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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

Mr.. Henry S. FoorE, of Nashville,
has withdrawn from the canvass as a
candidate for Congress from the State at
large. The reason given by him for SO
doing is that "all' the candidates for
Congress heretofore announced are IA
vorable to the election of Greeley and
Brown" This leaves the field open for
candidates and aspirants, and relieves
the campaign fthat bitter personal, and
political tinge which would be given to
it by Mr.. Foote, whose talent for vitu-
perative sarcasm and stump speaking is
second to none in Tennessee. Mr..
Foote possesses great ability, and would
make things generally lively during the
State canvass.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

THE question whether a person has
any right in a jury box if he is capable
of entertaining an intelligent opinion,
without being so prejndiced thereby as
to render his mind incapable Of being
convinced to the contrary by competent
testimony, is about to be tested in the
higher courts of New York. The advo-
Gates of intelligence as a qualification
for suffrage would do well to await the
issue. Should the stolidity of ignorance
and non.familiarity with current events
prove a more acceptable jury qualifica-
ton in legal estimation than the enlight-
eminent of judgment and acquaintance
with the daily run of affairs, the intel.
ligent suffragists" might as well sus-
mend their labors. In Tennessee we
have not as yet gone back or advanced
toward to the basis of intelligence, aud
il can be said to the shame of our Code
that it bars the jury box, in criminal
cases, against man who reads newspa-
pers and remembers what he reads.
Criminal court juries under our Supreme
Court decisions must hereafter resemble
the intelligent jury in Pickwick.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

IT is stated that Colonel Higginson
has gone to London to study human de
prsvity. The simpletonl Why did he
not 20 10 Washington
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

NINE DEMoKEsT's Patterns, all kinds
STYLES and sizes, at 2l3 Main st. 1891
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

The blooded stock of the Old and
New Worlds exchange visits with won
derful etiquette. A few years since,
England naughty Prince of Wales came
over. Last winter, the young rugged
Russian bear did likewise, and now, the
Prince Fred and Princess Nellie are
wandering over Europe as the represen-
tatives of the blooded stock of America.
Not only the average but the thorough
bred American must feel grateful to Mr..
Graut for trotting out his nags on the
Grand International Court race course.
We are improving rapidly and only re,
quire an order Of nobility to make us
happy. 1.-THE Book Of Snobs" will
have to be rewritten by some American
Thackeray.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

DIR. LIvINGsToSE has been found near
the river "Rusye that flows into Lake
Tanganyika," but he obstinately refuses
to return from Africa or remain found,
having abandoned civilization and gone
back into barbarism. Let the Doctor
alone. Permit him to wander up and
down his beloved rivers and lakes with
out let or hindrance by Herald reporters
or English expeditions. He has found
the land of the Lotos Eaters, where
peace and plenty exist and happiness
prevails forever more. The mild-eyed
melancholy Livingstone is now basking
beneath the foliage that throws its
charming shadows far out into Lake I'm
yanembe, and he insists most positively
on being considered lost. We vote aye
on the Doctors proposition.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

renounce every pecuniary compensation.
From this resolution ] have in no IN
stance departed; and being still under
tbe impression which produced it, ! must
decline as inapplicable to myself any
share in the personal emoluments which
nav be indispensably included in q per-
manent provision for the executive de-
nartment, and must accordingly pray
mat the pecuniary estimates for the sta
tion in which / am placed may, during
NV continuance in Il, be limited to snch
actual expenditures as the public good
may be thought to require.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-22

The Sons Of Temperance bad an eE-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
Dancing.

