Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-10
BREyITIEs.

rlhlnk nOur. IL never ihils.
The new tax and license ordinance
was passed by the General Council last
evening.
The Market street bridge over the
bayou has been rendered dangerous by
the late food.
The Orphans Fair, at the Assembly
Hall, will close tonight. Everybody
should attend this evening.
The County Court adjourned this fore
noon over to the next term. commenc-
ing on the first Monday in July next.
The person who took from the table of
the editor of this paper yesterday the
London Graphic, will please return it.
Saratoga will be the dramatic sensa-
ton at the Memphis Theater tonight.
The Wyndhams will positively appear.
A jumping cat colliding with an oil
lamp produced $4,000 FIRE on Avery
street last night. This was catastrophe
indeed.
Jailor Jackson reported to the County
Court to-day that eighty-two prisoners
pine away m the county prison at
present.
In the First Circuit Court to-day a
divorce bill was fled by Walter Napier
against Ellen G. Napier on the grounds
of abandonment, desertion, etc.
A few Dolly yardens appeared on the
streets yesterday afternoon. The wearers
looked as happy as big supAowers and
the dress resembled Chinese tea sign.
The tax and license ordinance passed
by the General Council last night is to
be printed in the German paper for the
information Of our German fellow-citi
zens.
Esquires Wallace, Walker and Glis-
son, of the County Court, are acting as
a committee to receive bids and examine
premises with view to erecting county
work-house.
Should Carl Schurz address his fellow
citizens at the Maifest, on the fifth of
May next, ten thousand people will be
present to hear the accomplished orator
and statesman.
The impaneling of the jury in the
Poston-Scho6eld lynching case will be
resumed in the Criminal Court at two
o'clock this afternoon. Seven jurors
have been secured already.
One hundred and eighty-six paupers
were buried in the Potter's field during
the quarter ending March 3lst, and at a
cost to the county of $l633 10, as per
bill of Undertaken Walsh.
The food did considerable damage to
the railroads centering at this point.
The damages, however, will be repaired
rapidly, and trains will be running
through to-day or tomorrow.
The County Court appointed com.
mittee to-day to draft rules for the gov.
ernment Of business brought before the
honorable body at the next term, so as
to avoid all irregular proceedings here
after.
The Chancery Clerks request the atten-
ton Of attorneys called to section @ rule
l, adopted at the last regular session OF
! the Legislature, which provides for the
immediate filing of exhibits with
pleadings.
A meeting of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee will be held next Satur-
day for the purpose of calling a mass
meeting to select delegates to attend the
Democratic State Convention, to be held
at Nashville on the 9th of May next.
All sanitary matters reported to the
Sergeant-at-Arms at the City Hail. or to
the Chief of Police at headquarters, cor
ner of Adams and Second streets, will
receive immediate attention. Now is
the time to have all nuisances abated.
Coal will soon be a drug in the Mem
phis market, and will soon drop down to
seventy.fve cents barrel. 1t is to be
hoped that such arrangements will be
made in the future as to prevent coal
going up to dollar anda half, the price
of it during the past winter.
The County Court, which has been in
session ten days, transacted an immense
amount Of business. The average at
tendance Of magistrates was twenty-five,
at cost of FIVE dollars each per day, or
twelve hundred and fifty dollars for ten
days.
Next Saturday evening gentlemen
who interest themselves in the success
of the Southern University scheme and
in the transfer of the South Carolina
College to this place, will meet at the
office of the Southern Life Insurance
Company, corner Main and Madison
streets.
The handsome and fascinating auvial
editor of the Avalanche objects to our
notice that the bayou Gayoso got her
back up and invited the r. E. Lee to
float on her heaving bosom" We can
inform our aquatic friend that we meant
no offense to the old bayou, and merely
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