Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-09
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ness for the session tomorrow.
But ten patrolmen we're on duty yes
terday, the three others being sick.
The Police and Fire Commissioners
will hold a meeting this afternoon.
Police and FIRE warrants are in demand
at from IS to IS cents, yet but little is
offered at that price.
The thermometer at the Office Of the
Signal Service Observer spurts up 10 9lo
in the shade every afternoon.
General Council meeting this after
noon, to elect a City Attorney and
transact other important business.
Memphis Encampment No. 80, l, 0,
o. F., installed officers last night and
elected Geo. W. Smith representative.
At 2 o'clock tomorrow the killing of
Pat Madigan by pstrolman Carmichael
will be investigated by Esquire Miller at
his Office opposite the Courthouse.
In the First Circuit Court to-day Mol
lie Williamson (black) filed a bill for
divorce against Pleasant Williamson, on
the grounds Of threats to kill and aban-
donment.
The steamer j. D. Parker and cargo
are under protest, and e~onsignees must
90 at once and get their freight or such
will be stored on account of whom it
may concern.
Judge Ray will open up the Bartlett
Circuit Court on Monday next. Attor-
neys interested had better be on hand,
as Judge Ray dispatches business with
regularity and rapidity.
Mr.. G. A. CASTOR, Of the telegraph
office, lost a memorandum pocketbook
which contained some papers of value
to him only. The finder will please re.
turn the same to Mr.. Castor at the tele-
graph Office,
Our carriers will be around tomorrow
to collect from subscribers their dues. 1t
will greatly accommodate these hard
working public servants if people will
have the change ready, and thus save
them a seeond trim
Quite a number Of Memphians have
gone to Bon Aqua Springs for the sum.
mer. These springs form a pleasant
place Of resort. They are controlled by
Memphians, who have made the place
most desirable as a refuge from the dust
and heat of city life.
On Main, neal Washington, last nigh
two small boys engaged in a rough auC
tumble fight and a crowd Of men stood
around encouraging them. The boy
we're arrested, and few of the men who
melted and encouraged the fight dc
served arrest and punishment.
Advices from Hot Springs announce
that the Grand Central Hotel is for rent
its proprietor, VIM. A. C~hsstaine, alias
DR.. Kirkpatrick, formerly. of Rome, Ga.
having left on account of the notoriety
into which he has again been brough.
by his brother, James A. Chastaine, o
Memphis.
Angelo Marie has been released from
the Nashville p%enitentiary, aud will reach
here tomorrow. Henry Schroeder, who
killed Deputy Constable Jericho OF
Adams street, in a drunken brawl in
1861, and who was sentenced to a life
term in the %penitentiary, has also been
released, and will again become a citi
zen of our city.
1t is proposed to pass a city ordinance
taxing male dogs one dollar and femal,
dogs two dollars. This will raise both
howl aud a revenue, as between eigh
and ten thousand four footed dogs ar
residents of this city. The Genera
Council should pass the ordinance by al
means, and even if but little Of the ia,
could be collected, the slaughter Of tn
ours Of low degree would be of an inesti
mable benefit to the city.
Some time since, when there wa n,
feed for the fire engine horses and tn
city could not be induced to purchas
any and no one would credit the city
Colonel Leath, Chairman Of the Pole
and Fire Board, purchased the necei
sary feed on his own account to keep tn
horses from starving and to protec
property from FIRE, but now Mayo
League refuses to pay this feed bill un
der the plea that he has no money,
Several young gentlemen who hav
been rafting off horses, buggies, dis
mond rings, pins, etc, have been il
dicted and found guilty by the Crimina
Court. and have now pending over Their
sentences as follows; Fine, $1,000 an.
Imprisonment in the county Jail 70
three months. This is the lowest per
atty that can be imposed under the Sc