Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-14

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looking for the unknown Memphis cor.
respondent, but Of course he is not to be
found.
The Appeal and Avalanche CONNER
cial columns report city police and fire
scrip at S5c., when it is well known that
during the present week it has been sell
ing at 9Oc., and not a dollar Of it was
purchased at a lower figure. The scrip
is even rising above zoe, and no bear
ing can keep it down, as in January it
will be worth exactly lO3c. on the dollar,
as it draws interest for six months at six
per cent.
The Cincinnati Times heads the Mem
phis telegram With r~eferenceto the shoot
ing Of McGuinn by Quinlan, as follows:
Only one case Of man-slaughter in
Memphis to day." In view Of the fact
that there is less shooting or killing 60
ing on Memphis than in any city on the
continent, and also, that MeGuinn is able
to be out on the streets, the sensational
heading resembles somewhat a departure
from the truth.
Colonel Elder needs but fourteen lone
hundred dollars) subscribers to make up
the FIVE thousand dollar Court Square
fountain purse, and this amount will be
subscribed by our enterprising citizens.
The fountain will be a beautiful piece of
work, quite an ornament to the city and
upon it the name Of each subscriber will
be engraved. The fountain even now is
a fixed thing, and it will be erected dur.
ing the present year,
Two we'll known Memphiaus went fish.
ing to Arkansas last week. While re-
turning in a wagon with a lot of fish a
rain came down and one Of the fisher
men spread his umbrella over the fish TO
keep them from getting wet, while he alb
sorbed the rain for an hour. On being
informed that w%etting a fish did not hurt
it, he caved and owned up that he prob
ably drank too much lake water upon
that %piscatorial occasion.
The news from Nashville, published in
the LEDGER of yesterday, that Rev. John
w. Hammer, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, had been suspended from the
church by Bishop McTyerie, on the
charge of lewdness, created no little
talk and comment in this city yesterday
where the offender is we'll known. The
distinguished old divine fell from grace
after the n Of Beecher, and that 8
what's the matter with Hammer"
The Austin (Texas) Statesman. a
newsy and well-edited sheet, thus com
ments on Memphis and her journals:
The Memphis Avalanche has passed
into the hands of two Of the best news
paper men in the country, A. j. Kellar
and R. A. Thompson. D. A. Brewer
also still writes ringing, clear, concise
editorials for the Avalanche. The ven.
cradle Appeal still prospers, as of gore.
and is magnificent, and the evening
LEDGER is full of sttractiveness. The
city is hardly worthy, in spirit and en-
terprise, of its newspaper press"
George McGuinn, the cooper Of the
St. Louis Packet Company elevator, who
was shot last Sunday by a levee cooper,
Maurice Quinlan, was up and out this
morning, but little the worse of receiv.
ing three bullets, one through the arm, a
second through the neck and a third in
the breast near the region of the heart.
1t was one Of those little Smith & Yves
SOL cartridge pistols which Quinlan
used, Of which it has been said that a
healthy nan can take four or FIVE loads
Of such every morning before breakfast
without any especially dangerous result
following.