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I fTH STREET, CORNER SECOND AVENUE, 800 AND
L 30a-Desirable double front third stsry Room with
large pantry hot and cold wafer; also Han Room wth
Board.
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TX CHARLES STREET, NEAR wAVEKLEY PLACE
Terms very reaEolable
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TRAND OPERA HOUSE,
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exchange for either ofhe performances below.
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and q Gaf99 a:s &C.
IL TROyATORE (last timej,
FRIDAY EVENING, December -, BROOKLYN,
FAUST Gast tinio,
SPECIAL NOTICE
On WEDNESDAY EVENING, December 90 at
at STrINwAY HALL.
GRAND OPERA CDACERT
at which .e CHRISTINA NILSSON and all the artists OF
the Stfakosch Opera will assist
The Sirakosch Opera Concert ticket onces the
Academy; aso s,e'nway Hall and at 'oi Broadway.
CrEINwAN HALL--OFERA CONCERT
~ TOMORROW (WEDNrsDAY) EVENING,
December 90 ats
Messr Maurice and Max beg to announce the
Grst only
GRAND OPERA CONCERT
on the London England systeU Her Majesys Opera
House and Royal Italian Opera. Covent Garden,
WEDNESDAY EVENING. Dec 20, At 3,
when
Mile. CHRISTINA NILSSON
and all The artists comprising the
STRAkOScH OPERA COMPANY will appear, viz,
Mile. LEON DUEAL, Mss ANNIE LOUISE CARY,
Mons. " CAPUuL, Sig RRiGNOLI. Sig BhRrOLINL
Mons. a. BARRE, Mons. JOSEF JANET,
Herr DIONYS PkUCKNER, the eminent pianist,
with Miss JOANNA HESS, Master WILLIAM HESS,
md The Grand Chorus ami Complete Orchestra of the
SrAKOsCi ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY.
Musical Director aud Conductor .......MAX MARETZEK
GENERAL ADMISSION TWO (sl DOLLARS
Reserved seats II and 50 extra according to location.
GALLERY ONE DOLLAR.
Seats at the Hal, also 10i and ia Broadway.
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7 EAST THIRTY.FiRsF STREET, BETWEEN FIFTH
first ciass Board.
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zA IRVING PLACE LARGE AND PLEASANT
~ Rooms, front and also large front Hail ROOM
with fire. house, location and table rst class vita With
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...Mr. AUGUsTIN DAILY

There has tern no such
dramatic or social sensation
for ten years 10 cIual this
| play OF DIVORCE. Times.
The theatre has been alb
solutely crowded TO the
doors FOR four months by
eager and delighted audi
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-28

The coal operators are bringing about a
settlement with the striking workmen by
the introduction of Chinese laborers. If
terms are made and the strike brought to
an end by such means, it may be regarded
az clearly effected by Celestial visitation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-28
of buildings on ranch of hundred acres or

of buildings on a ranch of hundred acres or
more, in Belmont, twenty miles out and be-
side the rearing of his numerous herds OF cat
tie, horses, hogs, sheep, cashmere goats &C.
has planted five thousand fruit trees consist
ing of fig, almond, peach, pear, apricot,
prune, apple &C., together with thousands Of
grape vines, all planted within ten years, and
many of them not over one, from the products
of which he expects to reap, the season being
favorable, over five thousand dollars, in the
city market, and still he assures me that the
outlay thus far is much greater than the in
come, but the pleasure of the cultivation more
than counterbalances the trouble; in all prob
ability, in few years they win be source of
great profit. There are 40 frosts to nip veg
citation and no borers or caterpillars to gnaw
the trees. / am informed that nearly all
kinds Of fruit to quite an extent are sent per
rail from here to Chicago and other western
and eastern markets.
What is called here the rainy season is
about over, still there is a great scarcity of
water and crops must suffer to great extent
without more rain. In this valley the fruit
orchards and gardens are watered artificially,
and one of the striking curiosities is the great
number of windmills used for pumping water
from the wells. They stand at an altitude of
about forty feet by the side of large tanks of
a hundred barrels or more, each elevated to
about the same hight, giving force enough to
the water to throw it by use of hose forty rods
or more over the plants and trees. Nearly
all the independent farmers have them; at this
time they are great blessing, though just at
this moment we are having moderate rain.
They are finished and painted in a tasty style,
and may be seen as we travel along the high
way for distance of half dozen miles, like
meeting house steeples in fair morning
they have no days without. One great pc
culiarity is that the breeze from the bay and
mountains starts up at about ten o'clock A.
M, and continues about two or three hours
daily during the season.
Hay at this time is sold at eighteen dollars
per ton. lis what they call a volunteer crop !;
the grass dies out and seeds itself annually and
dries up in July if not mown; tits known as wild
oats. The same grass supplies the grazing
horses and cattle during the year, and is nutri-
tious when dry. The hay when cured and
pressed looks like our straw in Maine. 1t is
denominated the best kind of hay, no timothy,
clover, red top or other grass used in New
| England is grown here.
| / am now starting for the stock raising
region to spend weeks among the Sierra
Moreno mountains, and may possibly find
something of interest enough TO publish in
the journal, now before me. JoANNEs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-28

