Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-08
BREvITIES.

pers, literary periodicals and pictorial
publications.
Services at the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian Church, Court street, this evening
at seven o'clock.
The Second Chancery Court is not in
session to-day, owing to the illness of
Chancellor Yerger.
The Boards of Aldermen and Common
Council will meet this evening at seven
o'clock at the City Building.
The registers in the different wards are
issuing certificates daily. The Offices
will be closed on the 18th inst. \.
Miss Louisa Moore, the popular actress,
late Of the Moore-Wyndham company,
will be in the city in few days. ~
Recorder Scales disposed Of twenty
cases this morning. Seventy-five dollars
were assessed and fifty dollars collected.
There are 1902 drinking saloons in
Chicago, or one saloon to every one hum
dred and thirty inhabitants This beats
Memphis.
Mansford, corner of Second and Mon
roe streets, has received all late North
ern and Eastern daily and weekly papers
and pictorials.
To-day is the anniversary of the I'M
maculate Conception of the Blessed Vir-
gin. vespers will be held at the differ
ent Catholic churches this evening.
John Butcher stole a clock from Ed.
Landrum yesterday. This morning Blu
cher was sent to jail by the Recorder in
default Of bonds in the sum of $1,000.
United States Senator Hiram Revels,
of Mississippi, is lecturing at Dayton,
Ohio, on 1.-THE Tendency Of the Age"
He refers, of course, to the Dark Ages.
In the Criminal Court this morning
Harry Winfield was found guilty of steal
ing pistol from Singleton Simpson, and
sentenced tic the penitentiary for three
years.
Charles Smith was bound over in the
sum of $500 by the Recorder on tie
charge of stealing carpet-bag from
Oliver Wright, on board the steamer Des
Arc.
In the Criminal Court last evening n.
NJ. Halle, magistrate elect, was fined
five hundred dollars and sent to Jail for
thirty days for committing an assault and
battery upon DIR. E. Irby, of Cuba.
In the Appeal of this morning it is
stated that Lunn Il Mallon's wagon ran
over man some time since. This is a
mistake. The wagon belonging to those
| gentlemen never ran over anybody, so
far as heard from.
Emmons & Son, news dealers on JEFF
ferson street, have received the Courier
Journal Missouri Republican and Nash
vile Banner of yesterday, Cincinnati
Commercial of Tuesday last, and all
late Eastern periodicals and pictorials.
The Bartlett Circuit Court convenes
on Monday next The first day of the
term will be devoted to the organization
of the court, after which the State docket
will be taken up for trial. The civil
docket will not be called until the follow
ing Monday.
The case of the Union Bank Of Ten
nessee VS., Rawlings has been on triaI
three days before the Second Circuit
Court. The suit is on a bill of exchange
for 10000, and the defense set up is that
demand for payment was not made al
the proper time.
On Tuesday last five thousand bales OIL
cotton were sold In 1859 the late
George Gill purchased in one day five
thousand bales, while the outside mum
Der of bales sold ran the sales up ia
seven thousand seven hundred bales,
the largest sale of cotton ever made in
Memphis in one day.
The liabilities of the State amount to
the interesting sum of thirty-eight and
one-half millions, while the resources
only foot up twenty-five and one-hali
millions, leaving the inconsiderable sum
of sixteen millions due, without dollar
in view to pay the debt. This is Radi-
cal financial ability.
There was very interesting meeting
at the First Baptist Church last night, a
large number coming forward fol-
prayer and inquiry. Meeting this after
noon for inquiry at o'clock, and to,
night DR.. Graves viii explain John,
chap. VI, 44th verse. All are invited
to come out and hear him.
Jean Paul said England had the en-
pire of the seas, France the empire OF
the land, while to Germany was left the
empire of the air" The French and
Germans have changed empires. The
numberless balloon voyages from Paris
secure to the Parisians at least the right
to claim the empire Of the air,
Last evening, in the United States Cir
cult Court, the jury in the case Of Riddle
Coleman & Co. vs. Pillow ct al. brought
in a verdict for the plaintiffs in the sum
of $35,389 so. The suit was for alleged
seizure Of coal barges and steam tug du-
ring the war by the defendants as agents
of the Confederate authorities
Col. NJ. D. L. Stewart, clerk and mas
ter of the Second Chancery Court, sold
on yesterday 7sl acres Of land for the
sum of $500 The land in the woods
sold for twenty-five dollars per acre.
This property is near Hickory Wythe
twenty-three miles from Memphis, on the
line of the NJ. and o. Railroad. The