Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-28

'"No ~ tue cOuultlOn OF winchester
Cemetery. This duty should be per-
formed at once, and our reporter will
visit the cemetery in q few days and see
that the work has been commenced. and
report to the public accordingly.
The opposition to the organization Of
the Police Commissioners comes from
the little fellows who aspire to be Mayor
next year and who desire to control the
police and FIRE departments on election
day for that purpose. They know that
when the commissioners 20 into Office
that scheme will be bursted and they
likewise.
The Common Council and Aldermanic
Board cannot agree on reducing the
police force to forty-one men, exclusive
OF the Chief. The new charter provides
for one patrolman for every one thou
sand Inhabitants according to the United
States census. This would be forty-one
patrolmen, but sergeants, captains and
chief are needed also.
There appears to be some little feeling
among the peelers" on account Of re-
ducing their force down to forty.one. AS
this is not a thing that the General
Council has any discretion in, but ex-
pressly stated in the new charter that
such shall be done, we cannot see where
the feeling comes in. II was thought
better by the Board to have the reduc.
ton made before the new commissioners
qualified.
Billiard-players should remember the
saying Of VIII Goblet "The use of no
instrument brought SO many muscles
into play as the spade" This saying
has been received as a motto by the
grangers, and even now many suburban
residents are proving the correctness Of
Cobbet's saying. Goblet was the man
who visited this country and carried back
with him to England the bones of Tom
Paine.
The Court Square squirrels cost the
city five dollars per month, or sixty
dollars per annum, for feed; but the
committee on retrenchment proposes to
reduce the cost to thirty dollars per
annum, so that where one nut was sun.
piled, hereafter but a half one will be
furnished. The squirrels purpose hold
ing an indignation meeting next Sunday
afternoon, when prominent speakers will
address their fellow.citizens, squirrels
included, on the subject of nuts.
Judge Tom Brown "sustains the posi-.
ton taken by the Appeal o n the cleo
ton of the five commissioners; but will
the Appeal tell US why its position is not
sustained by such able lawyers as B. NJ.
Estes and Henry Craft, whose opinions
are in direct opposition to the Appeals
position2 If Judge Browns opinion is
a center shot, we must in justice score
two center shots for the opinions of
Messrs. Estes and Craft.
When you are given a word to spell.
go through it at one jump. Don't 90
feeling along as if you were on thin ice,
or down you will go. sure. Tackle it in
this style: In In, with an In, d.i di, with
a di, with an Indi, an an, with an an,
with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian,
APP ap, with an %Indianap, o, with an o,
with an In, with an Indi, with an Indian,
with an ~lndianap, with an Indianapo,
lis lis, with an In, with an Indi, with an
Indian, with an Indianap, with an In
dianapo, with an Indianapolis.
According to the general order issued
by Adjutsnt General W. R. Handy, all
State military companies must provide
themselves with a suitable armory
wherein all arms and accoutrements
furnished by the State must be kept, and
shall not be taken from thence "except
for drill, dress parade, or inspection"
The exceptions do not ever include cases
of invasion, riots or attempted revolu-
ton. The order also provides that all
companies shall be uniformed before
arms will be furnished by the State.
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