Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-12
LEDGER LINES.

| Thermometer ~ AT ~ CLOCK lnls
forenoon.
Let the Nicolson pavement be repaired
Immediately.
Circus and menagerie on the bluff on
Friday, the 2lst instant.
The Bartlett Executive Committee
still lives and aourishes.
Seventeen misdemeanoy cases we're
tried by the Recorder to day
Bluff City Minstrels at the Greenlaw
Opera House next Friday evening.
The militia took charge of the powder
magazines in Fort Pickering last night.
The Bartlett Executive Committee
will take charge of the November cleo
tons.
The marriage license business is grow
ing alarmingly dull in the County Court
Clerk Office.
The river is becoming clearer daily,
and Wolf river water is gradually losing
its muddy taste.
The first bale of cotton arrived and
attracted no little attention on Front
street yesterday.
New York and New Orleans .Zoologi-
cal and Equestrian Exposition will ex-
hibit at Memphis toward the last of the
| month.
The simon-pure ultra Democratic
Bourbons, who number about half
dozen in Memphis, we're routed in the
convention yesterday.
The leaders of the Radical party of
Thursday last are responsible for the
troubles between the races in Fayette
and Shelby counties.
A new comet has been discovered,
which vagabond visitor is rapidly APP
preaching the earth and will be visible to
the naked eye in few weeks.
We saw an old gentleman carrying
stick to day which was cut in 1888 on
the capes of Virginia by his grandfather
The old relic has been in the family ever
since.
The alarm Of fire last night was caused
by bright light appearing in North
Memphis. The light proceeded from a
pottery mandatory, and the alarm OF
FIRE was of course false.
Hop" Johnson, city editor of the
Appeal, has returned from prolonged
trip to Clarksville and Nashville. Con-
trary to reports and expectations, he did
not bring rib back with him.
A young man, j. G. Godfritz, working
at Quentel's beer saloon on Main, below
Union, was foaad dead in his bed yes
terday morning. Heart disease is sup
posed 10 have been the cause Of his
death.
The great majority of the citizens at
tending the convention yesterday were
in favor of the Bartlett programme, and
opposed as well as closed out the little
ring who live on past recollections, like
the oyster.
Great excitement prevails throughout
the city in consequence of the troubles
at Austin, Mississippi. The Memphis
boys who went down on the White yes
terdey will give good account of them
selves to-day.
The war is between the white and
black race on the color line. Merchants
and others should employ white men in
preference to the debased negro, who
always vote against the best interests of
their employers.
The gubernatorial convention to be
held at Nashville on the 18th will lay
down platform which, in order to be
indorsed by Shelby county, must be lib
eral enough te permit others than Dem
ocrats to sit or stand upon ii.
The bluff was crowded with people last
evening. The volunteers on board the
steamer White were loudly cheered by
the men, and the ladies waved handker
chiefs. AS the White swung out the
cheering was most enthusiastic.
Our Ledger Liner witnessed man on
Adams street gazing intently and earn
estly at a wall thermometer from which
the mercury had escaped. He was en-
deavoring to discover how hot it was,
but the absence of the mercury vas a
puzzle to him
1t is charged that the street cleaning
force cannot get pay from the city, but
that they can get orders for groceries
and provisions from the city govern
ment. Has the city government a
Grange store, or is it interested in de
provisions, JOSIAH"
Hot days and nights worry the unwar-
like Memphians at present. At night
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