Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-11

cial columns without difficulty, but the
heavy leaders stuck in his throat for a
few seconds like Macbeth's amen"
That animal will swallow Lois Carroll "
next.
In the last number Of the Catholic
Telegraph it is announced that that jour-
nal will not indorse any man or party'
A few weeks since the local end of the
Telegraph was favoring the negro Radi-
cal party, but this was no doubt reflect
ing the peculiar views Of the local
ender," and not of the journal, the
course of which heretofore has been lib
eral, broad and catholic.
The Common Council yesterday passed
the Aldermanic resolution notifying the
Chief of the Fire Department to notify
P. Doyle white, A. Trigg, P. Mitchell
and Joe Lusher (negroes), who were put
on the Chelsea hose carriage as "neces-
sary appliances by Mayor League,
that the General Council does not and
never did recognize them as fremen in
the employ of the city. The Council
men voting for the paying of the negro
appliances we're Walsh, Harvey, MORT,
Walters (white), Hunt, Page and Moon
(nigs.)
The City Council is still working at
the reduced wharfage question. The
milk,in the coacoa-nut is the paying of
$4,000 per annum to the negro Wharf
master Shaw, he to pay his own deputy.
If the wharfage is reduced, the pay Of
the negro Wharfmaster must follow the
reduction. If the pay of per centage is
not sufficient, let the negro resign. This
is the manner in which the white men in
the General Council should look at the
question. No compromising with the
enemy should be the motto, even if the
city government favors negroes for po-
litical reasons.
1t having been clearly shown to the
Common Council that Mr.. Hughes,
Councilman of the Eighth ward, was q
candidate for the Office of County Regis
ter, the. Council yesterday declared his
seat vacant, and elected S. M. Jobe to
fill the vacancy. Mr., Hughes, az is
usual in political circles, will appeal to
the courts for relief When man is a
candidate he should retire in dignifed
manner. Section of article ii OF the
city charter is explicit on this point.
Mr.. Hughes is candidate for Register
before the negroized Radical convention
Now that the matter of little contracts
between our city and members of the
General Council has been exposed, let
the Council 60 into the matter and swing
the pruning Ratchet without fear or
favor. Yesterday Messrs. Carpenter
luther and Keck we're appointed COM
mittee to investigate and report on this
matter Of little fat contracts The rea.
son why men are anxious to become city
a" daddies is beginning to appear DO
exact justice, gentlemen, even if the
heavens fall. The people expect this
question to be sifted from top to bottom.
A Memphian jlst arrived from Mis-
sissippi brought back with him a box of
anti-bilious pills which had been pre-.
pared by a distinguished M. D. Of our
neighboring State. On the box we're
written the following directions: Take
one pill five times day" Should this
prescription be followed out literally it
would, of course, act as an emetic of
FIVE pill power, and would, no doubt, be
quite beneficial. The trouble with the
patient is whether to take five pills
day or one pill FIVE times Our scientific
man advised him to follow the prescrip'
ton to the letter so long as one pill
would last.