Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-19
PUBLIC LEDGER.
once: 10. Is Madison Street.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
M H MP HIS,
Friday Evening. April 10, 1879.
BREVITIES.

Our principal lawyers are absent from
the city attending the Supreme Court.
Right Rev. P. A. Feehan, Bishop Of
Nashville, is in the city
Arrangements are making for grand
sacred concert at st. Patriek's Church
The Dolly Warden calico dress ball al
the Peabody last night was largely at
tended by our citizens.
Stealing horses and cattle is progress
ing in lively manner throughout this
and adjoining counties.
Under the head General Market II
will be found some facts interesting to
our grocery merchants and provision
spectators.
By the middle of July next the grain
and freight elevators, now in progress Of
erection at the foot of Beal street, will
be finished.
Chicken fighting will be all the rage
during the race week. Game chickens
are. arriving in numbers to take part in
the combats.
Martin Daily, e well-known cotton
merchant, died suddenly, last evening
of disease of the heart, at his residence
on Adams street.
Preaching at the Cumberland Presby-
terrain Church, on Court street, tonight
and tomorrow at eleven o'clock am, by
Rev. G. W. Mitchell.
Esquire Miller sent a colored man
back to Fayette county for trial on the
charge of obtaining money from his en-
ployer under false pretense.
The Liberal Republicans hold their
mass meeting at the Greenlaw Opera
House this evening. Speeches will be
made and delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention selected.
A bill to incorporate the Union Com
press Association of Memphis was filed
last evening in the First Chancery
Court, by Amos Woodruff and others
| Capital stock, one million.
Privilege Tax Collector Mathes is
making out list of business firms who
have forfeited their tax bonds, for the
use of Attorney General Wright, who
Intends to prosecute all such cases.
Two alarms of fire yesterday attracted
crowds of people to the center of Main
street. The high winds created some
alarm in the event an extensive fire
should break out in any part of the city.
John Frank, arrested last evening
while breaking through house on Front
street, was interviewed by the Recorder
this morning and committed to Jail in
default of two thousand dollars bonds.
Justice Bleckley, of the County Court,
and County Clerk Reilly are afixing
their signatures to twelve thousand five
hundred coupons, known as the Selma
railroad scrip, amounting to one hundred
thousand dollars.
Colonel Fitzpatrick, leading lawyer
of Shreveport, La, and formerly OF
Holly Springs, Miss, is in this city Wis
iting his brother-in-law, Captain Ed
Cole, clerk and master of the First
Chancery Court.
The Irish Literary Association had an
interesting meeting last evening. The
subject now under discussion is, Re-
solved, That further appropriations Of
the pupIc money should not be made
for the building of railroads.
A nobleman, disguised in rags and
whisky, was found asleep in the Crimi-
nal Court room last night. He was repri-
manded and discharged by the Recorder.
He said he was as sober as judge, but
the officer swore that he was as drunk as
lord.
VIM. Wallis, the colored doctor who,
as it is charged, caused the death of
Candis Davis by giving him certain
medicine of poisonous character, was
committed by the Recorder to-day and
fined fifty dollars. His bond was placed
at two thousand dollars.
The case of the State VS.. Early j.
Eason was heard on appeal by the Su-
preme Court yesterday. Eason was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree before our Criminal Court not long
since, he having killed Ed. Lyles near
Horn Lake, Miss, during a picnic last
summer.
The stables Of well-known racing men
are arriving in the city, preparatory for
the spring races over the Chickasaw
Jockey Club course, commencing Mon
day week the Goth inst. The stables
attending the meeting of the New Or
leans Jockey Club at present will ar
rive here in few days.
That portion of our community living
on Orleans street and Court street ex-
tended would thank the old gas COM
pany, or the City Council. for few gas
lamps in that vicinity. One is needed
badly at the corner of Washington and