Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-20
LEDGER LINES.

streets last night.
There will be a Baker and Farron
matinee given at the theater to-day.
The Nicolson pavement on Main is
being repaired, but the repairs will not
last long.
II is rumored that Mayor League and
friends are about to purchase an interest
in one of the morning journals.
The legal shysteriug business is being
investigated by Judge Flippin, of the
Criminal Court.
This morning a negro named W. B.
Minter was arrested on the charge Of
stealing a watch on Beal street.
The honorable County Court will prob
ably wind up unfinished business to day
and adjourn over for the term.
John L. Eichberg was sworn in and
qualified asa notary public before the
County Court this morning.
Gabe Minter (uig) was sent to Jail
without bail to-day, by Esquire Miller,
on the charge of larceny from the per.
son.
The Chief Of Police wants an owner
for a lady's gold watch, of Swiss make,
which was taken from the person Of a
suspicious character arrested last night.
Mr.. Louis Snider, an old citizen Of
Hamilton, Ohio, we'll known to business
men in the book and paper line, died al
his residence on the 10th inst.
Esquire E. W. Caldwell has Joined the
host Of attorneys, he having been duly
qualified to practice law by the County
Quarterly Court on yesterday.
DIR. Theodore Hoerner, the w~ell.known
Bea street druggist, returned yesterday
from Europe, where he has been s%ojourn.
ing dor the past six months.
A cotton factory is being erected in
Fort Pickering, South Memphis. The
superstructure will be of wood and the
foundation brick.
The railroad ticket agents who sat
here in convention last week have de
parted for home, and peace reigns
throughout tss city once again.
Tonight there will be a masquerade
ball at Rocco Nall, corner Of Madison
and Second streets. 1t will be a lively
affair.
Next Monday night Milton Mobiles
and company will commence an engage
ment at the theater and will present jim
Bludsoe.
County Clerk James Reilly is quite i'll
and is confined to his room. His health
has been precarious for several months
and his late trip to the eastern sea board
did not have a beneficial effect.
Pink Walker (negress), who escaped
from Presidents Island work. house, wa:
rearrested this morning and sent back
10 the island by Esquire Miller to work
out a fifty dollar fine and costs.
In another column will be found the
notice Of the establishment of an oystel
company to supply the people of Mem
phis with shell oysters fresh from Nor
folk by the carload.
The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Mississippi and Ten
nessee railroad will take place on the
18th Of November, when a new directory
will be selected.
The County Quarterly Court has ap
pointed a committee to take into consid
GRAFTON the settlement Of those Raleigh
railroad suits, by compromise or other
wise.
The department flag hangs in front o.
the custom-house on Madison street. 1t
has been hanging there since election
day, when the Republicans triumphed in
Ohio.
The local packets went out crowded
with black people last evening, The pas.
sengers are either cotton pickers going
down to Mississippi, or else areimported
voters with a view to November I'd, cleo
ton day.
The elevator box at The Courthouse
has been taken down and removed, and
the building is undergoing repairs. The
large amount of furniture, etc. which
was stored in the fifth story is being re-
moved to-day.
Esquire Miller has been getting into
trouble Of late in consequence Of the
similarity between bis name and that oil
another magistrate. he seys that the
we'll known rule Of criminal Law With
reference to "idem %sonsns' will not dc
in this case.
Yesterday the County Quarterly Court
appropriated five thousand dollars'to re-
imburse the public school fund for the
amount of ten thousand dollars, lost by
the Trustee Woodward defaicaaGp, end
of which money tie county was the GUS
todisn.
The news was received yesterday az
%ternoon that Mr.. Jack Cooke, who was
shot during that deadly %saaQqnter with
Mr.. McHenry at S~enatobia, Miss., Is DO
log well, but his physicians are not pre-
pared 10 say that the wound may NOT