Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-27
BREVITIEs.

lhe county, quarterly ana fr0Date
Courts will be in session next Monday.
Sothern at the Memphis Theater Mon.
day night in his great specially, lord
Dundreary." rslJ e.
The General Assembly of this State
has resolved to adjourn sine die on
Monday next. fN slla b
Twenty misdemeanor cases were dis
posed of by fines before the Recorder
Court this morning. @g3s
The grand Easter ball of Our Favoritet
will come off on Monday evening next
April LIST, at Cochran hall
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1861
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines.
The difference between theoretical
and practical sympathy is just one cent,
yet how few seem to understand the. dis
tinction.
Billy Wilkinson, the old reliable, will
open as news stand his new house,
corner Main and Poplar streets, in a
few days. ~
The day and night police patrols ex-
change duty today, for three months.
Every Thursday the regular drill of the
force will take place.
The Office of Tenebre will be chanted
at st. Peters Church this evening. 1t
will attract large concourse Of wor.
shippers and visitors.
The Judge and jury of the Criminal
Court are engaged to-day in hearing the
case Of William Cooper, indictment for
receiving stolen goods.
The latest and best assortment of lite
nature can be found at Mansfords news
depot, corner of Second and Monroe
Base balls Wholesale and retail. IS
Paul Wrights news stand is supplied
with all the late publications, weekly
pictorials and periodicals. also, a hu-
morously illustrated exposition Of Free
Masonry. >ra,m,
A philosopher and telescope sci
enlist has erected a temporary observa-
tory on the corner of MaiR and Jeffer-
son streets, where for ten cents you can
take telescope view Of the armament
or its most attractive objects.
Mr.. E. Q. Perrin, an old citizen Of
Memphis, and one of the most eloquent
men in our country, will speak tonight
at the Greenlaw Opera House, on re-
ligious subject involving the present and
future happiness of every human being
Seats free.
The next attraction at the Memphis
Theater viii be the concerts by the
Lauderdale (Mississippi) Confederate
Orphans. Treasurer Short has donated
the use of the Theater for two nights
A fine example of charity to all good
Christians. HI i.l4 ba
Emmons q Son, veteran newsmen, at
No. 10 Jefferson and 40 Main, have the
latest magazines, periodicals, pictorials
and daily newspapers from all points
Everything in the news, reading and
stationery lines can be found at En-
mons.
The Schroyer-Norton homicide case,
which was undergoing investigation yes
terday before Judge Ray, on writ of
habeas corpus, will be further investi-
gated this afternoon, when it is probable
that the investigation will close and the
question of bail will be decided by the
Court.
The Sunday school teachers met at
at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
last evening and discussed matters ap-
pertaining to Sunday school education.
The annual Sunday school celebration,
so successful last year, will be the chief
topic of discussion at the next regular
meeting.
The great question with our police
is what to do with the gam
bling implements captured by themH 1t
is insisted on one side that under the
laws of the State the implements must
be destroyed by fire, while on the other
hand it is claimed that the Bill of Rights
protects private property from such
fate. H,.D -
A meeting was held at the Chamber Of
Commerce yesterday for the purpose Of
an Inventors Aid Society.
A committee on organization was formed
of Messrs John Cowden, W.
NJ. Hutton, W. H. Lake, M. Burke, A.
Pearsall, A. Hitzfeld and H. Lemon.
An adjourned meeting will be held next
tuesday afternoon.
J. Claywell who was committed to jail
Without bonds by Justice Winters some
lays since on the charge Of killing j. B.
Taylor, on the old Raleigh road, has
,een released from custody by the Grim
nal Court and the indictment against
lin has been dismissed. A. j. Moses,
he party first arrested on the charge and
lpon whose confession Claywell was
arrested, has confessed that he (Mosss)
lid the shooting, and still remains in Jail
o answer the indictment found against