Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-30
LEDGER LINES.

throughout the county.
Anti-Radical Convention at Exposi-
ton building on Thursday next.
St. Peters (Catholic) church is to
have a new organist by next Sunday.
Ball at Raleigh Springs tonight.
Train leaves the Louisville depot at 8
o'clock pm.
The Bluff City battalion meets to.mor-
row night at eight o'clock. A full at
tendance is desired.
The Odd Fellows turned out yesterday
and escorted the remains Of deceased
brother, VIM. j. Ziegler, to the Louisville
depot.
Why not enforce the vagrant law to
the letter. This would rid Memphis Of
both white and negro thieves and
burglars.
Citizens of the Third ward, go to the
polls this afternoon and select your best
men to represent you in the County
Convention.
General Council war talk tomorrow
afternoon. The sachems will be on
hand to smoke the pipe of peace and
crate on all motions made.
No clue has as yet been discovered Of
the murderer or murderers of Wynn
Lake. Our authorities are at sea and
all hope of discovery seems lost.
1t is said that the Radical convention
will be held this week to nominate county
officers. Let the negroized party trot
its representatives out on the track and
let the people take look at them.
The Bluff City battalion meets again
at the Exposition building tomorrow
evening. A wellknown ex'Confederate
General IS spoken Of as likely to be
made Colonel of the volunteer battalion.
The Memphis politician who does not
belong to some ring must certainly be a
square man, who has succeeded in
squaring the circle of politics, mathe-
matical problem hitherto undiscovered.
The Minnesota journals Of the upper
Mississippi are rejoiced that Southern
tourists flock to their State in summer
They can repeat with Shakespeare:
Now, by St. PAUL. the work goes
bravely on"
Eight thousand dollars worth OF stock
in the Memphis Gaslight Company was
sold to-day at public sale for the benefit
of the Union and Planters Bank. The
stock brought from eighty to eighty. three
cents on the dollar. dfi
At the regular election of officers held
by Ceur de Lion Lodge No Is, K. of p,
last evening, the following were elected:
f. r. Brennan, c. c.; James W. Ander-
son, V. C. The other officers hold
over during the ensuing term.
Tomorrow Esquire Miller will sit on
a city coupon suit, wherein the holder
sues the city on one of those promises
to pay thirty dollars Esquire Miller
will hear exhaustive arguments from
counsel, and will deliver learned opin-
ion.
Watermelons, peaches cherries,
blackberries and other fruits have made
their appearance, to the great terror of
parents, who have a horror of green
fruits which are swallowed by children,
and which produce doctors bills as
final result
1t is about time for the managers of
the Exposition, and the managers of the
Shelby County Fair (both of which pub
lie enterprises will be inaugurated this
falD, to commence waking up. Other
cities are wide awake already.
General Myer, chief signal officer at
Washington, proposes to get up metero-
logical reports with special reference to
the cotton growing interests, and has
with the Memphis Cham
Der of Commerce for that purpose.
Those who gazed at the heavens last
night seeking Coggia's comet could not
pierce the dark rolling clouds even with
the opera glass. An inebriate last night
on Main street pointed out lamp in an
adjacent square as the fiery visitor.
Weakened unfortunates, who are
still clinging to the wreck Of the negro
lied combination party, are watching
the Bartlett doors, fearing they may
close before they are able to scramble off
the political fence when nobody is look
ing at them.
Shall it be the two-thirds" or the
majority" rule in the conventien2
The strong men prefer the majority
rule, but the chaps tied out in the bushes
have a weakness for the o-thirds.
This important matter the convention
will settle, as well as the question: Shall