Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-14
BREy1TIEs.


day over to the FIRST Monday in July
next. sfM
Forty-four convicts will be sent tc
Nashville from our county jailin few
days.
The thermometer at IL m. to-day in
dictated 64o, and the barometer 20 6-lC
inches.
The Memphis boat clubs are organ
izing for the coming season. A regatta
is suggested.
Joe Locke, at 1864 Main street, has al
the latest papers, pictorials and maya
zines from all points.
Confidence games are popular amuse
ments in Memphis. The police should
arrest all these confidence chaps under
the vagrant law.
The Cairo Bulletin calls steamboat
explosions "huvicide." When man
is blown up he has Auvicided or has
been huyicided. What next?
The Recorder disposed of twenty-foui
cases to-day. One hundred and fifty
dollars were collected. Several belliger
ent parties were bound over to keep the
peace.
Ex-Presideat Jefferson Davis and fam
| lily arrived on the City of Vicksburg this
morning from Vicksburg. Gen. Wade
Hampton and the Marquis De Cam
mama, of Cuba. came up ON the same
boat.
Go to Mansford' for news goods, daily
and weekly newspapers, magazines ant
periodicals. foreign newspapers and pub
LEGATIONS of latest dates. Go to the cor
ner of Second and Monroe streets.
Cincinnati is excited over the discov
cry of the tooth of mastodon near thai
city by some workmen employed on thu
Baltimore railroad. The aurora borealii
is also on exhibition nightly in that city
L
Shielding is becoming an epidemic il
Nashville and Louisville. The Ohio an(
Cumberland rivers, morphine and Smitl
81 Wesson pistols are the favorite mean
used by the unfortunates, and domestic
difficulties seem to be the principal cause
Captain Harvey Mathes, Tax Collector
publishes in another column an impor
tant communication to wholesale liquor
dealers, from Comptroller Pennebaker
The Attorney General of the State hal
decid ed that wholesale liquor dealers arr
liable to the privilege tax.
The police discovered rifed trunl
in an alley near Monroe street this morn
ing. The trunk had been carried off b.
burglars from a residence on said street
but abandoned the plumber, it being o
less value than supposed by them whel
the burglary was committed.
A few days since Mrs. Nanette B. Gar
diner, large property owner in Detroit
Michigan, drove in her carriage to tn
polls and claimed the right to vote unde
the Fourteenth Amendment. The judge
received the vote, thereby adding one t.
the Democratic strength.
The grand Masonic Temple will 500
be built in this city at the corner @
Madison and Second. A magnificen
plan of the superstructure can be seel
at Mansfeld's drug store. The style /
oriental and Venitian, and the building
will be an ornament to the city whel
erected.
l Chancellor Scott announced the TO
lowing decisions to-day: Ragland vs.
Ware, portion of conveyance of real es
tate set aside, and the same subjected t
payment OF compliments debts; MI
cahy VS.. O'Donnell, complainant a
lowed to introduce new proof in tn
case.
| The Avalanche reporter lectures tn
Court clerks on propriety and polteness
We have always found them polite an,
accommodating and ready at all time
to furnish news items of every descrip
ton. The reporter calls the clerk
Heather Chimes" to which they re
ply with the cognomen " Bill Nye."
Emmons & Son, newsdealers on Jeffer
son and Beal streets, have all the lates
| New York, Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago
Louisville, New Orleans and Nashville
newspapers. Fashion, literary and scien
tifc magazines; English, French anC
German newspapers, pietorials and pub
lications-everything in the news line
The initial number Of the Lauderdal'
Times, published at Florence, Ala, ha
been received. 1t contains an accom-
of a desperate fight between five citizens
Of Giles county, Tenn, and the Cit
Marshal and posse, near Florence. Thu
fight was about some stolen horses
Several Of the combatants were wounded
but none mortally.
Mr.. Monahan, whose lectures in Yves
Tennessee were repudiated by his Cath