The Tribune speaks of the doings of the
New York Legislature in relation to that
city as follows: 1.-THE bills passed with re-
gard to this city will be quoted in future
ages IS enthusiastically, monstrosities-of
legislation. Increasing salaries and EN-
oluments, already large, right and left ;
directing the Controller to pay Sheriff
O,Brien's claims and decreeing that jjudg-
ments against the city long since docketed
shall not be collected; disorganizing the
Law Department, and decreeing that the
Corporation Attorney shall no longer be
subordinate to the Corporation Counsel !;
abolishing elections and appointing men
by statute to public trusts which the law
requires to be filed by popular suffrage ;
extending the terms Of Aldermen, Assist
ant Aldermen, and Corporation Counsel,
and giving the latter far longer tenure
of Office; abolishing all elections for
school officers, and subjecting them to APP
pointment by Oakley HAHN short, the
whole work of the session looks as though
republican institutions had been formally
abolished. and some Louis Napoleon or
Soulouque had chosen Chamber of Dep
uties to ratify his edicts and render legis-
lation contemplate"
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alarly studied as Science, but rather as an

ularly studied as a Science, but rather as an
accomplishment. If you should teach the pupil
to know and repeat the names of all the or
gans in the human system, nothing more, how
much of the Science of Physiology, would he
have3 Nothing. Languages as general
rule are thus taught now mainly for the dry
bones and show, not for the scientific life in
them. So the education from them is oftener
to intellectual stagnation, than progressive
mental life.
One in ten, maybe, gets valuable education
now, from the st udy of languages; shall we
foolishly seek to force the other nine through
the same course, when they find no mental
growth or life in them? Are not those pa
rents foolish who incite or force their chill
dren through course of Greek, and Latin
and French, because it is the fashionable
course, often sacrificing health for that which
is never anything but show, in after life?
l hear many scholars in their later life, be-
waiing the much time they spent in the Ian
guages at school. Something of value they say
they got, but how little, they feel, compared
with what they might have gained in the Nat
ural Sciences. Now their Greek and Latin
is mainly gone from them; of no interest as
study and of little use in business. If only
the time had been given to educating them in
the sciences, now there education would be a
constant source of delight and developement,
and of permanent value in the business of
life.
The leading minds of the civilized world
are crying out, "Teach more and more the
Natural Sciences in your schools if you
would have your children grow to be strong
thinking, clear reasoning men and women"
Shall we heed this call from those who hav-
ing in the largest measure both Classics and
the Natural Sciences, declare the latter of i'm
measurably more value in life? or shall we go
on still treading around in the same old course
of custom and tradition, blindly concluding
that our grandfathers and grandmothers knew
better than we the education that is BETTING
us and our children? Is it not wise for us to
see to it that our children are educated into
the substance and not the mere show of
knowledge? Shall we not take care that our
schools help the young to such an education
as will aid them to a rich and strong working
life, SO that coming up to manhood and wo-
anhood they may thank us that their educa-
ton was into observation and judgment and
reason, whose fruits are joy and beauty and
eternal progress, and not mere education of
the memory into the words and rules of
books?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-28

The funeral ceremonies of Mr.. Dickin-
sen at his home in Vermont were strik-
ingly impressive and deepened the feeling
against the assassinations of the South
The officiating minister selected as his
text for the occasion the following words /:
q" The wicked plotted against the just and
CRASHED upon him with his teeth. The
Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that
his day is coming. The wicked have drawn
their sword and have bent their bow to
cast down the poor and needy, and to Stay
such as be Of an upright conversation.
Their sword shall enter into their own
hearts and their bows shall be broken"
The most eloquent denunciation OF Ku-
Kluxism could not produce the effect
among the hills of New England that the
murdered bodies of its victims and the SIM
pie rites at their burials will produce.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-28

In describing new organ, rural editor
says, "The swell died away in delicious suf
location, like one singing sweet song under
the bed clothes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-28
Boarders Wanted !

TWENTY-FIVE to thirty single gentleman can
pe ear Ss %a ana
a limited number of families can find splendid &C
at the AUGUSTA HOUSE. Please
for the summer II. BAKER, Proprietor.
Augusta, March, 1871. mar24ttf
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17
school Rnnrd.

