Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-05

Monday next. The only change mad
is that the mail train, conductor Dave,
will leave Memphis at 400 . m. and q
rive at 500 am. The same train wi
leave Covington at 700 am. and arriv
at CovingtOn at 600 pm. daily, exceT
Sundays.
The police aud fremen we're to hav
been paid of in cash for the month {
December yesterday BY Mayor Flippir
but the refusal Of ex.City Treasure
Kelly to turn over the funds in his hand
until a General Council committee ha,
examined his books and accounts necel
sarily caused a postponement of the pay
ment for a few days.
The Illuminated invitation cards of th
mysterious Memphi are 10 circulation
The design Of the invitation card i
unique and attractive, but to our min,
not 80 much so as the design Of las
years invitation card. King Menus o
the Ulka has also issued invitation card
inviting knight and danes to his Castl
Hall ball at the Exposition building OF
Mardi-Gras night.
The County Court should, by al
means. make some arrangement viii
County Undertaken Walsh, 80 that som
proper place could be secured as a recep
tiele for the pauper dead until the bodies
are removed to the pOtter's field. Ar
cid stable filed with horses and wagon.
is not the proper place for a morgue.
But the old couplet is still in force:
Rattle his bones over the stones,
ITS only 0 pauper whom nobody owns"
Through the tiodness Of Hoist & Bro,
u~ndertakers, and Colonel Lenow, of Elm.
wood Cemetery, the expenses Of the in.
terment Of Katie Mccormick only
amounted to twenty dollars. Our re.
porter collected this amount frsm nine.
teen gentlemen and one lady, each Of
whom responded to his call for q dollar,
an the dill Of expenses was paid before
the iniernent took place yesterday.
At the General Council meeting last
night ex!Treasurer Martin Kelly refused
to turn over the funds 10 his hands to
Treasurer Esely urtil a committee had
been appointed to examine his books and
accounts. This request was complied
with and q committee so appointed. Elk.
Treasurer Kelly desires that bis books
aud accounts shall be ibdorsed as all
right by the General Council, all ofwhich
is quite proper.
During the performance on the stage
OF the Theater COmique last night Miss
Lilly Bsrretto, one Of the actresses. was
accidentally shot in the head With a wad
from a pistol and the powder was driven
into her face. The wsd impinged upon
a heavy wig which she was wearing over
her own hair and ~ricochetted Of among
the wings" The girl tainted on the
stage, and a scene Of confusion followed.
but the audience believing it was all in
-
the play cheered vociferously for several
minutes.
Il have no use for a man who likes
snow" exclaimed a wellkuown citizen
yesterday. Il have no use for a man
who does not like snow" answered an
other. Well exclaimed a third,
there is>a chance for an. argument"
The lover Of snow replied: II can give
a reason for my opinion" What is
it2' asked the anti.snow man. Because
the man who does not like snow must be
afraid that his tracks will be discovered "
An adjournment was had Immediately
and the anti.snow man set EN- up at
the bar.
Brother Samuel Watson, or Chief
Watson" as Mrs. Miller calls him when
she plays the ghost role on the stage,
has written US a long, rambling cUmmu-
nication, and says that when he, in his
invitation to the leading editors Of the
Memphis press, expressed himself as
wishing 10 have sober, sensible and
truthful men, he did not refer either by
implication or otherwise to the report
efs who exposed the Miller frauds. 1t
matters little whether or not Brother
Watson intended TO reflect on the re-
pOrters; they are amply able to take
care Of themselves in every respect.
Ex.Secrelary DR., R Fl. Taylor, of the
Board Of Health, presented his last re.
port to the General Council a few nights
since. The total number of deaths for
the month OF January was rs, being l6
less than the number reported for the
corresponding month 10 1875, and 80 less
than for the same mopth 10 ls74-35
were whites and 10 blacks. The report
is deliberately gotten up, it giving the
number Of deaths Of whites and blacks,
social relations, nativity, ages, localities,
marriages, births, and q comparative
OF monthly mortality for three
years.
KAHN g. FREIBERG,
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