Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-19
BREyITIEs.


will be the same as that of last season.
fifty cents per bale.
Colonel Avery commenced moving the
furniture of the Criminal Court to the
new courtroom in the Jefferson Block
yesterday.
The furniture of the Chamber Of Com
merce is being removed to-day to the
new chamber in Whiskey Chute or Com
mercial alley.
The revival Of religion progressing at
the fernando street Methodist Church
continues to excite public attention.
The mourners crowd around the pulpit
every evening.
The Recorders Court docket presented
avery uninteresting field to reporters this
morning. The everlasting DRINKS held
their own, and contributed their quota
to the city treasury. ea
The Criminal Court adjourned over to
tomorrow morning without transacting
any business. The grand jury is in
session, cutting out work for the court
and petit jurors.
Joe Locke, the great news man of
Tennessee, at 1861 Main street, has the
latest daily newspapers, illustrated
weeklies, foreign papers ard magazines,
both home and foreign, Of latest dates.
There is considerable inquiry as to
when the water-works will be erected in
Memphis. The city cannot build them,
having given its franchise away to pri-
vate corporation. If the city cannot,
who will?
Mr.. G. B. Peters, jr,, and Col. Thos.
S. Galloway were sworn in and admitted
to the bar of the First Circuit Court tc
day. The trial of jury cases commenced
this forenoon in the First and Second
Circuit Courts.
Go to Mansfords, corner of Second
and Monroe, for late illustrated weekly
papers, fashion, scientific and literary
magazines, daily newspapers from the
North, South, East and West, and every
thing in the news line.
The Selma railway bonds or notes
will sooa be put in circulation. County
Clerk Reilly is working from dawn until
dark attaching his signature and seal of
Office to the bills of all denominations
from fiye dollars upwards.
The Buckeye pile medicine has been
removed to the Second Chancery Court
by writ Of injunction. Certain parties
selling this specific have been epjoined,
and until the injunction is dissolved the
Buckeye believers will have to remain
disconsolate.
Keno swallows market money; it
robs the laborer, his wife and children,
clothes them in rags, and feeds them on
blasted hopes and bitter memories" is
the terrible Indictment returned by
Judge Flippin against this game. The
days Of keno are rapidly coming to a
close. The grand jury will sit up with
the corpse.
Emmons & Son, the veteran newsmen
at Nos. 10 Jefferson and 40 Main, have
the latest daily papers from New York,
New Orleans, st. Louis, Cincinnati,
Louisville, Chicago, Nashville Balti-
more and other cities. Weekly pictorials
and fashion, scientific and literary
monthlies received regularly. English,
Irish, German and French papers and
journals can be found on their stands.
-Four of our young bloods took
weeks hunting after prairie chickens on
Black Fish bayou, and returned yester-
day with three prairie birds, minus fifty
others shot and eaten in camp. Last
evening an old darby was hunting for
some hunters who had bought the chick
ems from him. He says since the Mem
phis Nimrods commenced firing in Ar
kansas, the prairie chickens have be-
come wild.
Since the opening Of the Criminal
Court has become fixed fact, the Com
munists of the city are taking up Grants
phrase and have improved upon it by
saying to the city magistrates, Let us
have peace warrants. Binding people
over to keep the peace has become n
fashionable practice, and in nine out of
tea cases there are not the slightest
grounds for it. The bonds taken are
generally straw securities, but amply
sufficient to keep the party bound over
in state of peace. The costs in such
cases are the important elements of the
charge.