Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-04
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der Kennedy, a eolored bigamist, was
placed on trial.
The divorce case of Keel VS.. Keel is
on hearing to-day before Judge Halsey,
of the Second Circuit Court.
Recorder Scales disposed Of forty
cases this morning, and collected quite
a respectable amount for the city
The Memphis Building Association
elected officers last night at meeting
held at the office of Donoho & Buckley.
A young man named Sam Smith was
arrested last evening by officer Hag-
gerty on the charge of passing forged
orders on Brooks, Nicely & Co.
Rev, DIR, PEBBLES viii lecture on spir-
itualism and its progression in America
and the Old World, at the Greenlaw
Opera House tomorrow morning and
afternoon.
The Chamber of Commerce meets this
afternoon at four o'clock to consider the
best means of pressing the Merchants
Tax bill now under consideration by
the Legislature.
John Farris, upon whose person bur
glars tools we're found by the police
yesterday, was sent to Jail this forenoon
by Recorder Scales, who placed the
bonds at $1,000.
The marriage licenses returned to the
County Clerk during the week were .
George I. Burrows and Miss Victoria j.
Morton, Rufus W. Gibson and Miss Mar
garet A. Shivers.
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.
The Little Rock papers are excited
over the discovery of mans head
found wrapped up in white pocket
handkerchief. From the tenor of the
paragraph it would seem that a body was
attached to the head.
Sam Smith, alias Spain, the forger,
who was arrested last evening at the in
stance of Brooks, Neely & Co., was tried
ON four separate warrants by the Re-
corder to-day and sent to jail in default
Of $4,000 bonds in each case.
Judge Sneed of the Supreme Court, at
present in session at Knoxville, decided
yesterday that the State law prohibiting
intermarriage between whites and blacks
is not in conflict with the new amend
ments to the Federal Constitution.
All jurors summoned to appear on
next Monday before the First Circuit
Court must attend promptly at nine
o'clock am. There will be no excuse
granted, and jurors must be prepared to
serve term Of one month.
The oratorical members Of the General
Council, when they wish to make an
hours speech, commence with the fol
lowing exordium 81 rise to say a few
words; don't wish to take up the valua-
BILE time of the Board, but -"
The illustrated Catholic Family
Almanac for 1877" is for sale by W. j.
Mansford. corner Of Second and Monroe
streets, who will ell orders at publishers
rates, viz: Single copies, 25eents; one
dozen copies, 50 so; 100 copies, SIG.
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.
Game sells at the following prices to-
day: Squirrels, 50 to 81 per dozen, or
25c each partridges, same price; pigeons,
75c to 81 per dozen; ducks, SOC to 81 a
pair; prairie chickens, 75c to 81 pair;
venison, 25c per h.; game fish, 10 to Csc
per lb.
Fifty convicts from the Tennessee
penitentiary were received here a few
days since by General Forrest, and are
now working on the Memphis and Selma
railroad at ellis Station. General For
rest has hired two hundred convictg for
his road.
The Probate and Quorum Courts will
be in session on next Monday. The
Probate Court docket will be called, and
all petitions filed for administration not
represented by counsel viii be turned
over to the Public Administrator. The
Quorum Court will consist of Chairman
Bleckley, Justices Gibson and Jones,
Bonds will be taken, etc.
The railroad meeting to be held al the
Greenlaw Opera House on next Monday
evening promises to be of some i'm
portance. The report made to the
Chamber OF Commerce yesterday by
our delegates to the recent Shreveport
Convention had the effect of arousing
the public to sense of the necessity OF
building a railroad from Memphis to the
great Red river country.
General Gillem's statement that GEN
eral Morgan was betrayed by a boy is
denied by Colonel Withers, formerly
Adjutant General on Morgan's staff, and
who was present when the General was
butchered. Colonel Withers insists that
Mrs. Williams gave the information to
the enemy. He denounces Gillem in
strong language for his brutality toward
the dead body Of General Morgan.
Enmons 4 Son,, newsdealers at 10
jefferson and 40 Main, have the latest
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