From the Victoria Magazine.
Dancing is perhaps the oldest amuse-
ment in The world, and too natural not
to outlive all opposition; yet, while we
often hear it disparaged, we scarcely
ever hear it defended for its extreme
reasonableness. A small book entitled
Dancing in Right Spirit" is the
only attempt Of the kind | have met
with, but the author has greatly limited
himself by considering the question in
one direction only.
Whilst very rightly and sensibly re-
mindng us how dancing was a religious
pastime among the Jews, and how it is
nowhere forbidden, but rather COM
mended in the Bible, be leaves untouched
any consideration apart from the Bible,
and much may be said in favor of dane
ing from an aristocratic point of view.
As beauty of color to the eye, as sweet
sounds to the ear, so is the luxury of
quick, easy motion, to the healthy frame.
All young things delight TO skip and
dance. When it hears quick, lively mu-
sic the child must dance; it is an irresist-
ible, spontaneous instinct, as much as to
use its young voice and shout and laugh
and sing out its merriment. 1t is the
first praise ef the child to its Creator
By enjoying the life He gives it, the
child unwitiingly, unconsciously, praises
Him in its bright, swift motion, as here
after it will do consciously in a maturer
form BY the life it will lead to His glory.
So in the childhood of mankind. man
danced before God in the full Joy Of
their hearts. 1t was kind of praise to
God from these children Of the earth's
earlier days, and as much the right and
natural mode for them to express praise,
as it is now the right and natural mode
for children to enjoy themselves.
Whatever gives US highest enjoyment
is most appropriately connected with re-
ligion and as physical enjoyment comes
before mental, dancing formed part Of
religious eeFenopisl before more recon
dite rituals or more absrsot ideas super
ceded it. When that time came, dane.
ing slipped out of the religious sphere.
And not only that, but in process of
time 9 grim theology, which would ban
ish all cheerfulness from life, did its
best 10 condemn dancing, together
with many other innocent and natural
amusements, as sin. But such gloomy
views of things are too unnatural to re-
tain the world Ia their bondage, so dane
ing is still an enjoyment 10 ihaasands;
and when natures pre-eminent right OF
guidance is more and more recognized,
dancing will again assume its place
amongst the arts which adds beauty to
our lives, and. no longer amongst the
rites of religion, will, far from being
considered hurtful to the religions senti-
ment, be seen to be furtheranee thereof
in the same manner as are painting,
MUSIC and al other branches Of the joy
GUS and beautfgl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12

Little Delaware" still contipues the
antiquated custom OF Furnishing by the
pillory and by whipping. At Newcastle
on Saturday last, eight men (seyen col
ored and one white) went through the
painful and degrading infection in the
courtyard of the county prison. A
large crowd had assembled, as is usual
on all public occasions for gratifying a
morbid taste, aud when the gates were
opened rushed in peIl nell 10 feast their
eyes upon the revolving exhibition.
There could have been not less than 300
people present, large proportion of
whom were women and children. Many
seemed to thoroughly enjoy the scene,
and, us each new sufferer was fastened
to the post, crowded close in around the
Sheriff to get better view Of the per-
forinaneey What seemed TO lend espe-
cial zest TO this occasion was that the
Sheriff is a newly elected one, and Curl
osiiy was therefore active TO see how he
would perform the act of hagellation.
This he seemed to do to the satisfaction oil
all; in many cases, while administering
his sixty lashes well laid on, drawing
streams Of blood in sufficient copious-
ness to salty the sight even of Della
warian.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
LATEST 'TELEGRAMS.
NEW YORK.

NKw YORK, December l2.--All the papers
devote considerable space to editorial com
ments on the Fifth Avenue Hotel IRE. The
Tribune inexorably lays down the rule that
such a FIRE in such building should, BY
propsr ARRANGEMENTS. be rendered impossible,
allowing exceptions to every rule. The World
.ays the material havoc and ruin of the Bos-
ton fire is scarcely so impressive as the burn
ing Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel Wednesday
morning, for the burnt buildings in Boston
are repairable, but the loss Of life at the Finn
Avenue Hotel is out of the question to esti-
mate or repair. 1t says device has been in
vented and shown which. fit does not make
an elevator safe from ascent of fire, at all
events it diminishes the danger. This was not
applied here. The Herald asks: Was the
holocaust criminal? Was It mSrder?'' and
says the poor servant girls were forgotten.
At first aroused by the suffocating smoke. their
shrill screams of agony and despair rang out,
but no effort was made to rescue them. and
demands full investigation.
About twenty-five servants rooms were
damaged at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday
morning. and as many more slightly injured.
1t will be necessary to reconstruct the larger
part of the upper stories. The damage by
water is much greater than by FIRE. The fifth
story is thoroughly soaked; sixth floor badly
damaged; fourth and second floors very
slightly. Loss on furniture, $4,000 on the
building. about $4,000, both fully insured.
The Commissioners of Emigration here have
addressed letter to the Secretary Of State
calling upon the government to exert itself in
stopping the Wholesale emigration of Italians
as now. stating that these emigrants are
almost destitute and unable to support them
selves. and. therefore. fall burden on the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12

