Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-13
MEMPHIS ITEMS.
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late issues of the Memphis Sun:
The City Council adopted resolution to
pay the laboring hands employed BY the
city two dollars day 10 cash.
Mr.. Henry Farmer, the celebrated
hutIst, has returned TO this city from New
Orleans, where he has been soiourninp
lately.
The Memphis colored schools have four
male and twenty female teachers, and
seventeen hundred and twenty-foUr pupils
are on the books.
There will be 800 bales Of cotton shipped
direct TO Europe on through bill of fading,
over the Great Western express route
dnring the present week. Direct trade il
fixed fact
Il ia reported that there are several dig
tilleries 10 the city where few quarts a
day of the ardent are put through" The
practice is risky one; the reVeEne an
thorities have keen look out.
Mayor Leitwich arrived in The CITY last
night from Washington, lookicg much
heartier than when he left. He states that
ex-President johnson will be in this city
within the next two weeks TO remain two
or three days.
Nineiy-eight members of the Memphis
bar have published call tor a meeting of
the legal fraternity Of the city, for the pur-
pose of making nominations, irrespective
OF party, for the approaching Judicial cleo
tions.
DR.. Erskine, Dean of the Medical Fac
ulty Of the Medical College, reports off.
tiaily that systematic plan of vaccination
has been adopted, which it is hoped will
reach all the children of the poor and thus
diminish the chances Of contagion.
Col. Porter is vigorously urging the
construction Of the railroad from this
city to Pilot Knob, so as to bring US into
immediate connection with st. Louis, and
bring traffic this way that comes from
the South and passes up to Columbus
and the Illinois Central.
At the yslOcipede rink on Union street
yesterday one of the pupils accomplished
the feat of rising from his seat, placing
himself on his knees upon the saddle,
and re .resuming his seat, all while the
vehicle was running. This was done
several times.
Chief of Police Pearne has published q
card stating that when the policemen
who went to Horn Lake to arrest the In
dian Harland they had no orders to go
into a neighboring State, "and while it
was understood that Harland was on this
side or upon the line, it was expressly
said we had no right to cross it in the dis
charge of official Duty
A correspondent inquired some DAYS ago
for fund of about $1,000, gathered to
build monument to the Confederate dead.
A lady tells rs that on several differeat
occasions a full statement has been pub
hshed. The money was deposited at the
Gayoso Savings Institute, was fortunately
Withdrawn, and is nov loaned on The very
best security. When the sum ia enlarged
the monument will be bnilt.
The scrip and bond ring and its organs
have congratulated the country that col.
ored voters, led By Barbour Lewis and the
favored few, for whom the poor and tax
payers toll, have achieved their nefarious
purposes and secured, without let or him
drance, million and a half of city bonds.
To the great mass of white people, and TO
those of the colored race intelligent
enough to comprehend their own interests,
the statement that the contemplated sc'
lion of the Board Of Aldermen will be
prohibited by the ChAucery Court will be
peculiarly gratifying. We are informed
that Mr.. Archibald Wright, Gen. Chal-
mers, Judge Ellet, Mr.. Phelon and Mr.
Jackson, attorneys, have been consulted
and employed the represent the Citizens
Union. Questions of law aad fact in
volyed have been investigated, and mol
only will The issuance Of the hall a mil.
lion bonds be prevented, bat those who
purchased and they who sold the million
dollars Of bonds last year will be required
at least to reduce the usury to a SIX pei
cent. transaction.