Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-19
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dailies, ETC., at Joe Locks, 1854 Main.
The enterprising LEDGER published
last evening full list of the prizes
drawn in the Louisville lottery, in ad-
vance of all its contemporaries.
1t is reported that the conventionists
intend putting forth an anti-Johnson
Democrat as a candidate for the mayor
atty, in order to split the white vote.
Colonel ]. J. DuBose, State Senator,
and Colonel ]. NJ. Crews, Representa-
tive, returned yesterday and put up at
the Peabody. The Legislature ad-
journed last Saturday.
An immense vote will be polled at the
ensuing municipal election. There
will be at least ten thousand votes poll
ed in this city, Of which seven thousand
will be cast for Johnson.
Esquire Bleckley, Chairman of the
County Court, has no idea Of resigning
the position which he has filed to so
much credit to himself and benefit to
the county. He will be candidate for
reelection. af nse.
Chicago Times and Tribune received
daily at Mansford's news depot, corner
of Second and Monroe; also, the lead
ing dailies and wseklies of the country
and choice assortment of light litera-
ture.
Miss Phebe Cousins will lecture at the
Greenlaw Opera House next Friday
evening. Subject: Legal Disabilities
of Woman" The Opera House will be
crowded. Every lawyer in the city will
be present to hear their legal sister.
Emmons q Son, newsmen, at No. 10
Jefferson and 4l0 Main streets, have re-
ceiyed the latest daily papers from New
York, New Orleans, Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Chicago and all other cities;
also, illustrated weeklies, foreign publ
cations, and news goods generally.
The Court sweet and Adams street
High School classes were examined at
the hall of the Educational Board, in
the Odd Fellows Hall, yesterday, by Su-
perintendent Slaughter. To-day the
examination commenced in all the
graded schools throughout the city.
From the number of candidates
springing up in the different wards Of
the city it is fair to presume that the
next General Council will present diff
ferent complexion from the last. 1t
may even present darker hue by the
appearance of Son of Ham at the
municipal tables.
The case of Diggs VS.. Planters In
surance Company is on trial before
Judge Heiskell, of the First Circuit
Court. Plaintiff sues defendants for
fifteen hundred dollars on policy Of in
surance, and defendants plead that the
property was in litigation, of which fact
they were not aware when the policy
was taken out.
Colonel William L. Duff, on behalf Of
the Shreveport railroad committee, left
to-day for Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to at
tend meeting Of the Pine Bluff and
Camden Railroad Company, in order to
make arrangements with said company
with reference to the proposed line from
Memphis to Shreveport.
Do the offices in Shelby county and
city of Memphis belong to any nation
alityP is a question coming to the sur
face through the morning journals The
Offices belong to citizens of Democratic
faith, irrespective of creed or nation
atty, is the true answer to this conun-
drum, and these offices should be given
to the capable and honest.
Robert Good, the present wharfmaster
of our city, is candidate for reelection,
Everybody knows Bob Good. His name
is sounded from the mouth of the Missis-
sippi to its source, and up the great
tributaries of the Father of Waters. If
reelected he will make in the future, as
he has in the past, first-class collector
of wharfage. ~
Attention is called to the announce
ment in to-days issue of Ben r. Hen
derson, who offers himself as a candi-
date for alderman of the Eighth ward at
the ensuing municipal election. Mr..
Henderson is a gentleman of intelli-
gence and popularity. He would make
a firstelass alderman, and deserves the
support of the voters of the Eighth
ward. at
A clerk on one of General Adams
Arkansas river boats won three thou
sand dollars in the Louisville lottery.
The unfortunate and fortunate man is
still up the Arkansas ignorant of his
luck, and cursing it, probably, as he
plunges through the mud at the thousand
landings on this classic stream. His
friends hope he has held on to his ticket.
1t was family rumored throughout the
city last evening that the Raleigh Rail
way Company had " broke ground" laid
the corner stone, or did something des-
perate at Raleigh yesterday. The fact
that some such thing would be done was
noticed in the LEDGER some days since,
but having had no official notice of the
affair, we can give no account of it ex-
cept as rumor. tbE
A Russian Admiral sailed through our
city yesterday, en- route for New Orleans,
in order to put the feet in readiness for
the reception Of Alexis. His signature
on the books of the 0yerton was the ad-
miration of half the city to-day. 1t was
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