Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-09

Annual statements from corporations
are in order now.
Gus MORT. Of the Tenth ward, is both
Alderman and Councilman.
Six members Of the Cotton Exchange
are in the General Council elect.
Mrs. Lander as Marie Antoinette 4"
at the theater next Monday night.
Rip Van Wrinkle matinee to-day
There will be no performance tonight.
There are over fifty thousand idiots in
the United States, including fellows who
hang around church doors on Sundays.
Several gentlemen of our city who
we're aspirants for office at Nashville
have returned home in a disappointed
mood.
Flatboats from the Ohio river and
tributaries, and laden with potatoes.
fruits, etc., lie moored at the landing
below Union street.
The LEDGER is the organ and firm ad-
vocate of reform and retrenchment in
every department of the city, School
Board and county governments.
The next General Council can laugh
King Veto to scorn, as they will not
only have a two.thirds majority, but a
majority composed of all the members.
This morning the sun shone out, but
the wind from the north blew cold and
strong; the thermometer fell many de.
grees below freezing point since yester'
day.
The residence Of George L. Holmes,
eight miles southeast of the city, was de.
stroyed by an incendisry on Thursday
night. The house and furniture were a
total loss.
A negro named Sam Robinson was
placed under $4,000 bonds by the Re-
corder to day on the charge of violating
the person of a little negro girl about
one year ago.
The good man putteth ashes on his
sidewalk. But not so the wicked, who
stitch at his front window and chuckleth
when his fellow man takes a seat on the
cold, cold bricks.
To-day, the 9th inst, is the a%nniver.
sary of the death of Napoleon at Chisel
hurst, England, in 1873, and also the
anniversary of the passage of the Missis-
Sippi ordinance Of secession in 1861.
Old Rex CarnivaIli, who rules the city
on Mardi-Gras February 9th, has issued
his proclamation Of misrule, andinformI
Mayor League that the keys Of the city
will be demanded of him on Mardi- Ora
Eve.
In the name of humanity, let som,
organized effort be made with reference
to the poor in each ward of the city
There is a great amount Of sufferin,
from cold and hunger among the poo
people in our midst.
At . o'clock last night the thermome
ter at the Signal Service office indicates
% above zero; at 6 o'clock this morRin
it indicated g above zero, and at II m
to-day 50-the coolest weather exper
enced in Memphis for years.
The star spangled banner was flung t
the breeze from in front of the custom
house yesterday in honor Of the annivei
ssry Of the famous victory won by Ger
Jackson over Gen. Packenhsm belo,
New Orleans during the wal Of 1872.
Nothing new in the courts of RECORD
The jury has been discharged in the Firl
Circuit Court, and next week Judg
Heiskell will hear arguments on bills {
exception, appeals, etc. The mex
terms Of the two Circuit Courts wi
commence Monday, the 18th instant.
The heating apparatus in the ne'
courthouse should be perfected immedi
ately. The building is cold and diss
greeable and the water pipes are burst
owing to the freezing Of the water in th
pipes. Those in charge of these i'm
p%rovemeits should 20 to work energeti
cally.
The official powers of Mayor Loagu
will be suspended on the 9th of Februar
by the people who intend celebratin
Mardi. Gras, and the suspension Of oficit
powers will probably be repeated i
January next at the municipal election
This is the way the people talk abou
cliques and Radical rings at presen
and a word to the wise is sufficient.
A Philadelphia firm, getting up a Gel
t%ennial book, wants Memphis to furnis
a steel photograph of herself and pa
him FIVE hundred dollars for the same
The General Council cannot afford t
squander money on Philadelphia's pc
scheme, the centennial humbug. Sen
/. the publishers photographs of the men
bers of the defeated City Hall clique.
A kind-hearted man who lifted an Inc
briate from the gutter last night &c
cursed roundly for his pains as th
drunken animal started off on his vino
ing way, AS the gentleman turne
away he unused in this melanchol
strain: us there no reward for pei
forming an act of humanity and charity
But was this either2 Or wouldn't