Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-26

Turner, the negro VINO StOle a nVIee
at Verona, Miss, and was afterward
captured by Captain Hackett, near
Mound City, has been sentenced to
Eve years in the penitentiary.
A number of pistol shots fred by
some frolicsome party on Court near
Fourth street last night, was the cause
of a commotiOn among the police
who failed to find the guilty parties
People in Chelsea, Scotland and
Fort Pickering would be glad Of even
a taIlow candle if nothing more can be
done for them in the way of street
lamps. They have been patient and
long suffering.
We call the attention of our readers
to the card of the Planters Insur-
ance Company in to-day's issue. The
half million dollars they have paid at
test their ability and willingness to
pay all honest claims against them.
r. J. Black, Clerk and Master Of
the CIancery Court, will sell at the
courthouse tomorrow noon one lot on
Exchange near river, two lots near
Looney switch and a small farm near
Stewart, near Stewart nursery.
Last month a lucky individual neal
Memphis drew $4,000 in a lottery.
Next Wednesday another lucky indi-
vidual will draw $4,000 in the Com
monwealth Lottery, of Louisville.
Call at the usual place and get a ticket.
The police lave more trouble with
the solid citizen" as a rule, than
with anybody else. He almost inva-
risbly raises a rumpus when served
with any sort of a sanitary notice,
though it seems that he Of all others
should be most willing.
One Of those matter.of-fa fellows
of whom it might be said
"a primrose by the rivers brim,
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more"
remarked yesterday that the proper
way to treat the leading topic was as
the mud question"
A call for a meeting of the School
Board was signed by several of its
members on Tuesday last. An item
to hat effect appeared in this column
at the time. and that the meeting
failed to materialize is not a cause of
any poignant anguish to the reporter,
nor his fault.
The firm Of E. NJ. Apperson & Co.
received forty bales Of cotton from
their Westover plantation, being the
largest shipment Of cotton ever made
by one man, at so early a date, to
Memphis. 1t was shipped by Col. f.
G. Stephenson, manager Of the plan
tation. Such early opening indicates
sbortness of crop.
Nearly all the various varieties Of
vegetables are extremely high, scarce
and inferior. The supply is rapidly
diminishing. Green corn, which has
been selling at ten cents a dozen ears
to consumers, is now worth twenty
five. "Nubbins' are worth twenty
aud gardeners predict the price will
be doubled before frost.
Careless clerks who have the closing
up Of their employers stores are too
often indebted to the police for locking
up after them. Not a week passes
that one or more keys are not found
by patrolmen in store doors which
often stand invltlngly open. The bolt
is frequently shot back but fails to
reach the socket, and only a push is
necessary to effect an entrance.
john MOgridge, a laborer for the
street car company, and Johanna
Appleton, a servant girl, we're mar
ried yesterday evening in the Office of
Chief of Police Davis, by Esquire
Quigley. The marriage should have
%transpired months ago. The grOOm's
part of the ceremony was the result of
persuasion, the girl being only too will
ling.