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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

MEMPHIS THEArER-Mrs. James A.
Oates Comic Opera Company will ap-
pear tonight in the laughable extrava-
ganza, The Fair One with the Blonde
Wig Mrs Oates was unable to appear
last evening, owing to sudden illness,
but tonight she will charm the audience
at the theater with her piquant style Of
acting and artistic singing The company
met with great success in this city last
season, and Mts. Oates became at once
fayorite with the public. The theater
will no doubt be crowded to excess to-
night.
Broom s.-Full houses every night at
Broom's Jefferson Street Opera House.
Manager Broom's company is composed
ola fine ballet corps, a troupe of charac-
ter artists unequaled in the country, and
a number OF sensational voealists. To
night the full strength Of the company
will be brought out, and an attractive en-
tertainment may be expected by the
public.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

The above firm, located at % Madison
street, are agents for the Etna, Hart
ford, Phoenix and Franklin fire insur-
ance companies These companies lost
heavily in Chicago, but are paying up
promptly their Chicago losses. After
all losses have been paid the companies
will have left capital and assets to a
very large amount, as can be seen from
the statement Of H. A. Littleton & Co.,
published elsewhere. These companies
are yet numbered among the largest
and most respectable in the country.
Messrs. Littleton & Co., the agents in
this city Of the KtHa, Hartford, Pho
nix and franklin, solicit business as
usual at such rates as are consis-
tent with the risks incurred. 1t is
needless to recommend Littleton & Co.
to the people Of Memphis and vicinity.
Suffice it to say that they areia'every way
responsible. and can be relied upon by
business men and others.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

Sales yesterday were $500 bales, the
market closing irregular in prices but
with an improved demand, and frmer
feeling on the part OF holders generally.
The market to-day is more settled fac
tors who, on yesterday, were somewhat
alarmed as to future prices are the high
est in their views to-day, and anticipate
an advance, notwithstanding that the
Liverpool market is dull with down
ward tendency. New York is steady,
however, and orders plenty. Sales up to
noon were 700 bales, including good or
binary at l75c to lite, low middling
l7s to l7sc middling Ia to NE. AT
noon some holders we're asking the out
side price on all grades, and upon an
even running list Of strict middling Isle
was asked and lsc bid '44
The followinp Il tho counn retiye daiIv
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

Brother Joe Coburn, who gave us a
specimen Of his style at Broom's Opera
House not long since, and who is deter
mined to sustain the honor OF America "
in twenty-four foot ring by smashing
Jem Mace next month, is undergoing a
course of training in New Orleans. The
pugilistic brethren in our city will no
doubt thank us for the following dis
closure, showing how Joe " is amusing
himself in the Crescent City:
This is the manner of training: He
goes to bed every night at nine o clock,
to the minute, and gets up at six clock
am. He then, with his trainer, takes
walk of eight miles, when he rests for
half an hour. He then goes to break
fast, which consists Of tenderloin beef
steak, broiled very rare; stale bread and
tea, After this, another walk of the same
distance is taken, but in one-half the
tine of the first; he gets into a heavy
perspiration. On arriving at his room, he
is rubbed down for an hour with alcohol.
He then takes drink of brandy, after
which he walks about until twelve
o'clock, noon, when he takes dinner,
which is the same as breakfast. No
vegetables of any description are used,
or any fried meats-all must be broiled.
Soon after dinner he takes exercise
with the Indian clubs" their weight
being about fourteen pounds. This is
continued for half an hour, when he
plays a game of cards for amusement to
pass away the time. At four clock in
the afternoon he uses the horizontal
bar for half an hour. At six he takes
supper, which is composed of plain
bread, tea and cold meat He then
takes another walk, and retires to bed at
nine o'clock. His wash in the morning
is in rock salt water. The trainer goes
through the same regimen with Coburn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
PUaIfo LEDeER 0PyfuE,
mrxPHIs. TEss.. October "a. 1911.
Money. =

