Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-05
BREyITIES.
The courts are in session to-day.

The Boards of Aldermen and Com
mon Council meet this evening at seven
o'clock.
The thermometer at IL o'clock m. to-
day stood at $50. and the barometer at
20 40 inches.
Recorder Scales tried twenty-seven
cases this morning. $3.50 were assessed
and fifty dollars collected
Robinnett, who is charged with arson
and shooting at Charley Morris, will
have hearing this evening on habeas
corpus before Judge Halsey.
The election is passing off in very
quiet manner. So many candidates are
in the field that it is impossible to say
who will be elected Until the smoke of
the contest clears away.
Mansford receives daily all the late
papers on time, and has the largest stock
of dime novels and song books in the
city. Call and see him. at the corner Of
Second and Monroe.
The election for five Aldermen and
twenty Councilmen is going ahead. The
respective candidates are sanguine OF
election The election Of School Visi-
tors is creating considerable interest in
the different wards.
The alarm of fire last night was
caused by the burning of the roof of
Mcmillan cooper-shop on Poplar street,
near the market. The damage is esti-
mated at $500, and the fire is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary.
Joe Locke, newsdealer, has all the late
daily and weekly newspapers, home and
foreign magazines, journals and pic
torials, and large stock of news goods,
for sale, near the corner of Main and JEFF
ferson.
The alarm of fire at II m. to-day was
caused by defective fue in frame
house near the corner of Vance and
Ruth streets. The roof took fire, but
was put out before the engines arrived
on the ground.
The city government has concluded to
pay one-half the cost of the police uni
forms. The uniforms are expensive,
and would have been a heavy tax on
members of the patrol force, who do not
receive any too much pay for their ser
vices.
The remains of Rabbi Tuska we're
PLACED in the Jewish cemetery, on Bass
avenue, last evening. The services at
the temple and at the grave were impos-
ing, and were a worthy tribute to de-
parted worth and greatness
The contested case for the Office of
Sheriff. between General Wright and
Colonel Curry, was brought up before
Chancellor Morgan, acting as special
Judge of the First Circuit Court, this
morning, and continued over for hearing
to next Tuesday.
Deputy Sheriff Fraime arrested Thorn
ton Cox last night on Poplar street
Cox escaped from the penitentiary about
two months since. He was sent up from
Memphis on the charge of larceny, and
will be returned to his old Nashville
quarters on Monday next.
The January number Of the Practical
Planter has been issued by its able edi-
tor, George w. Gift, Esq. The Planter
is filled with interesting matter relating
to the agricultural, horticultural, mining
and manufacturing world. Several in
teresting productions appear in the
columns of the Planter.
Colonel McRae will deliver lecture
tonight at the St. Lazarus Church before
the Confederate Historical Association.
A large attendance of ladies and gentle
men will be present to hear Colonel
McRae, a gentleman who stands high as
a profound lawyer, brilliant speaker and
accomplished literateur
Cadmus fashionable billiard parlors
closed this morning owing to financial
embarrassment, caused by hard times
and lack of well deserved patronage.
For nineteen months Mr. Cadmus has
endeavored to keep up an expensive and
elegant establishment, but the excessive
taxation and failure of sufficient support
forced him to close his doors to the pub
lie.
Emmons 4 Son, veteran newsdealers
on Jefferson and Beal streets, have all |
late pictorials, magazines and literary |
periodicals. also, all the latest newspa-
pers, including Courier-Journal and Mis-
souri, Republican of yesterday, and Gin
einnati Commercial of Tuesday last.
Their stock of general news literature is
very extensive and select.
The condition OF young Mr. DAVIS, one
of the unfortunates in the late railroad
disaster, was much better this morning.
Billy White, the omnibus agent, is stead
lily improving, and is in a fair way of re-
covery. Charley Eccles, the little news
boy, WHO'S lying at the hospital, is much
better to-day. Young Eccles has no
home or parents in the city, and deserves
some attention from the good people of
our city.
The house Of Mr.. Van lizard, at For
rest City, Arkansas, was destroyed by
fire yesterday morning between three
and four o'clock. Mrs. lizard was very
sick. and was dragged from her bed of