Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-14
LEDGER LINES.

Inc SALARIES OF city oncers nave Deen
reduced by the committee $1,000 per
annum.
The General Council will not meet
again until called to assemble by the
Mayor.
No deadly derringers were produced
at the General Council meeting last
evening.
Pips" O'Byrne will give readings and
recitations at the Assembly Hall to-
morrow evening.
H. N. Rankin (colored), was appoint
ed a Notary Public by the Quarterly
Court yesterday.
Over one hundred destitute persons
apply for lodging at the Adams street
stationhouse nightly.
The General Council cut down sala-
ries last night, but raised the pay of the
street laborer to So so per day.
Judge Halsey has dissolved the in
junction granted to Paul Cicala against
e. 4. Clarke, ct al. This leaves ex.
Alderman Cicalla out in the cold.
The Appeal reporter, who had shirt
ruined with ink during the Aldermanic
fight, on Monday nights disconsolate, as
he did not have thousand of such gar
ments.
At the Annual Convention of the Dis
trict Grand Lodge No. I, Independent
Order b Mai Birth, held in Vicksburg,
Miss, last week, the annual address was
delivered by Grand Nasi Alb. A. E.
FARMLAND, of this city.
Attorney. General Wright has certified
as to the correctness of the books, &C.
counts, vouchers, receipts and records
in the office of P. d. Boyle of the Sec
ond, and in the Office of Ben Coleman of
First, Circuit Courts.
The mission of the Redemptionist
Fathers, progressing at st. Patrick's
Church, will close next Saturday. The
mission has been very successful, and
the church has been crowded to excess
during the services.
1t was ordered last evening that the
members of the Common Council should
be inclosed with wooden rail- ng so as
to seperate the elect from the multitude.
Electioneering and button-holing is be-
coming too lively for our City Fathers.
1t is rumored that Col Randolph, the
present incumbent, has withdrawn from
the. contest for the City Attorneyship.
This will cause new flank movement
or swing around the circle, on the part
of other candidates. The books are still
open for applicants.
There was no fight in the Aldermanic
Board last night. The belligerents have
cooled down, and those who were full of
war talk have become as peaceful as
turtle doves. Aldermanic citizens should
be respectful and parliamentary toward
each other in debate.
Complaint has been made by respon-
sible parties that reserved seats at the
theater are sold over and over again.
This system will ruin the theater if con-
tinued. The mistakes do not occur at
the theater box Office, but at the up town
Office, which will be remedied.
On the LIST of January, election day,
city bonds (sixes) with January coupons
attached, were worth Al cents; now they
are selling at from 43 to 45 cents. So
much for the confidence felt in the
League administration by bankers and
capitalists. City securities are bound to
go up.
The stockholders of the German Ma
tional Bank have elected the following
Board of Directors E. T. Keel, Louis
Hansuer, r. S. JONES' j. C. Nicely, j. j.
Jenny, V. BaciGalupo, A. L. Harris, G.
l.. Dennison, II. II. Mette, d. P. Had
den, II. T. Garth j. N. Oliver, NJ. L.
Meacham.
Myra Day died of consumption at
noon yesterday. About four years ago
she acquired unenviable notoriety by
shooting dead in his tracks a river pilot
named Banks in a store on Main street.
Since that time she has been suffering
from the fatal disease which caused her
death yesterday.
The following named persons were
yesterday elected Directors for the
Fourth National Bank of Memphis to
serve the present year Thomas H. Mil
burn, James T. Petit, W. B. Galbraith,
W. Y. Cirode, E. Orquhart Philip Tug
gle, John D. Milburn, George Robertson,
and W. Il. Moore.
In the Mayors Office there is a fine
drawing of the great Sphinx, which can
be found near the site of old Memphis,
in Egypt. The old Memphis Sphinx is
not more uncommunicative to Office
seekers than our own mayoralty Sphinx.
They both keep their own counsel, which
is the wiscst plan after all.
A committee, consisting Of Messrs.
h. G. Smith, Minor Meriwether, NJ D.
L. Stewart. X. ]. B. L. Wynn, H. C.
Young aud Justices Wallace, Winters
and Holman, has been appointed by the
Quarterly Court to confer with and If
possible arrange the existing differences