Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-05

nlght, the following gentlemen were
elected as officers: G. NJ. Carroll, ". NJ;
Ralph Wornley S. NJ; Marcus Jones,
j. WI John Gent treasurer; John Beam.
ish, secretary.
1t is an established fact that ere long
Guy Mannering will be presented at the
theater by amateurs for the benefit Of Mrs.
Rose P. Thompson. Mrs. Thompson
win appear as Meg Merriles," a role
which she will render with dramatic
ability. The entertainment will draw q
crowded house. +.
Mrs. Stanton insists that no girl
should marry till she is twenty-five years
of age. Until then she is unfit to be a
wife, or a mother. The effects OF early
and ill-assorted marriages may be seen
10 our prisons and poor-houses." II no
girl should do this, what should a girl do
10 the premises2
The Bluff City Grays will 60 to Hunts
vile, Alabama, on the 18th, in order to
be present at the great competitive drill
between the Chicks aud Porter Rifles.
a number Of State military companies
will be present, as will also two or more
companies from Montgomery and other
cities OF Alabama.
Coroner Britt held an in inquest this
forenoon on the dead body of a colored
infant child named Ida Parrish, aged
four months, who was smothered to death
last night by its mother, Lizzie Parrish,
who rolled over on her while asleep in a
shanty on Toncray alley, between Auc.
ton and 0verton streets, near Main.
A river excursion, under the auspices
of the fernando Street Methodist church,
will be given this evening on board Of
Captain Bob Wise's popular steamer, the
James W. CAT. Captain Bob" as the
children call him, will make it pleasant
and agreeable for all the excursionists.
Tickets twenty FIVE cents, Rrefresh.
ments furnished.
The Chickasaw Guards marched out
to camp at Central Park yesterday after
noon. The thunder aud rain storm Of
last night gave the young men a slight
taste of real camp life. Invested Of all its
romance and pleasing novelty. The old
soldiers have been through all that bust.
ness and now prefer a bedroom to a tent
or a sbanty for sleeping purposes.
Mr.. Mike Canale, a well known fruit
and liquor merchant on Madison street,
has for several days past been develop.
ing symptoms OF insanity. He has been
taken ir charge by his friends, and will
be sent to the asylum at Nashville aG
soon as possible, with a view to bring
about bis speedy recovery. His special
cause of insanity appears to be religion.
1t having been announced authorize.
lively from Washington City that if q
Federal Office holder made q discrimina
ton in favsr Of white man aud againi
black men in the distribution of minor
Offices the office holder would be re
moved. Federal ofice-holders are gov
erning themselves accordingly. Yester'
day United States Marshal Mike Wal
dram appointed J. A. Thompson (coIoredl
as a deputy United States marshal fol
the district Of West Tennessee.
At the Criminal Court to-day the jury
in the case of a negro named Sam Bra
zsll, indictment for the murder of Chris
TOPPER Columbus Stewart, on Second
street, on the I'd of August, 1876, had to
bring in a verdict Of not guilty, because
the indictment followingth magistrate :
warrant contained a material variance
in the name Of the murdered man-it
boing put down IS George Stewart. A
new bill Of indictment was prepared and
sent before the grand jury, and on the
new indictment Sam Brazell will again
be tried before a jury.