Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-10

While our Quarterly Court is IN SEES
sion and its proceedings are watched
with great interest, it may be worth
while to see what the courts Of other
counties are doing. In regard to taxa
ton, we find the following in the report
from Davidson county for last Thurs
day:
TAX LEVY FOR 1870.
Justice Maxey, chairman Of the com
mittee appointed at the January term,
1875, With instructions to report the
levy necessary to be made OF property
and privileges, submitted the following
as the result of their deliberations, which
was adopted seriatim:
1.-The tax on real and personal prop
erty should be as follows: For ordinary
purposes, 2 mills; railroad coupon pur-
poses, l mill; school purposes, l mill;
special railroad bond purposes, 2 mills
meking in all G mills, the aggregate
amount Of the county taxes for last year
Q874).
"Poll tax, for school purposes, 800.
TAX on merchants: Privilege or
capital Extraordinary, 2 mills; railroad
coupons. l mill; schools, l mill; railroad
special, 2 mills-aggregating 6 mills.
Ad valorem tsx-ordinsry 2 mills; rail-
roads coupons, l mill; schools, | mill
railroad special, 2 mills-aggregating 6
mills. Total tax on merchants, II mills,
the same as last year. ,
Privilege licenses (other than mer-
chsnts) should be taxed one-half the
amount of the State tax on each, except
pawnbrokers' licenses which shall be
800, to be divided as follows: one-quar-
ter to schools, one quarter to ordinary,
one-qusrter to railroads to pay coupons
and interest. and one-quarter to special
railroad fund.
"On marriage licenses for school rur-
poses, 81.
There should be levied a tax of six
mills on the dollar on the grounds and
buildings Of depots and round-houses
and the road-beds Of all railroads in this
city, and a reasonable valuation On the
iron, etc, of said tracks, to be applied
exclusively to the payment Of county
railroad bonds now due. The value of
the road-beds to be estimated per acre,
as lands are assessed in the districts
through which the railroads run. The
depots, round houses and the grounds at
tached thereto, to be estimated as the
value of other real estate is estimated. y
THE reports Of yellow fever at Havana
seem to have been greatly exaggerated.
There we're only about thirty cases in
all, and those OF a light character, on
board Spanish war vessels. The resident
population entertain no serious appre-
tensions, but fears are expressed in
behalf Of the fresh troops expected from
Spain to assist in putting down the long
lived Cuban rebellion.
THERE was great disappointment over
the Connecticut election at the White
House, The Washington correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Times says: There is
no disposition on the part Of the Ad-
ministration to deny that the result Of
the Connecticut election is a very
great surprise, and entirely different
from what they expected.
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The magistrates Of Davidson county
decline to be legislated down and out
and all with one accord announce theil
intention to be on hand at the July term
law or no law. They must rather like
their fat places at the enormous pay o
one dollar and a half per diem. Our
magistrates are glad to be excused.
--O--
JoHE BATFMAN SMITH, the humorou
editor Of the Fayetteville Express, ha
been appointed coal oil inspector Of hi
town. Governor Porter either has
high regard for the editorial fraternity
or wants to explode a dozen or so c
them, we do not know which. They bay
struck oil all around.
Two thousand negroes in Williamso
county have the Kansas fever. and ar
determined to leave Tennessee. Appl
cation was made 20 the captain of
steamboat to convey five hundred fam.
lies from Nashville to St. Louis on the
way to the land of freedom.
HoRAcE MAYNARD and family lie
Knoxville last Wednesday with throul
tickets to Constsntinople. BE W
probably remain there as Minist
until recalled by a Democratic Pres
dent in 1871.
The parade in honor Of the patri
John Mitchell, has been abandoned
New York, and in place thereof an o.
ton and testimonial will be rendered
family, which is probably as well.
TIE telegraph announces the suici
of Colonel John NJ. Powell in Brook
last Thursday by taking a dose of m.
phine.
THE sale of the Alabama and Chat
nooga railroad takes place on the 9th
Nay.