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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26
sleen Walking

An exchange saysrone of the greatest
feats of sleep walking on record was
lately performed by married lady who
resides at 0onondaga, South Hollow. AT
about one o'clock on Saturday morning
last, this lady dreamed that her father,
who resides near Hastings, 0swego
county, was very sick, and had sent for
her to visit him Immediately. She arose
from bed, dressed herself, and started on
foot to Liverpool, where she thought she
could take the cara ON the Northern
Railroad for Hastings She arrived at
Liverpool, and stopped at the house of a
Justice of the Peace Of the town Of
Salini, at little after daylight. During
all this time the lady was sound asleep,
and did not wake until after arriving at
the house. He feet were sore, and one
of her ankles badly swollen from the
effects of her long tramp a distance Of
not less than fifteen miles. The lady
says that she was perfectly unconscious
during her long walk, and the last she
could remember before arriving at the
house was the dream that her father was
dangerously i'll, and desired her imme-
date presence.
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HOW NOW I

A Newark, n. j., dispatch Of the Gath
conveys this highly interesting informa.
ton:
On Monday negro club left Patter'
son for this city on picnic, accompa'
MED by Rudolph's cotillion band, which
played for them till FIVE o'clock, and
then stated that they should return ia
Patterson. The negroes declared that
they should not. A quarrel ensued, re-
sulting in the negroes hanging Walter
Rudolph, the leader of the band, and
stabbing Henry Walters, musician.
A party of Irishmen came along and at
tackled the negroes, or many OF the mu-
sicians would have been killed.
Hanging a musician because he re-
fused to playl is this the manner oil
the negroes Of New Jersey What is to
be done about it2 Permit us to pre-
dict-just nothing The circumstances
will not make ripple on the Radical
mind, because the murderers of Rudolph
are black. 1t will not make ripple IN
the White House because the affair did
not occur in the South, and can not help
along the KuKlux war.
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An Australian Romanse.

Australia is convenient region OF
romance, being too distant for close in
vestigation by the skeptical For exam
Pile: An English noblemen falls in love
with his mothers pretty maid, sort OF
Becky Sharp, She avoids her noble
lover and complains that she is "perse-
cuted.' SO MILFORD takes a years trip
in Europe, becomes love sick as well as
sea sick crossing the Channel, and
writes her an offer of marriage. She
doubts; he swears fidelity, and marries
her privately. A daughter is born, the
mother dies and the fa,hey weds again.
Twenty-Five years elapsei the girl falls
in love with one who has the misfortune
to kill his superior and is transported.
She follows him to Botany Bay. In an
unfortunate affair" her lover loses his
life, and his disconsolate lady love he
comes hand-n,slden in the house Of a
poor settler Her father dies dhildless,
q perseyering solicitor aeeks the daugh-
ter so long disowned, and she becomes
Lady Elizabeth Morton, with $500, 900 a
year.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

