Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-13
BREvTTIES.

Inc city OHClhia ciOSb WIN hiS 'HS'A
bonds to-day and enter upon their duties
next Monday.
The January terms of the two Circuit
and Criminal Courts will commence on
next Monday.
Bishop Feehan is in the city, and will
preach at st. Patricks Church to-mor-
row morning.
But few cases of public interest APP
peared on the Recorders docket this
morning.
The gauge Of the Memphis and Lit
tie Rock railroad will be changed along
the entire line to-day and tomorrow.
By cleaning the gas lamps daily fifty
per cent better light would be reflected
on our streets. The lamps need little
attention.
In the First Chancery Court to-day a
bill was fled by James Elder and others
to incorporate the Society of the South
ern Soldiers Home.
Go to Mansford, corner of Second and
Monroe, for news goods, daily papers,
weekly pictorials, monthly magazines,
novels, stationery and school books.
The divorce market in this city may
be quoted dull and the same may be
said the local marriage market. With
out marriages there can be no divorces.
Next Tuesday evening Brother Rabbi
NJ Samfeld will deliver a public lee
ture. at the Memphis Club Hall, for the
bene ct of the Masonic Board of Relief.
subie ct, Mankind, Brotherhood.
The street pavement is undergoing a
General tearing up in order to lay down
,.as pipes. 1t will have to be taken up
again next summer so that the water
pipes may be buried.
We had the pleasure of visit tdayo-
from Mr.. Victor W. Thompson, editor
of the State Gazette, Austin, Texas.
We tender to Mr.. Thompson the freedom
of our sanctum.
Joe Locke, at 1861 Main, has daily
papers, pictorials, magazines and news
goods of every description. Godeys
Lady's Book and Peterson's Magazine
for February, just received.
Next Monday evening Rev. Father
Burke will lecture at the Greenlaw
1pera House, on the Ruins of ireland,
N, !, proceeds to be donated to the Chris
tan Brothers College, of this city.
A treet sweeping machine, such as is
used in the Atlantic coast cities, would
be most beneficial in preserving our
Nicolsou pavement and removing the
everls.tin e and abominable mud.
s. W. | Tart was arrested on tele-
gram receiy I'd from the Chief of Police
of Chicago, c harging Hart with forgery
and swindling. He will be heldto await
a requisition from the Governor of Hi
nois.
For the three months ending Decem-
Der 3lst, 1871, one hundred and fifty
eight paupers were buried by undertaken
Walsh, at cost of fourteen hundred
and six dollars, being nearly eight dol
lars head
The "corkscrew pleasantly, got OF
in Lurline by the Thompson troupe, has
pulled out the moral critic Of the APP
peal, who cries out, hold, enough! ~
Our friend should remember the motto
of the garter: Honi soft qUi NAL 1
penSe."
EMMoNs & SoN, newsdealers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 40 Main, have re-
ceived the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, st.
Louis, Chicago and all other cities;
also, illustrated weeklies, foreign publ
cato as, and news goods generally.
The game stores are asking the follow
ing retail prices to-day: Venison, SC
whole, alej; quails, 81 per DOZEN SPUR
rels 25t. each; prairie chickens, 81 per
pair; wild ducks, so to 75c per pair;
game fish, I5c per pound; oysters, so to
75c per can; Savannah shad, 81 % each
(averags weight three pounds
The sthetic taste of our city might
TO a cet tain extent be discovered from
the fact that this forenoon fifteen we'll
dressed meR stood on Jefferson street
watching with interest and delight the
actions { black and tan while worry
ing a won nded rat. There are at least
two thous and dog fanciers in Memphis,
among whom the admirers of that little
nuisan ce, the black and tan, form no in
consid srable minority.
Nev,r we're there so many people in
the Memphis Theater as on last night.
Hundre DIS of chairs were placed in the
aisles 70 young men who came without
an escort Between the pieces, during
the reees 5, dozens Of our young bloods
could be seen carrying their chairs out
into the treet and into saloons, for 4
donbIa nur nose-to hold on to seat, and