Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-19

20 to make up that Paradise Of America
called Florida. Going North instead Of
South to seek a cool and charming eli
mate is a mistake.
A female correspondent asks: why
is it that just at the moment when a
young man finds ont that his girl will
have him, he wants to back out Of the
engagement" Probably because there
is some difference between the excite
ment Of pursuit and the tameness of
possession; or it may be that just at that
supreme moment the young man feels
his own uuworthiness to gather in so
valuable a prize. If these reasons are
not satisfactory or sufficient we abandon
the conundrum to its fate.
The Radical Congressional delegates
who we're selected at the Assembly Hall
mass convention will, in obedience to
instructions, select and put in the field a
full county ticket for November, includ-
ing candidates for the State Senate and
House of Representatives. Seeing that
the vast majority of the Radical voters
of Shelby county are black men, the
ticket must necessarily be composed of
a majority Of black men, at least the ne.
groes insist upon having a fair repre-
sentation this time, now that they have
grown weary Of being led by the nose by
a few ofice-seeking white politicians.
The cost Of lager beer before the wal
was one dollar aud fifty cents per keg,
and it is now two dollars and seventy
i've cents to three dollars. A key Of
beer costs one dollar to manufacture.
The number of glasses Of beer in a keg
depends upon how the beer is drawn.
If drawn slow you can get one hundred
glasses from the keg, but if drawn fast
and the beer be fresh, you can get one
hundred and fifty glasses. Al five cents
a glass the beer seller realizes at least
five dollars per kes, or a profit Of from
one to two dollars per keg. So says a
Cincinnati beer seller who was inte:.
viewed by reporters.
J J Barbour Lewis in an explanatory let
ter to the Avalanche this morning says
in reference to his speech or harangue
. delivered at the Assembly Hall, Il trust
: that / did not indulge 10 abuse of the
Democratic party" etc. He did do so
h however, and abused not only the Demo
cratic party in general but Mr.. Tilden il
u particular, and compared him to Judas
: Iscariot who betrayed the Savior, Levi.
n alleging that Tilden had betrayed his oil
; friend Tweedl in o like manner; and b
irreverently remarked Judas was n,
doubt a thief and a Democrat Mr.
Lewis cannot fool the intelligent reporter
of the press with his evasions or adroi
explanations. The Avalanche reporte
!. truly stated that Lewis did "abuse tn
Democratic party" and he did so in VI
measured terms.
Yesterday a white man, uader the il
ol Auence of some intoxicating drug, SD
rendered himself to the police author
! ties and charged himself with hors
stealing. he alleged that his name VIZ
E. B. Temple; that he hired a horse, n
long since, at Paris, Tennessee, an
AZ while under the influence Of opium, roc
g out of town on the animal and seld it #
forty dollars at Haile's Point, on Il
he Mississippi river. The police locke
him up and telegraphed to Paris for pa
tieulars. This incident the Avalanche
ed this morning headed, 1.-THE Evil Effec
NJ of Opium Eating" just as if eatiI
opium would make any one steal
. horse or other animal Of value. 1t Of
Main street contemporary wishes to i
Il vestigate opium and its effects, let hi
read De Quincy's Confessions of {
Opium Eater"
at The reporters of the city press are
m~uch-abused race Of people. They wol
by day and by night in order to CLEAN Il
harvest field of news and furnish it
fresh as a report for the public. Ju
imagine the feelings of an uulortuna
&c reporter at the late Radical mass co
'"e ~vention held at the Assembly Hall, III
raj hall is not we'll ventilated, aud it W
VI" crowded with about FIVE hundred pc
pie, white and black, principally t
latter. This barred ont nine.tenths
ess the circulation of the air which ordinari
on would be in the hall, The efHuvia ar
The ing rom animal heat, and the perspi
tiou caused by solar heat Of a2', were {
lay cessive and oppressive. The reports
on had to sit in the midst of this eartl
ext purgatory for four long hours and rep
lay the proceedings in order to iurn
mental pabulum to the public. If sal
or sinners ever get to heaven they v
find all the reporters there in due til
The "old reliable" Star Union f
Freight Line is, we understand, keep
up its well established reputation
quick time from the Eastern cities
ent Memphis. Ten and twelve days fir
hiei New York 10 former days was consider
8 a fast, but now by the above named
at rail route goods ore almost steadily