Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-04


The stockholders of the Selma rail.
road are holding a convention in the city
at present.
We know a very interesting dog story
which would interest a we'll known rail.
road official.
There will be an essay on the "emo.
tons" read at the Irish Literary Society
this evening.
The Can'Can excitement is over, the
Ida Cerito troupe of female minstrels
having left town.
In the First, Second, Third and Eighth
wards an election of a constable is pro-
crossing to-day.
The moguls Of the city, yclept the
General Council, met last night and dis
cussed city affairs,
The number of fires occurring in the
city during the past month we're seven;
total loss, $$S5OO; insurance, $2l, 900.
The General Council will petition the
General Assembly to give their permis-
sion to donate a site for a United States
Custom-house.
1t would not be an easy matter to dis
pose OF any lottery tickets in Memphis.
since no Memphian secured his bonanza
in the Louisville library swindle.
Yesterday the directors of the Little
Rock railroad elected W. B. Greenlaw
President, Hugh L. Brinkley Vice Pres
ident, and John Darden Secretary and
Treasurer.
The School Board has prepared a
memorial to the Legislature against the
bill limiting the taxation for school
purposes to ten dollars per pupil actu.
ally attending school.
That unfortunate founding who was
abandoned by'two vile white men in an
old field on the Pigeon ROost road some
days since, has been adopted by Henry
Gutenberg, a cabinet maker on Wash.
ington street.
Our morning contemporaries have
adopted the new style of writing up an
affair by publishing it in the form of an
interview or q coloquy between the re.
porter and the interviewed. This is after
the style Of Plato's Dialogues or Alex.
ander Stephens War Between the States.
When the civil rights patient was
diagnosed by the Recorder this morning
he prescribed a ten dollar fine as a suit.
able remedy for the new complaint. The
prosecuting attorney lowed that no
one, either white or black, ought to enter
a theater or church without good clothes
and tickets.
The Little Rock Republican of the I'd
says; The Sheriff OF johnson county
will be in Memphis in a day or two, and
will take charge of Brodowsky, the
pasSer Of counterfeit gold COIN" The
Sheriff did not come, and the prisoner
not being held here with a warrant, has
been set at liberty.
1t is charged that several employees of
the city do no duty but receive pay. In
the Council last night it appeared that
Foley, foreman of the street force, and
Barren, carpenter, did no duty, yet their
names appear on the pay roll in the
City Engineers report. Gentlemen, let
us have no sinecure positions, if you
please.
Nobody was shocked by the Cane
exhibited at the Opera House, because
those who attended had long since
passed the shocking point. 1t is anus
ing to hear a man denounce the vulgar
lily of the Can.Can dances when he
remained during the entire performance
and nearly wore his eyes out staring
an opera glass.
Several days since the LEDGER warned
people of Memphis that we had l
lnsolent and rufianly negroes in our {
who would attempt to intrude
upon the white people under the protec.
lion Of the civil rights bill. The affair
the Memphis Theater last night proves
,onclusively that the issue must be met
avoided in some manner.
The bull and mule drivers who charge
IN horseback up and down street crack .
ng whips and endangering the lives of =
pedestrians should be arrested. Ladies .
md children are in danger of being run )
daily by droves of wild mules which :
ire goaded into a gallop by the drivers. !
The nuisance is not permitted in any :,
civilized city except Memphis. .
Instead of rushing into print and de. !
lying the charge for himself, Superin. :,
endent Ross Of the Charleston railroad .
hould have Investigated the charge and :
made known to the public through the :,
what official of that great cor. !
did refuse the tickets of the =
Jlks unless compensation was allowed. =
This would be business and not bun. :,
iombe. Toe the mark, Mr.. Superin. +
endent. :
Joseph Mccoy, colored, having mas.
cred the Italian language in six weeks, .
'hile in the employ Of John Bacigalupo, .
IN the boulevard, performing the funo.