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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13
WASHINGTON.
The Amnesty BiIl-TrOuble i'm the
Joint High Commandments Au-
KIux Bill Before the senate.


JOiut High OmmissiOn-The ku-
KIux Bill Before the senate.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Mr. Robertson is
bound to force the Senate to take some deh-
mite action to show whether it will consider
the Amnesty bill this session. Hopes are ex-
pressed by the friends of the measure that it
will be passed, but il is very doubtful.
The trouble in the Joint High Commission
over the San Juan boundary question has not
yet been decided, and the Commissioners, on
the part of the two Governments. are no
nearer agreement than they were a fortnight
ago. By the provisions of the treaty Of 1853,
fixing the boundary between the United States
and British America from the Rocky Noun
tains to the Pacific. it was stipulated that the
line through Pugent Sound should be the CEN
ter of the channel. Around the island of San
Juan there are two channels, through both OF
which vessels can pass. The United States
claims, however, that surveys show that the
northern is the main channel, while the
British Government insists that the southern
is the one referred to in the treaty. All admit
that the island Is not worth having and neither
Government cares for it. 1t is now without
civil government. and is under joint military
occupation of both governments. No compro-
mise is possible for the island is too small and
too insignificant to divide. From present in
dications, no agreement Of this question will
be arrived at.
1t IL now certain that Congress is not to adj
journ before week from to-day, although 1t
has been expected it would be able to get
AWAY on Saturday next.
The Ku-Klux bill will probably pass the
Senate to-day Thursday, after late ses-
sion, but will not reach the House before late
on Frid gr Saturday, and then it will have
to be pI ed, which will take another day;
then the House will consider the Senate
amendment and concur or ask for commit
tee of conference. This it is thought will de-
lay the day of adjourning until Wednesday
next.
Subscriptions TO the new loan to-day have
amounted to nearly s2.OO0.O0O. The Park
Bank Of New York takes 81, 100000.
Ex-Member of Congress Gift will probably
be appointed Collector Of Internal Revenue
for the Savannah tGeOrgia) District, vice
Gould, def1ulter.
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CUBA.
Rarbarous system of warfare.

BarbarOus system Oh W"ri"e.
NRw York. April 1S.--General jules and D.
NJ. Traggmise. representatives of the eastern
department of Cuba. arrived in this city
Tuesday last with important official CORE
spondence from the Cuban Government to
Senior Aldema and other Cuban representa-
tiyes in New York and Washington. They
report the feeling of Cubans as very intense
in every part of the island, especially in the
eastern department, and have furnished
Senior Aldema with copy of letter ad-
dressed by President Cespedes to the Govern
ment of King Amedeus. protesting against
the barbarous system of warfare carried on
by Spain. and containing an appeal to the en-
tire civilized world for protection against
such excuses. The letter expresses great de-
termination to continue the struggle for indie
pendence.
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CHICAGO.


Body OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CHICAGO, April lS.-About eight o'clock
Tuesday evening, some Archer avenue rogue
went to the dead-house Of the county hospital
and secretly distracted therefrom the body
of young girl named Emma Berger, who
was so severely burned Saturday last at 2Sz
Wool street. The impious wretches took the
corpse in its winding sheets to Neck's saloon
at the northeast corner Of Eighteenth street
and Wentworth avenue. threw II in ut the
roar door and then ran away.
A wholesale liquor dealer named james
plunkett committed suicide yesterday by
sbooting himself through the heart. Anxiety,
caused by a threatened lawsuit. was the i'm
mediate cause.
The husband of Mrs. Gilchrist attempted to
stab her last night. and steel spring OF her
corset was all that saved the knife from pen
etrating her heart.
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MARRIED.


