Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-08

lit~ico-picnic scheme.
Mrs. Penelope Galloway died on the
Both ult. near Bartlett at the advanced
age Of eighty.two years. She was born
in Bedford county, North Carolina, and
lived in this county for the last thirty
years. Her husband, an old and re-
spected citizen, died in 1858.
1t has been announced unoficially
that the Mayor and General Council,
when in secret session yesterday, selected
Judge Samuel P. Walker as City Attor-
ney to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Mr.. Hanson. Judge
Walker can gil that vacancy with distin-
guished ability.
The Little Rock Gazette Of the 7th
announces that the Memphis and Little
Rock railway principal Offices are to be
removed from Memphis to Little Rock
Immediately, and that Treasurer J.. J..
Darden will have charge ofthe principal
Office by agreement between the con-
tending parties.
The white man who was found dead at
Kaufman's clearinghouse on Second
street a few days ago, and whose iden-
tity was not discovered, was named
Veile. He formerly worked at Men
ken's dry goods store, and be was the
brother Of Father Veile, former pastor
of St. Patrick's church in this city, but
now Of Jackson, Tenn.
The Mayor and General Council are
tremendously working together in the
traces once again, But ere long either
the near or Of" mule will begin to back
and kick, and her the trouble will com
mence. The plain truth is, that each
suspects the other of an intention to ia
dulge in %trickery, consequently a want
of harmony is apparent.
Quite a crowd of turbulent negro
roustabouts on the landing yesterday at
tempted to rescue a black prisoner from
a policeman, but when the officer drew a
tremendous six shooter from his belt and
leveled it at the ringleaders, there was a
scattering in that crowd. Hes going
to shoot" was heard on all sides, as the
rowdies ran in every direction.
After being defeated in the Chancery
Court, then in the Supreme Court and
once again in the Chancery Court, it is
time for the ring" backing the Foley
injunction case contest to hold up and
abandon their ridiculous efforts to render
null and void the city charter, As a
backwoods messenger once said-''Boys,
| come to bring your saddle home"
Sheriff Anderson is having a hard
time getting Waddy Thompson to Mem
phis from Missouri, in order to place
him before the Criminal Court for trial
on the charge Of larceny. The wonder
full writ of habeas corpus has been in
veked at st Louis to prevent the reudi-
ton of the prisoner. Waddy has charge
Of the Missouri penitentiary, but he has
no desire to take charge Of a like insti-
tuition in Tennessee.
The Peoples Protective Union memo
rallied the General Council yesterday,
asking them to resist mandamuses and
all efforts to coerce them into levying a
tax not authorized by the new charter,
and if necessary to go to Jail and stay
there forever and resist such illegal
claims to the last extremity. The Coun-
Gil did not pass a patriotic resolution on
the Jail question, but referred the memo
rial to the Finance Committee.
Nashville Union and American Of the
7ths 1.-THE reeoneiliatis an meeting of
blacks and whites at Memphis, or Inds-
pendence Day, was a small Bunker Hill
in its way. But how happened that the
editor Of the Avalanche was not among
the invited editors2 We cheerfully bear
witness to the fact that he has given the
man and brother enough paternal adj
vice Of late years to ell a volume as big
as the report of the Beecher trial
Market Square has been locked up for
several days, much to the disgust of citi.
zens who had been f~requenters Of that
spot, 1t was locked up by the keeper,
whose services had been dispensed with
by the city, and be put the keys in his
pocket until he could find Mayor League
for the purpose of surrendering his sa-
cred trust, but the necessity for locking
the gates Of a public park does not
clearly appear in the premises.
The Guizot History of France, which
a large number of citizens subscribed to
in a four volume contract, now has been
increased to six volumes by the Ameri-
can publisher, a swindle which the Nash
vile people denounced and resisted in
the courts. Publishers and book agents
should be made to stick to their con
tracts as close as they always make sub