Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-09
LEDGER LINES.

ouDurOau dWeilerS complain OF the
raids made by burglars and thieves.
The General Council will meet again
in regular session next Friday afternoon.
Seventeen persons we're arrested by
the police yesterday and last night, prin-
cipally for misdemeanors.
The General Council, sitting as a high
court OF impeachment, will meet this az
%ternoon at 8 o'clock at the City Hall.
Two lost children we're carried to the
statiOn-house yesterday, but they we're
recovered and reclaimed by the parents.
Colonel Magevney, the reelected Pc.
lice and Fire Commissioner, received
the congratulations OF hundreds of citi.
zens yesterday.
Tomorrow evening the benefit Of the
theater ushers will come of. The sale
of reserved seats commenced this morn
ing at the theater box.ofice.
The Little Rock Gazette says that
Mr.. Bensdorf, of Memphis, has been ap-
pointed Commissioner of Deeds for Ar.
kansas by Governor Garland.
The next musical attraction will be
the Esther Club concert at the Theater
next Friday evening, on which occasion
our leading vocalists will appear.
At the Criminal Court to-day Judge
Adams is signing bills of exceptions in
cases heard and appeals prayed for and
granted during the p~resentterm Of court.
Coouley, the photographer on Main
street, has made very fine photographs Of
the Court Square fountain, judging from
the specimen sent to the LEDGER Office
yesterday.
John DOolsy is the chap who is trying
to get up a third party in Memphis, and
organize a new ring 10 work in harness
with the Radical end of politics Tor the
sake Of Office.
The picnic Of the German Lutheran
Church Sunday school, held at Hum.
boldt Park yesterday, was largely at.
tended and was quite a success in q
social point Of view.
St. Peters Church sunday-school pic
mic will come off tomorrow at the grow,
adjoining st. Agnes Academy, on Vanc,
street. 1t will be an enjoyable affair fol-
the children and their friends.
A few drinking fountains, PLACED
around Court Square or on our principa
streets, would do more to advance tn
temperance cause than FIVE hundred lee
turers of five hundred wind power each
The Chief of Police has been orderet
by the General Council to abate tn,
nuisance, wherein the County Under
taker keeps the bodies of dead pauper
too long in that old stable on Uniol
street, rear Second.
Judge Adams will adjourn the Grim
nal Court for this term this evening at
o'clock and spend the balance of tn
week away from the city. All bills {
exceptions must be presented to-day, @
} they will not be signed.
The acknowledgements at Olympi
Park on the lst Of June will attract
large crowd of visitors to the city. VIII
will be selected as the queen of love an
beauty2 is now one Of the thrilling sc
ciety sensations of the city.
The three St. Louis thieves and til
tappers, 0'Neal, Green and Thompson
were committed to jail this morning b
the Mayor in default Of $25OO bonds
each. Their chances for visiting tn
Nashville Penitentiary are first class.
To abolish the expensive norma
schools or to keep them up is now a liv
2 issue in the Board of Education, an
will be discussed aud voted upon at tn
next meeting, to be held at Odd Fellow
Hall on Monday evening, the 22d inst.
A considerable amount o. counterfe
money has been put in circulation her
: during the past few weeks by the s
= Louis thieves who were arrested lal
: night, and their friends who cam
here with them, but who have left tn
city.
Seven valuable milch.cows have bee
killed and skinned by the cow.thieves i
the vicinity Of the Leath Orphan As,
lum during the past week. The citizen
are on the alert, and some morning
cheerful COW thief will find himse
dangling from the limb of a tree.
The late rains up the country and tn
: consequent rising of the rivers has prt
duced an uneasy sensation among dow
river planters, but the sudden storm an
rise will not affect the river at this poll
materially at present, as the river
almost in banks and is running out lii
a millrace.
The two new second class Silsby r.
a tary engines contracted for by the cit,
= to take the place of the Adams and Ii
Second street engines, will be tested i
accordance with the terms and specifics
+ tions Of the contract. The engines al
to be of approved style, with all late in
e provements attached, and will arriv
here in about three weeks.
: This Police and Fire Commissions