Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-17
BREvITIES.

Nineteen deaths from yellow fever in
New Orleans last week.
Remember the grand concert next
Friday night at the Memphis Theater.
Mr.. o. B. Parker, the cotton dealer,
has returned from protracted trip
East.
Mr.. j. W. McCown, the well-known
clothing merchant, has returned from his
summer vacation and Northern trip.
Mr.. ]. C. Lopez, the General Freight
Agent of the Memphis and Charleston
railroad, having resigned, has been sue
ceeded by Major A. A. Barnes.
Cadmus' grand re-opening and benefit
to different benevolent enterprises takes
place Monday. See the announcement
elsewhere, and roll up the receipts.
We learn by the Knoxville papers that
Judge John Carmack, of this city, has
gone to Virginia. Perhaps he has con-
cluded not to come back until after the
election, lest he should be compelled to
run for Congress. Sensible.
Holly Springs is to have stylish Ma
sonic Hail. We learn that Mr.. John w.
Kerns, Of this city, has contract for
putting on the slate roof and that a
Memphis man is putting up the building
This speaks well for Holly Springs taste
and Memphis enterprise.
The Louisville Courier-Journal of yes
terday says; " Hon. Jacob Thompson,
of Mississippi, Secretary Of the Interior
in the Cabinet of President Buchanan, is
in the city, en- route for Memphis, on his
return from France, where he has spent
the summer, He is stopping at the
Gait House"
1t is rumored that Mrs. Huber, who
ran off from her husband and children,
some time since, with Sparks, the bar
keeper, has been abandoned and left
destitute by the latter, in New Orleans,
and that she is coming back; all of
which is perfectly natural and reason
able.
A Nashville paper of Thursday says:
One hundred and one barrels of whisky,
valued at about $4,000, was seized in this
city yesterday by revenue officers for vio-
lation of the internalrev laws. This
whisky was the property of j. Edward
Stacey, late revenue detective for Ten
nessee, and obtained by him while he
was in the revenue service"
The Tennessee Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church will
convene in Nashville on the 2lst inst.
The sessions Of the Conference will be
held in the Second Presbyterian Church,
which has been kindly rendered for that
purpose. The Conference embraces
Middle and West Tennessee and num-
bers some seyenty-Gve ministers and
over twelve thousand members. The
Rev. Bishop Levi Scott, D. D., of Della
ware, will preside.
The new Clerk of the Supreme Court,
Mr.. Franklin peaderick, is brother of
Judge James W. Deaderick, the present
Clerk of the Chancery Court of Knox
County. Mr.. F. Deaderick has been
Clerk of the Chancery Court at Jones'
boro for the last twenty years, and has
the reputation of being the best clerk of
a court in Tennessee. Mr.. Jones' his
assistant, is brother-in-law of Judge 7.
A. r. Nelson, and brings with him very
strong recommendations as an efficient
clerk.
An enterprising gentleman of this city
has gone to Brownsville to make ar
rangements for supplying that growing
young city of seven thousand inhabi-
tants with gas. A charter has been
granted the company he represents by
the city government, which has the au-
thority for fifty years only, and the work
will probably be commenced soon. Our
neighbor is putting on airs, and we are
glad to know that the prosperity of the
place justifes all the external signs.
The people there will want daily paper
next
A marked copy of the Daily Terri
torial Enterprise, paper published at
Virginia City, Nevada, comes to us, and
in it appears the LEDcER's account of the
Hot Springs tragedy, which has been
published all over the country from New
York to San Francisco, introduced with
the following remarks; THE following
account of the death of John H. Ward,
who was well known as sport of des
perate proclivities of this city in 1864,
and equally well known in various parts
of California for many years-particu-
larly in Sacramento-will be read with
interest. We clip it from the Memphis
LEDGER of August gath"
The Huntsville Advocate, of Thurs
day, says: An election for Directors
for the Memphis and Charleston rail
road was held in this city yesterday,
l4th, with the following result: Geo, P.
Beirne, $500 shares; Jos. @. Bradley,
49, 1881; Robert C. Brinkley, 52,5OOi ]. j.
Donegan, $4,000; Albert H. Jones, 3d.
500; Pitser Miller, 50,ss4; John d. Rath-
er, $4,000; VIM. B. Waldran, 5l,773; NJ.
j. Wicks, 1868; ". W. Garth, 1892;
W. NJ. Harrington, $50; W. F. William
son, sS9. The first nine were elected.
The whole number of shares voted was
50 800, representing sl,3l2,5OO of stock"
A young gentleman from the neighbor-
hood of Centre Hill, in buggy, was so
unfortunate as to come through Central
Point this morning and run into q mud
hole which is planted in the middle Of