Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-17
BREyITIEs.

The members Of the police force wear
the new uniform cap.
The Thermometer at II m. to-day stood
at AGO and the barometer at 80 inches.
The Confederate Relief and Historical
Association will meet this evening at
seven clock.
The skating rink at the Assembly
Hall is largely patronized by the young
ladies of our city.
The meetings on Change are becom-
ing quite interesting. A large amount
of grain and produce changes hands
daily.
In the First Chancery Court the case
of the Bank of West Tennessee VS.. Nor
row is on trial before Special Chancellor
Smith.
Sheriff Wright will send the prisoners
recently convicted before the Criminal
Court to the Nashville penitentiary to-
morrow morning.
Colonel D. X. McRae will repeat his
interesting lecture before the Confed-
crate Relief and Historical Association
on Friday or Saturday evening next.
In the Second Chancery Court the
Nicolson pavement cases were called for
hearing last evening, but the hearing
was continued over to Monday next.
Esquire James Rose, the newly elected
Magistrate of the Fifth Civil District, has
opened an Office in the Stillman Block,
on Second street, between Court and
Madison streets.
Ali the fashion papers and magazines
at Mansford's, corner of Monroe and
Second; also, all the latest newspapers,
magazines, journals, and pictorials from
all quarters of the world. q
A Promenade Concert for the ben
eft of st. Lazarus Church will be given
at the Peabody Hotel on the 18th inst.
The affair promises to be one of the mu-
steal treats of the season.
The Missouri and Kansas delegations
of editors commenced their Southern
raid Oh Wednesday last from st. Louis.
In marching back from the sea they will
probably honor Memphis with their pres
ence.
Joe Locke. newsdealer on Main near
Jefferson, has all the latest daily and
weekly newspapers, illustrated weeklies
from Europe and all points in the United
States. magazines, literary journals, al
manacs, and everything known to the
news line.
A number of rowdies attended the
theater last evening, much to the an
noyance and disgust of respectable peo-
pie. The conduct of these fellows was
such that they ought to have been ar
rested and elected from the building.
The upper White river steamer Argus
struck snag yesterday in White river,
near Batesville, Arkansas, and sank in
deep water. The Argus had on board
three hundred bales of cotton. No lives
we're lost, but the boat is believed to be
wreck.
Billy White, the omnibus agent, who
was so badly burned and crushed in the
terrible accident on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad some weeks since,
died yesterday. A number of our ablest
physicians constantly attended upon
him, but were unable to save his life.
Laura Armstrong, one of the negro
women in jail on the charge of aiding in
the murder of Kelly, confessed yesterday
that the negro Jim Galloway killed Kelly
and then dragged the body out into the
back yard. Galloway has not as yet
been arrested.
There is an eighteen foot rise in the
Ohio river at Pittsburg. An eight foot
rise is called coal boat rise. We may
with some certainty predict fall in the
price of coal in this city since the Ohio
is roaring river, on which fleets of coal
barges are floating down toward the sea.
Emmons IL Son, veteran newdealers on
Jefferson and Beal streets, have all the
late daily papers from the North, South
and East, and latest illustrated papers
and monthly magazines from Europe
and all points in the States, and literary
journals and news goods of every de-