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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
HUMAN SLAUGHTER.
henry Walker Stabbed In the Back BY
Frank Zlmmerman---A Cheap
Quarrel and a Sudden
Death.

To be slaughtered like a hog with a
big, sharp, curye-pointed butcher.
knife, on short notice, all for ten cents.
is no fun. Yet that is what happened
to Henry Walker, colored, last night,
at Zimmerman's grocery, No. "a
Madison street. The murderer was
Frank Zimmerman, a brother of the
grocery-keeper, who was temporarily
in charge of the premises, the proprie-
tor, A. R. Zimmerman and wife, being
at the Estival Park Maifest at the
time.
The killing took place between eight
and nine o'clock in the evening, and
was a quick job of murder butchery.
Walker, who was formerly a slave Of
the late Samuel P. Walker, lived with
his wife on the same street. He was
a light mulattO, and a quiet, peaceable
old fellow, his wife being employed by
the family of DIR. Brown.
The cause OF the killing was a quar-
rel between Walker and Zimmerman
about a drink of liquor. The latter
wished Walker to pay at once for a
swig he had taken. Some words
passed Zimmerman struck Walker; a
lad named Conrad Lehman, employed
in the store, caught Walker and held
him against the counter, merely to
stop the progress of the row, he says I;
Zimmerman seized a sharp butcher
knife lying near, ran it through Walk
efs back, under the shoulder blade,
penetrating the heart. Walker cried
out, What have you done to me ?"
fell and died in a few seconds, the
blood from his wound pouring forth
copiously and soaking the floor for
several feet around where he lay.
The murdered man made no resist
ance when he was attacked by Tim
norman and Lehman. He struggled.
apparently to get rid of the pair, and
after he was cut the scufie continued
to the front part of the store, where
Zimmerman bent him over the coun-
ter and threatened to cut his throat.
1t was here that he fell on his back
and expired,
An inquest was soon afterward held
by Esquire Spellman, and a verdict in
accordance with the facts was rem
dered. The dead body was carried
after the inquest to the house where
Walkers wife resides, a large crowd
of cOlOred people accompanying it.
Zimmerman is a German, aged about
26 years. He was arrested and con.
veyed to the lookup in company with
Lehman. The latter, a youth of IS.
is charged with heiBg an accessory to
The bloody deed. The killer is a
brother Of the owner of the grocery.
He says that he had no idea of killing
Walker at the time. as he was IN
friendly terms with him, and he was a
customer Of the grocery.
Frank Zimmerman and Conrad
Lehman we're sent to Jail this forenoon
for killing Walker, no bail being al
lowed. They will have a preliminary
examination at 10 o'clock tomorrow.
The man Zimmerman has black marks
about his neck that appear to have
been made by some one with a powerful
grip, and it is said that there are miti-
eating circumstances connected with
the killing, that will at least partially
exonerate Zimmerman.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

Malinda Jackson, African, residence
DeSoto street, is in the lookup charged
with stealing money from John Welsh,
who strayed into her den when under
the influence of bad liquor. Welsh is
also under arrest charged with wear
ing coat belonging to another man.
He claims to have purchased the coat
from Malinda, and it is apparent that
she is a bad citizen.
Andy Kelly has been on a bad spree,
and abused his family so that he was
overhauled and fined so by Judge
Porter this forenoon. No money in
Kelly's exchequer sends him to the
street force for twenty days. Seven
cases of drunk and boistorous conduct
were let off by the lenient Porter.
Sergeant Kunholtz won a fine floral
prize for hitting a center shot FIVE
times in succession at the Maifest last
night. The sergeant knows how to
point a gun.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
TIE CENTS Pc We X.
THE CITY.
LEDGER z

