Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-04
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General Council meeting tomorrow
afternoon.
There will be Bartlett meeting in
the Tenth ward tonight.
Twenty-three arrests were made by the
police since yesterday morning
Memphis has not furnished scan
mag to the world for some time.
At Humboldt Park Colonel A. j. Kel-
lar will address the Germans tonight.
The Texans and Louisianans were
banqueted at the Peabody last evening.
T. W. Davey, lessee of the Memphis
Theater, left for Detroit, Michigan, to-
day.
We are now enjoying the dog days,
but the dogs are not, except through a
muzzle.
The mercury in the thermometer is SO
low that it is beneath the notice Of Mem
phians.
The river is falling at this point and
the Hopefeld bar is rapidly approaching
the bluffs
General John c. Fizer has returned to
the city in order to vote for the white
mans ticket.
Civil rights negroes continue to com
nit burglaries and robberies in the city
and suburbs.
All business houses will be closed on
Thursday, SO that every white man can
vote and work at the polls.
The negroes say that if de perlice do
arrest us de Recorder will turn us loose,
kase he is on de side oh de colored folks
now"
There was a little row among the
whites and blacks at Raleigh yesterday,
and considerable excitement prevails in
consequence.
There will be mass meeting OF white
men at the Greenlaw Opera House to-
morrow night Our best speakers will
be in attendance.
The fruits Of the vine now adorn the
market stands and stalls, but the profane
pedestrian is voluble over melon rinds
on the side walks.
At least two hundred white men have
postponed their northern trips until Fri
day next in order to vote in the color
line on Thursday.
The best auecdote of the campaign,
by all odds, was told by Thomas Lowe,
Esq, in his speech at the Third ward
meeting last night.
The First Circuit Court was in session
to-day granting naturalization papers,
and the Clerk, Ben Coleman, issued
them free Of charge.
A child belonging to Mrs. Taylor, who
resides on Brinkley avenue, was run
over and had his arm broken by mar.
ket wagon this morning.
The polls will open at 8 o'clock am.
and close at 4 o clock pm. Vote early
and then roll up your sleeves and go to
work for the Bartlett ticket.
Our Trans Mississippi guests left last
night for home on the Little Rock train.
They say Menu his can take the horns
for courtesy and liberality.
Nearly two hundred Memphians, now
sojourning at Bon Aqua and other places
of resort within reach of home, are com
ing in to vote on Thursday.
Patterson and Dyer have taken the
contract to work up the vote in the coun'
try districts. They are riding night and
day from district to district.
Some street car travelling females ex-
pect a Memphis car driver to carry the
heavy market basket into the house and
clear back into the kitchen.
Negro burglars entered the residence
of t. P. Holland, No. 4SO Orleans street,
last night and plundered the store room
and kitchen of de peryisions, Josiar.
Our mountebank and bench. legged
Congressman left for Fayette county yes
terday, it having appeared that the ne
gro party in that county is in danger Of
being defeated.
The Voudoo worshippers assembled
on the bluffs last night and GRATED to
about FIVE hundred coons. The negro
orators appeared to better advantage
than the white.
The rotary engine threw water over
the flag staff of the Odd Fellows Hall
in trial test yesterday afternoon. The
water-works fire plugs failed to reach
that high point.
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