Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-06-03

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The Board of Mayor and Aldermen
met yesterday afternoon at three o'clock,
and business was resumed from the ad-
journed meeting the previous day.
PETITIONS.
Alderman O'Donnell, Of the Fifth
Ward, presented o petition signed by
Diggs & Wafford, Bacigalupo, William
L. Duff, J. Merrifeld, Schwoob, the
restauranter, and ether gentlemen Of
like high respectability, setting forth
that the negro bar-room kept by Joe
Lusher, on the corner Of Main and Gayoso
streets, is an intolerable nuisance, and
praying that the same be declared as
such, that it might be abated. Several
of the Aldermen, who probably get free
drinks somewhere, sprang to their feet
and defended the place, making it out o
school Of morality, fine manners and
good breeding. After lively discussion,
the petition was referred to committee
of five, and the following Aldermen were
appointed F.: Black, Cartwright, Ogden,
Ellis and Joyce.
A petition was read from Colonel Log
wood in regard to stagnant pond on
Shelby street, which was referred to the
Improvement Committee.
Alderman Rsnner presented petition
signed by large number Of keepers OF
beer gardens, in substance as follows:
1.-THE petitioners have noticed with salts.
| faction The action of the Board, in al
lowing Sunday market and the cigar
stands TO keep open on Sunday. They
pray the Board to so amend the existing
Sunday laws as to allow them to sell
beer on Sunday, as is done in European
| countries, subject to such restrictions as
the Board may see fit TO place upon
them" Referred to the Ordinance Com
| mittee.
Petition from o. f. Prescott 4 Co /,
dealers in coal oil, lamps, etc., to be al
lowed to store barrels of kerosene in the
premises, corner of Overton aud Bayou
| Gayoso streets. Granted.
The petition of G. +. Cayce, blind
man, to be allowed, through his wife and
boy, to carry on the grocery business free
of license, was granted.
Alderman Cartwright presented peti.
ton, signed by almost all the cotton and
commission merchants of the city, in
substance as follows; Whereas, the ordi-
nance prohibiting cotton buyers and
shippers from sampling, weighing and
marking their cotton on the bluff pre-
paratory to shipping it, is source of
great embarrassment and expense to
them, the petitioners pray modification
| or q repeal Of the same. 1t is not their
object, as they set forth by this, to inter-
| fere in any way with the business OF the
| warehouse keepers, etc., but to relieve
themselves of the trouble, annoyance and
expense of sending samplers, markers
and weighers around to dozen different
warehouses or sheds when they wish to
send off lot Of cotton. Referred to the
Ordinance Committee.
Alderman Dyer, who came in late,
presented another petition in regard to
Joe Lusher's saigon, which was likewise
referred.
Alderman Wolcott presented volu'
minous petition, signed by J. I. Leath,
from the Memphis Board of Education,
presented according to Q resolution
adopted at their session May 10th. ask.
ing fifty thousand dollars in School Fund
Bonds to enable the Board to purchase
lots and build school.houses for the year
of 1869, according to the amended act
passed 9th January, 1869. Referred to
the Finance Committee.
Aldermen Motfet presented petition
from the Irish Literary Society to be al
lowed to occupy, at a stipulated rent, the
hall over the engne-house on Poplar
street. Referred to committee OF three,
consisting of Aldermen Moffet, Cicalla
and Dyer.
RESOLUTIONS.
A resolution to slose, as nuisances,
several designated slaughter-houses in
the corporate limits was adopted.
Resolution instructing the Street Com
missioners to put crossings over the bayou
| on Hawley street. Adopted.
To allow the Street Commissioner to
employ fifty men and carts. Adopted.
That the Street Commissioner be in
structed, in hiring teams to work on the
streets, to give preference, as much as
possible, to those who are willing to take
pay in tax scrip. Adopted.
Alderman Wolcott offered the follow
ing;
Rssolred, That the wages Of the street
| laborers be reduced from two dollars to
one dollar and half per diem.
| An animated discussion followed, In
which Jeems Persimmons Gallagher
took an astonishingly eloquent and
mathematical part. He said two dollars
| a day was just thrty-six dollars month,
and almost brought tears from the eyes
of his convulsed congregation. The big
Corporal backed down on his arithmetic
after stubborn Fesistanee, bHt made a
general advance on all other parts OF the
line. He was evidently In favor of the
resolution, and knew that the best way
to force it through was to speak against
il. Finally, the resolution was referred
to the Finance Committee.
| A resolution to put lamp on each end
of the bridge crossing the Memphis aud
Oharleston railroad at the head Of Msdi-
son street. Referred to Gss Cor mittee,
A resolution directing the Sergeant at.
Arms to have the cupo's of the City Hall
psinted, and the ceiling of the Council
Chamber whitewashed. Referred to the
| Finance Committee.
That tae city purchase for the use of
the standing committees of the Board Of
Aldermen q serviceable wagon. Adopted.
That q draft in favor Of I. E. Brown Il
| Co. for nine hundred and thirteen dollars
and forty-siK cents, drawn by the Boyd