Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-19

representing their constituency The
position of ordinance chairman confers
no great or special privileges as al
ordinance drafter or municipal law
maker, nor any wonderful amount OF
official importance, t
To the ladies Of the Alabama street
Presbyterian church, who are holding a
festival under the Peabody Hotel, we re-
turn our thanks for an abundance Of
strawberries aud ice cream. Business
men and others should remember that
the festival lunch hour extends from IL
q "a. to 3 pm. roa1
Owing to the proclamation Of Gov.
Porter and the pronunciamento Of John
the son of League, tomorrow will be a
general holiday, and will be observed in
this city, and in consequence thereof, Of
course the LEDGER will not be published
on that day, and the employees of the
journal can ~centenhialize on the bluff
or go a fishing over in Arkansas.
Officer John Jenny arrested a negro
chicken thief last night, but the latter
struck the officer suddenly, and telling
him to the ground made good his escape.
Desperate negroes take advantage Of the
rule adopted by the Commissioners pro-
hibiting two pe.rolmen to traverse the
beat together, which places the solitary
peeler at the mercy of the desperate.
The toting and piling up of rocks by
way Of exercise and discipline by the
negro women locked up for misdemean.
ors at the station-house, reminds our lit.
erary man of the description in Tenny-
sons Princess
Eight daughters of the pillow, stronger than
men
Huge women. bowed with health, and wind,
and rain,
And labor. Each was like Druid rock" etc.
Last evening the ordinance emitting
down salaries of city officials passed on
its first reading before both Boards.
Under it the police patrolmen will re-
ceive 81 rs per day while on actual
duty; Recorder, $1,000 per annumi Pres.
ident Board Of Health, $50; Secretary,
500, and Health Officer, $3.50 per month.
1t abolishes the Office Of Mayors clerk.
The Ease of the State VS.. Waddy
Thompson, Arnett and Carroll, an in.
dictment charging larceny and perjury,
will be- heard in the Criminal Court on
tomorrow week. twill be remembered
that case arose out of a replevin suit
wherein was seized by the United States
Marshal a large stock of liquors belong
ing to Hendrix, Carter & Co., of How
ards row. 1,is5
Yesterday a negro applied for work at
a Front street store, but he demanded
two dollars a day for his labor, which,
not being desired at hat price, he saun-
tered into an adjoining fruit stand, while
the proprietor was out, aud robbed the
till of all the small change contained
therein, but, alas for luck, be was cap.
tured at the door as he was making his
escape. a.'ia Pa
A negro named Tom Ross has been
arrested on the charge Of pitching a
white man into the Mississippi while the
party was crossing the river in a skif to
Hopefeld. An overseer named Lama
han, from the Armstrong place down the
river, came to the city some weeks since
and mysteriously disappeared, and was
last seen in a skif with Ross and an
other negro. e
The ordinance as to vags has passed
its final reading, and now awaits the
veto of Mayor League, who has so far
vetoed everything calculated to be of
interest to the city, and he has been so far
sustained by a few Of his friends in both
boards, who stick to him, right or wrong,
they feeling that they belong to and
represent the Mayors office, and not the
people of their wards or the citizens
generally.