Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-20

made and the poor fellow was allowed
to proceed in search offunds to square
of.
Several insurance companies Of this
city have recently invested in the new
Masonic templessix per cent, bonds.
They r deemed safe, and promise to
be productive. A few are still on the
market. Mr., D. P. Hadden will give
all necessary information in connec-
tion thereto. Subscriptions to the
extent Of $l5, 900 additional will secure
the completion ofthe structure within
the next three months.
1t is shown that Mr.. P. c. Bethel,
of this city, funded $4,000 of old
municipal bonds Immediately afterthe
plan went into effect to fund at fifty
cents on the dollar, and over twelve
months ago. In 1871 he advanced
$4,000 TO the LoudOns for paving
purposes. 1t was divided into three
parts for payment under Mayor John.
son, and it is for the collection of this
that he now has a suit of m~andamus
against the city.
The new grand jury is composed as
follows; James H. Edmondson, fore
man; j. c. Marshall, j. w. Newton,
Louis Keith, A. NJ. Ferguson, d.
Frank, j. K. Barbour, W. Z. ThOmp-
son, Mike Athy, D. P. Higgin, S. w.
McCord, George N. Grant and L. c..
Rembert. Judge Ray delivered the
usual charge to the jury during the
forenoon. The Criminal Court held
a short session and then adjourned
until two o'clock this afternoon.
Recorder Quigley this morning fined
the following persons s. each, and not
being able to settle they we're commit
ted to the ehain-gang for ten days:
George Wiley and Ernest Lehman
for drunkenness, S. B. Kelly for
prOwling and Fannie Taylor for disor-
derby and imbibing too freely. Nancy
CrOnan for being a vagrant and soak
ing herself was charged $40, put under
$3.50 bonds, or given the option of
working twenty days. She will doubt
less work it out.
A one-story house belonging to the
Teufel estate on South street, between
Avery and fernando, was destroyed
by fire about ten o'clock last night. 1t
was the building in which Mrs. Ten
fel and three children died of fever
last summer and it had not been oc-
cupied since then. The fire was
therefore set down to incendiarism.
The loss was probably $500. The
fire engines stuck in the mud and
could not reach the fire in time to do
any good.
To see a single small-sized mule
tugging and straining in his silent
efforts to draw a heavy dray and four
huge cotton bales over our rough and
rugged streets, causes a feeling of com
passion for the outraged animal. At
the same time a feeling of disgust
is aroused for the huge human brute
who complacently sits on top of the
load to thwack and thump the poor
mule as he rides. 1t is a pity hat we
have no law here to punish cruelty to
animals.
A person calling herself Mrs. Hugh
L, Brinkley has written a book. The
lady's early history is well known
to many here, she having been the
daughter of an actor named j. s.
Charles, who died at New Orleans
some years since, and once managed
the Washington street theater in this
city. Miss Charles was educated at
the expense of one of our benevolent
orders, and received an excellent
tuition, one complete enough to en-
able her to make a mark in any walk
she might have chosen. The lady,
however, lost caste in this latitude,
and then removed to New York,
where a few years since the courts
granted her the legal right to the
name she carries. Her book is not
likely to have a very extensive sale,
it being replete with slang, as well
as with maudlin sentiment, only apt
to be appreciated by variety actresses
and persons of vitiated and depraved
tastes. 1t is hardly a work to be
commended to the pure or high
minded.
With every new year comes along a
new brand of Sol Coleman's 6ve-cent
cigars. He has made it his business
for the past eight years to give the
smoking public something new every
year. In 1871 everybody smoked his
Figaro cigars, in 1872 everybody
smoked his Paccadoras cigars, in 1873
everybody smoked his Rosa Conchas
cigars, in 1874 everybody smoked his
Mexican Twist cigars, in 1875 every
body smoked his Ten Genital cigars,
in 1876 everybody smoked his Cuban.
New Orleans, cigars, in 1877 every.
body smoked his No. s cigars, in 1878