Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-08
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until next Monday afternoon.
The Chamber of Commerce will meet
again on next Friday afternoon.
The cloudy and cool weather heralds
the approach Of rain.
The Radical Gubernatorial convention
will be held at Chattanooga on the 10th
instant
Mayor League messaged the General
Council on the equalization Of taxes
yesterday.
The Old Folks will give a picnic ere
long. The picnic season is rapidly
slipping away.
The Recorder heard twenty misde-
meanor cases to-day and disposed Of
them by fine,
Several junk dealers, charged with
purchasing stolen goods, were fined by
the Recorder this morning
Who will be nominated as Congress
man at Bolivar2 is question often
asked on the streets to day.
To day week, the 10Th instant, the
County Legislative Convention will be
held at the Exposition buildiug:e
1t is rumored that the Radicals will
put out Ed Shaw, the negro Wharfmas-
ter, as a candidate for Congress.
Joe Blealock, John Lichfeld, Joe
West and B. Henderson were commit
ted at the Recorders Court to-day on
the charge of larceny.
The Standard Club will give select
picnic at No. ITO Marshall avenue this
evening. None but those invited are
expected on the grounds.
Merchants should remember that adj
vertsements are as essential to the de-
velopment of business as rain is to the
growing crops.
Evidences of trade begin to appear on
all the business streets, and shipments
of supplies, bagging and ties are being
made in large numbers daily.
The junk dealers are to be placed
under police surveillance, owing to the
indiscriminate purchase of everything
by them-stolen property included.
There are quite number of fence
houses in Memphis where the negro or
white burglar can dispose of jewelry or
other stolen goods, and no questions are
asked.
The annual meeting of the Western
Press Association will be held at Cleve
land, Ohio, on the 30th. Several dele
gates from Memphis will be in attend
ance.
In New York whenever a Nicolson
pavement block wears out the street
forces remove it and put down stone
block, and these stone blocks are gradu
ally working out the wooden pavement
In the First Chancery Court Tensa
Montido has filed bill for divorce, and
also for attachment and injunction
against S. Montido. The divorce is
claimed on the grounds of i'll treat
ment, etc.
The General Council has passed al
ordinance requesting the Street Railway
company to repair the Nicolson between
their tracks and two feet on each side,
in accordance with its charter.
The Bluff City Shooting Club and the
State Sportsmen's Association will
meet tonight for the purpose of making
arrangements for the dog show and
pigeon shooting, which will take place
during the county fair week.
Sunday next the Texas press gang
will stop over in this city on their way
to Lookout Mountain. When they return
home they will be able to indite edi-
torials headed THE Political Outlook
in TENNESSEE"
The Bolivar Convention meets to-day
to select successor to the disgraced
Congressman B. Lewis who, during the
late county campaign, so denounced and
villiGed the white people Of Memphis and
Shelby county.
Will it be Tom Avery, Hosea Town
send, Cayce Young, Tom Lowe, Judge
Fentress, Colonel Mosby or an outsider,
who will secure the nomination for Con-
gress at Bolivar to-day
Will Ed Shaw and his crowd of Radi-
cal negroes now call public meeting
to denounce the murderous negroes who
committed SO many outrages yesterday
morning at the residence Of Mr.. Durant,
on the Pigeon Roost road2
Hundreds of citizens have visited the
Overton, and have examined all the
changes which are in progress, and they
agree that in few weeks Memphis will
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