Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-16
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Park next Thursday,
The official list of delinquent city tax
payers will be published.
| The directors to locate the Presbyte-
rian University are still in session.
Bring in your announcements for
Office to the LEDGER if you want to be
elected.
The Sir Knights Of the Cyrene Com
mandery returned from Jackson, Tenn,
last evening
Baxter and Brooks are members and
pew-holders in the same Methodist
church at Little Rock.
Prof. Mueller's German at the Thea
tire last night was largely attended by
the best people in the city.
The annual picnic of the German
Evangelical Lutheran school will be held
at Humboldt Park on Monday next
The General Council made the dis
covery that report existed at Nashville
that cholera had broken out in Memphis,
a eanard of the plainest character.
Ex-Presidept johnson speaks tonight
at the Theatre, and will show why he is
entitled to succeed Brownlow as Sena-
tor from Tennessee.
Decoration day at Elmwood. Andy
johnson is expected to be present and
assist in paying this beautiful tribute to
the memory of the patriotic Confederate
dead.
The Pole Bearers (colored) picniced
at Humboldt Park yesterday. The at
tendance was large and the best order
prevailed a fact most creditable to the
colored people.
H. M. Doak, Esq, of the GAINESVILLE
Tobacco Leaf, a most influential weekly
journal, is in the city on business con-
nected with the location of the site Of
the Presbyterian University.
Since Ed Shaw's speech insisting on
negro supremacy in Tennessee, the white
men of the Republican party have
weakened, and are seriously considering
the abandonment of the negro " and
afiliating themselves with their white
conservative brethren.
Charley Stone, Secretary of the Chick
asaw Jockey Club has favored us with
the official summary of the spring meet
ing. The official report says the racing
throughout the week was exceptionally
fine, and the meeting, on the whole, may
be pronounced the most interesting held
over this course since the war.
Candidates cards are written, Sub
ject to the action of the convention
when convened by the Bartlett Execu-
tive Committee" This is the popular
mode at present The combination
or Radical negro party has bursted in
Memphis, and many of its leaders dur
ing the last MaYoralty election are slid
ing back into Conservatism via Bartlett.
They want to be on the side of the
people" you know.
Collecting wharfage being almost the
sole duty of Wharfmaster, when the
wharfage on steamboats, is abolished
why should the Wharfmaster receive
stated salary of $2sOO per annum for
doing nothing2 Outside of collecting
wharfage the duties of the Wharfmaster
amount to almost nothing. The Gen
eral Council should have abolished
wharfage at the last meeting, and thereby
have also abolished the useless office.
L. J. DuPre, Esq, lectured at the Lin
den street Christian church last evening
on American Antiquities" The lee
ture was learned research into the
past; instructive, scientific and delivered
in a most attractive style. The subject
of Indian mounds and the curiosities
discovered underneath them was learn
eddy discussed. The lecture was celiv-
cred for the benefit of the sufferers by
the overflow. It is understood that Mr.
DuPre will repeat his lecture at an early
day
Now that Andrew johnson is again
on the political war path, the figures of
the gubernatorial election of 1872 may
not be uninteresting. For Congressman
for the State at large: Horace Maynard
received sO825 votes; B. F. Cheatham,
sc, 1888; Andrew Johnson, 81, 900. May
nard over Cheatham, 1851; Cheatham
over Johnson, 27,28s; total vote for
Cheatham and Johnson, lO3,Gss; Cheat
ham and johnson over Maynard, %, 1858. |
In Shelby county Cheatham received |
3, TAI votes; Johnson, 1884; Maynard,
8, $50. In the election of 1872 the John
son third party ruined Tennessee.
City Sinking Fund Commissioners W.
A. Goodwin. l. NJ. Hill and w. S. Bruce
insist upon resigning, on the grounds that
under the proposed tax levy the amount