Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-31
BREYITIES.

| The General Council will meet on
Wednesday evening next at the City
Buildings. y
The Recorder disposed Of twenty-five
cases today and assessed one hundred
dollars as fines. A ~, 81
At Joe Locke's news stand, 1864 Main,
you can get newspapers and everything
in the news line. 1aDnha9h Wv z
The thermometer at ~ m. to-day indi-
Gated $50, and the barometer 20 Clio
inches and falling. So mrt
In the Second Circuit Court to-day
Major Minor Meriwether was admitted as
practicing attorney. aW i.-a
Next Wednesday commences the jew
ish Feast Of the Passover, which will be
celebrated by the Israelites throughout
the world. III 2 haa4,l'e olet-'si
Mr.. J.. T.. Pratt of the st. Louis
Times, and formerly connected with the
press of this city, is here on visit to
his friends and acquaintances. asfa
A colored lover of bacon was sent to
Jail to-day by the Recorder, on the
charge of stealing a number of hams
from Mrs. Morrison three years since. y
The American Express Company ship
ped from Cleveland, within the lastfew
days. $4,000 pounds of unleavened
bread to Pittsburg, and 1000 pounds to
Detroit. r. iaoIa
The local Of the Sun describes the
horrors Of a late attempted suicide by a
dusky maiden, and the interesting ex-
periments at the stomach-pump matinee
which he attended, aa Is,
This morning Special Chancellor VIM.
NJ. Smith, in the ease of Thos. S. MARI
VS.. Bank of West Tennessee, decided all
the points involved in favor of the cred
itors and against the stockholders of the
bank. .5alod ,e" iI
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The election returns from the Fourth
District (Cnba) were received by the
Sheriff today, The, vote stood twenty
nine against subscription and none for
it. The other districts not as yet heard
from. td w Ia&
The masquerade roller skating exhibit
ton at the rink last evening was largely
attended by ladies and gentlemen. The
costumes were fanciful and appropriate,
and the curious bal masque was enjoyed
BY all present. 0U h3t3u a1f9
Mansford, at the corner of Second and
Monroe, has received all the latest papers
from New York, Cincinnati, New Or
leans, st. Louis, Nashville, Chicago and
Louisville, and all the late foreign news
papers and magazines. ~ N
The furniture and fixtures of the
Chamber of Commerce will be moved
into the new hall Of the Association, at
the Peabody Hotel, tomorrow. A meet
ing of the Chamber will be held on next
Monday afternoon.
A petition was filed to-day in the
Second Chancery Court asking for a
writ de lunatico inquirendi in the case
of George Hunter, much to the aston
ishment of that gentleman, who is quite
sane. The petition was afterward with
drawn.
Emmons & Son, news dealers on JET
ferson and Beal streets, have received
all the late papers and magazines from
the North South, East and West.
Foreign newspapers, pictorials and lite
rary periodicals received regularly at
their stands.
We are under obligation to Mansford
for an illustrated copy of Bret Harte's
celebrated "Heathan Chinee." If you
wish to have good laugh, go to Mans
ford's book store, on the corner Of Mon
roe and Second streets, and get copy. !
It's the best by all odds that has yet APP
peared. rt IN .lI..Uf..
The Nashville Banner tells the fish
story that trout four inches in length |
was caught on Wednesday last in the
gutter in front of the Public Square. 1t
swan up town from, the Tennessee river
by way of Lick Branch, and was in search
of the fish market when it was caught by
a young colored disciple of Isaac Wal
ton. Ih ,tih .nt
The lecture season is about to be
opened in Memphis. The spring series
Of lectures before the Mechanics Insti-
lutte will commence in a few days, and
On Tuesday evening next rushing Train
will appear on the track at the Memphis
Theater. Mr.. Train will" lift the veil"
and in a literary seance show us the
moving spirits of the Presidential cam
paign of 1872.
Mr.. p. Short, the well-known treas
irer of the Memphis Theater, takes a
benefit on next Monday evening. The
iamous Sappho Comic Opera and Theat-
,ical Troupe viii appear on that Occa-
ZION. The Mendelssohn Quartette Club
If this city has volunteered TO appear as
! compliment to the polite treasurer I
The best seats are already being en- {