Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-19
DaEyrllEs.
The courts are in session to-day.

Tonight Is the fashionable skating
night at the rink in the Assembly Hall
Twenty-eight cases we're disposed Of
by Recorder Scales this morning, and
$40 were collected. NT
Deputy Sheriff Frame left yesterday
for Nashville, having in charge seven
teen convicts and three insane persons.
Col. Duncan McRae will deliver his
lecture on Lilies Light and Shade" at
the Greenlaw Opera House, on next Sat
urday night ! AeaosA gnae
The musical and fashionable people Of
Memphis are preparing to hear the great
Nilsson, who is expected here about the
LIST of February.
Valentines Days approaching, conse-
quently poetical and pictorial valentines
can be seen in many of the store win
dows on Main street.
The largest assortment of illustrated
weeklies, February magazines, Western
and Northern, dailies in the city at Joe
Locke's, 1864 Main street.
1t is difficult thing to get the correct
time in Memphis Each jewelry store
exhibits the standard city time, yet they
differ from each other
The Davenport Brothers have gener-
ously consented to give a seance to-mor-
row evening for the benefit of the Con-
federate Relief Association.
1t is said the Little Rock railroad will
be completed within month, provided
the courts do not interfere with the work
by issuing writs of injunction.
Colonel Miller, proprietor of the Pea
body Hotel, has rendered to the Cham
Der of Commerce the use of his billiard
hall as Merchants Exchange.
An indictment was found this morning
by the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court
against the son of an ex-county Official
on the charge of stealing watch and
gold chain.
Billy White, the popular agent of the
omnibus line, was buried yesterday. Out
ofrespect to the deceased the omnibusei
of Kecks line were draped in mourning
during the day.
Va Some practical person suggests the
propriety of erecting the proposed court
house on Court Square, No county
court could be guilty of SO great an act
of vandalism.
Three negroes sentenced to the pene
Tertiary from Coahoma county, Miss.
passed through here to-day in charge o
Sheriff Alcorn on their way to the pene
Tertiary at Jackson.
Two negroes, George Gill and Han
Baker, have been arrested by the polie'
on the charge of being accessories to tn
murder of Kelly which took place OIL
Front street some days since.
Mansford at the corner of Second ant
Monroe has received the latest paper
from the North, South, East and West
Pictorials, magazines and fashion pa
pers can be found at his stand.
Prof. Fowler will lecture this after
noon at the Greenlaw Opera House Il
heYladies, and this evening to the youni
men. The Professors lectures are of
very instructive and interesting charac
ter.
A mandahus was issued from tn
First Circuit Court this morning to com
pei the County Court to pay abou
S75, 900, due Amy & Co., of New Yorl
in bonds heretofore issued by the count
ta the Memphis and Ohio railroad.
Wisaner, Poston and Graves, who ar
charged with hanging young man a
Cuba some months since, had hearing
on habeas corpus, on the question o
bail before Judge Ray yesterday. Bal
was refused, and the prisoners were sen
back to Jail Al34to
b An entertainment of pleasing char
acter will be given on next Monday eve
ming at the Memphis Club Hall, in homo
of the District Grand Lodge No.
lob. b., by the members of the Eu
pirates Lodge No. 80 and Hiddeke
Lodge No. 100.
A man was garroted in hack nea
the French Garden last night and robbed
of sixty dollars. The parties who com
mitted the act have not as yet been ar
rested. The man garroted was enticet
into the hack to take trip to the Frencl
Garden by two men whose acquaintance
he had made on steamboat.
O. The grand promenade concert, to BE-
given at the Peabody Hotel for the ben
eft of St. Lazarus Church, will take
place this evening. Music and dancing
will be the order of the night. The stree
cars will run during the evening, and VI
to the close of the concert, for the &C
commodation of those living on the line
) We learn that the Memphis ant
Charleston Railroad Company are re
ceiving large quantities of the celebrated
Coal Creek coal from Knoxville. Thi
coal is acknowledged to be equal, if no
superior, to the best Pittsburg, and i
sold at the low price Of ninety cents pc
barrel. Samples can be seen at tn
ticket office, 27S Nam street.
Emmons 4 Son, newsdealers on JET
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