The School Board decided, last even
ing, to close'the city schools on the 3lst
Of May, making the term nine instead
of ten months, as provided by law. The
causes for this curtailing of education
were stated to be: Hot weather; the
Board owed $26, 100; it would cost $4,000
to run another month, and the children
had picnic in their heads. The motion
to pay the teachers their full salary up
to June 18th was lost, but it is to be
hoped that the amount will not be lost
to the teachers who entered into the
contract, for the full term. In Louis
vile, the same action was taken by the
Board Of Education sometime since, but
the teachers recovered by law the full
amount of their salaries.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

ASSEMBLY HALL.-The festival of the
First Baptist Church was successfully
inaugurated last evening. The hall is
elegantly decorated, and on the tables is
everything that can tempt the eye. Nor
are the substantials forgotten in the
midst of more idealistic attractions.
Over one Of the tables are hung the por-
traits of Lee, Washington and Stonewall
jackson. This table is presided over by
number Of accomplished ladies', among
whom we had the pleasure of meeting
Mrs. T. B. billiard and Mrs H. B. Gran
mer. Itwould be impossible TO describe
the attractions of the festival, so we re-
commend to all that they pay visit to
the Assembly Hall tonight. A grand
lunch is spread daily from twelve to
three o clock.
Rocco HALL.-The First Presbyterian
Church festival continues to be a place
of rare attraction, and will continue SO
during the week. The ladies are atten-
tive to the wants of all visitors, and the
object for which the festival is given
deserves substantial encouragement.
Everybody is invited to the daily lunch
spread from twelve to three o'clock.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

In another place the reader win find
an advertisement OF the Diamond Glasses
manufactured by j. L. Spencer \ CO.,
surmounted by the cut of a human eye,
which, together with the printed words
about It, speak very big volumes of
important truth Surely is sight
priceless" and it is equally true, that
money cannot buy it." But he who
by study, skill and art can preserve the
sight and strengthen by artificial means
the failing powers of vision, may be set
down as benefactor. Many opticians
try to do these things, and it is to be
apprehended that they ruin as many
eyes as they restore. We have been
shown, at the store Of W. c. Byrd, jew
elIer, No. 275 Main street, specimen
of the Spencer Diamond Glasses, formed
from minute crystal pebbles, united by
fusion, and do not hesitate to recommend
them for clearness and brilliancy as the
desideratum OF the dim-slghted. Inc
demand for these pebbles is the best OF
encomiums on their real merits, for per
sons afflicted with glimmering or waver-
ing of sight have a new revelation of
satisfaction and even joy opened to
them, when artificial relief is thus af-
forded.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

A duelist in Washington once made
three propositions when challenged, the
tirst being to sit on a barrel of gun
powder together; the second, to hold
hands and jump from the top Of the
capitol; and the third, scarcely less inn
pious, TO shoot at each other within ten
PAGES with three musket ballsl The
latter was adopted, and one Of the par
ties fell at the first FIRE.
Profanity never did any man the least
good. No man is richer, or happier, OF
wiser for it. II commends no one to
society. 1t is disgusting to the refined
abominable to the good; insulting Il
those with whom we associate; degrad
ing to the mind; Improbable, needless
and injurious to society.
Pleasure is shadow, wealth is vanity
and power a pageant; but knowledge i
eesiatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame
unlimited in space, and infinite in dura
/ ton.
With love, the heart becomes a fai
and fertile garden with sunshine an,
warm hues, and exhaling sweet odors
but without it, it is bleak desert covered
with ashes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
specials 10 tho ledger.
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TELKGRAPH COMPANY.
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VERSAILLES, May l7.-Pres't Theirs,
touched by the generous offer of the AS
sersbly yesterday torebuild his residence
in Paris, which has been destroyed by
the Commune, has been constrained to
decline. The site formerly occupied by
his residence, he announces, must re
main void as lasting monument OF the
errors of the Parisians,
PARIS, May l6, via BouIoGSE, May Il.
M. Lewis Blanc has announced his in
tention Of leaving France for America
at an early day.
The Column VendOme fell this even
ing, in the presence of an immense
multitude Of spectators. No conclusion
or shock followed the fall Of the column,
the ground having been previously pre-
pared. The immense structure, lpme-
diately on touching the earth, broke into
a thousand fragments. A demonstration
in favor Of the Commune followed the
fall of the column.
The Commune proposes the appoint
ment of M. Delescluza as dictator.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17


