Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-04

had them on storage. The guns belong
to the State, and were formerly used by
military company in this city. These
guns should be restored to the posses
sion Of the State.
| A slanderous up-country editor says
in a late issue Of his vile sheet that
young men are so scarce at Memphis
that each one has to take from eight to
fourteen girls to picnic, and all want
to hang on his arm at once.
Sol Coleman, at 200 Main street, has
the finest Havana cigars in the city, and
he sells them by retail at Wholesale
prices. Our Ledger Liner investigated
this smoky subject and found it as rep
resented A good imported cigar at a
reasonable price can be obtained at
Coleman's.
The civil rights niger is in the wood
pile Of the city government, and ap-
pears occasionally in the Fire Depart
ment aud General Council. He has a
few white friends ia the General Council
who are seemingly in favor of the civil
rights bill, or in favor of their own deg
relation.
Four hundred and thirty arrests were
made by the police during the past
month, of which 2O3 were day and 227
night arrests; BOG being from the upper
and l24 from the lower district; 225
white male and 80 white female; 1873
colored male and 81 colored female; 1872
married and 29S single.
At the General Council meeting yes
terday, Councilman Carpenter wished
Councilman Walters to explain why he
(Walters) said that Mayor League agreed
to place negroes on the Chelsea hose
carriage, well knowing that the Board
would not concur in the appointments.
Councilman Walters did not explain why.
In the Criminal Court to-day Frank
Anderson was convicted of larceny and
sentenced to four years Imprisonment in
the penitentiary Thomas Allen, con-
victed of larceny, sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary. Henry Aiken
pleaded guilty to petit larceny, but the
jury up to one o'clock had not agreed as
to the punishment.
1t will cost $4,000 per month to keep
up the sanitary force during the summer.
This estimate includes the employment
of twenty men and six carts constantly
on the streets, and the tri-weekly re-
moval of all kitchen garbage from the
four sanitary divisions of the city. The
removal of the garbage will cost by con-
tract 5000 per month.
Last evening in the Criminal Court
the jury in the case of John Jefferson
(colored), indictment for killing Richard
Harris by shooting him from the bushes
near Elmwood Cemetery, returned into
court verdict of murder in the first de-
gree, without mitigating circumstances,
for which the penalty is death by hang
ing.
The gartered MemphiaE is inform ed
that mo French or English woman of
cultivation nova, days wears her garters
below her knees. The principal vein of
the leg sinks there beneath the muscles;
and varicose veins, cold feet, and even
palpitation of the heart may be brought
on by tight garter in the wrong place.
When it is fastened above the knee all
this pain and deformity may be avoided. j."
In France editors are required by law
to accord to a person attacked space in
their columns for reply twice as long
as the attack; but in Memphis when
person imagines that an editor alludes
to him, he writes column in reply, and
gets angry when the communication is
refused except at regular rates, although
the communication contains covert COM
pliments to himself, and reasons why he
should be elected to some Office, etc.
An effort was made in the General
Council yesterday to secure pay for
Mayor Leagues colored fremen in Chel-
sea, whom he appointed without author
ity of law. p. Doyle (white), Joe
Lusher, Peter Mitchell and Andrew
Trigg (col), claim $50 each, but the
Council refused to pay a cent. Those
who voted to pay this amount illegally
we're Councilmen Jack Walsh, Harvey,
Walters, Page, Moon, Clouston, Thomas,
Hunt, majority of whom are colored,