Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-19
LEDGER LINES.

In the First ward the saying is pOpu-
lar, Our ticket got beat"
OF course IT'S going the rounds that
political atmosphere is rather
" Hsyesy at present.
The mortuary report for the past week
shows the total deaths to have been 38;
whites, 81; blacks, AZ.
The General Council will assemble at
the City Hall this afternoon for transac-
ton Of special business.
School commencement exercises are
progressing throughout the land in an
epidemic form at present.
Candidates tickets, cards and circu.
lars printed at the LEDGER office cheaper
and better than elsewhere. I
Ten ears of iron passed over the
Charleston railroad Washington street
track to-day for the Fort S NTH railroad.
The argument of counsel in the csun-
terieit money passing case of I J Drury
is progressing to day in the United States
Court.
Democratic and Conservative Couven-
tion, to select candidates for county Of.
fees, at the Exposition building on
Wednesday morning next.
On our desk we find the following
mysterious missive: After a day and
night Of ar6uous labor the last words he
was heard to utter were good morning."
Two Memphians quarreled last night
and went out to the suburbs in a hack to
fght o duel. The matter was amicably
settled, and the boys returned to the city
to indulge in lager and sandwiches.
The members of the amateur fisher
mems club arrived from 0sceola yester-
day, They brought no fish back with
them, but they caught quite a number at
the lake, and these were fried and eaten
~ the party daily.
At the Criminal court the jury in the
case Of Joe Chase, indicted for the muir
der of Leon Cohupe, have not as yet
agreed upon a verdict. The court stands
adjourned over to next Thursday morn
ing, and the regular panel of jurors has
been discharged until that time.
The sleeping apartment of W. j
Hare, on Monroe street, near Third, was
entered Saturday night and robbed oil
forty dollars by some sneak.thief. Quite o
considerable amount of petty pilferinQ
= is going on throughout the city, notwith
standing the vigilance Of our small DO
: lice patrol force.
The primary election fer delegates
which was held on Saturday last, passed
. off in q very quiet manner in the differ
ent wards and districts. Quite a small
} vote was polled. In many wards tn,
: list OF delegates was made up with
view to voting 10 the convention for
certain candidate for Office.
2 The Appeal and Ledger base bal
picked mines engaged il a ball tossin
tournament out near the Hernand
Trotting Park yesterday afternoon. vi,
t tory perched upon the banners of th
Ledger boys by a score Of 81 to g.. Nj
$: James Meath acted as umpire and H. I
a. Turner as scorer. Time Of game, tw
- hours.
The address delivered last night b
. Rev. Mr.. Boggs, at the Second Pres6ytt
= rian church, on business life, as illuI
4 trsted by the late General John G. Fize
attracted a very large audience, con
fposed of the representatives OF the yer
G. best class of people in the city, Tt
e. address was well composed and was al
:. propriately delivered.
A notice appears elsewhere of Ii
|, marriage of Miss Matte F. Leath To NJ
Anson S. Hopkins, Of St. JohnsburI
VT, at the Rutgus Presbyterian ChurcI
in New York, on the 18th inst. The ia
.. bride has many friends in this city, who,
good wishes and prayers will follow Il
IN happy couple. She is the grauddaughtI
of Colonel James 7. Leath and ste
L. daughter Of Colonel Sam B. Jones, wi
resides now in New York.
Lou Leubrie issued the FIRST numb
N. of his Sunday Times on yesterday.
- was full of news and miscellaneous ma
ter, and is quite gossipy, it being
journal Of the days we live in. Leubrie
salutatory as editor and proprietor o
cupies the space Of eight lines. 1t is
piece Of model composition, and col
pareg most iavorably with those thr'
column salutatories seen so oft in the
iis- days of journalistic ventures. The 81
wn day Times presents a neat appearanC
Ed. and is well worthy popular support.
md A suburban Memphian says: In t
I'm. little garden patch Of ours quite a pro.
+. able business has been done; the sna
raidel upon the cucumbers and Ott
vine plants, the chickens ale the snai
= the larcenous negroes stole the snI
fattened chickens, neighboring and nil
~promenading cats scratched up the 9
as den end were chased by the dogs arou
Mr. the lot, so that at present our little 8
y l den looks as if a young tornado or a s
1ips soil pillow had passed through it, or II