Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-31

aud general iollity will prevail. At the
close Of the meeting q hop" will be in
order.
On and after to-day trains will run over
the Mississippi and Tennessee road as
follows: Mail leaves at $3.50 pm; ex-
press leaves at 1880 pm; mail arrives
at 2:25 pm; express arrives a t8:45 am;
freight and accommodation, daily except
Sunday, leaves at 600 am; arrives at
ABS pm.
At the General Council meeting on
Saturday night a written invitation was
presented by P. NJ. Patterson & Co. to
the membsrs, soliciting them to ride
over the Nicolson pavement and un-
paved streets Of the city in a low spring
wagon. The humorous invitation was
Indignantly tabled"
For weeks pest city ofice-seekers wore
a hopeful smile, but yesterday the great
majority Of Them wore a melancholy
expression, which was admirably relieved
by the laughing and happy c~ouutenances
Of the few who we're elected by the Gen.
eral Council. As Joaquin Miller said:
The teetsr board Of life goes up.
The teeter board Of life goes down:
me biggest dog has been a pup,
Inc sweetest faces wear q frown," etc.
According to the statement of the
scholastic population Of Tennessee, in
GLIDING children between the ages Of six
and eighteen years. just completed by
State Superintendent Trousdale, Shelby
county has-white, ll.457; black, 1865;
total, %. l25 school children. The total
scholastic population of the State is as
follows; white males, l64.649; females,
l55,O22; total whites, 3l9,67l; black
males, 54,O27; females, 52,2O3; total
blacks, l66,23Oi grand total of whites
and blacks, 425, sol.
At the election OF city officers held by
the General Council on Saturday night
our reporter received three votes for the
office of City Hail Waterman. This was
complimentary, as 'our man has been
acting as Waterman OF the City Hall and
its inhabitants for two years past, dur
ing Mayor Leagues administration, but
our man resigned the position Of honor
when Mayor Flippin took his seat. On
Saturday night, also, Hop Johnston of
the Appeal and Will Trask Of the Ava
lanche received complimentary votes for
the office of Court Square k~eeper-feeder
of the squirrels and washer of the bust of
Andrew jackson.
The city sppointees elect are City AT
torney, Sam P. Walker; Register, Crab
tree Belcher; Engineer, j. l.. Meigs;
Treasurer, ]. C. Nicely; Recorder, VIM
l.. Duff; Inspector, c. A. IieHingwell;
Hospital Physician, G. D. Thornton
Board Of Health President, E NJ. Willett;
Health Officer, J. H. Erskine, and Sec
rotary Fl. W. Jones; Sergeant.at.Arms,
A. r. Droescher; Lumber Inspector, NJ.
Borlsndi Wharfmsster, P. Kallaher;
South Memphis Matchmaker, W. H.
Phillips (colored); North Market, 6. NJ.
Grant; City Hall %janitor, Sam Letcher
(colored) Waterman City Hall, P. Elan.
again. Court Square keeper, P. Heating.
The other appointments will be made
next Monday night by Mayor Flippiu.
TIE General Council will meet 10 reg
ular monthly session on next Wednes-
day night and will close out the official
vacancies by filing them. The squab-
BILE now is over the City Comptrollership,
DR.. D. I. Porter being the Mayors
nominee, and Mr.. James A. Newsom
being the choice of the General Council
in caucus, he receiving ~twenty-three
votes out Of thirty. The Tax Collector
ship is also unsettled for the present. 1t
is rumored that should DR., Porter get
elected he will place the present Regis
ter, Mr.. Williamson, in charge Of the
Office. And right there the fght is made,
the General Council being CT opinion
that there are hundreds of Democrats
and Conservatives in our midst who can
ill the office quite as well as Mr.. Will
Hanson, who in politics is a square out
Radical.
A good story is told Of a well known
Memphian, not now y resident of the
city. At the time of the Grand Duke
Alexis visit to Memphis the citizen
above referred to was very enthusiastic
in entertaining him as beftted the son Of
a Russian Emperor, and often expressed
a desire to have some memento Of the
ducal visit. The day after the Grand
Duke LEFT a we'll known wsg was put in
the room at the Peabody, which room one
Of the Grand Dukes staff officers oecu,
pied during tbs visit. In the room he
found the yash-bill Of the Russian noble,
and it registered the amount oftbe weeks
washing as follows: -Four collars and
two pair of socks" Rushing down stairs
he met the memento-seeker in a crowd,
aud, taking out the vash.bill, exclaimed
Mr.. - here it is; this memento or
souvenir Of the ducal visit was left by
Count Poplenoa for you, with his com.
pliments, # and he read aloud Toe Item
lied wssh.hill. 1t was q commentary on
Russian cleanliness, and if the inhabi.
tants Of St, Petersburg we're li9teuipg al