Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-22
Police Courts Charged with
Gross Inefficiency.
Arrival of the Distinguished We'd
ding Party in New York.
Arrival of Mormon Immigrants.
A Row In the Royal Family of Eng
land.

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the scene of the Mill river disaster says
the last two bodies have been found, and
the total loss of life is now known to be
one hundred and forty seven. Some
idea may be formed of the terrific force
of the rushing stream of death by the
st atement that the fssure in the ruined
barrier shows that the food must have
started with volume of one hundred
and seventy-fve feet wide and thirty-fve
feet deep.
A Tammany Democrat and Republi-
can, together with an Independent AL
derman, Mr.. Otlendorf, have united in a
report to the Board of Aldermen in
which the Police Courts are charged
with gross ineficiehcy, great negligence,
aud fragrant neglect of law, and the
Mayor is urged to remove those who are
responsible for the decentralization of the
department When the Mayors atten-
ton was called to the structure of the
Legislative committee on abuses in the
street cleaning bureau he intimated that
that committee had been appointed for
particular purposes. This insinuation
is repealed in this report, and second
count is added to the indictment against
the Police Commissioners by pointedrei-
ereuce to the evidence taken in the Courts
in regard to the appointment and re-
moval of inspectors aud other irregu-
larities Oh election day.
A party of about one hundred and
forty Mormon immigrants arrived yester-
day and start to-day for Salt Lake City.
Another company Of equal size is ex-
pected soon.
The London Letter says the absence
the Duke and Duchess of Edinburg from
the Queens drawing room has naturally
attracted attention and revived rumors
of the dispute as to the precedence.
The Duke and Duchess went to the for
iper drawing room, and it was supposed
that the matter had been satisfactorily
adjusted, but it seems there is still a
hitch somewhere. The Duke of Edin-
burg ranks next to the Prince Of Wales,
but the point is whether the Duchess
should come next to the Princess OF
Wales. In the case Of the Princess
Louise and the Marquis Of Lorne the hus-
band and wife are separated, the husband
being sent to the rear with the gentlemen
in waiting. Another grievance
OF the Duchess is said to be the poor
and Insignificant appearance of the
Clarence House, which is to be her per.
manent home as soon as the repairs are
completed. 1t stands in what is known
as the stable yard Of st. James, and
though it has St James Palace on the
A one side and the Duke of Sutherland &
/, Palace on the other, still it occupies an
obscure and backward position. The
Clarence House has been considerably
y enlarged, and the interior is we'll enough,
e but its external aspect will always be
mean and shabby, lacking want of proper
b entrance. 1t is like house on an alley.
e There has been some talk Of the Duke
of Edinburg purchasing magnificent
: mansion at Kensington immediately
' facing the gardens.
T A letter writer at Asling. Austria, tell,
i Of the serious disturbances there early
|, in May in consequence Of an advance in
the price Of beer as announced by brow
! ers. About ten thousand people Assem-.
bled outside of the brewery aud eel
b. about smashing windows, breaking open
Z doors and throwing machinery, barrels
! furniture and everything they could lay
s their hands on into tive Danube. The
: riot did not subside until the proprietor
2 Of the establishment decls red their VI u