ROGAN-HOLLOWA Y-Wednesday morn
ing, 18th instant, at the residence OF the
brides father, by the Rev. Mr.; Hahord, Col.
j. w. Rogan, Of this city, and Miss Alice II.
W. Holloway, daughter Of Col. J. j. Holloway,
Of somervilIe. Tenn.
To congratulate the gallant Colonel would
be but 10 add our mite to the thousands Of
congratulations offered BY the friends Of the
bride and groom. The bride Is one Of somer-
yille's fairest daughters. and the groom Is SO
well known in our city that il Is needless to
write one word Of praise We wish them both
long career Of prosperity and happiness
voyage down life's river in the midst Of roses
and lilies. where adverse winds blow not and
where naught exists that could mar one single
thought Of peace and joy. May the fair and
the brave 90 hand in hand together. and float
scross times ungentle tide in safety TO the
great haven.
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CONNECTICUT.

Has Connecticut Republican form
of government? 1t is stated. and is nc
doubt true that under the Constitution
of Connecticut all towns that were
created before 1900 have two members
of the House of Representatives. The
towns since formed have but one mem
Der each. Population and votes have
nothing to do with the election. New
Haven City, with $4,000 people, has the
same representation as a town with but
1000 inhabitants. 1t is owing to this,
the large cities being Democratic, that
the Legislature is Republican-chosen
by minority of the people. We have
frequently carried the popular vote, but
never the Legislature Under another
provision of the Constitution the candi-
date for Governor has to have, in order
to be elected, a majority of all the votes
taken. Having the highest number cast
does not suffice. The want of major
ity sends the election to the Legislature,
where minority of the people always
prevails. Such is the unfair and I'M
equal political system of Connecticut.
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ST. LOUIS.
Progress of Railroads west-A No.
tOFiOus Desperate Convicted =
Mail Robbers.

Progress of Railroads west-A No.
tOFiOus Desperate Convicted =
Mail Robbers.
ST.. LOUIS, April 13.-Passenger trains com
menced running on Monday last to Seneca, a
young and growing town in Newton county.
on the border Of the Indian territory, go
miles southwest Of ST. Louis. The company
commenced laying track in the Indian terri
tory last Friday, and it is contemplated 10
have the road opened across the Grand river
By the first Of July. A force is already EN-
ployed in grading the track beyond that river.
The Grand river Is 10 be spanned by bridge
sixty feet long, near Carter's Ferry, just below
the forks Of the Neosho and Spring rivers.
The bridge will be nine miles from the statt
line, and work on the first pier will be CON-
menced to-day. The company have survey
ing party in the field engaged in laying the
track toward the Pacific coast, and II is ex-
pected that the survey will be complete "a
Albuquerque, in New Mexico. by the first day
Of June. Another surveying party is at WORK
running a branch line 10 connect with the
Atlantic and Pacific from Fort Smith, which
will strike the Canadian river about 300 miles
west Of Fort Smith.
Valentine Burke, q notorious desperado'
was convicted to-day in the United statei
Circuit Court for having large AMOUNT Of
bogus money in his possession. lie was al.
ready under sentence Of Eve years in the zen
itentiary for attempting TO kill an ofiicer oyei
a year ago 10 AVOID arrest.
James and William Plynes. mail carrier
between Iron Mountain and Poplar Bluff. in
Southeastern Missouri. were brought here las
nirht charged with robbing the mail. A
number Of letters and considerable money
were found in their possession.
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A YOUNG gentleman connected with
the High Commission, now sitting in
Washington, proposes to ask some half
dozen young ladies whom he has met in
that city, and whom he considers worthy
of the honor, to give him their photo
graphs to take with him on his return to
England. In return, he will show the
pictures to his friends at home as types
Of American beauty, and viii further
reward the ladies by allowing them to
draw straws for jeweled cross now in
his nossession.
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II you want good old Megfbber
whisky, 20 10 278 Second street.

