Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-18
LEDGER LINES.

rhis.
Look out for imported negro voters
from Mississippi and Arkansas on the
9th of August.
Hundreds of dogs went to the spirit
world last night in obedience to the
muzzling ordinance.
The dirt streets are all right, thanks to
the summer season; but what has been
done to the paved streets2 Nothing.
The first bale of Texas cotton, grade
good middiing sold 10 New York for
thirty.six cents per pound yesterday.
The whistlng and dandy Captain of
Police goes for the niger ticket with
the hope that something may turn up
for him.
The reporter who furnishes a column
or more of items in these distressingly
dull times deserves the thanks OF the
reading public.
The different companies of the Bluff
City battalion will assemble at their
respective halls on Monday evening
in order to be mustered into service.
Where is B. Lewis2 Zone blast upon
his bugle horn were worth one thousand
men," promised from the Irish ranks by
the sell-out Irish Radical nominees of
the civil rights party.
Quite number Of negroes in Mem
phis, and especially in the country dis
tricts, are kicking against the sell out to
Winters, Davis q Co., made by the Fed
eral Office holders and seekers of the
bluffs.
A crazy white woman is confined in
the Adams street station-house. 1t is a
shame that the county has made no pro-
vision for the care of the unfortunate
lunatics. The station-house is no place
for these unfortunates.
The great love of the Radicals for the
negro is shown by the swindling of negro
depositors by the Freedmens Savings
Bank. The money went to the parent
branch at Washington, and there it was
loaned out to leading Radicals and lost.
Two lively horse trots were had over
the Memphis Trotting Park Association
course yesterday afternoon. The favor
tie was badly beaten, and the takers of
short horse pools filed their pockets
at the rate Of three dollars to seventy
FIVE.
At the Tenth ward meeting last night
committee consisting of George B,
Elliott, 2. J. Goodwin, = Shaw, S. Fl.
Pope and John Strabl'was appointed to
consider the feasibility of having grand
torchlight procession between now AID
the 9th of August.
1t is generally conceded thatthe LEDG-
Err is doing more good work for the
Bartlett ticket than any of its cotempo-
raries. The LEDGER goes into the fight
for the white man with a determination
to win and crush the negroized Radical
party into the dirt, where it legitimately
belongs.
The Irish wing of the negroized Rad
icaI party is exercised about that boast
made in the convention that Davis would
secure ore thousand Irish votes for the
"nigger" ticket and that Mulvihill would
do equally as well. Stuff The Irish
people of Memphis cannot be traded to
negroes by wholesale.
The wedding epidemic has broken out
suddenly in Memphis, and so fercely
does it rage that no man knows one day
whether or not he will be married man
before morning. Wedding cards are
floating around-hence milliners and
clothing men are exceedingly happy.
Memphis is bound to have an epidemic
of some kind every summer.
There is another row in the FIRE de-
partment, owing to late appointment
made by the Mayor to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Captain James
Stokes. The new appointee was passed
over the heads of the men to whom pro
motion was due by rank and ability be-
cause the new appointee was a worker
in the Degroized Radical party.
The most amusing thing in the politi-
cal world of Memphis is the effort made
by Jim Smith, of the Tenth ward, to beat
the Bartlett nominee for the Office Of
Clerk Of the First Circuit Court, James
should run for the Office of constable,
and even then his aspirations would be
curtailed by almost any opponent, As
a ward politician at negro meeting
" Jeems " may be a success, but to that
he should con6ne his stupendous abilities
and capacity.
The nominees of the Radical Conven-
ton are giving themselves no trouble
about the heavy bonds they would be