Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-03

there would be an ocean OF tears WASteu
in this laughable and fashionable world
Of fashion.
A few days since the jailer of our
county made raid on the prisoners and
captured any number of files, watch
springs, saws, false keys and other imple-
ments known to burglars. The priso-
ners had engaged in a conspiracy to
break out on our new Sheriff, but hap
PLY the discovery was made in due time.
Extra vigilance is nov exercised as TO
prisoners and their visitors, as the latter
have been in the habit Of furnishing the
Jail birds with the burglars tools. .---ss.ss
gAmopg the arrivals:atl the Cotton Ex-
change to-day we're F. G. Burrows, Mem
phis; J. W. Scheduled, Rochdale, Eng
land; Edward Whitworth, England; r.
D. Henderson, Arkansas, and A. W.
Taylor, Baltimore, Maryland. This lat
ter gentleman is civil engineer, who
has been appointed by the Mississippi
Levee Congressional Committee to in
spect and investigate the Mississippi
levee system, to the improvement Of
which Congress, at its last session, voted
two and half million Of dollars.
Hereafter F. W. Louis will have charge
Of the Turner Hall, and. in place of it
being, as heretofore, Radical den, it
will be a Conservative place Of resort
for the honest, hard working Germans
and their friends of this city. A meet
ing of the Germans has been called to
assemble at the Turner Hall to ratify
the Exposition Convention Conservative
nominations, and to repudiate the wild
ca" ticket composed of " sore heads
and tricky Radical politicians. The
Germans cannot be fooled by painted
mules or zebras. y
The following, from religious jour
nal deserves general circulation:
" Mothers, fathers, cultivate 'after-sup-
per talk play 'after.supper games;
keep 'after-supper books;" take all the
good newspapers and magazines you can
afford, and read them aloud after sup
per- Let your boys and girls bring
their friends home with them at twilight,
sure of pleasant and hospitable well
come and Of a good time after supper,
and parents may laugh to scorn all the
temptations which town or village can
set before them to draw them away from
home for their evenings"
In to.day's LEDGER appears the funer-
al notice of q LEDGER newsboy, Frank
NJ. German, whom our subscribers on
the Madison, Adams and Charleston
railroad route no doubt remember. He
was the main stay of his widowed mo-
Their and of his brothers and sisters, and
upon his humble exertions they depen-
ded for living. Always polite and cor
rect in all his business transactions, be
secured the confidence of all with whom
he had business relations. He was
buried this morning from the residence
of his mother, Mrs. Maria O'Riley, he
having succumbed to prolonged attack
of brain fever.
The many friends of Rev. DR.. Wither-
spoon, who some years since held the
pastorate Of the Second Presbyterian
Church of this city, will be pleased to
learn that he has recovered from the
effects of a severe illness, and has again
entered upon his pastoral work at Pc
tersburg, Virginia. With the young
men of no church or of all churches in
this city Mr.. Witherspoon was favorite,
and with that class of sinners no
preacher has ever since taken his place
in their affections. There was gentle,
earnest and liberal spirit of Christianity
about him that charmed the outside
world of youth, who are repealed by
harsh orthodoxy and that illiberal sec
tarianism which the Savior of the world
never preached on earth.