Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-22

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are sought to be heldSprt 'ne
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and County Tax Collector gar entJ
The Nashville Union and HeS tbe.o' 70
yesterday says; Frank MolM Com.
the Maxwell House dining-room oraaal
was arrested last evening on the cha, =
of larceny, committed in Memphis, AMI
was held to await instructions from that
city"
The Hook and Ladder company, under
Captain Haley, consists Of but FIVE men,
when seven men, with captain, constitute
a full ladder train; but retrenchment
calls for a cutting down Of the force at
present in the opinion of the Fire Com.
missioners.
A lot of vagrant negroes held an
emigration convention at Nashville yes.
terday, and passed resolutions threaten
ing TO emigrate from the State. Let
them stand not on the order Of their
going but 60 at once, and Tennessee
vii be better off in consequence.
Hon. W. H. Turley, State Senator
ON the Knoxville district, is at the
Peabody en- route to his plantation in
Bolivar county, Miss. BE has t'most
recovered from the severe wound he r,
ceived down there last fan while deer
hunting, but still walks Y .th a cane.
Mr.. white, one of the evangelists,
during the war served as a captain in
General Smiths (FederaD army corps,
but he is said to have been We. friendly
aud kind to the Southern people who
were burned out and plundered during
the unpleasantness-s say the Nash, lie
journals.
The water works sale has ended in a
muddle which has produced a prolific
crop of injunctions at the instigation
Of rival bond-holders and would-be
owners Of Wolf river water. Memphis
s not especially interested in the fight
as the water-works have SO far proven a
%lamentable failure in every respect.
"A few days since a blood-thirsty nes.o
drew a pistol and threatened to kill Mr..
James Jones on Jones avenue. Yester-
day morning Mr.. Jones hearing of the
threats made by the negro, fred a few
shots at the black rascal, who, however,
escaped uninjured and left the neighbor.
hood for a more healthy locality.
Dan Cornelius (negro), who stabbed a
black brother, 0ctavius Waldron, in
Arkansas q few days since and who was
arrested in this city yesterday, will leave
for Crittenden county, Arkansas, this
| afternoon in company of the Sheriff Of
said county, who came over this morn
ing for the purpose Of acting as escort
to the prisoner.
Rev. DR.. CASTOR proposes to gather up
the accounts of the proceedings of the
Meeklenburg Centennial celebration at
Memphis, together with all facts relating
thereto, and enclose the samei in a sealed
tin box, which is to be deposited in the
safe of the County Court, with a request
that such be opened by our g.eat, great
grandchildren, or what is known as pos
terity, in the year 1875.
Under the present city charter, which
IS in force, Aldermen and Councilmen
are not entitled to pay, yet a motion
made by a Councilman not to pay such
salaries was voted down at the meeting
yesterday, which would look as if the
boys intended collecting pay in violation
of the charter. Asthe City Fathers have
cut down the salaries of all other per-
sons, they should take q dose Of mo pay"
cheerfully.
There are several gentlemen in the
General Council who should rent a hall,
as they seem determined to talk their
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to death. We know
OF a few in each Board who bore every
body by rising and speaking on every
motion, resolution and ordinance. They
generally talk nonsense, but they labor
under the dsluSion that they are great
men, orators, sages, lawmakers, while
their fellog-Aldermen and CounciImen,
reporters and spectators know them to
be asses.
The new city scrip, for the redemption
of which a special collection is pledged
to be honestly appropriated, aud which
scrip is 70 be paid out to the police. fire.