Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-26
LEDGER LINES.

mOSquibO Oaio arc kOinS up udllyi anu
bed-bug poison is in demand.
Politicians, don't get too much zen
thoosed," as it were, on the street,"
The white men of Memphis took a
deep interest in the primary election
yesterday.
The Work House Joint Committees
will meet at the County Courtroom this
afternoon.
The Fire Board meets this afternoon
to consider matters connected with the
department.
Tonight the closing exercises of the
public schools will be held at the theater.
Admission free.
Bluff City battalion meeting tonight
at the Exposition building for the pur-
pose of organization.
A negro youth was drowned while
bathing in Wolf river last evening. The
body has not as yet been recovered.
Chief of Police Athy has commune
cation of importance for Miss Eliza R.
Bowen, who is supposed to be in this
city.
The Bartlett movement was felt
throughout the city yesterday. 1t will
give negro Radicalism final shake in
August.
Councilman Jack Walsh voted with
the Bartlett movement in the First ward
yesterday. Jack is all right for the
white mans party.
Esquire Miller inqdested the body of
the negro boy, Frank Fleece, which was
found in the bayou this afternoon. Yer
diet, death by drowning.
A beautiful rainbow made the eastern
heavens quite attractive last evening.
The rainbow has been described as "the
airy child of vapor and the sun.
Captain Dick Lightburne, No. Is
Madison street, has telegram ofimport-
ance for Frank Richardson, who left the
Crescent City mysteriously few days
since.
The street railroad company elected
the following Board Of Directors yester-
day: F. s. Davis, R. V. Vredenburgh,
Thomas Barrett, W. W. Thatcher, Hosea
Townsend.
The Nashville Banner of yesterday
says: "We are not officially advised,
but think there is some probability Of
the West Tennessee Insane Asylum not
beng located at Brownsville.
The St. Louis bridge will be thoI
oughly tested on the Fourth Of July with
tons of pig iron before any St. Louis
belle will be permitted to set her foot on
it. So says slanderous exchange.
The so,called colored Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, who held picnic on last
Wednesday, are not recognized as such
by the true Masonic organization. The
colored organization is bogus affair.
Read the official list of delegates in
to-day's LEDGER, and then make up your
slate. Until the I'd of July the dele
gates elected will be the most popular
men, in the opinion of all candidates for
office.
Tomatoes, cantaloupes, blackberries,
lake perch, all kinds of vegetables, poll
tics, hot weather, dull times, cooling
drinks and the PUBLIC LEDGER, are the
uxuries enjoyed by the Memphians' of
The period who remain on the bluffs.
If Memphis bellies desire to look
beautiful here is sure recipe: Eat meat
once day, pickles once week, sweet
meats once year, a cold bath every
day, walk FIVE miles daily, and then you
will have no need of paint or powder.
Big five hundred dollar horse trot over
The Memphis Trotting Park Association
course this afternoon at 6 o'clock. The
entries are Honest John, Jack Conn,
Bones, Twyman Maid, Schenderhonis
and Harry. Distance, mile heats to
harness. Entrance, ten per cent. of
purse. play or pay.
The citizens of the Tenth ward, in
of the number of burgla-
les. and robberies which have been
committed by the civil rights negroes,
intend organizing patrol force to pro-
ect property. Those who reside in the
suburbs all around the city should do
likewise, and when they catch thief
ct him be treated accordingly.
The doors of Bartlett are closing rap.
dly. Some of the white men who hang
IN to the vile negroized party believe
hey can even, at a late hour, slip into
Bartlett by the back door; but they will
ind on such the words, No admission.
These chaps we're slipping around yes
.erday whispering all kinds of things
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