Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-26
BREyITIRs.

Judge Ray viii hold probate court to-
Two large and variegated lamp-posts
are being placed in front ofthe Peabody
Hotel
The steamer Great Republic will re-
ceive Alexis and suite at this port on
next Saturday.
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 2a63
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines.
Chancellor Scott rendered the follow
ing decisions to-day: The City VS.. Ma
bry, demurrer overruled; Powell VS..
Ford, award set aside.
Rev. 7. W. Caskey viii preach in Lin
den Street Christian church this (Fri-
day. evening at seven o'clock.
The Irish Literary Association of this
city is at present engaged in discussing
whether or not suffrage should be quail
fed. Ift
Father Burke, superior Of the Domin-
leans, will lecture next Monday evening
at the Greenlsw Opera House, ON 1.-THE
Melodies Of Ireland"
The Burns anniversary was celebrated
by St. Andrews society last evening at
the Waldran block. Music, dancing and
feasting we're enjoyed by the guests.
The latest St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chi
cago, Louisville and New York dailies at
Mansford's news depot, corner of Second
and Monroe. Valentines at wholesale.
The detective force of the city has
been organized, and is composed of
Harry Cranmer, and ex-Metropolitan
detectives Curley McCune, Pat Walsh
and Kane CIsick.
The Young Peoples Spiritual associa-
ton of this city has engaged Mr.. E. s.
Wheeler, of Boston, to deliver series
of lectures, commencing ON Sunday, the
4th of February.
The jury in the Wynne Cannon-Hod
Morse homicide case, at present on trial
before the criminal court, was made up
yesterday afternoon. The hearing Of
testimony is progressing at present.
Confidence men. who operate in back
parlors behind bogus jewelry s.or es, are
doing hourishing business, robbing un-
suspicious eountrymen. The police
should close these plundering dens.
A meeting is called for the 2lst Of
February next Of the stockholders of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad to
consider the propositions made by Col.
Tom Scott as to the lease of said road.
The nu mber of lost children is rapidly
increasing in our city, The parents
generally find them at the staton-house,
whittier they are carried by the paternal
patrolmen who pick them up on the
streets.
EMMoNs i SoS, newsdealers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 40 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 publi'
cations. and news goods ge morally.
Olive Logan writes that she will lee
ture in this city on the 18th, 10Th AMI
10th of next month. The subjects are
as follows: First night, Girls second
night, THE Passions;" third night,
Nice young men," Olive has lecture
on Southern girls" which she will
probably deliver ere sire leaves our city.
Capt Thomas c. 'Jranmer, of New
Orleans, has been appointed passenger
agent OF the New Orleans, Jackson and
Great Western railroad. Capt. Gran
mer is well known in this city, and has
been citizen of New Orleans for twenty
years. During the last war he served
with distinction in the Confederate States
navy under Comma nder Maffitt.
One of our morning contemporaries
publishes a full expose of the game Of
keno, showing its pernicious effects
upon the young, and those having
but little money to spare. The game is
a popular one in our city, and, TO use
the graphic but not gram NAUTICAL des, lrip'
ton Of its effects as depic ted in the A va
lanche, as it now is, it ia daily ruinin.V
men, young and old, rich and poor, who
have fell victims to its villas s." The keno
men pay United States an city license
and claim that as q seque nee they are
entitled to protection for the privilege
so taxed The State, eco gnizing no
such theory, has the prorriett 'rs indicted
and fined at each term of court, but still
the game rolls on in. its old "correct"
style.
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naaah of q .~~ou E~raIT