Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-21
THE CITY.
M EN- HIS
Friday Evening. Jan. 81, 1876.
LEDGER LINES.

J OSuAb uifOfCc UNI
has been filed by Susan C. Fransioli
against Joseph Fransioli.
Professor Perring's grand vocal and
instrumental concert at the Mendelssohu
Quartette Club rooms tonight.
Enter, Flippin; exit, League. New
General Council, good morning; old
General Council, good night.
Old Probs predicts a big swell in the
Mississippi again, caused by a rise in the
Ohio, Tennessee and Wabash rivers.
Ten misdemesnor cases, principally
DRINKS and d~isorderlies, occupied the
attention Of the Recorder this forenoon.
1t is asserted that there will be a eau.
Gus of the General Council held to-mor.
row afternoon to settle upon the nomina.
tons for the different city offices.
The municipal seance at the City Hall
last night was attended by a larger audi.
ence than appeared in all the other
places OF amusement put together.
Ed Smith (black) carried Of a fat
iron without permission from a dwelling
on Main street last night. He was ar
rested and committed on the charge of
larceny this. morning.
The case Of Riddle, Coleman & Co. VS..
Pillow ct al. was given to the jury this
forenoon in the Federal Court. No yer.
dict had been returned by the jury up to
o'clock this afternoon.
1t is proposed and desired that the
charitable ladies of the city give a sup
per for the benefit of the Citizens Mis-.
slonary Association. What say the
ladies of the various churches?
Wallace Sisters matinee at the theater
tomorrow afternoon. H~arrigan and
Hart matinee at the Greenlaw Opera
House tomorrow forenoon at IL o'clock.
Those who so desire can attend both.
Even ladies are acting as electioneer-
ers for their male friends who aspire to
municipal Offices. They visit the wives
OF Aldermen and Councilmen and try to
get in work for their favorites. Verify,
the times are getting out of joint some
what.
After some belated pedestrian has
been either killed or crippled for life by
stepping into that yawning abyss at the
east end OF the Charleston railroad
bridge, and a suit for damages has been
instituted against the responsible parties,
the necessary repairs at that place will
probably be made.
In the Federal Court to day the use
OF the United States vs.. NJ. Combs, IT.,
was called for trial. The defendant not
having any counsel, Judge Brown ap.
pointed General Humes to defend him
on the indictments charging the collec-
ton Of fraudulent claims, etc, from the
General Government.
Our literary man will erdeavor to pro.
cure from Mayor Flippin all the letters
and petitions sent to him by the candi-
dates for Office and their friends. with a
view to publish the same in pamphlet
form and thereby add materially to the
epistolary literature of the present CEN
tury. The pamphlet would present
mighty interesting reading for the public.
The police captured a barrel of whisky
yesterday that had been stolen from the
steamer Andy Baum by a levee watch.
man and a draymsn. The materialized
removers of spirits without authority
were arrested this morning and found to
be James Burke and Frank futile, levee
watchmen, who we're committed by the
Recorder the sum of $4,000 bonds each,
There wePe two colefed men in the old
General Council ouncilma Clouston,
OF the Fifth, ,and Councilman Moon, of
the Tenth ward. In the new organizs-
ton but one colored man appears, Coun-
Gilman Hardin, a bright looking mulatto,
of the Fifth ward, and he sits between
Councilman Duff of the Fourth and
Councilman Dougherty Of the Fifth
ward.
1t is nov stated that on Monday night
next the second meeting Of the General
Council will be held 1.-THE first to be on
Saturday night, and all will be ready to
receive the Mayors nominations for
various Offices. The wise men say that
the Mayor will insist in selecting his City
Attorney, Comptroller and Treasurer,
but will send two more names to the
General Council for each of the other
Offices to be filed.
No nominations for or elections to
office can be had in the General Council
until the question of the number of
offices, salaries and bonds is settled. The
ordinance creating the offices will have
to be read before the General Council on
two separate days in each board and
shall be approved by the Mayor before it
takes effect, go those who are candidates
for Office Will haye 10 wait . little longer,
it not with confidence, Of leasty With hope
ss to the result.
The new General Council is composed
Of the best locking body Of men that have
sat in the City Hall for many years past.