Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-05
BREvITIEs.

Hall, was largely attended last night.
The Poston-Schofeld lynching case is
still on trial before the Criminal Court.
The School Board meets next Mon
day evening at their rooms in the Odd
Fellows Hail.
When you want to be sure of good
biscuit, use Oliver, Finnie q Co.'s self
rising -four. 1t never fails.
All houses throughout the city have
to be numbered, and occupants will have
to put up numbers within thirty days.
1t is reported that the galvanized Rad
icals of this city intend publishing a
daily campaign paper in few weeks.
Let it come forth. t49tnh 3ataf
The General Council metin adjourned
session last evening. After transacting
unfinished business, the Board and
Council adjourned sine dis.
We are requested to say that Professor
Earnest Perring is i'll and unable to at
tend to his pupils, and will probably be
unasle to do so for two or three days.
Seventeen cases of misdemeanor were
disposed of by the recorder to-day.
Andy Peters, negro, arrested for larceny
from-the person, was sent to Jail without
bail.
The police drill on Adams street last
evening attracted large crowd Of
lookers-on. The force is composed of a
fne-looking body of men, efficient and
trustworthy.
In the Criminal Court seven jurors
were obtained in the Poston-Schofeld
hanging case up to one o'clock to-day.
A new panel was summoned for to-mor-
row morning
A committee has been appointed by
the General Council to report as to the
practicability of establishing a work
house for violators of city ordinances,
and doing away with the changing
system.
The Irish Literary Association has
appointed committee to procure pab-
lie documents for the library from Wash
ington, through Congressman Vaughan,
of this district. The association is a
live institution.
The scalping ordinance, making hack
owners responsible for the conduct of
plundering drivers, was laid on the table
by the Common Council last night. The
Criminal Court and our efficient police
must protect travellers against scalpers.
The public debt of Shelby county, in
GLIDING the Memphis city debt, amounts
to the sum of $5.0OO,0O0, according to
the census returns. The value Of real
and personal property in the county is
estimated at $47,4l3,OOO which is as
sessed at 1876, 064,000
The well-known and ever popular
Wyndham Comedy Company, strength
ened in numbers, etc., will commence
an engagement at the Memphis Theater
next Tuesday evening in the brilliant
and sparkling New York comedy enti-
tied Saratoga. nHs
The Mississippi Elevator Company
has been granted permission to erect
water tanks on the bluff below Beal
street, for the use Of the company, the
city and the public. The tanks will be
found extremely usefulin case of fire in
that portion of the city.
-Four Democratic candidates and one
Radical for the shrievalty have already
appeared in the field. The usual blow
ing about the strength and election of
the Radical candidate is progressing,
but he stands no chance of election in
the conservative county of Shelby; and
why should he stand chance2
Mayor Johnson's truism uttered before
the Council last night, that the only
way to get out of debt was to pay out"
had the effect of inducing the members
to pass the all-important tax and license
ordinance on its first reading. The
Mayor also insisted that necessity
alone was the father Of the ordinance.
The new ordinance disposing of that old
public functionary, the City Printer"
passed on its final reading before the
General Council last evening. The LEDG-
Err will hereafter publish the official re-
port of the proceedings and ordinances.
The job work, book binding and the
much ventilated tax list will be let out
to the best bidders in due course oftime.
The agony is over
The Fourteenth Civil District is en-
titled to three justices, yet some weeks
since six were doing magisterial BUSH
ness. The deaths Of Esquires Burke
and Norton leaves three still doing bust
ness, the number to which the district
is entitled. The legality of this matter
is up before che Supreme Court, and the
County Court has concludeded to await
a decision before ordering new cleo
ton.
The attention of Superintendent Bar
rett, of the street railroad, is called to
the muddy and filthy condition of the
terminus of the road in front of the