Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-14

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and through which the earth passes at a
rate Of forty miles q second.
The members of the Chickasaw
Guards will see a notice to assemble at 6
o'clock this evening, at their armory, in
full uniform.
There was but q small attendance at
Olympic Park yesterday to witness a
game between the Eckfords and a picked
nine OF the Riversides. Neither side
could score more than one in an inning,
the game ending five to two in favor of
the Eckfords, the last five. innings being
played in the rain.
Will Public School Superintendent
elect, Colonel Leath, hold that Office and
also the office of Police and Fire Com
missioner, is now one Of the conundrums.
The people want a man to give his entire
attention to the public schools as Super
i~ntendent. and for such service they pay
$25O0 per annum
We Americans, who are all plain
esquires, with here and there a general,
or a colonel, or say a majah, can afford
to smile at our English cousins, who
speak Of Victoria as "the Queens Most
Excellent Majesty" and of the little
whipper-snspper from France as His
Imperial Highness the Prince Imperial"
Mr.. Edward Goldsmith, Of our city.
gives us the following meteorological re-
port for yesterday: Sunday, 2 pm,
thermometer $50; barometer 1880
showery; 8 pm, thermometer 730; bar
omOter 2978-fair. Monday, I am,
thermometer 730; barometer 20 SO-fair.
The barometer was corrected for tenn
perature ouly.
Last night twenty-six prisoners at the
station.house charged with minor often
ces, misdemeanors, etc, took a vote on
the Presidential election. Twenty-Five
of them voted for Tilden and Hendricks,
while one man, incaroerated for com.
hitting a felony, obtaining money under
false pretenses "a la Belknap) voted for
Hayes and Wheeler.
Eugene Sullivan, an old salt who has
been a frequent inmate Of the station.
house of late, was arrested by the police
this forenoon on the charge Of being
dru4k and a vagrant. He should be put
to work reeGng the topsail of a hoe or {
broom on the chain-gang, or be placed
out in the weather caring Of the sta
tion-house yard for a few weeks.
Sam Hill (negro) was arrested thi
morning on the charge Of swindling an,
obtaining money under false pretenses
He rented a room o poor white VIC
man, collected the rent in advance, an
it aftsrward turaed out that he had n
authority to rent the same, He wa
locked up and will be interviewed by til
b Recorder tomorrow morning.
The Reds and the Blues played
match game at Central Park on yestel
; day. The attendance was quite larg
notwithstanding the repeated showers G
; rain which fell during the day, The Rec
easily defeated the Blues. The gan
| was uninteresting and slow. The iel
was heavy and muddy, consequently I
trieving balls was not a brilliant bus
ness.
. Owing TO the continuous rainy seasc
a the Nicolson pavement which in sever
4. places form the sidewalk, has bulGed u
into a hill shape, in many places over
foot in hight. A pedestrian walkir
= over it at night imagines, from the he
low sound it gives forth, hat he is pas
= ing over n cellar or slumbering volean
crater. The damp weather causes Il
wooden blocks to swell, and this fore.
the pavement upward in q convex shap
a Memphis is rapidly becoming a metr
4 politau or cosmopolitan city. On Su
days you can 60 to church aud hear
sermon preached by q minister of almo
g any sect; you can witness base ba
games, go on steamboat excursions, Wis
1t beer saloons or. suburban beer garden
engage in n dance if you prefer it;
$ fact, you can amuse yourself as y
please, just as you could do we're you
is resident of any Of the leading cities
n Europe.
ID A fine rattlesnake, six feet in leng
Il and wearing thirteen rattles on its pi
back, was killed at the Memphis and !
IT Louis Packet Company elevator, loot
is Beal street, on Saturday last. 7
snake is supposed to have Aoated doV
lie the river on some drift which lodg
in against the elevator. Since Saturd
every man who sleeps at the elevat
!. looks into his boots for snakes eve
morning. A rattlesnake would make
II disagreeabls sleeping companion.
n. There are a strange lot Of political
IA or party men in Memphis. There a
straight Democrats, Bourbon Democra
Conservative Democrats, Andy Johns
Democrats whatever that may mea.
"' Nominal Democrats, and Old Line VIII
l0 who have survived their party by twer
:. years, and who are now in a fossil sta
but Of ghom the majority attach the
selves to the Democratic party and
We minority to the Republican Barty. T