Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-14

The ticket agentsof the Southwestern
roads met in convention at the Peabody
yesterday with a view to scaling down
fares and rates.
The City Council, composed Of our
best known and most learned ssges, will
squat in the City Hall once again on
next Friday evening.
How to get out a Mayoralty candidate
is being slightly discussed throughout
the city. Will it be by call, mass meet
ing, convention, or what2
Quite a considerable amount Of build.
ing is going on throughout the city,
principally, however, in the business
portion Of the city. where property is
valuable.
Tomorrow morning the Police and
Fire Commissioners will hold a meeting,
and the Recorders Court will open at 9
o'clock a. IA, instead of 8 o'clock, as
heretofore.
The Adams street station house has
ceased to be an object Of interest to re-
porters, now that the city is becoming
Outrageously moral and but two or three
arrests are made slightly.
The river is getting down rapidly to
low water mark, aud boatmen have q
rough time Of it steering clear of san,l-
bars and fogs, which latter have become
unusually prevalent of late.
The Nashville American of yesterday
announces the startling news that Il thin
ice formed at Memphis on Tuesday
night" The news is too thin, bat il is
much thicker than was the ice.
So far one.third Of the cotton crop re.
ceived here, the total receipts being over
$4,000 bales, has been shipped south
ward, and the remaining two-thirds has
gone the northward routes to the sea-
ports.
The City Fathers have not as yet set
tied as to what attorney will be employed
to assist City Attorney Walker in fight
ing the Leftwich and LoAand bonds suits
which are about to be heard in the Su-
preme Court.
There are a large number of small
dwellings vacant throughout the city, a
result caused either by a dearth in me-
chanical business, the absence of small
tenants or the high rent asked for prop
erty by landlords.
1t is announced that Captain Marye,
of the State Ordnance Department, has
received all the guns in the possession
OF the State, and thatthey vii! be shipped
from Nashville within a few days. The
breech-losders will be received within
the next month.
The Board of Aldermen refused to
strike out the back pay grab item from
the salary account last evening by the
following vote; For the back pay grab
Dryer, Malatesta, Happsk, White, Doyle,
Mortii against the grab--Metcalf, Hills.
man.
Chairman Tom Holman, jr., of the
County Court, on settlement with The
insurance companies, based upon the
estimates of the damages during the late
FIRE, agreed upon the amount of dam
ages at 1886. The building will be re.
paired Immediately.
Judge Flippin has taken his seat upon
the Criminal Court bench to-day, he
having recovered from his late illness,
Special Judge H%orrigan, who has been
sitting upon the bench during the past
few days, retires to practice as usual on
the other side Of tue bar benches.
A o~ne-dollar p%oll.tax resolution passed
on is first reading in the Council last
night and was referred to the Ordinance
Committee. 1t is proposed to make the
payment of said poll-tax a prerequisite
to voting in the next municipal election
or in other words, to create a personal
property qualification.
An oyster war has been inaugurateC
here among dealers, but so far the price
of an oyster on the half-shell has mo-
decreased from its old rate, four ant
one sixth cents, or fifty cents per dozen
If the war caused the price of oysters t
fall there would be rejoicing in oyster
eating circles during the season,
The James Howard aud Thompson
Dean, two very fine boats, we're at thu
landing yesterday, and their departure
for New Orleans was witnessed by crowds
Of people from the bluff. The new Belle
Lee, now called Mary Belle, will leave
st, Louis Saturday, and will arrive her,
on Tuesday next, She will attract con
siderable attention on her arrival.
In the Memphis journals those col
umus devoted to Letters from the Pee
pile" often contain considerable iuforma
ton and food for reflection. In othe,
cities letters from the people" are offer
written by the newspapermen who be
come weary Of locating their labors il
the regular news columns and they tax,
advantage Of the other column to Civ,
an air of freshness to their style.
II is said that if you scratch the bacl
Of a Russian you will wake up a Tartar