Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-28
CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY
MEMPHIS:
Friday Evening, July rs, 1875.
LEDGER LINES.

The Tenth-warders held a rousing
Iilden-Hendricks meeting last night.
The mercury in the thermometer is
rising up toward the nineties once again.
The Fourth-warders will meet and Or
ganize a Tilden-H Hendricks club tonight.
a large lodge of the Knights of Honor
has been organized at Huntsville, Ala i,
and thus the order spreads.
The remains Of the late John T. Strai.
ton were inferred at Elmwood Cemetery
on yesterday with Masonic Donors.
Grand excursion around the islands
above and below the city, on the City of
Augusta, Sunday afternoon and night.
The Odd Fellows picnic at the Leath
Orphan Asylum grounds yesterday was
an invitation picnic and was very much
enjoyed.
Down in Louisiana the RAIDS have
started the report among the negroes
that Governor Hayes is a man of their
own color, he having negro bloodin his
veins.
An Independent journal, one that will
not take sizes in these days of the Cen
t%ennial Presidency, is like Wilkins Mi
cauber, waiting for something to turn
up" Its public independence proves
It's personal dependence.
A very ine game of baseball was
played yesterday at Olympic Park be-
tween the st. Louis Reds and Memphis
Blues (semi-professionaD Nine innings
were played, resulting in the lolowing
very small score: st. Louis Reds l,
Memphis Blues O.
Owing to the. i'll feeling created at
Nashville by the rise in fare from five to
ten cests, the street car companies have
concluded to sell tickets at the following
rates; Ten for fifty cents or twenty-five
for one dollar. The Memphis Street Car
Company should follow the example.
A big base ball match will take place
at Central Park tomorrow, the contest.
ants to be picked mines from the St.
Louis Reds and the Memphis Reds, Sc.
lected to play on either side so as to
equalize the game and make it of greater
interest. This contest will be worth wit
Messing. The arrangement of the mines
can be seen in another column.
The crawling caterpillar, which natu.
ralists extol for its beauty as they ex-
anime it by means of a microscope, has
made its appearance for the purpose o.
destroying shade, fruit trees and shrub
berry. Every specimen of animal life,
from man down to the cimex lectularius,
has been created for some good purpose,
but the difficulty is in finding out where
In that good purpose crops out.
The Chickasaw Guards, the crack
military company of the State, will give
a public dress parade this afternoon at
six o'clock at their drill ground on the
bluff. The Guards have been presented
with an elegant flag by B. Lowenstein &
Bros, which flag will float from the head
Of the flag staff at the parade ground
The flag will be uniurled this afternoon
amid a salute of small arms and artil-
lery.
Turner Hunt, a leading black Radical
OF the upper ten, has become a nest
hider," much to the chagriu of many
members of de sciety and de church.
Tip Harris, a religious black brother,
charges him with interfering with his do
nestle affairs, and alleges that, return
ing home late n night, he captured
Hunts hat, vest and watch, which ar
ticles Hunt had no time to carry away as
he escaped through a window. This of
lair has created quite a stir in high.
toned negrodom, aud the %virtuous breth
rem and sistren are asking, Who next2
Hunt aspires to be a politician and ex-
emplar Of his race.