Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-22
LEDGER LINES.


bluffs.
Tomorrow the Odd Fellows picnic
will be held at Bartlett.
The Bartlett doors are swinging on
their hinges and closing rapidly
Primary election for delegates to the
county convention next Thursday.
Bread made of flour out of new Ten
nessee wheat has appeared in Nashville.
The Coleman House, Raleigh, has
been reopened by NJ. McKeogh for the
reception of guests.
Persons leaving Memphis for the sum
mer had better order the daily LEDGER
to be mailed to their address.
Catalogues from New Orleans have
been received by CASTOR. They are
only worth one dollar each.
The Eighth warders meet to select
delegates this evening on the corner of
Winchester and Robson streets.
Who shall be our next GOVERNOR is
the riddle now keeping awake at night
many an aspiring West Tennesseean.
The insolence of the negroes in the
suburbs renders it necessary for every
white man to carry weapon for de-
tense.
Masonic picnic at James Park next
Wednesday, the Oath instant. The baby
show will be one of the great attrac-
tons.
The General Council will meet this
afternoon in special session to raise
money to pay for condemned property
in Happy Hollow.
Tennessee has about $500, 900 in State
warrants now outstanding; floating
debt of about $l50,OO9, and bonded
debt of about $24, 100000.
The mortuary report for last week
gives total deaths at %; whites 10, ne
groes ID. Health of city excellent, no
special type of disease prevailing
Next Wednesday Judge Halsey, of the
Second Circuit Court, will render a de-
cision in the contemplate police mud
die case between the "outs and the
4" ms"
Tonight at the Exposition building
number of young men will organize a
volunteer battalion, two companies being
already organized. All young men de-
sirous of becoming members are invited
to attend.
See the LEDGER announcement column
for prominent candidates, from which
list of candidates the convention will
make selections, they being the strong
men before the people.
John Jefferson who shot gunned from
the bushes colored brother, Richard
Harris, will not be hung on the 7th of
August, as sentenced, he having APP
pealed his case to the Supreme Court.
The base ballers were out in force yes
terday Immediately outside the corpora
ton line, where no Sunday laws are en-.
forced and where the bowls of the base
ballers can be heard from early morn
till dewy eve.
These moonlight nights All, on how
many vine-embowered gates soft eyes
look love to eyes that spake again and
the pressure of tiny hand in the rough
clasp of a masculine paw awakes to
estacy the living liar.
The wind storm last Saturday after
noon unroofed one Of the freight depots
of the Charleston railroad, carried off
part of the roof Of the Court street
Cumberland Presbyterian church, and
did more or less damage through East
ern Memphis.
There is a gang of insolent and plum
dering negroes at Central Point, who
need cleaning out" They take every
opportunity to insult white people, but
the day OF retribution will surely come,
if these civil rights vagabonds do not
cease committing outrsges.
A Court Square concert would put to
fight those people who haunt and fire.
queut the seats in the square after dark
for improper purposes. The police
should occasionally make a raid on
Court Square after dark and look up
the VIGOROUSLY bad people who congre-
gate there.
At meeting of ex.Confederate sur
geons held at Nashville on Saturday, DR..
Paul F. Eve was elected chairman, and
DR.. G. W. Curry elected secretary. The
object is to collect materials for surgical
and medical reports Of the late Con.
federate army. All correspondence
should be addressed to DR. Paul F. Eve,
President for Tennessee, at Nash
vile.