Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
LEDGER LINES.

Il AAeeSAO ~ApJ ANA4 ~ 1850
California pears have become favor
its fruit with all Memphians.
The General Council stands adjourned
over to next Monday afternoon.
Running the city government last
month cost the people 81, 1874 Is.
Large quantities of new goods for the
fall trade are received by the merchants
daily.
James Cleary has been selected by the
Council as captain of the No. 3 fire
engine company.
The polls will be open in the different
wards Of the city until pm. today,
and in the county precincts until 8 I'm.
The patrolman walks his weary round;
he is out of business, the city in crimi-
nal point of view being the quietest on
the continent.
The streets are not to be improved
with stone and gravel. A wooden pave
ment can only be repaired with wood
so'say the civil engineers.
Walk Up and vote for delegates to
both the Congressional and County Con-
ventions SO that the best men for the
offices will be nominated.
Esquire NJ. Holts, who has been dan
gerously i'll for several weeks, is now
rapidly recovering, and will be able to
attend to business in few days.
The general freight agents Of numer'
GUS railways meet at the Peabody to-day
for the purpose of fixing up cotton rates
for shipping to the North and East.
Trask, the river reporter of the Ava
lanche, has returned from gathering
shells by the sea-shore, and has gone to
work gathering items by the shores of
the Mississippi and Wolf river
Dr. Churchill was bitten by dog last
night, on the sidewalk, on fernando
street. 1t is hoped that he will appoint
that dogs funeral at nine o'clock to-
night, and that the corpse will be ready.
Quite large misdemeanor docket oc-
cupied the attention of the Recorder this
forenoon. The unfortunates who were
drunk and disorderly had to put up
FIVE or ten as contribution to the city
treasury.
The City Treasury has an actual cash
balance of $l3O7 35. Balance of inter
est account on hand $7s,6l8 Is. Bal.
ance of Happy Hollow fund on hand,
1866 so. Total balance in hands of
City Treasurer, SS3,592 60.
Memphis had twenty.three fires last
month. Total loss, $l46,2 25; insurance,
1927, 900. Incendiaries caused seven
teen of these fires. So says the Chief
of the Fire Department, whose business
it is to investigate the matter.
Next Tuesday the delegates will give
us a Congressman at the Bolivar Con-
vention, and on Tuesday week the other
delegates will meet at the Exposition
Building and present us with lot OF
State Senators and Representatives.
Mayor League cut the Gordian knot
about the muddle as to captain of the
No. 4 engine company by abandoning
his favorite appointee and ignoring the
Council favorite. On the fifth ballot
Yesterday at the Council meeting, Tim
Foley, good fireman, received the nom
ination as captain.
Mr.. A. G. Kirnan, at 27O Washington
street, has peach tree full of the finest
fruit in this county. A specimen peach
measured ten and three-quarter inches
in circumference, and weighed ten
ounces. This would be the finest fruit
country in the world if it received
proper attention and cultivation.
The Board of Aldermen passed an
ordinance on its final reading that the
wharfage collected be exclusively used
for the repairs of the landing instead Of
throwing such tax into the general city
fund, as has heretofore been the custom
Before the ordinance becomes law the
Council will have to take vote upon it
The Irish Literary Association meet;
this evening at their hall on Poplar
street. near Main, after an adjournment
through the hot months. The active
members are expected to be present
and any one not member feeling al
interest in the proceedings is welcome
to attend this or any Thursday evening
A desperate negro named Bill Robin
son cut Eliza Lewis with knife, on the
corner of Second and Gayoso streets, OF
Monday night. The girl was carried
home severely wounded, and last nigh
Robinson visited her house and threat
ened to kill her as she lay in bed. Th'
police should hunt up this notorious
desperate
A. a neeting of the Cotton Exchanq,