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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07
improvements I'm memphis.

The number of buildings going up
throughout the city lis astonishing to
those who croak about hard times. AT
no time since the war has the building
and improvement mania been so appa-
rent. On every street in the city the
signs of progress and prosperity can be
seen. Store-houses, dwellings, cotton
sheds and buildings Of every description
are being built with a view to the in
crease of trade and population this fall.
Memphis has again started on the road
to prosperity. Probably no city on the
continent presents so many evidences Of
progress at present ms Memphis. A
ride throughout the city and suburbs
will convince the most doubling old fogy
Of this fact. From every point of the
compass comes the sound of industry.
The hammer Of the artisan is heard from
noon until night. The city is undergo
ing general repairing. In the suburbs
hundreds Of small buildings suitable for
dwellings are in course of construction.
These buildings are especially adapted
to the needs Of workingmen, a want
long felt in our city. 1t is pleasure to
note these progressive operations on the
part Of property holders and public
spirited citizens.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07
THE HAPPY FAMILY.

A New Orleans paper says: The
war for supremacy between the War
mouthites and Dunnites progresses in
this city with a ferocity, vindictiveness
and unscrupulousness never equaled by
any party or faction in any contest in
this State. The whole Radical party,
including every ofice-holder Of the Fed
eral, State and city governments, is alb
sorbed in this combat. The public bus
mess and interest are utterly ignored
and the public money is ruthlessly squan-
dered to promote the fortunes Of the
one or ether faction. Every species Of
fraud. deceit, violence and treachery is
employed 10 the same end. The police
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07
TACK OF MIN.

This is a very bad state of things a
Long Branch letter says;
The lack Of men everywhere here IS a
nrol6c source of grief 10 the eompI-
nsntsrv half Of the world. Landlords
s-e besourht for beaux. Each and every
feminine arrival is looked upon with IN
creasinr disgust. Women SIT in eontin-
mons rows upon piazzas, and border par
lors IKE so many wall-tiowerS. Ihey
we've in numbers at last night hop as
seven TO one. They danced in pairs,
nromenaded in couples, and bemoaned
to each other.
These ladies need not expect us at
Long Branch this season. We really
cannot come, and they had as well go
home. We know this is unpleasant
news to three or four hundred of them,
but we cannot help it. Let them be-
moan TO each other. Let them CORFU
eate themselves as wallAowers. Or, If
they choose, (choose is good word
let them go home aud help their old
mammas to do the drudgery of the
kitchen. We have spoken
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07

c;dent This was the first cruise of the
Flushing Yacht Club.
The Westfeld disaster formed the sub
ieet of sermons in many Of the churches
in the city yesterday. Many eloquent
discourses we're delivered, all pointing
to the calamity as terrible warning to
Sabbath-breakers. A noatable fact is
that the accident resulted in consider
ably reducing the number of Sunday
passengers to Staten Island yesterday,
not over half the usual number visiting
the island.
The correspondent of the Tribune tele-
graphs from Washington that Secretary
Boutwell, has discovered that there is no
law to allow collectors of customs com
missions for disbursements OF moneys
on account of revenue marine service
and Ihas decided not to allow 1t an
| longer,
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THE pIFAsuRRs OF TRAVEL.

Just think Of man writing TO us from
the other side Of the world, right under
usl Hon. James Brooks, now on yoy-
age around the world, writes from ,36 de-
crees north latitude and $50 degrees
longitude east-the antipodes, or there
about. as follows: q have been hesiiat-
ing for some days whether or not shall
give the Pacific ocean good character
or bad one, but, upon the whole,
have concluded it deserves a certificate,
more especially in contrast with the At
lantic, the English Channel. the Bay Of
Fundy, the Mediterranean, Lake Onta-
RIO, or any other like rowdy seas. The
Pacific though, il taking, IS rather n
cheating, christian name, for it does
kick up and flop over at times, and hut-
tiers often. II is not everlastingly pa
cifc, that is certain; but upon the whole,
it is pretty well behaved ocean-this
part Of it, at least, where no typhoons or
cyclones rage. In June, big steamer
like this, the Japan, with plenty OF
men Ola board, is yacht a New York
commodore even might envy, such as
Cleopatra, who led astray SO many Ro
mans in her galley, never dreamed Of
And we carry with us a sort Of miniature
Newport or New LOndon-we eat, w
drink, we make merry, we dance, w
sing-material pleasure only, but w
read. we write, we think, We preach, vi
pray, we do everything on board peopl
do at Newport or Long Branch in sum
mer, besides having two Sundays now j
one week. a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07
Rosfon-The Seminary of the Sis.
ferB of NOfre Dame.

