Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27

Dancing was the order and it was
kept up until late hour.
The Benner cotton bale netted
$4s7.75 at Mobile and Montgomery,
Alabama, and Augusta, Georgia. This
sum has been transmitted to the fam
lily of the late lieutenant, through Miss
Clara Conway, Of this city.
Nothing venture, nothing gain, is a
truism old as the hills. Venture a
small amount in a ticket in the grand
drawing of the Louisiana Lottery and
you may gain a prize. The drawing is
June 18th, and tickets are $40 frac-
tiOnal parts Of tickets in proportion.
A DeSoto street wench created a
sensation at the landing near sunset
last evening by firing a pistol at some
dusky r~oustabout with whom she had
previously been intimate. The shot
flew wild and the irate feminine was
escorted to the lookup by a large
crowd of curious people.
A Steinway concert grand piano is
to be ratified off at Mr.. j. t. Wilson's
cigar store on Main street, under the
Peabody Hotel. The instrument is
in number one order and cost origin
ally $500, and is to be ratified for
S5OO-lOO chances at s. each. 0fthe
amount $50 is to be donated to the
Butler Anderson fund.
Nothing is so captivating to our
country cousins when they visit the
city this sultry weather as a few
glasses of soda water. In n of his
speeches at the courthouse the other
day a well known and eloquent lawyer
dwelt upon this subject at length and
told a comieal story about how soda
drinkers suffer after they go home,
We are indebted to Capt. Sam
Shock, agent here for the louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern rail
road, for a large colored map of Texas
on rollers. 1t is in the interest Of the
international and Great Northern
railroad. but nevertheless is a correct
and reliable map. Capt. Shock was
formerly connected with this road, and
knows all about Texas.
A hotel clerk of polished address
and engaging manners, well known
here and at Nashville, has played con-
6dence on a dozen or two Of our citi-
zens within the past few weeks, %realiz.
ing a few hundred dollars for himself
Those who have suffered have moi
done so in any instance, as faI al
heard, over ten dollars, and none were
caught for less than FIVE.
The missing L. B. Rubinson, it i,
believed by many, will yet turn up al
right and give a clear account Of hi
records. Many. however. think the,
have been victimized, and that tn,
slick fellow is about 5000 ahead Oh
his confidential operations. The heav
lest sufferers we're taken in to tn
extent of about 800, and the smalles
runs down to about five dollars.
To the travelling public! Partie
going to St. Louis can now max
direct connection at Humboldt an
Columbus by taking the Louisyill
and Nashville train leaving here a
1910 am, arriving at their destina
tion at 6 am, and thereby avoid bein
thrown out upon the cold charities
a large city in the middle of the nigl
as is the case with the opposition rout
Alarge Main street dry goods hou'
had a head clerk who was caught
the act.of purloining valuable eooC
one day last week, and it is disclose
that his practices have gone straigl
bon through a series Of populations Fl
many months. The man was di
missed and is not to be prosecute
1t is a case very similar to that
Hackett, who ruined his career by Il
same kind Of dishonest work.
1t is quite amusing to the disinte
f ested observer to see the smiles al
WY faces carried by various membe
D Of the legal fraternity and othors
their interests are affected by the OF
opinions of Judge Baxter as deliver
0 yesterday in the Taxing District co
test. On one side, 30, righteo
i Judge" is the expression on t
e other indignation, prejudice, BIZ
passion, violence, bigotry, soiled jut
cial ermine and other heavy remar
give sentiment to the feelings Of tho
against whom the stones have struC
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