Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-05
LEDGER LINES.

day.
MacEyoy's Hibernicon at the Assembly
Hall tonight.
The General Council win meet again on to-
morrow evening.
Nineteen fires last month; total loss, $751;,
$40; insurance, $3.50.
Scion Single and the Poor Gentleman at
the theater tomorrow evening.
Owens will appear as - Caleb Plummer, the
Old Toy Maker" at the theater tonight.
Alderman cicalla did not represent the
Sixth ward in the Aldermanic Board last
night.
The chronic motion of the General Council
is to move to refer to some committee or to
adjourn.
Market hours from four am. to ten am. on
week days, and from two pm. to eight pm.
on Saturdays hereafter.
Nothing of public interest occurred in the
courts to-dayi even the Recorders Court was
dull and uninterestihg to item-snatchers.
A semi-colored jury has been impaneled in
the Criminal Court to try a murder case
wherein the party charged is q colored man.
Officer Tim Hope last night arrested a negro
convict named George Parren. who escaped
from the Nashville penitentiary few months
since.
The subject Of cause and prevention CT
boiler explosions will be discussed at a
meeting of engineers and mechanics at the
Odd Fellows Hall tonight.
This morning Judge Halsey. of the Second
Circuit Court. ordered Deputy Sheriff Dashiel
to hold up the Cicalla mandamus on the Al
dermanic Board until Saturday.
The Criminal Court jury in the case of Mrs.
Della Gilmore, who was charged with chop
ping her husbands head with an ak, having
failed to agree we're discharged by Judge
Flippin last evening.
The election of directors for the Selma rail-
road is progressing to-day. An effort was
made yesterday to prevent Shelby county
from voting the amount of unpaid stock. three
hundred thousand dollars.
The General Council has to wrestle with
many important questions. such as the social
evil, sanitary matters. obstructing sidewalks
with fruit stands. repairing Nicolson pave
ment, and Circuit Court mandamuses.
The Board of Health was abolished Dec.
10, 1873, and as yet no board has taken its
place. Let there be a Board of Health ere
ated Immediately; it is of more importance
to Memphis than is the city government.
In the case of the Tennessee National Bank
VS.. Joseph Tagg, on trial for several days be-
fore the First Circuit Court, on a note for
$1,000, the Jury returned verdict for the de-
PENDANT. The defense was-no consideration.
The 18th Of June next will be the two hun
bred and first anniversary of the discovery of
the Mississippi by Marquette. the priest, and
Joliet, the merchant, both of whom, in bark
canoe, embarked on the river on the 18th of
June, 1913.
The Avalanche was selected as city printer
by the General Council last evening, the bid
Of that journal being lower than that of the
LEDGER. Our congratulations are rendered
to our able and worthy contemporary on be-
coming the official organ.
Amonth's casual acquaintance and a street
banter to marry brought about a wedding
ceremony in this city few days since in one
of our fashionable churches. Love is pro-
found mystery, and crops out like coal
formation. wien and where least expected.
The Alderman of the Fifth ward offered a
resolution in the Board last night to instruct
the Chief of Police to designate the citizens
of African descent when arrested as "Ameri-
cans (" instead of Africans" There was no
second, SO the colored people will be consid-
cred Africans instead Of Americans for some
time to come. Why so sensitive as to color?
The Mayor swung in three vetoes on the
Board last night. viz refusing to approve an
action of the Board in reinstating City Inspec-
tor Barinds; refusing to approve the resolu-
ton instructing the Chief of the Fire Depart
ment to retain the present force refusing to
approve accounts from the Board of Health.
which Board ceased to exist December 10th.
1873.
Clean up the streets and alleys. Not less
than one-half. and in many portions four
fiths, Of the prevailing diseases are either di-
rectly caused or seriously aggravated by the
malign influences resulting from insufficient
drainage and the filthy condition of a city
This is the opinion of the most learned physi-
clans and scientific men. Memphis cannot
afford to go through another such a year Of
calamity as was the last.