Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-17
BREvITIES.

Urludi ptrtleSi dre teaNinB udiiJ iOr NtW
Orleans to witness the celebration oil
Mardi Gras.
ONLY benefit Of j. II. Jack tonight
on which occasion he will appear as
" Sir John Falstaff," in Henry Nv, To
conclude with the farce of Little Pickle.
General Sale is addressing the jury in
the Grayes-Poston case in the Criminal
Court to-day He will probably occupy
the entire afternoon in delivering his ex-
haustive and able speech.
The rumored tragedy at a popular
pleasure garden turns out to have been
merely scene of domestic infelicity, in
which negro whipped his Desdemona,
but did not smother her after the man
ner Of 0thello.%
Z Mayor Johnson decided yesterday that
the Recorders Court should be held in
the morning. A morning session at the
upper district and an evening session at
the lower would probably be the most
convenient arrangement for all parties.
Joe Locke has the Courier-J ournal and
all the latest daily and weekly papers
from all points, illustrated weeklies from
Europe, and the latest monthly fashion
and literary magazines. Everything in
the news line for sale on Main, near JEFF
ferson.
Mr.. Robert Somers, proprietor and
editor Of the Glasgow (Scotland) Jour
nal, is stopping at the Overton Hotel.
We understand Mr.. Somers is making a
tour of the South, examining into its pro-
ductiveness and inducements for emigra-
ton.
One hundred and thirty prisoners
occupy apartments in our aristocratic-
Hooking county prison. The jail needs
but moat and drawbridge to give it the
appearance of a baronial castle Of
medieval times in splendid state OF
preservation.
Go to Mansford, corner of Second and
Monroe streets, for all daily newspapers
from New York, st. Louis, Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Nashville. Weekly
and monthly pictorials from all quarters
of the world just received. Foreign mag
azines and quarterlies always on hand
at this news depot.
Mr.. R. G. Brinkley, late president Of
the Little Rock railroad, in his late re-
port to the stockholders of the company,
states that the road will probably be
finished within a few weeks, provided
the high water in the Cache and White
river bottoms does not retard the work
and force the contractor, Mr. Greenlaw,
to pile where he was prepared to grade.
A warrant was issued this morning by
Esquire Miller for the arrest of W. P.
Worsham, who is charged with stealing
three mules from Joseph Miller, of Crit
tenden county, Arkansas. The case will
be heard this afternoon at 3 o'clock
Officers Shelby and Gallagher arrested
Worsham last night in house near the
old faigr round.
AT the usual matinee, on Saturday,
Miss Rosalie Jack viii appear as Little
Nell, the Angel Child" Also the young
phenomenon, Master Julien Reed, as
Little Pickle" -H'a iN'
Emmons & Son, news dealers on JEFF
ferson and Beal streets, have received at
their stands Courier-Journal, Nashville
Banner, Missouri Republican of yester-
day, and Cincinnati Commercial of
Wednesday last. All the latest daily and
weekly newspapers, weekly pictorials
and monthly magazines received. News
goods of every description can be found
at these news depots..
Judge Heiskell, of the First Circuit
Court, granted a writ of mandamus ON a
petition styled "The State of Tennessee
&c rel Chas. Kney ct al, VS.. City of Mem
phis, John johnson, Mayor and 7. w.
O'Donnell Chief of Police to compel
hem to arrest all parties who sell meat
IN less quantity than one quarter in the
city of Memphis, outside of the regular
market houses. The writ was issued to
Sheriff Wright, and will be executed to-
lay. rt
The Revolution Dollar Store was de-
'troyed by fire last night. In the front
window stands a statue Of Mnemosyne,
he daughter Of Cnlus and Terra, and
Goddess of Memory. The contemplative
livinity lost one leg during the fire and
ZANE out of the ordeal in a blackened |
Standing on one foot, she
ret retains a thoughtful expression Of
and true to her character,
Ieems to be trying to remember-prob- |
IDLY the incidents of last night.
A quiet, pleasant-looking individual
AN be always seen at the landing, nov
ng among the steamboats,, by day and |
light, apparently in search Of some
reasure. He is known as our. smiling
and strange tales are told |
f the effect of his low-toned musical
totes when demanding wharfage. Like
he organ of Nilsson, it is irresistible.
'kippers have been known to round to
nd land, merely for the purpose Of pay
ng wharfage to the possessor of that
iren voice. t-. 90 .tsf H
ONLY benefit Of j. H. Jack tonight,