Lewinbeck tells us of an insect seen
with a microscope, of which twenty
seven millions would only equal mite.
Insects of various kinds may be seen
in the cavities of grain Of sand. s
Mold is forest of beautiful trees,
with branches, leaves and fruit.
Butterflies are fully feathered.
Hairs are hollow tubes. 4iH
The surface of our bodies is covered
with scales like fish; single grain Of
sand would cover one hundred and fifty
OF these scales, and yet scale covers
FIVE hundred pores Through these mar.
row openings the sweat forces itself like
water through sieve. Aaff
The mites make five hundred steps O
second. :.
Each drop of stagnant water contains
a world of animated beings, swimming
with as much liberty as whales in the
sea. f..H. lI.nis
Each leaf has colony of insects
grazing on it, like COWS in meadow.
MoRAL.-Haye some care as to thu
air you breathe, the food you eat, anc
the water you drink.
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Prom the Boston Adyertisor,l
The only regular business along this
coast that is peculiar is canning lob
sters. Several men have set up iacto-
ries at prominent points, where they
give employment to all the men, wo-
men and boys whom farming and fish
ing can spare. in opening and packing
Holsters in cans, to go all over the
world This business employs good
many people and some capital, but 1t is
manifestly much more profitable TO the
capitalist than to any one else. Will
you believe it when / tell you that the
fishermen who gather The Holsters de-
rive for their fish sixty-two and a.half
cents the one hundred pounds7 while a
can will be sold for at least twenty-five
cents OF course, the labor Of prepar-
ing and packing, the cost Of cans aud
boxes make large item in the manu-
facture; but set against that the cold,
wet, dismal work, see the fishermen
obliged to leave home and camp all
summer on some rocky island, off the
coast; to face all kinds of weather; to
creep out through fog and wind, over
the rough seas to bait, and set and ex-
anime their lobster pots, and then re-
ceive sixty-two and half cents per
one hundred pounds for fish HOLSTERS,
fortunately, are becoming inadequate at
the price, and are getting scarce and
discouraging the fishermen. ~
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PENNSYLVANIA.
SMALLPOX Raging at philadelphia,
HUI Not as Bad as Reported.

PuILADRLPmA, October 26. = Exag-
gerated reports of the prevalence OF
smallpox in this city have drawn ont a
semi-oificial report from the Board of
Health. The total number Of cases dur
ing three Eeeks in October was nine
hundred and forty-two, and during the
same tipe the deaths numbered one
hundred and ffty-ons. During the first
three days Of last week the cases reported
numbered two hundred and fifty-eight,
and in the last three days one hundred
and efty-eight, showing that the disease
was decreasing. The oontaglon has Its
foremost hold in the Twentieth Ward,
where three hundred and ffty-one
eases have already occurred, and this
ward is in a good sanitary conditions
and the prevalence of the disease is at
tributed to the fact that the houses are
built on made ground, which renders
them damp and aoeelerates the disease.
In the Fourth ward which composes the
flthiest part of the city, only thirty
three cases have occurred. The doctors
report that those persons who had not
been vaccinated when attacked By the
disease almost Immediately die of it.
Thousands are yaecinated daily, and the
vaccine physicians have constant en-
ployment.
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LATEST TELEGRAMs.
specials TO the Ledger.
AMERICAN PRKss ASSOCIATION. VIA 9. P. . A.
ri TnLKaRAPH COMPANY.
WASHINGTON.
Regarding Public
MOney-ItsmOyaI of Hodges, POST
master at Little Koch-Cotton
Transportation.

Money-Remoyai of Hodges, POST
master at Little Koch-Cotton
transportation.
WASHINGTON, October 26.-The War
Department proinulgates in general Or
dcrs the circular of Secretary Boutwell,,
dated the 9th inst, requiring all disburs-
inc officers of the United States, except
pension agents drawing checks on
moneys deposited to their official credit
with United States Treasurer, or any
assistant treasurer, in favor of them
selves, or bearer, or in favor of any per-
son other than a public creditor, to state
ON the face or back of the check the OBJ
ieet or purpose to which the ayails are
to be applied.
The President has appointed James
S. Pollock as postmaster of Little Rock,
Ark. At the request of Senator Clay
ton, just year ago, Pollock was re-
moved from the same office, and James
S. Hodges appointed. Renewed tealty
to Clayton restored Pollock. e
A large fire has broken out and is now
in progress in the woods in Western Ma
ryland. The mountains in that vicinity
are said to be one complete sheet OF
flame at night, and immense destruction
of property is feared, especially among
those people who have habitations in the
vicinity.
1t is rumored here that the Pennsyl-
vania Central railroad has just con-
cluded negotiations for the purchase Of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac railroad, and the Acquia Creek
line of steamers, for $3,0O0,00O.
A petition was received at the Execu-
tive Mansion yesterday, fifty feet long,
signed by the women of Utah, protesting
against polygamy, and urging effective
measures to suppress its practice in that
Territory.
The question of cotton transportation
on steamboats, was disposed OF at the
session Of the Board of Supervising
Inspectors Of Steamboats, on Tuesday.
The board has agreed to allow this class
of freight to be carried in understandable
condition. governed by the same rules
that are applicable to its transportation
on railroads. Where the cotton by acct
dent or other unforeseen causes, be
comes exposed to view, the steamboat
owners cannot, under the new rule, be
held amenable to law, nor can the cotton
be seized.
The Board agreed to adopt the differ
ent patent low-water indicators before
them, some eight in number. 1t is but
proper to state in this connection that
some members of the Board held that
these inventions were not intallible in
insuring safety to boilers, but that
calamities from boiler explosions
were only to be prevented by
the precautionary measures o. com
petent engineers. Otherwise, the safety
of the travelling public was not Sc
cured by the adoption Of modern in
Ivenlions, WHICH, it is alleged, would aeI
as preventive 10 aecidentsin the future
But very little business of Importance
now remains for the board to act upon
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HON. rHoMAs EWING. sR.

