Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-21
BREVITIEs.

Esquire Miller, the magisterial Black
stone of our city, has returned from
protracted bear hunt in Arkansas, IN
JoeLocke, the great newsmAn at 1854
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines
Z. The school board meets this evening
10 consider certain charges made against
one Of the teachers in the public schools.
Tomorrow evening the masquerade
ball Of "Our Favorites comes OF at
Mook's hall. 1t will be select and
pleasant affair. ,a.t vd
Wednesday evening next Treasurer
P. Short will be the recipient Of q COM
plimentary benefit, Mr.. and Mrs. Band
mann presenting their great specially,
Narcisse. 0lg.lla3
Run away horses make things and
persons lively every day, on Main and
Second ssssets. Leaving horses un-
hitehed is the principal cause Of thesein.
teresting affairs. i".oe. n 81, 81
The deputy clerks of the county court
are busily engaged in issuing State and
county. licenses to our merchants. the
greater number Of licenses expiring dn-
ring ale present month. ~ ltaI pc
% At 296 Main street, is the neat little
...
news sta nd of Paul T. Wright. All the
principal magazines, pictorials, and
daily newspapers, including the evening
LEDGER, On be found on his counter.
In the criminal court to-day Louis
Garasine is on trial ON an Indictment
charging him with maliciously shooting
Angelo Marie so me msnths since during
a personal difieul' ty between the parties.
Governor Brown appointed Colonel
Pinson and Hon. Jacob Thompson of
our city as delegates to represent Ten
nessee in the Ohio r liver Improvement
convention which assembled in Cincin-
natl yesterday. M, N as imari
Comancbe William is not Buffalo Bill,
to whom the grand duke presented a dia-
mond pin, fact which must be source
Of regret to the FORMER, provided he has
that civilized and fashiona. HE weakness
for jewelry. naof uahsos (
Demorest magazine for March at
Mansfords news depot, corner OF second
and Monroe; also, tire Tribune and
World Almanacs, conta. lining interes hne
political statistics and other valua. 'ls
information.
Our morning contemporaries are enjoy
ing periodical fl of warfa re. 1t is not
on circulation tb $ time, but cotton quo
tations. The cotton market preserves
its usual dign' ity, notw outstanding the
pbulling and bearing" in the news.
papers. ssea aaeos iaa -
Theodore Thomas gra. nd orchestra
will give three concerts at he Greenlaw
Opera House next week, On the 9th,
18th and 18th inst. The orchestra is
superb, formed Of picked pl ayers, each
individual effort completely bl ended into
consiste Mt whole. eisBsa
EMMo'Ss & Son, newsdealers, at No. IL
Jefferson street, and 40 Main, have Re
ceiyed the latest daily papers rom New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnl att, st
Louis, Chicago and all other cites
also, illustrated weeklies, foreign, publ
cations, and news goods generally.
Tomorrow evening Captain job c.
Brain, the last prisoner of war, will de-
liver lecture at the Greenlaw OPP era
Rouse on his cruise off the Allan tic
coast and in the Gulf Of Mexico, al ID
the incidents connected with the cal =
ture aud destruction Of Federal yessela
Owing to curious paragraph which
appeared in the daily papers not long
since, hundreds Of letters were mailed
at this point the directions ON them be-
ing reversed by first writing the name Of
the State, then county, city and person,
The novelty caused the postofiice clerks
considerable trouble.
A chap calling himself s. Adams Lee
and claiming to be nephew of General
Lee, an officer on the Merrimac, and a
wounded Confederate, has been swim
ding the people of Kentucky. He has
been exposed and has fed to parts un-
known. This individual has never pre-
scented himself in Memphis and never
will. o f.i na
The Leath Orphan Asylum acknowl-
edges the receipt of $S48 10; the Church
Home Asylum, of $34s l.; st. Peters
Orphan Asylum, of 1884 10. and the
Jewish Orphan Asylum of 1884 05 from
the committee in charge of the distribu-
ton Of the surplus Mardi-Gras fund.
Here was the sum of $l472 Al distrib-
uted among the orphans Of Memphis, an
unheard of thing ia our city. The dis
position of the fand rejects the highest
credit upon the .originators of the Mardi-
Gras, headed by Mr.. Joseph Specht.
May each succeeding celebration be as
fruitful of charity to the orphan children
Of our city.
MEDENonEsT's Patterns, all kinds,
styles and sizes, at 2l3 Main st. 1897 |
Recorders Court. ND "a
To-day Lizzie Wills, q Varieties girl,
was bound over in the sum of $4,000 on
the charge of securing the confidence