Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-13
LEDGER LINES.

Disorderly dance-houses are to be sup
pressed.
The General Council adjourned sine
die yesterday.
The cool weather is delightful after
that torrid snap.
Fresh eggs are not to be found every
where at present.
The big red whariboatis to be removed
to the foot of Jefferson street.
The mercury in the thermometer is
down among the seventies to-day.
Thursday next fremen's parade, and
at night picnic at the Exposition
Building.
The Tennessee Press Association will
excurt on the bosom of the Mississippi
this afternoon.
Mayor League does not favor the
Bartlett movement, but still hangs on to
the negroized party.
The arrival of bouquet in the LEDGER
office diffused fragrance and inspiration
all around yesterday.
The Tennessee editors poemed,
lunched, GRATED and swung palm leaf
fans yesterday at Brownsville.
A few white Councilmen we're heard
voting with the negro, or city government
party, in the Council yesterday.
Mayor League held court at the Re-
corder's matinee to-day. The Mayor
looked like judge of municipal law.
Recorder Winters asserts that he is
opposed to the civil rights bill or negro
equality. He has not declared for Bart
lett as yet.
Next Thursday week, the 18th instant,
the election for delegates to the Bartlett
Convention will be held throughout the
city and county.
The members of the Tennessee State
Press Association reached the city this
morning, and wandered around seeing
the sights, or as travellers haveit, " doing
the city"
The horse and hose in Chelsea will be
turned over to Chief McFadden. What
Is to be done with the "colored ap-
planes has not as yet been announced
by any one.
The orator of the Common Council is
q negro, who rises on every motion and
question to wag his everlasting jaw.
The negro element in the Council is a
talking nuisance.
Many combination chaps are gazing
wistfully at the Bartlett doors, and are
gravely considering whether or not to
walk in. All are invited, but there are
no reserved seats.
Kane, the new city scavenger, will
take pleasure in removing all dead ami
mails from the streets and alleys. Leave
notices of such nuisances at the Adams
street station.house for the scavengers.
Near Cuba, Tennessee, cotton is knee
high and fnll of squares. Corn is as high
as your head and many planters are
grass. The crops never looked
better or more promising in that section
of our county than at present.
There is a perfect bedlam of barking
and hoYling dogs around the city nightly.
The chorus and refrain is taken up and
carried from the Fort Pickering mound
along the Bayou Gayoso to Wolf river,
from Wolf to Hopefeld, and around
again to the mound.
City Attorney Hanson has been called
On by the Council to furnish an elabor-
ate opinion as to the liabilities of the
city on the bond question, the opinion
to state specific facts, decisions and
authorities which sustain the Mayors
action-if such authorities exist.
The resolution offered by Councilman
Barinds to pay Wharfmaster Shaw $4,000
per annum, and he to pay his own clerk,
was voted down by the Council. The
per centage under the
new schedule of wharfage rates is suffi-
Gent; yes, more than sufficient.
Two families of kittens made their
appearance in the Adams street station
house. The maternal ancestors are do
ing as well as could BE expected under
The circumstances. The only objection
10 having cats in the station.house is
that they may scratch out some dark
night.
1t was by the efficiency Of Special
Agent Major NJ. LaRue Harrison that
R. B. Goshorn, late postmaster at Dyers-
burg, Tennessee, was detected, convicted
Of embezzlement and sentenced to the
penitentiary for twelve months, and not
through the agency Of L. S. Knowlton,
as stated yesterday in the LEDGER.
The payment of the expenses of the
of the city rendered to Andy