Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-13
LEDGER LINES.

Ex-President Andrew johnson IS at
the Peabody.
Nothing startling in police or courts
OF record to-day.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis is in
London, England.
The Baxterians and Brooksites call
each other rebels.
The city has one hundred and forty
htigated cases on hand.
Prayers for lamp posts float into the
General Council in large humbers.
The General Council stands adjourned
to three o'clock next Friday afternoon.
Masquerade ball managers will here
after be compelled to take out SIS
license.
Everybody will go to hear Andy John
son make speech on national and State
questions.
Strawberry festivals are coming in
vogue, and the picnic season has opened
cheerfully.
St. Peters Sunday school picnic at
James Park yesterday was fully enjoyed
by the children.
City Treasurer Martin Kelly has been
granted time by the General Council to
visit his native land.
Appropriate resolutions with reference
to the late Aldermanic President q. s..
Lee we're adopted by the Board yester-
day
Mr.. Jesse K Brown, member Of the
Legislature and President Of the Colyar
convention at Nashville, has returned to
the city.
The Mayor end General Council
waited on Andrew johnson in q body
yesterday and presented resolution Of
respect.
The song Of the Baxterites is Net
for Joe The only map in Arkansas
fit to be Governors General King White,
who ia doing all the fighting
This evening or tomorrow Sheriff
Doyle viii leave for Nashville with
a batch Of conyicts sent up during
the present term Of the Criminal Court.
Mr.. Sim Barinds has been appointed
Recorders Court Clerk, vice Mr.. Me-
Keogh resigned, the latter gentleman
intending to reopen his hotel at Raleigh
this spring.
Mayor League messaged the General
Council yesterday on taxation. The
Mayor covered the ground as to the
Indebtedness Of the city and its duties in
the premises,
The charter members OF the new lodge
OF knights Of Pythias will assemble at
their castle hall, on the corner Of Sec
ond and Adams, this Wednesday even
ing at u o'clock.
]. A. Haggerty has sued the Paducah
railroad in the First Circuit Court for
$3.50 damages on account of losing
two fingers of the rights nd in recent
accident on that road.
Children are permitted to rush after
and hang on street cars on many of the
streets. This custom viii result in hav-
ing one or more of the juveniles run
over and killed ere long.
The convocation of the Grand Com
mandery Of knights Templar will meet
at jackson, Tenn, to morrow. a crowd
of Sir Knights will leave this city for
Jackson this afternoon.
The next rate Of taxation will proba-
bly, be: General tax, 81 on the hundred
dollars; interest, 25c T. E. Brown man
damus, soc; city schools, SOC; Missis-
sissippi River railroad, 4c; sinking fund,
lc. Total tax, 81 30.
Marriages are becoming popular now
that the spring season has opened. All
nature marries in spring: the animal
and vegetable Kingdoms, and even the
mineral kingdom, according to some Gu
rious and quaint philosophers.
The dead body of man found float
ing in Wolf river, near the Paducah
railroad bridge, was inquested by JUS
tice Hoist last evening. The body was
too much decomposed to be recognized.
The jury returned a verdict of death
from unknown causes.
There will be meeting Of the patrons
and pupils of Professor Mueller held
next Thursday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
at the Memphis Club Hall. A number
of ladies are getting up the meeting, but
for what purpose will remain undis-
closed until the meeting assemblies.
The debt Of Tennessee is $25, 900, 900,
or SIPS for every voter in the State, the
voting population being estimated at
about 100000. Let every patriotic fran