Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-15
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Mr.. Sothern appears in two pieces Sat.
urday night for his benefit.
At the matinee to morrow afternoon
Dundreary will be the attraction.
Red snappers. sheephead, perch,
dressed turkeys, rabbits at V. D. Fuchs.
The United States Marshal has q
steamboat or two in his hands at present.
The Reesnover-Eilis homicide ease is
still. occupying the attention Of the
Criminal Court.
At the theater tonight Mr.. Sotbern
will appear in q Hornets Nest, in TIL ee
buzzes and a singer.
The Brown Nicolson pavement man
damus caas still threatens the city from
a United States Court standpoint.
DeSoto Lodge, No. 299, F. and A. H.,
meets tonight at I o'clock, for election.
Of officers anl other important business.
Up to IL m. to-day nine jurors had
been secured in the Reesnover.Ellis
homicide case on trial in the Criminal
Court.
The union depot matter was referred
By the General Council last night to a
committee of both Boards and the City
Engineer.
Dundresry Married and Settled, and a
new comedy entitled Home, will be the
attractions at the theater Saturday night
for Mr.. Sothsrn's benefit.
AT the Recorders Court to-day Jane
Cal lhan, a negro prostitute, was ccm-
mitted to Jail without bail on the charge
Of robbery from the person.
Memphis needs no police inquisitiou
or system by which persons are secretly
arrested OF suspicion and illegally i'm
p~risoned in dark cells without due pro
csss of law.
A number Of our well. known sports
men have purchased a steam barge fo
the purpose Of making excursions NJ
and down the river in search of gam
and fish, and for other purposes o
amusement.
In New York all bets on the Presiden
tial election have been declared of. Th
same result will no doubt follow in al
other cities. In this city numbers Q
bets made on the result have been with
drawn by agreement of parties.
Judge TriCg has given the City Father
ten days wherein 10 levy a tax to satisf
the I. L. Brown Nicolson prvemen
judgment. Of curse the City Father
viii be governed by the opinions Of th
Mayors and City Attorney in the matter
The S~edality Dramatic Assoeistio
will give an entertainment at their Wasl
ington street hall to night A6ne dram
will be presented, and ia which a stron
amateur cast will appear. This sssocii
ton is comprised Of the best amateJ
actors and actresses in the city.
We are grati6ed to learn that Il
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losses Of our home insurance coupani'
j in the conasgcation at Little Rock al
y triaiug. The Mississippi Valley has
dispatch from its special agent, Colon
W. D. Holder, stating that its total loI
! will be less than one thousand dollars.
. The detective system Of this city mu
= be revised by the Police Commissioner
so that the personal liberty Of every cit
zen, both white and black, will be r
spected and protected up to the vel
q letter Of the law. The system now
" vogue was introduced here under the i
famous regime Of Beaumonl's Metropc
or itan Police. No man BIAS q right to
imprisoned or held in custody withoI
y due process Of law-so says the Cons
tuition Of our State; and the Constit
- ton is the palladium Of our liberties.
M Yesterday a gentleman, who had BEL
cd presented with a son on the day befol
sent a postal card to his brother, who
sides in a town not fifty miles from her
The postal card contained the followil
lacopic inscription; HE has com
weight, Twelve ponudsr This morui
q returning postal card was received
\. reply, and this also was %laconic: IS
has come; weight, ten pounds" II
was a curious coincidence, the eousi
having been bern within a few hours
= each other, but, as Dundreary phi
sophically says, that is n Of the
things that no lellah can find out"
Is, Candidates for election aud re'electi
to the offices Of Aldermen, COnncilm
- and school Visitors are circulate
b, around among the ballot singers, ie
inI that on election day they will
u counted out. The ineunbants Of th
Offices receive no pay, and yet no trou
ell is apparent that any lack Of timber
be discoyerable. This proves the
plan to be q humbug, as plenty Of e
% men are willing to serve tho city in th
positions without filthy lucre; in fSc
90 better class Of men can be secured un
m the no.psy system than under the Otl