Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-12

uVt nave MIN receive a per Centdge o
the collections, Gays Judge BaxteI
He also says he cannot go around
dun delinqucnts, but must have clerI
cal assistance.
Ii is stated that $1,000 of the wharf
age fund has been used for other ex
penses under the old city govern
ment. If such is the case Judg
Baxter says it shall be reinstated fror
future collections of the privileg
fund. The amount now on hand will
be paid out to those properly entitled
to it.
Judge Baxter declars that the mer
chants tax and privilege fund now OF
hand to pay the police and FIRE depart
ment expenses shall not go into tn,
hands of a receiver, but must be de.
voted to paying the fire and police
force. If anything is left after set.
Elements are made it goes to the re.
ceiver.
Madame Modjeska and a party o.
her troupe enjoyed a carriage drive
along the landing yesterday. The
wide rolling river, the numerous
steamers and the piles of freight on
the wharf we're fully and fairly OBJ
served by the sight-seers, while they
in turn were fairly observed by ma
riners and others whose business home
is along our river front.
A simple darky, Mailing from Pales-
tine, Texas, and not from the holy
land, as one might suppose, from his
cOniding nature, permitted himself
to be swindled out Of $50 in good cur
rency by a couple of rascals yesterday.
They used a bogus check for $500 on
the Manhattan Bank, payable to the
order of Back, Brown Il Co., and dated
February l, 1878. Sam was on his
way to Jackson, Miss, when taken in
so badly. The villains employed Sam
to convey baggage, and in his %guileless
yerdancy he believed them honest gen
tlemen. No trace of the swindlers.
While ex- Mayor John r. Flippin
vas sick last summer, the then acting
mayor, DR.. Goodyear, with the APP
proval of the city finance committee,
used between seven and eight thousand
dollars of the regular wharfage fund
to pay the police and iremen. Judge
Baxter says this sum must be replaced
from future collections. The present
amount of the wharfage fund, in cash,
is between four and five thousand dol
lars. This with the other item sums
up nearly thirteen thousand dollars,
which, if all in hand, would be avail
able for wharfage Improvement pur-
poses.
Judge Baxter said yesterday after
noon on the bench of the United
States Court, regarding the funds Of
the old corporation 81 do not think
| will require the receiver to disburse
any funds, but have him pay the money
into the hands of the clerk of the
court, he to disburse it in accordance
with the claims of creditors. The
creditors should have time, say the
third Tuesday in May, to come into
court and be made parties as creditors.
The funds in bank need not 20 into
the hands of the receiver. The bank
can be ordered to pay it to the clerk.
to be paid out to creditors under the
order of the court. The reason Of
leaving this matter over until May is
give all parties time to get ready to
present their claims. If the corpora
ton is extinct creditors who have
due at a future time can also
come in and present their claims.
The funds ought to be distributed as
fast as they come in. The proper way
may be, in the progress of the case.
would be that the court make an ad-
i%itional levy 50 as to pay off all the