Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-05
LEDGER LINES.
Hearts are Trumps at the thsater to.

ing.
The General Council will meet again
tomorrow evening.
Carl Schlick has been appointed su.
perintendent Of the county poor-house.
Next Tuesday week, Mardi Gras. Get
your costumes ready for the great car
nival. ' Hra ia
Duprez & Benedict's Ministries at the
Greenlaw Opera House next Monday
evening.
There we're eight fires in this city dur
ing the past month; loss, $1,000; insu-
rance, $4,000.
William Cousins. ledger, died at the
Adams street station.housc last night
from natural causes. "
The Chapman Sisters and their comic
opera troupe at the Memphis Theater
next Monday evening
Two fires last night kept the fireboys
busy. The incendiary is swinging his
torch rather freely at present.
The Bluff City Shooting Club will
give a pigeon shooting match at the
Trotting Park on Tuesday, the 10th inst
Garroters are putting in their work in
the suburbs. Belated citizens sheuld
keep sharp look out for these birds of
prey.
Mayor League recommends the abol-
ishment of the merchants privilege tax
and favorS reduction of wharfage
rates.
No person was nominated for the
Office of Chief of Police by the Mayor
last night. This surprised many, as the
nomination was generally expected.
The motion in the First Circuit Court
against Woodward, County Trustee, and
Messrs. Folwell and Busby. his sureties,
will come up for hearing tomorrow.
John McCarty, the man who set fire to
the Louisville railroad workshops, has
escaped to Arkansas; he has gone over
the river, TO rest beneath the shade of
the trees.
Ex-City Attorney w. M. Randolph
will go to Washington to attend to the
Nicolson pavement suit of Brown & Co.
against the city. The city owes Brown
& Co. 100000; yet Browns judgment is
$4,000.
Mayor Leagues message on city and
sanitary affairs meets with the approba-
ton of all classes of citizens. The
Mayors motto is, No issuing of more
bonds, no Increase of city Indebtedness;
let us sop and pay
The total Indebtedness of the city of
Memphis, bonded and floating, is $4,-
58s,0Sl SO. and the total available
assets 81 ,54S8l3 %, which leaves net
Indebtedness Of over .hree millions and
nothing to pay it with.
The Mayor in his message favors the
establishment of house of correction
for Juvenile criminals, and insists that
no gifts or presents of any kind, under
any pretence, shall be received by any
official Of this city.
Several candidates for county Offices
at the August elections are looming up.
Already one hundred citizens have their
eyes on some official position. AS a
general rule these aspirants are not en-
gagged in any business except Office
seeking.
The contested election case of Frank
Brannen ct al. VS.. Tom Garvey, for the
constableship of the Fifth Civil District,
will be heard by the Quorum Court to-
morrow at ten o'clock. All witnesses
summoned must be in attendance or
attachments against them will be issued.
The circusmen pulled up stakes last
night and fed to the rural districts of
Arkansas. Early this morning the
bluff was crowded with searchers after
lost nickels, etc. These industrious
seekers, armed with sticks, turned over
every particle of earth on the surface as
they searched for the treasure-trove.
The Register continues to butt its
brains out fitting at Mardi-Gras. IT.
compares itself to Ivanhoe in the lists of
Ashly de la Jouche, when it more
closely resembles Don Quixotte, who
charged wind-mills, believing them to be
gorgons dire Should any of our Reg
lister friends get abducted or lost during
the Mardi Gras festival, we will take the
contract to find them within six hours.
Court clerks, deputy sherifs, consta-
bles and magistrates we're busy last
evening issuing attachments for striking
employees against the circus company.
At last the employees and circus proprie-
tors fixed up their little differences and
went of like happy family, leaving
the officials out of their costs, as all the
attachments we're sworn on in .forma
pauperis.
Rice Birds ON Toast.
A rural gentleman entered Gaston's
this morning and called for rice birds on