Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-19
BREvITIEs.


Aimee created the greatest sensation
among our musical people, in La Grande
Duchess, at the theater last evening.
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1864
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines.
Aimee and leading members of the
Opera Bouffe troupe have taken rooms
at Gaston7s famous restaurant, on Court
square.
A number Of leading colored:residents
filed petition in the Second Chancery
Court to-day to incorporate the United
Sons of Zion No. |.
The Police Board will meet tomorrow,
for the purpose OF considering charges
made against officers and settling the
vexed gambling question.
Billy Wilkenson's news stand on Main,
near the corner of Poplar, will be opened
in few days. The entire population Of
Memphis is invited to the grand opening.
A rumor is current at the police head
quarters, that Chas. Kendall, notorious
mackerel who adorned the chain-gang
few days since, died at the City Hospital
last night.
Paul Wright's news stand is supplied
with all the late publications, weekly
pictorials and periodicals; also, a hu-
morously illustrated exposition Of Free
Masonry.
The alleged perpetrators of the Axis
son Horn Lake tragedy, FATTY" McGin-
mis- and George Crowley, will have an
examination before Esquire Winters at
three clock this afternoon.
Street corner musicians have appear
| ed in our city. On each corner melan-
choly music arises from some dilapidated
looking box, the music being turned out
with crank by the professionals.
Thieving must be on the increase in
the Northern States, Judging from the
number of circulars containing rewards
offered for the arrest of notorious rob-
bers received daily by the Chief Of Police.
A complete assortment of the leading
magazines and papers Of the country
can be found at Mansford's news depot,
corner of Second and Monroe; also, all
the late and popular novels.
Chancellor Morgan of the First Chan
Gerry Court rendered the following deci-
sions to day: Baker VS.. Hollehan,
judgment for complainant; Nicely VS..
Terry, same order; Roach VS.. Wolf,
same order.
Wanted, an owner for little old sim
gle-barreled pistol, which was found in
Horn Lake, Mississippi. The weapon
the hands of the murdered Atkinson, at
can be seen at. the office of the Chief of
Police. A liberal reward will be given,
and no questions asked.
Crowds of negroes, of beth sexes, at
tend the trials in the Criminal Court
daily. They regard the proceedings be-
fore the Criminal Court as show, in
which the actors perform real instead
of a mimic part. The usual perfume Of
the Criminal Court is not by any means
improved by the audience.
Emmons & Son, veteran newsmen, at
No. 10 Jefferson and 4l0 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.
Candidates for county Offices are an
nouncing themselves. From the num-
Der of gentlemen aspiring to official posi-
tons, it is no trouble to predict that the
ensuing. election will be exciting and
lively. May the best men win, but to the
public we leave the right Of discovery as
to the individuals described in the senti-
ment.
The Appeal local, in this mornings
issue, captured death notice which APP
peared in the LEDGER of last evening,
and treated it in the following matter-of-
fact manner: "Mr. Cater, erstwhile an
attendant at Madam Vincent's saloon,
died of meningitis last Saturday" etc.
By noticing the obituary in the LEDGER,
our contemporary will discover that the
deceased was " alligator"
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