IUhliO LkDdER OPpfCE, L
MEMPHIS. Tzss.. October "a. 1871. !
Money. 81
Nothing of interest has transpircd in
the local money market since our last
report. The demand for aecommoda-
tions is as active as during last week,
and but few, save regular customers, are
recipients of favors. At the banks rates
Of interest remain steady at 10 to u per
cent. In the open market the rates are
from Il to 3 per cent per month, the
outside rate being asked only where the
borrower is 'pinched," 9if
Exchange is making more freely in
the way of commercial bills from the in
creased sales Of the staple. Rates are
unaltered, however, the banks buying at
! to &c discount and selling at par.
Gold is bought ut liz.
Local securities are quiet aud un-
changed. -,.IIhsH
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

Miss Fannie Goodwin, who for several
days past has been stopping at tho Pea
body left yesterday for Chicago, She
was the guest Of the Meudelssohn Quar-,
tctte Club during her stay here, and won
the esteem and high appreciation Of the
members and foremost of our citizens
She promises to return later in the sea-
son with concert troupe, and we be-
speak for her grand success in Mem
phis. She has created sensation
among our musical people. 10 sa hs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24
BREyITIEs.

Samuel NJ. Hawkins, Esq, of Grenada,
one Of Mississippi's fine lawyers, is in
the city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24
Scarcity of Birds.
Iunters complain Of the great scarcity

Hunters complain Of the great scarcity
of birds, except at points very remote
from the city. The frequency of bird
hunting, which has been fatal to birds OF
all sizes, in the neighborhood of the city,
accounts for all this. In few years
partridges, etc, will cease to exist in this
locality, unless some remedy can be sug.
gested which will give the birds chance
to recuperate and again become plentiful
FRENoH mustard in kegs, and ham
sausage, just received by
FORSTER, KEALHoFER 4 Co.,
Al 1886 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

the river yesterday, opposite the city, on
foot, being led behind a skifi,. They
had to swim about two rods in crossing
the channel but for most of the way did
not find the water belly deep. From
Captain Jack Grammer we obtain the
following statistics relative to the depth
of water on the shOalest bars below
Anderson, 20 inches; Diamond Island,
q; Shawneetown, 80; Caseyyille, 3Oi
Walkers bar, &c; Hamlet's bar, 23i Cot
tonwood, 20.
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BOARDING.

BOARDING THE wHITEAfORE HOUSE,
ID 100 and III Adams street. haying lately
undergone thorough repairs aud been newly
refurnished, is now prepared To aec0mm odQto
borders with light, pleasant rooms, and with
as good table as the market affords. Rates
very moderate. 2t
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES NOTICE THE
j. Jefferson Street House. No. 1G6
Jefferson street. charges for board
sud lodging per day. 81 20. The rooms
or three single beds, and good spring mat
tIesaes. The table is supplied with the best
the market affords. kegullr b0arders taken
ct very low prices. Remember. No. 100 JEFF
fers0n street. M-l64
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

To CLEAN KNIVES. Use the dish-cloth,
rub it on Morgan's sapolio, and then
rapidly over the knives. This will give
a brilliant and durable polish, lvithoSt
scratching. For all metal wares use the
same. "a.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

ArMoRE's mince-meat, MiIlaird's finest
prepared family chocolate, new strained
and comb honey, very choice, at j. De
voto's, cor. Third and Adams st. 26-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

HAVE your CRATES set with Lemon s
patent This improvement embodies
utility, economy and durability. Call at
229 Second street ~ RIGa SO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

1O:45.-Cotton steady. Sales for October.
lS1sc; November. lsAc; December,ElS9sc (;
January. 1s1Ic; February, 1870.
12:l5-Cotton is quiet and steady. Sales on
spot. 1905 futures. l2,7eO. November. 1850 (;
December. IS 7-l6c; January. lS9se February,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

THE DOLLAR REwARD Soar" makes
tinware shine like new, and has no equal
in cleansing glass or china. VIM. Whita-
ker. grocer. b Madison street. sole agent.
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als.rrriNa a. sl5 SECOND 81.

