Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-18

The County Court met at ii clio tins
morning and was engaged in routine busi-
ness.
The Board Of Health reports for last
week So deaths, 10 being from yellow
fever.
The daily improvement of business is a
noticeable feature that brings JOY to u
people.
One thousand and eighty persons were
buried in Elmwood Cemetery during the
epidemic.
For the past week probate business has
been conducted on s grand scale by Judge
Eldridge.
Every kind ofjob printing executed at
the PUBLIC LaDeRR job printing Office,
10 Madison street.
The streets to-day are thronged with
people and the city presents an unusual
business appearance.
The Front street bridge over the bayou,
near the gas works, demands immediate
repair. 1t is dangerous.
Owing to the continued absence of two
of the aldermen, the city council is as yet
unable to hold a meeting.
Young Lady's Journal, Leslie's Popu-
lar Monthly, Appleton's Journal for De-
cember at Spangler's, $50 Main street.
TKS cents a week for the DAILY PUB
Lie LEDGER, delivered in city by good
carriers. Leave your orders at this office.
1t is reported that VIM. Miller, a prom
inent merchant of Germantown, died
with yellow fever in that town yesterday.
Many Of the suburban streets will soon
be in an impossible condition, unless
prompt work be done by the city engi-
neer.
Chancellor Mcdowell, in Chambers thi:
morning, was hearing a motion to dissolv,
an injunction. Two lawyers constitute the
audience.
The Board of Education meets this eve
ming to elect a superintendent and make
arrangements for the r~eopening of the
public schools.
Job printing Of every kind executed in
the best style and at the lowest price a
the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing office
10 Madison street.
The County Court was in quite an un
settled state this morning relative to tn,
!, fees OF physicians that doctored the vel
low fever prisoners in Jail.
The co.ton crop in this county vii
scarcely average a half bale to the acre
; owing partly to the fact that a grea
many bOlls failed to open.
r The Garfield (colored) Orphan Asylum
will be ready for use Wednesday. !
meeting of the asylum association will b
held at Avery Chapel tonight.
> John Miller, son of Justice r. B. Mile
of Chelsea, is quite sick. The young ma
had the yellow fever during the late cpl
: demic, and his sickness is supposed to be
relapse.
Rev. Z. L. Hamilton, pastor of tn
fernando street Methodist church, VIII
has been ~refugeeing in the country, re
l. moves with his family to town mex
9 Wednesday.
A large consignment Of choice appl,
and oranges; also choice Western cream
; cry butter. Jobbers can secure bargain
by calling early. Must be sold at one
B. NJ. Stratton & Co.
, Miss Tennie Hamilton. daughter
Rev. E. 4. Hamilton, was the successf
applicant for the position of public scho
teacher in the Twelfth district. II.
school opened to-day.
. Many negroes in the county stayc
81 away from the polls on election day al
rs picked cotton. Surely the light of reasc
: must be dawning upon the average neg
mind in Shelby county.
Judge Pierce opened the Circuit Cou
this morning and adjourned to Saturda
when motions viii be heard. The cot
will hear motions every Saturday up
the first Monday in December.
The American Public Health Assoc.
tion meets tomorrow in Richmond. y
The yellow fever commissioner will ma
a short report, and the great scourge "
>. be a subject Of no little discussion.
A few days since a farmer in this coun'
ls, living on the Randolph road, sent one
his negro hands to the field to pick colt,
In three days the negro picked si1
ST pounds In the language Of the ayers
.sh Kentucky editor, "who can beat it?
M Rev. William Brinkley, eolored, pas
Of the middle Baptist church, on Alaba
= street and Quinby avenue, was erroneou
reported dead in some of the papers.
i, alive and well and remained at his +
during the epidemic.
n AT a meeting Of the Chamber Of &c
merce Saturday, Sam NJ. Gates, Esq
elected secretary Of that institution in
place of John S. Toof, resigned.
Gates has long been n Of the m
prominent merchants Of the city.
Yesterday Detectives McCune 1
Pryde arrested James Clarke, alias Mol
.od Jim, who is charged with the murder
ky Haight on Monroe street. 1t will be
nj membcred that Haight was killed Mar
3D. Gras two years ago. The detectives
/ rested Clarke, who subsequently escap