From the Boston Journal, July Z, ISL
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PORTLAND ST.
An alarm from box 5, at twenty minutes
past six o'clock last evening, summoned
the Fire Department to Portland street
near Causeway. The roof OF
the brick school-house occupied by the
sisters Of Notre Dame, on Lancaster
street, caught from the flying oinders,
aud the wood work around the windows
was soon burning iercely. The Bah
cock Extinguisher Brigade, which was
early on the ground, took possession Of
the building and saved it from destruc-
ton. The stained glass win
dows in the rear of the chapel were to-
tally destroyed, and also those Of the
school-room and upper story. The dam
age, estimated at about $1,000, was fully
covered by insurance in the Franklin
Office in this city.
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NEW YORK.
Accident 20 n Yachting Party-The
We-tGeld Disaster and babbath-
Breakers.

Mestneld Disaster anu baobhth-
Breakers.
NV YoRK, August 7.-Yesterday a
number Of members Of the Flushing
Yacht Club, including W. B. Downing,
District Attorney; ]. W. Conell, Surro-
gate; c. II. Roe, Treasurer Of Queen
county, and others, embarked on the
yacht Toney Miller. 10 90 on cruise
with the New York Yacht Club to Glen
cove, at Little Bayside. The yacht
struck a submerged rock and almost
instantly sunk in fifty feet Of water
Two gentlemen, Messrs Covert and
Darling, being in the cabin, went down
with her. OF the rest, those who could
swim struck out boldly, and all were
rescued by boats after almost superhu-
man efforts on the part Of the gentle
men present. Messrs. Covert and Darl
ing we're rescued in an insensible con
dition. and after much careful treatment
were resusciiated. The greatest excite
ment prevailed IN Flushing over the ac
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PARriRs spending the summer months

parties spending the summer months
from the city should leave their address
a. onr counting-rOom for the DArLy or
WEEKLY LKpsER, which win be promptly
mailed to them during their absence
The WEEKLY LEDGER contains all the
important city news Of the week under
the respective dates. Fer three months,
D.uY 81; WEEKLY. 70 cents
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Railroad Aecident-BOiler ExplO'
sion.

ST. LOUIS, August THE series OF
accidents of the Bellville and Southern
Illinois Railroad Company prove to have
resulted in the death of one man and
the injury of another. Horses on the
track becoming entangled in timber of
trestle-work, threw a freight train from
the track, demolishing several cars and
breaking the thigh Of young man who
was stealing ride on the rear car. The
construction train was sent to the relief
of the wrecked train, and run into a
hand-car which had been stolen by four
men to take them to the wreck. One of
the men on the hand-ear was killed.
A boiler of the Union Flour Mills ex-
ploded this morning, demolishing the
building and instantly killing the engi-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07

are relieved from the duty for which
thew are hired, and ordered to spread
themselves over the city to break up the
clubs of the adverse faction and con'roi
all primary meetings. The general or
der is to beat the custom-house party Dy
whatever means may be necessary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07
Saturday. September 0. 1s71.

Within legal hours. at the courthouse door,
in the town of Covington, Upton county,
Tennessee, to pay a certain note given by
Samuel 7. Taylor to William Coward for
5000, dated September 3. 1870. due and paya-
BILE one day after date. and bearing interest at
ten per cent. per annum until paid, to secure
the payment Of which note the said deed of
trust was made-the following described tracts
of land. situated. lying and being in the
county Of Upton, in the State. Of Tennessee,
and bounded and described as follows. tO-wit:
A certain tract of land, known as the Glass
tract, containing liz acres Of land, more or
less, and a tract Of land adjoining. known as
the Upton tract, containing l5S acres. more
or less, which said tracts of land are bounded
on the north by the land of Fred Maclin; on
the east by the land Of r. b. Somerville; on
the south by the land Of - Wilson; on the
west by the land Of George I. Taylor; and
also all the interest which said Samuel I;
Taylor possesses in the undivided real and
personal estate of his deceased brother. I'd
mund T. Taylor. The equity of redemption
in and TO the said tracts Of lands and premises
is waived by the deed of trust. The title IL
believed to be good, but l convey only as
trustee. SAML II. COMAkD,
August 7, 1871. l23-27 Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07
FRANCE.

