Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-15
BREYITIEs.

to-day under the new municipal admin
istration. r3rsJ
Mrs. +. s. Chanfrau will be the star
at the Memphis Theater next Monday
evening.
The sales Of real estate in the city
and county during the past week
amounted to s99,366 70.
The Lydia Thompson burlesque troupe
left for New Orleans yesterday via the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad.
There were thirty sermons preached
yesterday at the different churches of our
city on subjects varied and interesting
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
had. done up in wrappers, ready for
mailing, at the counting-room tomorrow
morning.
Alexis is going 10 tie up at the Pea
body, and go to the banquet at the Over
ton-so says the Committee of Arrange
ments.
Recorder Winters disposed Of thirty
misdemeanor cases in short time this
forenoon. Seventy dollars we're assessed
as fines.
The January terms Of the two Circuit
and Criminal Courts commenced to-day.
Jurors were sworn in and the regular
business commenced.
Tuesday evening next Rev. Rabbi
SamfieId will deliver lecture at the
Memphis Club Hall. Subject: Nan
kind, Brotherhood"
Another anniversary Of Robert Burns
comes up on the 25th Of the present
month. These Burns anniversaries
come around rather often.
The vote of the residents Of the new
county of Neshoba comes off ON satur-
day next on the question, To W, or
not to be" county.
Go to Mansford, corner of Second and
Monroe, for news goods, daily papers,
weekly pictorials, monthly magazines,
novels, stationery and school books.
Olive Logan-Sykes viii lecture in
Memphis on "The Passions and Mice
Young Men," sometime next month,
under the management of Mr.. Peter
Tracy.
The Mendelssohns give grand con-
cert at the Memphis Theater this even
ing--the prima donna being MADAME
Tess, of the New Orleans French Opera
Troupe.
The lecture on "1reland and Her
Ruins" will be delivered this evening at
the Greenlaw Opera House by the Rev.
Father Burke, Superior of the Domini-
can Order.
Mr.. L. R. Richards, the City Register,
has held this responsible Office for
twenty-six years, having seen during
that time the rise and fall Of thirteen
city administrations.
The Police Board, consisting of the
Mayor and Chairman of each Board OF
the General Council, will meet this after
noon to appoint captains, sergeants and
men of the police force.
Joe Locke, at 1861 Main, has daily
papers, pictorials, magazines and news
/ goods of every description. Cooley s
Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine
for February, just received.
A lady spiritualist, Mrs. Elvira Hull,
will answer some evening this week the
late discourse on the Bible and Spirit
ualism," delivered by Rev. Guilford
Jones, ofthe Methodist Church.
Chief of Police Athey entered upon
the discharge of his duties last Satur-
day. The old detective force has been
relieved from duty. Sergeant Weather
ford is acting Captain until the meeting
of the Police Board.
The Collierville Tenn Journal, pub
lished and edited by DIR. j. P. Peasants,
is a sprightly and business looking
weekly paper. Its circulation com
mands the attention of merchants as a
fine advertising medium.
Among the very best and most eff
cient officers of the police force during
the past two years, have been Sergeant
Hicks and detective Mat Shelby. The
Police Board would be doing the city
service by re-appoipting them.
EMMoNs 4 SoS, newsdeslers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 4lO 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 Grand Duke Alexis will arrive in
Memphis on board the steamer Great
Republic about the fourth OF February
next The citizens of Helena have de-
ternined to make the royal steamer
"heave to" at that point, and have
placed a six-pounder gun in order to
make the Russian gunboat bring its me-
nagerie to the landing.
The next meeting of the General
Council will be stormy one, owing to
the nomination of Mr.. G. R. Phelan IS
City Attorney by the Mayor. The Gen
eral Council refused to concur by vote
of twenty-five to seven, and both parties