Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
TEN CENTS Pc WEEK.
LEDGER LINES.

Saturday an election will be held for
hoater of Shelby and Fayette counties.
The LEDGER is a great fayorite in Mem
phis. Its circulation is general and daily
increasing.
Adah Richmond's Opera Bouffe Com
pany will appear at the Memphis Thcater
next week.
The steamer Marlin Speed has her re
completed and leaves tomorrow for
Arkansas river.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LEDGER Job printing Office
10 Madison street.
scribner, st. Nichols, Atlantic, Appleton
and Wide Awake for January at Spang-
lers, 1856 Main street.
TEN cents a week for the DAILY PUB
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by good
carriers. Leave your orders & this ONCE
This week the Bartlett Circuit Court
will try the case of John Persons, charged
with the murder of a man named Ar
mour.
The courthouse, up to and including
the third story, is thronged with litigants,
lawyers, witnesses and officers. The fourth
and fifth stories are not used.
Senators Harris, Conover and Mathews
have been appointed by the senate yellow
fever committee as a subcommittee to
visit Memphis during the holidays.
John Epperson, news agent on the
Memphis and Paducah and Northern
railroad, viii deliver the LEDGER daily on
tho line Of his road for 5Oc per month.
The motion for a new trial in the case Of
Sam Rains was overruled yesterday by
the Criminal Court, and the prisoner wal
sentenced to imprisonment for three
years.
Colonel Rudolph Fink, of Alexandria
Va. was yesterday elected general man.
ager of the Memphis and Little Rocl
railroad, vice Colonel NJ. B. Pricbard, de
ceased.
The handsomest cigar cases 70 hay'
ever seen are for sale by Sol Coleman
Ladies are respectfully invited to call an'
~inspect them. They are just the thing 70
the holidays.
Lost, yesterday on,a Poplar street a o.
Main street, a jet cross gold tipped earring
with fastening of. The finder will be re
warded by returning the same to No. 4
North Court street, up stairs.
|, The Masonic fraternity will hold
I, Lodge Of Sorrow in the Cumberland Pre-
! byterian Church at half past o'cloo
Thursday night. Tickets and cards Off
. v~itation will be necessary to secure az
mission.
In the Criminal Court yesterday Hem
Day and John Bruccie we're convicted
; larceny. The former was sentenced
thirty days imprisonment in the count
! jail and the latter to three years in Il
: p%enitentiary.
> Chief Athy has received informati'
: from st. Louis to the effect that Mr.. Rya
! the insurance traveller, is not what
9 represents himself. Poor Ryan is havil
a hard time, but he has 80 far manag
d to come out victor.
y The first number Of the Helena Grapi
has made its appearance. It is a week
journal of neat Typographical appearan'
and contains several newsy locals. I
Graphic is independent in politics.
: editors are Messrs. ]. X. Mulkey and
I, II. Coates.
? We regret to learn that the child
Is Charles G.. and Mrs. Georgia Smithe
aged two years and one month, died y
terday al their residence in Senatot
The funeral will take place tomorrow
twelve o'clock from the Mississippi a
y Tennessee depot.
10 Owing to the late yellow fever epider
the Memphis Medical College will
at open its session until next fall. The bui
ing is well adapted to the requirement
a medical school, while the corps Of r
n fessorH is n Of the bestand most talen
I'll in the country.
Ex-Jailor John Dawson, indicted
killing Con Griffin, February 5, 1873,
- Yesterday tried and acquitted by a j
tie in the Criminal Court. Mr.. Dawson &
''6d1f at a negro, but the bullet struck
Griffin, who was s~tandingin bis store
a hundred yards from the Jail.
An effort is being made to induce ;
tice james Coleman to deliver a lee
entitled "Snipa Hunting by Candlelig
T. He tells a remarkably good story u
this subject and his friends believe
Gu Justice Coleman could convert the a
dote into an interesting lecture.
\ There was a light sno this morning.
the great delight Of the small boys. S
morning the weather has turned n
warmer, and the snow soon disappe'
The beautiful snow" is not a freq
visitor in Memphis. Snow and magn
ace, do not both prosper in the same cline
ions From this date 70 the close Of last
son receipts Of cotton here we're y
bales. Should we receive as much
this time forth our total for the pr
-. season Eill be $4,000 bales. Many
dict that our total will reach 4OO,OOOl
mrs. We are now but a little oyer 10000
behind last years receipts at this dat
We are indebted TO Mrs. Mary A.
hest ner for a bouquet OF flowers made o
cash scales and tiny shells. Owing to IL
ann tistic taste and graceful skill of Mrs.
uer. these flowers resembleth the natural