Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-27
BREYITIES,

Of Commerce takes place this afternoon
at 3 o'clock
Tax payers indebted to the city can
save money by interviewing Tax Collec-
tor Robertson this week.
The showers Of rain last evening were
so refreshing that our people, like Oliver
Twist, are asking for more"
The WEEKLY PUBLIc LEDGER, neatly
done up in wrappers ready for mailing,
can be obtained at the counting-room
to-day.
At the lightning news stand, 1864
Main street-Joe Locke-has the latest
daily newspapers weekly pictorials and
monthly magazines from all points.
Harrington, the Missouri murderer,
will be sent to that State next week. A
requsition from the Governor for the
body of Harrington will be here in a
few days.
Mr.. Joe Banfll, who stands charged
with abstracting a check for $2l6 from
the German National Bank, will have
hearing before Esquire Miller this after
noon.
The detectives sent in chase of Frank
Mulligan, the supposed horse thief and
would-be incendiary, were unable to find
any trace of the fugitive after he left the
city.
The day and night police change on
Saturday next. Captain Athey, Sar-
geants Hicks and Kelly 60 on day duty,
and Captain Gray, Sargeants Wether-
ford and McAlroY on the night.
Five dollars is the usual fine in Mem
phis for wife-whipping, butin New York
six months in the county Jail is the pun
ishment for tarring and feathering a
young woman.
General Sale closed the argument for
the defendants in the Graves-Poston case
before the Supreme Court yesterday.
The decision was reserved, but will prob
ably be announced within week.
Up to IL m. to-day there. were received
in this city five hundred and one thous-
and bales of cotton during the present
season. Over twenty-five millions of
dollars were paid to the planters on the
above cotton.
The annual picnic for st. Peters Or
phan Asylum takes place at James Park
on the Fourth of July. The day, the
object, and the preparations being made
by the ladies, indicate that it will be q
great success. tfa W4f
Go to Mansford's corner of Second
and Monroe, for illustrated weeklies,
home and foreign magazines and period
icals; also the latest daily and weekly
newspapers from all points North,
South, East and West.
The Clerk of the County Court is as
tonished that not single marriage
license has been issued within the last
five days, a thing unprecedented in the
annals of the County Court or the mat
rimonial market.
An Indiana Democratic editor, who
does not take to the new departure
dogma worth cent, introduces a leading
article on Jefferson Davis Georgia
speech with the words, Noble Senti-
ments by a Noble Mind.
The annual commencement of La Sa-
lette Academy commenced this forenoon
at nine o'clocf. The exercises were of
a most interesting character, the chill
dren displaying wonderful progress un-
der the instructions of the Good Sisters
of St, Dominique.
Next Tuesday will be the Fourth Of
July. An effort is making TO drag up
an orator by the locks who will crate on
the Constitution, the flag, Bunker Hill
and our forefathers. A Fourth Of July
Grafton would be novel and refreshing
with the thermometer 96o in the shade.
At Emmons & Sons news stands, on
Jefferson and Beal streets, you can find
daily papers from New York, New Or
leans, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago,
Nashville, st. Louis and other cities.
Foreign newspapers, pictorials, maya
zines and periodicals received regularly;
also the latest news goods of every de-
scription.
A strange epidemic is raging among
the dogs of Memphis. Every morning
a number of them are found dead on
the streets. From the wounds on their
bodies it is suspected that they are com
hitting suicide. The sanitary police
are removing the dead bodies of animals
found in the alleys and streets as pre-
caution against epidemics so prevalent
at this time of the year.
Madame Levert, accompanied by her
daughter, arrived at the Overton day
or two since on their way to the Hot
Springs, Arkansas. Madame Levert is
we'll known Southern authoress and
contributor to American literature. Her
Souvenirs of Travels" written before
the war, and many other elegant lit
erary productions, TRANSACTIONS from the
French. etc, have long since placed