Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-12-11

just received the Baltimore Home Jour.
nal, Fireside Companion, Southern
Opinion, Southern Society, and the FIRST
number of the Dime Illustrated, Harper's,
Round Table; also, the New York, st.
Louis, Louisville and Chicago papers,
New York Citizen, etc.
GRANDMOTHER HUNTER ON THE WAR
PATH. Since Grandmother Hunters
unrivaled achievement in packing the
"What.is.It" last Thursday night, and
securing the nomination of a candidate
for M2yor of such eminent honesty and
integrity as little Beecher, the old lady
has been beside herself with JOY. Sew
eral times her exuberance has found
vent in the execution of jigs on
the apex of beer barrels equal
to the best efforts of the gifted
Cal Wagner. More than once, in the
excess Of her hilarity, has she accom-
plished summersaults in the presence of
admirlng spectators, that throw the most
daring achievements of the classic Dan
CASTILLO in the shade. Her friends have
become alarmed for fear that the passion
of the hour might induce her to forsake
her judicial vermine and become a
great American acrobat aud humorist.
We tremble at our loss should such ca
lamity befall US. The frat great achieve.
ment since the Whatis.It" packery
burst upon the world yesterday evening.
Our cotemporary the Avalaache not
being duly imbued with the spirit of
veneration for that ornate female which
should find Judgment in the breast of
one thoroughly loyal to the best gov
ernment the world ever saw has been
guilty ofan act of the most fragrant dis
loyalty. 1t has had the unblushing
hardihood to assert that Grandmother
Hunter, while robed in the judicial
vermine, released colored gentlemen ar.
raigued for illustrating their claims to
"honesIy and integrity by little play
full forgetfulness relative to the ownership
of property, by receiving as bondmen
other colored gentlemen whose excess
sively attenuated pedal extremities gave
rise TO the shrewd suspicion Of the nom
possession by their owners of visible
means of livelihood. In other words,
our venerable friend is charged with
accepting as bondsmen prosecuted
gentlemen who but recently ran the
police gauntlet for vagrancy. This
announcement cast shadow on that
lovely and antique females sunlight.
The iceberg of blight entered her soul
and commenced freezing her young
blood. Joy was at an end until the
destroyers of her happiness lay bleeding
at her dainty feet. So she stretched
forth those arms of classic mould where
with she was wont to sway the multitude,
and in trice Colonel Galloway and Maj.
Rhea were summoned before the awful
bar of justice. Colonel Cluskey, being
i'll, was reserved for dessert. The unique
document which at once drove the
wooden horse of despair into the Troy OF
our contemporaries heart was embel-
lished with the mystic word contempt"
This heinous crime had been com
mitted on the person of the most
lovely of females. The vermine of
the court had been stained by the SCOT
of calumny, and those heretofore enter
tanning doubts on the subject were given
to understand for all time to come that
Grandmother Hunters court is over a
subject of contempt. The Investigation
was to commence this morning. The
court room was crowded, but the per
Torrance did not come of. A postpone
ment was had until tomorrow morning,
when the thunderbolts of grandmotherial
wrath will be hurled at the doomed !
editors. F
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