VERSAILLES, August THE court
martial for the trial of the Communist
prisoners opened to-day.
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CASH PREMIUMS :

The Board of Directors. in commencing this
scheme to the public, promise that i shall be
a Committee Of Award whose high character
will be sufficient guarantee tho perfect fair
ness will control the distribution.
The price of these Special Tickets has been
fixed at the low sum of
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LEGAL.
Trust Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID executed to me by Samuel T. Taylor.
dated the Sd day of September, 1870, and re-
corded in the Registers Office Of Upton
county, Tenn, in Deed Book 5, pages 296 and
297, | will sell ut public sale to the highest
bidder for cagh. on
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TWO DOLLARS,
In order that they may be within the reach of

In order that they may be within the reach Of
every one.
nual Fair will be so successful, financially, as
TO enable the Society to erect suitable build
ings and improve the grounds to such degree
Of excellence as to render them a source of
pride to every citizen of Memphis. Shelby
county, and the adjacent country.
The Board of Directors have selected Mr..
W. Ii. BATES to supervise the special ar
rangement. and Tickets can be had on appli-
cation to him at the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad Depot. or through any of his sub
JACOB THOMPSON, President.
LEON TR0USDALE, Secretary.
Tickets can be had at the following sub
apaneias.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
Specials 90 the Ledger.

AMERICAN PKEss ASSOCIATION. VIA 8. P. A.
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER II, 1871,

As the time for distribution, when it is ex-
pected will be assembled the largest number
Of persons ever present at one time on the
grounds.
Tickets. numbered and stamped, good for
mission to the grounds and participation in
the chances of the following special list Of
valuable
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-07

s~FHs. Marine and River risks taken =,
the lowest rates. ANI
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-01

7fTt STREET, EAST, S'7. NEAR SECOND AVENUE
# Front and back Rooms second foor. 10 let WIN
without Board; large Room fourth door terms
moderate.
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18th STREET, sis EAST -HANDsoMtLY FUR.
r ehed Rooms 10 let, with board gentlemen an
their wives angle gentenen; house and all appointments
first clasa
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hTH sTRhET:-GOoD ROOMS, HANDSOMELY FUR
+ nisbed with large psntrtes and rat class Boar In
the 327 West Fourteenth street Ref
erepces EXCHANGED.
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LllFrH AVENUE, NO. ss-FANlIIIs DESIRING ELE.
in CANT Apavtmensa, with superior table, inyited 70
can; vary Of ave young be accom- moaated
~ sayiy application.
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A SINGLE GENTLEMAN WOULD LIKE 70 GET FER
n nsnent Board the country. within siort distance
the city south eide Island TIE water
;erred would furnish his would lie ts se OF
good horse for busgy would prefer slrn hors ~ners
woaid ether bossis-s, depot sp5au.
boat landing. Address box l9S Herald onlss
II I'VE AND LIT LIVE.-OOUETRY EoARD IN
j pleasant quiet village, IS mies from n as York,
rcauosd price tor good tar amt warm horss Apply
al n Amity street.
hrbW BeisliTON, 8. L-BOARD MAY BIZ OBTAINED
~ IN private family, with every hcrnc comfort hooss
walk Tie boat landing II dsired hale
the house ornpietely frnishe ~i be rented TO suan
fsmiv Hahcst references required. Ae<Iess wILLiss
Herald odlcc.
yLANTED-TwO OR TnREE SMALL. C,iILDEET 10
Board al farm house short distance in the country.
the eomforta OF q good home sua
schools; moderate Address ". j., eox iSS Herald
ones. ,
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tTH STREET. WEST, 25i-IN THIS ELEGANT HIGH
y stoop bro wn stone resdence ,esrane Rooms for
fam,cs OF pariiss nteusen table unexeeptonae prl
vale table u desired.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-24
Brigham Yoss,s0's Home.

