Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-20


months, and many of them are in dis
tressing circumstances. This is part
of the city finances which should be at.
tended to by the city authorities.
Memphis is the natural center of a
section of country producing oue'ffth Of
the entire cotton crop Of the United
States. Yet only about half a million
Of bales reach Memphis, because we need
capital and greater railroad facilities.
To-day Mrs. McCarty, the Queen of
Happy Hollow, filed an Injunction bill
in the Second Chancery Court restrain
ing the city and Board o. Health from
tearing down her castle by the messy
green lake, from which noxious vapors
arise nightly, near the mouth Of Neshoba
river.
An order has been issued by the Mayor
on the police authorities, to find out
and report such persons carrying on a
disreputable business, and especially
those houses in the vicinity of the
Second street and other churches
many Of the latter being surrounded by
Magdalen asylums.
The Big Creek people have come to
the front and nailed the falsehood ut
tered by the negro Wharfmaster Shaw,
when he charged that negro had been
hung by the white people of Big Creek
not long since. Shaw should be re-
quested to resign by the Mayor and
General Council.
The disappointed Memphis candidates
for the Office of Governor will return to-
morrow and explain to Main street pc.
destrians and street. corner loungers how
it happened that they were defeated and
dropped as the ballots progressed. Many
are called (by themselves), but few are
chosen by the people.
Weather cool and cloudy with every
prospect of rain. The summer season
is about over and the heated term may
be considered closed. We may have a
few hot days, but the nights will be cool
enough to drive slumberers under
blankets. In twelve days the fall sea-
son will commence.
A controversy seems to be cropping
out in the Appeal, as to who is and who
is not a working man. Every man who
works for living-a mechanic, a la
borer, clerk, merchant, planter an
editOr-in fact, everybody who is not
loafer or a gentleman of elegant leisure,
is working man to all iutents aud par
poses
A temperance correspondent writes Us
that employers should pay off their hands
on Monday instead Of Saturday nights.
With little money in pocket and the
whole Sunday on hand and nothing to
do, men are much more liable toindulge
in excessive drinking than on the first
working day of the week. after day of
quiet rest.
Sometime since in noticing the ap.
pointment by Mayor League of fireman
Sullivan as Captain of the Main street
No. As over Mcmahon, the first pipe
man and man in the line of promotion,
to FIJI the vacancy caused by the death
of Captain Jim Stokes, we stated that
Sullivan was Radical, and hence his
appointment by Mayor League. Being
naturally disposed to do justice to all
men aud correct all errors, VIC state that
Sullivan is not and never was Radical,
but is in favor of the white mans party.
We must insist, however that MeMahon,
who has been first pipeman for years
and who acted as Captain during the
prolonged sickness of Jim Stokes, should
have received the nomination from
Mayor League instead Of Sullivan, who
has been on the force but comparatively
short time; and especially when Nc
Mahon was Endorsed by twenty members
of the General Council and the Chief
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