Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-23

a force not sufficient TO accomplish the
task even during the dull summer months.
The great trouble in the General Couu-
Gil is now caused by the new word
budget" which is defined to be the
papers respecting the finances Of the
government, or the financial estimates
and plans Of the executive government"
Hence, to open the budget" will soon
become a we'll known phrase at the City
Hall.
Two hundred and sixty-seven thous-
aud dollars worth of Memphis Water
Company bonds we're sold in New York
a few days since at thirty cents. They
were FIRST mortgage seven per cent. gold
bearing past'due coupons. Memphis
water does not sell well in Gotham. Was
It watered stock2
The Quarterly County Court has ad-
journed, and the special committee ap-
pointed to report upon alleged abuses,
immoralities, etc., carried on at the
county poor-house, failed to report, as
usual. The Grand Jury will in their re-
port have a few words to say as to this
mysterious house of refuge, so costly
and yet so m%ismanaged.
Thomas Thompson, a negro wife-whip-
per, was fined twenty-five dollars by the
Recorder this morning. Thompson 90.
Jected to the cooking of Mrs. Thompson,
and she resented the intrusion upon her
domestic domain; then the irate Thomp-
son seized a stew-pan full of bacon which
was frying at the time, and knocked
down the woman, cutting her head
severely.
The Board Of Equalization reports as
follows to the General Council: Capital
invested in business, 81, 4S4. Sl7; house
hold furniture, 1882, 800; gold and silver
plate and jewelry, $50, $50; pleasure car.
riages and buggies, $2O,455; live stock,
S22,295; all other property. not other
wise taxed, $82. $50; returned against
stockholders of banks, etc, claiming
exemption from taxation as corporations,
81, 24O,7l5.
The meeting of the Irish Literary As
ISOLATION was largely attended last
evening. The proposition that a repub-
lican form of government naturally
leads to a monarchy elected a very
lively and able debate, in which Colonel
Adams and Messrs. Mulroy, Montedor-
leo, Lilly, Freiberg, Dennis, Smith and
others took part. An invitation was re-
ceived and accepted TO attend the deco.
ration of soldiers graves at Elmwood on
the Oath proximo.
1t is a notable fact that the negroes
are losing their interest in Emancipa.
ton day. In cities where formerly
thousands marched in procession, only
a few hundred turned out this year. The
romance Of freedom is passing away
and no peculiar bonanza has arrived ex.
cept through hard work. Even the civil
rights bill will rot keep the wolf from
-
the door, which accounts for the numer.
our robberies and larcenies taking place
daily and nightly throughout the city.
About the dullest and gloomiest place
in Memphis is the City Hall. When yoq
wander into that tomb you can see off
cial ghosts slipping about from office to
office, doing nothing and saying moth
ing. A stranger who visited the place
yesterday was astonished at the solemn
air that pervaded everything and every
body in the old municipal rookery, and
he said he breathed freer when he got
out into Court Place. The very atmos-
phere within the building is oppressive
with owlish dignity.