Received ut the Jet Palace to-day,
beautiful shell sets, she'll brace
let's, she'll butterfly combs, and
"a large assortment OF other goods
i'm eur line.
IS L. ROESCHER d co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

TINS Labor Agency of L. Z. Banning,
No. jefferson street, corner Of Front,
viii supply an demands for labor in any
branch Of business. [i6
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Too High for LnMxer..

The Office of the Clerk of the First
Chancery Court is approached by three
flights of stairs, and a shortwinded at
torney is unable to articulate when he
reaches the Office. Yesterday one Of
the unfortunates, on his arrival at the
office, gasped out, Mr., Clerk, you are
entirely too high up for business Il" In
deed, replied Captain Cole, looking re-
ligiously, " only wish was consider
ably higher. " In that case, answered
the painting limb of the law, 81 no lawyer
would do business with you" "True,"
sighed the Clerk, in regretful tone of
voice, :" am fearful attorneys could
never file bill in so high Court of
Chancery." AL
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

ALI. notices of meetings of any organ
lied institution will be published at fifty
cents in advance, or if charged one dol
lar, for each insertion, if the same does
not exceed one square. I
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

PACE & STovAL's Rough and Ready
tobacco, found at Sternbergs, 3l3 Main
street. 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

LIVERPOOL. October "a. IL a.m.-cotton is
dull and declining. Uplands. 91zd; Orleans,
GA
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LOST.

4 OST-A NOTE OF DATE 1SrH INST. DUE
IL at twelve months; executed by Eliza j.
Whitsett, for the sum Of 5000. payable TO
myself or order. with ten per cent. interest
from maturity. All parties are warned not TO
trade for the same. SrARKEE REDDITT.
October 10, Ell. 4247
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

WARSER's PREPARATIoSs for sale at
the Little Drug Store Round the Corner,
50 Adams street. LOOT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

Dos QbixO+F cigars at sterhbsrg s,
3l3 Main street. lia >-t ttial 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

Go TO Brackett & Co.'S. s2l Second
street, for young Kentucky mules. 3O-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

Cor THE "MITTEN," AND LOST TEN
THOUSAND. "A certain Main street gent,
who was engaged to beautiful maiden
worth ten thousand, was released from
all matrimonial engagements, the other
night because his coat collar and pants
possessed strong affinity for grease.
One box Of Kalo would have made him
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24
CEMENT.
sUNDRIEs.
- u N ID n L r y.

30 SUNDHiES.
]. - u n ID R L Z =.
25O boxes CIleesegllJ .IstGsar
80 bbIs and hlf bbIs Pickles
25 hIf bbIs white Fish.
300 kits a. hIi blbls alaclkePel.
80 bbis and hlf bbls krOut.
so bbIs HOnIiny and Grfts.
200 cs imp. Brandy Cherries
80 tubs of Fresh Butter.
b boxes Breakfast Bacon.
ID trsneW sugar cured hams
100 kegs Spieed Pigs Feet.
1900 cases canned Fruits and
JelIies.
80 eases Sardines.
200 bbls Apples a. Potatoes,
Just received at
G. A. ECKERLY,S,
} = 81 "a - - n ii 4 .
BIS Front, cor. of Union street
-.
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BRowS's Log Cabin tobacco, at Stern
berg's, 3l3 Main street. 81
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FOR SALE.

