Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-11
LEDGER LINES.

inch below the hign water marx OF 1901.
The General Council will meet at the
Hall tonight to wind up unfinished
monthly business.
Court Square fountain has arrived, and
the work Of putting it up in Court Square
will be commenced at once.
Notwithstanding the high waters but
little damage, comparatively, has been
done to the cotton growing region of
the country.
Interesting religious ceremonies are
being carried on in the Catholic and
Episcopal churches Of this city during
the Holy Week.
At the School Board meeting held last
night Visitor Hill, of the Sixth ward, re-
signed, and DR.. Saunders was elected to
ell the vacancy.
The steamer Illinois had three flags
(set of %colors) presented to her yester-
day by the merchants of the city. The
flags we're baptised in champagne.
Quite a large and fashionable audience
attended the theater last night to hear
the Richings-B Bernard troupe sing the
opera Lefty. Tonight the Rose Of
Tyrol" will be the musical attraction.
The French say, "rhomme propose,
ct Dieu dispose" Punch has it for leap.
year, ia femme propose, Dieu dispose"
but the New York Evening Post starts a
new one; "rhonme propose, la femme
oppose, lie diable dispose"
Judge Barbour Lewis has been con.
irmed by the United States Senate as
appraiser of custom house merchandise
at this point. Judge Lewis now holds
the position heretofore held by Mr., Dyer,
who is now Consul at Odessa, Russia.
The Police Commissioners issued an
order t no d Recorders Court at
o'clock am. on and after the 18th inst.
each day, Sundays excepted, and that
the Recorder shall only hold one cour
each day except by permission of tn,
Board.
The No. 4 Silsby rotary of the MAR
street engine-house, and the Latta rotar.
Of DeSoto street, will engage in a tria
test this afternoon. The former hai
been in use Eve years, and the latte
about eighteen months. The test will b
made through FIVE hundred feet of hos
and g inch and a half nozzle.
The Prussian military band gave
farewell concert at Cochran Hall las
nj hit before a very large audience. Th
band left to-day by river for New o.
leans. Previous to leaving a ~delegatio
from the German Casino club, heade
by the President, appeared at the boz
aud presented the director of the ban,
Carl Beck, with a beautiful baton"
A few days since a warden Of IL
. City Hospital was discovered in a mo
equivocal position, which at once we
suggestive Of scandal. One of the {
: male inmates was discovered in his roo
= = by DR.. Thornton, the physician
charge. DR.. Thornton at once di
. charged the man from the position whit
he was using for improper purposes.
The General Council investigator
Q committee is still hammering away
" the Recorder, the principal witnesses b
ing Barinds, the police Office clerk, al
others connected with the police depal
J ment. The fight is a very pretty n I
it stands, and grew out Of the feud Whit
started up weeks ago between the R
!. corder and Chief Of Police as to static
house affairs with reference to r%eleasiI
persons arrested.
The monotone of Sunday church bel
has attracted the attention Of the eve
Il watchful reporters in search of item
and their notes are as follows: ~
= Presbyterian bell, on Sunday mornin
coldly calls out, This way, this way
> The Baptist bell says, Now dive, nc
dip!" The Catholic bell commanding
rings, This is, this is, this is, the chur,
, of-GodT' The Methodist church bel
peal out, Come on, come onl" Il
Episcopal bell rings, "'Begone, dr
carel'" and the bells of the AfricI
churches chant, "We is de chile OBJ
L~ord-glor' hallelu'."
|. The name Of our city editor has, wit
= out authority, been used in thu testimol
given before the General Council Inv
tigating Committee on the Recorder
: Office imbrsglio. If the committee wi
to know what our representative SO
about the Recorder, the Chief of Poll
. or others connected with police matte
' or what he thinks of each or ell Of the
y the committee had better send for 0
man and not permit illegal heresay t
timony to be introduced before them,
> garbled statements as to what our m
% said on the festive occasion referred
~ in the testimony, or upon any other
!. casion; but we do not think what
man said cuts any figure as to the mer
Of the controversy.
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