Air genial.
Cotton strong.
Strawberry prices weak.
Crop prospects favorable.
Jardiniere ribbons at L%avigne's.
The owls we're out a 'oyliug last
night.
The moon rises tonight ten minutes
before ten o'clock.
This is the one hundred and twenty
eighth day Of the year.
The weather is charmingly inyigor-
ating, so every one say.
Order flowers for Decoration Day
from Male & Lamb, florists.
The Bon Aqua Springs people are
to have a railroad outlet a month
hence.
In the Jewish calendar yesterday
was "Pesah Shenee." Next Sunday
will be Lag Loamer."
Judge Hammond will deliver a lee.
ture to the law class tonight. Sub,
Jet Husband and Wife"
The Sodality Dramatics play the
Breach of Promise and Paddle You
Own Canoe tomorrow night.
Embossed scrap pictures, in endles,
variety, new and pretty designs, were
received by Mansford, 298 Main street
lsst night.
A choice lot of red snappers, and
also Reelfoot Lake perch, was received
to-day by Victor D. Fuchs, SO and Al
Jefferson street.
Tie river here has dropped to with
in Il feet Of low water mark and it,
rapid shrinkage is a subject of con.
siderable discussion among maritime
people.
Messrs. Duffy & Carey sent us, thi,
morning, a specimen Of Ben Hart,
famous strawberries-the Monarch
the finest We have seen for many 8
season.
By a telegram received from Nash.
vile to-day we learn that nearly one
thousand seats we're sold yesterday il
that city for Mr.. Beeoher's lecture OIL
Monday evening next.
Waste no sympathy on a poor mar
because he is poor, for he nigh.
become rich by buying a ticket IN tn,
Louisiana Lottery, the drawing o
which takes place next Tuesday.
How healthy it is at present. Les
sickness is reported than Cor year
past, even, though, this is the mos
favorable season for good appetite
and vigorous action on the part Of tn
human kind.
The Chickasaws have a match dri
and a hop tonight. They issue n
invitations, and honorary member.
with their lady friends and others {
the company, are invited to atten
without further notice.
The spring trade in all branches
reported vesy aattering among OF
leading merchants. Both along Fror
street, where the grocery and eotto
men reign, and on Main street. wbe,
the dry goods and retail tradesme
hold sway, good reports arc made =,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

A mar named II. B. Phillips, who
is employed by NJ. Rosin, on Beal
street, had a row with Sam and Hcpyy
Goldsmith this morning, and he re-
ccived a severe out IN the hand from
a knife, Yhe carvers were arrested
and gave bail to appear before Esquire
Quigley on Monday next TO answer
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
Corn Husk MOuth-P Piece Glsar,
only SC, $40 Vain. So
IL surely Dead.

Rayette Williams, the man who had
his throat cut the other day by Henry
Harris at Central Point, is certainly
dead. He breathed his last at the
City Hospital yesterday. Harris waa
before Esquire Quiglcy to-day AZ noon
for preliminary examination,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

Mrs. MARY NJ. CLARDY conducts the
public temperance meetings every night
at 8 o'clock, at Congregational Church,
Union street. Ladies nesting 4 pm.
All re~cordially invited to COM and help.
iNo '
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

THE First Baptist Church and Sunday.
school will gives basket picnic at Fitz.
gibbons Grove, Saturday, the 10th inst
school viii assemble at the Church at
o'clock Saturday morning,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
MAIFEST.
A Jolly Crowd and a IoyiaI Time

The Maifest by the Germans at Els
tival Park yesterday and last night
was a great success. Over one thous-
and tickets were sold at the gate and
many besides had been disposed of in
the city. AS only male attendants
were required to have tickets and the
feminines were believed to largely out
number the other sex, the crowd may
be safely estimated as immense. The
weather was splendid, the festivities
all that the most fastidious could de-
sire, and everything went off smoothly.
One of the leading features was the
distribution of over one thousand
prizes to the little folks. The gifts en-
braced toys of various kinds and many
other articles, some being of consider
able value, and we'll worthy of care for
future preservation. Another notable
and pleasant part of the programme
was the excellent music and the
choruses of the Casino and Maenner-
Choir Clubs, The managers Of the
splendid festival have cause to con-
graduate themselves over their great
success. In all Of the nineteen years
since their Maifest pleasures began in
this city, none have surpassed the
present one, either in enjoyment or
the number present. The feast lasted
until the midnight hour, everybody
going to their homes %peaceable and
happy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
Trustees Sale.

DY virtue of the powers conferr>d unor II
ID Il. Goodlett, trustee, and his successor in
otice, as trustee, by a deed Of ,rust made bv
Mary A. Field, dated Mech 81. ISIS. and
recorded in Book No, ~, page 22l, Of The
Registers Office of shelby county, to secure n
certain Indebtedness fully set forth and de-
serioed thereIn, default having been made In
tho terms and conditions thereof, the under.
slgned successor in office to the said ii. K.
G0Qdlett, as trustee, will, on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

To GIVE tone to the stomach and stimu-
late digestion there is nothing like Reeds
Gilt Edge Tonic. DIV
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

To RESTORE the APPETITE and purity the
blood use Roed's Gilt Edgs Tonic. [d-w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

Guaranteed for Two Years.
All tin roof repaired and painted by u,
will be guaranteed for two years.
sit j.. c. Hook & Co., Is Monroe st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
INSURANCE STOCK.
NOTICE.

