Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-10

eject nave received their ~rtlnca OF
election. No legal or formal notice Of
contest was fled by William Randolph,
Republican candidate for Congress,
agAins. d. Casey Young.
During the cannon firing yesterday
afternoon a horse attached to General
W. ]. Smiths buggy became frightened
on Front street, near Madison, and ran
away. The driver, a negro, vas thrown
out and received a few injuries. Police
Commissioners Frank stopped the firing.
When the ratification comes of. let us
have some more firing. Radical horses
and negroes cannot even stand Demo
cratic music.
Hundreds Of white and black citizens
remained on tue sidewalks and street in
front of the Avalanche bulletin board up
to IL o'clock last night. When a tele.
gram was posted, cheers went up from
the crowd, without reference to the fact
that tie telegram contained election
news or a lager beer advertisement.
When the cheer went up citizens who
stood around on adjacent corners rust ed
to the front to read the news.
Last night the Federal oHice.holding
ring Of Radicals looked gloomy and pc
culiar. Hereaftet the South will furnish
its own officials, both State and National,
and the needy adyenturers from the
North who have fattened upon the pros
%tration OF the South will become private
citizens, to remain or get up and get"
as they see 6t to do. The great ma.
jority CT them will leave for their W
country homes, for, like 0thello, their
occupation Of ofice holding will be gone,
Advices from down the river state that
a white man named Harvey, believed to
be from Louisville, Ky, and who left
this city on last Wednesday evening on
board the steamer Cheek, was shot and
killed as he got off the boat at Austin
Landing, Tunica county, Miss, by o
party Of white men who came in a skif,
and seemed to be awaiting bis coming
The affair is said TO have grown out OIL
an old feud Of some personal character.
No further particulars have been re.
ceivad.
The deiectives have arrested eight
Chicago thieves who came here on the
Great Republic some lays since, and
who have been sneak tbieyiug and play
ing the confidence game around town
A number Of stolen articles, among
others a lady's waterproof cloak o.
suit aud a black alpaca dress we're founC
in their possession. These articles viii
be found at the st%ation.house to.morroV
morning, and those from whom the,
we're stolen are requested to appear anc
identity the goods, go that the thieves
can be punished.
The latest political discussion seems Il
be over the phrase the animal Inde
pendent" which a distinguished Demo
crat is charged with using in a speech
Every man Is an animal; the Porterite:
Thomasites, Yardleyitss and Youngite
are all animals. Mar is certainly not
vegetable or a mineral; consequently b
must belong to the animal kingdom. q !
man may be green enough to be q veg
e etable and hard enough to be a minsra
yet Providence made him an animal 70
2 some wise reason or other, but he ma
be either an intelligent or a stupid on,
The man who could electyou provide
i you would lend him five or ten dollar
GOT in his work on Tuesday last, &
a would take the contract to elect anybod
It on the same terms. From his red faC
e and bloated appearance it was evidel
that he was working hard for someboC
% or something. he is generally avoidt
A by candidates, but he stuck to the
- closer than a brother. He has retired
his reservation, but he will be out as
= hostile on the war path when the ne
election comes around, provided he
not planted out in the meantime as
victim Of mean whisky and dehancher