Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-03
BREVITIEs.

pany for late papers.
A white man keeps negro dance
house on Shelby street.
Beal street bayou bridge is being re-
paired by the city authorities.
The Mississippi State election takes
place on Tuesday next, the 18th inst.
Mrs. James A. Oates takes a benefit
tonight at the Memphis Theater.
An adjourned meeting Of the General
Council will be held this evening at the
City Building,
The negro varieties theater on Shelby
street is frequented every evening by
the white brethren.
The officers of the St. Andrews soci-
ETY. are to be photographed in a group
by Bingham & Craver
The steam passenger elevator at the
Oyerton Hotel is the great attraction
and novelty in the city.
There is freight blockade in the city.
The railroads only receive freight at
certain hour, and can not even ship what
they receive.
Several prisoners recently convicted
for felonies will be brought before the
Criminal Court tomorrow and sentenced
by Judge Flippin.
The Grand Chapter and the Grand
Council of Tennessee Free and Accepted
Masons will assemble in annual session
on next Monday.
Several hundred Mississippi babies
will compete to-day at Sardis for the
prize carriage presented by Wheeler,
Pickens & Co., Of this city.
The Chicago Relief and Aid Society,
through its treasurer, Mr.. George M.
Pullman, thanks Memphis for the sub
stantial relief sent to the burned city.
The sandbar across the river presents
the appearance Of the great Arabian
desert. 1t needs but wandering camel
to make the resemblance complete.
Go to Mansford's. corner of Second
and Monroe, for illustrated weeklies,
monthly magazines and daily newspa-
pers from all points. Foreign papers
and journals received regularly.
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The clerks of many of cur courts COM
plain that attorneys take files Of papers
from their offices and fail to return them,
and as a consequence many valuable
papers and files have been lost
The next solar eclipse will occur on
the llth of next December. Those de-
string to witness the phenomenon will
have to visit India, Ceylon or Australia,
as it will be invisible on this Continent.
Suspicious looking characters have
been prowling about the city for several
days. One Of these worthless, arrested
last night, had set of burglars tools in
his possession
The lines of the Southern Pacific and
Atlantic Telegraph Company were com
pleted to New Orleans last. night, and
congratulatory messages fla shed over the
wires between the Crescent City and
New York.
Rev. j. Carmichael, rector of Grace
(EpiscopaD Church returned yesterday
from the General Convention recently
held in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Carmichael
has resumed his pastoral duties in this
city.
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1861
Main, near the corner of jefferson, has
daily papers from all points North, South,
East and West; stationery, blankIbooks,
illustrated weeklies, home and foreign
magazines.
The decisions rendered by Chancellor
Morgan this forenoon are as follows:
Parham VS.. Ashe, demurrer overruled;
Gilbert VS.. Parrish, Judgment for de-
fendant Wicks' petition for charter of
Shelby County Turnpike Company
granted
West Court street presents the appear
ance of a nuisance. Outside of the
railway tracks the mud reminds one of
anti-Nicolson days, The city authorities
should spread few hundred loads of
gravel over the street or put down the
Nicolson pavement.
Colonel Munford's lecture on the
Life and Death of General Albert Sid
ney Johnston which was to have been
delivered last evening before the Con-
federate Association was postponed until
some future time, when due notice will
be given to the public.
A North Mississippian who was deaf
as post during the war was recently
elected county judge and complains
that the attorneys practicing in his court
speak several octaves too high when ad-
dressing the bench. His honor insists
he can hear the faintest whisper at
present.
Enmons 4 Son, newsdealers at 10
Jefferson and 4lO Main, have the latest
st. Louis, Cincinnati, New Y ork, New
Orleans, Louisville, Nashville and Chi
cago papers; pictorials and magazines
from every part ofthe country. European
publications received by ocean steamers
every week.
The business done at the Memphis
postoffice during the month of October
was as follows Number of mail letters
delivered, lO9, 4O5; number of local let
tiers delivered. sO39; number of newspa-
pers, etc, delivered, 27,5l5; number of
letters collected, SAIL; number of news
papers, etc., collected, 1852.