Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-12
G LINES.

Marble Heart matinee at the theater
tomorrow.
The General Council stands adjourned
until next Tuesday evening.
Tonight Barrett will appear as /" Shy
lock in the Merchant of Venice.
Retail liquor dealers will be allowed
to pay their privilege tax quarterly to
the city.
The courthouse is now thoroughly
heated, the contractor, Phil Mallon, hay
ing put up the heaters, etc.
Lawrence Barrett will remain another
week at the theater. Then ONE Joe
Emmett, who will appear as Fritz"
In the absence of the necessary wood.
pile, negroes have Torn up the plank
crossings in many portions of the city.
In the Recorders Court this morning
Henry Ragan was committed on the
charge of larceny in default of $4,000
bail.
Business has improved throughout the
city since Mardi Gras. The thousands
of dollars left here by visitors are stilIin
circulation.
The authorities are still hard at work
digging beneath the debris of the ex.
press robbery in search Of the criminals,
who as yet are not arrested.
There will be a meeting of the work.
ingmen held at the City Hall tomorrow
night for the purpose of considering the
proposed amendments to the city charter.
The Water.works Company being pc.
cuniarily embarrassed, Mayor League
has asked the General Council to pay
the Company something on account.
The Mayors message vas referred to
the proper committee.
Henry Aston, sexton of a negro
church, being removed from his office,
refused to surrender his official badge
and resisted the congregation, in which
unchristian proceeding he was aided by
his wife. To-day Aston and wife we're
fined by the Recorder.
Police Chief Athy has received a dis.
patch fem Holly Springs stating that a
negro named Isaac Adkins has been ar
rested, having in possession a black
mare mule, four years old, fourteen
hands high, which mule is believed to
have been stolen from this city or neigh
borhood.
Piper Heidsick is the f~avorite cham
payne brand with Memphians. During
the year 1874 l53,Os2 dozen bottles of
champagne were imported at New York
and Boston, the brand Of Mumm & Co.
leading with 36,663 dozen bottles and
Piper Heidsick following with 35, 500
dozen bottles.
The black boards of the Cotton Ex.
change show the following figures to-day:
Receipts for the week, 1919 bales Largest
Of the season. receipts since September
lst, 267 ,587; shipments for the week,
8639, and for the season, 2O4, O44; stock
on hand to-day, 1884. Despite the
Intervention Of a holiday the sales for
the week were 1850, of which 400
we're taken by exporters.
In consequence Of the great financial
skill of our present Mayor, the city is
becoming bankrupt rapidly. When his
term of Office expires in January next
the city will be in . fair way to be handed
over to . receiver, and yet the present
Mayor expects TO sail into a second tern
up the Andy johnson chute, Just as sew.
eral others do, who are DESTROYS Of serv.
ing their country by running for office.
A we'll known cotton man, Mr.. Null
ford, while examining his samples per.
! "a the ashes from bis cigar to drop
on the sample table, IN an instant the
samples were in a blaze, and in endeavoT.
ing to ~extinguish the flames Mr.. milford
had his mustache singed of, and also
lost q portion Of his hRir. The FIRE
was extinguishsd without the aid Of the
fire steamers, which we're promptly on
the ground.
The city IS being pasted over with
mandamuses by those who hold past due
bonds, which the Mayor repudiates. The
maudamuses will compel the city to pay
the amount Of the bonds from the Sink
ing Fund provided for that purpose; but
the Sinking Fund under the instructions
of the General Council has been used in
purchasing bonds not yet due, in viola
ton of the plain provisions Of the city
Il