Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-13

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Monday next the Arbitration, Chan
Gerry, Circuit and Criminal Courts will be
in session at the courthouse.
The Criminal Court to-day is engaged
in the case Of Sam Buzzel (negro), in.
dicted for the murder of Columbus Stew.
art (negrO).
Banner Lodge, L. D. W. NJ, meet to-
night, corner Besl aud fernando streets.
Applicants for charter membership will
report promptly.
Memphis has its sick people, its doc
tors, and it should have also its medical
college SO that the sick in the future will
not be neglected.
The Nashville American of the 18th
inst. says: "~Fortyfonr %convicts we're
taken to the Ensley farm, Shelby county,
by Mr.. Bland last night"
A stranger stated to our art critic on
yesterday that there were more pretty
children and pretty young misses in
Memphis than in any city in the Union.
He was correct.
Next week the theatrical sensation
will be Oar Boarding House; aud at the
Greenlaw Opera House Professor Maeal-
lister, the great wizard, will present illu.
sions most wonderful.
Over one thousand bales of cotton
will be received here by river between
this afternoon and next Monday morn.
ing. This prediction is not based upon
spiritualistic information or mediumistic
revelation, but it is based upon reliable
information as to things to come.
Quite a party of amateur fishermen
left last evening on the 0sceola Belle to
engage in q fish in the Arkansas lakes,
some Fifty miles up the river. The party
had enough baggage to equip a Russian
army ia Bulgaria. They will return to-
morrow night with a perch or two.
The retail game market of to-day pre-.
SCENTS the following list of prices; SPUR
rels, three for SOC; auails, 20 to 25c each;
venison. l5c per pound; lake perch, l2!c
per pound; gulf mullet, l23c per pound;
celery, soc per dozen; oysters, medium
Acc, standard SOC, best select 6Oc per
can.
Two bear cubs now afford an infinite
amount Of amusement to people who
frequent the station.house. One of the
cubs is a Lemon" and the other a
=" squeezer," and both are addicted to
huggiug. Their life-like and natural
acting is a source of comment and won.
der to all visitors.
At the Chancery Court to-day Fannie
Yaucy (colored) filed a bill for divorce
against Henry Yancy alleging that they
intermarried in October, 1871, aud ever
since have lived in trouble and u%nhappi-
meas. he has failed to provide for her
support, has abused her, beat her and
abandoned her in August, 1877 For all
of which she prays for a divorce.
The young man of the Avalanche has
gone daft, and is almost on the point Of
investing in a ffty-ceHt marriage license.
The autumn winds have induced him to
assert, The bachelor signs for a bright,
sweet face, with a freight softly playing
upon it, to greet him at evening with
smiles and toasting slippers; and the
maid, she wants some one to make the
fire In the morning"
Chess tournaments are popular with
certain Memphians at present. The
Memphis bellies do not like to play chess
on the board-the game ia too absorbing
and it prevents small talk; bat for a SCI
enti6c game of chess off the board the
Memphis belle is an adept, no matter
whether she tackles pawns, knights,
bishops or kings. She plays the queen
to great advantage.
In the Chancery Courtihe answer and
cross bill Of Maria E. Cronsn and the
answer to cross bill by Michael Cronan
have been filed in the Cronsn vs. Cronan
divorce case. The literary lawyers who
wrote the cross bills and answers let
loose the most terrible rhetoric and gave
veut to a vast mass of biblical lore of
not very decent character. The COM
%plainant and respondent compare each
other to biblical characters whose repu.
tation was anything but good and whose
morals were exceedingly bad. The par.
ties to the suit never knew how bad they
we're uatil they read the literary produc-
tiops Of their lawyers display ed in bills
and answers.
GoDEY's and Peterson's magazines, as
well as late daily and weekly illustrated
papers, at Billy Lieben's news stand,
1864 Main street