Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-01
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sale.
Confederate Monumental picnic next
Saturday
Knights of Innisfail picnic at James
Park to morrow.
| DR.. N. Blackwell has been elected
Mayor OF Brownsville.
At least dozen young bellies Of the
bluff have commenced writing novels.
Chief Athy intends enforcing the va
grant law as to all suspicious characters.
Recorder Winters disposed of forty
cases to day, principally misdemeanors.
| Lager is rapidly becoming the summer
beverage of the Memphian Of the
period.
1t has become the fashionable custom
for gentlemen to carry fans like
heather Chinee.
Candidates for county Offices have no
time to lose. Move yourselves to the
front through the public press.
The negroes of the city are becoming
insolent and aggressive. evidently seek
ing difficulty with the whites. Do they
want another riot2
Martin Walsh, who was on trial before
the Criminal Court on the charge of
robbing All Lee and All Gin, was ac-
quilted by the jury last Saturday even.
ing.
Yesterday afternoon the lathing fac
tory of Wright & Co. was burned to the
ground. No insurance. Loss, $1,000.
The fremen saved the adjoining prop.
erty.
Richard III, Duke of Gloster, was
bird hunter, and shot on the wing be-
hind pointers or settlers. He says:
Unmannered dogs, stand thou when
/ command"
Newspaper men become exceedingly
popular during a political or Office
seeking campaign On an average
pencil singer is invited to drink proba-
bly, thirty times per diem.
Mortuary reports for last week, p
deaths: whites, 10, blacks, g. The death
roll was little more than half of last
weeks number, showing that our city is
becoming healthier daily.
In the Criminal Court today John
Jefferson (negro) is on trial on indict-
ment for killing another negro, Richard
Harris, near Elmwood Cemetery on the
9th of September last by shotguning
him from the bushes on the roadside.
1t has been well known that the Pole
Bearers Association was not only benev.
client but military in its purposes, but
where did those two companies of pole
bearers get those regulation muskets
and bayonets2 forming as it were
secret but standing army in our midst.
The police muddle case of ex-oficers
Walsh, Pendergrast and Helm VS.. the
Police Commissioners and officers
Weathersford, Arsata and McElroy,
which was to have been heard by Judge
Halsey to-day in the Second Circuit
Court, has been continued over to Mon.
day next.
The volunteer old Invincible Fire
Company No. elected officers. Presi-
ident, Colonel A. H. Douglas; Vice
President, D. w. Adams; Secretary,
John Balm; Treasurer, George Bergman;
Standing Committee, B. Dunn, James
Ryan and j. E. Hyatt, all of whom are
old citizens of Memphis.
A number of newspaper men and
other well known citizens visited Hope
field lake yesterday on a piscatorial ex-
cursion. The party was gobbled up by
the negro magistrate, and each disciple
of Isaac Walton had to seek for his
pocket book in order to appease the col
ored squire who does not believe in fish.
ingin Arkansas on Sunday.
On the 25th of June l73 delegates will
be elected in this city and county to
represent the people in the Bartlett Con-
vention to nominate candidates. The
convention will be held in the Exposi-
ton Building on Thursday, July I'd,
when the party will select its candidates
for Sheriff, State and county Tax Col
lcctor, Clerks of Criminal, County, First
aud Second Circuit Courts, Trustee, Reg.
lister and Clerk Of Bartlett Circuit Court.
The robberies and outrages committed
by the Pole Bearers on inofensive peo-
pie at the National Cemetery, on Satur-
day, and the murder of white man in
north Memphis by negro last evening,
all on account of the civil rights bill,
call for some action on the part of the
white people. II white people are to be
insulted and murdered by negroes in
Memphis, owing to the infamous teach,
ings Of Ed Shaw and other leaders, it