Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-03
Finishing of the Regular Monthly Business.
The Dry Docks Located Permanently

The Board convened at three O'Clock,
Alderman Swayne in the Chair. Inc roIi
was called, and q quorum being present
the regular order of business was taken
up where il left of the previous day.
PETITIONS
| being still IN order, Alderman 0'Donnell,
of The Fifth Ward, presented q petition
signed by Diggs & Wailord, Bassegelluco,
VIM. L. Dun. J. Merrifeld, SwoOb (the
restaurateur) and others, setting forth the
fact that the negro bar room on the corner
of Main and GayOso, and kept by no
torious negro, Joe Lusher, is M dalIy anu
nightly resort of crowds OF noisy, drunken
( negroes. who. bv their loud, Dolsterons
and Indecent behavior make the establish
ment an intolerable nuisance, ana con-
slant source of annoyance 10 y ne1Sh-
borhood. The petitioners pray the Board
ia declare the same a nuisance in order
that it may be abated by due process of
Alderman O'Donnell in presenting it said
that he knew nothing of the affair per-
sonallv, and therefore moved that II be
referred to a special committee of five dis
interested persons who shall investigate
the allegation and report on the same to
the Board.
Alderman Vincent said that he was in
the habit Of passing the bar-room daily,
and he knew it TO be a quiet, orderly
place; that the petition was gotten up by
a party who wished to get Mr.. Lusher out
of his stand, in order to get it himself,
and much more of the same tenor, in
praise of Mr.. Lusher, winding up by
moving to Law the petition on the table,.
Alderman O'Donnell said that the mo
ton to lay on the table was an insult to
the petitioners. II was no moro than
right 10 examine intO their alleged griev-
ances, and he hoped that the motion to
table wonld be withdrawn.
Alderman Vincent insisted on his mo-
ton, and it was put and voted down. The
question then required on the original
motion to refer to a committee.
Alderman Williams said that he had oc-
casiOn to call at the saloon very frequent
", (this is of the mills" where the
blank registration papers were ground
OUT and he had never seen anything
wrong. 1t was always clean and orderly,
and conducted in q civil and orderly man.
ner.
Alderman Cicalla said he had occasion
to pass by there every day. He never saw
anything wrong. II the place was anuis-
ance weThad a police.
Alderman Vincent reiterated his former
statements defending Joe Lusher n his
negro "lush drum,p and accusing the pc
TONERS Of wanting TO get the stand them
selves.
Alderman Gallagher stated (and for once
nobody seemed inclined to doubt or con-
tradict him) that he had been there very
often day and night, and he thought it
was a very quiet, genteel, orderly place.
The question to refer was hen put and
carried. The following are the COMMITTEES:
Aldermen Black, Cartwright, Ogden, Ellis
and Joyce.
By Alderman O'DonneIl: a petition
w-@,, q nv Gown RnfavrnH hnHTf
reading to the Fire COMMITTEES.
By Alderman Cicalla; A petition OF f.
II. tOgwood. Referred to the Improve
ment Committee.
Bv Alderman Renner: A petition.
signed by a large number of keepers of
beer gardens, in substance as follows:
"The petitioners have noticed with salts
faction the action of the Board. in allow
ing q Sunday market and the cigar a
10 keep open on Sunday. They pray the
Board to so amend the existing Sunday
laws as to allow them 20 sell beer on sun
day. as is done in European countries, sub
ject to such restrictions as the Board may
see 1T TO place upon them"
Alderman Renner moved 10 refer TO the
Ordinance Committee, who would exam
inc into the matter and see if the PRAYER
could consistently be granted. Adopted,
and their reference made.
By Alderman Ellis: Petition from o..
Z. Prescott & Co., dealers in coal oil,
lamps, etc, to be allowed to store = bar
rels Of kerosene in the premises, corner of
OveruOu and Bayou GaYOso streets.
These premises, Alderman Ellis ex-
planned, are Just inside or on the border of
the limits prescribed by the ordinance on
burning fluids. The lot i~ssurrounded by
a nine foot fence. and no fire can come on
it. lie moved that the prayer he granted.
Adopted.
BY the same: The petition of C.. +.
Cavce. a blind man. TO be allowed, through
his wife and boy. to carry On the grocery
business free Of license.
Some little discussion arose as 10 whcth-
er the Board had any right to give any
such privilege, bat il was finally settled
by Chairman Swayne, who ruled thai the
city had a right to fOrego or abate any
charges that IA might have in sucha case.
On this announcement Alderman Ellis
stated thatthe police authorities had, also,
promised not to interfere in the matter,
and a vote being taken the required per-
mission was granted.
A petition of the druggist who fur
nished the city hospital for 1867, was re-
ferred 10 the Committee on Claims.
COTTON ON THE BLUFF.
By Alderman Cartwright: ~ petition
signed by almost all the cotton and COM
mission merchants of the city in sub
stance as follows: Whereas, tho ordi-
nance prohibiting cotton buyers and ship
pers fom sampling. weighing and mark
ing their cotton on the bluff preparatory
to shipping it, is a source of great embar-
rassment and expense to them, the petit
TONERS pray a modification or a repeal of
the same. 1t is not their object, as thew
set forth, by this TO interfere in any way
with the business Of the warehouse keen
ers, etc, but TO relieve themselves of the
trouble, annoyance and expense of send
ing samplers, markers and weighers
around 10 a dozen different warehouses or
sheds when they wish TO send of a lot Of
cotton.
Alderman Cartwright moved that The
prayer be granted.
Gallagher moved to refer to the Ordi-
nance Committee, and on vote the refer
ence was made.
Alderman Dyer stated that he was not
present when The petition in relation TO
Lusher's bar-rOOm was presented. As he
had a petition in regard 10 the same mat |
ter, he moved to refer IL, without reading, |
the same committee. Tho reference |
made.
Alderman Walcott presented a petition
from Calvary Church tpbe allowed to-add |
the robing room. Granted.
THE SCHOOL FUND.
BY the same: A petition signed by J.. T. |
laFau6s lioAi the MelbpnlS Hoafd Of Edu-
cation, presented according to a resolution
adopted at their session, May 10th, asking |
the Board Of Mayor and Aldermen for
atty thousand dollars in School Fund
Bonds to enable the Board to purchase
and build s-choolhouses for the wear Of
1869, according to the amended act passed
9th January 1853. i
The petition, which was very VOlumin-
Gus, went on TO state hat by the ninth
section Of tho old charter the board of Ed
had the power to call ON the Board
OF Mayor and Aldermen for seventy-fve
Thousand dollars, in bonds, TO purchase
lots, etc; beyond that sum the citizens
had tobe directly appealedto, 10 vote upon
appropriation. The bonds thus issued
the seventy-hvc thousand dollars) bore |
percent. annum interest. The tenth
of h amended charter is better,
In the opinion Ofthe petitions. for the city
L~ax-payens, than the said ninth, inasmuch
As tho. bonds 10 be issued under its provis-
ions are to run Cor thirty 800 years, and
bear only six t6) percent. interest, instead
81 running twenty years at ten per cent.
the amount OF bonds provided for
1y this tenth section of the amended
sbarter are limited to fifty thOu-