Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-08

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of larceny in default of $4,000 bonds.
Those Of our citizens who are disposed
to be warlike can amuse themselves to
the top of their bent by going to Vicks.
burg.
The transit of Venus to-day can be
seen from the frigid zones but not from
Memphis. What has our city done to
Venus2
The landing has been crowded with
steamboats, during the past two days,
fact which shows that trade is flourish
ing in this vicinity.
The new steam engine for the DeSoto
street boys has arrived and will be tested
on the corner OF Main and Madison
streets this afternoon.
The Chamber of Commerce has
changed the commencement OF the
Memphis commercial year from Septem.
Der LIST to January LIST.
Levee warehouses or sheds to protect
freight are recommended by the Cham
Der of Commerce to be constructed from
Jefferson to Union street.
1t is believed that the street-cars will
be in front of the theater nightly, a fact
which will be of interest to people resi-
ding in the suburbs of the city.
Smith, of Arkansas, was seen in
Memphis day or two since. The fugi
tive and would-be Governor was not ar.
rested as "vag" by the police.
A deputy sheriff arrived in town to-
day from Buntyn's station, having in
charge a negro woman charged with
the larceny of one hundred dollars.
The street-cars were in front Of the
theater last night and the people who
live in the suburbs and attended the the
alter were enabled to return home in due
time.
On the Bosphorous troubles are in
creasing about Turkey, and by a strange
coincidence turkey troubles are begin.
ming in this Christmas celebrating land
of ours.
Phil J. Mallon has undertaken the job
of putting steam pipes in the new court
house, so that judges, jurors, lawyers
clerks, etc., can keep warm during the
winter months.
An attache Of this office lost eight
dollars last Saturday evening in center
alley between Madison and Court streets.
The finder will be rewarded for return
ing the money.
A fisherman caught a shad in the
Mississippi below the city yesterday.
In the upper Mississippi shad have been
caught this season, an unusual occur
renee for the Father of Waters.
Night before last Thomas A. Forrest q
Waterman at cotton-shed, captured a
lot of stolen harness from two negroes.
Mr.. Forrest suspected them of stealing
cotton and forced them to drop the plum.
der.
A number of Union street and Front
Row men have been indulging in New
Orleans molasses and sugars during
their sojouru in New Orleans, where
they made large purchases for our mar
ket
Mr.. Gladstone, of England, has just
suggested a plan for curing drunken
ness-to publish list Of public drunk
ards in the Monday morning papers,
Would this plan have beneficial effect
in Memphis2
A Little Rock paper says there have
been shipped from Carlisle, Arkansas,
during the last four months, to Memphis,
over one thousand tons of hay, cut from
the prairies in the neighborhood Of that
thriving town.
A learned Frenchman describes hell
as place where they talk local politics
all day long and dream about it at night.
Several Memphians would be in their
glory in that place, provided the French
mans theory is correct.
To day everybody was reading the
Presidents message, which Grant did
not write. His message was generally
condemned as a partisan Radical docu-
ment, which has about as much effect on
the country as does Patent Office re
port.
Thomas A. Aaithevg, Of Qsceola,
Ark, who disappeared most mysteri-
ously from this city some weeks since,
has not as yet been heard OF or from.
No good reason can be assigned for his
disappearance, and his friends are anx-
iously svaiting news with regard to his
fate.
The Field and Stream publishes the
following: "a Memphis correspondent
writes us that the celebrated fox dog
Major" owned by Captain Travis, Of
GAINESVILLE, Tennessee, shielded one day
last week. lie was io9 proud to be tied
~ rope, and broke his neck rather
than remalR a prisoner.
The Avalanche wants Prof. Pickett, Of