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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
OmcinIsin C0nneiL

The authorities forming the Legis
lative Council met in monthly ses-
sion yesterday, the Hon. D. ?. Hadden
presiding.
The expenses of the Board of Health
Tor April were announced to have
been $2,003 90. and the hospital ex,
penses 81, 078 30, while receipts of the
latter were 1866 for marine patients.
The patients received in April were
50 and 6 died, while "a were dis
charged and 80 remained. On the
first inst. there we're ID marine
patients RECEIVED, IA discharged and 10
remaining at the end OF the molth,
and patients with small pox were
sent to the pest house.
Receipts from licenses during April
were $5,72S.l7, and the receipts of the
South or Beal street market $l66 Is;
also Of the North or Poplar atreot
market $50. Receipts at the police
court for fines summed up 81 ,103 70
which. together with 1862 paid on
mitimusses, made the total receipts
Sl,7S575. The police pay roll
amounted to $2,775 Go. There were
80 dodgers at the station house during
the month.
The Inspector Or City Weigher pe-
ceived $54023 during April. The
Fire Department turned out six times
to attend fires where material loss oc-
CURED, and the total loss reported was
estimated at S2lgQ.
Messrs. Burke, Kney, Livermare
and Fire Chief Qlenry were made a
committee to select a location for the
storage of coal oil, the present storage
system being deemed dangerous,
President Hadden announced that
the chain gang will be set to work on
Winchester street, and he mentioned
that the Sheriff wishes rs per cent Of
the poll tax claims placed in his hands,
as with only 4 per cent commissions,
aS pow allowed, they can never be
aolleeted. He also announced that
the Selma railway has not built cul-
vert on Broadway, as contracted, and
authority was given him to see if some
other road will not perform the Job
for the right Of way over that street.
The vacant ground on the river
'front.' near the elevator, asked for
some time ago for mill purposes By
Mr.. I. B. Sims, is to be divided to
suit lease applicants, and will then be
ady9rtiged to be rented to the highest
bidder tor twenty Year,.
The Chief of Police and Market
Masters are to be required to enforce
ordinances against poddling garden
stuff during market hours.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
IN Nj ALE ATTIRE.
The Latest Escapade Of the No
tOriOus Miss Mary j.

That settles it at last sighed
Judge hadden when Mary Jones was
brought into court to>day wearing
mems clothes. Squire, you can
take charge of her now if you think
you can put your great doctrine of
moral suasion to use." Mary Jones
is nulatto girl about eighteen years
of age and has heen a prominent flQ-
ure in the Police, Magistrates and
Criminal Courts ever since her twelfth
year. She has been guilty of nearly
every crime in the calendar; has been
fined, lectured and silently DISCHARGED,
has spent many night in the "hlack"
cell, NaNy q week Id the jail and
many month on Presidents Island
Each time she hobs up serenely" in
new role-sometimes as a picks
pocket, at others as common sneak
thief, occasionally for 9 confidence
gaMe and oftel fGF street walking.
Her VICTIMS number hundreds, and
on several occasions young men Of
good society have put In az com.
plants against ner. As =
RUE she is willing to tell ali
she knows when arTeGted, and
has often handed up her i'll gotten
gains without word-sums amounts
ing eften to fifty or hundred dollars
After every other means had been
tried in vain, she was put to work on
the chain gang, driving cart, but
managed to make her escape in a short
time. Yesterday she was caught in
the act of pawning an overcoat, eyi
IDENTIFY stolen. The officer recognized
at once, in spite of a suit of ragged
but well fitting mems clothes, which
she wore as if TO the manner born
coat, yest, paHtaloOns, shirt, hrogans
and hat, all complete. Her hair was
close cut, and except to a close
observer, would have passed
tor q man anywhere. She
talked as glibly as ever to-day,
and bore the curious gaze of the crowd
without tinching, with smile on her
face, and gently swinging her hat il
the easiest and woat approved dardi
fed manner. Except for a re M
the back Of her coat she would have
passed for model dude. After hor
seanCe with the Judge she took her
seat on the wen's bench in the dock,
aud sat with her legs crossed, seeming.
ly enjoying the proceedings with the
greatest zest. She was ordered back
on the gang, and will probably be
allowed to adopt her new style Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Archbishop CrOks Explains HE
Conduct In Relation TO the
Agitation In ireland.
A Number of the Irish Murder Con-
spirators Arraigned for Trial.
A Measure by Which AgricuItu.
raj Tenants are 10 Receive
Compensation for I'M
pFOVements Made.

