Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-29
LEDGER LINES.

Remember, on Saturday next Porter
and the Narragansett Indian, Maynard,
will speak in Memphis.
The General Council stands adjourned
over to the first Wednesday in Novem.
Der, or Wednesday next.
Tonight a grand Conservative rally
will be held in the Fourth ward at the
Second Chancery Courtroom.
At the Recorders Court to-day George
Robinson was placed under $4,000 bond
on the charge of cow.stealing.
As the literary papers have it when
referring to the next election, the 'Ides
of November " will soon be here.
Governor John G. Brown will address
his fellow-citizens of Memphis at the
Greenlaw Opera House tomorrow night.
The case Of Harrington VS.. the Street
Railroad Company is being argued by
counsel in the First Circuit Court to-
day
Richelieu at the theater tonight, and
tomorrow night Mr.. Davenport will
appear as "Othello, the Moor of
Venice"
Tonight the Third ward will hold a
Conservative rally at the Criminal court
room, when good speakers will be in
attendance.
Bret Harte has been lecturing on Cali
fornia in Louisville and Nashville, but
he does not draw well. His forte is
singing pencil or pen.
To-day Mr.. Sam H. Coward and Miss
Ida Carroll, daughter of General VIM.
II. Carroll, we're married at the resi-
dence OF the bride on Court street,
The Irish Literary Association meets
tonight and will debate that Grangerian
question as TO the relative importance
of agriculture and manufactures.
Every white man should vote very
straight Conservative ticket on Tuesday
next. No compromise with either white
or black Radicals should be the motto.
At the Council meeting last night the
following assessors we're selected :Messrs.
John Donovan, F. W. Buttinghaus, G. A..
Leffingwell; assessors clerk, Angus
Campbell
Why we're the United States soldiers
brought here, and at whose request? are
questions that remain as yet unanswered
by the Radicals on the so.called Iude-
pendent Peoples ticket.
Do not write your preference for Uni.
ted States Senator on your State ticket
when voting on Tuesday next, or you
will lose your vote. A separate box will
be at each precinct for the Senatorial
matter.
In the voting as to the choice for
United States Senator, many voters will
not understand who to vote for, since but
one candidate has announced himself so
far, but blank ticket is a vote against
that candidate.
Tuesday next the election for Gov
ernor, Congressman and State Legisla'
tors comes off. No white man can afford
to 90 nest-hiding with the so-called
independents. who are only Radicals in
disguise. 1t is the white mans ticket
against the negro ticket.
The citizens of the Sixth ward turned
out in force last night to hear the Con-
servative speakers. Eloquent speeches
were made by Luke W. Finlay, Captain
Maccabe, George B. Peters, j. Harvey
Mathes, Colonel Stockton and others.
The meeting was quite enthusiastic.
Yesterday we saw an unfortunate
Avaar chan escorting a lady up town.
He was regular express wagon, having
under his arms and in his hands eleven
BUNDLES, etc., oil of which we're in dan
ger of being crushed into atoms by that
rough monster called man, who is not
fitted by nature to tote female gear.
Next Friday a bee-keeper's conVen
ton will be held at the Exposition build
ing, which will be continued on Satur'
day. Every bee,keeper in the State will
be present, and all bee-keepers are re
uuested to leave their names with the
Secretary of the Exposition. The bee
question will be discussed from sweet
standpoint and in all its bearings.
The theater 6end, who talks during
the performance, is coming in for ben
eft through the press at present. Gig
Cling girls who go to the theater to show
their teeth and fnery, and exquisites
who 90 to show their bad manners and
loud necktie, are rapidly being placed in
the category Of nuisances, and, we must
add, exactly where they originally be-
longed.
The City Attorney announced to the
General Council last night that in the
matter of the bluff donated to the United
States for a custom.house, all objections
had been removed except that claim of
the Memphis Freighting Company, and
that this company had agreed to surren.
der their charter for s remuneration, to
be fixed by committees on behalf Of the
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