Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-13

night. Cattle were not only brisk but
frisky this morning.
The Members of the General Assem-
bly, will pay their respects to Mrs. James
X. Polk tomorrow, in obedience to a
resolution unanimously passed by both
branches of the Legislature. d
Mansford, corner of Second and Mon
roe, receives daily New. York, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Nashville, St, Louis and
Louisville papers, and all the popular
Illustrated weeklies, and the leading
magazines.
A gas-ftter, James Holmes, was shot
through the left breast, at the Hibernian
saloon, on Main, near Commerce street,
last night, by a railroad engineer named
j. H. Benar. Cause, intoxication Of
both parties.
Captain c. II, Tyler, well-knoyn in
this city and along the Mississippi river,
has become a member of the firm of
Harvey, Tyler & Co., general auction
GERS, No. ll9-l2l-l23 Fifth street, St.
Louis, Mo.
The annual grand ball of the Ezra
Lodge No. 80, A. j. o. X. S. b., will be
given at the Memphis Club Hall on
Monday, November Goth, for the joint
benefit of the lodge and Cleveland Or
phan Asylum.
Pursuant to call made by numerous
citizens, a Democratic mass meeting
will be held in the Greenlaw Opera
House, on Saturday, December 9th, for
the purpose of nominating candidates
for municipal Offices.
Attention is called to change of time
in running trains over the Memphis and
Charleston, Mississippi and Tennessee
and Memphis and Louisville Railroads,
as appears in schedules published in
another column.
Emmons & Son, the popular news
dealers at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main,
have weekly illustrated papers, foreign
publications, monthly magazines, and
daily papers from New York, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, New Orleans, Nashville,
Chicago and other cities.
The son of well known legal gentle
man of this city was arrested to-day, at
the instance of the parent, on the charge
of appropriating money. The young
man was found by the police enjoying a
hack ride while in an intoxicated con-
dition.
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
obtained at the counting room tomorrow
morning, neatly done up in wrappers
and ready for mailing. The WEEKLY
LEDGER is popular advertising medium
with merchants and business men gene
rally.
Col. L. NJ Munford will deliver his
lecture on the life and character Of Gen
eral Albert Sydney johnson before the
Confederate Historical Association, on
next Wednesday evening, at the Hall Of
the Association, on the corner of Second
and Union streets.
The officers pursued j. II. Benar, who
shot James Holmes last night, to Hope
field this forenoon, where he eluded the
pursuit, leaving no trace of his wherea-
bouts. He will probably surrender him
self when he finds out that Holmes
wounds are not serious.
Chancellor Morgan, in conjunction
with a special jury, was engaged this
forenoon in hearing the case of White
WI. Horton ct al, in the First Chaneery
Court. The decisions rendered by the
Chancellor this morning are as follows:
Pope VS. Perdue, report confirmed; Saint,
az parte petition, bill dismissed.
The lecture delivered on Spiritual
lDamnatinn, by the Rev. j. NJ PEBBLES
at the Greenlaw Opera House last night,
was largely attended. The reverend
s Gentleman delivered an eloquent and
| earned discourse, one well calculated to
s ct the mind at work in celebrating over
I he sublime but abstruse propositions
contained in holy writ.
Mr.. J. NJ. Prescott, of Chelsea, placed
on our table a specimen of Concord
grapes (second CROP. The first crop
matured in July last, and owing to the
mildness of the season, lunches of
grapes matured during the fall. The
first frost this season occurred the last
week in September, ten days sooner
than in former seasons.
It is proposed to consolidate the Mem
phis and Jackson and Memphis and
Knoxville narrow gauge railroads. By
consolidating these two roads with the
Memphis and Raleigh road (already q
fixed fact so far as its completion is con
cernetO, the result of the late vote TO
confri the action of the County Court
indors ing the bonds of the Raleigh road
would become beneficial in the highest
degree to our city.
A con respondent to a morning cotem-
porary claims that there are four thous-
and Radi, ,al, alias Republican, voters in
Memphis who cannot be led or driven,
and who should be represented in the
Democr alto mass meeting, to De held at
the Gre,enlaw Opera House. The four