ROME, May 11.-Archbishop Croke
has sent communication to Cardinal
Jacobini maintaining that his conduct
In relation to the agitation IN Ireland
has been perfectly regular and that
his object is not to stimulate the re-
volt, but to obtain for the people right
and justice. The explanation of the
Archbishop is not deemed satisfactory
at the Vatican.
CALCUTTA, May LA fight has
occurred between the forces Of the
Ameer of Afghanistan and Shinwar,
ris, resulting in the defeat of the latter
with 200 killed.
LONDON, May l1.-Childers, Chan>
cellor OF the ExcheQuer, stated in the
House Of Commons 'sst evening that
the government wart,d to consider
during the present year the question
OF permitting the growing of tobacco
in the United Kingdom.
DUBLIN, May .-EdwardO Brien.
ThomasDoyle and Edward McCaffrev
recently indicted for conspiracy to
murder, were arraigned this morning.
OBrien and Doyle pleaded guilty
and McCafrey pleaded not guilty.
McCafrey. who was subsequently in.
dicted for the murder of Burke, was
then arraigned to plead to that charge.
lie said he was not guilty and asked
that counsel be assigned him. The
trial was postponed until next week
when a new panel will be called.
DUBLIN, May 11.-Joseph Millett.
who yesterday was sentence to penal
servitude for life for participating in
an attempt to murder Juror Field
exclaimed on leaving the dock after
receiving his sentence that he would
get justice elsewhere. The irish. he
said, would get justice FOR him.
LONDON, May 11.-Right Hon
George Dodson, Chancellor of the
Duchy OF Lancaster, introduced bill
in the House Of Commons yesterda,
by which agricultural tenants will re-
ceive, when their tenancies expire
compensation from landlords for sucl
Improvements as they may have made
to the lands they occupied. This viii
be the principal measure brought be,
fore the House during the session
BY it landlords right Of distress will
be limited to sum equivalent to enc
years rent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
ADJUSTMENTS.


The solo singers to come here with
Theodore Thomas have an extensive
reputation and the combination, aided
by the Mozart Society chorus, will
give the approaching music festival a
prominent place in the list of musical
festivals which have of late years
created SO much enthusiasm
in cities north Of the Ohio
river. The building committee
have performed their work in the
Exposition hall so carefully that there
will be no difficulty about the acous
tics, for the softest notes, either vocal
or instrumental, will be easily heard
in any part of the great hall. 1t may
be stated that one of the rules of
the management will be to prevent no
campstools or folding chairs to be
used by those who purchase general
admission tickets, aud this class will
be compelled to stand throughout the
entertainment.
Entertainment by the Students
Of the Christian Brothers, Col.
lege at Leubrie's Theater.
Last evening the younger students
of the Christian Brothers college gave
their annual May entertainment al
Leubrie's Theater before a large and
fashionable audience. The curtain
was raised at a few minutes before 8
o'clock and displayed to the view of
the audience a panorama of 200 at
tractive boys handsomely attired and
picturesquely arranged on the stage.
The programme was an excellent one
and consisted Of declamations, concert
Rotations, dramatic selections,
songs, and music by the various
music classes and the orches-
ira and band Of the college," all
Of which were admirably rendered, if
we are to judge by the generous ap-
plause and the numerous floral offer
ings bestowed by the audience. The
behsvior and efficiency of the young
students were subjects of general
comment. The Christian Brothers
college is we'll patrenized, and the
faculty of the institution must fee
encouraged by the popular interest
manifested in the various entertain.
ments given by the students.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11

PRESIDENT Arthur referred the
matter Of disbursing the epidemic
fund 70 the Secretary Of the Treasury
and that official has informed dir.
Ellis, of Louisiana, that he should
expend the money through the Marine
Hospital service if there be any neces
sity for expanding it, That settles it,
we hope finally and forever. Fhe
National Board was a nuisance from
the start and never did anything to
keep out or diminish epidemics. Sur.
geon General Hamilton, Of the Marine
Hospital service, can be depended
upon to act with courage and good
Judgment.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
Must Bear the Brunt.