IN pursuance Of the power conferred by the
i pledge of twenty (al shares Of stock Of the
fernando Insurance Company, by Taylor,
McGuire a Co, to secure certain debts due by
said Taylor, Mcclure 4 Co., to said fernando
Insurance Co, / will, on MONDAY, May Y,
1873, at the southwest corner Of Main and
Madison streets, sell said twenty l20) shares OF
stock at public auction to the HIGHEST bidder,
Tor cash. sale to take place at 10 o'clock m.
+. NJ. NELSON,
2i-6l see-y fernando Insurance Co.
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I,nnkrupt Sale Of Hats

for "A few days only. The stock M..st be
sold, regardless of cost, by Jaae LIST. Call
Mt Bankrupt Store, 2Gf Main street, and
examine py,ees. Gt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

REEDS Gilt Edge Tonic stimulates the
digestive organs and adds tone and.
strength to the stomach. DIV
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
Goth Day of nnr. 1sza.

IN front Of Farris' livery and sale stnbTa- An
Union street, in the city of Memphis, selT ~
public sale, for cash, the following property.
to;wit;, Five mules, described as follows.
A black mare mule, sixteen hands high, len
SSsiIS Slaa called, "k9tei' q black mare
years old, called I" Lizzie" bay mare mule
fifteen hands high, eight years old, called
,S.Nellyi". black horse mule, fifteen hands
high, eight years old, called ''Tige;'' BLACK
mak9 mule, fifteen and a. half hands high.
The title 10 said property is believed 10 bo.
perfect, but / sell only as trustee, wv
$3.50 " NJ. HEARN. TyBstee
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

RefrigeratOrs, Ice Chests, Water
Coolers, Jewett's Patent FIIterer,
lce-cream Freezers, very low.
56t T.. j. TURNBULL, pa Main.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

DIR. A. L. KIMBRO,
Office, =. Il. Cor. Union and Main.
S9t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

KirkIand's shirts, 8 for 80. Best
quality. SGT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08
Saturday, 9Th Day Of June, 1879.

Main and Madison streets, in Memnhis- Shat
by county, Tennessee, sell at public anetion.
TO the highest bidder, for cash. the following
described real estate. lying in Shelby county,
rennestee, and near the city of Memphis''
sRa deseTbed as being partl lot No. / of lot 20,
stake In the center of Old Raleigh road,
thence north $50 east 9 chains and 2 links To-
a stake in Hollywood avenue, and in tbe
center Of the Old Raleigh road; thence north
WIZ sag avenue Is chains and ~ links to
hnks toa stake in the west line of the track.
thence south IS east Is chains and 80 links Ia,
the beginning, containing l6 70-1O0 acres.
more or less. '
Al right OF redemption, etc.. expressly
waved; Title believed tn be perfect, but i
sell and convey only as trustee.
S. STORM, Trustee.
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Ladies hats r%eshaped, Goodyear, $50 ID,
76
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Rf virtue Of q doSa in trust to me exeeu,eJ
/ BY NJ. 9, Lndell, on tho oath dev q +
April, .lSI& and recorded in the Register :
9tthce 81 shelby county, Tennessee, In Chatf le
MSsegase hook No. 10, page 500, to secrre
will, on the '0"' l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-08

Choice Red Snappers,
Lake Erie Salmon.
II. SEESSEL, SIR, & SON,
SIT Cor. Second and Jefferson.
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BANKING.


JOIN T. tARGAsoN, X. A. PARKER,
President. Cashier.
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COME SOON
Police Items.

N. B.-Fresh shipments received weekly.
m-W-f
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-09
To Kill Weeds Cheaply

