Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-24
LEDGER LINES.

1ne "eather 10 bright and warm.
The kite nuisance is to be sbated.
There will be a regatta next Sunday.
Flags and r~egslia-Watkins, 3I7 Main.
The fireworks fund is still short sew.
eral hundred dollars.
a great many persons will visit Mem.
phis the 4th Of next month.
The German Casino had a grand pic.
mic yesterday at Lucy Station, on the
Paducah railroad.
The fireworks will arrive this week, and
yet many Of our prominent citizens have
not subscribed to assist in paying for the
grand display.
Colonel Douglass speaks tonight at
the total abstinence meeting at St. Johns
Church, corner Of Vance and Lauder.
dale streets.
Colonel Arthur s. Colyar speaks at
Cochran Hall tomorrow night. His sub,
ject will be in reference to the financial
condition Of the country.
A negro named Charley Wright, alias
Charley Moore, stole a chestnut sorrel
horse from B. Il. Covington, at Her.
naneo, Miss, a few nights ago.
The colOred Masons paraded the
streets this morning, and are holding a
celebration in the Exposition Building.
Speeches will be made tonight.
The Criminal Court has convicted
Allen Harvest Of assault with intent to
commit murder in the second degree,
and gave him one year in the peniten.
tiary.
The following named gentlemen have
been elected officers of Gayoso encamu.
ment, No. 3, l.. O, o. F., for the ensuing
term; j. S Hoesig, c. P.i D. C. Trader,
d. P.i W. A. Wardlow, ST., W; Thos.
Bacon, scribe; Marcus Jones, treasurer;
J. c. Ramsey, jr., w.
st. JoSeph's Catholic church, ia Fort
Pickering, was dedicated yesterday.
Much interest was manifested in the
dedication of the church, which is a
handsome ediGce and a credit to the
Catholics of Memphis. A Catholic
church in Fort Pickering has long been
needed.
The thief Calvin Houston ~(colored),
arrested ia this city for stealing $500
from the old Englishman Hughes, es.
capped from jail at SomervilIe but was re
captured Saturday, ct Mason Depot.
Detective Pryde will go to Somervllle as
a witness for the prosecution. He and
detective McCune captured Houston ia
this city last winter.
Nashvil lie American, of Sunday:
While Thomas Johnson was driving a
thoroughbred mare iDto the city yester
day morning a spider got into the ami.
mails nostril and thence into her mouth.
She swallowed the insect aud died in.
stantly. A post norton examination
was held and the spider was found in
the mares stomach"
The Good Tomplars of this city give
an excursion to, and basket picnic at,
Horn Lake, on the Mississippi and Ten.
nessee railroad, Thursday next. Trains
leave at 1890 am, 2:3O, 4:4O and 1880
p.mr returning at ll:3O pm. No
charges except railroad fare, which is
fifty cents. All the temperance orders
are invited. A pleasant time is guarsn
teed all who attend. Music, dancing,
ieaSting, shooting, riding, swinging and
shady groves are the attractions.
Wiley Washington (colored), who shot
an oversesr named Mathews, near Raw.
Iey'S Landing, Ark, some time ago, sur.
rendered Saturday morning, near Horn
Lake, 10 Mr.. Dobson, who brought the
prisoner here and delivered him to Dep.
uty Coroner Britt. This officer landed
Washington in Jail to await the action of
the Arkansas authorities. Washington
has a wound in his head, inflicted by a
pistol shot fired by men in pursuit Of
the fugitive.
New and attractive designs in paper
haugings and pictsres.