Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-10
LEDGER LINES.

attempted to break out last night, butthe
effort failed.
The river is no longer a sensation, and
will retire within its banks and 60 back
to its little bed in a few days.
The Truehart-L Flynn. Will
liams imbroglio, with reference to the
responsibility of the parties, is on trial
before Esquire Quigley.
Fruit packers were never so busy in
Memphis as at present. These work by
day and night packing and shipping
fruit to Northern markets.
1t is rumored that Bronson Bayliss
will be appointed Vice-Consul of France
at this point, at least SO says a Memphis
correspondent now in Paris.
In the First Chancery Court to day
Sarah Clayton (negrO) fled a petition
for divorce against Pascal Clayton on
the grounds of abandonment, etc.
Yesterday four negro women iva
grants), who have been in the station
house regularly for months, were taken
before Esquire Quigley as Migrants and
we're sent to Presidents Island work
house.
General Meyers, Chief Signal Service
Officer, at Washington, will be petitioned
to establish signal stations at Johnson
vile, Decatur and Chattanooga in order
to furnish correct reports from the Ten
nessee river.
During the attempt to break out of the
station.house last night by a squad of
white desperadoes, turnkey TORY and
keeper Davis brought forth their trusty
s%ix-shooters, which Gained the jail-break-
ers in a few seconds.
The Charleston Railroad Company
has agreed to repair the Madison street
bridge, but under protest. The blockade,
of the bridge which has been so great a
nuisance for weeks to all persons resid.
ing beyond it, will be raised in a few
days.
Mr.. j. j. Freeman, late cashier of the
State National Bank, having resigned
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the position of treasurer Of the School
Board, that body of accomplished schol-
ers and sages met last night and elected
as treasurer Mr.. S. P. Read, cashier Of
the Union and Planters Bank.
A committee composed Of Messrs.
Henry G. Smith, B. NJ. Estes and l. M.
Hill has been appointed by the Chamber
OF Commerce to consult with the United
States Attorney General and Secretary
of the Treasury with reference to the
erection of a custom-house at this point.
The Odd Fellows will lay the corner
stone of their Orphan Asylum, Wednes
day, the 18th inst at the Leath Orphan
Asylum grounds. Grand Master Sc
horn, of Murfreesboro, will perform the
ceremony, and Grand Representative
Johnson, Of Humboldt, will deliver an
address.
That old relic of the past, the Memphis
Freighting Company, stands in the way
of the building of a Custom House on
the bluff, and the Company will only re-
linquish whatever claim it has upon the
bluff for a valuable consideration. The
Company exists only on paper by aid Of
a charter.
The Chamber Of Commerce has adopt
ed the rule that the tare on q keg of lard
when actual tare is not marked on the
package, twenty-five cents of; commits
sions on sales of manufactured tobacco,
five cents; storage on iron ties, first
month, two cents per bundle, second
month, one cent.
The Vicksburg Herald, noticing in the
LEDGER that an orange eaten every
morning before breakfast causes the
man to loose all taste for liquor, asks
the LEDGER to locate the orange market
at once. Memphis is the market and we
advise the members of the Herald staff
Sullivan included) to send up their
Immediately if they wish to die
natural deaths, and not hand in their
checks with their boots on.
A c%ountryman writes US and asks if
farmers who bring their vegetables, fruit,
ETC., to Memphis for sale can be taxed by
the city. The city charter does not au-
the city officials to interfere with
Or tax the producer of the products of
the soil, or of meat on account of selling
such at any time of the day. The Board
Of Health, however, has the power to en-
force all proper sanitary regulations as
the sale of fruits, vegetables, etc.
The Friar's Point Delta of Monday
The 9th instant, contains an, announce.
ment of the death of Colonel j. G. Mil
of Coahoma county. Colonel Miller
lied m Cnndav morn;on L. II