The National Board of Health has
appointed DR.. G. B. Thornton, Presi-
dent Of the Memphis board (also a
member of the Tennessee board, Su-
perintendent Of the river inspection
stations on the Mississippi river above
NewOrleans. DR.. Thornton will open
the station on Presidents island, be-
low Memphis, by May 10.
The expenses of the station will be
met by the National Board Of Health
until June 2; after that date Memphis
will have to bear the expenses, as the
National Board has no funds available
after that date,
Memphis will therefore have the
honor of protecting the Mississippi
valley against yellow fever and cholera
this summer. The appropriation of
the State board is so small that it can
not render any aid, and the shorts
sighted policy OF Congress and of our
State Legislature in the matter leaves
us at the mercy of the pestilence un
less the Taxing District steps in and
protects us. The National Board
should have been given ample funds
to aid the State and local boards in
the keeping out of epidemics.
1t seems astonishing to anyone who
will carefully consider the matter, that
there should be so much neglect by
public men Of. these great interests.
When the pestilence approaches our
border, we are ready to listen to any
thing the Board of Health says, but
in time of safety we neglect to provide
for emergencies. Il Nashville Ameri-
can.
The National Board Of Health dies
hard. Notwithstanding the fact thai
there we're some good men in its ser
vice for whom VIC have the highest
respect, the general man
agement at Washington wa,
a failure and a transparent fraud. The
controlling spirits then knew nothing
about yellow fever and were deter
mined not to learn, and in this only
we're they successful. 1t was the ap
preparation, the soft places, and motto
riety they were after. 1t is all vel
enough to be on the lookout, and Il
enforce sanitary measures in the South
not that there is any prospect Of dan
ger, but as timely preCaution which
will satisfy the public mind, as we'll a
insure greater security. If there j
any special service necessary beyont
the resources of municipal and Stat
governments there is the Ma
rine Hospital service, a thoroughly
organized and efficient brancl
of the government. It's composed o
men trained up to a punctual dis
charge Of duty. Men, too, whose pa
does not depend upon the breakin
out of an epidemic. Congress acte,
wisely in Withholding an appropria
ton from the feather bed, kid GLOW
| National Board Of Health, aud thi
act is highly approved by all who un
derstand the question, and have n,
selfish purpose to serve. OF eOGrs,
the National Board has led many t.
think that the fate of the country de
ponds upon its continuance. Thi
lass, however, is growing beautiful,
less, and will soon be heard Of nj
more.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
ADDITIONAL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, May IL, 400 D. m.-Cot-
ton in moderate inquiry freely supplied
Uplands, b13-15d; Orleans, 5l5-l6d.
Sales to-day, 5000 bales. Receipts, 10, 900
bales American, 10, 800. Futures opened
quieter and closed steady.
NEW YORK, May IL, 1911 pm
Cotton steady. Ordinary, Sex good
ordinary, 9Ac; low middfing, 10 79l6c;
middling, 10 l5-16c; good middiing, IL s. l6c
middling fair, II 1-16c; fair, I3la-10o.
Futures quiet at 3 to G points above
last evening 5 closing figures.
NEW ORLEANS, May II, l1:3O am.
Cotton quiet. Middling, 10 Bloc. Sales
to-day, 500 bales. Receipts to lay. 8Ol4;
at Galveston, liza; at Charleston 9Oa;
Savannah, 25O; Mobile, 1856 Norfolk, lT72
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
Stock rEaHizE account,
Office Of BOARD OF FIRE AND POLICE CON-
MIssIoNERs, TAXING DISTRICT,
MoyIJ ieeo I


WE, Taxing District will receive sealed
! bis until Thursday, Max II, 1883, at j.
o'clock Bo9B, ior a Iesse for twenty yesS
that parcel VI ground between w rs to
sna fePlaI streets ffOAtin| fost on FyOnt
Posiss st Is pSs,AA'n at the intersection Of
lad iss. :, running back from Front street
> The ground will onlv be leased for
Ine purpose of erectiag buildings to be used
ior manufacturing purposes, and may be
divided and leased to two or three separate
paItle;. or 1t may be leased as a whole.
Bidders are required to state the character
OF buildings to be erected, and when to bs
completed, the purposes for which they are
70 be used and the price per foot on Front
street per annum they are willing to pay; say
so much per foot per annum for the FIRST FIVE
years,sn much per foot per annum for the
SECOND hvs years, so much per foot per an
mum for the third five years, and so much per
foot per annum for fourth five years. The
bids. " ~
By order Of the Council
DAVID P. MADDEN,
A., President.
Attest; CHAs. L. PULLES, Secretary. 50 &C.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11

