Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-29
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ferers.
When a nan is now arrested on infor-
nation given by one who seeks a reward,
it is called McCartyiug."
Tho town clock will strike from one
to twelve ere long, now that Colonel
Lenow has taken it upon himself to get
up the necessary subscriptions.
Fire Chief McFadden left for New
York today to attend the annual Con.
v%ention of Chiefs Of Fire Departments
Of the different States.
The dues of members Of the Chamber
OF Commerce have been fixed al twelve
dollars for individuals and twenty dollars
for firms.
The General Council will assemble on
Wednesday next, and then a dozen
Mayoralty candidates can gaze at each
other.
The Hebrew new year called Rosh
(Hash)o iona, an appropriate name for a
feast, will commence tomorrow. The
Jews date their years from the age Of
the world instead of from the birth Of
Christ.
Few people saw the eclipse of the sun
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this morning because they did not get
mp sufficiently early, and ever if they
did the eclipse was not visible in this
latitude. So the early bird could not
catch the eclipsed early worm this time.
Our reporter has heard Of a chap who
announces himself as the workingman's
candidate for the mayorAlty, and he de-
fines workingmen to be Of a special
class; just as if every man who earns a
living by working either his brains or
muscles, or both, is not q workiDgman.
The County Court will meet in quar-
terly session on Monday next, when the
questions will zone up; The Beatty
Poor-house scandal and the Brooks mis-
management of Poor-house affairs. The
people will watch the result with consid,
cradle interest.
This is an unfortunate season for chill.
dren. Several deaths have occurred re-
Gently. Mr.. Harry Hill lost a beautiful
child yesterday and another one is moi
expected to live. The dAease is dip.
liberia, and was contracted at Bolivar.
Captain Joyce, the cotton news re.
porter at the telegraph office, rejoiced
exceedingly yesterday and received the
congratulations of his friends over the
appearance Of a Therapeutics cir
baby in his family.
In the First Chancery Court to-day
Minnie Jackson (nig filed a bill fol
divorce against Towns jackson, her
truant husband, who has abandoned her
and acted in many othen naughty ways
not laid down in the rules governing
marriage relations.
The Illinois has changed her leaving
days from Fridays to Thursdays. She
will arrive Wednesday and leave Thurs
day evening for Vicksburg and the bends
and makes direct connection with the
packets for New Orleans and Yazoo and
Tallahatchie rivers. q
A general cleaning out Of that Augeau
Stable, known al the County Poor.house
would seem TO be necessary. A new sci
Of officials from top to. bottom should be
employed by the County Court and q
general cutting down of expenses should
be inaugurated.
1t is rumored that Esquire G. L.
Brooks, Chairman of the Poor.house
Commissioners, and defender of the
Poor-house ring scandal, is about TO usher
another pamphlet into the world, wherein
he purposes to prove that the Poor-house
is a much-abused institution and its off.
cials a lot Of sanctifed men who can dc
no wrong.
The track on the Washington street
extension Of the Charleston railway il
laid to Front street, where the curve
commences running down the landing to
intersect the switch of the Little Rock
railway depot. The track will cut Of
about twenty feet Of the north end oil
the Little Rock depot, and will just miss
the west wall Of the Memphis Oil Com.
pany's works.
There are thirty-four newsboys in Mem.
phis, and Capt. j. &. Lewis has thirty.
four positive friends for his Kindness to
them. Some of them will have to be
useful and prominent men. Their
names are known and filed away. Some
one on the list will perhaps be Mayor oil
Memphis, and over one hundred thou.
sand people. Another will go to Con.
gress, and others will rise 10 be be able
Journalists, politicians and capitalists.
In the Criminal Court to-day Thomas
Gibson (negro) was placed on trial on
indictment for killing an ex. street cal
driver near Elmwood Cemetery in Au.
gust, 1874. The parties got into a per
sonal difficulty and the negro stabbed
his antagonist. The man died at the
City Hospital in December, 1874, nearly
three months after receiving the wound,
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