Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-28
BREVITIES.


this afternoon.
The absentees who have been VISITING
Northern lakes, sea shores and spring
are returning home in squads.
Coroner Moffatt is sick with chills ant
fever, and will not be able to attend tC
business before tomorrow afternoon.
That popular boarding and lodging
house, the county Jail, has over hun
dred regular guests, who never miss q
meal or pay cent.
John G. SAKE, the comic poet and
humorist, known as the American Hood,
promises to deliver a few lectures in this
city during the winter months.
The value Of real estate sold in Shelby
county since the 2lst of August,
amounted to $2s,229, as appears from
the books Of the Coanty Register.
The street railway under the new
management has advanced from chaos
to order. The reduced fare system is
generally appreciated by our citizens.
A petition has been filed, ex parte, in
the Second Chancery Court, by J. D.
Meredith, ct al, to incorporate the "Mer-
edith Female College"
The hearing of the Jones-Cavanaugh
homicide case will be resumed by Re-
corder Scales at one o'clock tomorrow
afternoon, at the First Circuit Court
room.
The brakes of America are on the
wing to claim large share of the es-
tate left by Sir Francis Drake, of Eng
land. The property is only worth about
s2O,OOOOOO.
The picnic of the German Protestant
Sunday School is announced for to-
day-weather permitting-at Humboldt
Park. Music, dancing and general en-
joyment will he in order.
Fifty cases appeared or the Record
er's docket this morning. The DRINKS
and disorderlies, as usual, were largely
in the majority, and contributed to
swell the city exchequer.
Joe locke, the news king of Memphis,
at 1854 Main, has the daily papers from
all the cities North, South, East and
West. Weekly pictorials and foreign
publications of latest dates received
regularly.
Revivals of religion are making sad
work among the sinners at Horn Lake
and other portions of DeSoto county
Miss. The revivals are conducted by
Methodist and Presbyterian ministers in
their respective churches.
After dark, the liveliest and most
popular street in the city is Jefferson.
Restaurants and places of amusement,
with great Chinese lanterns hanging in
front, attract varied and mixed assem-
blage of demonstrating patrolmen,
who keep both eyes open as matter of
business.
Go to Mansford's great news stand,
corner Of Second and Monroe streets,
for everything in the news hne-daily
papers, novels, illustrated weeklies,
magazines of fashion, science and art,
and foreign newspapers of latest dates
from England, Ireland and the CONT
nent of Europe.
A well-known and suspicious charac-
ter, named John Dennison, was yester-
day arrested by Captain Athey, who in
vited the chap to depart from the city.
You get, said the watchful Captain.
You bet, said the sharp; and the next
train bore him away to more inviting
fields of manual labor.
Mckinley, a Memphis Communist,
confined in the Nashville penitentiary,
made desperate attempt to escape on
last Thursday night. He attacked guard
O'Donnell with a hammer and slung
shot, but the guard beat back the Com
munist with his fists until relief came.
O'Donnell was badly cut about the
head and face
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
ound, neatly done up in wrappers ready
CT mailing, at the counting-room to-
n, PROV morning. The WEEKLY LEDGER
.oi ltains a resume of the important
leWs of the day, and the latest local,
,om uercial, financial and foreign news
# every description. nre
The examination in the Cannon-Morse
homicide case was resumed at two
} clock this afternoon at the Second |
Circuit Courtroom. Justices Winters,
Elliott and Burke, acting as iripartite
court, presided. Owing to the fact
hat the testimony is taken down in
writing, the investigation drags its slow
ength along.
The Convention which assembled at
Bolivar, Hardeman county, on last Sat
1rday, unanimously Endorsed the scheme
for narrow gauge railway from Mem
ohis to Knoxville via Sommerville, Boil
mr., Purdy and Savannah. Memphis
i'll have to lend helping hand to this
lterprise. Money invested in railroads