Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
LEDGER LINES.


day.
Colonel H. King White, Of Arkansas,
is in the city.
Burglars continue to prowl around in
search Of plumber.
Ten fires last month. Total loss,
$1,000, fully insured.
The Italian society of Memphis will
elect officers tonight.
The river is sixteen feet above low
water mark and still rising.
Rip Van Wrinkle will be the attraction
at the tbeater again tonight,
The total number of arrests made by
the police last month we're $40.
Skating is the principal amusement
OF the male juveniles at present.
The big Mardi.Gr posters are out.
Prepare for the 9th Of February.
Several hundred people took reserved
seats on the sidewalks this morning.
Nothing Of interest at the courts Of
record or at the Recorders Court to.
day.
The city is guarded by a police force
OF sixty.four patrolmeu. three detectives
and fourteen officers.
Calvary church was crowded last
night on the occasion Of the children's
festival OF the Epiphany.
The streets we're covered with a sheet
of ice this morning. Many a ward poll.
tician will slip up" before night.
P. II. Winters, NJ. A. Williamson and
d. A. HawelI petitiened the Quarterly
Court yesterday for certificates to prac.
tice law.
The General Council met last night,
received the reports Of the city officials,
and then adjourned until tomorrow
friday night.
In August last Radicalism in Memphis
was crippled. in November it was killed,
and to-day the putrid body was kicked
aside by the Conservative people Of the
city.
AT the polls to-day there is big work
being done, and the Conservative ticket
will be triumphant in nearly all the
wards. Those who have not voted as
yet should do so this afternoon.
The Little Rock journals now make
local paragraphs Of each arrival Of a
train from Memphis. The committee Of
the Legislature are investigating the
condition Of the NJ. h L. R. r. R.
What has become of that report of the
committee Of the Peoples Protective
Union on.city affairs. The report Of the
committee has never yet seen daylight.
Let it be published for the benefit Of the
Taxpayers.
Now that the city election is about
over we will no longer have the pleasure
Of writing up ward persons and things,
and no longer will the announcements OF
candidates greet the eye Of the public.
What next?
Yesterday Representative Peters Of
Shelby introduced a bill before the Leg
islature to tax the losing party with jury
fees in civil cases, and Representative
Finlay introduced a bill to regulate
trials by jury.
Yesterday detective Cranmer found a
lot Of gentleman's and ladies' wearing
apparel in a backyard in North Mem.
phis, which had been stolen by a negro
servant from The premises of VIM
Bender, in South Memphis.
There was a jolly good feeling among
the cotton men on Change to day,
caused by an advance Of one zen per
pound during the week, which advance
was caused by The light receipts and an
advance in the Liverpool market.
BY dispensing with those fgure-heads,
known - the principals of public
schools, and by making the Superintend.
ent act as Secretary and do the little
duty now performed by the principals,
the taxpayers will ave about eleven
thousand dollars per year.
The Appeal Of yesterday truly said
that the City Hall is not an asylum for
the lazy and the indolent, nor is the city
treasury a common fuId out of which
cheeky idlers and political sagrants are
to steal a living" This is the hardest
blow the City Hall clique has ever
received.
Sidewalks in Memphis, ike street cars,
were Invented for the exclusive benefit
Of tie women. When the fair creatures
ride they occupy all the seats, and when
they walk they occupy all the bricks;
.ut, as q stranger remarked the other
lay, u see very clearly that the women
rule Memphis"
r'ss motto Of retrenchment and re-
orm.u announced by the LEDGER, has
,eep taken by many Of the candidates
or Aldermen, Corncilmen and School
Visitors, and has beed fashioned into a
platform, whicS, it stuck to,
will save the city from bankruptcy and
,ur public schools from destruction.
The two reports Of the public schools
investigating committees we're generally
.aod vaeferdav and for point. nth and