Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-04

Colonel N. S. Carpenter, a promi
nent cotton marchant of Natchez. i
stopping at the Peabody Hotel.
, Captain i. R. Perry and Captail
John Kouns, of New Orleans, arr
stopping at the Peabody Hotel.
The Rev 7. j. Rowan lectures OIL
the Sunday-school lesson at Cour
street Cumberland Presbyterian
Church tonight.
! Mr.. L. l.. Topp and family accom-.
panied by Mrs. B. Bayless and Mis-.
Florence Bayless left the city thil
morning to pass the heated term al
Bloomington, Illinois.
Captains L. II. Perry and John
Kouns, well known steamboat men.
arrived from New Orleans by the
steamer Natchcz last evening and left
for Little Rock and other points in
Arkansas to-day.
At the cotton exchange to-day W.
NJ. Fielder, Friendship, Tenn, was
registered. Yesterdays visitors in
cluded Walter Davis, Sunnyside,
Ark; G. 7. Pittman, Louisville, and
o. v. Hays, Cairo.
Julius Behr, the K -merchant, whose
trial for forgery is going on at the
United States commissioners in the
courthouse, will undergo further
examination tomorrow afternoon,
The way of the t-ransgressor is hard
indeed.
W. It. Dunlap died suddenly of
eramp of the bowels, yesterday, near
the Louisville railroad engine shops,
and an inquest was held, He leaves a
family, and a policy for $1,000, as an
endowment from the Catholic Knights
of America, of which order he was a
member.
D.. A. Thompson, ex.justice of the
peace and husband of the we'll known
colored school teacher, died Of CON-
sumption at his residence on Vance,
ner DeSOto street, at an carly hour
this morning. Mr.. Thompson has
been quite prominent for some years.
and was considered a very fair citizen
by his race and others.
Eddie Jordan, a lad of sixteen, was
stabbed beneath the right shoulder
blade last night, near Estiyal Park, by
John Rodman, another lad of about
the same age. The Aesh-carver was
captured and locked up. There was a
row among the boys, and several that
took part managed to escape.
Mr.. w. C.. Robinson and Miss +
NJ. Pearcefeld were married yester
doy afternoon at the Central Metho,
dist Church by the Rev. James A.
Heard, leaving after the ceremony fer
a Northern tour, by way Of st. Louis.
The couple were well attended at the
ceremony by Ii. D. Robinson and Miss
Annie Goodwin, II. i. Guion and Miss
Matte Watson, Messrs. Arthur Tay-
lor, w. Clapp, S. Pepper, and II. NJ.
johnson.
Captain Thos. p. feathers, of the
steamer Natchez, was very severely
injured a few weeks since by falling
from a scaifold at Cincinnati, while
experimenting the construction ofhis
new boat. As the old veteran passed
up yesterday evening he was confined
to his bed, but was able to converse
pleasantly with a number Of visiting
friends, and exhibited signs of i'm.
provement.
Captain Henry Seaman, who com.
manded the wrecking boat Salyor,
which in 1870 r~esurrected all that was
valuable from the exploded steamer
w. Il. Arthur, twelve miles above
here, passed up the river to. day as a
passenger on the steamer City O fAlton.
Captain Seaman has been busy during
the past season raising sunken proper
ty and bosts in the lower Mississippi
and Red rivers.
s. NJ. Brooks, who aided in killing
the negro John Henry three weeks
ago out on the Randolph road some
six miles, was yesterday refused bail
before the Criminal Court, and was
%remanded to Jail. The case has an
ugly look for Brooks. N, C. Epper-
son, whose cotton had been stolen, and
about which the trouble occurred,
was admitted to bail, it appearing that
he did not do the killing. Mr.. II.
Dow went on his bond for $1,000,
That the editor Of the LEDGER and
the Ledger itself is appreciated over
in the aourishing capital city Of Ark
ansas is evidenced by the following
from the Little Rock Gazette Of yes
terday Captain j. Harvey Mathes,
editor of the Memphis LEDGER, is in
the city attending the Arkansas Press
Association. Captain Mathes, we can
say with as much seriousness as though
we reproduced the Lords prayer, Is
one Of the most vigorous Journalists
in the South. This is evidenced by
the fact that the LEDGER h one Of.