Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-12
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plete stock of news goods.
A stabbing ARRAY took place last
night between the Amazons of Rotten
Row, on Shelby street. One Of the
dusky maidens received severe cut
under the shoulder-blade.
Go TO Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monre streets, for magazines, picto-
rails, foreign papers and publications
from Europe, and the latest daily papers
from all points North, South, East and
West.
The grand Raleigh Springs barbecue
on Thursday next will wind up with
dance at night. Hundreds of Mem
phians will be in attendance at the
grand opening of the Raleigh Springs
season.
Ike Mclean and two other negroes
wee arrested yesterday on the charge
of burglary on the premises Of Mr.. II.
7. Williams, in South Memphis. Justice
Winters will hear the case tomorrow
morning.
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
found at the counting-room tomorrow
morning in wrappers ready for mailing.
The WEEKLY LEDGER would be regarded
as an acceptable present by your friends
in the country. Fturs sf
We have received copy of Father
Ryan's paper. The Morning Star, of
New Orleans. The editorial on the Pre-
sent Position of the Church" is a prose
poem, an Ossianic ode, replete with the
never-fading elements of poetry.
The General Council committees on
elevators and removal of bluffs will
meet during the week to ponder over
and consider these important questions
for the benefit Of the public and the
next regular meeting of the Boards.
A general system Of improving the
Nicolson pavement has been inaugu-
rated on Main street. The investigation
discloses a general rottenness in the
pavement, which suggests something
similar in the contracts under which it
was laid.
A correspondent to morning journal
heads an incoherent criticism with the
words of D'Holbach. THAT which we
call common sense is the most uncom-
mon of all the senses" After reading
the criticism it becomes necessity to
indorse the saying of D Holbach
Emmons & Son, newsdealers, on JEFF
ferson and Beal streets, have received
French, English and German papers, il
Illustrated weeklies, fashion and scien-
tifc monthlies, and daily papers from
all Eastern, Western and Southern
cities. SIS
/ Chancellor Morgan, Of the First Chan
Gerry Court, decided the following cases
this morning; Eagan VS.. Auer, bill dis
missed; Greenlaw VS.. Williams, cause
reinstated; Mclean Us, Ryan, demurrer
overruled; Lamb VS.. Lamb, petition for
divorce granted.
Andy Glass, a colored kleptomaniac,
walked into store on Shelby street
this morning and accidentally appro-
priated pair of No ID boots without
consulting the wishes of the proprietor.
Recorder Scales decided thabGlass had
put his foot in it, and sent him to Jail in
default of $1,000 bonds.
The prisoners recently convicted be-
fore our Criminal Court whose cases
have been appealed to the Supreme
Court, leave this afternoon in charge of
the sheriff for Jackson, Tenn. Graves,
Poston and Henry Shredder will remain
here until special order from jackson
is received for their removal
The prince of wits, Douglas Jerrold,
has said more good things than any
man of this or any other age. He
must have understood Chase's United
States bond theory in advance. my
notion of wife at forty, said Jerrold,
"is that man should be able to change
her like bank-note for two twenties. "
The moonlight picnic at James Park
to be given tomorrow evening by Messrs.
Specht and Anderson, promises to be a
fashionable and elegant entertainment
The most ample preparations are being
made to make it delightful in every re-
speet. One hundred lamps will light
up the grounds at night.
Col. Nathan Adams, President of the
Memphis and Ohio railroad, leaves to-
morrow for Europe via New York, from
which port he will sail on Wednesday
week. Col. Adams will take three
months tour through England, France,
Germany and Switzerland. With the
friends of the Colonel, we say bon roy
age.
Bishop Fitzgerald, of Little Rock,
Arkansas, lectured last evening at St
Peters church on 1.-THE Pope and the
Vatican" The reverend lecturer de-
tailed the history of the councils of the
Church, and especially of the Ecumeni-
cal Council which was Dissolved by the
capture of Rome by the Italian troops
under Victor Emmanuel.