Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-13
BREvITIEs.

No murders or suicides reported to-
day.
No criminal business before our city
magistrates to-day.
The gravel walks in Court Square are
being newly repaired.
The admiralty docket was called to-
day in the U. s. District Court.
The thermometer at IL m. to-day stood
at 4So, and the barometer at 30 inches.
In Canada, all women who pay taxes
in their own right are entitled to vote
for School Visitors.
Il cargo of iron, FIRE clay and FIRE
bricks for the Gayoso Gas Company Is
expected to arrive daily.
Mr.. James B. Shell, formerly deputy
sheriff under Mr.. Winters, died this
morning, in this city, of pneumonia.
The ward registration continues to
progress slowly. Next Saturday is the
last day on which certificates will be
ISSUED.
Recorder Scales disposed Of twenty
eight cases this morning; $3.50 were as
sessed as fines, and fifty dollars col
lected.
St. Peters Orphan Asylum was pre-
scented with a valuable cow yesterday,
by Mr.. Dennis Sexton, the well-known
dairyman.
Mansford, corner of Second and Mon
roe streets, has all the late pictorial
papers, literary publications, comic
almanacs, daily and weekly newspapers.
Joe Locke has all the latest daily and
weekly Eastern and Northern city pa
pers, pictorials, literary periodicals. and
a full stock of general news goods.
The tomb of Dickens, in Westminster
Abbey, now bears in letters of brass,
sunk in the stone, the words, Charles
Dickens, born February I, 1872; died
June 6, 1870"
Services at the First Presbyterian
Church, corner Poplar and Third, will
be continued during this week, on each
evening at seven o'clock. Preaching to-
night by Rev. John II. Rice, DID.
Tho Boards of Aldermen and Common
Council will meet this evening at seven
o'clock, at the City Building. At the
meeting the interesting subject of water
works will come up for discussion,
The office of the First Circuit Court
was crowded to-day by persons paying
taxes ON property condemned for non
payment of taxes for the years 1865, &C.
'67 and SO. This is the last day of re-
demption.
In South Africa recently, a man
named Wheeler found diamond which
weighed 8S l-l6 carats, valued at ESQ.,.
600. That man would not live five
seconds in Memphis if it got out that he
had his big diamonds on his person.
Emmons & Son, newsdealers, on JEFF
ferson street, have received the St
Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, New York
and New Orleans papers of latest dates
Eastern pictorials and literary publica
tons, and full stock of news goods.
The clerk of the First Circuit Court
received over five thousand dollars for
taxes yesterday on property sold to the
State. To-day, the last day of grace and
redemption, probably ten thousand dol
lars will be paid in to the clerk.
A fashionable marriage will take place
, at the Central Methodist Church on
Thursday next, at II o'clock m. The
gentleman is talented young lawyer o
this city, and the lady one of our city
bellies, and the daughter of prominent
lawyer.
The edition of the PUBLIC LEDGE
published last evening, containing an
account of the murder of Ada Jones, was
exhausted in few minutes, so great was
the excitement of the public mind and Sc
anxious we're the people to learn the full
particulars of the horrible tragedy.
Pat Stock, a colored bell boy at Durff' s
Delmonico, was sent to Jail this morning
by the Recorder, on the charge of lar
ceny. Stock stole largely from the saloon,
Toasted his colored brethren ON the good
things, and stocked his cellar in South
Memphis with wines, fish and game.
The murdered woman, Ada Jones, was
buried yesterday. A hearse and six
hacks moved through our streets about
two o'clock pm. In the hacks were a
number of the sisterhood, and in the
hearse was the body of the woman who
was shot through the heart on last Satur-
day night
The lecture on General Lee will be
delivered this evening at Grace church,
fernando street, by Rev. W. N. Pendle-
ton, formerly Chief of Artillery of the
Army of Northern Virginia. The lecture
will be very interesting, because DIR.
Pendleton was the intimate friend OF
General Lee, and was with him when he
died.
The special tax cases are for trial to-
day in the U. S. Circuit Court. These
are indictments against doctors, lawyers
and others who have paid no tax. A
motion was made in these cases by Mr..
NJ. l.. Perkins to quash the indictments
on the grounds that neglect to pay spec
ial tax is not an indictable ofense, but
that the penalty must be recovered by a
qui tam action.
The Myra Day-Banks murder case is
on trial before the Criminal Court. AT
IL m. to-day six jurors were obtained,
and PANEL Of four hundred was ex-
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