Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-07

Aeuo Ou TUG OOtner OF and See
ond streets yesterday afternoon. 1t was
warm and tiresome work for. those who
came of of day duty, as well as for those
who were to so on night duty.
The reelection Of Fire Chief Mead
den and Police Chief Athy by the Com
mIssioners has given satisfaction to all
citizens except the men OF the City Hall
ring, who wished to remove these good
officers and replace them with ignorant
and incompetent men.
Several fights between women and be-
tween men we're INDUCED in at James
Park late last night. No serious damage
was done during the engagements, ex-
eept to the head gear of the belligerent
members Of the half world, who settled
a feud of some months standing.
Yesterday afternoon the team belong.
ING to John CASTOR broke away on Sec
ond street, near Madison, and dashed at
a terrible pace up Second to Adams aud
into Joe McCullers' stable. The buggy
collided with a post near the stable and
lost a wheel. No other damage done.
Mr.. NJ. E. Smelser, of the Avalanche
staff, left for St. Louis to-day on the
steamer Capitol City. Mr.. Smelser has
been in wretched health for some months,
but he has a host of friends in this city
who wish him well and a rapid restora.
ton to that best boon Of Providence
good health.
The gentleman who reads the ordi-
nances, ETC., to the General Council
does SO in his shirt sleeves, owing TO the
hot spring weather, and the reporters
smoke their cheap cigars as they take
notes of the proceedings. This is DEM
o%cratic, as it should be in this section of
the land of liberty.
Yesterday afternoon the Danbury
steam fire engine was put to work and
washed out the North Memphis market,
and loon aiterward rushed out to the
fire, which broke out in the foundry of
Johnson & Risk, on Madison street, but
no streams we're thrown by steamers, the
fire having been suppressed by the
timely application of a few buckets Of
water.
Half the Eegroes of Fort Pickering,
armed with pistols and shotguns, turned
out en- masse yesterday morning to kill
a dog which was reported mad. There
was shooting, yelling and running, but.
the dog cleverly ran the gauntlet, after
having been shot at fifty times, and
escaped to the heart of the city, where
he could be recognized as q a n animal
by white folks.
Now that the Mayor and City Attor-
ney do not harmonize on legal points,
the Mayor gets his legal and other inspi-
rations from the City Register, M. T..
Williamson, who often assumes to die
tate to the General Council as to how he
will keep the minutes of the Council and
what will appear in these minutes, an
assumption which the General Council
should check Immediately.
But yesterday the policemen and FIRE
men had about fifty masters whom it
was dangerous to disobey, but to-day the
number has been reduced to FIVE, and
these five commissioners are rot in poll.
tics, have no municipal aspirations;
hence, they will not require anything but
good conduct and attention to duty on
the part of those under their control.
Mayor League summoned the General
Council to assemble at the City Hall at
l o'clock to-day for the purpose Of max
ing arrangements to receive Vice Presi.
dent Wilson of the United States, who
will reach here at 2 o'clock tomorrow
from Nashville. Mr.. Wilson is a well.
known Radical and firm hater of the
South, but the utmost attention and po-
likeness is due him, in his official eapac-
ity, as Vice President of the United
States.
The Mayor, not having recovered from
the effect of firing of the vetoes, did not
appear at the City Hall last night. He
went to his little roost, and on waking up
at daylight this morning cried out:
Hand me an Appeal and let me read
the head lines that Heating put over the
Council proceedings" He read them,
saw that the police and FIRE commission.
ers had been sworn in by another man,
and signing sadly, fell back on his pillow
and slept like a child, to dream sweet
dreams Of vetoes and injuuctions.
Memphis has lost at least $50, 600 by
the renting Of fines, imposed at the
Recorders Court. These fines seem to
have been RENTED by almost everybody,
including the Mayor and Recorder, and
yet no law or ordinance exists authoriz.