Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-06
LEDGER LINES.

The Chamber OF Commerce met yes
terday.
The polls will close at o'clock pm.
precisely,
We have met the enemy and they
are oars"
The Number Twos are to have new
hose carriage.
The General Council will meet again
on Monday next.
Wagon loads of watermelons are on
every street corner.
The almanacs for 1875 are beginning
to appear in the drug stores.
Seven fires last month. Aggregate
loss, $3.50; insurance, $500.
Be sure you vote right, then go ahead
and work for the white MAS ticket.
The Bartlett punch and cocktail are
the relished and popular drinks at pres
ent.
Hundreds of negroes voted with their
employers to-day for the white mans
ticket.
The happiest way to put in the time is
to stand on the curb and wait patiently
for street car.
Colonel I. S. Ayres, Disguised with
the Radical party, voted straight Bart
lett ticket to-day.
Every Radical candidate indorses the
civil rights bill. White men, vote the
straight Bartlett ticket.
Remain and work at the polls until the
last ticket is in, and the victory is ours
by fifteen hundred majority.
Tonight when the Irish Radicals are
sleeping the word Bartlett will ring in
their ears and disturb their slumbers.
Yesterday the General Council elected
as Sinking Fund Commissioners Messrs
1. NJ. Hill, W. S. Bruce and Walter Good
man.
Colonel NJ D. l.. Stewart, of the Sec
ond Chancery Court, came from Long
Branch in order to vote the Bartlett
ticket today.
Many merchants on Main and Front
streets paid off their negro Radical
porters and draymen to-day and dis
charged them.
A special dispatch has been received
from Daniel 0'Connell stating that he
never appointed Pat Winters as his
American agent or speech reader.
The white mans party is triumphant
in Shelby county. The Bartlett nomi-
nees will be elected by a majority rang
ing at from five to fifteen hundred.
The saloons are all closed to-day, yet
not a man suffered for want OF O drink
If he had the money to pay for 1t, or il
he could find generously disposed
friend.
Our Ledger Liner, while hunting up
election news to-day, enjoyed few OF
Sol Coleman's Rosa Concha cigars,
which are sold by thousands at No. 200
Main street.
Andy Davis, who had enc thousand
voters pocketed, will be several thousand
dollars out of pocket by this evening,
and yet he will not be elected, and can
not be happy.
The LEDGER sent up the Conservative
rooster to the masthead yesterday over
the Vicksburg victory, and will keep it
up in order to celebrate the Bartlett
victory of to-day.
The negroes are scratching the names
OF the Irish Radical nominees, because
the Irish RAIDS are defeating Hunt,
the negro nominee for Clerk of the Sec.
ond Circuit Court.
The sickest looking man in the pack
is Recorder Pat Winters, who has taste
for being always on the strongest side,
but this time his Judgment failed him,
and be rests with the defeated negro
party.
White men Of Memphis, you have been
supporting two thousand Radical negro
voters. let their places be filed by
white draymen ard porters hereafter, and
the negroized Radical party will be
crushed forever.
Coles great New York and New Or
leans Circus will exhibit on the bluff to-
ward the last of the month. The clever
Mat Iceland the circus press agent, will
be in the city in few days to make ar
rangements for his big show.
Jack Walsh, of the First ward, having
enjoiued the Council, took his seat yes.
terday, and will retain it until the Courts
determine whether or not he can hold
the office of Councilman and that Of
County Undertaken, in violation Of the
citv charter