Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

sOtney hahuOlph mas also been employed
to attend to the m~sndamus cases against
the Sinking Fund Commissioners. The
present City Attorney draws a salary of
$4,000 per annum. We now have three
City Attorneys at a cost Of nearly ten
thousand dollars per annum. Let us
have a few more and two or three extra
Mayors, and then Memphis will be all
right.
After a cessation of hostilitiesn for
twenty long years there occurred quite
a domestic commotion in the family Of
the Rev. David Walk last night. TIE
police were not SEN for, but DR.. Ed
monds was, who in due time presented,
as a peace-maker aud mediator, a young
gentleman weighing nine pounds, and
though unable to speak for himself, be
did cry aloud and spare not" A baby
wagon will now be in order. Don't all
speak at once.
The A~valanchian objects to the
Ledger Liners phrase, both men are
friends Of ours in reference to the
Smith-Trask war, but we did not say that
we were a friend Of either. How about
that east-iron stomach row2 The
LEDGER man being more polite than the
Avalanchian refers to nearly all persons
as gentlemen under the proper rule, that
in times past the term gentleman had
a determinate meaning, but now it is an
unlimited phrase Of courtesy"
Mile de Murska is delighting the pee.
pie Of New Orleans with her rendition
Of the role "Gilda," in Rigoletto, and
Ophelia,' in Ambrose Thomas opera.
Hamlet. Her engagement in the Cres-
cent City will close this week. On the
same night in which she appeared as
0phelia,' at the French Opera House.
Mr.. Davenport, the very best actor on
he American stage, appeared as Ham
lei" at the St. Charles Theater, aud
both the prima donna and the actor
drew crowded houses.
Last night detective Mcclure arrested
W. G. Tate, alias Robert Adams, who is
charged with killing B. q. Craig, near
Dyersburg, Tenn, on the Sch inst. The
men we're farmers and had a previous
difficulty. They met again near the res
idence of Tate and the quarrel was
renewed; Craig seized a club, and Tate
walked into his house, seized his rife,
came ont, and as Craig was getting over
the fence advancing on him, be fred, the
ball striking Craig in the breast, passing
out at the back, killing him instantly.
If some enterprising citizen would
follow the example of people in the
parks Of Paris and furnish visitors to
the bluff with chairs for a small com
pensation the said entelprising citizen
would make a few dollars every fine
afternoon. The city does not provide
seats for people outside of Court and
Market Squares, yet the bluff was ex-
pressly donated to the city for a public
park or promenade by the original pro-
prietors, who laid off Memphis from the
old John Rice grant.
According to the statement of the
Theory of Education in the United
States prepared by a committee APP
pointed at a meeting of State Superin.
tendents Of Public instruction held in
Washington City, and published by the
Bureau of Education, Department of
the Interior, the cardinal studies of the
common schools are First - reading
and writing; second-grammar; third
arithmetic; fourth - geography. The
aim of the common school is to give the
pupil the great arts of receiving and
communicating intelligence.