Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-13
BREVITIEs.


petit juries will be impannelled on aaid day.
Tho Recorders Court docket displayed the
usual number Of DRINKS and disorderlies
this morning. Fighting and assault and
battery cases were quite numerous.
Alderman Moffatt q acting Mayor Of the
city nice Mr.. Mayor Johnston who has gone to
Chicago to attend the meeting Of the Grand
Lodge Of the 1. o. 0. +. of Illinois.
The Theatrical Bulletin will be issued on
next Monday under the supervision Of Mr..
William Worsham. and will be live paper
during the ensuing theatrical season.
The streets and suburban roads are filled
with dust, to the great annoyance Of street
car passengers and other travellers. The rain
this afternoon settled the matter for time.
The cadaverous c0untenances Of Chicago
and St. Louis gamblers and thieves have put
in an appearance on Main street corners. Our
authorities intend inviting these gentlemen to
take their hegira. $3.50 Hr
Joe Locke, the news king of Memphis. at
1854 Main. has the daily papers from all the
cite, North. South. East and West. Weekly
pictorials and foreign publications of latest
dates received regularly.
The male and female cohorts of Africa were
in attendance at Justice Miller's court to-day
to testify in case involving the social stand
ing and reputation of n colored brother and
sister. Judge Miller will deliver a learned
decision this afternoon. sHla
Esquire Bleckley has been signing the Selma
atIrnod xuarrorto Tho WARRANTS lonk lin
bank bills, fairly engraved but on poor paper.
They will pass current. however. in Memphis
and Shelby county, for as tax-paying notes
they stand in the front rank.
Go to Mansford's great news stand, corner
of Second and Monroe streets. for everything
in the news line-daily papers. novels. illus
trated weekles. magazines of fashion. science
from England. Ireland and the continent Of
Europe.
The Italians of New York city have organ
lied national bureau of emigration, which
will cooperate with the commissioners of
emigration and be the means of securing to
Italian emigrants protection and support
until they can obtain employment.
Some one presented the Appeal local with a
bouquet last night, and q perfect ocean of
fowery quotations and sentimental poetry
was the result produced in the city paragraphs
of his journal. This notice is tho result OF
jealousy caused by not seeing bouquet on
our sanctum table this morning.
"Striking oil (" in Memphis has been a
profitable business. Four cotton seed oil mills
have q capital invested of about $500, 900.
Last season the mills turned out over 1900
barrels of oil, 500 tons of oil cake and COG
bales of cotton. Two hundred employees
make a living out of the oil business.
Another batch of bachelors returned from the
| Springs yesterday. They look well, but there
is sentimental vein in their conversation
which speaks of moonlight strolls and flirta-
tions. Of what use is it to visit fashionable
Springs for the purpose of regaining health il
you lose your heart. unless it is true that you
can stand the loss of that which is worth the
| least in this or any other world?
The demand for schools in Memphis speaks
well for the march of education. Our public
schools, as in other cities. are rapidly becom-
ing fayorite places of education with our best
citizens who have children to be taught In
many Northern cities the grade of public
schools cannot be excelled by any private
schools or colleges in the country.
The large historical painting of Dante and
Virgil crossing the river Styx. or fiery lake, oil
the confines of the Inferno, which adorns th'
walls of the Peabody sitting-room, attracts
considerable attention from all strangers. Il
ought to be removed to the station-house anC
every criminal out to be compelled to study i
for one hour. The burning lake would b.
suggestive.
Colonel +. A. Tyler. senior editor of thu
Appeal. in few graphic words in this morn
ing's issue. retires from the editorial manage
ment of, and sewers his connection with, tina
journal. 1t is Is understood that the veteran
of the Memphis press. Colonel M. C. Gala
way, will assume full editorial control of thu
Appeal. In other respects the editorial sta #
remains as Of yore.
The era of large pipes will soon be in exis
tencc. In Patagonia, the land Of giants, i'm
mense beds of meerschaum clay, or silieate o
| magnesia, have been found, which is beini
rapidly made up into pipes by the gigantic
natives, who fashion and model the pipe
| from a standard known only in their owl
| land. We will venture to assert that thu
smallest men will purchase the largest pipes
EmmOns & Son, at 10 Jefferson and Az
Main, have always ON hand the latest daily
and weekly newspapers from st. Louis. Gin
cinnati. New York, New Orleans. Louisville
Nashville. Chicago. and other cities. Picto
rails from all points magazines and journal
of literature. science and fashion, from al
portions of America and Europe, just re
ceived. French. German. English and Irisl
newspapers received with regularity b.
ocean steamers.
On next Monday the courts will resume OPP
erations, much to the satisfaction Of client
and lawyers. who have been resting on theii
legal oars during the heated season. An i'm
mense amount Of both civil and cfimina
business has accumulated ON the dockets o
the respective courts during the summel
months. All magistrates are invited to sen(
up all appeal cases Immediately. The FRS
and Second Circuit and Criminal Courts will
Opeu on Monday; the Chancery Courts on thu
first Monday in October next. ff.
The number of negro-horse thieves in thi
city and vicinity is rapidly increasing.
horse or mule stands no chance of escape /
turned out on the commons. The Commu
rists. or society of syndicates, who maxi
h Orse-stealing D profession. have adopted 1
m otto. taken frola old Shakespeare, and refer
ring to a time when an equine animal wa
wo nth something To Richard III: horse
horse my kingdom for a horse Wher
the thieves mount the s.Oseh horses. they crl
out= "GalIOp apace. ye fiery footed steeds.
Am old blind horse got on a spree on Madi
son street yesterday. He took possession
of tn sidewalk and eollided with every per
son he met. On Front Row he visited seyera
stores, and endeavOred to go back into tn,
counting-rooms, for the purpose. no doubt. 0
iosnectin0 somo priVate GLASSES and bottles