Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-22
LEDGER LINES.

City Council meeting this evening.
Memphis bellies are going rapidly into
matrimony.
Nothing of public interest progressing
in the courts of record to-day.
Gustavus A. Henry will speak at the
Greenlaw Opera House tomorrow night.
Last evening false alarm of fire
brought out the FIRE steamers and the
fire boys.
The County Quarterly Court is still in
session attending to county affairs when
every quorum is present.
lie Sphinx at the theater tonight.
Miss Alice Dunning Lingard will appear
as Blanche de Chelles."
Tonight H. Casey Young and the
negro loving B. Lewis will have dis
cussion at the Greenlaw Opera House.
Main street, on the corner of Georgia,
has been fenced in, so that no one can
reach the lower streets by the way of
Main.
The boy with the rubber sling and a
pocketful of marbles is now the omni-
present nuisance on the streets in the
suburbs.
John M. Fleming, State Superintend-
emit of Public Instruction, is in the city
on business connected with the schools
of the State.
E. Etheridge GRATED and ranted at the
Greenlaw Opera House last night and
announced that he was one of the NOM
inees of the " dark-lsntern party"
In his speech last night E. Etheridge,
while complimenting ex-President JEFF.
ferson Davis, referred to him as the
Prince of Reputation in Mississippi"
In the Recorders Court to-day but few
cases came up for adjudication. M. c.
Bride and John Ralston, charged with
larceny, were committed in default of
bonds.
On Thursday next, the 29th instant,
Governor Brown will address his fellow
citizens of Memphis, and reply to GER
tain charges made against him by
would-be United States Senator.
Now, by St. Paul, the war goes bravely
on from one end of Memphis to the
other, now that the political campaign
has opened out and speakers will ad-
dress the sovereigns every night until
the Sd of November.
Two additional lodges of Knights of
Pythias, one German and one American,
are being organized in this city. The
order is spreading rapidly in Tennessee
and adjoining States of the South.
A company OF the u S. Sixteenth in
fantry is now stationed in this city for
the purpose of intimidating the white
people and encouraging the negroes aud
white Radicals, with view to carryingg
this Congressional district for Barbour
Lewis. 1t is we'll understood that the
troops were sent into this district at the
request of the Radical leaders, but all
this will not save the vulgar Lewis from
defeat.
The dark lantern party" announced
a third ticket yesterday. The corner
loungers and street walkers of the secret
organization known as the P. r. and W.
party gave the names of the nominees
on the new ticket, but will the Radical
party come to the support of this one.
horse organization? which, like the
Know Nothings Of old make their COM
binations in secret conclave and by the
light of dark lanterns.
Ticket No. 3 of the dark.lantern
party was announced on Madison
street yesterday by the heads of the new
combination, For Senators-W. NJ.
Perkins, W. NJ Randolph, Emerson
Etberidge. For Representatives-Wm.
NJ. Smith, D. B. Molloy, W. W. Coleman,
NJ. ]. Williams, Lucas =, T. j. Latham.
Ticket No. will probably be announced
in few days. In the above ticket there
is q generous sprinkling of Radical ma
terial, which may satisfy the negro yo-
tiers of Shelby county.