Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-07
BREvITIES.

trict Courts will be opened by Judge
Emmons on next Wednesday.
Another shipment Of new molasses
from Louisiana was received to-day by
Messrs. w. L. Meacham and Co.
The eccentric man of the Appeal pro-
pounds to US the following conundrum
What does this mean2' We give it up.
Messrs. w. S. Jay, N. 7. Green, c. w.
Lynn and G. Belcher were elected mo-
taries public by the County Court yes
terday. 49, 8Ttfl
But one marriage license was returned
to the County Clerk during the week
James Smithson and Miss Frances S.
York. "a ~ 4fs
In the First Chancery Court M. F. II.
Lucas fled a petition for divorce from
Cora A. Lucas, on the grounds of aban-
donment, etc.
The vote on the $4,000 county loan
to the Raleigh railroad will come off
throughout the county on the 18th Of
November.
The chain-gang is defunct, and our
streets and alleys have become dirty
again. Crime has decreased rapidly,
and our station.houses are deserted
Bishop Fitzgerald, of Little Rock,
Ark, will repeat his eloquent lecture on
Rome and the Council of the Vatican"
at st. Peters church, tomorrow evening.
The old Board of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad was triumphantly re-
elected at Louisville last Thursday,
beating the ring by over 5000 ma
jority. SIS
General Buford' colt, Nellie Gray, has
won $4,000 during the season. The
Generals colors--red, white and red
have been victorious on many hard
contested field,
The Chancery Courts stand adjourned
until the 18th inst, Chancellors Scott
and Morgan having gone to Nashville to
attend the Chancellors' meeting to adopt
Chancery rules.
Joe Locke, the newsman, at 1864 Main,
has all of Chas. Reads novels. The
latest newspapers from all points, picto-
rails, magazines and foreign periodicals
received regularly.
A buggy collided with lamp-post at
the Charleston railroad depot, last even
! ing, much to the disadvantage of the
buggy. The lamp-post threw some light
on the calamity.
DR.. F. G. McGavock is lying in dan
gerous condition at the 0verton from the
effects of his late wounds, received from
Thadford, at Shawnee Village, Ark,
some weeks since.
In the case for $4,000 between Mrs.
Jackson aud @. G. Polk, heard yester-
day in the First Circuit Court room,
the jury returned verdict Of one cent
damages for the plaintiff,
Go to Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monroe, for news goods, daily papers,
weekly pictorials, foreign newspapers
and publications, and magazines from
all quarters.
Professor Van Week, the Davenport
Brothers exposer, will appear in Mem
phis shortly, and go through the Daven-
port seances in public. Considerable
curiosity is manifested to witness Van
Weeks expose The Louisville papers
say he does it to perfection.
Emmons & Son, the veteran news
dealers, at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main
street, have everything in the news line,
st. Louis, New Orleans, New York, Gin
cinnati, Louisville, Nashville and Chi
cago daily papers, foreign periodicals,
illustrated weeklies, novels, and literary
works generally.
The Judiciary Committee of the Ten
nessee Senate reported yesterday that it
is notincumbent on members to take the
anti-duelling oath, and recommended the
rejection of bill to supply county Off
GERS with books and stationery. The
House accepted the invitation to attend
the Shelby County Fair on the 18th
inst, Monday week.
Tennessee has forty bales Of cotton
at the St. Louis National Fair, contest
ing for the cotton prizes. Arkansas has
eighty and Mississippi eighty. The cot
ton sampling committee are hard at
work. A St Louis paper, in a notice of
cotton samples, says; " A eolored man,
known for years in this city as Old Jack
Davidson, who died last winter, had
wide reputation as sampler. He was
known to all cotton buyers and sellers,
who reposed unlimited confidence in his
honesty and knowledge Of all grades of
cotton. Jack was the slave of Mr.. Ii
tus. of Memphis, and having bought
himself, he served for many years with
Brown & Co., Of this city.
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