Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-15
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loupe are still Of sickly color
At nine o'clock this evening there will
be fashionable wedding at Calvary
church.
Humanitarians, if the word can BIZ
used in this sense, sayit is cruel to muz
zle dog.
The Bluff City Shooting Club will not
allow outsiders to participate in club
matches hereafter.
Tennessee Lodge No. 5, Knights Of
Pythias, meets tonight to confer sec.
ond and third ranks.
Fete Champetre tonight at the Brink
ley residence, on Poplar street. The
fete is given for the benefit Of the Church
Orphans Home.
Tomorrow week there will be a
charming wedding reception at Oak
Lawn, the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
NJ. Sledge, on Rayburn avenue.
Captain James Stokes, of the fire
brigade, was buried yesterday. The fire
boys, headed by band of music,
marched in procession, and wore the
usual badge of mourning.
In the Radical Convention yesterday
the simon.pure Radicals faced the music
bravely, but the newly made Radicals,
who recently left Conservatism, Felt
mean and looked it to the letter.
There is no room on the political
board for independent candidates. These
gentlemen must curb their political OF
official aspirations for time, or else the
people will put muzzle on them in
August next.
Esquire Miller has decided the city
coupon suit. The jurist decides that the
bonds were legally issued, but that the
holder can only receive the amount paid
for the bonds and proportionate amount
for the coupons.
The gubernatorial coctest is becoming
lively, and already our Bluff City has
developed eleven candidates for the i'm
portant office. Memphis has greater
number Of embryo governors than any
ten counties in the State.
Seven Federal Office holders ran the
negro Convention yesterday. The ticket
had been selected for several days, and
the negroes were induced to adopt it,
although they get but one Office, and
that the poorest of the lot, it yielding but
a small revenue.
In the Second Circuit Court Susan
Jones has filed a bill of divorce against
her black liege lord, George Jones, on
the grounds of cruelty and abandonment.
W. H. Cooper has filed divorce bill
against Frances M. Cooper on the
grounds of abandonment and inconti-
nency.
Colonel T. D. Eldridge got the nomi-
nation for the little Office of Bartlett
Court Clerk before the negro conven-
ton because he advocated the passage
of the civil rights bill and proclaimed
himself true blue Radical. The office
was hardly worth the bid made by the
Reverend Colonel, even should he be
elected which he will not.
P. j. Mulvihill was a candidate before
the Bartlett Convention, pledged himself
to support the nominees, and was beaten.
Now he appears as the nominee of the
negro party; but if another party sus-
pected to be stronger in smell or votes
should appear, Why, Mulvihill will seek
that nomination, of course. He is the
champion nomination seeker Of Mem
pills. but he will not be elected.
Recorder Winters smiled a CHASTITY
grin Wnlle III bHe INdulCdi camp 1SoVSi-
day. Not long since he was an uncom-
promising Democrat and elected Sheriff
as such, then a combination man to
elect League Mayor and himself Re-
corder and now a civil rights Irishman
going the whole hog. In politics, as in
everything else, the downward course is
rapid.
The agony is over. The negroized
Radical party trotted their long fet-
lock stock out on the track yesterday
Three Federal office-holders, Garrett,
Patterson and Gronauer; three unpopu-
lar Irishmen, all belonging to the Win
ter's ring, Davis, Mulvihill and Pat Win
tiers, jr.; two Americans (white), Smith
and Eldridge; one American (negro),
Hunt. The ticket represents American