Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-17
LEDGER LINES.

night.
One-half of the Bartlett doors have
been shut; the other half will be closed
ere long
| 1t is reported on the streets that Major
c. C. Severson died at Water Valley,
Miss, on Monday last.
Col. John Donovan, leader among
his Irish American fellow citizens, is for
Bartlett, without mental reservation.
Recorder Winters being absent from
the city, ChiefofPolice Athey presided
over the Recorders Court this morning.
Mayor League is confined to. his room
to-day by illness, having seen taken sick
last evening He will be out tomorrow.
Recorder Winters is opposed to Bart
lett he follows up the tracks made by
the Mayor. The "nigger vote is the
trouble.
Two negroes robbed gardner Of sixty
dollars at Craig's nursery on Poplar
street, yesterday, and escaped with the
plumber.
Candidates are squandering eloquence
all over the city, and are showing why
they, and not their opponents, should be
nominated.
The days between sunrise and sunset
are fifteen hours in length. The mel
ancholy days have come, the longest of
the year"
The Memphis fire department and the
police department are the very best in
the United States; so say visitors from
other cities.
The National Sangerfest will COM
mence at Cleveland Ohio, on Monday
next. Delegates from Memphis will be
in attendance.
The case of ]. E. White, indictment for
horse stealing, was called for trial in the
Criminal Court to-day. Cousel are at
work getting up jury.
In the Criminal Court this morning
John Dixon was tried and acquitted on
the charge of attempt to counterfeit
United States currency.
The police muddle case, between the
outs and ms, !" which was to have
been heard before the Second Circuit
Court to-day, was continued over until
Saturday.
Alderman Andrew Davis favors the
Bartlett movement. He is too indie
pendent and too intelligent to permit
himself to be used by the wire pullers of
the negro party.
Warren Caldwell, charged with horse
stealing at Holly Springs, was commit
ted by the Recorder to-day to await a
requisition. When arrested the horse
was found in his possession.
The newly elected officers of the How
ards are, President, G. W. Gordon; First
Vice President, W. j. Smith; Second
Vice President, j. ]. Murphy; Secretary,
]. H. Smith; Treasurer, E. B. Foster
The big fights will be over the three
best Offices: Clerk of the Criminal Court
Clerk of the County Court and State and
County Tax Collector. Each Of these
Offices is worth over ten thousand ayear.
Councilman Jack Walsh joins the
niger party. He would undertake
to bury the entire party, or both parties,
with pleasure. Jack always has an eye
to business, even in his widest political
vagaries.
The Register local, dug" has consider
able to say about the supposed bibulouS
propensities of the Ledger Liner. he sees
the mote in his neighbours eye but fails
to discover the beam in his own. Such
is average American life on the bluffs.
The Germans met at the Turner Hall
last night and resolved to support the
Bartlett movement. They take no negro
radicalsm or civil rights in theirs The
Germans are al intelligent people, who
love education, and they want no mixed
schools.
Mayor League has declared for the
negroized Radical party and against the
Bartlett movement. In 1876, when the
day OF Endorsement and reelection comes
around, he will be reminded of his pat
riotic stand against the white race and
in favor of Africa.
The police were paid off yesterday for
the month of May. Many patrolmen
are holding city scrip for six months
pay, not being willing to discount it at
from ten to sixteen per cent. The city
should pay the police and fire depart
ments dollar for dollar.
A supposed shower of the queer f"
named Billy Brown, alias Wilson, who is
believed to be an escaped prisoner from
y