Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-18

The argument of counsel in the John
P. Grace murder case is being heard to-
day by Judge Flippin Of the Criminal
Court.
The squirrels in Court Square are
building nests in their box houses, pre-.
pairing for the winter season. This is
said'to be q sign Of an early and cold
winter.
Monday mex the regular terms of the
United States Circuit and District Courts
will be opened up at the courthouse by
Judge Trigg.
Crowds of country people were in the
city yesterday and last night, much tc
the qualification of store-keepers, hotel
keepers and other citizens.
Last weeks Chicago Field says: 1.-THE
cups won by the Chicago dogs at Mem.
pbis are on exhibition in this city, and
they will repay examination"
Myers Jefferson street Opera House
(varieties) has had to close its doors for
want of public patronage. At present
there IS no variety show running in the
city.
John RobinSon's circus company will
be on the bluff this afternoon and to.
night, but by morning you can sing
They folded their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently moved away"
The LEDGER job Office, ID Madison
street, is prepared TO execute any kind
Of job printing in a neat and tasteful
manner and at as low rates as any Other
establishment in the city. +
The headquarters Of the United States
Engineer Corps for this district has beer
removed from Vicksburg to Memphis
Captain Benyard, the head of the dis
trict corps, is in the city and has rented
offices in the Frank building, on From
street.
There were large audiences both a
the theater and the circus last night
Whenever good attractions are presented
in Memphis the people have never faile,
-
TO literally patronize them. But tn,
people of this city are epicures in tast,
on the subject of amusements.
The Avalanche man in a marriage no
tice yesterday married a gentleman t,
the wrong lady, and this morning tn,
Avalanchian makes the necessary cor
rection by coolly stating: 1--WE wer,
slightly in error in our notice of til,
marriage" etc. Slightly in error" i
good.
Theatrical attractions arecoming thicl
and fast. This week Furbish's Fiftl
Avenue Combination; next week DAILY
Fifth Avenue Theater Company will pre-
sent the Big Bonanza; the week aftel
Lolita will appear, and the succeeding
week Mrs. Bowers will play a round o
sterling roles.
The Washington City Gazette SAYS
Colonel l.. j. Dupre, the greatest o
living editors of the South, has, it is 70
ported, been offered a mission to Japar
to confer with the authorities there witt
a view to giving to the world a more cor
rect idea of mound-builders and the
character of the aborigines of America,
etc.
Judge Flippin, Of the Criminal Court
sent his resignation to Governor Porter
yesterday, to take effect on the LIST OF
January, 1876. About a dozen CriminaI
Court and other lawyers are ready ia
ill the vacancy which will exist from
the LIST Of January until the following
August, when the Office will be filled BY
the people at t%he'county election.
An enthusiastic West Tennessee edi
tor thus writes of our city: As ancient
Memphis was the great center of the
commerce of Egypt until tho Persian
conquest, when Cambyses partially de-
stroyed the city, so modern Memphis is
the center Of commerce of all the South.
western country. Ancient Memphis was
eighteen and three-quarters miles in cir.
conference, and modern Memphis will
in time reach still greater proportions"
etc.
Mr.. Billingsly, Of Tate county, Missis.
sippi, who lost his wife and child on
Main street on Monday last, Of which an
account appeared in the LEDGER Of yester.
day, turned up yesterday afternoon at the
office Of the Chief Of Police, where he
discovered his wife and child a~nxiously
awaiting his appearance. Yesterday
they left the city, but we would advise
Mr.. Billingsly not to leave his wife and
child again in a store all the afternoon
and until night and fail to call for them
until morning. You can deposit money
or other valuables with merchants for a
DAY or Two, but they will object to taking
an entire family on special deposit.
Why, eveu u banks would object to
such business transaction,
VERY FUNNY