Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-18

roodly people. Altogether there is suf
ficient going on to interest and please
without exciting one too greatly or
exasperating. This mornings hour was
chiefly occupied in hearing reports OF
committees. Important work was ac-
complished yesterday, interpreted with
lively discussion about operate music
in churches, full accounts of which have
already gone to the public-the gentle
reader" The well known and beloved
DR.. Winfield of Arkansas said he was
mot a singist-didn't know how they
sang in an opera-whether one at a
time, two at a time or three at time.
He didn't know anything about pre-
ludes, interludes or any other kind Of
ludes. But he did know that choirs
should be taught to behave themselves
TO lead the singing and not to do it. He
solemnly objected to ten or fifteen min
utes playing on the organ of a prelude
before singing. He didn't know whether
to stand down or sit up. He concluded
by saying he hoped the Bishops would
pronounce themselves on the subject
and 90 through the whole connection to
bring them back to the methodistic
style" Very plainly on the stand you
discern the noble features of Bishops
Pierce, Wightman. Paine and others;
Mr.. Haygood, j. B. McFerrin, and our
own good man of Arkansas, who wins in
every field of his labor. We met DR..
Roselle, of Baltimore, to-day; also DR..
Sargent of the same city-a fine type of
a noble man yet reaping in the white
fields of Time and its harvests.
To-day the New York editors are ex-
pected here en- route to Birmingham,
Ala. Well you can always see more
than is reckoned on in the bill in such
cities as this. Before entering the Con-
ference chamber or Library rooms. you
viii turn into a cosy little Dominican
like cell of an Office, and be graciously |
received by the accomplished and noted |
Ben Cassidy. He tells an incident |
of his lecturing tour with John
G.. SAKE, to the effect that when
they left Indiana where six hundred dol
lars per night were no uncommon re-
turns, they found themselves next in
Memphis, where the press received them
Justify, loudly, and that night of the FIRST
lecture sixteen dollars was his fortune.
He did not state how long he remained
in that city. Step into the library before
entering the world without, and then es-
corted BY the entertaining Mr.. Cochrane
you viii find much of note worthy Of
interest An excellent portrait of G. d.
Prentice in his palmy days adorns the
reading hall. Step into this little gar
den of embalmed thought and beauty
and get into good moods.
This is well built city. The city and
people are suggestive. Louisville is as
much Kentucky epitomized as Paris is
France. People, streets and buildings
have a well-to-do air. Nearly everything
to the city suggests thrift,
management, comfort-a sortof meas
ure for measure spirit. The people
seem calm and hopeful. The ladies
are generally fine looking, excellently
dressed, some rather stylishly odd,
almost to grotesqueness, for instance:
pinning their tissue wells round and over I
their setback hats until they have a |
bald and frivolous look, and their skirts
pinned back tight SO very bopfant that
cloth wings are suggested.
Conference has adjourned for to-day.
You know it by the twus and twos dressed
in black cloth leisuTely walking up
Fourth street You know they are Meth
odist preachers at a glance; their look
is unmistakable. We haven't time TO
paint details now.
The news boys are crying their papers
in the streets All about the war in
is the attractive bait. Poor,
dear Arkansas her woes are legion. Is
il not deplorable-her war of the BIS?
" breathe once more my native air |
say gladly oftentimes, as the morning
suddenly takes me from sleep and sets
my feet in the swift paths of duty and
labor; but my aching heart turns in sor-
row to my adopted land-Arkansas.
The dawn must Come; blacklist mid
nights are built Ger golden morns."
En- drdnt, RANDOM.