Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-13
LEDGER LINES.

Sheriff.
The weather has been decidedly chilly
since yesterday morning.
Graham -four, cracked wheat, oat-
meal at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
Mr.. Madden is instructed to report to
the Board Of Health withthe chaingang
for thirls days. This is a healthy move.
Il. B. Plant, President, and George
q Tilley, Secretary of the Southern
Express Company, arrived yesterday
from a Southern tour extending into
Texas and Mexico.
Aldermen White, Dryer and Dent
were appointed last night on a Joint com
mittee to investigate and report on the
city charter. That is unnecessary; the
Appeal has done it already.
Petitions and cross petitions were read
to the General Council last night in re-
gard to the houses of alleged disrepute
on a certain street. A good adver-
tisement for--property in that locality.
Mr.. Ed j. Wendell, one OF our most
popular and deserving young business
men, has purchased an interest in the
old and solid firm Of Ralph Wormely Il
-
Co., where ne has long been employed.
The Legislature passed a law enlarg-
ing the jurisdiction and powers of mag
istrates, Justice Miller took advantage
of it unexpectedly, after uniting a couple
in the bonds of matrimony yesterday, by
kissing the bride.
1t is a misdemeanor, if not q high
crime, for the Citizens Protective Union
to make q suggestion to the School
Board. Those protective gentlemen
ought to be content to pay taxes and
keep quiet.
An ordinance was introduced last
night in the Board of Aldermen making
it a misdemeanor, among other things,
to kill an English sparrow. Wouldn't
it be well to include the English Ian.
guage alsoH
Some clauses in the new charter most
cautiously criticized we're copied yer
batim from the old one, and were never
before regarded as Objectionable OF
faulty. The critics had better read NJ
the old charter before displaying al
their ignorance or learning, as the case
may be.
Ex-Governor James E. English, o.
Connecticut, accompanied by his son
81. F. English, arrived at the Peabody
Hotel this morning, returning from AZ
extensive Southern tour. The distin
guished gentleman received a numbe
of calls to-day from political friends ant
admirers. He goes East tomorrow.
The mild hammered reports Of tn,
morning papers give no idea of th'
stormy proceedings last night at tb,
meeting of the General Council. Fo.
want of space and pressure of other i'm
portant matter we are unable to suppl,
the racy parts of the report, bat viii
promise the readers of the LEDGER to d.
so to morrow.
Yesterday morning a boy named
Frank Kelly, about 10 years of age
while riding into the city on a load o
cotton, just beyond the old toll-gate, 81
Poplar street boulevard, slipped from hi
seat, and in his effort to jump from th'
wagon got his feet entangled in thu
traces and fell with great force on hi
head, and before the horses could b.
stopped the wheels of the wagon passed
over his head. He was taken up in az
insensible condition, the blood stream
ing from his nose and mouth, aud carried
into the gate house, where be died in 1
few minutes. Esquire Spelmau held the
inquest. The boy lived in Germantown
where he has a widowed mother and two
sisters, who were partly dependent on
his labor for a support, '