Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-12
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blow from the northeast to-day.
Negro burglars are making it lively
for somnolent citizens throughout the
city.
The Press Association, in session at
Brownsville, will visit Memphis to-mor-
row.
| Annual commencement exercises of
St. Agnes Academy on next Thursday
morning. June 18th.
A negro thief stole Attorney General
Wright's hat yesterday while that advo-
cate was addressing the jury.
No fountain in Court Square yet.
Some people think that, like beauty,
Memphis unadorned is adorned the
most. !"
John Riley is on trial in the Criminal
Court to-day on the charge Of an assault
on a woman with intent to commit an
outrage.
The hair ON the head of the Head Of
the Commune has been cut short-prize
fighting style Is he light, middle, or
heavy weight
The Brownsville site for the West Ten
nessee insane asylum will probably be
selected to-day by Governor Brown, who
is in that village at present.
During the next County Fair, which
will be held in October, the Bluff City
Shooting Club will give five hundred
dollar pigeon match, pigeon tourna-
ment, bench show of settlers and point
ers and field trials.
Will it be the two-thirds or the major
ity rule in the County Convention2 is
the question to determine in time. The
two-thirds rule weakens strong men and
strengthens weak ones in the conven'
ton, but not before the people
Those white politicians who were
blowing about combinations and Radi-
cal success in August next have ceased
to howl on the streets. They are non
committal, or waiting for the straw which
is supposed to show which way the po-
litical wind blows.
Drivers of fast and slow horses always
avoid the Nicolson pavement whenever
possible. The Nicolson pavement is in
terrible condition, but the mind Of
tle city government is too much en-
ployed in exploring finances and local
politics to remedy this growing evil.
Candidates are becoming more ex-
cited and earnest in their manner and
movements. They ask every person as
to his opinion of their respective
chances, and compel the polite citizen
to get off number of white or society
lies.
The German Casino Club entertained
a number of invited guests at CorrelPs
garden on Poplar street last night. The
musical exercises were highly enjoyed
by all present. The Casino Club is one
Of the strong and live social institutions
of Memphis.
Something should be done to drive the
negro thieves and burglars from the city.
There are at least Ave hundred negroes
in Memphis who make living by plum
dering. The proper enforcement of the
vagrancy laws would cause the arrest of
at least one thousand of the civil rights
vagabonds.
r B. Goshorn, late postmaster of Dy-
ersburg, has just been convicted of en-
bezzling $500, ard sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment in the peniten.
tiary. The fraud was first discovered
and reported by Colonel Knowlton Of
the Memphis postoffice.
Yesterday lady in South Memphis,
while suffering from nervous prostration
and mental arrangement, took an over.
dose of laudanum, from the effect of
which she would have died we're it not
for the timely interposition of physi-
clans whose skill brought her back to
life from the very jaws Of death.
Committees of Germans have been Or
gauized in every ward in the city for the
purpose of aiding in the Bartlett move.
ment and securing representation on the
ticket, which will be selected by the Con-
yention held on the I'd prox. The com
mitteemen will meet at Cochran Hall |
tomorrow to arrange a programme of
action.
No longer can the oily white politician
and che corrupt negro politician be seen
on the street corners bargaining as to
how many "niggers the latter can
vote, and how much he is to receive for
his influence among his colored breth- |
rem. The negro leaders will have to !
work without brides in August and No
vember.