There are very few gardens, the soil of
which has not been allowed to become filled
more or less with the seeds of weeds. When
crops spring up, the weeds spring up with
them. If numerous, the weeds get above
the crops; hard work at hoeing and laborious
finger wedding follow. The crops are over
borne and become small. Back-aches and
discouragementsa are developed. More weeds
give plentiful seeding another year.
With industrious gardeners, who take
time by the forelock, much of this trouble
and loss are prevented by destroying the
weeds when very small. When only half
an inch high, the bulk of a weed is not a
hundredth part as great as when six inches
high. 1t has not yet drawn hundredth
part as much on the crop and on the soil.
A single movement of steel rake at this
hour will kill fifty weeds; but when they
grow six inches high the rake will do nothing,
and the hoe must be ground sharp and APP
piled with many hard strokes.
There is a better way still. Kill the weeds
broadcast just as they are coming up. The
main thing is to do this right The seeds
of nearly all garden weeds are small
Now, get your ground or beds all ready to
plant, but do not plant yet. A little warm
weather will start all the seeds for about an
inch down; and as soon as you see the first
green or yellow point peeping up through
Inc DIack mould, Inen is the Time Tor actlOn!
Do not wait till next day nor till afternoon,
for they will now spring up amazingly fast.
Take your steel rake and go over the sur
face two inches down, and cross raking, till
you have torn all the delicate little plants to
fragments. Now then, there is pretty fair
chance for clean surface, for very few that
are deeper than two inches will get up to the
light. 1t would be safer, however, if you can
afford the time, to wait few days, and give
your beds a second raking. If your soil is
good you will go over it thus with great rap
idity-twenty times faster than after the
sowing of the crops, and you will pulverize
the soil admirably. The few days delay will
be more than made up by the clean surface,
freedom from choking weeds, and by the
vigorous crops.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-09
sAco AND BIDDEFoRp.

TUESDAY, JulyS
Schooner Addie Jordan, of Saco, Leav-
lit, arrived in Philadelphia Satu rday, July
5, six days with head winds from the Ken
nebec.
John Bonsor is building two story
dwelling house near his residence, at the
extremity of Green street, in Biddeford.
At the regular meeting of Biddeford city
government last evening no business of
importance was done. On account of non
disposal of the question of last years in
debtedness, the annual appropriations were
not made.
The ''Evangeine LODGE picnic adver-
tised for to-day, is postponed till Friday
next.
A child, twenty-one months old, of
Eugene Libby, who lives ON Green street,
in Saco, swallowed a number of white
beans this forenoon, some of which lodged
in its windpipe, checking it so that before
they could be removed the child died.
The meeting of the society for the pre-
yention of cruelty to animals, called at the
Office of Otis I. Carey in Biddeford, last
evening, was so SHINY attended that no
action could be taken for the completion of
the organization. A sgner of the petition
thinks that with such an array of names as
appeared upon the petitio sufficient inter-
est might be taken in the matter to at least
complete the organization. The next
meeting will be upon Friday evening, Aug.
1, at Mr.. Garey's office. A full attendance
is requested.
Over sixty boarders at Bay View House
at present time, and will have upwards of
eighty by last of the week,
Mr.. John H. Simmons, the genial and
gentlemanly clerk of the Saco House, pro-
poses visit to his old home in Marshfield,
Mass, and will end his duties at the hotel
Friday of this week. The best wishes of
its patrons go with him. Mr.. A. G. Sawyer
well known gentleman of Saco, will as
sumo the position made vacant by the
retirement of Mr.. Simmons. We think
All, if he does not already know, will soon
learn how to keep a hotel.
The observatory at Old Orchard is offered
for sale
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-09
AGRICULTURAL.
How I Raised a Fine Calf.

There is some misconception in regard to
the methods of raising calves. Even my
friend +. w. S., notice, bankers after .ull
milk for the calves, and he insists that they
must have cream, or a substitute for it. /
have rails d calves for years, and Just now
can show a yearling Jersey and 4-months
Ayrshire that would be hard to beat. Mr..
VIM. Crosier, who bred the dam of my Ayr
shire calf, thinks it the best heifer's calf he
ever saw, and it has had no whole milk since
the fourth day of its life, when the dams
milk became fit for use. Since ii en- the
milk hasbeen set for cream, and the calf
has had nothing but SKINNED milk. But
the milk has been warmed to a temperature
of about so degrees, and as soon as the calf
would eat, which was at about weeks CID,
it had a small ration of cut hay and feed,
such as was mixed for the cows. My cows
are fed in the winter twice a day on hay cut
fine, wet ed and mixed with three quarts of
ground feed, consisting of two parts of
ground corn, oats and wheat bran, and one
part of colt n seed meal. About pint of
this hay and feed is given to each calf, in its
manager, each calf being tied up in its stall,
the same as the COWS. They thus become
very manageable.
With warmed skim milk and this allow
ance of feed, gradually increased as the calf
gets older, can raise as fine and healthy
CdiNCc do Cslll NC WloUCu. Lie calves now
have run at grass in small orchard, and
get their allowance of mixed meal at night,
which is about four ounces each for a
months old calf, sprinkled upon little cut
grass or clover, to help out the light pasture
The yearling is IA months old, of good size,
has been in calf for five months, and has
never tasted any milk not SKINNED since it
was three days old. Warming the milk is
great help to t. calf, and regulation and
anda in, frix oo1.I IL.
important. l consider it great waste to
give cream to calf, AID practice that
would make the raising of a calf entirely too
costly for dairyman. Fed upon SKINNED
milk and handful or two daily of meal
calf may be raised to a COW, and to profit,
al less cost than one could be bought, and
this method alone is practicable for dairy
man who makes butter-Cor. Country Gen
tlemdn.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-09
POETRY.
A TRU STO Rec.

