Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-23

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Colonel R. G. Brinkley has returned
from New York.
Judge ]. o. Pierce has recovered from
. severe spell Of sickness.
The cotton remaining unpicked ia
thought to be greatly injured by the frost.
Sheriff Curry left for Nashville yester-
day with tweniy-seven convicts for the
penitentiary.
Hiram Tollivsr, who was under sen
tsnce of death, died in his cell Thursday
night.
Col. A. 8. Mitchell reports favorably
in regard to the building of the Misais'
sippi River railroad.
The woods in the country east Of Mem
phis are filed with game, and many gen
tlemen of leisure go cunning and return
with loads of birds.
A Kentucky drover named James Il
West was recently assassinated near
Oakland, Miss, and the supposed muir
derer is in Jail at that place.
Capt. John II. McKie and Col. Drury
Robinson have been nominated for the
Legislature on the Dent ticket in the
county of Lafayette, Mississippi.
1t is rumored that the colored citizent
aud their particular friends talk Of hold
ing a County Convention to nominate
delegates to the State Convention. They
can nominate delegates easy enough, bu
escting them is another thing.
A very interesting revival has been in
progress at the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, on Court street, for some weeks
There are large crowds every night. A
great many conversions and sccessions
to the church have been made.
Col. W. I. Nesbit, of Nesbit's Depot
eighteen miles from the city, on the Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee railroad, is in the
city trying to raise funds to pay for the
com modious depot lately completed al
his place. The plan proposed will BIZ
mutually advantageous to the business
men who may subscribe. We know Col
Nesbit as a gallant gentleman and good
citizen, and hope that he will succeed.
The dissatisfaction against the
County Democratic Convention, to bt
| held on the first Saturday in December
| is to be heard among the negro and white
Radicals. They can hardly expect to be
| invited to take conspicuous part in thu
great work of admitting rebels to thu
ballot-box and recognizing the Judicia
~. At the last Constitutional Conven
ton, the masses Of. the people bad bacl
seats; in this one they are coming to thu
front, and expect to do justice to all
without malice to any.
An informal meeting of the Chambe
| of Commerce was held yesterday after
noon, but without quorum. Col. Clap
read a memorial to the Senate and Hous
| of Representatives of the United State
in regard to the Southern Pacific rail
road, which was adopted by those pres
ent. The petition sets forth the actor
| of the late Commercial Conventions il
the South and the advantages of such
road, and asks for the same aid given thu
| Union Pacific railroad
Mr.. W. M. Corners, the warm-heartet
and accomplished correspondent o
| Wilkes Spirit of the Times, is at tn
Overton Hotel with his beautiful youn!
/ wife. nee Ada Webb, formerly grea
favorits ef tie Memphis theatrica
boards. The happy marriage took plac'
some months ago, but we knoV that con
gratulatiops will never be too late, ant
desire to unite our good wishes with thu
many expressed by the press North som,
time last summer.
The present Democratic movement hal
been styled bipartisan" So it is to tht
| extent of being purely Democratic. l
Democrats believed they were right wher
| in hopeless minority. they viii hardly
abandon the principles Of truth and JUS
| tice merely because they are coming into
power. The truth then Is the truth now
Democracy is anti Radical, anti-carpet
Dagger ahs fptil-Enigger suffrage. The
indecent efforts, in season sn4 opt o.
sea snn-partieularIy out of seasSn-tC
cram the niger down our threats with q
stick will be sharply reblsssd at the bal
lot-boE. If the Radicals had no princi-
pies when in power that should be no pre-
cedent for us.
Ex- President Jefferson Davis was
elected, Saturday, President of the Caro-
lima Life Insurance Company, and be-
comes from this time forth citizen OIL
Memphis. We are proud that Mr.. Davis
has found a home in our midst. The ex
lie will cease his wanderings, and be re-
stored to the bosom Of bis devoted family
No toosin of war or political. wordy strife
will again call him from the repose oil
private life-but he is still the peerless
Jefferson Davis, respected even by bis en-
emies, and as dear in the hearts of thou
sands as when victory perched upon his
plumss TLe pspple of Memphis in hon
oring Mr.. Davis honor themselves and
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