Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-16

over the corresponding time last year
aud 0,OO0 over the corresponding tim
of year before last. The sales for tn
past week were 5000 bales, Of which on
half was taken by exporters.
The Chief Of Police has recovered
lot of silverware, goblets, knives, forks
coffee urn, butter-dishes, ETC., which ar,
marked III. d. s." The goods are sup
posed to have been stolen, and the owne
is invited to come forward and identii!
the articles.
An Arkansian left his baggage at 1
leading cotton house this morning. Thu
baggage consisted of valise containing
two Colts army pistols and a box o
paper collars. This is the only ward
robe necessary in our sister State sit
uated in the West.
Yesterday Mr.. 9. Il. P. Piper, of oul
city, was married to Miss Belle Watts, o.
Newport, Kentucky; and Miss Nelit
Frayser, the accomplished and charming
daughter of DR.. j. R. Frayser, of oul
city, was married to DR.. B. G. Henning
Il. Casey Young, cur next Congress
man, arrived in the city yesterday. To
day be has an engagement to amuse
himself with his Radical opponent al
Whitehaven, on the Mississippi and
Tennessee railroad, eight miles south OIL
the city.
Whenever person sitting alongside
of woman in Memphis mule box gets
up to leave, in nine cases out Of ten the
woman will at once try to spread her
self so as to cover the vacant seat as well
as her own. Owing to the present style
of bridled and curbed dresses, with their
scant skirts, their efforts fail, but yet the
woman makes the attempt from mere
force of habit, which results rather more
funny than effective.
Strange as it may sound, last Thurs
day morning in Coahama county, Miss,
near Malone Landing, there was an ex'
traordinary heavy frost, and ice one
eighth of an inch thick was found on the
pools and ponds. The freeze killed all
verdure and of course destroyed the tor
bolls of cotton. A gentleman just ar
rived from this point gives an account
of the frost in that region, which is stu
ated one degree south.
The Somerville Falcon has the follow
ing amusing paragraph: The People
Reform and Workingmen's Party (that
sounds like Blewis might have christen
ed IT'D is the name of new politica
organization in Memphis. One strange
popularity attending it has excited oul
attention. They are unable to find any
of their members with patriotism enough
to become candidates-and that too il
Memphis, where the supply of candi
dates is usually in glazing disproportior
to the demand. Verify, truth is stranger
than fctien."
Local politics is beginning to assume
a warm point now that the November
elections are approaching. 1t is under
stood that the Radicals will put out {
simon-pure ticket, composed of negroes
and white men who believe in civil rights
and mixed schools, unless the great one
horse P. R. and W. party, composed o
Doyle, Brown, Topp, Vance, Moores ant
half dozen other citizens, fix up thu
combination 10 a few days and become
able to get some respectable citizen tt
accept inglorious defeat on their ticke
as its nominee.
Last Monday night our political re
porter attended the dark lantern party
meeting in the third story Of the Jeffer
son block, but the party" adjourned
the meeting over to Friday night, as thu
grand committees on combinations witt
Radical negroes were not ready to re
port. Our reporter will attend the ad
journed meeting tonight and demand
admission in the name of the press anC
the people, or like mad Antony. Wayne
demand it in the name of the Grea
Jehovsh and the Continental Congress.
We hope the brethren and statesmen
will all be there, SO that we can taxi
their photographs with Faber No.
lead pencil