This is called Bourbon Ballad only be-
cause it was found on the floor of the caucus
which is governed by the Confederate Brga-
diers. 1t seems to have been written by an i'm
partial spectator.
In the land of Caucus and Vote, in the Councils of
Sam the Yang Kee,
Resided two Tartars of note who chinchinned each
And one was called Mis- Tab Lab NIah,-which sig
mites eater-of-f fire.
The other Cong Ling, the Rajah whose speech was
the countrys desire.
Now Cong Ling one day on the floor was reeng Off
Which made Gen Lab Nah rather sore for 1t hit
him exceedingly hard;
courteous eater-of-hre is something few ever
And he angrily cried. ''Yoo Rah Liah!'' which
means, "1amhitontheraw'
civil and rough,
And Billingsgate some of them claims and some
insulting enough;
And he added, ''Im not without nerve and know
great many of those.
The Mikado will please to observe / could call him
some names if l ehosei''
Lab Mah with his hand at his hip and a knife
sticking out of his boot
Cried, "I'm from the wild Mis- 81 Sip and I'm on
the carve and shoot!
o. I'm the bosom of war; the tiger that BAYS at the
moon
The limber-iawed alligator that swms in the bloody
lagoon!'
Cong Ling he kept on with his work and seemed to
know nothing of fear;
Lab Nah he kept Tipping his dirk and shouting
I'm up on my ear!
I'd Kill any man on the earth for telling the truth
about me.'
Which caused an outpouring of mirth in the Coun-
ellis of Sam the Yang Kee.'
-NeW York Tribune.
The Portland daily press., 1879-07-09
Domestic Receipts.
STRAWBERRY SHORT CAKE.

oihANDEhh1 Sl1Oltl S<AhE.
Pick over three pints of firm ripe berries,
sprinkle them plentifully with sugar, and
set in a cool place while you make the crust.
for which sift three teacups of flour with
three teaspoons If baking powder; into this
cut small tablespoonful of lard and one of
butter, or use half a teacup of butter; add
half a teaspOonful of salt and mix into a
very soft dough with cup and half of
sweet milk. Stir it in lightly with a spoon,
flour the board and turn out the dough;
handle only enough to make it smooth and
shapely, then divide into four equal pieces
Roll out one portion and lay it in the pan;
roll another and fit it evenly on top. Dis
pose of the other two in like manner in a
pan of equal shape and size, ond bake in
very hot oven. When the short-cake is
done pull it apart, do not cut it. Place the
lower portion on a platter and butter it
we'll; spread thick layer of berries over the
top, first MASKING them slightly so that they
may be thoroughly sweetened; lay the other
half of the cake over them. crust side down;
butter and spread with berries and place the
lower portion of the second cake over the
berries, butter and spread with berries, and
cover with the top crust, first buttering it
well. Sift powdered sugar over the top and
serve hot with or without sweet cream.
This will make large cake; the same
amount of crust and quart of berries will
make two cakes with single layer of ber-
ries between each crust
TO PRESERVE ORANGES AND LEMONS.
To preserve oranges and lemons in warm
weather, for future use, examine the fruits
and reject any which are in the slightest
degree bruised or chafed. Wipe them dry
Carefully and then pack them in boxes or
barrels, in dry saw-dust (which is made
from wood as free as possible from resin),
so that they do not touch each other Keep
them in cool dark place. They may also
be buried in dry sand, but in this case
should first be enveloped in fine tissue pa
per. If it is not of Importance to preserve
their external looks, they may also first be
dipped into melted paraffine, which thor
oughly protects them from change. OF
course they would not be generally salable
in this condition, but might be preserved in
this way for home use.