Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-12
BREVTTIEs.

hne Goshen butter.
The Cotton Exchange has been sue
cessfully established.
Tomorrow Hon, Calvin McCorkle 0,
Knoxville, Tenn, will organize a lodge
q the Knights Of .Pythias ihthis city. 4
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1851
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, week.-Mrs. and monthly magazines
The hail storm which passed over on
city last Friday extended to vicksburs
and up the Arkansas river as far as
fSwan Lake.7sisak ia sIplc ipqsd iaal,
All the late pictorials, magazines,
newspapers and light literature Of che
day, at Paul Wrights' news stand, 1896
Main street, lIB8D lrs9gkhJ bae9a
,angF .glnH0J Kdi3
Mr.. Alexander Rogerson, an old citi-
zen and auctioneer of this city, died
this morning. He was kind, unobtrd-
sive, honest and good citizen. .,s.tas
Chief of Police Athey was presented
yesterday with fast horse aud fine
buggy by anumber Of our leading citi-
Gems as testimonial Of merit. K
The trial Of A. j, Moses, who killed
Iy,B. Taylor on the Raleigh road hast
Saturday, will take place at two o'clock
this Afternoon before Esquire Winters.
Colonel Isaac W. Moon Of New Or.
leans, is sojourning at the Peabody.
Colonel Moon reports business as brisk
in the Crescent City and the weather de.
lightful.
Judge Nicholson's decision on the va.
lidity Of the merchants tax, recently de.
livered at Nashville, published in this
issue of the LEDGER, win be read with
interest by the merchants of our city.
Colonel Powhattan Robinson, a well
known scientific civil engineer, arrived
in the city to-day from Vicksburg, Miss,
where he has for some months been en-
gagged on the Memphis and Yicksburg
railroad.'t sgaiQ niassrp ldi b 1904 g.
Recorder Winters disposed Of thirty
misdemeanor cases BY fine. Dock Lane,
cotton thief, arrested by Officer Mona
hon, was committed in default of $4,000
bonds. Cynthia Anthony, arrested for
larceny, was committed in default Of
$4,000 bonds. 59iris1aHa 1879 h3aT
Detective Harry Cranmer last even.
ing arrested Ernest Joachim. clerk at
Loewenstine's on the charge of stealing
goods from his employer. A bout $500
worth we're found in his room Joachim
confessed to the theft and was committed
for trial before the Criminal Court
The latest dates Of, the Cincinnati
Commercial, Z Chicago Times and Tri-
bune, St. Louis Democrat and Repubi-
can, New York dailies, pictorials and
magazines, can be found at Mansford's
news depot, corner Of Second and
Monroe. : s6ei Fv .HaLasish sdl aaiao,
Emmons 4 Son, veteran newsmen, at
No. 10 Jefferson and 40 Main, have the
latest magazines, periodicals, pictorials
and daily newspapers from all points.
Everything in the news, reading and
stationery lines can be found at EN-
mons. L.T.Ifl H4s
Broadsides were fired daily through
the local columns of our Union street
contemporary at the Cotton Exchange.
The cotton men organized their Elk
change yesterday in the midst Of this
terrible fire, and when the Exchange
became triumphantly established, it was
discovered that our neighbours fire did
no injury, the object being out Of range.
" Raise your sights. laai gssa2a ..al q e
Two hundred Mississippi conyiets,
dressed in striped garments, passed
through our principal streets yesterday.
The zebras have been working on the
Richardson plantations, near Skipwith
Landing, Mississippi, for two years. and
have been transferred to General For
rests Selma railroad for term of
years. The conyicts seemed to be happy.
and we're attended by dozen guards,
each armed with double-barreled shot
gun, loaded with buck-shot.. The cont
victs came up on the Thompson Dean
yesterday. 81 sass rses
gMMsDEMoREsT's PATTERNS all kinds,
styles and sizes, at 2l3 Main st. 1885,
BRoADwA dress hats at Wheaton $.