Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-08

not even be permitted to turn out to-day
and gaze upon a live Vice President of
the United States.
Mr.. NJ. E. Smelser, Of the Avalanche
stat, whose i'll health and departure for
st. Louis we announced yesterday, a
unable to- leave, and is now lying very
low, with but little hope of recovery, at
the residence of Mr.. Wetter on St. Mar
tin street, near Beal.
Alta meeting Of the Cotton Exchange
this morning a committee consisting of
Messrs. F. s.. Davis, E. NJ. Apperson,
Amos Woodruff, ]. C. Nicely, A. A. Pat
ton and B. Bayliss vas appointed to act
in conjunction with the General Council
Committee to receive Vice President
Wilson.
The Latin word veto Il forbid is de-
fined to be the act of stopping the
enactment of a law. If Webster or
Worcester resided now in Memphis they
would not have given so erroneous a
definition to the word, which means, of
course, the act Of enacting a law by a
two-thirds majority.
The Police and Fire Commissioners
will meet again on Monday and organ.
ize the police and fire departments in
accordance with the provisions of the
new charter. The police patrol force
has to be n policeman for each one
thousand inhabitants according to the
last United States census, which would
give us forty-one policemen.
At the called meeting Of the General
Council held yesterday a committee,
composed of Aldermen Hillsman, Dent.
Doyle, Councilman Cochran, Ryan,
Fisher, Camp and Hewitt, was appointed
to make all necessary arrangements
for the reception of Vice President
Wilson, who was to arrive in the city
at two o'clock this afternoon.
On next Monday evening a spelling
match will come off at the theater for
the benefit of the Church Orphans
Home. Several valuable prizes have
been contributed by charitable citizens.
Now is the time for the champion male
and female Orthographists or word
grapplers to come to the front and aid
In the enterprise, the object Of which is
most commendable, being charity to-
ward the orphans.
1t might be well to observe that too
often with our morning cotemporsries
the head lines" to reports of meetings
and Council proceedings are written by
one man and the reports by another.
which often do not harmonic, as the
head liner does not read the report
and only reflects his W peculiar views
or prejudices in a few lines, regardless
of the report beneath, all of which shows
up the amusing side or end of journal.
istic life.
The black boards of the Cotton Ex-
change show the following facts and fig
ures to-day: Receipts of cotton for the
week, l6ll bales; for the season, 9l5,.
937i sales for the week, 1859; for the
season, 39l, 63S; stock on hand, &c, 100;
sales for the week, 5000 bales, one-half
Of which we're taken by exporters. The
steamship Schiller bound from New
York to Hamburg wrecked off Scilly
Isles, on the coast Of England; two hun
bred lives lost.
Up to this morning not a single line
had appeared in the Appeal or Ava
laHche favoring q celebration of the
M%ecklenburg Centennial in this city;
that suggestion, if any credit can be
claimed for such, came from the LEDGER
on the appearance Of Governor Porter's
proclamation issued many days since.
We are glad, however, that the Appeal.
with its usual indorsing spirit, lis salts
fed with the work done by the meeting
held last night at the Cotton Exchange"
Pythian picnic at James Park on the
18th instant. Last year the picnic of the
knights was largely attended by the la
dies and gentlemen Of the city, who re-
manned on the grounds until a late hour,
well knowing hat the Knights would
carry out their published intention of
imperatively prohibiting the appearance
Of questionable characters, either male
or female, on the grounds. This
year the same necessary social rule
will be strictly enforced, so that the la
dies and children Of our fair city can en-
joy a picnic without being insuIted by
having vile characters admitted to their
presence,
A LARGE LOT OF CLARITA