Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-11
LEDGER LINES.

so did the young folks.
New York and New Orleans circus
on the bluff next Tuesday.
The Cotton Exchange admitted seve-
raj new members yesterday. isn
| A few arrests for drunkenness were
made by the police last night.
This is splendid cotton picking
weather, aud the planters are availing
themselves Of it,
County Democratic and Conservative
Convention at the Exposition Building
on Tuesday next.
1t is rumored that the negroes intend
running one or more of their brethren
for the Legislature
The leading white Radicals admit that
Barbour Lewis will be badly defeated in
the Congressional race.
The theatrical people are hard at work
fixing up the Memphis Theater prepara'
tory to the opening night on Rext Mon
day week .a.4
Business is beginning to pick up con-
sideraby, and country people are arriy-
ing with cotton and in search of supplies
and money.
The Clerk of the First Circuit Court
is transferring cases from the appear
ance to the trial docket, to which fact
the attention of attorneys is called.
The Nicolson pavement on Main street
should be repaired in a more careful
manner than is being done. A thing
worth doing at all is worth doing well.
=. Memphians are still returning from
the lakes and mountains. They com
ment upon the.heat here, and sigh for
the cool breezes of more northern lati-
tudes
The steamer George W. Cheek, lying
at the landing caught fire last night,
but no damage was done save scorching
the bulkheads The fire was Il work
of an incendiary.
The Bradley block, down on the levee,
and that old eye-sore and nuisance, the
livery stables on the south side Of Cour:
squate, have been reported to the fire
committee for condemnation.
A host of candidates have come for
ward to accept the Legislative offices.
There will be about FIVE candidates for
every Office, but the more the merrier, as
the voter can select the best men.
The November campaign opened up
in an impromptu manner last night in
front OF the Peabody and speeches were
made by Governor Brown, Colonel h.
Casey Young, 7. G. Lowe and others.
Colonel H. Casey Young is a liberal
and advanced Democrat. BE will carry
the banner of the Democratic and Con-
servative party to victory throughout the
counties of Shelby, Fayette and Harde-
man..
Is there candidate for the Legisla-
ture here2 " asked stranger as he
looked into a beer saloon last night.
ayes, wby?" answered eleven men, as
they turned toward the door and faced
the interlocutor.
The general feeling throughout the
city is in favor of the adjustment of
the privilege tax. the reduction OF gen
eral taxes, the passage of a good and
Just mechanics lien law and the enforce
ment of a system of economy.
Persons who are unaware of the law
on the subject, leave teams unattended
on the streets. More attention to this
matter would occasionally prevent run
away matches, and dispense with the
necessity of paying fines at the Record
ers court.
Our statistician and political end man
is of opinion that Il. Casey Young will
beat Barbour Lewis in this Congressional
district by fifteen hundred majority.
Other politicians put down Young's ma
jority at figures ranging from five hun
dred to FIVE thousand.
The rumor prevailing in other portions
of the State to the effect that one or more
Of the Gibson county lynched negroes
has turned up in this city needs contra
dictiOn. No Gibson county African,
either dead or alive, has exhibited him
self on the bluff Trenton cannot play
off such jokes on Memphis
There is delegate to the county con-
vention who asks all candidates who
seek his support if they can " lay off "
straight corn row with mule and pillow.
For fear of some shenanegan the
delegate has notified all candidates for
the Legislature to be on the bluff, at the
foot of Madison street. tomorrow, TO
test their efficiency to represent this
people. The delegate will furnish the