Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-22
LEDGER LINES.

Everybody went TO Bartlett yesterday
10 attend the barbecue.
Let us have Court Square concert
weekly or semi-weekly.
Numbers of unmuzzled dogs went to
the spirit land last night.
General Council meeting this afternoon
to wind up unfinished business.
The dueling mania has broken out in
Memphis; no fights yet, however.
The negro Radical ticket will not Sc
cure over FIVE hundred white voters.
Fruits and vegetables appear in large
quantities in the markets and stands.
The election for county officers should
be held in November instead of August.
Women get mad when Barrett's street
cars take them beyond their stopping
place,
The Odd Fellows go out to Bartlett
this evening to institute lodge at that
point
Suburban girls spend their leisure
hours in reading the names written on
their fans.
Will Memphis never have a public
fountain2 Such thing would adorn
Court Square.
The general opinion among the young
people who attend picnics is that it is too
warm to dance.
False hair Of the yellow color is going
out of fashion and brunettes are once
more coming to the front.
Smoking is allowed on the rear and
front platforms of street cars and inside
when ladies are not present.
Not lecturer has opened his or her
mouth in Memphis for nearly two years.
We are not lecture.loving people.
An effort is making to induce Cover
nor Brown to address his fellow citizens
on State affairs during his stay in our
midst.
Take both the Bartlett and Radical
tickets, compare names, and then re-
member the words of Hamlet, Look
upon that picture then on this"
The unfortunate negroes Of Memphis
who deposited money in the Freedmen s
Bank are not favorably impressed with
the honesty Of such institutions.
The Clerk Of the County Court con-
tinues to issue marriage licenses by the
dozen. 1t costs three dollars and half
to get permission to marry in Shelby
county.
Every citizen must vote at the coming
election. There are already thousand
absentees off at the springs and water
ing places who should have remained
here TO vote.
Recorder Winters says he opposes the
passage of the negro civil rights bill,
and does not want his children to asso.
ciate with the children of negroes in the
public schools.l
The Bartlett barbecue yesterday was
an immense affair, three thousand PEG.
pie being present. A number of speeches
were made, and at late hour the trains
came back to the city crowded with re-
turning citizens.
Many Memphis mothers are unneces-
sarily anxious and deeply concerned as
to the whereabouts of their sons at
night, when in all probability they are
holding sweet converse with some other
mothers daughter.
A cat of the masculine gender has
been making early morning raids on the
Court Square squirrels of late. Yester
day keeper Heating gave the marauder
a dose of lead from a shotgun, and that
cat will raid no more,
Robertson, the independent candidate
for State and County Tax Collector, has
withdrawn from the race, which leaves
the contest between J. j. Rawlings, the
Bartlett nominee, and General Patter-
son, the Radical representative.
The Radical leaders denounce James
Reilly, our candidate for County Court
Clerk, as a traitor to their party, and
will make desperate effort to beat him.
Mr.. Reilly never belonged to the Radi-
cal party, and he cannot be beaten.
The Recorders Court failed to furnish
an item Of news this forenoon. In po-
lice circles everything was quiet Joe
Brooks, not the Arkansas Ex-Governor,
but civil rights negro, was sent to Jail
without bail on the charge of larceny.
The Texas delegation of merchants
and cotton men will 60 through to st.
Louis and return via Louisville and
Memphis. The Memphis Cotton Ex-