This veteran statesman, who has been
i'll FOR some time at bis hume in Ohio,
was reported to be dying night before
last. During his long life, he was prom
inent in the politics Of the country. The
principal events Of his life are thus sum
med up by one Of the newspapers; He
was born near ives; Liberty. Ohio county.
Virginia, December -, 1889. he re-
ceired mis- education chiefly from an
elder sister. aud, with bis fathers fami-
ly, settled in the wilds Of Ohio about
1892, where he enjoyed the advantages
OF q winter school and an academy; his
life, during his youth aud early man
hood, was one Of continuous toll: in
1914 he YES a school-teacher in 1915 he
received the degree Of A. B. from the
Athens Academy, the first ever granted
in Ohio, and he studied law and was ad-
miited 10 the bar in 1916, prac-
ticiur with success in the courts Of
Ohio and in the Supreme Court
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NEW YORK.


NEw YoRK, October VIM. Grinder,
of Port Morris, N. j., was yesterday
lodged in the county Jail at Morristown,
N. j., charged with having murdered
Hiram d. Foster in n fight at Port Nor
ris. On the night preceding, il appears,
from the statement Of Louis Waldran,
who Witnessed the ARRAY, that Grinder
Who'll the proprietor of a saloon in Port
Morris, quarreled with Foster about sew.
enty-iYe cents which Grinder claimed
was due him. Angry words led to threats
and ended in Foster being shot.
Dilgeni inquiry was made yesterday
but no positive information could be OBJ
tanned of Judge Ledyard's acceptance
Of his nomination.
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MILITARY STATISTICS.

The following is a correct statement
compiled with great care in the Pension
Office, of the total number of soldiers
serving in wars, ETC., in which the nation
has engaged in since l775. 1t will ap'
pear in the forthcoming report of the
Commissioner of Pensions; Soldiers o.
the War of the Revolution, 275,OOO; sol
diers of the war Of 1912, 527 ,637; Semi
mole war (lsl7), SOL; Black Hawk wal
1882, 5O3l; Florida war (lss6 to 1922
1888; Creek disturbances lls36), ",
4s3; Southwestern Disturbances (ls36)
1903; Cherokee county disturbances
Qs36), 1886; New York frontier distur-
Dances (ls3S), Canada rebellion, IFS;
Mexican war (lsi6l, 1890; WaT of the
Rebellion (ls6l), 1858, 523.
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SRA SHORE. October, 1871.
On the seat in front Of me we're two
good specimens Of the New Hampshire
girl. Clear, fair compilations, good fore
heads, rather piquant features, rose
leaf flush in the cheeks, quite a good
proportion Of flesh to sufficient bones
and muscle, bright brown eyes, aud light
brown hair-and one Of them had such
a pretty hand aud wrist la Rubens-
and. OH how she did pose il, ungloved
and braceleted so bewitchinglyl But
lust think Of one Of my beauties coolly
producing a couple Of large-sized picked
cucumbers from her lunch basket one Of
which she handed to her companion,
while the other she conveyed to her rosy
mouth with as much gusto as If it had
been morsel Of delicious sweetness.
Beauty and picked cucumbers' The
assimilation was a work beyond my poor
endeayors, and gave il up. Besides, It
almost made my mouth screw up and my
eyes water just TO look AZ them munching
away as If upon a couple Of sugar plums.
And they absolutely finished these de-
lectable tidbits without the assistance Of
bread and butter, or any other adjuucts
whatever.
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RACE.

