Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-08
PERSONAL.

Buy your shirts at Mays. 1867
Mr.. James Kirkland, Of this city
was visiting friends at Covington, Ky.
a few days since.
DR.. Arthur X. Taylor, formerly Of
Memphis, is now resident physician at
Hot Springs, Ark. 1851
Captain Reudelhuber shot himself
in the hand yesterday. Wound pain
full, but not serious.
Mr.. M. j. Doyle, who wal badly
cut on Mill street, near his residence,
Sunday evening last, is reported better
to-day.
Mr.. |. +. Danheiser, after spending
a pleasant summe East, has returned
to our city again smiling the same as
usual.
Mr.. James H. Polk, formerly of this
city, has been on a visit to Mammoth
Cave with an excursion party from
Columbia, Tennessee.
Mrs. Chris. Lutz and son arrived
yesterday morning after spending
several weeks out on the prairies OF
Arkansaw much improved in health.
At german given in Columbia,
Tenn, a few nights since, among the
attendants were Mr.. Avis Sneed, Of
this city; also Miss Louise Sneed. The
party was at the residence of Captain
and Mrs. w. d. Bethel.
The widow of the late General G..
j. Pillow has recently been in New
York City, where, it is rumored, she
has been to arrange for the publication
of a biography of the departed general.
Mrs. Pillow is now at Columbia, Ten
nessee.
Lieutenant S. Churchill Robertson
of the First United States dragons, a
SON of General Beverly Robertson and
formerly a clerk in the First National
Bank of this city, has recently been
granted eleven months leave of absence
from his regiment with permission to
go abroad.
Mr.. james S. Richardson left Long
Branch for Memphis last evening, so
a telegram to friends in this city states.
The friends aforesaid express the belief
that Mr.. Richardson tarried at the
Branch to see that the President was
safely slowed in his quarters before he
ventured to depart.
Colonel Thomas Neal, the popular
and always genial as well as welcome
editor of Meals State Gazette, pub
lished at Dyersburg, Tenn has been
in the city for several days past. He
is building a new Office at Dyersburg
in place of the one recently destroyed
by fire, and through which disaster he
sustained a loss of $1,000 or more.
Captain j. T. McArty, of the
Shelby, Pullman & Hamilton's circus
and menagerie troupe, arrived in the
city from out the L. & N. r. r. to, day,
hurried through a vast fund Of blsi-
ness, and is making preparations to go
to Brownsville this evening. Caplkjn
Nearly is a lively and pleasantgentle-
mal, and it is a pleasure to have bust
ness transactions with one like him.
Colonel John w. Robertson, of
Austin, Texas, who delivered the
Grafton at the re union Of the Sixty
third Tennessee regiment at Rogers
vile, East Tennessee, was in the city
yesterday on his return to bis home in
the Lone Star State. He was accom-
panied by his wife and his brother
James H. Robertson, wife and chill
dreu, of Round Rock, Texas. Colonel
Robertson is a native Of Roane county,
East Tennessee. He entered the
Confederate service early, and at the
end Of the war, though very young,
was colonel of his regiment. He went
to Texas soon after the surrender and
grew up with the country. He is now
one of the leading lawyers of Austin.
This is his first visit back to East
Tennessee in fourteen years The
party left for home last night by the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad.