Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-17

uitAnb anu mhiNu lOilOMtu tut party run
South Memphis to the stAtion-house
wagged his tail in rejoicing at the release
of his enemy,
A local colored candidate for Office in
Mississippi on hearing of the Pole
Bearers picnic at the Fair Grounds, re-
marked IF desc white men who fess
to BE- Democrats want our votes dey
must come clean oyer aud be one Of US.
Yes, by granny, dey must be niggers
with u.s."
Those who went to the Covington
moonlight picnic on last Thursday even
ing returned yesterday morning delighted
with their trip. The good people Of
COviDgton did everything in their power
to entertain the Memphians. Conductor
Mitchell, of the Paducah road. took the
best care of his passengers during the
trip there and back.
AT the Pole-Bearers peace barbecue
to be given ere long a new departure is
proposed; instead of inviting only dis
tinguished guests of the male gender to
dine with negro damsels, as was done on
the Fourth Of July, it is proposed to in
vite a number of white ladies to attend
the mixed gathering. Whatever the
men may do, we opine the ladies' will
Indignantly decline to permit themselves
to be thus insulted.
1t is proposed that the Bluff City
Grays, Co. A., of the Forrest regiment
of cavalry, attend the Philadelphia Cen
tennial on horseback. Some forty or
more members Of this crack cavalry
company reside in Memphis, and should
they go to the Quaker City they will
give the denizens thereof a chance to
see a portion of Forests war men,7
who passed through over one hundred
battles and fierce skirmishes.
A party of nymphs du pave in an open
hack and accompanied by a troupe Of
wandering minstrels (harpists, Autists
and fddlers), serenaded the newspaper
Offices late last night, or, more properly
speaking, early this morning. The music
was excellent and the object most chart.
table, as music which soothes even the
savage breast is rot lost aver upon the
h%ard-hearted Journalists, either the APP
peal, Avalanche or LEDGER Office.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the
surrender of ~Benaparte in 1915. After
the Waterloo defeat he fed to Paris,
then to Rochefort, from whence he ex-
pected to escape to the United States,
but the port was closed and b~lockaded
by British cruisers, aud he surrendered
himself a prisoner to the captain Of the
war ship Bellerophon and was afterward
sent a prisoner to the Island Of st.
Helena, where he was guarded and wor-
ried to death by the inhuman and brutal
Sir Hudson Low.
The advantage discovered by a bache-
lor in restaurant summer life over hotel
or boarding house life is in the liberty
of assuming al air abandon in dress at
meals. When the thermometer is hirt-
ing among the nineties at a restaurant
the bachelor takes Off his coat and vest,
uubuttous his collar and takes his meals
in the cool, while at a boarding house
or hotel fashion or the tyrant custom
insists upon full dress, to the great in
convenience of the boarder and the
detriment of his appetite.
At Fort Sully, away up in Dacota
Territory in latitude 450, yesterday,
the thermometer stood at lOlo, and at
Leavenworth, Kansas, it has ranged
during the week at from 1902 to 1899.
This shows the folly of going North to
get into a cool latitude. Memphis is in
latitude $50 8 minutes, and it is a scien.
ti6c fact that in latitude 800 a warm sur
face current passes south to the equator,
then rising comes back as a higher cool
current to the same latitude, while from
latitude 800 another warm surface cur
rent passes north, and rising in higher
comes back to the same point.
Memphis receiving this cool northern
near its dip, is much cooler than
points farther north.
Under the new charter Memphis is en-
to forty-one policemen, exclusive
of the chief, or one to every one thou
sand inhabitants, according TO the United
census of 1870. Often patrolmen
are sick and off duty, and in this case
there should be a number of substitutes
on hand so as to take their places as
patrolmen and to have the required
number always on duty both by day and
by night. This would not increase the
police payroll one cent, and it
would add no little to the safety Of life
and property. 0ne or two substitutes
could, in this manner, get steady EN-.