Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-22

excursion train will bring in a large
number of people from Collierville to
the game, which win be called at
haltpGst three o'clock.
Since Crutehy Thompson and Indian
. have been discovered to be negro
men and not women, our Radical friends
ought to apply to Grant or Morton to
have another Congressional lying in
Committee sent to Memphis, and if pos.
sible make Il. B. Wsshburne its chair
man, so that he could better investigate
what are known as Southern outrages
from a crutchy standpoint.
Many Of our rural exchanges come to
us with plates or pictures of Hayes and
Wheeler, or Tilden and Hendricks
aiorniug the head Of their editorial
columns. These illustrated journals of
civilization do not look well in such a
dress, and in every instance the pictures
of the candidates are blurred and black.
eaed, making them resemble pairs Of
negroes instead OF white men.
The Democratic Convention for this
Congressional district, to nominate a
candidate for Congress, will assemble at
the Exposition Building on Thursday,
September 7lh. The primary election
for delegates viii come off on Saturday
week, the ID instant, at which time also
delegates to the County Convention to
nominate candidates for the Legislature
will be selected. The County Con-
v~ention will meet on the 10Th of Septem-
bar.
Vocal sud instrumental music is cult.
vs.ed to no small extent in our city.
Not o night passes bnt the ~squealing and
squawling of instruments, as well as o.
human voices, can be heard floating oul
upon the midnight air upon almost every
principal street Of the city. Some peo
pie do not like this music, but such PEG
= pie, having no music in their souls, ar,
ct fos nothing except treason, stratageu
or spoils; at least so old Shakspearv
says.
In the prison Of every other city eS
cept Memphis the white aud black prii
oners are kept in separate cells an
yards. The male and female prisoner
D are also kept separate, as is done herr
bat they have also in other cities a sci
6 arate yard to move about in, and wher
n they canno: come in contact with ma.
prisoners. A little reform could be we
Introduced ia this matter by means Of
small expenditure Of money. Our eli
prison is the most primitive in design, a
!, c%ommodations ana general %surroundin
: Of any in the land.
The white candidates tor office on t
A., Radical side Of the fence and those viii
N chaps who are running the Radical par
Il in this city and county caR secure t
votes of numbers Of the black delegal
=, to the State Gubernatorial convention
be held at Nashville on Thursday ne
by paying fourteen dollars for the rouI
trip aud for each delegate. This is u
Ae way the white leaders get away with Il
IT, black leaders Of the party. Money ca
Us ries everything before it in politics, esp
cially ia the Radical party OF Tennesse
" Several doctors we're busy last mig
"" in attempting to pump poison out oil t
stomach Of Emma Stanley, one OF t
II notorious unfortunates inhabiting th
lis very low den of inlamy kept by M
ed Blackburn, aud permitted to exist bye
ng police authorities, in the alley ruuni
los from Main street to Center alley, IN ri
of the MayAower saloon on Main sire
en between Washington and Poplar.
las most every night the inmates of this
of can De seen indulgiug 10 lewdnesa in
m. alley and GA the sidewalk on Main sire
The police should raid this notori'
ed place out Of existence.
on A we'll known deputy sheriff, q
Of days since, engaged in the laudable,
ist, sometimes profitable, undertaking
attempting to catch an escaped cow
and thereby secure the reward ots
for his arrest. After searching all {
town, and talking numbers of negI
neatly to death, he concluded to lay
ono night and await developments.
officer stretched himself out on a be
oy on jackson street, between Front
Irip Main, and soon was sweetly dream
the happy hours away when his 81
Ine bers we're rudely disturbed by a sensa
up as Of some one searching his per
Leapiug up he found his pistol,
site pocket-book and bundle of warro
any vouchers, etc., gone, and he saw a
nee treating negro disappearing around
Tor, corner. Swift pursuit was made, bpI
lted thief escaped into a gambling den
and was seen no more, The deputy sh
the since then has been a sadder, if n
wiser man, and has ceased dream
about rewards.
Moonlight Excursion!
The affair Of the season. Those !
ing Invitations must present them OF