Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-19
BREVITIES.


Everybody intends going to see Lolita
at the Memphis Theater tonight.
Our citizens who attended the New
Orleans Mardi-Gras are returning every
day.
One hundred and thirty-nins prison
ers board at the county Jail with jailer
Jackson
A cetton exchange is spoken of among
the leading cotton buyers and factors of
our city.
Colonel Isaac W. Moon, of New Or
leans, La, is in the city sOjourning at
the Peabody Hotel.
zoe Locke, the great newsman at 1864
Main street, has all the latest daily pa
pers, weeklieS and monthly magazines.
The members of the FIRE department
were engaged yesterday in filling the
cisterns pumped out by the engines at
the fire on Saturday night.
A chancery bill was fled in the second
chancery court to-day by the Memphis
Freighting Company against the city of
Memphis and the Mississippi Elevator
Company.
The Olympic Varieties viii present
great attractions tonight, regardless Of
the late fire which burned all around it,
but failed to interfere with the fun and
humor on the stage.
The charming little Lolita, who will
delight the Memphis people for a week,
arrived last night from New Orleans,
and herself and mother are stopping at
the Overton hotel.
The market reports indicating in
struments " will be placed in our princi-
pal cotton Offices this week. Already
tho poles have been erected along our
principal business streets.
The WEEKLY PUBLIC LEDGER can be
had at the countingroom and at the
different news stands of the city to-mor-
row morning. Send the WEEKLY LEDGER
to your friends in the country.
At 296 Main street, is the neat little
news stand of Paul T. Wright. An the
principal magazines, pictorials, and
daily newspapers, including the evening
LEDGER, can be found on his counter.
Demorest magazine for March at
Mansford's news depot, corner of Second
and Monroe; also, the Tribune and
World Almanacs, containing interesting
political statistics and other valuable
information.
Recorders clerk billiard entered upon
his official duties to-day, vice Mr. Pat
Winters, jr., retired. The locals " of
the press will testify to Mr.. Winters I'M
varying politeness and courtesy during
his term of Office.
Fifty cases of misdemeanor we're dis
posed of by the recorder to-day. John
Morgan, charged with stealing an over (
coat, the property of Charles Reilling, |
admitted the larceny and was sent to
jail in default of two thousand dollars |
bonds.
Monday next we are to have at the |
Memphis theater Mr.. and Mrs. Band |
mann, whose success in London and the |
provinces, Australia and California, and |
their more recent welcome to America
at the Grand Opera House, New York,
was the most cordial ever extended to
any artists native or foreign.
EMMoNs & Son, newsdealers, at No. 10
Jefferson street, and 4l0 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 publi-
cations, and news goods generally.
The Memphis and St. Louis Packet
Company are pushing forward the con-
struction of their freight elevators at
the foot of Beale street in a rapid man
ner. Already the frame work is nearly
constructed, and piles are being driven
daily far out into the river.
The Charleston railroad convention
will come off in this city on Wednesday
next, the 2lst inst, for the purpose of
getting the sense of the stockholders on
the proposal of Tom Scott and the
Southern Railway Security company to
lease the companys railways.
The Sons of Ham and Pole Bearers,
c6lored societies, turned out in force
yesterday to bury one of their brethren
who had shufled off the mortal coil. A
curious feature of the procession was a
horse in harness, decked out
in mourning and lead by one of the
faithful.
An artful maiden obtained the degree
Of bachelor of arts recently at one of the
Eastern colleges, she having passed
through the entire collegiate course dis
guised in the habiliments of man. The
faculty are now discussing the vexed
luestion--can a maid be bachelor, of
arts or any other thing2
The music at St. Peters and St. Pat
ticks churches, at vespers yesterday,
vas most attractive, and was enjoyed by
immense congregations. 1t is rumored {
hat there will be fine vocal and instru- {
mental concert given at st. Patrick's I
.hurch next week, in which our leading I