Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-10
LEDGER LINES.

Read Colonel Tom Avery's card pub.
lished in to-day's LEDGER.
The red backed anti Radical Bartlett
ticket has been photographed.
1t is as quiet nowas if there had been
no hot political canvass last week.
TIE Bartlett doors are still open with
few back seats for mourners and lost
sheep.
The Great Southern Circus and Me-
nagerie will camp on the bluffs on the
10th instant.
The white peoples Congressional Con-
vention will be held at Bolivar on the
sth Of September.
Thanks to the friends Of Tax Collector
A. E. FARMLAND for musical aerenade
on Saturday night.
The newly elected county officers will
be indicted into Office in October next
by the county court.
That irregular squad which went out
with the militia to Somerville are called
the Mulligan Guards"
The last of the warriors returned from
Somerville yesterday in dirty shirts, but
in fine military condition.
Farmers are peddling fruit ell over
town, and find ready sale for their
apples, peaches and melons
Cut out the official vote and correct
summary of majorities of candidates
published in to-day's LEDGER.
Mr.. John Mccall an old aud respected
citizen Of Memphis, will be buried this
afternoon. See funeral notice.
The Recorders docket this morning
showed large number of DRINKS and
disorderlies since Saturday evening.
The great New York and New Or
leans Geological Equestrian Exposition
will exhibit on the bluffs toward the last
OF the month
The defeated white RAIDS" get up
the sickliest smile when rallied about
that famous combination party Of little
Office holders and seekers.
Shelby is the banner county and
Memphis is the banner city Of Ten
nessee when it comes to rolling up ma
jorities against Radicalism.
n series Of ward meetings will be in
augurated in Cue time to select delegates
to the Congressional Convention, to be'
held at Bolivar in September.
Congressional candidates are an
nouncing themselves; the Congressional
District is composed of the counties Of
Shelby, Fayette and Hardeman.
viii Memphis secure the Guberna-
torial nomination in the Nashville Con-
vention2 is the question being revolvcd
in many mighty minds just now.
The intense heat yesterday and last
night was most disagreeable to the
would be slumberer. To-day the Their
mometer indicated, 800 at ten o'clock
am.
The Bluff City Ministries, (amateurs),
will give a performance at the Greenlaw
Opera House next Friday evening, and
a matinee for ladies and children on
Saturday.
Gubernatorial convention at Nash
vile on the 10Th instant, Delegates will
be elected to morrow, the llth instant
at mass convention to be held at the
Exposition building.
The Shelby County Fair will com
mence on the first of October and con
tinue five days. The Exposition will
open on the 18th of October and close
on the 10th of November.
Tim Hope, a most popular "peeler,
has been appointed turnkey of the
Adams street Station vice Lewis Mar
shall, the negro turnkey, removed for
permitting the negro burglar, Carter, to
escape not long since.
1t is authoritatively stated that a Main
street merchant locked two Of his clerks
for the day they we're at Someryille with
their companies. The young men had
to go, Of course, they being members Of
the Chickasaw Guards.
Nearly two hundred citizens, insu-
rance company stockholders, have fled
injunction bills in the First Chaucery
Court against Fred c. Schaper, Tax
Collector, aad the city of Memphis, re.
strainiug the collection Of certain taxes
on insurance stocks.
The mortuary report for the week
shows total deaths at %. Whites, II;
blacks, u. This does not include the
death report Of the Radical party,
which numbered on Thursday last a lit
tie over three thousand blacks and