Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-28
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.eroury at noon to-day s60.

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The next great picnic will DO for the
benefit Of the orphans at james Park
on the Fourth Of July.
In the case Of Miles Parker, indicted
for larceny, the Criminal Court brought
in a verdict Of not guilty.
The Lebanon Herald of Wednesday
chronicles the total number o. Deaths 10
seventeen days, twenty-five.
The boss item hunter Of the Ava.
lanche was over at Little Rock Wednes.
day picking up stray items.
But one arrest up to noon today at
the Adams street station-house. Verify
the plague hath made the city moral.
There we're but three arrests at the
lower station house last night, and Of
those two were fined and one discharged.
The Gallatin Examiner extra Of
Wednesday reports total number Of
cholera deaths to that time seventy
four.
1t cost Major Susan B. Anthony just
SlOO-and that was fne-for voting in
New York. The Court thought she was
fraud.
The Grand Jury are after the nuisance
offenders and admonish everybody to
invest in disinfectants, as well as to keep
their premises clean.
If there be a man in this city who
thinks that it is not better to hunt a
shady place than news items these hot
days, just let him try IT, taut
The Covington excursionists, to the
number of hundred or more, left the
city at ten o'clock this morning, and
will return this evening.
Annie Quinn, convicted of larceny,
was found guilty and sentenced to three
years in the State penitentiary by the
Criminal Court jury this morning.
A man named Henry Miller was shot
through the bowels at Murfreesboro on
Tuesday last by unknown parties, and is
thought to be dangerously wounded.
An order was issued by Judge Horri-
gan this morning suspending the SEN
tence passed upon Pitt Williams for lar
ceny, as long as Pitt keeps upon his
good behavior.
Over at Little Rock they enforce the
dog law by throwing into the river all
CANNES captured without a muzzle.
The dog mortality there on Wednesday
numbered twenty.
A Danbury man who bought a new
pair of boots Saturday, says a ship may
stand on one tack all night if it wants
to, but he finds an hour and half to be
an elegant sulliciency.
A Fort Wayne, Indiana, girl chewed
her lovers ear nearly of-not in fit of
affection, but of anger. There wasn't
enough of the auricular organ left for
the young man to walk off on.
The Secretary of the Board of Health
desires the reports of interments from
the undertakers as early as six o'clock
every evening when it is possible to
make the returns by that hour.
The roster of the Adams street sta
ton house shows seven arrests yester-
day and last night. OF that number
three were discharged, two had their
cases continued, and two we're fined.
Men often commit suicide when they
cannot live longer with their wives; but
the situation of William Dawes Of Lock
port, Indiana, was so uncomfortable that
he did more-he eloped with his step
mother.
New York "oglers who part their
hair exactly between both ears can put
on style with hired watch and chain
for one dollar and half per day. A
seal ring and pair Of socks can be rented
for five cents an hour, but here in Mem
phis the rates are higher.
John Mcmahon went before Squire
Miller at noon to-day and swore out
warrant for the arrest of J.'J. Butler, a
Waterman at the Little Rock railroad
depot, affirming in his statement that
Butler assaulted him numerically with
a cane without the slightest cause or
James Evans, an African subject who
was arrested last night, had hearing
before Recorder Winters this morning,
and was fined fifty dollars and sent to
Castle Doyle, for an assault and suspicion
IF larceny. When James finds bonds
men ready to put up $4,000 on bis bond
lie will regain his liberty until the Grand
Jury attends to his case.
The first cotton bloom from Arkansas
vas received to-day by Messrs. Holmes
Polk, and came from the plantation
# A. N. and W. T. Edmonds, near Sur
ounded Hill, on the Little Rock rail-
Dad. 1t was plucked on the Oath by
+. R. Polk, manager OF the plantation,
Who, in his letter, states that he has 400
.cres, and that nearly all of it will give
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