60 The METROPOLIS EXPLAINED AND
ILLUSTRATED IN FAMILIAR Form WITH A
MAP"-Under this title, Messrs. Devlin
& Co., the well-known clothing house in
Broadway, N. Y, one of the largest Of
its kind in this country, issue for the
benefit of their thousands of friends, q
little guide-book to the city, giving a
list of the public buildings, churches,
banks, hotels, libraries, places OF amuse-
ment, etc., the directions to all which
are made ineligible by an excellent
map. 1t contains also quite full
description of the Central Park, with
some half dozen well engraved cuts,
This guide-book is not offered for sale,
but is gieen array to their customers
and friends, and may be obtained on
application, either in person or by let
ter, at either of their two stores, on the
corner of Warren and Grand streets.
Southern people visiting New York will
find this guide-book and map valuable
for reference.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17
suicide Of a Young woman

New York, May l7.-An unknown
young woman, fashionably dressed, com
mitted suicide by drowning herself in a
lake, near Jersey City. The only clue
to her identity was three tickets found
in her pocket and book calling for hats
left at Huntley's hat factory, in Newark,
N. j., to be cleaned, and bearing the
name of Gardner.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17
The New ArtorDrawing.

Mr.. and Mrs. Reynolds, only teachers
Of Crayography, are at room 4G, Overton
Hotel, where they guarantee entire sat
igfdction and success4o all who irish to
learn the art Of enlarging photographs
to life-size crayOn portraits by maehin-
cry; learned in one lesson-warranted.
Complete apparatus and materials given
for six dollars.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

IT is now well understood that the
Ring" which controls General Grant,
and shapes the course of his administra-
ton, is composed of Senator Cameron,
Senator Morton and General Butler.
What can be expected from such a cor
rupt combination
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

EARL GRANVILLE announced in the
House Of. Lords, May 9th, that the Gov
eminent had received official dispatches
confirming the reports of the safety Of
DIR. Livingstone, the African traveller,
and also giving assurance that his I'M
mediate wants BAD been provided for.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

SEVERAL months ago it was announced
in a semi-ofiieial manner that Grant
had determined to remove Bancroft, as
he had Motley. But Bancroft was not
removed, and now it is stated that he has
resigned. Was this resting spell" given
him that he might get out Of the efiice he
held without being kicked out2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

RErURSs at the Census Bureau in
Washington show that the negro popula-
ton of the United States is about 4,s57,-
600, against 4,435,7O in 1860. This
shows an increase during the last decade
Of about 42l 900, while the increase be-
tween 1850 and 1860 was 796, 947.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17


THE correspondent Of the New York
Tribune now travelling in the South look
ing for Ku-Klux, makes the following
frank admissions in a recent letter from
South Carolina:
In order TO comprehend the cause of
the present disturbed condition OF the
State il is necessary to consider the ele-
ments Of its population and their changed
relation TO each other In a total OF
729. 600 inhabitants there are 425, 600 ne
groes, who, as a class, are Ignorant, SUI
perstitious, semi-barbarous, and but little
elevated in intelligence above their KIM
dred in Africa. | speak Of the great
mass of the negroes, Of the plantation
field hands" They are extremely In.
dolent. and will make no exerti0h beyond
what is necessary to obtain food enough
10 satisfy their hunger They rarely
commit great crimes, but are gwen TO
petty thieving to a great extent. Toward
the white man they are still deferentlai
and assume an air of AFFECT submission
but they are distrustful of the white men
by whom they know they are hated
Upon these people not only political
rights have been conferred, but they
have absolute political supremacy. They
are the governing class in South Caro-
lima, and a class more totally unit tt
govern does not exist on the face Of the
earth.
The Tribune has youched for the in
telIigence and reliability Of this CORE
spondent, but it is not at all unlikely
that he will soon be recalled. There i
too much truth Of damaging characte
TO the Radical party in his letters.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

The National Democratic Executive
Committee, which held a meeting in
Washington Saturday, expressed the
opinion that the Joint COMMITTEES Of
Congress, to investigate the condition OF
the South, ought to go South, and not
remain in Washington and summon wit
nesses there.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

THE Detroit Free Press tells us that
the postmaster at Coyington and the
President at Washington are two links
in the same intellectual sausage" If
we we're looking for intellect in thing
of that sort, we should go to a Bologna
sausage. two to one.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-17

Tar population Of England and Wales
is 20. O66, 224. The official reports Of last
year. published in the London papers,
show nearly one million paupers sup
ported by the State an increase Of
1000 over 1869 and Of 100000 since
1880. Thus one in every twenty IS an
avowed pauper, without considering the
large numbers supported by private
charities, and the class who through
pride conceal their poverty and struggle
on as best they'can