THE Nashville special printed in
Thursday mornings Avalanche was
received by wire Tuesday night and
Put in type and would have appeared
in WeSnsp1ey mornings Avalanche if
the maker-up OF tic soFms had not
accidentally overlooked ltand left 1t
out with a half q column Of other tele-
graphic matter. 1t was printed
Thursday IN the Avalanche with
Tuesdays Nashville date as it was
received, and there was no occasion
for any critical remarks aboutit. No
doubt the LEDGER will have the good
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11

sense to correct its differences and
insinuations.-l Avalanche, llth.
On behalf of the public we accept
the apology as far as the Avalanche
is concerned. The able-bOdied tele>
graphic correspondents who clip bod.
ly from the LEDGER, without giving
credit, are next in order.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11

THE New York World, according 10
reports, has been sold many times in
the last few years. This time it has
been sold sure enough, and Mr.J Oseph
Pulitzer, of the St. Louis POSt-Dis-
patch. will give the people Of GOthaHl
a vigorous specimen of Western jour,
nalism.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11

Mr.. G. w. ARMIsTEAp wishing to
locatein Nashville for the purpose OF
giving his children the advantages of
that educational and business center,
has leased the Bolivar Bulletin to
Prof. JIM. Hubbard formerly editor Of
that paper, The salutatOry of the
incoming editor is quite lacOnic
and business like, He simply and
only says: II have been here before
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
A WOptI.v TIsdvis Dealh.

Matte Kunkle Dent died yesterday
morning after several weeks illness, of
typhoid fever, at the residence Of her
aged parents, No. 271 Linden street.
The ledy's only sister died a year or
more since, aud the poor old parents
are now childless. The Kunkle sis.
ters have been we'll known here to all
familiar with our public schools for a
dozen or more of years past.
They we've both intelligent,
cultivated and kind hearted girls. BY
careful laying by a little saving from
thsir earnings as teachers in the pubs
liz schools, the two young ladies man.
aged to purchase comfortable little
cottage for their own aud their par
ents' use, and in it the two girls have
both died. Their untimely death is a
source Of regret to host of citizens
who admired the industrious and uni
yegsally popular ladies. The sympathy
Of many go out 10 the parents 10 this
their great affection. m
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11

PERSONS expecting TO attepd the
Mozart festival should bear IL mind
that late corners will not be admitted
during the progress Of the perform
anee. They will have to wait at the
door until the e1@ ct number, or, in
theatrical parlance, at the end Of an
act. This rule is absolutely necessary
for the protection Of the singers and
the audience FROM ipterFpption, and
will be Iigidly enforced
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
Notice of settlement.

Ne; lOOS-In the Probate Court of Shelby
county, Tennessee-E NJ Apperson, execu-
tor Of Wade II Bolton, dec d.
tINHIS Is to notify all versions interested in
L the estate of said Wade II Bolton, decd
that Twill, at my Office in the city of Mem
phis, on Monday, May q. 1888, at 10 O'clock
m, take and state the annual settlement
OF the accounts of Z M Apperson as execu-
deceased.
This May 9, 1883.
BY Louis KErTMAH, d. @,
Myers Sneed, attys. GO SO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11

Business men will find it to their
interest to have their job printing
done a. the PpRLIo LEDGER Job print
Office, IL Madison street,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
For sale I'D 3 Rargain.


Ay SScAnA va" anu OEAae nAAAAs
A LS0 10000 or 1900 feet Of cypress and
n poplar lumber, about lC00 feet walnut
ana ASH; al well 9sa .S VIII; u desired
which tho mill is located; good houSes, z
rooms each, entirely above overflow. This
property Is situated az the mouth Of Hatohlo
river, Upton county, Tenn. Can always INV
timber delivered at the mill far below Mems
down the river from mill yard, making this
the most desirable location for . isaWmiu ia
the country. Reason for selling, Il know,
nothing about tho business myself.
81 Nv VIM WILLIAMS, Randolph, Tenn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
College Commencement.

