Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-06
Local Breyities.

JACK Trust was III toWn quite cary WIS
morning.
The licenses of about two hundred
drsymen have expired. M
Strolling merchants cannot sell provis-
ions on the leves now without license.
City Attorney Morgan. we are in
formed, did not strike Alderman Vincent
last evening.
Another meeting Of the delegates to
the Louisville Convention at Col Kerr
Office ct o'clock this evening.
There is q likelihood of loose paving
stones being purchased by the city from
Mr.. Louden at "a Is o perch.
Three bales of cotton, valued at 5000
were stolen from Mr.. ]. j. Bennett, al
Marion, across the river, yesterday.
A lady's gold watch, worth 500, was
stolen yesterday on board the steamer
Legal Tender from Mr.. ]. W. Matthews.
| None but brokers or commission mer
chants can hereafter deal in loose cotton
except upon the payment Of annual tax
of 800. - 81 e4F
Salaries to city officers for September
came to 1888 "a, besides $446 com mis-.
sions to the Tax Collector and $2l7 69
to the WESTMINSTER.
A resolution allowing tipping. houses
To keep open at all hours has been passed
on its first reading by the Board Of
Mayor and Aldermen.
At q meeting of the directors of the
Memphis and Louisville railroad last
evening, Col. Nathan Adams was unani-
mously chosen President
Jack Robinson and Dallas (colored) J,
were placed in the lower district station.
house last night--one for larceny and the
other for assault and battery.
Expenditures in the City Engineers
department the last month amounted "a
1923 81; in the City Hospital, 1892 so;
by the Street Commissioner, about $4,000
Receipts Of the City Controller during
last month amounted to $25, 240 50; dis
bursements, $24, 042 94-leaving an ex.
cess of receipts over disbursements to the
amount of 1913 10. "a ilAlMIE
City Tax Collectors collections fol
September were 1921 As; Collector on
Privileges, $l2,1Sl so; Wharfmaster's
$500 95; North Memphis Matketmas
ter's, $500; South Memphis Marketmas
ter's, $435 so.
DR.. Erskine, Dean Of Faculty of ths
Medical College, says sickness is declin'
ing in this vicinity. There is not more
wholesome or pleasant place in the world
than Memphis fright now" as the la
mented McC lanahsn used to say.
Mr.. M McKeogh has offered the re
ceipts of his billiard rooms on Friday
night for the benefit of the widows and
orphans of dead Confederates. Colonel
Cockrell offers the receipts of his bar
room on the same occasion.
A little white girl, four years old
named Laura Lyons, was picked up OF
the street last evening by officer Dea and
returned to her parents. This morning
q little colored girl, aged seven years
is being looked for by her parents. who
reside near Williams mill, on From
street.
The following accounts have been al'
lowed by the County Commissioners
L. B. Horrigan, fees as Attorney Gen
ersl of the Criminal Court, 1920; DR.. p
NJ. Dickinson, assessing 9th Civil Dis
| trict, $500; Fred. Schaper, services il
| assisting Assessors, 5000; John League
making tag books for 1863, $500.
The name of tas gentleman MORALLY
stabbed BY man named Stuart, in Ar
kadelphia, Ark, was Peter Randolph
who was about twenty years of age, ant
brother to VIM. 81. Randolph, the emf
napt lawyer of this city. He had been
law student Lere, but some six month
ago went to farming for his heath in Ar
kansas. His death is deplored by larg'
circle of friends, who knew and loved
him.
Twenty cases were tried by the Police
Commissioner in the First district this
morning. OF four parties charged will
rgpping aud drumming, only one wa:
found guilty end fined $40. Wesley Mel
son (coioredj was 6 ned Si0 for disorderiy
conduct, and Andy Joh6son for care
less driving. Three gentlemen. for car
ryiDg concealed weapons, $40 each fv'
| drunks at SIS piece, $25.
There vii be an oyster supper at thu
Orphan Asylum 9F the evening Of th'
rafle for the buggy-horse Ans set of fin,
, harness. Several ladies, we understood
have volunteered their services to get j
up; and we hope they may realize some
thing out of it ss well az ont of the re II
| for the benefit of the poor children. A
nice oyster supper in the long hall of th'
suinn would ha a treat Mt which WI
should like to see every handsome couple
in the city present.
Monday mornings Little Rock Repub
ican says: Friday mornings trair
brought number o. passengers who hat
| left Memphis the morning before b
the Memphis and Little Rock railroad
and also those who had left Memphis
! Tuesday by the White river line. Tit
passengers by the new line were only
twenty hours OF the journey, while those
by river consumed upward Of Efty hours
Our daily mail is great Improvement
The last assessment of taxable proper
| ty, real and personal, within the city
limits stand thus: Value Of real estate
| $40, COS, "a; iuproVements, S7,673, 200
carriages. Sl9S25; pianos, S4Y 500 fur
ni.ure, 5000, 1906 watches, plate and Jew
elry. sSss.7O0; machinery, S2T4.50O
money At interess.. $50, 033-makips q to
tai Of $2S, 922, 1872, which :: q thus dlvlass
among the wards: First, S2,lol, .ou
Second, $2,l24,2O0; Third, 81, 400 800;
Fourth, 81 S52, sos; Fifth, $4.l93, 700
Sixth, 81, e97. 475; Seventh, So. 82l, 1926