Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-15
BREVITIEs.

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Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1864
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines.
A young lady who went to hear Olive
Logan last night, says she is going again
tonight, because she wants to see if
she will wear the same dress again"
The case Of Bretzman VS.. St. Louis
Packet cempany--false imprisonment
and damages--is on trial before Judge
Heiskell of the first circuit court.
W. X. Reese is on trial before the
criminal court to-day on the charge of
the larceny of cloak from s. Vendig.
The case will be concluded this evening.
The letter-carriers were busily engaged
in delivering Valentines yesterday. The
number of love missives" sold by the
book stores and news stands was prodig-
ious.
Mansford has big stock of Valen-
tines, ranging in price from five cents to
five dollars each. The corner Of Second
and Monroe might be called Valentine
corner for the next few days.
The lecture room has never become a
Memphis institution or popularized with
our best citizens. The Olive Logan
lectures will go far to change this unac-
countable and not easily understood
rule.
A deaf old lady who went to Olive
Logans lecture on "The Passions" in
St. Louis, was asked how she liked it.
81 couldn't hear word, of course" re-
piled the old lady, but didn't she go
through the motions beautiful"
The friends and acquaintance of Mr..
John S. Clayton will regret to learn that
he is lying dangerously i'll with conges-
ton, at his residence on the Poplar
street turnpike. His physicians have
almost given up all hope of his recov-
cry.
I The judges and lawyers throughout
the State are getting up petitions for the
bolishment of juries in civil cases, I'M
less demanded by the litigants. The
petitions will be sent to the governor
and submitted to the forthcoming legis-
lature,
On the 10Th Lolita, who carries audi
ances by storm by the irresistible force
of jollity and good acting will COM
mence an, engagement at the Memphis
Theater. Lolita is Memphis favorite,
always creating furore among our
theater-goers.
EMMoNs Il Son, newsdealers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 4l0 Main, have re-
| ceived the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, st.
Louis, Chicago and all other cities;
also, illustrated weeklies, foreign publ
cations, and news goods generally.
The Fire Relief society held meet
ing yesterday and elected the following
officers: President, James Stokes, OF
No. /; vice president, james Cleary, OF
No. 8; treasurer, Arthur Dryer; secre-
tary, John Clancy; finance committee,
| P. II. Phelan, W. J. Crosby and W. f.
Carroll
Northern as we'll as Southern and East
ern mails have been from twenty-four to
forty-eight hours late for nearly week,
and in some cases nearly week behind.
For instance, last Saturdays Cincinnati
mail was delivered from our postofiice
this morning. Cannot this delay be
remedied2
A countryman from Mississippi went
into seed store yesterday and grayely
ST ated that he had tried all kinds of
seeds on his plantation and failed to
bring forth crop He now wanted two
bushels of Mardi. Gras seed, he having
heard that it came up in Memphis and
vicinity.
A quiet little marriage ceremony took
place in the parlor of the Peabody.Hotel
last night. The Rev. DR.. Wheat, of the
Episcopal church, performed the cere-
mony-the bride being Miss Ida King,
of Hot Springs, Ark, and the groom
Mr.. ]. B. Sheldon, well-known opera
tor in the Pacific and Atlantic Tele-
graph company Of this city.
A dray horse rested peacefully in
death on the corner of Front and Mon
roe streets this afternoon. Too much
work killed him. He staggered beneath
the blows of whip. AS he was dying
he turned his glazing eyes upon his
driver, as much as to say like the poor
animal described by Sterne, Don't
beat me any more, but you can if you
want to" We need Bergh in Mem
phis.
The principal topic of conversation on
the streets is the great success of the
Mardi -Gras celebration. Next year the
celebration will be reproduced on a
grand scale for the entertainment Of citi-
zens and the twenty thousand strangers
who will visit our city to participate in
the enjoyments of the carnival. Not
even the musical toot of the caliope
could disturb the repose of the $4,000
sleepers in the city last night. An earth
quake would hardly have been equal to
the emergency, and even then some
weary masquerader would murmur:
Rock me to sleep, mother Aearth. }"