Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-10
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James Park to-day.
The General Council stands adjourn
ed over to next Friday afternoon.
The thermometer still Aourishes
among the nineties Of Fahrenheit.
Twenty cases appeared on the Recor-
der's docket to-day and were disposed
Of by fine.
The Appeal critic pronounces the de-
bates in the General Council to be lucid,
brilliant, logical aud sublime,
Tomorrow evening the German Casino
Club will give a musical entertainment
at Corrells Garden on Poplar street.
The Memphis branch of the Missis.
sippi Valley Society will meet this even
ing at the Union and Planters Bank.
The case of the ellis, charged with
the killing of Hubbard, occupied the
attention of the Criminal Court to-day.
Notwithstanding the heated term, a
few fashionable weddings are expected
to come off within the next two weeks.
The contempt case known as the po-
lice force middle will come up for hear
ing in the Second Circuit Court to-mor-
row morning.
The insolent and turbulent civil rights
negroes have cooled down since the
white people of the city took deter
mined stand against them.
Esquire Miller committed Martha
Reed (negress) to-day on the charge of
bigamy, she having married two cousins.
Her bonds were placed at $4,000.
In the Common Council it is usually
found that several white Councilman
vote with the negro Councilmen on nearly
all questions. This they call sustaining
the Mayor.
Major Freeman was married at IL m.
to-day to Miss Lenow, at the Central
Baptist Church. The fashionable affair
was attended by large crowd'o of ladies
and gentlemen.
A negro chicken thief named James
Snow, believing in civil rights, stole a
lot of chickens from Captain julie Tay-
lor last night. Snow will be tried by the
Recorder tomorrow morning.
Memphis girls who are writing novels
will be encouraged by the remark of ex-
Premier Gladstone. How little" said
he, the other day, to ar admirer, do
politics affect the life, the moral life, of
nation. One single good book infu-
ences the people vast deal more
The steamers Bannock City, Emma
c. Elliott and City of Augusta, seized
by attachment in the suit of the county
VS.. the Elliott Brothers, who we're Bill
McLean's bondsmen, are to be sold by
order Of the First Chancery Court, these
boats being tied up and being perishable
property.
Happy Hollow yet remains filthy and
source of epidemics for the future. 1t
is a standing nuisance in our midst and
should be abated ediately. The
Board of Health pronounces Happy
Hollow one Of the most dangerous and
prominent nuisances in the city, which
should be abated before the hot months
set in.
1t has been discovered by the General
Council that under the charter the
water-works company could keep the
city without water for fifteen days at
time if desirable. The matter was re-
ferred by the General Council to COM
mittee composed of Councilmen luther
and Page, Mayor League and City At
torney Hanson.
1t is now proposed to employ legal
counsel to assist the City Attorney in
protecting the city in the bond suits now
pending in the courts; amount involved,
81, $4,000 The attorneys, Messrs. Ran.
dolph and jackson, ask $500 each for
their services, or $500 if the suit is
gained. Defending the city in courts is
becoming rather expensive.
The Courier-Journal, of yesterday,
says: Mr.. Ernest Macpherson, of
Memphis, who graduated with high hon
ors from the law department Of the Cum
berland University, at Lebanon, Tenn,
at the late commencement of that insti-
tuition, came to Louisville a few days
since in search of suitable field for the
practice of his profession
The Society of Histrionic Amateurs
will give their FIRST entertainment at the
residence of Mr.. j. J. MurphyTon Beal
street, this evening. The programme
consists of the Duchess of Dublin
aAd THE Boston Dip, with musical in
tervals. The Histrionie Society is gov