Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-03

A handful was circulated throughout
the city to-day stating that Messrs. Whit
tie and Bliss would conduct services
daily as follows: At Exposition, prayer
meeting. 9 Dam, gospel meeting, 9 pm.
At Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Court street, bible readings, 4 p m,
young mems meeting, 81 pm, (at the
close Of services at the Exposition build
ing.)
A resolution was adopted by the Gen
eral Council accepting the proposition
made by certain p~ublicspirited citizens
to erect a fountain in Court Square, the
city to supply the water and keep the
fountain in repair. The charter and
contract of the Water Company with the
city especially provide a free supply Of
water to fountains in Court and Market
Squares.
Last night several drunken and disor-
derby white and black women were ar
rested and incarcerated in the Commits
s%ioners' castle, on Adams street. When
locked up they kept up a concert COM
posed Of the most frightful yells, horrible
blasphemy and vulgarity, and this on
tinued for several hours. Some plan
should be adopted to prevent this nui-
sance, which can be heard by all passing
on Adams street.
And now comes Henry Bergh, the New
York man on cruelty to animals, and
calls the Appeal editors " s%entinels on
the wateh-tower Of civilization" etc.
Just imagine any of our jolly neighbors
standing on that tower on a rainy night,
with a dozen lead pencils in hand and
one behind each ear, and gazing to the
four points Of the compass to catch the
advance Of the barbaric enemy.
Late last night a drunken citizen was
passing down Main street with a friend,
and was singing to him a poetical de-
scripiion Of the interview between a
di~sembodied soul and St, Peter, who is
supposed to keep the gate Of Heaven.
One staBza of the b~achanalian song was
caught by our reporter as he passed by,
1t was as fellows, and it places St. Peter
in rather an u~nenviable light:
Nov who is he that knocks so bold,
To modest the Heavenly choir2
Your name at sight / do demand,
Your business l DESIRE"
The new twenty cent silver coin to be
issued by the United States mint will
bear a sitting figure Of Liberty with the
word Liberty " inscribed on the shield,
the whole surrounded by thirteen stars.
Beneath the figure is the date. On the
reverse side is an eagle with the words
twenty cents" The edge OF the coir
will be perfectly smooth in order to dis
tinguish it from the twenty-five CEN
piece, which does not circulate too freely
in this latitude,
Esquire Miller issued a warrant thi
forenoon against Sam Range, a fisher
man, who is charged with shooting Will
buckshot a child near the mouth o
Wolf river. Range was attempting t.
kill a dog, and while SO doing accident
ally shot the child, breaking his ankle
badly. Esquire Miller also issued a war
rant against John Duer, charged witt
shooting at his step-father, 0Michae.
Ringrode. The defendants have not al
yet been arrested.
Late last evening Chief Of Police
Athy received a dispatch from Vicks
burga Miss, asking him to arrest {
sharper who had stolen clothing fren
Captain Ed Outlaw at q boarding hous,
in that city. Detective Cranmer boardet
the steamer Illinois on her arrival il
port this morning and found the ALLEGED
clothes taker in the texas. A dispatcl
was sent back to Vicksburg that tn
t man I" had been c%ollared and the cloth
ing found.
1t often becomes a question wit
physicians as well as others, us a pa
tient dead or not2" This is now sci
! tied by a scientist who offers as an IN
|, failing test the following: 1t is to injec
/ a drop Of ammonia beneath the Skin
when, if death be present, no effect, @
next to none, is produced; but il Their
be life, then a red spot appears at Il
place of the injection. This test shout
be insisted upon by all Memphians VIII
have any apprehension of being burie
alive.
, Our city fathers have passed on il
fret readings an ordinance to ia
canines-male dogs 81 and female dog
81. The State dog tax is 81 for th
former grade of animals and s. for th
latter. This makes a very respectabI
tax on dogs, but the county can no
come in aud also impose adog tax. TIL
is crowding the dogs more than nece
. sary, at least so think those who own Il
CANNES; but let the city fathers and Il