Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-25
LEDGER LINES.
The weather Is warm to-day

S@u make lckets 8 fast as the LEDGER.
Fireworks fund $4OO short. Those
who have not yet given a cent can easily
make up the amount.
Bill Doekery colored, who was shot in
Chelsea by Avery Slaughter, Sunday
evening, rested we'll last night.
Mrs. Captain jerks, Of the house ma.
rinesr and Congressman Acklen, of Lou
iSiaua, are the prevailing sensations
just now.
Interest in the regatta next Sunday is
being aroused. Over two hundred dol.
lars have already baen put up on two of
the crews,
The case Of William Kuehn, the Her
nando street butcher, indicted for the
murder of his wife, has been continued
by the Criminal Court to the next term.
The entertainment given by the col.
ored Mason1 at the Exposition Building
last night was largely attended, and
proved quite interesting. An GRAFTON
was delivered by Mr.. Edward Shaw,
P. G. L.
j.. 7. Dowdy & Co Of No. 26O Front
street, has received two cotton blooms
and one boil from the plantation Of Mrs.
A. Il Phillips, CcittendeR county, Ark.
The blooms and boil were picked last
Saturday.
Pastors Minstrels, composed of thirty
performers, appear at the Memphis The.
ater Friday night for the benefit of
Messrs. Jackson and Ksefe. The enter.
tainmeDt will be frst-class, and at rea-
sonable prices,
The fireworks have arrived from Phil.
adelphia, and Professor Jackson will be
here Saturday. Shall it be said that our
citizens lack sufficient public spirit to
pay for the grandest pyric display ever
witnessed in the South?
At a regular meeting of Caickasaw
lodge, No. 8, l. 0. o. F, held last night,
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing term: Robert Hutchinson, N
G.; E. G. Salter, V. G R. ". Blew, R.
S.; John A. Holt, T.; Thomas Bacon,
P. S.
Colonel Arthur s. Colyar, of Nash.
vill0, speaks 10 Cochran Hall tonight.
State finances will De the subject of his
address. Colonel CJlyar has given this
subject much consideration, and as he i,
an able speaker, will doubtless present
it in an interesting manner
About eleven o'clock this morning a
shanty on Center alley, north of Elk.
change street, caught fire from the stove
but the flames we're extig guished before
much damage resulted. The colored
occupants Of the house we're absent
at the time Of the fire.
Alex Perry, the oarsmau, offers to
wager seventy FIVE dollars that he can
row a skiff across the Mississippi river
in less time than can be done BY any
other man. There is some talk that
either Morris McNeely or Napoleon Nc
Nicely will give Perry a trial next Sun.
day.
The Programme is the title Of a neat
four.page paper to be issued on the 30
and 4th of July by NJ. A. Mansfield g.
Co. There will be 5000 copies distribu.
ted free each day. Mr.. Mansfield is an
experienced newspaper man and will
make it attractive. He will present the
claims of his enterprise to our mer-
chants this week.
The recorder this morning was hearing
the case against Joe Mack (colored),
who is charged with attempting to burn
the house Of Esquire Rutherford (colored)
in rear of No, GO Second street. Some
one yesterday morning set FIRE to the
building, but the neighbors extinguished
the flames before much damage was
done. A bed was half burnt, but was
rolled out of the house. 1t is said that
Mack feels aggrieved because Of the sup.
posed Conduct Of Rutherford, who caused
the wife Of the former to leave his bed
and board.