Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-16

Christian church next Monday night on
"Spurgeon and his Work" The rever-
end doctor is one Of our most eloquent
divines, and during his recent trip to
England spent a month or more travel
ing with Mr.. Sturgeon on the most inti-
mate terms. Hi. lecture therefore will
be one of unusual interest.
This morning a negro boy flying a kite
in Fort Pickering, corner Of Jackson
and Sixth streets, backed into an old we'll
which was concealed by the high dog
fennel and weeds. He fell thirty feet,
but there was sufficient water at the bot
tom to break his fall and save his life.
Officer 0dell fshed the youth out, no
damage being done except by water.
In the First Circuit Court to-day an
alternative mandamus was issued in the
case of the State of Tennessee, ex rel,
Charles Alternately, of New York, VS..
the Sinking Fund Commissioners Of
Memphis, to enforce the payment Of a
past-due bond and coupons, issued un-
der Mayor Taylor's administration in the
year 1862.
Ex-Governor Clark, Of Mississippi,
who commanded a brigade in the Con-
federate army, and who was so desper-
ately wounded at the Baton Rouge fight
under General Breckenridge, was in the
city yesterday, as was also Ex-Governor
Alcorn, of Mississippi, who commanded
a brigade of sixty day troops of the Con-
federate army at Columbus aud Camp
Beauregard, Kentucky, in 1862.
Mrs. Evans, who some weeks since was
sentenced to sixty days Imprisonment
in the county Jail by a Criminal Court
jury on an indictment for slipping pis-
tolls into the jail to aid the Express rob.
bers to escape, was released from Gus
tody on a bond Of $3.50 for good beha-
havior in the future. Had a mar com
mitted the crime he would have been
sent to the penitentiary for at least ten
years.
Our Ledger Liner announced a few
days since that he invested a few nickels
in bouquets semi-weekly, being a lover Of
flowers, and this statement was the apol-
ogy hat a citizen Of our city offered this
morning for sending a beautiful
bouquet crowned with a magnolia bud.
Our mai accepted the apology and the
bouquet, and now returns his thanks to
the donor, with the hope that he will not
grow weary in well doing, as the pres
ence of a bouquet in the Office creates
poetical thoughts in the minds of our
staff, from our heavy editorial man down
to our river reporter.
The proposition of the School Board
to cut down the salaries of teachers
twenty. five per cent. and only cut down
superintendent Picket's salary of $4,000
for nine months work ten per cent. is
talked of generally. 1t shows that the
rule Of the lower the salary the greater
the cut-down on percentage has been
adopted by the Picket ring, but when
you come to apply the pruning knife to
the sinecure offices Of big pay the rule
of course won't work. Gentlemen, tote
fair, and place the superintendent sal
airy at $500 or $4,000 per annum. Even
the Appeal says such a reduction should
be made.
Defense set up for the Express rob-
bers: Mr.. Turner claimed that his
client, Old Mac Morris, was not con-
nected with the robbery. Mr.. Eldridge
claimed that his client, the negro Henry
Johnson, who cut that club in Arkansas,
belonged to an inferior race and was
merely a plant tool of the white %rascals.
Mr.. Adams claimed that his client, John
Woods, was an idiot, and not RESPONSE
Bile. Mr.. Logwood claimed that his
client, Ed johnson, the leader of the
gang, was a %lunatic. In fact, it appears
from the statements Of counsel that the
negro Henry Johnson, whose guilt is ad-
mitted, was the only man who acted in
the murderous affair in a responsible
manner.
The Police Commissioners in view Of
several recent calamities in consequence
Of badly built public buildings, adopted
a resolution yesterday requesting the
General Council TO pass an ordinance
making it obligatory upon those who own
public halls, theaters, etc, to construct
the doors SO as they shall open outward
instead of inward, so that, in case of
FIRE, ETC., the audience can secure exit.
1t would be well also if the Council
would see that a sufficient number of
outlets are attached to each building,
as it has proven an impossibility for
two or three thousand people to get out
Of one door during a panic. All public
buildings should be so constructed that
the audience could escape within three
minutes from the time of the alarm.