Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-29
BREvITIES.

Attorney General Wright returned t.
the city yesterday from a prolonged visi
to Mobile.
The Superintendent Of the Public
Schools has issued up to the presen
time eight hundred tickets of admission
to the Public. Schools.
The examination in the Jones-Caya
naugh homicide case will be resumed
this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the FRS
Circuit courtroom.
The first new bale of cotton con
tinues to arrive daily from different points
of the country. In few days the first
new bales will be disposed of for the
present season.
There is great demand in this city fer
houses containing from four to six rooms,
suitable for small families in circum-
stances warranting rents from $3.50 to
$500 per annum.
We have received the programme Of
the Chickasaw Jockey Club Races, fall
meeting, 1871. The fall meeting will
commence on Tuesday, October Sd, and
continue five days.
Joe locke, the news king of Memphis,
at 1854 Main, has the daily papers from
all the cities North, South, East and
West Weekly pictorials and foreign
publications of latest dates received
regularly.
Many of the alleys in the central part
Of our city give forth the most offensive
odors in a manner not to be despised or
ignored by pedestrians. The sanitary
force will, no doubt, discover these well
defined stenches in due time.
The steamer Cheek yesterday brought
the first bale of Tunica county cotton to
this city. 1t was shipped by Messrs.
Alexander & Askew, Austin, Miss, to
Messrs. Wormley 4 Co., and is the first
bale of Mississippi cotton received in
Memphis this season.
There are some fine specimens Of lead
ore from the Rosa Clair mines, ILL.,, at
Loudon's coal Office, corner of Front
and Madison. The lead is almost pure,
and is firmly attached to quartz rock,
such as is found in California, where it
contains more precious metal-gold.
Go to Mansfords great news stand,
corner of Second and Monroe streets,
for everything in the news line-daily
papers, novels, illustrated weeklies,
magazines of fashion, science and art,
and foreign newspapers of latest dates
from England, Ireland and the CONT
nent of Europe.
Numbering quotation is a crime
against the dead as we'll as the living.
The crime becomes greater when an old,
familiar quotation, from standard poet,
is butchered. The well-known lines about
vice" the monster with the frightfnl
mien, are treated by Mississippi editor
in the following unpoetical manner:
"When seen too oft, face to face
We first pity, then endure, then embrace"
The public taste is accurately tested
by Justices court. If a case of civil
nature, involving million of dollars
and thousand abstruse legal PROPOSE
tons, is on trial, the magistrate, con-
stable, lawyers, clients and witnesses are
the only listeners; but let little case Of
scandal or vulgarity be called up and
from all quarters crowds Of curiosity
hunters hasten to the Justices Office in
order to enjoy the disgusting repast
Emmons & Son, at 10 Jefferson and 4lO
Main, have always on hand the latest
daily and weekly newspapers from st.
Louis, Cincinnati, New York, New Or
leans, Louisville, Nashville, Chicago, and
other cities. Pictorials from all points;
magazines and journals of literature,
science and fashion, from all portions Of
America and Europe, just received.
French, German, English and Irish
received with regularity by
ocean steamers.