The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-24


N.x,r,s,pea asyium TO he froSi"eu-
mayor wasener's Little joke o" tue
Reporters.
regular monthly meeting OF the Clty
Council was held yesterday afternoon at hVe
O'Clock: present. the Mayor, Aldermen ONelll'
Bowen, volgt, Gage, Garrett, sWeesan' Glo'
yer. Johnston, Brown and Sigwald.
The call for petitions being made, the follow
ing were presented:
Petition of residents In Duncan street TO
have alamp lighted. Referred to commlttee
on lighting the streets.
Petition of Henry Ritter to erect wooden
building on Church street. Referred 10 Inc
committee on wooden buildings. Al tnis
stage the proceedings were interrupted by
Alderman Sweegan, who said ne notlceo
there was not quorum In the room, ana tnaC
IL was contrary to the ordinance on the sup-
iect to proceed with business witnous q"o-
rum. The roll being called, 1t was found AL
derman Volgt was absent. He returned aiter
a fsw minutes, and was informed by the
Msyor that he had rendered himself liable to
fine of from one to fifteen dollars. 1t being
the wish of Council, the fine was not imposed.
The business was then resumed.
Petition of Mrs. A. G. Curtis to repair a
wooden building at No. 4s King street. Re-
ferred to the committee on wooden builae
1ngs.
The Mayor stated, in connection with the
petition of residents for lighting lamp In
Duncan street, that the number of lamps now
lighted throughout the city was ten hundred
and thirty-nlhe, against FIVE hundred and thirty
when the present Council came into office, and
that the cost of lighting the present number
was list,s more than that of the former. he
said that two hundred additional lamps were
needed. and asked Council whether they
would proceed In the matter or stop Where
they were. On motion OF Alderman Gage, 1t
was decided to postpone further consideration
OF the matter until the beginning OF cool
weather.
The quarterly return of the chief of police
was referred 20 the committee on accounts.
communication from DR.. Robert Lebby,
sr., stating that he had been ordered by the
Governor to turn over the Lazaretto Hospital
on Morris Island to the city In trust for the
Governor, and referred to the committee on
quarantine.
The report of the city Inspectors to the 30th
of June being very lengthy document was
referred to the committee on streets, without
being read, and ordered to be printed.
The committee on retrenchment and relief
reported in favor of paying Dr.. NJ. d. Collins
for disinfectants furnished the city during the
Plllsbury administration, and their report was
adopted by the Council.
The committee on contracts reported two
estimates for building the new engine house
In Smith street; one of Peter Halls for $3.50,
another of G. W. Egan for s222o. Action on
the report was deferred for the present.
The committee on public Institutions,
buildings and grounds reported tavorably on
the recommendations of the medical commit
tee of the Board of Health for the establish
ment of an insane hospital and alteration Of
the House OF Correction into city hospital,
and recommended that they ba carried out,
provided the cost do not exceed ten thousand
dollars The report being long was ordered
to be printed, and acllon deferred until the
next regular meeting.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the
city snerln GU provide jury box and jury
list for the City Court.
The following resolution, offered by Alder
man O'Neill, was adopted after. a little dlscns-
sion:
Resolued, That the penalty now charged
against all defaulters, as well as that paid since
the 18th instant, be remitted them; provided
hnfor h0 or n
pay their annual tax; and that the two remain.
ing terms fixed for the payment Of quarterly
taxes be extended to the first days Of october |
and January next respectively.
Alderman Bowen offered resolution all
thorizlng the Mayor to appoint temporarily o
city auditor, whose duty 1t should be to audit
all accounts against the city, with salary at
the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum.
Adopted.
Alderman Voigt said that the daily papers
had published that the city attorney had made
q motion before Judge Graham for the reno
val of the Injunction against the Council IT, the
Enterprise Railroad case, and asked whether
the city attorney had been authorized by the
Council 80 to proceed, as he wanted to know
If the Council intended the repairing to be
done to the streets by the Enterprise Railroad |
Company.
The Mayor, after stating parenthetlcally that
the statements Of the press were not always |
to be relied on, stated that he had instructed |
the city attorney some time ago to make ap- |
plication for the removal of the injunction. |
He then read letter from the latter stating |
that action had been prevented in the matter |
until yesterday by the absence from the city of |
the Hon. j. B. Campbell, counsel for the COM
pany. and that yesterday the judge was pre-
occupied with other cases. He concluded by |
saying that the case would be carried before |
Judge Graham this morning, and thus, after |
all, confirmed In every particular the accuracy |
Of The NEWS reports.
Alderman Bowen called attention to print
ed petition Of the vestry and wardens of st.
Philips Church, with the city attorneys opin-
ion thereon, and the report OF tho committee
on retrenchment aud relief, and suggested
that action upon 1t be deferred until the next
regular meeting, so that the members could
take the pamphlet home and read 1t. His
suggestion was adopted, and Coqacil then