Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-07
BRRyITIEs.
Governor Alcorn, Of Mississippi, is So
iourning az the 0yerton.

iourning at the 0yerton.
An old negro woman died in chair
on Beal street yesterday while singing
Rock me TO sleep, etc"
Joe Locke has all kinds of news goods,
magazines, pictorials and daily papers,
at 1864 Main street.
Tax Collector Mclean has to give
bonds 10 the county amounting to $685.
900 for the proper Performance of his
official duties.
Mr.. Gibson. Of the Senate, proposes to
repeal the poll-tax qualification, which
DISTINGUISHES citizen if he does not
pay the tax.
Recorder Scales disposed Of forty-two
cases to-day. George Williams was
found guilty Of stealing hat, and was
placed under $1,000 bonds
A divorce bill was filed yesterday in
the First Chancery Court by Lenora
Darb against John 7. Darb on the
grounds OF desertion, etc.
The Gruetli (Swiss) Society of Mem
phis will celebrate their anniversary at
the Cochran Hall on the 18th inst. The
Swiss cantons organized republic in
1907.
0possum and coon hunting has be-
come q popular moonlight amusement
with the young folks at Horn Lake,
Miss. The young ladies take the greatest
interest in the chase.
Go to Mansford, corner Of Second
and Monroe streets, for daily papers
from all points, English, Irish, German
and French papers, illustrated weeklies
and magazines.
Felix W. Robertson, City Tax Collec-
tor, publishes notice that the discount
system allowed on city taxes for 1871
will terminate ON the first of December.
Taxpayers will consult their own inter-
est by paying taxes before that date to
Colonel Robertson.
Emmons & Son, the popular news
dealers at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main,
have weekly illustrated papers, foreign
publications, monthly magazines, and
daily papers from New York, st. Louis,
Cincinnati, New Orleans, Nashville,
Chicago and other cities.
Our Representative, Mr.. Lumpkips,
has introduced bill before the Legisla-
ture to punish railroad and steamboat
baggage-smashers. The way baggage
masters and hackmen sling trunks about
may be pleasing to trunk ma kers, but
the system is not appreciated to any
great extent by the travelling public.
Officer Harry Walston arrested well
known thief, named Osborne, in Happy
Hollow last night, and this morning ar
rested his "pal," John Thompson. The
latter attended the Recorders Court as
witness for Osborne, but was arrested
by the officer Immediately. A pair Of
nippers was found upon his person. He
was locked up.
The committee appointed by the Cham
Der of Commerce-Messrs. r. A. Pin
son, VIM. R. Moore !. M. Hill, J. M.
Pettigrew and B. G. Brown-vill place
such facts before the Legislature to-mor-
row as will show the legislators the ne.
cessity of materially reducing the mer
chants tax. The Nashville merchants
have commenced moving in the matter
in order to aid their Memphis brethren
and themselves.
Thomas Gale Foster, the great SpIritu-
alist lecturer, is in Louisville, KY, and
it is said will visit Memphis in few
days. The Courier-Journal describes
his oratory as follows The lecture
was delivered in a trance, and purported
to come from the spirit of Mr.. Dayton,
a person but little known, even to the
medium. He was finished and grace
full speaker, whose oratory approaches
the sublime. The audience several
times, catching the enthusiasm Of his
eloquence, forgot the saeredness Of the
hour and place and gave vent to their
feelings in rounds of applause The
speaking continued about an hour, and
closed in climax of beautiful thought.
His arguments were all directed against
error and superstition as he believed
them to exist in the bosom of orthodox
churches and individuals"