Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-08

The company will end out that people
will ride oftener under the FIVE cent fare
system than under the ten cent rate.
The sky was overcast with murky
clouds last night; a light gale sprang up
in the southwest, and lightning flashed
all around the horizon. There was every
Indication Of a shower, but it came not.
Planters and others from North Mis-.
siSsippi state that several hundred head
Of mules aud horses have already been
killed by the buffalo gnats, which swarm
to the hills from the Mississippi bottoms.
Yesterday afternoon Tom Harris, alias
the Chicken" who murdered Mr.. 7.
Meade in March last, on Second street,
was convicted Of the crime at the Crimi-
nal Court, and was sentenced to ten
years Imprisonment in the ~penitentiary.
Now that the Russians have taken the
Kars for ConstAntinople, everybody is
securing q map Of the seat of war, so
thst everybody can go into the war on
paper and keep posted all along the
route. 1t is a practical way to study
geography.
Yesterday Magistrate Winters issued
a writ Of replevin for a goat that had
been sold under the ordinance authoriz-
ing the capture aud im%pounding Of such
animals. The object is to test the con-
s%tltutionality Of the goat o~rdinance-to
buck against it and butt it down.
The BODY Of an unknown white man
was found floating in the river above the
C ty yesterday afternoon. Deputy Coro-
ner Britt held ,.n inquest, but nothing
appeared by way of identifying the re,
mains. The skull of tbs dead man vas
smashed in. The body must have been
in the water for several days.
To day the transfer of the Raleigh
railroad, its rights and franchises, was
made by Shelby county to the Holly
Springs, Brownsville and Cairo Railroad
Company, Of which Colonel Vaughan is
president. The roads will be combined
and run as one, under the agreement be-
tween the county and the company.
The following cases we're disposed of
at the Criminal Court to-day: c
Ducheynsm, receiving stolen property,
jury verdict not guilty; Hattie Donel-
son, assault aud battery, jury verdict not
guilty; Mrs. Chrisenberry, unlawful re
tailirg, jlry verdict not guilty; Maggie
Conn, assault and battery, jury verdict
not guilty.
This is how be described a we'll known
Memphis belle: There is no cheaT
color flaming out in her pure face. Be
yond the blue of her eyes and lustroul
brown Of her hair, the chsste creamines'
is nowhere broken, save where the pris
oned blood frets itself into a red passion
in her lips, or kindles, like a pent fame
in her rosy palms.
To-day we were enjoying what is know
as Omaha weather. Storms and baC
weather sweeping from the Rocky Noun
tains take in Omaha, aud the right win
Of the storm generally takes in Memphis
What connection, atmospherically, Their
is between Memphis and Omaha is come
what of q mystery and a puzzle to metz
geological scientists.
This forenoon a well known attorne
asked a clerk of the court to issue q
execution in a certain case, so that h
could have it levied upon Che property {
the Little Rock railroad, in the State c
Arkansas. He was astonished to lear
that an execution issued in this Stat
could not be executed in any other STATE
but he persisted in giving it as his leg'
opinion that it could so be served by a
Arkansas sheriff.
That old blind man with a flaming re
face, and his wife, who usually stand
near him as he begs for nickels on tb
corner, were arrested by the police o
yesterday because they were in a fea.
fully drunken state. There are fe'
pleasures of life opening out to bin
people, and they imagine getting drum
is one Of the pleasures held in reserve Il
them. When go many sharp sighte
people get drunk, certainly a blind ma
has some rights Of the same characte