Grants martial law is driving the
people Of the fated counties Of South
Carolina to the mountains Of Georgia
and North Carolina. They are flying in
terror, leaving everything behind them
only too happy to escape the army Of
devastation that is marching upon them,
Our country is in most miserable con
dition. The wrath of heaven is desc
lating. the West with fire, while the wrath
OF Grant is driving the people of the
South from the plains to the mountains
1t is race between an angry heaven
and drunken man.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

This paragraph ppts better face on
the Chicago disaster.
1t appears that out of the GO, 900 build
ings Of Chicago only about 1880 have
been destroyed, and while $4,000 people
have been driven from their homes,
over 245, 900 have not been affected in
that way. The whole immense area OF
the West Division, with its miles OF
dwellings, its stores and business blocks,
is almost intact, while the South Side
retains the great mass OF its dwelling
houses, its stores and business blocks
which have been erected on Twenty
second street and Archer avenue, and at
other points, many gifts finest churches,
and the innumerable manufactures
which abound in the Sixth Ward.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26
RRvENnE REFORM.

A Washington special to the Louis
Vile Ledger says: The leading editorial
in the New York Times to-day, in favor
of revenue reform, especially in view Of
Grants late tariff utterances at Pitts
burg, creates considerable surprise here
where the Times is recognized as the
organ of the administration. The slg-
ni6cance of this article is that division
in favor of Conkling may be created IN
Western New York, where there are a
large number of revenue reform and
free trade Republicans, and where the
farmers are ready to enlist under any
banner where reduction OF taxation is
inserted. This is thought to be the most
practicable method to enable Conkling
to be re elected to the United States
Senate the ensuing winter through the
vote of the farmers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

A Wyoming correspondent Of the St.
Louis Republican sends & bad report Of
the women. He says The women
at Fort Laramie feel that they are equal
II not superior 70 the men. Il is not an
uncommon thing 10 see the officers
wives 20 10 the billiard saloon Of the
sutler al that post, and play until one OF
break up you can hear lsung by liquor
ised female voicesl snatches Of songs
such as Shoe Fly, Captain Jinks, John
Browns knapsack, and the world-re
nowned song Of bummers, We Won't &c
Home till Morning.
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InIunetIon In the Fisk Case-MOre
Scandal.

NBw YORK, October 2C.-Mrs. Jose
phine Lawler Mansfield, through her
counsel, moved to-day to yacaie the in
junction restraining her and others from
Publishing the letters and documents
calculated to idure the character Of
James Fisk, jr. The latter's counsel
moved to postpone the hearing, and the
case was put down for argument on
Monday next.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

The country is reported burning
around Rochester, N. Y. A dispatch
says the city is envelOped in smoke.
Destructive fires are said to be raging in
FIVE counties of the State. Is the avenger
of sin coming in the form of devastating
fire? Fortunately for the great sinners
of the North and West, the rains. and
SHOWS have come,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

THIs is a revised and corrected report
of Grants Portland speech:
Mr.. President-This is the second time
| have been in your city, and if do not
come oftener than | have heretofore |
shall not make many more visits here
before / shall be quite an old man.
Mark the battle-axes Of logic, the
bouquets of rhetoric, the tropes, the
figures, the - well its no use,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