An eccentric person of an inventive
turn-of mind was drowned the other day
at Newburg, in consequence of falling
into the river when encountered by q
weight Of metal sufficient to sink hip, to
the bottom. Having been annoyed by
highway robbers. he had conceived the
plan OF carrying his money and other
valuables in a small iron safe, which he
fastened to his person by stout iron
chains. He thus manfully defed all
highwaymen who were not provided with
cold chisels. sledge hammers, or gum
powder; and as the risk of detection in
volved in knocking him down in the
public street and devoting an hour to
the demolition of his safe was altogether
too great, even for the boldest robber, he
went on his daily way, serenely defylng
the highwayman and all his tools. The
weak point about this invention was the
weight of iron which he was forced to
carry about with him, and which finally
proved his death, when he accidentally
walked off dock. As only 81 "a were
fonud in the one dozen safes suspended
about his waist. it would seem as though
he might have dispensed with eleven of
the latter, and thus secured himself
against the fate which finally overlook
him,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

ST. PAUL. MINI. December l2.--A young
man named VIM. Connort. Of this city. while
engaged in feeding some cattle. was attacked
BY an or, and before assistance reached him
was msngled so badly that he died in few
moments.
DIS MoSEs. Iowa. December ll.-A disas-
trous IRE occurred at Stewart, Guthrie county,
yesterday, by which seven Of the principal
buildings were destroyed. Most Of the con-
tents we're lost. Loss 800. 600; insurance less
than $4,000.
PKEyILLE. o.. December l2.-An unknown
German was instantly killed here yesterday,
by being kicked by 3 horse. lie came in from
the c0uptry with load OF grain and was get
ting of ofthe wagon when the accident hap
peped,
IEpIAEArOLs. ND. December 12.-In the
United States Court. yesterday. the Goodyear
Yuleanite Rubber Company obtained judy
ment against twenty-one dentists Of this State
for infringements Of their patent. The judy
ments range from SO to $50. .-rH
LEXINGTON. Ky. December ll.-Charles
Catgn, the manager ofthe Western Union Tel
egrspb DompanY IL ibis city. vas knocked
down on nam liFeet AatsaaJ htAhtt between
nine and ten o'clock. and robbed Of nearly
$500 belonging 10 the company. together with
his watch. The person struck him on the back
part Of the head. near where the occipitsl and
parietal bones unite on the left side. and made
O. dangerous though not fatal wound. The
wound Was msqe Eilh . slqHg shal,
AsHLASD. Ky, Decembef "a. : The coal
and ticket Office Of the Lexington and Big
Sandy railroad was destroyed yesterday
morning about three clock By FIRE. The loss
Of the building and furniture i about $780,
snj 10 Insurance. A few Of the company's
books ana papers we're saved from tht saie.
together with 800 IN money. IN damaged
condition.
BRoOKLYN. December 13.-Last night james
Bsgss was attracted BY the screams Of vo.
man 70 a vacant lei an the corner o. fiiAt5ash
street and Sixth avenue. On spproaehing he
place be vas knocked 70 the ground By blow
on the head. The police discovered and car.
re, him 70 The station-house. where the
wounds were pronounced fatal. No clue to
the assassin. -"''
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12

THE LAST FIRE.

