Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-25
BREYITIEs.

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Courts and Criminal Court are in SEES
sion to-day.
Ticket No. a. drew the silk quilt al
| the Chamber Of Commerce for the bene-
fit Of the Batesville Fair.
II is saidthat Theodore Thomas great
concert troupe viii appear in this city
this season, and blow music in our ears
for week.
Reports from the country adjacent to
Helena, Arkansas, say that the yield Of
cotton will not be more than half as
large as it was last year
Go to Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monroe streets, for news goods
foreign papers, illustrated weeklies, lite
rary, scientific and fashion journals, and
all the daily papers from Northern
cities.
A very interesting meeting is in pro-
gress at the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. Services every day at at IL
am. and u pm. Preaching tonight by
Rev. s. G. Caruthers.
Judge Emmons, of the United States
District and Circuit Courts, left yester-
day for Nashville. On next Monday
the Judge will return and hold Court for
4 few days, when a final adjournment
for the term win take place
1.-THE United Sons Of Ham we're in
corporated as an association to-day by
the Second Chancery Court. The prin-
cipal object Of these society incorpora-
,tions is to sue and be sued, to have a
seal and to create capital stock offab-
ulous amount
Emmons & Son, the veteran news
dealers at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main,
have received foreign newspapers of
latest dates, pictorial publications and
New York, st. Louis, Chicago Cincin-
natl, Louisville, Nashville and New Or
leans daily newspapers.
The 100000 damage case, known as
the great gas case, is dragging its slow
length along through the First Circuit
Court. The arguments of counsel on
the introduction of witnesses occupy
nearly the entire attention of the Court.
The case will not be concluded for a
week or ten days.
The yellow fever is raging at Vicks-
burg as an epidemic. The authorities
have requested strangers to remain
away. Tar barrels and bonfres are
kept burning in the streets by day and
night as sanitary precaution. At
Natchez there has been quite number
of deaths, but the fever has not been de-
clared an epidemic.
An effort has been made to keep pro-
fessional Jurors out Of our courts, but
their happy and familiar faces can be
seen occasionally in the jury boxes, For
several years there were number Of
persons in our city who regarded jury
service as matter of right, believing it
to be franchise they we're entitled 10
under the Constitution.
In the Criminal Court the hearing Of
the case of Mike Mallowney was COM
menced this forenoon. II was arranged
that the jury should visit the scene of
the homicide ON Exchange street. 1t
will be remembered that in 1869, during
difficulty which sprung up between a
negro and the defendant about wood.
saving, the negro was shot dead by the
defendant.
Col t. Munford, who served on the
staff of General Sidney johnson, has
prepared lecture on the life and char
acter OF General johnson. to be read
before the Confederate Historical Soci-
ETY., on Thursday evening, November I'd,
in the Second Circuit Courtroom. The
public is invited to attend upon this in
teresting occasion The subject is one
full of interest and will be treated in
mastery manner by the lecturer.
Coroner Moffatt left for Florida to-day
During his absence the magistrates of
the city will sit on all dead men found
in Shelby county. There is considerable
rivalry existing among many of the JUS
tees as to which of them will take a
seat on the bodies frst--lhe question of
fees being the bone of contention. OF
course the magistrate getting the infor-
nation first and possessing the greatest
speed and bottom will reach the goal in
advance of all others, and can say,
tragically, as he points to the tenement
of clay, 60 tbs mine"
Chicago has become the fruitful theme
Of woes unnumbered. The heavy sensa-
tional writer's Of the press are doing up |
the Chicago fire by the column. The |
special correspondents are engaged in
word-painting, and the pictorials show
up the horrors in grotesque wood-cuts.
The Chicago sufferers are scattered far
and wide, and, like the ancient mariner
pour tale of woe into the ear of every
guest or citizen who will listen !
TO their warblings. Several of these UNI
lortunates have reached Memphis, and /
after recounting the fate of the modern
ask for a few dollars to purchase
Beware of these itinerant
swindlers,
Privilege Tax Collector j. Harvey |
Mathes has received instructions from
the Comptroller OF the State to refund
The Tennessee money, amounting to
s2475, paid as privilege tax by the whole
sale liquor dealers. The parties who
have paid such tax and to whom the
AK is to be refunded, are: Vaccaro 4
Co.; Cloth 4 Kettman; Guy, Mcclellan