Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-20
LEDGER LINES.

Fourteen misdemeanor cases occupied
the attention of the Recorder this morn
ing.
The General Council stands adjourned
over to'the first Wednesday in Septem-
Der.
Yesterdays LEDGER had an unusually
large sale, owing to the important tele-
graphic news and the river article on the
second page.
A meeting will be held at the EXPOSE
ton building this afternoon for the pur-
pose of enlisting the ladies in the Cen
%tennial movement.
Chief McFadden, of the Fire Depart
ment, tested the Water-works plugs on
Madison street, in front of the LEDGER
Office this forenoon.
Ex-Mayor John johnson gave bond as
Sinking Fund Commissioner before the
General Council yesterday and entered
upon the discharge of his duties.
AT the LEDGER JOB Office merchants
will find the best work done, and at the
lowest price. Now is the time to lay in
a supply of bill heads, etc., for the en-
suing business season.
The street a company should COM
ply with the general wish and reduce the
fare to FIVE cents. What say you three
men who W and control the road, F.
s. Davis, R. V, Vredenburg and Thomas
Barrett?
Several absentees have returned TO the
city, and they talk of mountains and
springs and babble of green fields and
fresh air, just as if the "siay-at-homes -"
did not enjoy themselves on the bluff in
the meantime.
The very valuable, accurate and inter
estiug account of the overflow between
Memphis and Friar's Point, which was
published in the LEDGER of yesterday,
was generally read throughout the city
and attracted no little amount of atten-
ton.
There is a kick in the General Council
against allowing the petition Of the
Charleston railroad for permission to lay
a horse railroad track down Washington
street to the river; but the entire matter
now goes over to the next general meet.
ing in September.
The Mayor has been ordered to furnish
the Council q list Of all delinquent tax
payers who owe wei five hundred dol
lars in taxes. Two or three years ago
such a list was published, and the amount
of past-due taxes was discovered to foot
up the enormous sum of over nine hun
dred thousand dollars.
Judge Curtis, of the New York Su-
preme Court, has decided, in the case of
Nelson's Bank of Montreal VS.. G.. K.
Howard, that a telegraphic dispatch ac-
cepting a draft is equivalent to a written
promise to accept, and makes the per.
son sending the dispatch liable as the &C.
ceptor.
Churches, theaters, concert rooms
and public buildings generally in Mem.
phis must have doors swung SO that they
will open outwardly by the lst of Octo-
Der. Go to work and fix your doors in
time. Il is suggested that the ordinance
does not apply to the station house or
county Jail.
Yesterday afternoon Henry Jackson,
the escaped penitentiary convict, who
was shotgunned by Mr.. o. j. Kennedy
as he was attempting to burglarize a
house in South Memphis, died of his
wounds in the county Jail. He has taken
an appeal to a higher court, where prob.
ably not many eminent attorneys can be
found to plead his cause.
Notwithstanding the remarkable fact
that the Appeal and Avalanche quote
police and fire scrip at eighty. eight to
ninety cents, with less inquiry and
weaker" many policemen and fremen
are selling their scrip to merchants for
ninety and ninety-one cents in cash.
The brokers' shop is not the place to find
out the value Of this scrip, as many
merchants prefer purchasing it from the
firemen and policemen direct.
Mr.. Truehart, the social evil reformer,
will prosecute one case before ESQUIRE
Winters to-day, another before ESQUIRE
Caldwell on Monday, and still another
before Esquire Miller on Tuesday. Mr..
Truehart has determined to set his face
against evil, to abolish wickedness, re-
form all evil women by putting them in
jail unless they become %virtuous, and to
make this portion of the world an Eden
where sin can enter not, no can the
devil appear to tempt either the man or
the woman. This is a grand object, a
big contract, but we believe Mr.. Trne-
hart is equal to that emergency or any
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