Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-08
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School Board meeting on Monday.
General Council meeting next Mon
day.
Memphians continue to migrate North
ward.
The white mans ticket has swept tbs
State
Bartlett doors sdll open for back.
sliders,
The fights over; We never bit man
when he is down.
The msjorities given our nominees
range above four thousand.
Daniel OConnell has retired in dis
gust from Memphis politics.
a number of new buildings are being
erected throughout the city.
What will the reporters do for items
now that the election.is cver2
Watermelons and cantaloupes have
become drug in the market.
Blizzard roost has been evacuated by
the white and colored mob Of Radicals
The thermometer went boiling and
whizzing up among the nineties yester-
day.
The militia will come back on the spe-
cial train this afternoon. All quiet at
Somerville.
Carthage must be destroyed The
Radical party must be crushed in No.
yember next.
The negroized RAIDS only carried
the Fifth ward and the Thirteenth dis
triet on Thursday.
Since the comet departed we miss
those bivouacs Of kittenish lovers on
suburban porches.
Last night Memphis slept well and re-
covered from the fatigue and dissipa-
ton Of the preceding night.
Intense excitement prevailed through
out the city last night when the news of.
the Somerville riot was received.
To day the defeated Radical nominees
appeared on the streets and were joked
and laughed at by the white people.
The base ballers bowled and bawled
in Fort Pickering yesterday. The River
sides beat the Pickwicks by'a score Of
81 to 20.
By planting shade trees in front Of
your house you enhance greatly the
value OF your property and the appear
ance of the city.
Major Whitmore, proprietor Of this
paper, and Charley Beehn, the well.
known JOB printer leave tomorrow for
Cincinnati and New York.
A leading Radical yesterday claimed
that his party was pure. he had read
that poetical sentiment, The purest
souls are inthe dirtiest bodies"
Who originated the Bartlett move
ment2 is the conundrum Of the day,
never TO be solved. Who carried the
on to victory2 The white
people
The dead were buried yesterday over
many a drink. DeSoto was buried in
the waters OF the Mississippi, but the
Radical nominees were enbalmed in
Bourbon.
Companies of white militia should De
in every large town in Shelby
and other counties of West Tennessee
in order to preserve the peace when
necessary.
The Memphis press will attend to 5.
Lewis, the disgraced Congressman,
whenever he shows his head above water,
md be is not the only Rad who will |
-eceive these polite attentions during the
course Of human events.
The alarm of FIRE last night was
,sused by the burning Of lot of straw
n the back part of the Jefferson block
The incendiary was at work again. This
s the third or fourth attempt made 10
,urn this fine block,
But yesterday the howl of Lewis and
,ther little would-be Caesars might have
tood against the people; now no negro
s so poor as TO do them reverence.
such is political life, and the difference
,etween success and defeat
The defeated charge that the Irish
,oters sold themselves to the Bartlettites.
they we're first pocketed," then sold.
What SANDER on the Independent
risbmen of Memphis As Horace
Greeley said, They lie, the Villains,
hey lie
The fremen covered themselves with
lory Cd election day. We should like
o look at the Councilman or Alderman
tho will vote for that Radical ordinance |