Several persons in this city have
been favored with elegant cards Of In
vitation to the commencement cele-
bration OF the Southwestern Presby-
terrain University at GAINESVILLE, Tenn
which takes place June 9th to 10th
The Stewart and Washington Irving
Literary Societies of the college will
be addressed at s o'clock on the Alb
inst: by the Rev. r. Hemphill of Co.
lqmbia, !. @, Among those who will
figure prominently il the affair are
Messrs Darlington Mason, IT,, D. T
SchOol6eld and Eugene Snowden, Of
this city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
AUCTION SALE.
The Engines, Boilers, Tackle and
Entire Outfit IOf the
Steamer JOHN 3. BRANSFORD

VIII be sold, at public auction, on SATUR-
DAY, May IL h, at II o'clock am. Sale TO
take place on board steamer 7 = Eckert, foot
Size Of engines, l2S-fcur feet. 80 GO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
LIABILITIES.
DIRECTORS.
GRIFFIN SPRINGS,

-" n . . . = ~NH'HNs
THESE Springs. situated 9h miles from
i Searcy. are located amidst the highest
SUBMITS Of the South, eastern extension of
tina Ozark mountains. Opened to the public
but a few years, they have already gained an
enviable reputation as a cure for all Of
woman's peculiar ills, malarial poisoning,
indigestion, granular sore eyes. diseases Of
the urinary system, droptical affections,
palsy, paralysis, etc., etc.
Hotel accommodations perfect, and the
table is supplied with the hest the country
affords. Fare reasonable. For further par
ticulars address.
50 1877 V. II. HENDERSON 4 co, Props.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-11
ABSTRACTS.
The Memphis Abstract Co.

Is now prepared to furnish AbStracta Q
Judgnlents In all courts Of record Ia
Shelby County, except Criminal Court aud
criminal side Of Bartlett Court. lndiapen.
V'o''' D. 4, McOMBER, Manager. .
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-04
THE DECEMBER GRAND JURY.

Judge Cowing, in delivering the charge to the
December Grand Jury, yesterday, congratulated
them on the fact that only l25 prisoners were in
the TOmbs. Only hity-twO cases awaited the acton
of the Jury This number was, he said, remarkably
small The small number of prison cases awaiting
trial showed earnest efforts had been made To arrest
and convict criminals. Az far AZ the prison lists
were an indication, there were fewer crimes that
awaited punishment than he had known before.
Jndge Cowing appointed john l.. Riker, of No. 10
West Fifty-seventh-st., az foreman of the jury.
The other members arc
Marcus Berilner No. 204 West Thirty -nnth-st John
L. Tonnelll No 4s East Sixty eighth-st Joseph X h.
Moore No. AZ sprucest Francis iiovey. No. l32 East
Twentletb-s ST. Edward W. Perry, No b4 WhLsti John
T. Alexander No u West Twenty vcnth-st Freeman
Blo0dgOOd No $40 Boulevard; jacob A. BOgert, No 81
BarrOw-st.; Alexander X. Liing No. East Twenty
eighth-st; James II. Bcekrnnn, No. West Tenth-st !;
John Oxford No 1917 West SiXteenthst Jacob RHnheyi
No 435 West Twenty drstst.; Joseph Mhank, No. u
East Thlrty -nnth-st; james L. Stewart No. $40 East
Fifteenth-st.; George Montague, M. 1874 Broadway;
Robert Campbell, No Madison ave. Adam q. Martin,
No 3O5 East One hundred-and twenty fourth-st Myer
Finn No 1888 East Seventy secOndst. benjamin BTews.
ter No. 500 FifLh-ayej Moriaun Bodine, No lol west
FOurteenthst., and Thomas b. French, No. $50 West
Nmcty-socond-st-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-04
CIVIL NOTES.

Justice Barrett in the Supreme Court, yes
teray sustained the demurrer Of the defendant in the
snit of William ]. Hutchinson against the president OF
the Stock Exchange for 800 damages for his eI
nlsou from the stock Exchange. The demurrer was on
The ground the of action had been Improperly
nted-the equity OF action TO set aside the expu
sion and that damages for the charges put before the
Exchange by its president
Justice Barrett, in the Supreme Court, yester-
day. granted the application of the German Hospital for
peremptory mandamus compelling the Commissioners OF
the Sinking Fund TO renew for nine;y-nne years the
lease of the site OF the hospital at seventyseventh-st
and Fourth-ave which given In 1866 by the Com
mon Council for fifty years. at q nominal rental The
Legislature in 1881 authorized the extension OF the
lease but the Commissioners refused TO act upon on the
ground that the act was UNCONSTITUTIONAL pelhg III cor
PREVENTION of the provision forbiddng city 10 give
money or property In aid Of corporation Judge Bar
rpft holds the constitutionality OF the act because
cones within clause regarding aid TO aud support OF
the poor since the German Hospital Ia bound ~ Its
charter to noursh the INDECENT sick and wounded without
retuu ration.