Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-05
BREYITIEs.

Il ho OhohbtA VI OOAhmtAtt A@NsNe aeo
monthly meeting tomorrow afternoon.
The Moulton concert was largely at
tended by the .music-loying people last
night
The boys had fine skating yesterday
on the pools and ponds in the suburbs
of the city.
Twelve degrees above zero or ter be-
low freezing point is unusually cold for
Memphis.
The steamboatmen hold a business
meeting at the hall Of the Chamber of
Commerce this afternoon.
The Grayes-Scho6eld homicide case
will be called for trial in the Criminal
Court tomorrow morning.
Several fights took place in saloons
last night, owing to disputes over the
municipal election.
Joe Locke, newsman, at 1864 Main,
has the New York Weekly and Ledger,
besides all pictorials and magazines.
Mr. George Stahl is acting as special
Circuit Judge to-day, hearing cases on
trial before him by agre ement of coun-
sci.
The old Gas Company is extending
its mains out South street for the accom-
mediation Of the residents of tn at por-
ton of our city.
Go to Mansford, corner of Second and
Monroe, for news goods, daily papers,
weekly pictorials, monthly magazine 8,
novels, stationery and school books.
The Sixth warders elected delegates
last night. In the Ninth anol Tenth wards
no meetings were held, and it is believed
that these wards will not be represented
in the convention.
In the Criminal Court r. r. Todd,
lack Keno and Tillman Stewart are on
trial, on indictment for breaking open
express goods and ste aling wine from
the Memphis and Louisville Railroad
Company.
The anniversary ball of Banner Lodge
|. o. 0. F., at the Memphis Club Hall,
was delightful affair. The dancing
was kept up until far into the night,
when the weary votaries of Terpsichore
retired homewards.
A number of delegates elected at the
ward meetings last Saturday ev ening are
publishing cards wherein they decline
the honor, and insist they did OF attend
said meetings, and desire no co injection
with any political convention.
Hundreds of people are visi ting the
boot and shoe store of j. S. L evett a
Co., No. 1854 Main street. Levei1t & Co.
manufacture their own boots and shoes
and sell them at astonishlingly low rates,
hence the rush OF customers.
There will be no mass meet ny held at
the Greenlaw Opera House IN the 9th
inst, as announced hereto lore The
people, with wonderful unanim ity, solicits
Mayor johnson to offer himself as an
independent candidate for re election.
Emmons & Son, newsmen, at No. 10
Jefferson and 4l0 Main streets, have re-
ceived the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincin natl, St..
Louis, Chicago and all other cities;
also, illustrated weeklies, foreign publ
cations, and news goods generally.
In England, justice strikes with a
heavy hand. Recently Liverpool po-
liceman was sent to FIVE years penal
service for exacting eight pence from a
little boot-black Matchmaking is not
regarded as a fine art, and has not be-
come popularised in England.
Woman's rights have advocates even
in France. In a provincial town may
be read the following epitaph: ".Here
sleeps Hortense B, regretted by her
mother and father. N. Bit is ad-
visedly her mother is placed before her
father, because mothers is always
very much greater than father s grief"
j. D. Britain, the policeman charged
with attempting to break up the Eighth
ward meeting last Saturday night, has
been suspended by the Chief of F'olice,
and an investigation of the charge will
be heard before the Police Board. If
guilty, he should be dismissed at once
from the force, whose duty it is to pre-
serve the peace, not to break it.
There are three insane women oon-
fined in the cells of the county Jail. The
county Jail is wholly unsuited for this
class of unfortunate persons, as no pro-
vision has been made by the county for
their case. There is no matro in the
jail to attend to the wants and necessi-
ties of insane women. The unfortunates
should be sent to the Nashville asylum
Immediately.
Mace and Coburn will appear at
Broom's Opera House tonight. Their
New Orleans fight did not reflect much
credit on the ring" or on the game
qualities of either of the bruisers. Col
Rufe Hunt, the referee at the late fight,
is a noted sporting man in the Cree cent
City. Previous to the fight he mad e the
bold threat that if the men did not fight
fair stand-up fight he would give the
money to the Charity Hospital and ght
any one who growled at him for so dol ng.
His reputation as fighting ma n, and
that with pistols, gave the threat an air
of truth not to be ignored.
Puck's saying, "Tll put a girdle
round the earth in forty minrites," has
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