Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-30
BREvITIES.

Joe Locke has all daily and weekly
papers for sale at his news depot.
Tomorrow the Gayoso Gas Company
will elect officers for the new year, 1871.
The thermometer at IL m. to-day stood
at 5l' and the barometer at 29 ITO
inches.
| James Hicks and William Harris con
tributed five dollars each to the city to-
day for the privilege of fast driving.
Ice is still floating past our city in the
mighty river in vast fields, rendering it
difficult for steamers to make Roadway
up the river.
The United States Circuit and District
and Second Chancery Courts are in SEES
sion. The First Chancery Court will
meet tomorrow.
The late cold snap has made the Adams
street station-house a popular hotel for
dodgers. The houseless and homeless
wanderer makes il his local habitation.
The Voice of the Fair ;" is spicy
little sheet, full of pleasant and good
ings-published. by order of the com
mittee Of arran, gements of the Grand
Masonic Fair,
Monday will be the ladies' New Year.
day, when calls will be received. We
presume Monday will also be celebrated
as New Years by our merchants, with
closed doors to repel all calls.
Recorder Sea les disposed Of thirteen
cases of DRINKS and disorderlies this
morning. One hundred dollars were
assessed, and se'venty-fve collected as
fines and forfeiture res.
Mansford, corner of Monroe and Sec
ond, receives daily st. Louis, Louisville,
Chicago, Nashville, New Orleans and
Cincinnati papers, and illustrated week
lies from all parts of the world.
Court Square, notwithstanding the
winter dress it wears at present, has been
much improved of late. The walks have
been covered with Tishomingo gravel,
which, in short time, will form a per-
feet concrete. 80
Emmons & Son, newsdealers, on JEFF
ferson and Beal streets, have received
all late daily and weekly newspapers.
Home and foreign pictorials, literary
magazines and journals and n ew goods
of every description. 10
The case of Mari VS.. Bank of West
Tennessee is on trial to-day before
Special Chancellor Halsey, in the First
Circuit Court, Chancellor Morgan being
incompetent to hear and determine the
cause by reason of interest. aaf
George Harris. the negro arrested on
Wednesday last, charged with killing a
white man in DeSoto county, Miss,
some months since, left last evening III
charge of the Sheriff of DeSoto county,
who had requisition for his body.
( An election for Justice of the Peace
will take place tomorrow in the Fifth
Civil District. The candidates are as
numerous as the sands on the sea-shore
for this very lucrative and important
office. The new test--the water works
question-will be applied to all magis-
terial aspirants
The proceeds of the late fair in aid of
the German widows and orphans was re-
mitted to Berlin yesterday by the lady
President of the Benevolent Society,
Madame Elizabeth Ringwald, who trans
mitted the amount of twelve hundred and
fifty dollars in draft from the First
National Bank of this city.
Last evening hose carriage acct
dentally collided with an awning post in
front of W. n Wilkerson & Co.'s drug
store, near the corner of Main and
Union. The post gave way and the
heavy awning fell to the pavement with
a tremendous crash. Providen tally, no
pedestrians were passing under it at the
time.
A large number of young ladies have
become proficient in the art skatorial on
wheels. Every evening the skating rink
at the Assembly Hall is scene of rev
elry and grace, and is crowded by our
city bellies, who perform the most intri-
cate movements in the most digIlified |
manner.
The Nashville Banner of the 2Sth
instant says: A bloody shooting ARRAY
occurred at Smyrna last Saturday after
noon between Henry Mclaughlin, editor
of the Murfreesboro Monitor, and for a
long time a resident of this city, and
Robert J. Cattles, of that place. The
affair grew out of an old difficulty, and
ended in the fatal shooting of McLaugh-
lin"
Mr.. r. B. Harrison, a we'll known
printer and an old member of the Mem
phis Typographical Union, died this
at his residence on Elliott
street, of consumption. Mr.. Harrison
was well and favorably known in this
,ity as gentleman possessing many {
snviable traits of character, and his
oss is severely felt by his friends and
F rr
Some days since Judge Flippin, Of the
Court, fixed the bond of w.
Van Roberts at $4,000, and the bonds Of
John Savage and Ftp Sullivan at $4,000 q