Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-16
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| Federal soldiers couliuue W pass
through Memphis en- route for Louisi-
ana.
Bluff City Minstrels at the Greenlaw
Opera House next Friday and Saturday
nights.
New York and New Orleans circus
and menagerie on the bluff to day and
tonight.
The excursion train for the Chicago
Exposition will leave here on Thursday
morning next.
At the Alabama street Presbyterian
church tonight fashionable wedding
will take place.
The Criminal and Circuit Courts will
meet on Monday next to open up the
September terms.
Wanderers continue to return from
springs and the frozen north to enjoy
our tropical climate.
Tom Collins" who has been most
popular man, failed to secure nomina-
ton before the convention yesterday.
The trial of the Gibson county priso-
ners will.take place before United States
Commissioner S. S. Garrett on next
Friday.
The Union and American wishes to
know which is correct, n. Cayce Young"
or :" H. Casey Young" The latter is
the approved method of spelling the
name.
A new roof is being put on the Expo
sition building. During the convention
yesterday the rain poured down in tor
rents, thereby cooling off the excited
delegates.
Ward politicians and delegates find
their occupation gone to-day, and the
days and nights of glorious treats have
passed and gone until January next,
when a municipal contest will be inau,
gurated.
The Memphis Presbyterian has been
placed on our book table. 1t contains
the usual amount of interesting religious
reading matter and shows up evidence
of literary merit, good editorial work
and prosperity.
The news of the revolution and over
throw of the Kellogg government in
New Orleans created an unusual excite
ment throughout the city last evening
and especially among the Louisiana
people who have become residents Of the
Bluff City.
Colonel John S. Kerr, present Flote
rial Senator and late candidate for Gov
ernor, died yesterday afternoon. The
funeral of the deceased will take place
this afternoon at halfpast three o'clock
from the residence of the deceased, on
Poplar street.
The next thing is to see whom the
negroized party will nominate on its
State and county ticket OF course nc
decent white man, identified with the
South, can possibly accept nomination
at the hands of the blaok.and.tan party
of Shelby county.
Mr.. J. S. Toof, Superintendent of the
Cotton Exchange, received telegram
this morning from the proprietors of the
New York Financial Chronicle, giving
the total cotton crop figures of 1891
at 4,l85,534 balos. This is authority
and decides all bets.
Niger" Radical State Convention
al Chattanooga to-day for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for Governor to
run against the white mans candidate,
Judge James D. Porter, of Henry
county. It's believed that negro will
be the nominee of the Convention.
Three conventions we're held under
one tent in this city yesterdsg-the
Flotevial Senatorial Convention for
Shelby, Fayette and Upton, the Plote-
rial Representative Convention for
Shelby and Upton, and the Shelby
County Convention for State Senators
and Representatives.
The renowned Tom Collins was
nominated as. Representative at the
Convention last night, and several votes
we're given to the redoubtable slanderer
of private character who has so far
escaped punishment at the hands of en-
ragged Memphians who failed to read the
papers with attention and regularity.
Recorder Winters and several other
white delegates who we're selected by
the Radical Congressional convention TO
attend the Gubernatorial convention
held at Chattanooga to day, did not avail
themselves Of the invitation to attend
the "nigger" show, aud wisely remained
at home among the respectable white
people of the city.
The Nashville Union and American
saws: Memphis owes her police force