Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-04
LEDGER LINES.

Greenlaw Opera House next Saturday.
The Haverly's Minstrels at the theater
again tonight with change of pro.
gramme.
An ordinance to compel citizens to
pay a poll tax of five cents passed on its
first reading at the City Hall last night.
The pavement with rock and gravel on
Washington street, by the Charleston
Railroad Company, is progressing in a
rapid manner
Peter Drinks, a negro, was arrested
this forenoon on the charge Of stealing a
shawl from the store of Sol Vendig. He
was locked up.
The Jail experiment at Chiekasaw
Iron Works will come off at 4 pm. to-
day without fail. Plenty Of shelter, and
no postponement.
In the First Chancery Court, Bette
Goldman filed a petition for divorce
against Isaac Goldman on the ground Of
abandonment, etc.
The latest sheet musical publication is
kitty Dear" an Irish ballad, words by
Chas. R. DeKress, published by D. P.
Faulds, Louisville, Ky.
Chicken thieying is becoming quite a
common occurrence in the suburbs. The
thieves are negroes who have a weakness
for hen roosts not their own.
Quite a heavy rain storm swept over
the city last night. In a sanitary point
of view the rain did good service in
washing out the streets and alleys.
The old green wharf boat was up before
the General Council last evening on the
question of its removal, but the question
was referred to the wharf and landing
committee.
The Washington street property-hold-
ers will be required to lay down curbing
so that the pavement can be put down
according to the grade furnished by the
City engineer.
Twenty applications were made for
lodging by strangers at the s%tation.house
last night. They represented many ma.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., German, Irish,
French, Scotch and Swedish.
An ~incendiary set FIRE to an old and
uninhabited rookery on Madison street,
below Third, at 8 o'clock last evening.
The fire department turned out and in q
few minutes drowned out the prospective
conaagration.
During the month of October the fire
department was called out to eight fires
aud two false alarms. Total loss by fires
during the month, $l5,O25, which was
fully covered by insurance.
At four o'clock this afternoon there
will be a public exhibition at the Chick
asaw Iron Works of Randle, Heath 4
Livermore of a model jail cell, showing
the workings Of the different plans under
the Cook & Heath system.
The petitions of the police and fire de
partments to have their loss on scrip
from ten to fifteen per cent, mad,
} up by the city, were presented to tn,
General Council last night and we're re
ferred to the finance committee.
The charter of the Grain and Genera
Freight Elevator Company of Memphl
has received the seal and signature o
the Secretary Of State, G.. N. Gibbs
Esq, and has been duly registered in tn,
archives of the State government.
THAT unfortunate but all absorbing
issue, the $50 per month pay Of the Gen
eral Council, came up as usual at thu
City Hall last night, but the back salar,
:. ~grabbers we're defeated on the vote I,
pass the thing over the Mayors veto.
The annual meeting of St. Andrew
Society will be held this Thursday
evening attheir rooms, II Madison street
at "a o'clock, for the election of officer
and to make arrangements for the cele
' bration Of st. Andrews day, Novembe
Both.
The Chickasaw Guards will be pre-
scented with a banner at the Exposition
Building on next Thursday evening b,
Miss Emma Ethridge, who has been Sc
lected for that purpose, and to represen
the young ladies through whose effort
the flag was gotten up,
The petition of P. G. Bethel to til,
General Council with reference to tn
> payment of a judgment by the city t.
him of 1872, 900, less $4,000, which he do
e mates to churches, etc, was rejected b,
the General Council and sent back Il
the committee who reported in its favor
Alderman Owen Dryer, Of the FRS
ward, sent in his resignation last nigh
to the Board. As yet his successor ha
not been elected, Mr.. Byrne, who wa
elected last night as his successor, no
being eligible by reason of his not hav
ing resided in the ward a suaicien
length of time.
Ex-Governor Vance, of North Carroll
ma, lectures tomorrow night at Greenlav
Opera House, on the Scattered Nation.
: 1t being a most interesting chapter from
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