Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-11
LEDGER LINES.

I ANEldiA Aht ohAGtNoi hAAs 4hi1bAs
Our voice is now raised for rain.
Bluff City Shooting Club meeting to
night.
Horse trois at the fernando Park OF
Friday next.
Congressional candidates are rapidly
moving to the front
The General Council stands adjourned
over to to morrow evening
Hundreds of people visit the bluffs al
night in search of a cool breeze.
The fall season will soon open, and
business will be brisk once more
The School Board met and adjourned
last evening.
The Matte Stephenson monument has
been erected at Elmwood Cemetery.
Great Southern Circus and Menagerie
on the bluff on Friday, the 2lst inst.
Chief McFadden has been presented
with splendid mare by his admirers.
The School Board stands adjourned
over to the first Monday in September.
The appellation or title most sought
after in West Tennessee at present
Gov
Don't forget the Bluff City Minstrels
at the Greenlaw Opera House next Fri
day evening.
The Texas and Louisiana excursion
lists cost the city just eleven hundred
and eight dollars for entertainment.
C. W. Metcalf, of the Third ward, and
DR.. CLARK, Of the Ninth ward, have re-
signed their positions as School Visitors.
As general rule the old man Of the
Bluff City wear stove pipes, and the
young men the slouch hat or the straw.
The wandering Memphians are leav-
ing rapidly for cooler climes May they
all return in time for the November
election.
Mass convention to select delegates to
the Nashville gubernatorial convention
in session to-day at the Exposition
building.
Colonel David Looney, well known
old citizen of Memphis, died last night
at the residence of his brother, Colonel
Robert F. Looney.
1t is about time to kick that Radical
dodge, the necessary appliances and
Chelsea hose carriage muddle, out of
the General Council.
White men of Memphis, employ white
men who voted with you in preference
to the negroes who voted and worked
against your interests.
When will that committee of investi-
cation, with reference to city officials
having contracts with the city in viola
tiou of the city charter, report?
Our Ledger Liner has been invited to
run for Governor, but declines because
his election would compel him to reside
at little town called Nashville.
In Switzerland it has become a law
that telegraphic messages shall be mea-
sured by the time consumed in their
transmission instead of by the number
of words
In Illinois recently party of white
farm hands left the dinner table because
a negro was invited to say grace. They
we're right, and were standing on the
color line.
Many negroes now proclaim that here
after they will vote with their employers
and best friends, the white men. They
say "the carpetbaggers are played out
in Memphis. "
Hundreds of white men who never
were and never will be Democrats, voted
for the Bartlett ticket, fact which
should teach Bourbonized politicians a
lesson for the future.
Soda water, lemonade, light wines and
lager are in demand as beverages at
present. The whisky drinkers find their
favorite tonic too exhilarating during the
present hot weather.
Esquire Spelman inquested the dead
body of child found yesterday under
the floor of house on Promenade
street, near Auction. The jury failed to
throw any light on the subject.
John Roush has been re elected Coun-
Gilman of the Fourth ward by the Ooun-
Gil Mr. Roush has been one of our
best Councilmen, and his reelection
will be hailed with pleasure by all anti
Radicals
The entire FIRE department voted and
worked for the Bartlett ticket, and the
police force voted for the white mans
party, with the exception, we believe, of
one officer, who Joined the negro party