the alleged practice by the city govern
ment of licensing gambling houses and
the cages for soiled doves Mayor
johnson and Chairman Dixon we're ex-
amined yesterday, after which the jury
adjourned until Wednesday.
The Chattanooga Times says almost
daily large gangs of negroes from Vir-
GINA and North Carolina pass through
there on their way South, to work on
plantations. Some fifty passed through
there last night, and left on the Memphis
and Charleston railroad. 5ao giaai-q
The street-gang has been put to work
again, and is doing efficient service
They are at present cleaning up Poplar
street, which needed the attentio sadly.
When through with that job, they can
find another and worse one by going to
the east end of Adams street, where the
mud has oozed down from Brinkley ave-
nue. and flooded the street some distance.
The gang looks cheerful and contented,
as if glad to get out of Jail to take open
air exercise and cultivate an appetite for
county hash.
Five marriage licenses were returned
to the County Court Clerks office this
week with certificates appended of mar
rage, as follows: Charles Neust and
Miss Celia Berger, married March 18th,
by Justice Willard John Hilstrong and
Miss Emma Miller, married March LIST,
by Justice Millard; Jacob Samstag and
Miss Mary Fell, married February 18th,
by Justice Willard; r. s. Hunt and
Mrs. N. G. Slaughter, married March 9th,
by Justice ]. W. Bass; 7. B. Crenshaw
and Miss R. g. Caldwell married March
9th, BY Rev. W. J. f. Allen.
There are many in Memphis who re-
member Major Frank Foster, a genial,
warm-hearted yonng man, who lived
here year or two after the war. be
was formerly of Florence, Alabama.
The Union and American, of the 10th,
saws: We are panied to hear of the death
of Major Frank Foster, which occurred
at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the
resid ence of Sam Scott, Esq, on High
street. The death Of Major Foster is
4 Attributable to an accidental hurt re-
ceived by him in September last. The
deceased was an officer in the Confede-
rate army, and was highly esteemed both
for his gallantry as a soldier and his
kindly disposition in all the relations OF
life. He was in the 26th year of his age.
Rabbi u. y. Sneersohn, native of Je-
rusalem, VINO has been in this country
fourteen months, is in the city and will
deliver a lecture at the Memphis Club
Hall next Monday night Subject;
Palestine. He has appeared before large
crowds in several of the principal cities
of this country, and usually in oriental
costume. For many years he has been
engaged in behalf of his race, both in
Asia and Australia, and has done much
for the moral and material welfare OF his
brethren. He Is highly cultivated gen.
tlerpan and talmudical scholar and
speaks dozen or so languages WITH tp-
ency. among the number the English.
The lecture will be the first we have ever
had the opportunity to hear from a ma
five of the Holy Land, and will doubt
less attract large crowd 81 Both jews
and Gentiles.
Memphis Theater.