Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-12
LEDGER LINES.

The General Council will assemble
next Thursday afternoon.
Back.water has made the Bayou Gay
oso a respectable-looking stream.
The rains do one good thing by wash
ing out the streets and alleys Of the city.
The City Hall man who started that
wild scheme to tax the wagons of farmers
selling their own produce in the city is a
Dogberry.
Unmuzzled dogs running at large are
to be taken charge Of by the police, and
the owners Of said dogs are to be ar
rested and fined.
Governor Pinchbeck, the well. known
negro politician of New Orleans, will de-
liver a free political lecture at the Expo
sition tomorrow night.
The GraRgers can now send in their
produce wagons and sell the products Of
the soil without being annoyed by City
Hall or other officials.
Quite a number of drunken and dis
orderly persons contributed five dollars
each to the city treasury this morning at
the special request of the Recorder.
The chief pleasure derived by ANA
teur newspaper correspondents is in
reading their own effusions when printed,
to a select circle of aatteripg friends.
The General Council has so far failed
to retrench and save the city nine hun
dred dollars by turning over the arrested
Migrants to the Presidents Island work
house.
The trial Of the social evil case before
Esquire Hall was continued over to to-
morrow afternoon, the witnesses not be-
ing present and the parties not being
ready.
The gauge water marks at the eleva-
tor are closely watched by several Front
street merchants, as they are largely in
terested in the crops down the river in
the bottoms.
The social evil matter wa referred ia
the Ordinance Committee by the Gene.
raj Council yesterday for the purpose Of
drafting an ordinance levying a tax
upon and licensing houses of ilLrepute.
Coroner Spelman inquested the body
of Ann Windish, an old negro woman
who was found dead yesterday on Auc,
ton street. The jury Of inquest returned
a verdict Of death from natural causes
The General Council has Endorsed tn,
grounds taken by the LEDGER ant
passed a resolution to the effect that NJ
tax should be levied upon the wagons o
farmers who sell the products Of thei.
farms in this city.
The city will employ counsel to 6gh
the claim of the Freighting Company Il
the bluff, in consequence Of the fact tina
the present City Attorney is incompe
tent to make the fight, he being one o
the counsel of the company.
Unless additional subscription is fur
nished by our liberal citizens the Cour
Square concerts will be discontinued
The Casino Club committee will con
tinue to solicit subscriptions in aid o
the popular and musical enterprise.
Notwithstanding the regular an,
irregular rains, the stars shine GU
brightly every night, and the moon
which is said to govern the water priv
leges of the world, tides included, look
as if she enjoyed the deluge of 1875.
Since the overflow set in ~mosquitoe
in the city have either become NOR
numerous or more blood-thirsty. Som
naturalist insists that it is the femal
mosquito that bites, and from this W
presume that it is the male villain tha
sings.
Our patriotic citizen declares that h
would accept the Office of Mayor, pre-
vided he was elected for six years at
salary Of six thousand dollars pc
annum, but should it be insisted upol
we opine he would gladly accept tn
Office without salary.
The Croce g. Brothers string ban
serenaded the LEDGER office last nigh
discoursing sweet music. For the con
pliment paid TO the LEDGER we are il
debted to Messrs. Jake Leubrie, j. 81
verstone, NJ. Beatus, Albert Cohen, Ed
Backer, Jake Buxbaum.
A splendid specimen of the Newfoun,
land dog is confined at the station.ho
as a vagrant. The animal is very ia
head black and body white, and has ev
IDENTIFY been the pet Of some famil.
When arrested a chain hung from h
neck, but now he is tied up in duranC
!, vile with a rope.
In another column will be found Il
advertisement of the American Burn,
and Clay Company, inviting ~enterprisin