Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-30

any person or corporation whatsoever.
Next year should a distinguished CUES
arrive in town he can be presented with
the freedom Of the city, but should ht
be Toasted or feted the mo pay City
Fathers and the Mayor will have to foo
the bills out of their own purses,
A few nights sincs a lot Of villains en-
tered the Hebrew Cemetery at Pine Bluff
Ark, and destroyed every tombstone
and monument placed above the remainl
of the peaceful dead. Rewards Of $1,000
by the City Council, $1,000 by the Jewish
Church and $500 by the Governor have
been offered for the arrest Of the dss
tardly ghouls who so disgraced the hu.
mar race by destroying these monu-
ments Of affection placed above graves.
Messrs. Price, Jones & Co., II Jefer.
son street, have u thanks for a copy
Of Messrs. R. G. Craig 4 Co. Almanac
and Catalogue for 1876. This is a fine
specimen of Memphis printing. We re.
gard Messrs. r. G. Craig & Co. as bene.
factors to this community, and bespeak
for them a liberal patronage for agricul-
tural implements, seeds, plants and
flowers. Call at 81 and 379 Main street,
examine their large stock, and get a
Memphis catalogue.
Complaints have been made at police
headquarters that criminals from Presi-
dents Island are permitted to come to
the city on leave of absence. Several
penitentiary convicts we're proving
around town last week on leave Of alb.
sence. Last night Que of these Presi-
dents Island prisoners, on leave Of alb.
sence, Hans Margerum, assaulted a citi-
zen and was arrested by the police. An
other notorious chap named McAllister
was also in the city indulging in fights.
The police would do well TO arrest all
Presidents Island convicts found return.
ing here on any leave OF absence.
The ghost commissioner Of the Appeal
sustains the LEDGER's materialized re.
porter in defining the so.called NANTES.
tations and materislizstions presented
by Mrs. Miller to be a fraud and palpa-
Bile deception. WI draw a clear dis
tinction between sp~iritualism as a sYs-
tenn OF religion taught by learned
preachers and those mo~ney-making i'm.
posters who seek to palm of jugglery as
something sacred and supernatural. II
took the intelligent and independent
thinkers Of the press, who, like Carlisle.
have a horror of shams, to expose the
horrible voodooism attempted to be i'm
posed upon the public by the Miller
people at these sesnces.
The old negro woman who lives in thu
shanty on Lauderdale, neal South
which shanty was struck by lightning
last Sunday, details the lightning Incl
dent as follows. Fore Godl l knowet
somethin' was gwine to happen, cas-,
my ole man was always playin' de fiddle
Use tole him afore dat de Lord woul'
punish him for dat 6ddlin' and sho nui
He did. De thunder bolt came RICH
down thro' de roof an killed my oil
man an my dauter for awhile, den d
Corener came out an wanted to hold a
inquest on Marian, but l jes' tole him b
should do no such thing, as Marian wa
den in bed sick, case de thunderboI
struck her. l knowed all dat sin goir
on round dere would be punished by d
Lord after awhile. Down in my neigE
borhood de white and black folks are a
mixed up, an you know OATS wrong"
Our reporter proposed two practices
yet simple tests to DR.. Watson, whic
would either detect Mrs. Miller in an in
posture or result in a tableaux mos
mysterious and wonderful, and which n
human mind could explain, but th
Doctor rejected both tests. We still
offer them. First, to permit our ma
terialized reporter to sit in the cabine
with Mrs. Miller, and then see if th
materializations will progress. Second
after the naturalization is perfected an,
the white-robed form on the stage, to b
permitted to step in between the form
and the cabinet to see if Mrs. Miller i
in the cabinet in that cataleptic state
if not, to be permitted to seize tn
ghost and identify her. If it is a ghos
materialized it will not be difficult for i
to resolve itself into its original ele
ments in sight Of the audience and die
appear, thereby GLIDING mi reporter
who does not believe in ghosts.