Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-12
BREYITIES.


The thermometer at u m. to-day indi-
Gated zoe, and the barometer 20 $40
The well-known Wyndham English
Comedy Troupe win appear al the Mem
phis Theater next week.
Joe Locke has the illustrated Heather
Chinee and all the latest papers from OIL
points at 1864 Main street.
The net proceeds of Mr.. Trains lee
ture delivered for the benefit Of st. Pc
ter's Orphan Asylum were $l39 90.
Mr.. L. B. Mcfarland has been selected
to deliver the annual address on Deco
ration Day over the graves Of the Con-
federate dead.
Yesterday a man named Bernard
Schiff stepped from the eastern portico
Of the State Capitol at Nashville and
was instantly killed.
We were shown large ripe straw
berry to-day by Mr.. t. s. Barbour, OF
Trigg's avenue. Next week Mr.. Bar
bour will have an abundance of them.
Go to- Mansford's, corner of Second
and Monroe, for every thing in the news
line, daily and weekly newspapers,
weekly pictorials and foreign magazines.
The spring races over the Chickasaw
Club course will be largely attended. A
splendid lot of stables will be present at
the meeting. The races will commence
on the 25th instant.
John Murdoch, who was shot by
Ozainne, the Radical sheriff of Pamela
county, Mississippi, few days since,
died of his wounds on Monday last
Murdoch served with distinction during
the war in the Hudson battery from Pa
nola. .sa
The Grand Sacred Concert to be given
at st. Peters Church tomorrow evening
promises to be the great musictl treat
of the season. The fine choir, under
the leadership of Prof. Sabatzky, will be
assisted by the best amateur and pro-
fessional musical talent in the city.
Emmons & Son, newsdealers on JEFF
ferson and Beal streets, have received
the Nashville Banner, Courier Journal,
St. Louis Republican of yesterday; also,
New York, New Orleans, Chicago and
foreign papers of latest dates. Every
thing in the news line can be had at their
stands.
Chancellor Morgan rendered the fol
lowing decisions to-day: Swain VS.. Hig-
gins, decree for complainant; the petit
ton of McCloy ct al, to incorporate the
Sun Publishing Company, was granted;
the petition of Graves ct al, to incorpo-
rate a publishing company, was granted;
Crowder VS.. Hodges, demurrer over
ruled.
Mr.. Mitchell who obtained 1926 from
two countrymen on Monday last, was
bound over by the Recorder on Tuesday,
| was indicted by the Grand Jury of the
Criminal Court last evening, and will be
tried by jury at three o'clock this af-
ternoon. He will probably be sentenced
to the penitentiary before night. The
law delay is not recognized in Memphis.
George Washington, the curse of his
country, having read the phrase, THE
worlds mine oyster and will ope 1t,
undertook to open a colored brother
named Dave Brown with knife yester
day. The knife was inserted beneath
Browns shoulder-blade, but the knife
blade being dull, Dave survives. The
Recorder sent Washington tojail.
The grand jury of the Criminal Cour'
are investigating the escape of the con
victs from the county jail. Making q
turnkey of dangerous convict was the
cause of the escape, and to this conclu
sion must the grand jurors come at last
There were sufficient number Of guards
at the Jail to guard prisoners if they had
attended to their legitimate business,
The County Court yesterday reduced
the pay of its members from five dollars
to two dollars per day. This will do
away with long sessions and terms OF
Court, and also with long speeches A
general cutting down of expenses seems
to be the object of the magistrates, and
commencing on themselves was mas
terly stroke of policy. They can now
hew and hack right and left.
The last spike was driven at three
D. m. yesterday completing the Memphis
and Little Rock railroad The road has
been seventeen years building and is
now an accomplished fact. Were 1t not
for the overflow on this end of the track
the citizens Of Memphis could greet the
arrival of through train at HopeGeld.
Trains now rue regularly from Little
Rock to Madison.
The Cochran Hall sednces are largely
attended. Last evening the spirit of
Rosa, the Indian girl, took the watch OF
a leading lawyer and placed an iron
ring on his arm, much to his astonish-
ment. How this was done he did not
rise to explain" Spiritual lights were
flashed over the room, and a general
noise was kept up by the bubbles of the
air-the spirits. The seekers after the
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