Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-20
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Look out for mad dogs and the comet.
General Council meeting next Wednes-
day.
The city IS as quiet as rural grave
yard.
How doth the busy Radical candi-
date2
Great ant. Radical barbecue at Bart
lett tomorrow.
Three men own and control the Street
Railroad Company.
Do not vote for independent candi-
dates; they are political frauds.
There will be a moonlight soiree given
at Collierville next Wednesday evening.
Sol Coleman received 5000 Rosa
Concha cigars this morning by express.
Cannot some epterprising Memphian
get up comet picnic and furnish the
glasses for the occasion.
A number Of Odd Fellows Of our city
will visit Bartlett Wednesday night and
institute lodge at that place.
Memphis needs few more steamers
and larger fire department, as some
big fire will demonstrate clearly.
Mr.. Tom Eldridge cannot carry two
votes over to the civil rights ticket. He
can carry one, however-his own.
The PUBLIC LEDGER weekly can be
found at the counting-room and at the
principal news stands tomorrow morn
ing.
Weddings in upper Memphis ten
dom are becoming so common that
they are no longer regarded as fashion
able.
In the Second Chancery Court Louisa
Fair has filed bill for divorce against
W. H. Fair on the grounds Of in6delity,
abandonment, etc.
The desperate leaders of the Radical
ring have determined to challenge every
Irish voter who appears at the polls to
vote the Bartlett ticket.
The Chamber Of Commerce boys ere
making arrangements to receive the
Shreveport and Galveston cotton men,
now on a visit to Little Rock.
Churches and beer gardens we're well
patronized yesterday. As is usual in
this sinful world, the beer gardens were
the greatest attraction for the masses.
Colonel Gronauer, the candidate for
State and County Tax Collector on the
niger ticket, cannot carry three hun
bred German votes over to civil rights.
In the Second Circuit Court Paul A.
Cicalla has entered suit against
Michael Magevney for SANDER and
claiming fifty thousand dollars dam
ages.
Why not get up an outdoor concert in
Court Square for the benefit of some
thing or somebody 1t don't make much
difference which, but let us have the
concert.
Edward Tyler cues for a divorce against
Emma Tyler in the Second Circuit Cour
on the grounds Of personal violence and
threats to kill, SO that he swears it il
dangerous to live with her.
The mortuary report of the Board o.
Health for last week shows the total
death as 32; whites Is, blacks a. Unu'
sual mortality among children caused
by the indulgence in unripe fruit.
Recorder Winters had his watch stolen
last Saturday BY civil rights negro who
visited his office to discuss the complex.
ion of the political world and help the
Recorder to give the Bartlett movement
fits.
Window gardening is popularin Mem
phis. Hundrsds of people who reside
in upper air keep boxes and pots filled
with rare flowers and plants. This taste
for flowers cannot be too highly com
mended.
Memphis tourists in Minnesota write
back that, '"'Now, by St. PAUL. the
grasshoppers have taken the State" and
have destroyed one-twelfth of the crops,
and involve ,sne.thirteenth of the popu
lation.
Tomorrow, the 2lst instant, will be
the anniversary of the first battle Of
Bulls Run, which was fought July 2lst
1861, in the northeastern part of Vir-
ginia, and in which the Federal forces
were badly defeated after bard fight.
Sehedule time changed over the Mis-
sippi and Tennessee railroad see time
tables. Trains arrive at 500 am, 2:l0
pm; treins leave at HE am. and
AIS pm. Freight trains, daily, except
Sundays-arrive 4:l5 pm; leave 4:5O