Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-04
LEDGER LINES.

The General Council stands adjourned
over to next Wednesday afternoon.
Two cases OF horse stealing we're re.
ported 10 the Chief Of Police this morn.
ing.
This month having an "r" in il, the
soft aud succulent bivalye will be in
season.
The ladies Of St. Peters church will
give picnic at James Park on Wednes.
day next
The running expenses Of the city
government for August amounted TO
$iO,42G SO.
The Irish Literary Association will
meet tonight at the hall Of the Associa-
ten, on Poplar street.
Not a candidate for the mayoralty Of
Memphis has yet dared to announce
himself except in a sub rosa manner.
Mrs. Victoria c. Woodruff will tell US
what she knows about Sexual Slavery
tomorrow evening at the Grand Opera
House.
The salaries of the Fire Department
last month amounted to $4s65 OIL, and
the salaries Of the Police Department,
s7422 92. ent ~
The twenty-frst anniversary (stif-
tungsfest) of the Memphis Turnverein
will be celebrated at Humboldt Park on
next Monday, the 9Th instant.
The second annual ball Of the Bar
bers' Benevolent Association will come
of at the Turner's Hall on Poplar street
on Monday evening the 10Th instant.
In the General Council the water
works question has assumed magnif-
cent proportions, and gives promise of
being the bone Of contention for months
to come.
The fire at one o'clock last night was
out in Chelsea, beyond the corporation
line. The residence Of Mrs. Ellsman'
was burned to the ground the cause
was accidental.
There are many men who cannot
leave town for ten minutes without hav-
ing piece of personal puffery pub.
lished in the journals of the day. "'Tis
pleasant, sure, to see ones name in
print"
Professor Baldwin, the seance man,
will expose all the mysterious manipu.
lations Of the Davenports, Foster and
other charlatans, at an exhibition to be
given at the Grand Opera House next
Monday evening.
Squire Miller put Jim Morgan.
white man, under a $4,000 bond this
morning for assaulting man named
Whitfield with pistol. Jim didn't have
the $4,000, and went to jail for further
hearing ON Saturday.
Manager Goodsell, of the New York
Daily Graphic. has sent to our Ledger
Liner piece of the cloth of which the
great Graphic balloon is to be made.
The cloth has been closely examined by
our scientific man, who pronounces it
too heavy and rough for shirting, and
too light for an overcoat.
The General Council, having whole
some fear of a United States Court man
damus, has concluded to levy tax of
seventy cents on the hundred dollars in
order to raise $l5O,OOO for Nicolson
pavement contractors Brown 4 Co. The
pavement is about the worst ever put
down, and is already rotting and falling
INTO decay.
AS a rule, the hackmen make more
money than any class of merchants in
he city. They charge more for their
services and injure the Nicolson more
han even the draymen, and notwith-
standing all this, they want their licenses
'educed from twenty to fifteen dollars
per annum. They had much better be
made fifty dollars than reduced a cent.
Yesterday Chief of Police Athy receiv-
ID letter from Utica, N. Y, inquiring
lfter Mr. Chas. House, who, when last
heard from, was at No. 200 Third street,
n this city, where he died week ago
Sunday, and was buried in Elmwood |
Cemetery, which facts we're sent by
nail to-day to his friends in Utica by
hat good looking and urbane Clerk of
he Recorders Court, Major Sim
Barinds.
St. Louis has finished a railroad to
Fulton, on Red river, Louisiana, dis
,ance Of four hundred and seventy miles.
The railway company intend erecting
improved cotton presses at favorable
points. The St. Louis papers signif-
,antly state that the railroad will estab-
ish such low rates of freight that the
planters will see it is to their advantage
o ship to st. Louis instead of to Mem
,his and New Orleans as heretofore.
mrs. woodruff Sick.