Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
pREyITIEs.

earthquake yebtefuhy,
The Probate Court, Judge Ray pre-
siding, will be in session next Saturday.
Kenilworth, with Amy Robsart and
Elizabeth, tonight at the Memphis The
alter.
The total destruction Of the world will
take place in 1873, according to the rev.
Citations of the Adventionists.
Alexis will leave st. Louis for Mem
phis and New Orleans ON the steamer
Great Republic on the 9th or 18th inst.
Go to Mansford, corner of Second and
Monroe, for news goods, daily papers,
weekly pictorials, monthly magazines,
novels, stationery and school books.
The magistrates are requested to send
up Immediately all papers in appeal
cases to Clerk Boyle, of the Second Cir
cult Court, in order that they may be
placed onSthe trial docket.
Joe Locke, at 1864 Main, has daily
papers, pictorials, magazines and news
goods of every description. Cooley s
Ladys Book and Peterson's Magazine
for February, just received.
The Musso- Groves homicide case on
the question of admitting Joseph Musso
to bail, will be pleaded before Judge
Flippin, of the Criminal Court, at two
o'clock this afternoon.
There are eight cotton COMPRISING
establishments in full blast in this city,
which, in the aggregate, have a capacity
of COMPRISING FIVE Thousand five hun
dred bales in twelve hours.
Mr.. NJ. B. Runnion, of the editorial
stu Fl of the Chicago Times, is in the
city and is the guest of Captain James
II. Speed, ticket agent of the Memphis
and Louisville railroad.
Anew trial was granted by Judge Heis-
l1ell, of the First Circuit Court, to-day in
the $500, 900 damage case of the Gayoso
Gas Company vs.. ]. j. Murphy ct al.
The able opinion of the Court can be
found in another column.
The National Womans Rights Con-
vention met yesterday at Washington.
Elizabeth Ca,1y Stanton was elected
president Vict,>ria Woodruff addressed
the convention in favor of suffrage on a
basis of Spiritualism,
II is proposed to present the young
Grand Duke Alexis with sample bale
of cotton grown in the Mississippi Val
ley. Russia being large cotton con-
.Iumer the gift, it:is thought, will be ap
lOropriate and humorous.
The steam tug Ripont," owned by
Mr.. Kelly, and which was sunk in forty
foot water, near the mouth of Wolf river
a few days since, by some evil-minded
person, has been raised to the surface
and now floats on the waters as gay as
ever.
In consequence of the serious illness
OF Reverend Father Burke, the pro
posed lecture to have been delivered by
HIM this evening at the Greenlaw Opera
Honse, on the ruins of Ireland, etc.
he's been postponed until next Monday
evening.
! The days are slowly growing longer
lSeiag nine hours and ffty-two minutes
in length. A new moon rose above the
bo, lion at nine o'clock last evening
This morning, white frost, resembling
n LIGHT fall of snow, covered the house
tops.
Who n avs all the taxes. the rich or the
noor9 Is IN vexed question at the present
dav Acc, mding 20 DIR. Adam Smith
probablv tn best Authority on the sub
iect all we, Nth comes from the soil
ergo the filler Of the soil pays all thu
taxes at last.
EMMoNs & Soy, newsdealers, at DO. II
Jefferson street. and 40 Main, have re
ceived the lates daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, st
Louis. Chicago and all other cities
also, illustrated weel;lies, foreign publ
cations, and news goods generally
n
The General Council meets this at
terno on for the purpose of organizing
for Il lie transaction of regular business.
1t is understood that the offices in the
gift of the Mayor vii he filed by ap
poin tment this afternoon. This fact
will insure large audience at the city
buildings. How many disappointed OF
fee seekers will exclaim this evening
and yet, l am not happy"
The programme fixing up for the
Alexis reception is to be gorgeous in the
extreme. 1t is proposed to expend al
least $1,000 on the fste. By all means
let toadyism and Aunkyism be dispensed
with, and let the young Russian be
treated in courteous, dignihed and
republican manner. Let Memphis sci
the example in this particular, ::and moi
follow the shoddyism displayed by
Northern cities towards Lieutenant Ro
manoff, the third son Of the Gar.
AT meeting of the Board of Trus
tees of the West Tennessee Department
of the Life Association of America, on
the 9th inst, the following named gen
tlemsn we're elected Directors for the
year 1872: Thos. H. Allen, j. }. Muir
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