Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-29
LEDGER LINES.

morning.
Watermelons have appeared at the
fruit stands.
General Council meeting day after to-
morrow-Wedn esday.
Tomorrow night comes OF the hop at
the Grand Central Hotel, Raleigh.
The Fret Circuit Court stands adj
journed over to the 18th of July.
Tomorrow election Of delegates to the
constitutional convention in Arkansas.
The Little Rockers call the late
Brooks Baxter imbroglio the late
war"
A learned physician says tight gar
ter often causes palpitation of the
heart.
Every delegate to the Convention has
his pockets filed with the cards Of can
didates.
Several Memphians leaves to-day for
st. Paul, Minnesota, to spend the sum
mer months in fishing, etc.
Next Thursday, the I'd preximo, the
anti-Radical County Convention will be
held at the Exposition building.
Aspiring Memphians are looking up
ward nightly for Coggia's comet, which
unfolds tail in the northern heavens.
The WEEKLY LEDGER can be found at
the countingroom and at the principal
news stands of the city tomorrow morn
ing.
A number Of citizens visited Arkan-
sas yesterday, and returned with fine
strings of fish. The fish bite even on
Sunday.
Next Saturday will be Fourth of July,
the occasion of the annual picnic Of st.
Peters asylum, which fete will be held
at James Park.
Election for fifteen delegates to'mor-
row in the Third ward. Let good
delegation be sent up to the Convention
of Thursday next.
The Offices to be filed by the delegates
are: Sheriff, Clerks of the Criminal,
County, First and Second Circuit Courts,
Trustee and Register.
1t is a good thing for saloon-keeper
to be a delegate, for at his place OF re-
freshment all the candidates and their
friends drink until the convention adj
journs.
There was a fire yesterday, as usual.
On every Sunday for four weeks past
the fire bells have rung out the fire boys,
with their engines, hose carriages and
ladders.
There will be meeting held at the
Criminal Courtroom to- night for the
purpose of selecting lot of delegates
to be voted for in the Third ward to-
morrow.
Mortuary report for last week-total
deaths, 81. Whites, a. blacks, II. The
Secretary of the Board of Health says:
The city is healthy, no special disease
prevailing"
An Italian residing on Poplar street,
near the toll gate, accidentally shot
himself yesterday while shooting at some
pigeons. The wound received is both
severe and dangerous.
The organizing of military companies
among the young men is progressing
rapidly. Ere long Memphis will have a
volunteer battalion unequaled by any
city. The battalion will assemble at the
Exposition building to- night.
Is it exactly fair that the Third ward
ers should have two primary election
days and two votes when electors in
other wards have had only one2 The
reason for all this is that no other ward
has drunken man within its limits,
A we'll known politician offered to bet
any amount from five to ten dollars that
no one could name candidate who
would receive the nomination for any
Office, but the politician could get no one
to take him up and scoop in the funds.
Many delegates keep full all day long
at the expense of candidates. 1t is we'll
known that some men run for the posi-
ton of delegate for the purpose of get
ting free drinks and making V or an
X in the transaction by being hard up
and asking the candidate for loan.
Mr.. Joseph Craig has been elected
Secretary of the Memphis Gas Light
Company by the directory, vice Captain
George W. Gift resigned. Mr.. Craig is
an exemplary gentleman, ard an untir-
ing business man, whose qualifications
for the Office are not exceeded by any.
The leading white Radicals are fright
eued at the Bartlett movement and their