Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-08-07
CLun MEETINGS.

GnAsD PoLE AND FLAG RAisIsG.-The
Democracy Of the Ninth Ward and Fiji
teenth Civil District will, at their regular
meeting on Friday evening, at eight
o'clock. at their wigwam, have grand
pole aud flag raising The various clubs,
the ladies, and all citizens, irrespective
Of color, are respectfully invited. Hon.
W.T.. Avery and Hon. W. II. Stevens will
address the meeting.
CENTRAL Avenue AND BUsrYs STATION
CLUBS. The above clubs we're addressed
on Park avenue by Col. Thos. Avery in
an eloquent and able manner, q large
number Of ladies being present. II was
resolved that the two clubs should unite,
and meeting for this purpose will be
held on Friday evening, 7th inst, at Park
avenue school house. New officers will
be elected, and the attendance Of every
member is requested.
GnEESwooD CLuB.-The regular meet
ing Of this Club takes place tonight, at
College Grove. All members are re-
quested to be present, and those in the
neighborhood not members are invited
to come forward and join.
CoLoRED MEN, ATTENTION. AT a
meeting last night Of the Eighth Ward
Democratic Club, suggestion was made
that the colored men hold mass meet.
ing at our stand, Poplar street market
square, on Saturday, the 10Th OF August,
commencing at eight o'clock. 1t is
hoped and expected that the colored
people will turn out en- masse to hear the
views enunciated by several eloquent
Conservative speakers, both white and
colored. A fine band will discourse
eloquent music.
l42 j. W. SMTHER, Secretary.
CoLoRED MEETING To-NIGHT.-The
Democratic colored club will hold its
regular meeting tonight at Stillman
Hall. We trust there will be a general
attendance. The meeting will be ad-
dressed by William Webb, Laurence
johnson, John F. Harris and Marengo
johnson. The general rules and regu-
lations of the club will be agreed upon,
and every colored friend to the cause is
expected to be present. All are invited,
black and white, ladies and gentlemen.
NEwsBoYs.-If every merchant in the
city succeeded as we'll in business, in
proportion, as do the newsboys, there
would be no complaints of dull times.
They sell the papers with celebrity and
profit. Some people say that newsboys
are nuisance, buta necessary one. Like
policemen, taxes, and other benign instr
tutions of civilization, we must have them,
and always will. They shrek on the cor
ners; they rush into stores and Offices
and eIectrify the inmates with piercing
YELL they dash into street cars and ho-
tells with immunity, and hold no place sa-
cred. What becomes of newsboys when
they retire from the business nobody
knows. We never yet met person who
had been a newsboy; never met anyone
that knew one. Possibly on some night
they dissolve into thin air in one last
and vigorous yell, and in the morning
nothing is found of them but q bundle
of rags on the street corner. Where
they come from is as great mystery.
We have seen them not much larger than
their paper was long, and would judge
they were engaged in their first enter
prise, with the aloes of the weaving pro-
cess still bitter in their mouths. They
grow up in the streets, and are local
fruit. They are neither transplant nor
an exotic, but natural flower, with all
their native and peculiar fragrance, and
the product Of rude but fertile soil.
SIGNIFICANr.-A gentleman on his way
home between eleven and twelve clock
last night, Informs us that he was abb
ruptly halted near the old State Hospital
by negro sentinel and the password
demanded. Not being aware what the
was, and consequently being
unable to give it, he was denied the
privilege of proceeding farther aud COM
PEELED to 90 half a mile out of his way in
order to reach his residence. Just be-
yond the black sentinel, as he informs
US, we're a group of negroes or whites,
which he was unable to distinguish, who |
we're, to all appearances, passing
through the evolutions of drill
in obedience to the orders of
an individual whose voice our in
formant thought to be that of white
man. The question very naturally arises,
what means this midnight drilling of the
blacks by the scalawags and white ennis
saries who have come or been sent among
hem from the North? What new plot is
sn foot against the peace and liberties of
bur people.
BLUFF CRY CLUB RooM.-At called
meeting of the Bluff City Base Ball Club,
we, the undersigned, committee APP
psinted to draft resolutions expressive
Of our regrets upon the death of our
worthy member, Thomas Kinna, adopted
he following resolutions:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Divine Provi:
Hanna 10 ramnye from among Us our