Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-29
LEDGER LINES.

The thermometer scored but sO' at
ten o'clock to-day.
Several Radicals appear as deputy
sheriffs, appointed by Sheriff Doyle to
hold the election.
People are leaving on pleasure trips
every day, just as if no election was to
be held tomorrow week.
The cheerful negro incendiary was
around swinging his torch last night
from Pinch to Fort Pickering.
Andy Davis, the negroized nominee
for Criminal Court Clerk, says he always
did belong to the Radical party
There will be a rally at the Poplar
street rarket.house, Eighth ward, to-
night. Able speakers win be in attend
ance.
Memphis has enjoyed bat one sun
stroke this season, while her sister cities
North and South have had them by the
score.
Major NJ. D. Welch has recovered
from his wounds, and is once again on
the streets receiving the congratulations
of his friends.
The cyrrians or Heloises are no
longer permitted to promenade on the
streets after nine o'clock. The Abe
lards are indignant.
Yesterday David Bryson carried off
the prize silver pitcher of the Bluff City
Shooting Club-he making clean score,
killing ten double birds.
There are at least two hundred ne.
groes in Memphis who are disqualified
from voting by reason Of having been in
the penitentiary for larcenies.
Last Tuesday night the residence of
Joe Cox, on the Raleigh road was enter
ed BY negro burglars, who carried off a
gold watch and lot of clothing.
Four. fifths of the Irish, nine.tenths Of
the Germans and Observation-Disclosures
of the native Americans of Shelby
county will support the Bartlett ticket.
Governor Brown left for Nashville
yesterday. The Governor, during his
stay in our city, was called upon by the
leading citizens and received from them
marked attention.
W. R. Hayden, general agent of the
Great New York and New Orleans 70
illogical and Equestrian Exposition, is
in the city perfecting arrangements for
its appearance here in August.
The Louisville lottery drawing has
been postponed until the Sd of Novem-
Der next. Five car loads of excursion
lists left to-day for Louisville on the
seven dollar trip there and back.
Bill Locke, of the Appeal, is suffering
from a serious attack of poison oak
vine. He got poisoned on Mayor
Leagues river excursion, when the
Chesterfeldian Mayor banqueted with
the disgusted nigs."
The conundrum now is, who wrote
that extra containing II. W. B. Abe
lard's confession2" Let the author
come to the front and claim his reward;
let him not leave the world undiscovered
like the author of "Junius' Letters"
A civil rights negro, who represents
the party of the nation" as a well
known Radical politician puts it, was
arrested yesterday on the charge Of
robbery. The mig" used stick tipped
with pitch with which he flched currency
from a money drawer on the levee.
I'm white man, and am using the
negroes to get office, was the expression
used by a Radical nominee to a few
white friends yesterday. When invited
to make this statement before a negro
meeting be wilted The two-face and
forked.tongue business will not succeed.
The Irish Radical nominees are in
favor of the negro laboring man, and
not the white laboring man. This is
true, no matter what they say to the
contrary The Radical party, to which
they, like barnacles, have become at
tached, favors the negro and opposes the
white man.
The unfortunate negro depositors in
the infamous Freedmen's Bank are in
vited to come up and have their pass
books verified. II depositor gets ten
cents on the dollar he can be happy yet.
viii the negroes vote with party that
robbed them of their hard-earned gains2
We answer-yes.
The voting population of Shelby COM
" is, according to the census, 24,ls7;
whites, 1892; blacks, lO,O64. The city
registration in the last Mayoralty con-
lest was 1914; white, 7O49; negro, 3l26;
vet but 7l0l votes were cast. In 1872
the city registration was 1920 with a