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


trial before the Criminal Court 1t is
believed full jury will be secured this
afternoon.
Joe Locke, the lightning newsdealer
at 236l Main, has the latest daily papers,
magazines, pictorials and periodicals
from all points.
A mad dog on Commerce street bit six
dogs and one hog last evening, and
escaped. A general shooting Of wound
ed dogs took place soon afterward. Why
is not the dog law enforeed2 U 81
The installation of officers elect of
Banner Lodge No. l47, |. 0. o. F., will
be held this evening at their lodge-room.
An invitation is extended to members of
sister lodges and visiting brothers.
The County Court appointed the fol-
lowing gentlemen notaries public for
Shelby county; f. B. Willard, G. Can
ming Smith, j. W. Smith, H. c. Brewer,
Eugene Lehman and n. lBeersdolph.
The st. Louis Republican and Demo
crat received daily by Mansford, corner
of Monroe and Second; also, Chicago,
New York, Cincinnati and Louisville
papers.
President John c. Fizer and other
officers of the Confederate Relief and
Historical Society we're duly installed
last evening. The Society numbers
about two hundred members and isgin q
live condition, financially and otherwise.
Go to Emmons 4 Son, newsdealers on
Jefferson and Beal streets, for the latest
foreign newspapers, magazines, illus
trated weeklies and daily papers from
New York, st. Louis, New Orleans,
Cincinnati and other cities.
In the County Court yesterday it was
ordered to examine into the Barbour
Lewis county warrants, in order to get
at the amount both ahoat and ashore.
The County Court seems determined to
sustain the action of the Supreme Court
At the coroner inquest held at the
scene of the Harpeth river bridge rail-
road disaster, the jury returned YER
dict, viz: "We found by examination
of the timbers comprising said broken
bridge that they were so rotten as to be
unfit for the passage of an ordinary
passenger train
Buttermilk drinking is becoming
fashionable in this city. At several
ice houses there is bar over which
buttermilk is sold at five cents a glass
to regular thirsty customers. With the
Thermometer approaching 1907 butter
milk as a cooling beverage beats whisky,
beer, wine etc. The buttermilk brigade
is rapidly increasing.
The local of this journal was pre-
sented yesterday with an elegant gold
pen, which was voted to him at the
Orphans picnic few days since. The
popular local returns his thanks to
the reckless voters for the golden tribute
to clear case of mistaken identity.
The attendance at the funeral of Mrs.
VIM. e. Yeatman last evening was very
large, and was composed Of our best
citizens, both young and old. The re-
mains of the lamented deceased were
placed in the family vault, to await the
recovery Of Mr.. Yeatman, who lies dan
gerously i'll at Nashville, before being
consigned to the tomb.
Notwithstanding the intense heat, To-
cal politics are rapidly rising to boil
ing point. States are being made up for
the next municipal election, and ere
long we will have the usual annual in
fiction of lone of our best citizens,
"an honest man" good officer, "a
man worthy of the Office" etc. Let it
be understood that every candidate seeks
the office in Memphis,