For coughs, colds, Group, whooping-
cough, sore throat and consumption in
its first stages use Dimmitt's SOC. Cough
Balsam. 1t is recommended by the best
physicians of the South and West. "A
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FINEsTblack cloth coats, black doeskin
pants and plain and figured silk vests,
latest styles, buy at Walker Bros& Co. s.
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A ST. LOUIS dispatch says:

The railroad and wagon bridge cross
ing the Mississippi river at keokuk, and
the only wagon bridge crossing the
river, was completed yesterday. II cost
about 81 900, 600 The bridge has eleven
piers. tSo abrtments, and the largest
draw span in the world, being three
hundred and eighty four feet in length.
In the center are two spans twenty-five
feet wide, for the passage Of rats.
Butler, sitting doing, was handed the
dispatch. He read spoons for spans
and started Immediately for Keokuk.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

IT is stated that Holden ran away from
Raleigh the day before he was convicted
of high crimes and misdemeanors and
deposed from Office. The Raleigh SEN
tinel explains: AT length, Romans, we
are rid of Catalina. We have driven
him forth drunk with fury; breathing
mischief, threatening us with Federal IRE
and sword. He is gone, he is fled, he
has escaped, he has broken away. The
bad citizen is now an avowed traitor.
His lieutenant, Kirk, decamped with
him"
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"GArH," the Washington correspond
ent of the Chicago Tribune" says he has
been watching the Senate for four
years, and never saw so bad a counten-
ance as that of Senator Morton, of In
diana Gath evidently believes that
Morton's proper cast would be that of
the heavy villain" in tragedy on the
stage. OF other Republican Senators
he says: "Nye is a sentimental camp
meeting orator; Conkling can say sharp
sentences, but there is nothing in them
except malevolence, and he could no
more conduct an impromptu historical
debate than he could see the back of his
head in looking-glass." He speaks OF
the Senator from New Jersey, Mr.. Ere
linghuysen, as a moral young man, for
the first time separated from his Sabbath
school guardians.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

TEN THOUSAND pair Bohemian vases,
at SOC and 81 per pair-Surprise Store,
20g Main street. 35-f
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GENTS, youths and boys underwear
shirts, socks, suspenders or neck-ties'
buy at Walker Bros & Co.'s, 23l Main
street. AZ
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CONCERT.
GRAND SACRED CONCERT
AT =
st. Peters Church,
Thursday, April 18th,
II. A. sABATZKY, Organist.
CONCERT.
BOG r. A NJ VI Il ;
ParfT


PartI.
l, Mareh-Organ
2. Trio" Victimi Paschali ".........-..Coneone
Miss Guyton. Messrs. Jackowitz and Sa-
3. soprano Solo" 0 Fill ct Filiae -. Mattel
Miss Magevnsy.
T. Duo" Amici DOnizetti
Mrs. Boylan and II. a. Sabatzky.
8. Tenor Solo" o Salutaris ".......--.Hummel
Mr.. Gideon.
6. Solo and Chorus-"Alma Virgo" %. Hummel
Mrs. Boylan and the Choir.
PartII.
7. Trio" Sancta Maria Owen
Misses Guy,sn. Anderson and Mr.. Jack
ogi.s. =.
s. Duo-From T. Verdi
Meurs. Gideon aud Sabatzky.
Q. Trio" Madre del henOmo .....-Cnin pana
Mrs. Boyian. hessrs. Gideon and Kirk
10. Soprano solo-"Ave Maria " lCurto
Miss Magcyney.
II. Duo" Bcnedictuf .-...........-...--.-h ossini
Mrs. Boylan and Miss Mageyuey.
y. Solo and Chorus" Gloria in kxcelsis
Won Weber
Mrs. Beleher and the full Chorus.
The concert commences at o'clock; doors
open ai ~ o'clock.
The audience Is respectfully requested not
70 encore.
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If you want your CRATES set, call at
295 Second street, and get Lemons i'm
provement; they will give twice the heat,
with a great saving of fuel. l43T
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

FIFTY dozen boxes coal oil grease.
JoBE & CoSAwAY,
3s 1868 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

TnE last exploit Of Governor Bullock,
Of Georgia, is thus related by the Rome
Bullock offered one thou
sand dollars for the arrest Of Aaron
Lamb. Lamb vas arrested, the thousand
dollars paid, and nov. in less than Two
months, the Infamous GovernoF pardons
the said Lamb out Of jail
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

KID GLOVES and Fans-Surprise Store,
209 Main street. 35-f
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BOHEMIAN VASES, SOC per pair-Sur-
prise Store, 2O9 Main street. 35-f
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MONEY loaned on collaterals. Address
"E. NJ" postoflice box 1876. 36t
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JUST received, an elegant assortment
of youths and boys clothing in latest
styles and designs at Walker Bros d
Co 4U
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MEMPHIS stained glass works, 252
Third street. az
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FOR SALE.

