Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-05

to defeat the negro ticket,
Great Bartlett meeting at the Green
law Opera House tonight.
The white and black buzzards will
roost on the bluffs tonight.
A number of special policemen will
be employed on the police force to.mor'
row.
The LEDGER of tomorrow will give all
the election news that can be dug up all
over the city.
Linen busters are worn in Memphis
because they make good shift for a
summer resort.
1t costs Memphis quite large amount
to water its streets, but much more to
water its treats.
The Reception Committee is expected
to meet at the Greenlaw Opera House at
| four o'clock sharp this afternoon.
A huge blush covers the face of Mem
phis every day when the Beecher-Tilton
scandal is perused; but news is news.
There was large meeting of Germans
at Humboldt Park last night. Speeches
were made by A. ]. Kellar and others.
Watch imported negro voters to-mor.
row. Let the illegal voters be arrested
and prosecuted to the extent of the law.
1t is proposed to employ that new
odorless sink cleansing machine to re-
lieve B. L. and other foul-mothed Rad
icals.
Captain Duncan has returned to the
city and expects to meet every member
of his company at the drill-room to-
night.
Hundreds of citizens who have re-
NAMED here to vote will leave for the
springs and lakes of the North on Fri
day next.
Major r. A. Sanford, well known
Memphis attorney and native of Somer-
vile, Tenn, died at Hot Springs, Ark,
yesterday, the 4th inst.
W. A. Tilford, who shot R. F. Scud-
der at the Peabody on Monday night
was admitted to bail yesterday, and was
released from custody.
There are more blondes than brunettes
in Memphis, owing to the hair-dyeing
business which adorhs ye maiden with a
wealth of straw-colored tresses.
B. L. has returned and will indulge in
his last political dance tonight before
an audience of "eoons and squad OF
unfortunate white men on the bluff.
q Tickets began to appear to-day in the
hands of voters. Mixed tickets gotten
up by Radical nominees will be attempt
ed to be palmed off on many voters to-
morrow.
The First ward will be carried by the
Bartlett ticket by three hundred major
ity to- morrow, and the ticket will cross
Madison street with majority of eight
hundred.
Meeting at the First ward engine
house tonight to rejoice at the Vicks-
burg victory won by the Irishmen of
that historic city over vile negroized
Radiealism.
Tomorrow the Irishmen and Germans
of Memphis will follow the glorious ex-
ample set by their fellow countrymen in
Vicksburg by voting the straight white
mans ticket.
Since Pat Winters has been reading
O'Connelrs letter and speech to the ig-
norant negroes, it is circulated among
them that O'Connell was a eolored man
born in Ireland.
Fashionable marriages in Memphis
have been postponed until fall or spring.
There are too many brides at Northern
watering places, thereby making we'd
dings and tours common.
Since Davis, Winters, Mulvihill and
Gronauer commenced associsting with
the negroes the latter say that they (the
negroes) are as good and better than the
Irishman or the German.
The police report for July shows the
total arrests made 427; married, l42;
single, 1885, Stolen property recovered
valued at $3.50; cost of feeding Adams
street station-house prisoners, 1926.
Should white workingmsn vote with
the negro to morrow, he will put in the
very worst days work he ever accom-
plished during his life. Negro rule
means the destruction of the white la
boring man.
Ward orators should remember that
on the scale of twenty-minute speeches
but three can be delivered within an
hour or nine in three hours. Talk TO
Tire point, use epigramatic language and
retire to give others a chance.
There will be a negroized and politi-
cal wake Of Radical nominees next Fri
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