E0R SALE-0NE OF HENRY'S PATENT
L cylinder presses, s2xiS inches, been in use
eight months and in perfect order. Price,
sl25Oi cost over $500. Reason for selling, my
business re lures a larger and finer class Of
press. For paper having q moderate circu-
lation it is just the thing, as it is equally
adapted to job printing as newspaper work.
gain. Address
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

Fresh stock received daily by V. d.
Fuchs, Al jefferson street. 70
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see fourth PAGE for additional local

PITTsBURG and Camel coal and gas
coke. Brown a Jones, Office 282 Main
street, Bethel Block. 7
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

dor SALE OR LEASE-43O ACRES OF
II land will be sold on accommodating terms
or leased to responsible man for the term of
FIVE years. There are three frame houses and
four cabins on the premises; about three hun
bred acres under cultivation, the balance in
timber, IL may be divided to advantage.
Two good wells os water; also good cistern,
large barn well filled with fodder, and a good
stock Of corn, Located on tho Mississppiand
Tennessee railroad. two miles south Of Horn
Lake Depot, DeSoto county. Mississippi. The
road runs through a portion Of the tract,
where q flag station is established which rem
ders II great convenience, TO the neighbOr-
hood. The stock. cons sting of horses, hogs,
poultry Of all kinds, and all necessary farm
ing utensils, etc., etc.. will be disposed of on
terms TO suit For particulars apply to W.
Everheart, on the premises, or Of Joseph
Alden, No. Mulberry street, Memphis, Tenn.
EoR sALE-LETTER PAPER. WITH THE
Memphis railroad map printed on the
fourth page, kept on hand and sold AZ d rea-
e0nable price at this office. 72-t
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THn-NAE 4 GAIsNAN, s. Union street,
have on hand a fine lot Of HORSES and
NUI.Es, which they offer for sale on thirty
or sixty days time. 1851
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Buy your oysters at Norfolk Depot,
No. II Jefferson street. 50
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GENUINE Turkish smoking tobacco, in
bladders, at S. Sternberg 4 Co.'S, 1913
Main street. act
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E. WHITM0RE,
lit Public Ledger Office, Memphis.

DOR FINE ROC HORSE
l. gentle in harness. Address Grocer"
Ledger office. Air
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srE1M-EIrTno At SIS Second st. at
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lust received AT
TRUNKS.


, Genuine Gravel Roofing, By BAR
fholomew a Alien. 40 n. Court. 10it
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FOR SALIG Oh. LEASE.

DOR sALE-A BRAN NEW SEWING MAs
Il chine for sale cheap. at this office. fi50-f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

ANEMcAN DRIvES Wills at Browne
3 BEoEssis sl5 sseepdFses lslest
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The loIlowing 8 lhe comparatiye daiIy


Last year at this time middling here
was l53e; in New York, l7lc; gold, llla;
uplands in Liverpool, ID.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-24

A sensational reporter of morning
contemporary was looking around yes
terday for volunteers to make further
search for DeSoto's buried treasure.
By applying Immediately to our jour
nalistic brother few brave and good
men may hear Of something to their adj
vantage. 90 finh
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BIZ GR4vEly's tobacco, % be found
at Sisral,szs' :. ~ 3 Maia. s,resi. =6l
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Fridays Evansville Journal has the
folloEinE; Itrtt.a
A yoke Of oxen were brought across
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leans daily newspapers.
Chancellor Morgan rendered the fol-
lowing decisions, to-day: Battle VS.,
Brown, } judgment for complainant I;
Dickinson, ex-parte petition to incorpo-
rate the Tennessee Hydro-Carbon Gas
Light Company, granted; Starke VS..
Bride, final decree.
The yellow fever continues TO prevail
in Natehez, Charleston and Vicksburg.
The Mayor of yicksburg has declared
by proclamation that the yellow fever is
an epidemic in that city. There is no
danger Of the disease reaching Mem
phis, the late heavy frosts having erect
ed an efeetnal barrier against its ad-
vance. Ff
The local Of the Appeal has seen the
'prisoners-cell in the Criminal Court
room. He stood outside, looked in and
didn't like II. If he stood inside and
had to look out. he would like it still less.
The box Is that which was used in
the old courtroom, and it is sufficiently
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-28
A Good Sign.

