Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-26
LEDGER LINES.

Park this afternoon.
The Memphis Blues and the St. Louis
Reds will plsY a match game at Olympic
Park on tomorrow afternoon.
The St. Louis Red Stockings again de-
the Memphis Reds, at Central
on yesterday, by a score of II to /.
Mayor FIippin will go East next week
for the purpose of holding a conference
with the bOnd.holding creditors Of the
city.
An unmuzzled dog got loaded by the
police on yesterday. The owner Of the
canine failed to purchase the protecting
muzzle.
Fatty McGinnis, a well-know ex-Nem-
phis hickman, is now doing honest
work with a broom and shovel on the
Little Rock %chain-gang.
1t will soon be time for candidates for
State Senator and Representatives to
announce themselves. In other coun-
ties these patriots are already on the
track.
In another column will be found a
~synopsised account of the action Of the
General Council special. committee on
the Railroad connection and Union
Depot proposition.
The Office of district %elector, now that
it is almost a foregone conclusion that
Tilden aud Hendricks will be elected, is
an important position, as by being cleo
tor Q good claim is put 10 for an ap-
pointment to some fat Office.
The city is rather dull at present. We
have no public amusements, no picnies,
no concerts, etc.; nothing but dull times,
warm weather and a slight amount o.
local politics with a view to the county
election tomorrow week, the Sd prox.
The Washington City Gazette, Colonel
George W. Alexander's paper, says.
Nv. H. Foute, Esq, formerly connected
with this paper, left for his home il
Memphis last week. Continued ii
health forced him to accept another pc
%sition."
1t would be q very popular nov tt
reduce the street railroad fare from Ger
cents to a nickel, but even the lattel
amount is much more than the thing ii
worth, unless you regard the jolting
rough ride over the wretched tracks il
the light of exercise.
The Chickasaw Guards drill almos
daily, either at the parade ground or q
their armory. The Guards are prepar
ing for the competitive drill this fall witt
the Porter Rifles of Nashville. 1t i
also supposed that the 0'Conuor Zuave
and other organizations will be here t
compete for the military honors.
The Little Rock Gazette, of the 18th
: gives prominence to the following inter
! State local item; Misses Arkansas an
5 Tennessee Dean, highly colored, are i
some trouble in regard to their respec
I. tive ofsprings, which have appeare
upon liie's checkered carpet without tn
formality Of a marriage ceremony"
The multiplicity of divorces leads tn
Brooklyn Eagle to cry out for reform fc
the young. 1t says: Ministers can b
gin by abandoning their shameful anx
g ely to make money by tying the kn'
without asking questions-an anxiei
- with which the shyster lawyer in his fe
4 hunting extremities is a respectful
person by comparisyn."
The lively ward politician now whispe
. in your ears the tale Of his prosperity
Q. triumph and what he has done for Il
- party in the past. After the electio
should he be defeated, he will keep o
of your way and compress his indign
or ten beneath his burning dome
az a. thought, but in his countenance can
traced the words: Republics are u
CO grateful"
~ A practical joke yesterday was tc
re- tured into a duel by h republic. MAZDA
Ssat t Rumor, the lying old jade, had the dr
on fought and had one Of the fighters sh
in the arm, when probably both supp
ed combattants we're shot in the nee
III not with q pistol, but with a bottle. I
Q man who would propose a duelip such
weather deserves to be the victim Of I
of fight and sent to Hades.
ing Colonel Blood has written a card,
va which he Gays that Mrs. Woodruff
l. acting co~nscientiously in seeking a
vorce from him; that he knows OF
the writer who has the comprehensive int
1 dts lectual grasp Of such a variety Of 81
jects as she; and that he is "conhd'
and rejoicing when he sees the asps a
Jet wasps whom Mrs. Woodhulls teachil
, on would make an imposibility in
J: world, attempt to sting her to deaf
After this, how can the amiable Victo
be guilty of shedding Blood2
iSTs Turner Hunt, q black ex-City Couu
pa man and NOTED Radical politician,
peaFed iat the Recorders Court yes