Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-05
LEDGER LINES.
Bayou Gayoso is booming to-day.

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tonight to transact matters of interest.
Suburban negroes amuss themselves
by robbing each others truck" patches
at night.
The rate Of taxes on market stalls has
been fixed by the city at one hundeed
dollars per annum
A heavy rain and thunder storm has
been raging in this section since ten
o'clock last night.
The Fire Department cost 1854 So
last month"; reduction over previous
months of last year.
There were no sales of cotton made
yesterday, a thing which has not hap
pened in cotton circles for years.
The private picnic of the Y. B. S.
Club is postponed until Monday evening,
9th instant, on account Of the weather.
The present atmospherical disturb
ance is said by some sage to be caused
by the contingency of the planets Jupi-
ter, Venus and Saturn.
Hans Christian Anderson, whose books
delight many children, both in this coun-
try and Europe, died yesterday at Co.
penhagen, Denmark.
The Sergeant-at-Arms is around ar
resting privilege men who have to pay
license tax. He will soon make a raid
upon the doctors, lawyers and other pro-
fessional gentlemen.
A dry individual went around this
forenoon repeating the couplet from the
Ancient Mariner" Water, water
everywhere, but not a drop to drink"
The fires last month were caused as
follows: Two by incendiaries, one by
lamp explosion, one by defective Aue
and one by accident in a foundry. The
loss was fully covered by insurance.
An attempt was made to break into
the residence Of Rev. DR.. Walk, on
Wednesday night, but the burglars
failed 70 effect an entrance. The thieves
will next attempt to rob newspaper re-
porters.
The petition presented to the General
Council yesterday to abate all gaming
houses wa unanimously referred to the
Police Commissioners. The petition was
presented by Councilman Ryan, of the
Tenth ward.
Judge Archibald Wright and Captain
E. A. Cole, of the First Chancery Court,
left for their Tunica county, Miss, plan.
t%ations, on board the Quickstep last
evening for the purpose Of seeing about
the high water.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
best civil and military engineers pro-
nounce against the feasibility of the
plan, yet many business men and
planters are engaged in dam(n)ing the
Mississippi river and its tributaries.
On the 10th inst. the Tax Collector
will grant a rebate of one and a half per
cent. per month to all persons who pay
their privilege taxes either in money or
with police or fire warrants. This will
run the warrants up among the nineties.
The lightning blazed up for hours in
the west, south and east late last night.
Evidently there has been considerable
electrical disturbance in the atmosphere
of late, owing to some planetary cause
beyond the ken Of astronomers or phil,
osophers.
Another motion was made yesterday
in the Council to enforce the new charter
by striking out the pay of Aldermen and
Councilmen, but the friends of the illegal
pay rallied around twenty dollars pei
month to a man and carried the appro.
priation.
In the General Council yesterday af
ternoon a petition from certain property
holders was presented, asking the sup,
preston of certain houses on Washing
ton street, between Main and Second
inhabited by soiled doves. The practi
cal Council referred these people to the
Police Board, but the more aesthetic
Aldermen laid the subject on the table,
Notwithstanding the fact that severaI
Memphians spent money! elect Andrew
Johnson Senator and protested TO be hi,
bosom friends, a petition was in %circula
lion yesterday to get up a subscription t.
defray the expenses Of a meeting wherein
to express regrets at his death and t
pass suitable resolutions. A living Sen
ator has %patronage-a dead one has not
Some time since seventeen convict
escaped at Nashville, and among then
were four or FIVE negroes from Memphis
One of them, named Peck, was recap
tured and sent back, but two others are
here yet, and it is believed that the late
burglaries and robberies are their handi