The special dispatches to the LEDGER
Yesterday contained heart-rending de-
scription Of a FIRE in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, by which twenty-five
servants lost their lives. The horror Of
these poor people, men and women,
shut up in the top loft of the hotel as
effectualy as if they had been in a coal
mine deep in the bowels of the
earth, must have been excruciating be-
yond description. We shrink from
drawing attention to such picture OF
convulsive despair as must have filled
the room where the poor unfortunates
were slowly but awfully asphyxiated
unto death by an accident which cut
them of from all human help as II
washed overheard at sea a thousand miles
from land. Frantic efforts were made
TO preserve the elegant building and the
valuable furniture but no one thought
of the human beings, shut up IN
a pen and enyeloped 10 clouds of fatal
steam and carbonic acid gas, until the
fire was extinguished and the sixteen
dis6gured bodies in one room and SIX IN
another we're found by the iremen.
This terrible occurrence had a parallel
about six years ago, in our own city,
when number of lives were lost in the
same manner by fire in the Specht
block. The smoke and gas filled the
Only stairway, a narrow one, and none
escaped from the upper stories except
those who jumped from the fearful hight
to the ground. Very few modern build
ings are supplied with adequate means
Of escape in case Of fire. Houses are
built to rent, and the tenants can take
care of themselves. Even rope ladders
are not provided by landlords or their
lessees, and lives are often sacrificed
by the want of q little forethought.
Laws should be passed by the State as
well as municlpal authorities, requiring
all owners of houses more than one
story high to provide ample means of
egress as we'll as ingress. Here we read
Of many lives being lost because, doubt
less, the top floor of hotel could only
be approached or left by a single stair
case, and that was filed by the steam
and gases; and the poor victims OF
modern architecture had nothing to do.
right there in the hearing of the throb-
bling engines and the shouts of hremen,
but to lie down like dumb brutes and
perish. Such Wholesale sacrifice Of
human life is awful to think Of, and
fearful responsibility rests at somebody's
door in all such cases.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12

A letter, piquant and gossipy, written
by the wife OF an American merchant
from PetropauIovski. makes that arctic
village appear to be quite an attractive
spot. 1t is at Petropaulovski that peo-
pie can always look upon the North
Pole, or where the pole is supposed to
be. 1t is point. also, where visitors
from the Arctic Ocean are most frequent.
Petropaulovski has its luxuriantly wav-
ing grass, stately forests of rich foliage,
and, like beautiful bride, appears in
all her glory for about two months in
the year, while balls and parties, and
social courtesies are INDUCED in during
the season, when the very heart of ma
ture is frozen. Commerce is Petropau-
lovski's main dependence, but it does
some satisfactory gardening, raises TWEEN
" kinds of berries, and never suffers for
milk or tenderloin.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, December IA strike has taken
place at the North Branch Rolling Mills,
which threatens results of the most disastrous
nature. For sometime there has been good
deal Of trouble between the managers of the
establishment and a number of the men en-
ployed as heaters. These men are skilled
workmen. and received eight dollars per day
for services. The managers claim that the
heaters employed at the Bridgeport Mills turn
out one-third Of a ton more rails than those
in their employ, and the same wages are paid
at both places. The managers therefore at
tempted to make the heaters produce larger
amount Of finished work. and the trouble has
eliminated in a strike. About twenty heaters.
who were working on steel rails, quit work a
day or two ago. and on yesterday the man
ayers were forced to close several branches of
their factories. thereby throwing nearly 800
men out of employment.
The trial of the Austrian sailor Joseph Err
goviteh, for numbering William Ginnis on the
18th of last September by striking him on the
head with a pump-break, resulted yesterday
in verdict of three years imprisonment in
the penitentiary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
PROM HIaH AUTHORITY.

"Surgeon-Msjor T. Atchison, in let
tiers to the London Times, 1871, sug
gests as a means Of meeting smallpox
successfully when it is epidemic, thai
instead Of the costly, injurious and
tardy system of congregating the sick
in hospital asylums or improvised laza'
rettos in a hitherto uninfected neigh.
borhood, the simple plan resorted to in
India should be at once adopted. His
plan would be to pitch tents in'high and
airy situations, to quarantine the en-
nampment, and ON the subsistence of the
disease to disinfect or burn the camp.
DIR. Carl Both, an eminent physician OF
Boston gives it as his opinion that free
use OF salt is a certain preventive Of
smallpox.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12

Ion, the Snow" is respectfully de-
clined for the present, although 1t will
be accepted at twenty-five cents per
line, and inserted under the head Of lad
vertisement." Our business manager
has an irrepressible taste in that line,
which cannot be stiAtd when the usual
rates are enclosed with contribution,
aud he never fails to charge up origi-
nal poetry" TO the literary editor
hence we have a preference for that
which comes on the inside Of twenty
dollar bill Space is valuable, but no
charge is made for calling attention to
poetical advertisements, that the limo
cent reader may not be entrapped into
reading any Of it, except at his own
risk. A young man named Henry Faxon
wrote something about !" the beautiful
snow years ago but it was far inferior
TO the poem sent TO US by Jerrold Hos
kins, and which the above mentioned
business manager would delight to sic.
gle out and then multiply the lines by
twenty-five.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
mo,..r Ewes servant Girl.

