Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-17

Recorder Scales levee was attended
by thirty unfortunates this morning. Sew
eral colored larcenists were sent to Jail
in default of bonds.
The city is full of strangers at present.
People from the country throng our
streets and business houses, thereby Civ
ing an impetus to trade.
A requiem high mass will be chanted
over the remains of the late Miss c..
Dougherty, at St. Peters Cathedral, to-
morrow morning at o'clock
All voters at the next municipal cleo
ton will have to be residents of the
wards in which they offer to vote at least
thirty days prior to the election day.
The station-house received supply Of
beds and bedding for the prisoners to-
day. The keepers of the city prisons are
prepared to accommodate any number
of guests
The hymenial epidemic RACES IN Mem
phis. The cause is said by philosophers
to be entirely atmospheric, and the par
ties are not in any manner responsible
for the results
How are you on one hundred and
fve2" has become the eabalistic politi-
cal question in this city. The question
generally creates SMILE not at the
bar but at the querist.
Esquire Miller will hold an inquest Of
lunacy on Harry Hagan, a painter by
trade, this afternoon. Mr. Hagan has
been suffering from attacks of lunacy
since last summer, when he was pros
trated by sun-stroke.
1t is rumored that there will be three
candidates for the Office of mayor in the
field at the ensuing municipal election
one conventional Democrat, one mass
meeting independent Democrat, and one
Radical.
Mansford, corner of Second and Mon
roe, receives daily New York, Chicago
Cincinnati, Nashville, st. Louis and
Louisville papers, and all the popular
illustrated weeklies, and the leading
magazines.
William johnson, colored musician
was placed on trial to-day before the
Criminal Court, on the charge of stealing
violin from Miss Lizzie Walker John
sons musical education and predilec
tons will no doubt introduce him to the
warden of the penitentiary.
] Local politics are looming up at pres
ent, to the great qualification of ward
politicians and chaps who have nothing
e lse to do but stand on street corner'
and discuss the politics of the day
which at present are as dark as night
A fashionable wedding took place al
{ he Overton Hotel last evening, the
h Apply individuals being Mr.. William
B owles and Miss Katie Potter, both gen
Ell al favorites in Memphis society-the
70 rmer being a fashionable beau and the
la tier reigning belle.
Eumons s& Son, the popular news
de alers at 10 Jefferson and 40 Main
ha We weekly illustrated papers, foreign
pu blieations, monthly magazines. and
dai ly papers from New York, st. Louis
Gin einnat, New Orleans, Nashville
Chi eAgo and other cities.
T be Louisville papers give five col
umn each day to Trains eccentric lee
lures. George has startled the Louisville
people, and has set them to thinking
lust as he did the Memphis people last
seagon. The wonderful talker will lee
ture in this city in few weeks on the
Pre- sidential campaign of 1872.
Another stabbing ARRAY took place in
the city ye sterday. John Murphy cui
Mr.. Gus Jones with knife. at 1864 Sec
ond street, because the latter interfered
to stop a fight between Murphy aud q
man named Byrn. Mr.. Jones received
a cash on the cheek, and had his left
hand badly cut, besides having his coat
slashed up. The cutter was arrested by
the police.
A runaway horse attached to a spring
wagon made things lively last evening
near the corner of Second and Union
streets. The wagon was dashed against
lamp-post, the horse was doubled W
under the wagon, while the colored
driver stood on his head on the Nieolsor
for about ten seconds. The wagon was
the only thing damaged.
Three million bushels of coal Jeff
Pittsburg yesterday for the lover Mis-
sissippi. The sudden rise in the Ohio
will float out this immense amount o.
coal, which has been locked up by low
water. This will bring down the price
of coal at this point-a gratifying fact
at this season Of the year Full partic
ulars as to the coal fleets can be found in
special dispatches in the river column.
The Memphis and Shreveport railroad
committee met yesterday at the Cham
Der Of Commerce, but adjourned over
for fiual action until next Saturday af'
ternoon at 3 o'clock. The committee
men are almost unanimously in favor Of
placing the claim Of the Shreveport road
solely on its own merits before the peo-
pie, without reference to the claims Of
the Kansas City railroad, which is, Of
course, an independent project, but one
Of great importance to the commercial
interests of Memphis. lone at a time,
is a wise and good motto.
Sudge Ray presides over the Second
Circuit Court. and will continue 10 Dc