Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-30
LEDGER LINES.

But rev persons are arrested III thHse
dull times by the police.
Granger barbecue near Lucy" on
the Paducah railroad to-day.
The First ward will indulge in Bart
lett mass meeting next Friday night
First Circuit Court, Judge Heiskell
presiding, will be in session tomorrow.
Look out for fraudulent negro voters on
election day. The RAIDS are getting
desperate.
Another fire last night. The kitchen
in rear of Robertson Tops residence,
on Beal street, was burned,
The nights are getting cool. The half
awake citizen has to skip under cover
just before the break of day.
The dullness of the times, the weather
and the local politics are the chief topics
of conversation throughout the city.
Petit larcenies and burglaries are in
dulged in almost nightly by the black
representatives Of the civil rights party
Who wrote that Beecher extra con-
fession? The immortal author should
not hide his literary light under bushel.
Nearly one thousand absentees from
Memphis will soon be writing back,
How did the election go; did we beat
the Radieals2"
This morning Charles Stout, well
known hardware man, was thrown from
buggy and received several serious in
juries, the left arm being broken.
The mosquito at night yet sings in in
dignation around the white and colored
bars which encircle couches that contain
the youth and beauty of the village.
Some deliver into the meaning of words
has made the discovery that Elizabeth,
(the Tilton name, is derived from Els
peth, which means power of God.
Every day you hear some person ex-
claim on the streets: / am white
man, and blood is thicker than water; so
| will vote against the negro ticket."
When you see two Memphians talking
earnestly on a street corner you may
safely bet that they are discussing either
local politics or the Beecher scandal.
On street cars going over tracks run
ming east and west curtains should be
hung in front and rear so as to protect
passengers from the rising or setting
sun.
Negroes, armed with carpet-bags, are
Aocking into the suburbs from Missis-
sippi and Arkansas by the score. These
citizens are coming here to vote on
Thursday next.
The peelers" engage in the dog poi
soning business almost nightly The
ours, puppies and dogs of the animal
creation, known as quadrupeds, are pas
sing away in hand.cart
The street sprinkling fends ply their
business all over the city, regardless of
the rights of pedestrians, over whom
they throw the dirty waters Of Neshoba
with evident pleasure and liberality.
Candidates for Congress are beginning
to crop out and approach the front.
After the election next Thursday these
would-be Congressman will appear as
thick as shells on the Hope6eld sandbar.
The State Convention will be held on
the 18th of August at Nashville. Round
trip excursion tickets will be sold over
the Louisville and Nashville road for six
cents a mile from any station in this
State.
The negroes say that the white men
are going to beat them on Thursday
next, and they attribute their defeat to
putting two ofice.seeking Radical Irish
men on the ticket, who are making
cat's-paw of the negro vote.
Our German fellow-citizens will go for
the Bartlett ticket in solid column
Gronauer cannot carry them or any
portion of them over to negroized Radi-
calism. The civil rights business has
gone far enough for the Germans.
Next Saturday the case of the State
VS.. Sue Morgan, warrant for alleged
of William Dardis, will come
up for hearing before Esquire Winters
So far there is nothing in the case that
would implicate the unfortunate wo-
man.
A paragraph is going the rounds of
The press that Memphis husbands pun.
Ssh their wives by making them sit on
chunks of ice while they knit the heel of |
4 stocking" Sitting on chunk of ice
would seem rather pleasure than a
punishment during the heated term.
A scientist says we should look at !
picture with one eye shut, when it pre-
sents the real object Memphians who
arc disnosed to be connoisseurs in art !