Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-20

BRIE:virIEs.

lief Association will come off tomorrow
evening at Cochran Hall.
Bishop Quintard will deliver his usual
lecture at St. Marys Church on We'd
nesday night at 7 pm s.se lt4
The thermometer at II o'clock m. to-
day stood at 400, and the barometer at
20 9-lO inches.
Five steamboatmen were fined five
dollars each this morning by the Re-
corder for resisting an officer.
The Second Circuit Court will adjourn
on Friday morning next over to the first
Wednesday after New Years Day.
/ Recorder Scales bound Ed. Thornton
over in the sum of $4,000 this morning on
the charge of robbing Felix Gilmatin Of
twenty dollars.
Sam Donegan was sent to Jail by the
Recorder in default Of $4,000 bonds on
the charge Of stealing ffty-three dollars
from w. H. Moore on yesterday.
Recorder Scales disposed of thirty
eight cases this morning. Two hun
dred and twenty dollars were assessed
as fues, and fifty dollars collected.
Judge W. L. Scott was sworn into
office by Clerk and Master M. d, l..
Stewart, and took his seat this morning
on the bench Of the Second Chancery
Court.
A divorce and injunction bill wasfiled
this morning in the First Chancery
Court by Annie McLemore against 5. b..
McLemore, on the ground of cruel treat
ment etc. esi.
Father Nugent will deliver his elo-
quent lecture tonight at the Greenlaw
Opera House. Subject: Nobody s
Children" 1t costs nothing to attend
this lecture. N 14
The Terpsichorean Club of Memphis
will give their grand ball and Banquet
on Wednesday, the 2sth inst, at Cochran
Hall. Tickets can be secured at Bulle-
tin News Company, 2s6 Second Street.
Ladies' wanting good cooks and ex-
perieneed white female labor, are invited
by Father Nugent to attend his lecture
on Nobody's Children" to be delivered
tonight at the Greenlaw Opera House.
Seats free. afa .rll1i
The Lingard troupe did not appear at
the t1eater last night, owing to missing
tr ain connection at Cor;nth yesterday.
This evening the troupe will appear on
the boards to a large and fashionable au-
dience. .1o5 ms Ell. Idr.s.... tie4
O Mansford, corner of Second and Mon
roe streets, has all daily and weekly
newspapers, literary periodicals, maya
zines, comic almanacs, pictorial publica-
tons and large stock of Christmas
news goods.
The snow, which has suggested SO many
peotical illusions, arrived in the city this
morning. Sleighing parties insist that
he shall remain several days, and tender
him the freedom of the city and'use Of
the streets. 1gHs
Joe Locke, newsdealer, keeps on hand
the daily Nashville papers-Union and
American and Republican Banner-also
all Eastern daily and weekly papers,
pictorials, magazines-in fact, every
thing in the news line. - ss
Emmons & Son, news dealers, on JEFF
ferson and Beal streets, have received
all the late daily and weekly Eastern and
Northern newspapers, magazines and
piotorials. Their stock Of general news
goods is large and complete.
Tomorrow evening the proceeds of
the skating rink in the Assembly Hall
will be donated to "The Charch Home. y
The rink is a fashionable institution in
Memyhis, and is crowded each night by
hundreds of ladies and gentlemen on
roller skates.
The Myra Day-Banks homicide case
is still in progress in the Criminal Court.
The testimony for the defense will proba-
bly, close this evening, and the argument
of the able counsel engaged will be
heard tomorrow. The court room was
crowded this morning. sHg~
Bourbon county, Kentucky, is cele-
brated for its four-year-old whisky, but a
Bourbon county steer appeared on Main
street this morning which beat the whisky.
The animal weighed over 1900 pounds,
and was owned by Madison street
butcher named NJ. Carver. 2
At the late German Fair the one hun
bred and twenty-four old Mexican dol
lars, ratified off by Mr. E. Alderman,
we're won by Messrs. G. A. Beehn, VIM.
French, E. r. Jack, VIM. Mclean and
W. b. Miller. Ackerman's mine is bet
ter than those of Colorados ~
At the lawyers meeting, called by
Chancellor Yerger, and held last eve
ming in the Second Chancery Courtroom,
Mr.. W. L. Scott was elected by the bar
to preside over the Chancery bench dur
ing the illness Of Judge Yerger. Judge
Scott is well known as an able Chancery
practitioner and a. gentleman most
learned in the law. The compliment
was just tribute to his abilities. rl.
The great fair and musical festival Of
the Masonic order, to be- given for the
purpose of collecting funds to aid in
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