Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-05
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Judge Trigg will open the United
States Court next Monday.
johnson is gaining strength every day,
and Flippin is losing in proportion.
The bayou was slightly frozen over
this morning FOR the first time this win
ter.
Price reduced on Champion aud Char
ter Oak stoves. q. Wetter & Co., sole
q ents.
hAll the Flippin ward meetings have
bssn failures SO far, and the enthusiasm
Of a week ego is dead aud fat.
Superintendent Barrett rides around
in q buggy. de won't trust himself in q
street car while the snow lasts.
Mary Anderson's two weeks engage
ment in St. Louis, closing tonight, has
been the most profitable one Of the sea-
son.
Mr.. Morton, the clerk Of the County
Court Of Fayette county, died d~ay-before
yesterday and will be buried at LaGrange
to-day.
Flippin's frieads say that johnson is
out Of the race. Let them think so.
They will open their ewes on the nth
instant.
Justice Winters yesterday issued a
warrant for the arrest of James Robin.
son, colored, charged with assault With
intent to kill Charlotte Robinson.
Call at spangler's, S76 Main and s8I
Beal street, for Sunday reading. he has
late magazines, weekly and daily papers;
also Seaside, Lakeside, Riverside aud
other libraries.
The iron stills for the first floor Of the
custom-house we're received in the early
part Of the week, aud are nearly all
placed in position. The work has been
done with great rapidly.
Funded yesterday: Post bonds, $4,000;
paving bonds, $4,000; funding certif.
Gates, $4,000; coupons, $4O5O; interest,
1882. Is - total, $2S.632. rs, into new
bonds for $ll, 900 and funding certificates
for 1852 Is.
Next week will be q week Of prayer
all over the world. The congregations
represented by the Pastors Association
will hold union meetings at the Court
Street Cumberland Presbyterian church
each afternoon at three o'clock.
1t seems that Memphis cannot supply
our brewery with kegs. The Little Rocl
Gazette Of the Sd says: The Littl,
Rock cooper shop of Joseph Knese
yesterday received an order for 500 bee
kegs from the Memphis Brewery"
Our mayor appeals for Anderson
friends to support him on the grouut
that Anderson is his second choice. 0
course Flippiu is his first choice. H
has forgotten how johnson yielded to hin
in the convention two years ago an
supported him.
> The Criminal Court this morning ser
fenced Frank Morton to one rear in tn
= peuitensiary for grand larceny. Die
t Cohen, for grand larceny, was sentence
: for three years. An appeal was granted
y Barney Hudson, for grand larceny, wa
sentenced for three years. Motion for a
appeal was overruled.
e As some of our people intend going
y New Orleans to attend the ball Of Il
Twelfth Night Jewellers it may be Of i
\ terest to them to know that as the twelf
night after Christmas comes on Sundl
v the ball and parade will take place {
the night Of the 7th. A dispatch to tn
q effect has bees received by Major Woo
son.
The incoming train on the CharlestC
y railroad yesterday afternoon was crow
ed with passengers, tbirty.nine beir
emigrants destined for Arkansas, al
s $50 for Texas. The tide of emigratit
= to the latter State is unabated, thouy
many families return to their old home
after having tried Western life, which
not altogether as pleasant as it is repr
scented.
IS The negro found frozen to death
y front of Mr.. NJ. Nealis' house, east of Il
r city, proved to be Claiborne Johnso
who was q renter on the place of JOSEF
Brooks, at Ridgeway. He came to tow
with a load of cotton sead and took c
too much whisky, which was his Ccc
sionol iauit; otherwise he was a Cox
negro. He was about fifty years old al
r had a family. His son took charge
the body this morning.
The street cars let down soon aft
dark last night. Nos. GA and rs and {
awkward excuse of a homemade snc
pillow came to a dead stall on Van,
street just beyond Laude fdale. IT
drivers shouted and storm4d OF the shi
d. ering, cowardly little hLlf-fed, orpht
lie mules an hour or 80, aud then quiet
c unhitched and went to the stables, hapJ
as pillow boys when a shower of ra
r. drives them in from the field. 9th
K cars were abandoned in the same way.