Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-10
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ing article on the subject.
Nine cases appeared on docket at the
first district this morning. The notorious
Rocky Barns was fined fifty dollars for
resisting an officer. The remaining
cases we're ofsminor importance.
Two bales Of cotton were stolen last
night from O wagon at Mr. George Hay
woods place, on Hill street. The cotton
belonged to Wm. Drake and Mr.. Siglsr,
and was taken away on dray.
Five cases Of smallpox are reported
on Gayoso, near DeSoto street, among
the colored population. That is a neigh.
borhood where almost any disease could
flourish and grow from the smallest seed.
The following gem of composition was
received yesterday by Sergeant Mooney,
at the station-hous
A Man that caules him self Day Left
the Miss house under serspichers sur
cumstances hee is a bout feet or 10
inchis HE with feir complexion red or
sandy whiskers lanton Jaws lite har had
on when left black soote and black
overcote brown hat Plush mustach.
j. H. Barnup, Superintendent of Col
ored Schools IN the city, reports for the
month of February that four male and
twenty.four female teachers were en-
ployed; number of pupils enrolled, l724;
average attendance, 1885, average num-
Der of pupils to each teacher. u; colored
youth in private schools, 357; total num-
Der of colored youth in school in the city,
208l.
We have received the first number of a
paper started in Nashville by B. F. G.
Brooks, called the Labor Union. tits q
neat looking sheet, and as far as it repre-
sents the laboring classes we wish it sue
cess. Mr.. Brooks though in Memphis
never worked off more papers than he
could carry under his arm and distribute
as he went to supper, and we give his
paper in Nashville about six weeks to
live, if times are flush with him.
1t is time the city authorities were
taking some steps toward cleaning the
back alleys and by-places, and carrying
out other sanitary measures, for it is
possible that we will have some warm
kind of weather along about July, when
the odor of defunct cats, inanimate rats,
ancient favored slops, and other luxu-
ries of civilization will be likely to thin
the population and give life to good
many 6rst-class watering places.
An elopement in high circles was pre-
vented last Sunday night by the inter-
ference Of an old gentleman, who claims
to be the father of the young lady. A
rejected lover gave the information which
frustrated the projected excursion by
moonlight There were two impedi'
ments-a wet night and mad father.
No cards. We have consented to with
hold names for the present. We sympa-
thizs with the disappointed youth, who
had to go off and pay his hack bill, with
no wife to console him.
The remains of Sergeant Finch, muir
dered at Horn Lake, Miss, were brought
to the city yesterday afternoon in charge
of four policemen, and inclosed in q
metallic casket at the establishment of
Hoist & Co., and taken in the evening to
the hall of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, to which the deceased belonged.
His funeral will be attended to-day at two
o'clock, and escorted to the Memphis aud
Ohio depot by the police, to be sent
North on the afternoon train, in charge
of Sergeant Mooney. We repeat, for
the benefit of contemporary" what
we said yesterday, that Sergeant Finch
was worth five thousand dollars, all of
which he had accumulated by strict
economy since be went into the army.
He had $ll0l 65 here in money, mostly
in bank, and the rest he had sent home
to his father at different times.