Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-24
BREyITIRs.

I 800 lA'ONN' - n ~ II ~ :, |.NlNtI
tomorrow evening.
I Tho University convention of minis |
listers convened in the city to-day.u'nl
Tennessee is to have eight Representa-
tives in congress under the new appor,
tionment bill. 4eAA
A narrow. gauge railway convention is
to be held in st. Louis on the third
Wednesday in June next r y
Rev. Father Burke will lecture next
Monday evening on National Music
and its relation to History f
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1854
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
perS, weeklies and monthly magazines.
The colored denizens Of our city are
anxious to know when Mr.. Duke is com:
ing. A few of them inquire for Massai'
Alexis. l1.ia yra5s br'
The ball.and.chain gang are doing
good service on Main street to-day,
sweeping dirt from the Nicolson, pave
ment. a.,. .,..-1rfe,f .,r ooiyhi
Owing to the illness Of Judge Rays
family, the probate court was not in SEES
sion to-day. Due notice will be given
as to the next session. ~ g,
The steamer Great Republic passed
up this morning on flying trip in order
to receive the Grand Duke Alexis on the
9th at either Cairo or Belmont. .b6v
Rev. T. W. Caskey, former pastor Of
Linden street Christian church, viii
preach in the lecture-room Of that church
this "wednesday evening at Z o'clock
I The lecture delivered by Rev. Moses
Hu II, on "the United States as noted
in prophecy" at the Greenlaw Opera
Houee last night was largely attended.
The latest St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chi
cago, Louisville and New York dailiess at
Mansfords news depot, corner of Second
md Monroe. Valentines at Wholesale.
William Soldatenkof, commissioner
fl ON Russia to visit the prisons Of the
Ua tied States, is expected in our city in
a i;e ", days, when he will inspect our
co unit. Y jail a..ei e. % '1i'4s Pc 'tz''e Z
Colo, nei Tom Scott and Messrs. Gath
ara Wa. tiers, Plant, and McCombs are at
the O yer ton. The Charleston railroad
lease / tn question to be considered by
the rail- way absorbers.
TeIep raph indicators are to be placed
in the nj ices of prominent cotton buyers
and sell, YRS, in order to give without de-
Law the quctuations of gold, cotton,
stocks etc :, in the Eastern markets.
Mr. Cha .fIes Read, spiritualist me-
dunn will n AXE the Davenport Brothers
ashamed of / themselves, at the Greenlaw
onera house this evening The seance
Will be full Of things supernatural e'0'
The Wxnne IIannon-Hod Morse homi-
nc W ynuC
eide case was called for trial in the
criminal court this forenoon. One juror
was secured up to |. o'clock m. The
trial of the case viii aOntinne during the
week.
The pressure is becoming stronger in
favor of an ordinance protecting gar
dens, front lots, flowers and shrupoery
again st the ravages OF goats, cattle and
hogs that are turned out nightly by tneir
owners to prowl about the city
EMMoxs Il Son, newsdealers, at No. 10
Jeffer son street, and 40 Main, have re-
ceivetl the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, st,
Lou IS Chicago and all other cities;
also. illustrated weeklies, foreign publ
cato ms, and news goods generally.
Co lionel Barrett, superintendent OF the
stree railway, while driving spirited
horse to q fast buggy last evening, got
wheel hung in the track Of the railway.
result inc, in twisting the iron axle OF his
bugg, into d figure 8. The colonel es-
,aped without ,aersouai, injury.