Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-08

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The recorder had larger docket thar
usual this morning. Forty-fve cases
were disposed of and ffty-fve dollars
collected as fines.
Patsey Bolivar, a noted character
was sent to jail, in default of $1,000
bonds, by the recorder this morning fol
stealing box of cigars.
In The damage suit for $4,000 of Fran
cisco & Wiggin, in the first circuit court
verdict was returned in favor of the
defendants this morning.
The scarcity of coal is becoming
alarming. There is said to be not above
a weeks supply on hand, and none ar
irving on account of the frozen condi
ton Of the upper streams.
Temple Eldridge, the dishonest ser
want who stole gold watch from Mrs
Dwolf some days ago, was committed
by Recorder Winters this morning in
default of $4,000 bail.
Chicago Times and Tribune, Cincin
natl Commercial and the leading dailies
of the couatry, are received regularly al
Mansford's news depot, corner of Sec.
ond and Monroe streets.
Mansford has big stock of Valen
tines, ranging in price from five cents to
five dollars each. The corner of Second
and Monroe might be called Valentine
corner for the next few days.
The sprightly form and handsome face
of the California Diamond, otherwise
Lolita, will be displayed at the Memphis
Theater on the evening of the 18th.
There will hardly be standingr-oom.
The advance in cotton is very crafty
irs. to planters who have held on to theii
crop till now. Unless the country be
coul es involved in war there is a proba
bilit5 that the price of the staple vii
reach twenty-five cents before spring.
A sympathizing darby went inside the
bar of the criminal court yesterday af-
ternoon to see some of his friends, and
when court adjourned and the prisoners
were marched off to Jail he was taken
s.long with them, much against his
wishes.
The Mardi-Gras celebration in Mem
Ilhis next Tuesday will surpass the ex
I,ectations of the most sanguine. The
Gentlemen who originated the scheme
truck popular one, and if they are
mindful of the responsibilities they have
ass umed will deserve much credit of all
Memphis.
Tie prospect of war between Eng
land and America is becoming the topic
of conversation on the streets and in
public houses. There'being no elections
close at hand, no grand duke to talk
about, til subject affords fine oppor-
tunity for the display of the conversa-
tional pc, 5ers of some of our street cor
ner autoci ats.
EMMoxs d SoN, newsdealers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 4lO Main, have re-
ceived the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Chicago and all other cities;
also, illustrated weekhes, foreign publ
cations, and news goods generally.
Colonel Jake Frolich, of the White
County (Arkansas) Record, and Colonel
r. Walpole, of the Goodman (Missis-
sippi) Central Star, are in the city on
business connected with their journals
Both these journals circulate in region
of country tributary to Memphis, and are
therefore worthy the patronage of Mem
phians.
Committees are at work raising sub
scripticns for the Mardi-Gras festivities,
and, we learn, are meeting with much
success. If Mardi-Gras is a success
next Tuesday it will be gotten up year
hence without aid being required from
outsiders. 1t is now understood that ell
business houses will be closed after
twelve o'clock on Mardi-Gras day.
In the second circuit court John No
Ian sues s. B. Beaumont for $4,000
damages for false Imprisonment while
that gentleman was superintendent Of
the Metropolitan police. Nolans
was accused of stealing, and
the whole family were imprisoned, and
the daughter, Nolan alleges, thrown
into a cell with disrePutable women.
George Harris. the indecent brute who
was arrested some days ago for expos
ing his person to a number of school
children, and who failed to put in ap.
to claim his fifty dollars for
felt, was rearrested yesterday and fined |
ifty dollars BY the recorder this morn
ing. In addition to the fine, be was put
under Eve hundred dollars bonds to ap-
pear before the grand jury Of the crimi- /
pal court.
The attention of the police is called to /
he fact that mule drovers are in the /
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