Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-15
BREyITIES.

Joe Locke has all kinds of news goods,
magazines, pictorials and daily papers,
at 1864 Main street.
The knife is rapidly becoming the
favorite weapon with the Memphis syn
dictates who seek to commit homicide.
The beautiful snow fell throughout the
North yesterday. Being below the snow
belt, Memphis escaped from the Attic
ton.
The late frost has settled the career,
for the present season, Of Yellow Jack at
Vicksburg, jackson and other points in
Mississippi.
The city of Brownsville voted yester-
day to subscribe $4,000 to the Denmark,
Brownsville and Durhamville narrow
gauge railway.
The Christian Brothers high school
for boys will be opened on next Monday.
Brother Maurelain is president OF this
mueh-needed institution of learning.
A chignon was lost in Court Square
last evening. This morning it was seen
hanging on one of the tree-boxes at the
corner Of Main and North Court streets.
A bill-poster and theatrical Ethio-
plan delineator engaged in fight last
night, which was settled this forenoon
by Esquire Miller, who fined the paper
hanger.
The case of Loaand vs. Coward is on
hearing before the First Chaneery Court
to-day. Chancellor Morgan this fore
noon dismissed the bill in the case Of
May VS.. Lewis.
The cases of N. Bacigalnpo VS.. John
MaIatesta, robbery, and John Malatesta
VS.. NJ Bacigalupo, perjury, will be heard
by Esquire Spellman tomorrow morn
ing at 10 O'clock.
Train is Grating and bubbling over at
Louisville, advocating his claims to be
the successor of Grant. The coming
man will talk poetry to the Memphis
people sometime next week.
White Cloud, the prize OK, which took
the blue ribbon at the Shelby County
Fair, will be converted into beef on Sat
urday next by Ii. Sessell, ST., and will
be sold at the Poplar street market.
No election on the Raleigh railroad
bond question was held in the second,
third, fourth, ninth or sixteenth dis
tricts of the county The full returns
have not been sent in as yet to the sheriff.
Mansford, corner of Second and Mon
roe, receives daily New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Nashville, St. Louis and
Louisville papers, aud all the popular
illustrated weeklies, and the leading
magazines.
The divorce case of Keel VS.. Keel,
which has been occupying the attention
of the Judge of the Second Circuit
Court for week past, was settled by
compromise last evening and strickCn
from the docket.
Charles Moody, Frank Essex and
James Hicks, colored thieves, we're sent
to Jail to-day by the Recorder on the
charge of robbing T. G. Canning o.
thirty dollars last night, at the corner o.
Fourth and Jefferson streets.
William Mullins, who was stabbed
some days since by Frank Hall, was suf
fering last night from hemorrhage, his
wounds having broken out afresh. His
condition to-day was better, and his ply
sicians have strong hopes Of his ultimate
recovery.
Recorder Scales heard twenty cases
to-day, and assessed one hundred dol
lars as fines Ed. Lucca was sent tC
Jail in default of three hundred dollars
bonds, on the charge of having gambling
implements and devices in his posses
sion.
Emmons & Son, the popular news
dealers at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main
have weekly illustrated papers, foreigI
publications, monthly magazines, an'
daily papers from New York, St. Louis
[ Cincinnati, New Orleans, Nashville
Chicago and other cities.
The commissioners Of the Memphi,
and Knoxville air line railroad will NEE
at the Office of Henderson Owen, in tn
Lee block, or Union street, this after
noon. The Commissioners are Messrs
H. Townsend, II. Owen, J. II. Methes
t. W. Brown and Thomas Boyle
The coal supply of Memphis amount
to 500 900 bushels at this point and 37e,
900 at the mouth of White river. Tn
! price per barrel paid by city consumer
is as follows: Pittsburg coal, ST. Ray
mond coal, 9Oc; nut coal, Soc; Canine
coal, 81 10; Mt. Carbon coal. s5c. Mem
phis is safe and sound on the coal que'
ton.
We we're shown turnip this morning
grown by Mr.. W. F. Cooper on DR.. Ne
sons plantation, on Big Creek, weighin
seven and three-quarter pounds, an
twenty-nine and one-half inches in eli
conference. 1t is Of the Flat Date
species, and lays over anything we hay
seen in that line.
The number Of oysters swallowe
daily in this city is astonishing Til
people of this vicinage have acquired
ferocious taste for these salacious dol
Of appetizing jelly" The motto adop
= ed by the bivalve admirers is taken frol
Shakespeare: "The world is mine oyst'
and I will employ az oysterman to ope
it."
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