"Can any one tell why, when Eve was
manufactured from one OF Adam cribs,
hired girl wasn't made at the same
time 10 wait on her"
Because Adam never came whining
ID Eve with ragged Stockings TO be
darned, a collar string 70 be sewed on,
or gloves to be mendei, right away.
quick, now!" Because he never read
the newspaper until the sun went down
behind the palm trees, and then, stretch
ing himself yawned out, "Aint supper
most ready, my dear2' Not hel He
made tho fire and hung over the tea
kettle himself. we'll venture, and
pulled the raddishes, peeled the ba.
nanas, and did everything else he
ought to do. He MIXED the COW,
fed the chickens, and looked after
the pigs himself He never brought
home half dozen friends to dinner,
when Eve hadn't any fresh pomegran-
ates, and the mango season was over.
He never stayed out until ii o'clock to
a g ward meetii 2, hurrahing for an out
and-out candidate, and then scoldlng
because poor. dear Eve was sitting up
and crying inside the gates. de never
played billiards nor drove fast horses,
nor choked Eve with cigar smoke. He
never loafed around corner groceries,
while solitary Eve was rocking little
Gains cradle at home. In short, he
did mt think she was specially created for
the purpose o. waiting on him, and wasn't
under the impression that it disgraeed q
man to tighten his wifes cares little.
That's the reason that Eve did not
need a hired girl, and we wish twas the
reason that none of Der fair descendants
did.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
Aztec Farmers.

A California paper gives an account
of farming among the Zuni Indians who
live in the northern part of Arizona and
claim to be descendants Of the ancient
Aztaag Is says: The Zuni Indians
are more thaR semi-rivilized. They are
essentially a pastoral people. They
till the ground. They have fields OF
corn, wheat and vegetables. They have
focks Of sheep and goats. They raise
horses horned cattle and asses. They
corral their stSek at night in high stone
enclosures. They use NJ ;heir animals
for food, but fatted ass is their fsyoSts
dish. They keep fowls. They spin
their 0Sa wool and weave it, They
have grand troiic at threshing time
The grain in sheaf Is tsGep 70 broad,
fat. rocky place, and thirty or fort
horsemen canter aud caper about on
this ttEasbing floor till the grain is well
separated. 4 ie then winnowed by rak-
ing the straw and tossiLs the chat in
the wind. After this they dose Inc a.
with a general horse race. after Inc
fashion Of our agricultural fairs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12
NEW ORLEANS.

WAsHISGToN, December 12.-The Attorney
General this morning, in reply to a dispstch
fran Acting Governor Pinchbeck. Of Lou
isiana. telegraphed the latter. assuring him he
was recognized by the President as the lawful
executive officer of the State of Louisiana.
and the body assembled at Mechanics
Institute as the lawful Legislature. and sug-
costing that Pinchbeek issue a proclamation
to that effect. The Attorney g General assures
him that all necessary assistance will be given
him and the Legislature to protect them from
disorder and violence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12

Some ofthe papers have recently con-
tanned nicely written notices Of the death
Of Lolita, the sprightly young actress,
who is so general favorite. But the
little lady, knowing that such q ru,nor
would injure future business, sends over
a cable dispatch from England denying
It. She is or taking some recreation s,
seems, and will have ga opportunity Of
reading her own obituaries at leisure.
This is a kind Of satisfaction which
many people would like to enjoy at greai
length.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-12

New ORLEANS, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Chicago and Cincinnati dailies at
Mansford's News Depot, corner of Sec
ond and Monroe streets; also, latest
weeklies and monthlies and juvenile
books for Christmas.