The house and improvements NO
IO5 Adams street. For further par
tieuIars apply 10
Aos No. III Washington 81.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

ELEGANT Parian and Lava vases, 81
per pair-Surprise Store, No. 2O9 Main
street. 5o-l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

ENAMELED or porcelain lined pumps, at
Browne & Brownies, 3l5 Second st. 24-t
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New advantages. All jet sets sold at
the Jet Palace have gold wires, so that
any lady can wear them without injuring
the ear. New spring styles justreceived.
Al |. RoEscHER & Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-13

BEAUTIFUL Toilet Sets, 5Oc-Surprist
Store, 209 Main street. 35-T
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IT yOu want good cid Megfbben
whisky, go 10 2z8 Second street.
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LATEST styles Jet Jewelry-Surprise
Store, 209 Main street. 35-T
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CALIFORNIA.
,,.,of me s,enmer Ajax.

SAN FRAScIsco, AprillS.- The steamer Ajax
from Australia, via Honolulu. has just ar
rived, and is new at anchor five miles outside
the harbor
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PLAY billiards at willett's.
Buffalo Gnats.

Buffalo gnat oil, by the barrel or gal
Ion, for sale by j. A. j. SMITH & Co.,
4O1 225 Main street
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NEW YORK.
The ueshoaI-t Book Concern.

The Hefhosiist Book concern.
Hrw YORK, April i3.-Owing to the failure
Of the sub-committee 10 name experts 10 ex-
anime the accounts Of the Methodist Book
Concern. the agent, Dr.. Carlton. has on his
own responsibility appointed three persons to
examine the books used during bis term Of
oGee. The experts are J. Van Nelkn. Chas.
Anender and y. W. Gum.
Rase bail.
BRooELYS. April l3-The Reckfo-d Base
BAH Club opened play yesterday on the Usior
grounds. The Rockford nine plasea .gainst
. deld Of thirteen and defested them with
ease. BY score Of fourteen TO four. Time Of
came one hour and forty-fTe minutss.
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srrAm-prrrlse at 8l5 Second st. AT
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ALL carom tables at WiIlctt's. %
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.


AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. VIA 8. ?. A.
TKLEGRAPH COMPANY.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-05

ALABAMA CLAIMS We are in.
formed that the most persistent and
unyielding of the private citizens who
have clans vs.. the British Gov
ornmeut are DR.. j. q. Aver &
Co., Lowell, Mass, the manu-
tacturers of medicines. They will con-
sent to nothing less than that their de-
mand for medicines destroyed by the
British pirates shell be paid in gold and
in dollars to the last cent. They are
emholdened by the fact that the destruc-
tion of their goods by the English in
China and elsewhere (for where are not
that troublesome nation trampling upon
somebody have hitherto been paid in
full, and they now say that they shall
be. They however propose this COM
promise:-Give us Canada and we will
call it even, because we can then send
our remedies there without duty
washington News.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-05
BURLINGTON.

Leaving the East and arriving at
Chicago or Indianapolis, how shall we
reach the WestY The best Line is &C.
kuowledged to be the O., B. Il O., Joined
together with the B. d M. Railroad by
the Iron Bridge at Burlington, and
called the Burlington Route,
The Main line of the Route running
to Omaha, connects with the great Pa
cifc Roads, and forms to-day the lead
ing route to California. The Middle
Branch, entering Nebraska at Platts-
mouth, passes through Lincoln, the
State Capital, and will this year be
finished to Fort Kearney, forming the
shortest route across the Continent by
over 100 miles.
Another branch of the B. NJ, d.
verging at Red Oak, falls into a line
running down the Missouri through st
Joe to Kansas City, and all Kansas.
Passengers by this route to Kansas,
see Illinois, Southern Iowa, and Mis-
souri,, and, by slight divergence, can
see Nebraska also.
Lovers of fine views should remem-
Der the Burlington Route, for its towns
"high. cleaning from afar"-its tree
iringed streans-its rough bluffs and
quarries--its corn-oceans stretching
over the praries further than the eye
can reach.
Laud-buyers will be sure 70 remem-
Der it, for they have friends among the
two thousand who have already bought
farms from Geo. S. Harris, the Land
Commissioner of the B. & NJ. r. r. at
Burlington, Iowa, or among the four
thousand home -steaders and pre-emptors
who last year filed claims in the Lincoln
land office, where "Uncle Sam is rich
enough to give us all farm"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-05