THE great wealth of France is shoYn
by the fact that, despite all the misfor-
tunes and calamities Of her foreign and
civil wars, and the Impeachment they
brought with them, despite the loss OF
two of her wealthy provinces, she has
paid to Germany, almost in one INSTALL
ment, as it were, the immense sum OF
$3.50 100000 in specie. Before April
next she is preparing to pay $780, 100000
more, making $i6O,OOO,OOO in a single
year. A nation that had suehbounteous
financial resources, and millions of men
to employ with them, ought not 10 have
been SO easily beaten
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

The Paducah Kentnckian Of the 23d
inst. says: Notwithstanding the large
quantity Of cotton that has been shipped
from this point during the week there
are still large quantities here for ship
ment. aud It continues TO come on every
train.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

TnE Cincinnati Enquirer says the
charge, as an Offset for Grants appoint
ment Of so many relatives, that Gene
raj Lewis Oass foisted his son into the
diplomatic service, and allowed him TO
disgrace the country in it, is not true.
Major Cass was appointed by an admin
istration of which his father was not a
member. He was continued as Minister
to Rome by General Taylor, who deemed
it indecorous as he was a POLITICAL OPP
ponent, to remove the son of the rival
candidate for President, We never
heard that he disgraced his country
while in Rome before.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

TIE Chicago Times says that II build
ings had been blown up with gunpowder
the fire which was checked at Harrison
street at about two o'clock on Monday
afternoon might have been checked at
the river at twelve o'clock the night be,
fore. and the district Of the South Di-
vision, which is now in ruins, might
have been entirely saved. This plan
was suggested to the FIRE authorities, but
they we're too erazed with excitement 10
listen to il.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

The New York Herald says: The
most touching Of all the movements for
the relief of Chicago is that of poor
Paris, still struggling to get on her feet
from her late terrible seourges Of war,
revolution, sieges. bombardments, incen-
diary fires and all the horrors Of the
Commune. How small are the suffer
ings of Chicago compared with the
calamities Of poor Paris" and yet
she, too, comes to the relief Of Chicago.
There is nothing to compare with it in
the history Of mankind. Poor Paris =
delightful, generous Paris-with all thy
faults we can not help but love thee still.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

SEVERAL children were poisoned the
other day in Louisville by eating Linn
berger cheese. Well, if people can't
eat cheese, what can they eat?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

LATE dispatches from Rome would
seem to confirm the long rumored deter
mination Of the Pope to quit the Eternal
City. At a meeting Of the College Of
Cardinals, held few days since, it was
decided that the Holy Father could only
preserve his spiritual independence by
quitting the territory over which the
Piedmontese King now holds sway.
Where the distinguished voluntary exile
viii locate has not yet been decided.
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TRUNKS.
DIERCHANTsG
TRUNKS. WAISTS AND sAIcHELs

ARS OFFERED 10 YOU AT HOME As
"A low AZ can be bought in any city. hHam-
me stock and prices q the factoryi 70. -
Main street. o-oo-1p
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We are indebted 10 the attention Of
Senator DuBose for a copy Of the Re
port Of the COmmissiOnersOf Delinquent
Railroads.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-26

The squabbles Of the carpet-baggers
for the spoils Of Office in Alabama still
continues, and the White House IS daily
visited by delegates from that State in
the interests Of their respective candi-
dates. Among other rumors, a strong
movement is now being made to effect
the removal Of Colonel Robb, Collector
OF Customs at Savannah, and appoint in
bis place James Atkins, who is backed
by Senator Hill and others Of the Geor-
gia Congressional delegation.
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CEMENT.
CEMENT, PLASTER AND LIME.
Prices Reaucedi
FOR CASH on DELIVERY.

Hay. Corn. Oats and Bran a. he lowest
9i-6sh No. Il South Court street.