Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-08
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City Attorney Hanson asks for legal
assistance in defending suits against the
city before the Supreme Court at Wash
ington. The Mayors coupon policy will
involve the city in numberless suits and
the costs Of court. Attorneys fees and
incidental expenses will be tremendous.
The Texas editors will be taken charge
of on Sunday next by Chamber OF
Commerce committee, consisting OF
Messrs. Rambaut, Boyle, Mathes, Hunt,
Busby, Higbee and Lacey They will
be shown the different churches and
other places Of interest.
The funeral Of Mrs. John E. Smither
who died at Mount Adams on Wednes-
day last, will take place this afternoon
at four clock at Elmwood Cemetery.
The friends of the family Of Captain
William Ashford and the deceased are
respectfully invited to attend.
When Letters from the People" are
published it would be well to append the
names to the communications, so that
the public can judge what people do the
scribbling and what Importance should
be given 10 the advice so gratuito1sly
rendered.
Oratory has again burst loose in the
General Council, and many efforts
worthy of the days of Fox, Burke, Sheri-
dan and Pitt are unfortunately con-
densed and suppressed into 6ve-line
paragraphs by the morning journals,
whose reporters do not seem to have
weakness for oratorical plunges.
The approaching Hebrew New Year
will begin on the evening of Friday
next, September 18th. 1t is observed as
festival, and in the synagogues the
services, the music and chanting, all
partake Of joyful tone. Ten days
afterward, on the evening of Monday,
the 2lst, the Day Of Atonement com
mences, time of solemn religious OBJ
servance, fasting and prayer for forgive
ness Of sins.
The Ku.Kluxing negroes who plum
dered, outraged and robbed the family
of Mr.. Durant, on the Pigeon Roost
road, yesterday morning, must be appre
hended and punished. The robbers re-
side around Central Point, that locality
so noted for its lawless negro popula-
ton. Let our police authorities 60 to
work vigorously in this matter or else
life and property in the suburbs will be
at the mercy Of this organized gang of
house-breakers and plunderers.
The new Criminal Courtroom at the
0vertonis large and commodious room,
with nine large windows, three doors
and large ventilator extending to the
top of the building. 1t being on the
ground floor with approaches opening
from Main street, Center Place and City
Hall alley, and being furnished with every
convenience, such as water. closets, clerks
and sheriffs Offices, judges chambers,
Attorney Generals office, prisoners cell,
ETC., it is the best and most convenient
Courtroom that has ever been in Mem
phis. The one now used on the corner
of Second and Jefferson reminds us Of
the saying of some old wit-"you have to
go upstairs to find yourself in dark
and dismal cellar, full of the ioulest
stenches.
A cotton dray ring propose to haul
all the cotton from the Charleston rail
road, but the merchants have determined
not to permit this ring to control the
cotton consigned to them. The Cham
Der of Commerce yesterday passed the
following resolution: Resolved, That
a committee of FIVE be appointed by the
Chamber to confer with the various rail-
roads centering in this city on the sub
ject of the delivery of cotton to the
consignees of said cotton, SO that every
consignee may elect his own drayman
and receive the cotton at the depot as
formerly, and report at called meet
ing" Messrs. D. P Hidden, N. Hill,
]. ]. Busby, W. W. Guy, W. P. Proudft
and Wexford & Keel we're appointed
to carry the resolution into effect.