Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
LEDGER

Inc uay Is one OF ROluen beauty.
The tide OF emigration to Texas is
undated.
The Willis Radford matter excites
general comment.
The Bluff City Grays will 1901 give a
grand entertainment.
The Oates opera company appear at
the Memphis Theater tomorrow night.
Alice Oates as THE Pretty Perfumer'
tomorrow night at the Memphis Thea.
ter.
James Brogan, and not Ryan, is the
name Of the councilman from the Ninth
ward.
II is rumored that an ice factory cost
ing $4,000 will soon be established in
this city.
E. B. Weber, cotton factor, has fled
a petition Of bankruptcy in the United
States Court.
Sixty o~ne-gallon can't Of "Begle's"
pure genuine maple syrup just received
by Lyle & Shields.
A. R. Reid, Of Madison county, has
filed a petition of bankruptcy in the
United States Court,
The case OF Msrburg Bros. ct ais. vs..
Tighe, in the United States Court, has
been compromised.
Mrs. Chanfrau appears at the Memphis
Theater the last two nights of this week
and Saturday matinee.
Twenty.six marriage licenses were
issued last week. OF this number four.
teen we're for white persons.
The jury in the ease Of Gull Henson,
indicted by the United States grand jury
has not yet agreed upon a verdict,
The approaching carnival will be the
grandest ever celebrated in America
The city will be thronged with visitors.
The proprietors Of the ChiOkasaW Iron
Works have adopted the system Of pay
ing their employees in pennies. Good.
We are indebted to the Southern Elk
press Company for confined kindness il
furnishing us with late Eastern papers
Tickets for the Oates comic opera en-.
tertainments are rapidly selling. The
posters are the most attractive of the
season.
The heavy rain Saturday night adds to
the difficulty Of gathering cotton and
makes the country roads worse than they
have been.
The indictment against A. G. McClain
Of Crockett county, alleging Illicit dis
tilling, has been quashed by the United
States Court.
Saturday night burglars entered Cap.
tain Ed Nowland's residence, Court
street, and stole a few dollars and a valu.
able breastpin.
The merchants have petitioned the
steamboat lines and railroads to make
round trip tickets to Msrdi.Gr good fol
eight or ten days,
Wm. Mcdonald, formerly of Mcdonald
& Woodwork, has made an assignment
his liabilities being $40, 900. George II
Herber is assignee.
Mark Baldire was arrested Saturday
night on the charge Of stealing a wo
mah's sack from Rosenthal's clothing
store on Besl street.
VIM. Jordan (colored) was arrested
this morning for running a hack withou.
license. A forfeit was put up, and The
necessary license procured.
There we're twenty-five deaths in tn,
city last week, two being stillborn ant
six from the hospital. OF the abovt
number seven we're white and 6fteeI
colored persons.
Deputy Sterif McMahan slipped awaJ
to Grand junction Friday night, and nov
has the honor and pleasure of wife. Il,
was marred to a handsome lady Of thai
town Saturday.
N. j. Wiggin 4 Co., hatiers and fur
riers, 6led an assignment this morning
liabilities being $4,000, and assets $3.50
in stock and $500 in accounts. E. P
Phillips is assignee.
The test question relative to the ticket
taken from the Little Rock railroad oficl
and sold 10 NJ. J.. Cohn and Herman
Caro-, in this city, is to be determined b,
the Chancery Court.
VIM. Dockery (colored) was arrested
this morning for cutting of the skirts o
a saddle belonging to H. D. Aldrich 1
Brother, Dockery tried to sell the leathe
skirts to a shoemaker.
The public will soon DO entertaine,
with operate entertainments by tWl
amateur organizations. Right here it i