An Eastern correspondent describes his
visit to Brigham Young As follows:
Passing under the small shade trees, across
the flowing rills, past Goddess flaming drug
store. past Hon. Thomas Fitci,s new law
Office, where he sits arranging his books
with his cultivated wife; pas. the market
where lake trout big - young pigs lie
specklcd and fresh; past Delegate Hoopcr's
tank, where he Looks out like one of VeIas
quez's Spanish gentlemen; past the chain.
gang of worthless Gcntiles making road
with manacles dragging after them; past the
theatre, and up a gentle hill among the
painted adobe houses everything flatlish.
l0w.sct, quaint, but not permanent seeming,
rs If al the town could be blown owAy by
. gale-we see the sun shine holly along the
long. tall wall which enclOses BriglMm's
palace. An esgle over . sunny gateway, u
plaster or wooten beehive amt lion above
the root denote the clump Of dwellings and
office just behind the wall. and seen through
the gateway gap in it. where president"
Young keeps state. The scene is like pic
ture scenery in Tunis or Morocco. hot,
yellow, sandy. half .barb,ric, as it architec.
iursl nnxlels were shaping themselves in y
Darwinisn way from the crude slime. He
who would reign must not pick his palace.
his capital, or his sut,je
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-24

TARANrULA SHARra-This is told by the
Mariposa (Cal) Free Pres:
The other day. rs some children were
playing in our garden, they discovered .
little hote in the ground about the circum.
terrence of two-bit piece. All youngsters
up this way are naturalists and cntyn,olo.
gists, and these at once made up their minds
that tarantuls was the inhabtant of that
tinny cave. But how to persuade bis gov.
crnorship out, was the puzzling question
before the little convention. Finally a ia.
rantul' hawk, the deadly enemy of thi.
poisonous creature. came idling along and
lit on flower near by. 1t was but the work
Of an instant for one Of the crowd to stun
II; then picking him up and rcviving him,
down the hole she dispatched him, when in
hurry up came the tsrantula, . black,
handsome, velvety fellow, followed and
chased by the hawk. Young America wH
ON the look out, and hastily securing him in
q close glass tumbler, ran with him into the
house. where he now remains with the hawk
on exhibition. and awaits the coming of the
famous bug catchcrs now en- route to this
coast A Yosemite tourist recently Offered
. good price for one here If it could be OBJ.
tanned. This will finally be liquored and 60
to pot. But the detective and executive
ability displayed by these wide awake sci.
ons of the butterfly land was too cunning
for anything.
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THE WEST.

Lingard, the vocalist and character actor,
has gone 10 sacramento.
Dakota City, Nebraska, has forty nine
voters, and recently elected ten city officers.
Bartholomew circussing the Coloradans.
Rich placer diggings on the San Francis.
co river, three miles from Fort Bsyard, New
Mexico, ore reported.
Earl A. Ewing, of Corinne. was killed bv
falling from his dray June 18th.
Charles Miller, well known printer, died
Ut Stockton, Cal on the OH inst.
Joseph King was accidentally shot and
killed ut Santa Cruz, California, June 18th,
by Joseph Soria.
Property. owners on Grand Island swamp
land district, Yolo county. CAL, arc about to
build twenty-eight miles Of levce Tho es.
timsted cost is over $l50, 600, and work will
he given to loo men.
A Texas paper prints list Of 100 persons
murdered by Indians in eleven years in one
county in that State.
Idaho City had nice snow fall June 3d.
The Corinne Journal says tho largest con.
gregation of chiefs from the Indian tribes
Of Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming, that
have ever been in that vicinity, is now a..
semblcd on Bear river, near Coripne They
are assembled for Indian business on Com>
mittee of the Whole; and incidentally will
Try TO get arms and ammunition frum Uncle
Sam.
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Senator Ne.