One of the most encouraging signs OF the
times for Charleston and South Carolina is
the gradual but steady application OF our
banking facilities. The Peoples National
Bank having entered the financial field with
a capital OF only $3.50, 900, had by good man
agement and successive engagements OF it's
operations, increased its capital to $3.50. 900.
On Monday last $780, 900 more was added,
making the capital Of the Bank reach the
round figure OF One Million Dollars. With
such practical evidences OF vigor and sue
cess in our new banks, and with the old in-
stitutions reviving one after another, our
community has a fair prospect OF abundant
banking capital in the future.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-28
Matter.

Some days ago, we gave a characteristic
anecdote of Kepler, who asked his wife
whether, if %hard-boiled eggs, lettuce, oil,
vinegar, &C., were scattered through the
universe, she thought the blind force OF
atoms could bring them together again to
make a salad. 'Not as good a one as mine, "
was her smiling reply.
Kepler lived in an age when the ''blind
ssforce OF atoms was not so well understood
as it is to-day. Unable to account for the
motions of the planets, he ascribed them to
angels who were sent by the Lord OF Heaven
to attend to this special service. Spinoza
saw much deeper than Kepler, and uttered a
great, a sublime truth when he said, ''we do
ssnot know what matter a do" Science
every day confirms Spinoza's dictum.
Take the ether, the rarest form OF matter,
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-28

in6uitelylarerfRan any gas, sosaffeaaftsd
that its very existence il deterpdhable Only
bylnference. II Is aafaaear nothing as any.
thi,g well cansbe. Bat ia properties are
these Of 8 solid: 1t iamosslike q iellyshan.
q gas, says Tyndall.
Take matter in another form, gross enough
that. Of a bit Of steel. Draw a magnet
across it, and something Eve know not what,
only that it is not nothing, } enters into it,
and it becomes 30 sensitive that by noticing
it attentively you can tell the rise and pro-
gress OF a cyclone in the sun, ninety-fve
millions of miles of.
Take matter in a form still more gross
that of the mud, the coal-dust and refuse OF a
city like London. Let it alone, says Ruskin
let. the ''blind force OF atoms have its:
way, and behold in time the marvellous
facets Of several kinds OF crystal-nature's
masterpiece Of inorganic organization.
Lastly, take organic matter in its simplest
form. Here is an ameba, a mere cell, with
out so much as a nucleus to mark the first
step towards differentiation-in effect, a
soap.bubble floating on the water. 1t has
no eyes, no nose, no ears, no mouth, no
stomach, no lungs, no heart, no brain, no
approach to muscular fibre; not q trace OF
anything resembling q. nervous system, no
limbs of any description, no division OF
parts, no aegments. Yet it is alive, it moves,
it, pushes out a part Of its ceil-wall, knows
when and where to find its prey; how to
double itself around it and to digest it.
Well may we say with spinoza that we do
not know what matter can do, and we'll may
we add with Herbert Spencer, in his last
book, that If mind is to be defined in terms
Of matter, matter in its turn is truly defna-
bic only in terms Of mind; and the wisdom
and power OF the Unknowable Cause are dis
played more amazingly, perhaps, in the least,
or what we are accustomed to call the least,
than in the greatest of things.
The day is gone by to belittle matter.
'sThis vile body" in the light Of recent
knowledge, sounds absurd. ''The perish
sable things OF earth" are perishable in form
only, for matter, force and mind We now
know to be alike indestructible. Matter is
the visible side OF the Uaknowable; mind its
invisible side. They are alike Divine in
origin.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-06-28
Ugly complications"

A correspondent from Columbia informs
Us that the accounts Of the Treasurer and
Auditor OF Edgefeld County are in a pre-
cious muddle, and that Mr.. Frank Howard,
late restaurant keeper in Charleston, has
been sent from Columbia to investigate them.
Rumor hath it that several clerical errors,
showing faults in addition to a large amount,
have already been found. Friends OF the
parties, in Columbia, assert that the compli-
cations are altogether the result of iucompe-
tency on the part OF one or both Of the par
ties to keep accounts, such as are required
in so complicated a system Of collecting and
returning taxes. Others smile incredulously
at any such version OF the affair.