Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-26
The California AgltatOr Ad-
dresses an Audience of
10000 People.
The Lagrange Tragedy.

citizens. AT least 10000 people
we're present. Those who failed to
be on the ground at Z o'clock could
not get within hearing distance.
Every one seemed anxious to hear
and see the great agitator. | saw
him, but heard him little. In APP
pearance Mr.. Kearney is medium
hight and build. His hair is brown;
mustache ditto; eyes dark blue;
complexion semi blonde; features
regular; forehead square and full;
expression of face positively firm,
go-ahead, courageous. AS a speaker,
he has much to learn; but he
has the faculty of making him
self understood by even the plain
est mind. There is one thing very
certain, Mr.. Kearney has struck a
popular cord, and it vibrates in
the heart Of every laboring man
throughout the country. He gives
public and defiant expression
against the tyranny of monopoly,
and wildly portrays feelings that
ninety-nine out Of every hundred
workingmen are afraid to speak,
fearing to offend their employer
and thereby lose their situation.
And, although Mr.. Kearney lack'
all the points of an educated ora
tor, still it is vitality significant O.
public feeling that one with such
positive views upon needed reforms
attracts such immense attention
Do not believe the extrayagant re
ports that he is an incendiary il
speech or act. He ia merely a plain
positive painter of the wrongs in
flicted upon the people by moneys
monopolists, and one who point
out that the remedy for such out
RACES lies in the ballot and not i
the bullet, as some journals woulC
lead the public to believe. MI
KearneY is no communist, and ha
no SYN pathy for any who would wi
fully trespass upon the rights Of hi
fellow-men. He believes that ever
American citizen has rights Sacre
before the law, and any wrong
they may be suffering from can b
righted by legislation, and urgentl
exhorts every man entitled to a vol
to cast it for those who can show
clear record as the friends Of justi(
and. right, irrespective OF politics Z
religion. Mr.. Kearney desires th
poorest man to understand that b
is in the majority as to votes, an
that if he uses them intelligent
he has the government in bis ow
hands, and can remove his preser
calling shackles by just Legislation
In speaking Of General B. F. Blu
ler, the hero (?) of New Orleans,
said the General was the workin,
, mans friend ever since 20 yea
! ago, when he stopped the wheels
q a Massachusetts factory until IL
q wages of a poor little orphan gi
, were paid. If not for the yello
! fever Mr.. Kearney would Wis
, Memphis and other Southern cite
The Alyiro Clark inquest ont
Lagrange terminated yesterday, Il
jury recommending that Joseph s
Petrie, the alleged murderer,
: held without bonds for actic
e by the grand jury. He
: such q decision could be &
b rived at is a mystery to IL
9 with all the facts present. Il
y whole inquest and post mOrtem g
< animation has been bungling. Il
u body had to be eXhumed 10 hu
s up the ball. What is consider
/ the strongest evidence against t
e prisoner is the fact that when
Q was searched only four cartridg
/ we're found in his pockets, VIII
q his pistol was a 6ye-shooter. B
's mark, upon inquiry, away from t
prison, St Petrie said he threw t
\, other one on the cell floor. Aft
n. three searches, at different periot
rt the fifth cartridge was found. No
y, for the life of me, l cannot
nd where the prosecution can find co
y ISOLATION in this circumstance.
Angel, the defaultmg secrets
of the Pullman Palace Car Co