Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-21


BILE to meet than savage beast, more
injurious than any catrosphe that could
befall us, or any calamity that could be
devised by any wicked unseen power.
This morning Charley Wright was ar
rested on the charge of stealing lot OF
clothing and a mule from the plantation
Of Judge Archibald Wright. He was
sent to Jail in default of $4,000 bond
Wright came from Chicago some months
since, and was arrested in this city on
the charge OF larceny. but was liberated
on promise of good conduct in future.
But he is'again in trouble.
Recorder Winters, who, while taking
his daily siesta few days since, lost his
watch, has recovered the big super" it
having been taken by way Of a joke by
a Radical civil rights negro. When the
Recorder associates with the negroes,
and sits or sleeps on the civil rights plat
form, he should remember the poetic
couplet:-
"He that votes with nigs.' two things must
do: =,
Pocket his watch, and watch his pocket too. :"
The editor Of the Helena World in
last Saturdays issue says: 9 We have it
from reliable authority that yellow fever
prevails in Memphis" Where the World
man got his information is mystery,
and it is unnecessary to state that the
statement is untrue. Memphis was
never healthier, and no yellow fever has
as yet appeared in the United States.
Will the World contradict the sensa-
tional and false paragraph
Last night there was negro ball at
Assembly Hall on Main street, between
Union and Gayoso. The white people
were denied their rights to slumber from
dark until dawn by the descendants of
Ham who howled ard cursed all the
night long. Amusement is a thing
which all people are entitled to, but
these midnight orgies in which the vilest
negro characters in the city indulge are
nuisances which should be suppressed
by the police
1t is rumored that few Of the dele
gates to the Bartlett Convention have
bolted to the negro ticket, or have fol-
lowed their leader, who was pledged
candidate before that Convention. Well,
let them go, they will do more damage
to the niger" movement than they
could have done good to the Bartlett
platform. Every delegate is in honor
bound to stand by the nominations. If
they have no honor as men, they can
repudiate the ticket and even go back on
themselves,
Governor Brown has rejected the
Brownsville site for West Tennessee
Insane Asylum, and the matter has been
referred back to the Board Of Directors.
The Sheppard Springs tract turns out
not to be desirable or coming up to the
essentials deemed necessary. 1t is
doubtful that West Tennessee can fur
nish a tract of land possessing all the
essentials necessary for lunatic asy-
lum, except TO furnish the requisite num-
Der of inmates from ofice.seeking and
political circles.
There are many people in Memphis
who believe that newspaperman
" sleeps on bed Of roses;" that he gets
clothing, board, drinks, cigars, ETC., free,
and that he has nothing to do except 10
accept presents and write puffs for the
donors. This delusion is not partici-
pated in by newspaper reporters, who
have to shell out filthy lucre for every.
thing at the regular rates. a puff given
by reporter costs the
good-natured and liberal pencil singer
exactly twenty cents per line, which he
finds out every Saturday when he draws
his weekly salary. Solicitors of gratu-
itous puffs should refrain from asking
to write such gratis.
The code duello has been frowned out
Of existence in Austria, Prussia, France,
and other European countries
by the governments and armies of those
lands. In the army or navy of the United
States no duel is permitted In the
South such barbarous passages OF arms
are in vogue in certain or uncertain cir
Giles. Yesterday two sporting men, John
Marie and Shack Nasty Jim alias Shang
or William Mclaughlin, having had a
at beer garden on Sun
day last undertook to fix their difficult
ties according to the code duello as laid
down so precisely by South Carolina
worthy not many months since. This
upon honor and duelling was
by the Chief Of Police, who
arrested both worthless and stopped q
proposed duel with six shooters at thirty
PAGES, with the privilege Of retreating or
advancing after the first FIRE.