Nyc Is one of tho handsomcst, If not tie
handsomcst, man in tho Senate. He rcsem>
hles Ben. franklin reduced to trowscrs and
swallow.tail. Nye has more intellectual
power than he gets credit for, and were he
not SO indO)cnt would make y noise In the
world as leading politician, If not states
man. He has fine sense of humor that at
times approaches to wit. heard some
things concerning the Senator Inst night
that makes me regret tho few ugly things
have said of him. He Is one Of the best
hearted men in the world. and has depend.
ing upon him whole tribe of helpless pep,
ple. I once rOOmcd ir tho same house with
Senator Nye, and was struck with the
throDg Of people that waited on or followed
and chung 10 him. The larger part Of them
were old women. never before suw such
a raft. such levees, such professions Of aged
females and last night learned that these
were fOrlorn females. possessed Of claims,
and stuck to Nye because Nye could not shy
them nay. A good, generous heart in man
who has rubbed along through life as Scna.
tor Nye has is something to cherish. But
when to this one adds tho fact that this
merry. jestiny man lives surrounded by
skeletons, in q house of skeletons, and looks
the Interest domestic troubles in the fncc
all the time. ones sympa,hies are aroused
Is well rs admiration. Senator Nye is very
careless about money matters. Horace
Greeley, who 10 more 81, said once that he
would make . first class Secretary of the
Treasury. US he could barrow more and pay
less than any man living. The fling was
unkind. and rs I have said: very unjust, for
Horace Is AN owed to Horace" when it
comes to that, having run through several
fortunes without being able to make any
show for it. But Senator Nyc Is open to
the imputation. This same friend told me,
in illustration. of a gentleman leaning Nyc
quite sum of money 10 meet q pressing
necessity, and before he could pay it out the
precious notes were oil borrowed from him
by some friends sorely pressed, who never
paid.
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may Judge % events transpire. This course
he's been determined upon for months. but
We had little anticipation that the Demo-
cratic party of Montana would adopt .
platform in which Republican paper could
find 90 much to commend sud 20 little to
condemn. We trust it 10 the dawn of .
better day, that the bitterness and bad blood
of the past will not re-appear. and that a. >
people We may work In harmony for tho
greatest good to tbe greatest number: This
much we have deemed it our duty to state,
that there may be no misunderstanding BY
our friends In either party as to the course
we shall pursue In the coming campaign.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-24

The resolutions adopted BY the Demo-
cratic Convention In Helena, endorse
''heartily'' the New Departure Plat form.
So ''emancipa.ion, - Reconstruction" ''en'
franchisement," payment of the public
debt" ETC., IRE voted - accomplished facts
and ruled out of the relevant issues.
They recommend that oil territorial off,
Gers he elected by the people Of the Terri
tory; pronounce against the placer mining
act; recommend legislation to prevent the
immigration of Chinese and their acquisi'
ton of mineral lands. and express belief
that tho ''Iudian country" within Montana
reverted to the Territory on the passags Of
tie orxs>1>>a< Z, $3.50
rhsrs Il vssy litals tsftfor ssHspublican
ard Democsaslc parties n light ovsf. The
.'single bound" OF The vallandigham Plat.
form virtually leaves only - the nationa!
party issue 'who sl,all carry the colon!"
The effective officers" ''placcr land, ''Chi.
nese" and "Indian country" resolutions arc
not partizan questions. It cannot be else
than satisfactory to the great masses Of the
land that the war and ito issues ale settled,
and that henceforth the theme of the press
and the study of legislators will be enact.
ments to promote the development of na.
tioual industries, to secure economy and
efficiency in Office, to tighten the burdens
of taxation, and to succeed the animosities
Of the past with the antilles of peace. We
congratulate Montana Democracy on their
platform, and may It be in spirit as in word
that they take this new departure.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-24

WoxDER1uL-A machine has recently
been perfected In London, with which 4
writer. using pen In the usual manner,
con q the same time produce duplicate %
email - to 10 invisible u the naked eye. yet
- distinct that microscope will reveal ev'
cry line and dot A most useful applica-
tion Of the apparatus will be fsS the proven.
ton OF forgery. ~ private marks can b.
made on notes and securities. legible under
microscopic power, bat which NO imitator
could see or sves suspect the presence Of.
The inventor. II. Peters, states that the
entire comforts Of tho BiDle can. with tho
help Of tbh machine. b written twenty-five
tlmss h ~ space Of . square inch,
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A PERPETUAL MOrroN-The Seneca
Falls IN. W Reve;ue Of last week says "A
son of Isaac Bishop. living near Ovid, about
thirty years Of age, has whitfield outa wheel
that will run until worn out. A rather sin.
gular coincidence, that about the same date
with the above. man living near Beary'
town has also produced self running ma.
chine. Il may Be held fast by the hand.
and upon releasing the hold will start of
itself, and gradually accelerate until II gains
ito nsximum rate Of speed. II 10 thought
BY those who have seen It that II can be ap.
piled 70 On Alnost eadless variety Of uses,
and 10 consequently worth millions OF dol
lars % the inventor"