A Minnesota school teacher, who
whipped one Q! his pupils nearly to
death, has LETT that part Of the country
by railway. The rail was q three cor
uered one.
A love letter, picked up in Spring
field, ILL.,, has the following paragraph:
My best loved one, ] chawed the
postage stamp on your last letter all to
thunder, because l knew you licked it
on"
An exchange has an acquaintance
who remarks that he has often heard
the proverb, "a friend in need is a
friend indeed" but he says be can't see
where the laugh comes in. He has a
friend io need who is always borrowing
money of him.
The Congressional Sub. Committee re-
Gently appointed to visit North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia aud
Florida, to investigate alleged Ku-Klux
outrages, consists of the following named
gentlemen: Messrs. Maynard, Sco6eld,
Lansing, Bayard and Voorhees,. They
will not start South until after our State
election-probably the 1lth or 18th OF
October.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-05

CONSTITUTIONS BREAK Down.
Why do they break DOWN. Because,
too often, constitutional debility Is either
pronounced ineurable, and LETT to take
it's course, or 10 mistakenly treated
Rouse tagging nature with the whole
some, stimulating properties of Hoof-
lands German Tonic, or invigorate the
system with Ioonand's German Bitters,
the counterpart OF the Tonic 10 all ex-
cept the alcoholic basis, and the failing
constitution will soon recover its energy
Biliousness, Nervous Complaints, Dys-
pepsia, Intermittent Fever, &c, always
impair the constitutional stamina, as
we'll as the muscular strength, and the
effect Of these remedies is simultaneously
to expel the virus Of disease, and repair
its ravages. Depot, G3l Arch street,
Philadelphia, Pa. For sale by Drug
gists throughout the country.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-05

CouNrERFEIr money is not only to
be looked out for at the present time,
but mutilated bills Also A gang Of in
genious men in New York, too lazy to
get living honestly, are flooding the
country with these mutilated bills. They
have a way of chipping off piece and
pastiug together, SO that they ~ Ike ten
five dollar bills out Of what were origi-
Dally nine. How true it is that sit
takes all sorts of folks to make up u
world"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-05

The British markets are being sup.
piled with new article Of food, kan
garoo tail. 1t is imported in tin cans
like Australian mutton, and is called
kangaroo venison. Those who have
tried it give a favorable report of its
qualities and it bids fair to become
popular. An English journal says
that those who are vegetsrians because
they object to the destruction of ami
NAL lite can eat this meat without
scruple, as the tails of kagaroos are SO
large that they must be an inconven-
ience to their owners; while by
placing the animals under the infu
ence of chloroform their tails caL be
painlessly amputated and packed in
tins before they are aware Of the
operation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-10-05

"PUT A HEAD ON HIM."-The story
that has been for some time afoat in re-
latiou to the origin OF the slang phrase,
"Put head on him" is, without the
slightest doubt, says the Chicago EUen.
ing Journal. the false fabrication of an
imaginative mind, and it receives its
refutation from Shakespeare himself, to
whom must the credit be giving for
having originated that chaste and ex-
pressive request. In the second scene
OF the first act Of "Titus AnGronicus,"
the original is used by Marcus Adroni-
Gus, but the lapse of time has caused q
slight change to be made, and what is
now the plain, straightforward "Pus a
head oa him" was at the time
"Be candid, then, and putit on,
And help to puta head or hsss,sss Rene"