Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-10
BREVITIES.


yesterday. l'..
The grand jury take. a recess until
next Monday week.
James Reed was fined ten dollars this
morning for fast driving.
The Aimee opera boufe troupe will
be the sensation of the season.
Mr.. N. j. Bigley, the Pennsylvania
coal king, is at the Peabody hotel.
The police board have come to the
conclusion that keno is not correct
Wachtel's opera troupe have disap-
pointed us. They will not come here
this season.
A new Presbyterian church is being
built near the corner Of Vance and De-
Soto streets.
Ground will be broken for the pipes
and machinery Of the water-works about
the first of April.
Records Winters assessed an indi-
vidual fifty dollars this morning for dis
orderly conduct.
Twenty-Five cases we're disposed of by
the recorder this morning, and sixty
dollars assessed as fines.
A. C. Wurzbach, manager of Dan
Rice's circus, and Mrs. Dan Rice, were
at the Peabody this morning
Shouldthe weather continue as it was
yesterday and this forenoon we shall not
become excited about the coal famine.
Joe Locke, the great newsman at 1864
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklies and monthly magazines.
If the weather is as fine next Tuesday
as to-day, the disciples of Menus will
have fine time for their Madri-Gras
carnival.
For making use Of dire threats of ven
geance, a man by the name of Mitchell
was fined ten dollar by the recorder this
morning.
Those persons who do not close their
business houses Mardi-Gras day will
be made the victi ms of numerous prac-
teal jokes.
The theater will be occupied three
nights of next week by Olive Logan, and
the following week by the sprightly and
vivacious Lolita.
Mr.. Winters, the efficient recorders
clerk, will retire from Office on next
Monday week, when the new appointee,
Mr.. billiard, will enter upon his duties.
Leave your side arms and Arkansas
tooth-picks at home next Tuesday.
Money will not avail to protect such as
carry concealed weapons from prison
walls. q ha
There will be meeting of steamboat
men at the chamber Of commerce OF
Monday between 9 and 10 am, to de
wise means and arrange for participa
ton in the Mardi-Gras festivities.
In the house of representatives yes
terday Clayton's tool, Edwards, was
ousted, and his opponent, Boles, sworn
in. Clayton will follow Edwards soon, il
is to be hoped.
Squire Miller interviewed man by
the name of Ed. Murdoch, this forenoon
on the subject of wife whipping. A
heavy fine and heavy bond were i'm
posed by the squire.
/ Nobody should get angry with the
maskers next Tuesday, because tits their
privilege to play practical jokes on that
day. At the same time they should be
careful not to 60 too far.
/ Mansford has big stock of Valen
tines, ranging in price from five cents to
five dollars each. The cornerof Second
and Monroe might be called Valentine
corner for the next few days.
If morning contemporary would fol
low the advice it gave the Lydia Thomp
son troupe some weeks ago, it might
prove advantageous. A bad stage gag
is no worse than bad newspaper para
graph.
The contest at St. Patricks Church
fair, now holding at Assembly hall, fol
the diamond cluster pin, to the most
popular candidate for State and county
tax collector is creating considerable ex.
element.
Yesterday Mr.. Benjamin Tuberville
of Paris, Tenn, was brought before
United States Commissioner Garrett
and gave bond in the sum Of $4,000 to
answer charges for violating the internal
revenue law with reference to stamping
liquors, etc.
EMMoNs 4 SoS, newsdealers, at No. IL
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
cations, and news goods generally.
The following cases in bankruptcy
have been fled in the United States
court since the first Of January: John
Lee, Gibson county; NJ. solomon, Jack
son. Tenn, II. II. Richardson, Gadsden