Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-03

sherry cobblers as they percolate through
straws.
General Council meeting this after.
noon. Let the wharfage tax be done
away with.
The case of John Jefferson (colored),
indictment for murder is on trial in the
Criminal Court.
There are over eight hundred vaults
in the city yet to be cleaned out by the
Board of Health.
Knights of Innstail picnic to-day at
James Park. Owing to the heavy rains
it was postponed from yesterday.
Elder C. B. Hassell arrived in the city
last night, and will preach at the First
Baptist church Thursday night, the 4th.
Read Recorder Winters card on his
action as to the robberies committed by
insolent and armed negroes at the Ma
tional Cemetery last Saturday.
Negro Migrants, whose occupation is
stealing, should be pulled in" by the
police. There are at least FIVE hundred
negro gamblers, confidence men, thieves
and loafers in Memphis.
Suburban Maud Mullers now wear i'm
mense straw hats and carry miniature
gardening implements, so as to give
them a sylvan and rural appearance
when their admirers call.
The LEDGER is indebted to Mr.. G. 81.
Leonard, of the junior class, fer an
invitation to attend the commencement
ball Of the University of Mississippi at
Oxford, to be given on Thursday, June
25th.
Yesterday Felix Gilmartin, who was
robbed by the negroes at the National
Cemetery on Decoration Day, entered
suit in the Second Circuit Court against
tho Pole Bearers Association, claiming
800 damages.
The DeSoto Bank has retired from
business, leaving as its heir the Bank Of
Commerce, which institution will take
charge of its accounts. The DeSoto
will pay dollar for dollar. The cause of
the retirement is, that its charter is about
to expire.
Yesterday Harry Mellersh, aged fonr-
teen years, was accidentally shot by
Jesse Taylor, Of the same age, while
both boys were fooling with loaded
pistol. The pistol ball passed through
the lower lobe of the left lung, causing
most dangerous and probably fatal
wound.
The negroes of Nashville on Decora-
ton Day had terrible fights at the Ma
tional Cemetery, and their conduct at
Nashville was only exceeded by their
infamous conduct at Memphis. And
yet there are few white men in our city
who favor the civil rights bill for cleo
ton purposes.
The darkies of the city are exercised
over the plundering by their race on
Decoration Day at the National Gene
terry, which conduct proved conclusively
to the intelligent white race that the
black race regard liberty as SYNONYMOUS
with license, and civil rights as permits
sion to rob. The penitantiary stares
some of them in the face.
The white men who participated in the
National Cemetery decoration and desc
Grafton, gotten up by negroes, are in the
position Of the poor animal who was
caught in bad company and suffered in
consequence. Hereafter let the negroes
go in gang to themselves, and let white
men do likewise; but politics often
makes strange bed fellows.
A critic in a morning journal asserts
that between the putting of friends and
the houndering Of editors the author (of
Lois CarrolD has no doubt experienced
singular sensations" Placed in the
dilemma above figured our Two Selves"
should experience double sensations,
but as Byron has it, :" 1t we're much bet
ter to have both sensations than neither"
Memphis Fire Relief Association pic
mic at the Exposition building on the
18th of June. On this occasion there
will be a parade of the Fire Department,
in which will appear the Invincible
Fire Company No. 3" with their those
carriage" which was taken from Mayor
Leagues negro fremen in Chelsea. The
carriage will be one Of the great attrac-
tons of the day, even although it may
not be manned by the necessary appi-
ances of our little joker and jester,
Mayor League.
A man named Carroll got into a diff
Guilty with some persons in Happy Hol-
low and borrowed pistol for the purpose
of inAicting punishment on his foes.