Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-10
DISTRICT DREGS.
Meeting Of the Legislative Council Yes
terday Afternoon In Regular
Monthly Session.
Reception OF Various RepOrts-The Pres
ideney Of the Board of Health
Left Open.

The Legislative Council met in regula
monthly session yesterday afternoon, will
President Hadden in the chair, and the fol
lowing members present: Messrs. Burke
Graves, Gavin, kney, Wallace and Lee.
FIRES IN THE CITY.
Chief Cleary reported that the department
was called out to alarms attended with mate
rial loss eight times; false alarms, one; loss
TO owners, S34S5; insurance of owners, S1I, :
| 900; loss OF occupants, $3.50; insurance OF
occupants $4,000; total loss, S5O35; total in
1 surance, SIS, 900; insurance over loss, SIC, 800
| Expenditures for the month of January,
| 1882: Chief engineers salary and payroll,
S230S 63. Received and filed.
POLICE ITEMS
! Chief Davis reported the total number OF
arrests at 346; white, US; colored, III
/ male, 81 female, So; married, ITO; single,
! 236; number fined 108; number discharged,
| 142; State cases, 49, fugitives, .; amount of
| fines assessed, Sl470; amount of fines paid,
| S268; amount paid on mittimus, $3.50 %;
payroll, S2727; total expenses, S3O11 So;
stolen property recovered, 1917 80; dodgers,
40. Received and filed.
INSPECTORS RECEIPTS.
George Mallory, Taxing District inspector,
reported the gross receipts OF his office for
the month ending January 81, 1882, at
1864 "a. Received and filed.
THE cTTY's HEALTH.
The monthly report of the BoarI Of Health
for January stated: Loads of garbage re-
moved, 1866; houses fumigated, 10; vaults
emptied and filled, IS; cisterns cleaned, 7;
patients sent to hospital, 63; patients treated
at dispensary, 100; births reported, 20;
Deaths SO; parties vaccinated 'at dispensary,
1903; expenses, Sl2ll so. Received and filed.
REGISTERS READING.
Register Ben K Pullen reported: Number
of licenses issued, 1882; amount of same,
SIG, 1872 so; amount received for fees on
licenses, 1858; amount received for transfers,
IS; total, 1866. Received and filed.
MARKET RECEIPTS.
E Barinds, North marketmasttr, reported
collections at $50 so. X II. Mccain, South
matchmaker, reported his collections at
$3.50 25 Received and filed.
HOSPITAL REPORT.
Dr. A. A. Laurence reported the condition
of the city hospital as follows Patients re-
manning December 81, 1881, "a; received in
January, 1882, 81; discharged, "a; deceased,
Is; remaining January 81, 80; total num-
Der treated, 10; percentage of mortality,
102. Residence OF patients received during
the month: Taxing District, 49, Tennessee
%; Arkansas. ID; Mississippi, 8; other
States, IS. Total, 81. Disbursements, S1299 |
so; receipts, S173; cost to District, Sll26 80; |
number OF patients remaining in marine |
hospital, January l, 1882, Z; number of pa
tients remaining on the last day of January, |
g; expenditures, $l73. Received and filed. |
RENTS.
Rental Agent Pullen reported collections
for January, 1882. at 1878 IS, which has
been paid to L. l.. McGowD, trustee; rents
due, 1872 IA. Received and filed.
SIDEWALK PETITIONS.
Several citizens submitted a petition ask
ing for a sidewalk on the west side of Manas-
,as street, between Poplar street and Raleigh
road. Ordered.
A petition asked for sidewalks on the east
tide of Main street, between Alabama and
Webster streets. Ordered.
A petition was submitted asking for side
walk on the west side of Desoto street, from
Beale to Linden street. Ordered.
WANTED, A PAVEMENT. J
A petition was submitted asking that the !
Engineer make an estimate of the cost of
epaving Poplar street with Nicolson pave
nent, using the old base, when found to be
ound, from the curbstone to the railroad
racks on each side, from Front to Manas-
as streets; and also for new cutters and
epairing said street from Manassas to Dun
ap. Granted.
MORE SIDEWALKS.
A petition was submitted asking that the
idewalk on Auction street, between Fifth |
nd Seventh streets, Chelsea, be repaired.
ordered.
A petition was submitted fer sidewalk on
be south side of Looney street, between
fifth and Seventh streets, Chelsea. Ordered |
A petition WIS submitted asking for side
-alk on Beale street, between Second and the
ayou. Ordered.
A petition was submitted from Alice A.
Yoodson to repair a roof on lot No. 10 De-
oto street, between Union and Gayoso. Re-
erred TO the chief of the fire department. :
FIRE RELIEF SOCIETY.
Messrs ]. f. Cleary, c. L. Bacigalupo and
ames Ryan submitted petition asking that I
lie hall in the third story of No. l engine
ouse be loaned to the Memphis Fire
elief Association for the purpose of holding
nd transacting the business OF the associa- .
on, and if the same id granted to them they
i'll guarantee to keep the same in good
rder and repair the now leaky roof. Re-
FRED to the Fire and Police Commissioners
it'll power TO act.
A petition was submitted by w. L. Marsh
nd NJ. l.. Meacham, asking permission to
smove the house situated on the corner of |
lain and Beale streets to lot owned by I
n. NJ. L. Meacham on the next block, the {
nth side of Beale street between Saelby V
nd Tennessee streets. Rejected. c
PAVING BEAIE STREET. .
Mr.. Kney submitted the following report
progress: -
We, the undersigned property-owners on r
eale street, in Memphis, Tennessee, hereby =
bscribe and agree to pay Chales Kney on n
mand, the amounts placed opposite our +
spective names, to be used, however, on the :;
lie condition that the Taxing District OF n
elbY county make contract and pave dur -