Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-29
LEDGER LINES.


Fourth of July celebrations and pic
MICS are the approaching sensations.
The Fire and Police Commissioners
will assemble again this afternoon to try
police cases.
The names Of the next President and
Vice President Of the United States are
Tilden and Hendricks.
Candidates tickets, cards and circu.
lars printed at the LEDGER office cheaper
and better than elsewhere, I
The banana-peeling seaaon has come,
much to the annoyance Of the citizen
who plants his hee. on one as be prom
ensdes along the pavement.
The Hayes Wheeler candidates for the
Offices of Sheriff and Judge of the
Criminal Court have not as yet been an.
nounced in the columns of the Ava
lauche.
Everybody is talking about and dis
cussing the nominations Of Tilden and
Hendricks, the Democratic and Conser.
vative standard bearers Of the centen-
NAL year.
Tomorrow night the RAIDS" will try
to g~alvanize the party into life by hold
ing a ratification meeting in honor of
the nomination Of Hayes and Wheeler
at the Greenlaw Opera House.
Colonel Tom 0. Sullivan's gun squad
will discharge the Little Rebel" this
afternoon and tonight in honor of the
St. Louis Convention nominations.
Turn her loose"
Do not fail to attend the mass conven-
ton Of Democrats and Conservatives to
be held at the Exposition building next
Monday night for the purpose Of elect.
ing delegates to the Nashville Guberna.
torial Convention.
Sunday afternoon next the Memphis
Reds professionally aud Riversides
QeadinG amateurs) will engage in a base
bali match at Central Park. 1t will be a
fine game between these crack clubs, and
will attract a large crowd Of visitors.
The news Of the nomination of Tildeu
at st. Louis, received here late last eve
ming, created no little excitement on the
streets. The nomination was generally
indorsed as a strong one by all classes
Of citizens. Even the Radicals admit.
ted that fact.
At the General Council meeting this
forenoon, on motion of Councilman
Donovan, a resolution was adopted re-
questing that all business houses would
close on Monday and Tuesday next in
honor of the Fourth of July. In other
cities this programme will be carried
out.
The Sodality Dramatic Association
will give an entertainment on tomorrow
night at the association hall on Wash
ington street, near Third, for the bene6.
Of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The
entertainment will be quite attractive
and well worthy of public patronage
Even if you do not attend you can pur
chase a ticket in aid of the good cause
the reformation of Magdalens.
The General Council met in called
session yesterday afternoon and again
this forenoon in order to pass an Ordi
nance providing for the making OF a new
deed to the United States government
for the bluff custom.house site, IS objec
tons had been made by Attorney Gen
eral Taft to the deed for the custom
house lot, and he suggested that a new
deed be executed conformably to the de
scription in the act Of the Legislator,
authorizing the grant. The ordinane,
%embodying the above recommendation
and extending the time for commencing
the work. to the first day Of 0ctobe
next was passed accordingly.
An effort has been made by the citi
zens residing in Fort Pickering to in
duce the mule.box company to exten,
the street railway track down to tn,
mound. The citizens offered a large 10
tfor stable purposes, free of charge, an,
also offered to donate one thousand do
lars toward making up the necessar,
expenditures. Fort Pickering propert.
is improving rapidly, as that portioi
of the suburbs is becoming quite popu
lous. Quite a large number of resi-
dences have been erected there thi
season. The street car company woul,
make money by extending the track il
that direction, and also confer a grea
! benefit upon the citizens of the locality
A company of the Thirteenth Unite
States Infantry passed through the cit
( yesterday bound from Baton Rouge, La
to Little Rock, Ark. Instead of bein
stationed in the Southern States, wher
4 they are not needed, it would be a sa,
ing Of money and putting soldiers wher
they would do the most good if the
we're sent West to protect the people o
the frontier and clean out the hostile Ii
dams of the plains. But the Radios
0 party prefers to keep up bayonet rule i
0 the South even though scalps are take
Q from the heads of Republican men an
wnmen i'm the Black Hills and other 40,