Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-12
LEDGER LINES.
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Nothing Of public interest was trans
acted in the courthouse to-day.
During the cold snap noses in Memphis
bloomed and blossomed like the rose.
Evening prayer meetings at the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church will be
held during the week.
The Citizens Relief Committee are
attending to the wants of hundreds of
poor throughout the city.
DIR. R. W. Mitchell has been elected
President Of the School Board, and John
]. Duffy Vice President.
The total number of children attend
ing the public schools is but 3264-
whites 2526; blacks, 73s.
If you want to buy, sell, or trade; if
you want anything, or have lost any
thing, advertise in the LEDGER.
This is a good time to purchase Their
mometers, as they are much lower now
than during the summer months.
There are zoos convicts in the Tennes-
see penitentiary, two more than at any
previous time ia the history oil the State.
Twelve misdemeanor cases before the
Recorder this morning. Susan Wilson,
charged with larceny, was committed in
default Of a two thousand dollar bond.
General Council meeting tonight.
The Democratic members elect will be
sworn in and take their seats, and the
~repudiated members will retire to their
Sabine farms.
County Attorney W. W. Mcdowell
r%eloices over the appearance in this
world of tears of W. w. Mcdowell, jr.,
who kicks the scales to twelve and a
half pounds.
The admirers of Justin Mccarthy will
be pleased to learn that he will com
mence a new serial story in the Febru.
airy number of the Galaxy, called Dear
Lady Disdain.'
Vance street vas again made lively
last evening about 8 o'clock, the occa-
sion being the marriage of a w~ell-kpown
clerk in a %storehouse, to a young lady of
that neigbborhood.
}. G. Cairns has been reelected Sec
rotary Of the School Board at a salary
Of six hundred dollars per annum, instead
of twelve hundred, as last year. Mr.. J..
I. Freeman was elected Treasurer.
At the annual meeting of ~Invincible
Fire Company, No. 5, held last night,
the following officers were elected .
President, l.. Solari; Vice President,
G. B. Davis; Secretary, Nick Cunny;
Treasurer, NJ. Morris.
Memphis presents a fair field for the
good Samaritan. 81 was. a hungered
and ye gave me to eat, naked and We
clothed me" said the Master, and, In
asmuch as We did it. unto these little
ones, ye did it unto me-"
Atthe Chamber Of Commerce meeting
held yesterday the report of the Peoples
Protective Union was read anT received
and will ZONE up for adoption at an ad.
journed meeting to be held at 3 o'clock
next Thursday afternoon.
During the past ten days the judges
and chancellors have hardly been able
to. hold courts owing to the want of
proper heating apparatus throughout
the courthouse. All the water pipes
are burst and the sinks are in a horrible
condition.
Two boys, M. l.. Dobbin, aged fifteen
years, and Joseph Wilson ran away from
home in Williston, Fayette county, on
Sunday last. They are believed to have
come to Memphis in company with q
negro man, but as yet their whereabouts
has not been discovered.
The Mayor Of Memphis receives a
salary Of four thousand dollars per an.
num- so does the Governor of the Statei
and the Mayor is also furnished with a
clerk at a salary Of twelve hundred dol.
lars a year. Cut down expenses by be-
ginning at the top and reducing the
Mayors salary one-half.
Yesterday the stockholders of the
Union and Planters Bank elected a
Board Of Directors as follows: C. W.
Goysr VIM. A. Williamson, A. Vaccaro,
Napoleon Hill, Joseph Bruce, A. C.
Treadwell, ". B. Galbreath, J. S. Will
ksps, Henry B. Howell, !. F. Frank, E.
NJ. Appefsop, 7. p. Turner, M. ?. Jar
naGin. The Board re;elected the officers
Of Last year, and reduced the seeretarF's
salary to S65OO per spnum.
The bondhOlders convention, which
met at the City Hall yesterday, stands
adjourned until Thursday at 3 o'clock,
end OF 4 o'clock tomorrow "wednesday
the JONI aoHEjt.ees of the General
Council on the city ohsrtes VII wet
the joint committees of the Peoples
Protective Union and the Chamber Of
Commerce for the purpose Of consulting
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