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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-05
NOW IL THE TIME TO BUY

Country Merchants, Schools and seminaries
will please send in their orders, as can tll
or good city acceptance at thirty. sixty or
ninety days.
pB- Pianos Tuned and Repaired by compe-
tent workmen. +. A. BENSON,
est 2l7 Main street. Memphis: Tenn:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-05
RAILROADS.
.OUISVILLE AND NASHtIL
Great Southern Railroad.
aCIIEDUIE.

freight and Accommodation Train
leaves daily, Sundays excepted...... 6:l nm
dail Train leaves sdaily..........:..;,,.. p m
Nashville Express Train leaves daily :lt r.m
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es- No change Of cars by this line for 10 iis-
lille, st. Louis or Nashville. Pullman Palsce
.Ieeping- cars on all night trains.
For Tickets or information apply at
Ticket Office, 2S7 Maiu, cor. Madison.
JOHN t. FLYNN, sup't Memphis Div,
JAMES SPEED. Ticket Agent. ?i-t
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FAMILY CASES.

Case rSforocco) with above SO large viais "a and od
Case Morocco of 20 large vials and Book, sC "
These Ter,s Es%SaifS RSa to SIS any I part OK the
Country, free of charge, ON receipt "A
Address
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-05

MO PAPER IN MEMPHIS is A BETTER
IN advertising medium than the Western
which Memphis is the commercial center a
very large circulation. This can be known
and read Of all who may become interested.
Judicious advertising will pay. Our Office is
H91S Main street, up stairs, in same building
with Boyle d Chapman.
sat W RLEw 4 co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-05

Depot at head Of Main street
f, Ticket Ticket once. 2H Main street. corner Of
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NERYOUs DEBILITY.

And by II. @. Steever i Co., Second st., corner
W. Vigus, 1S7 Poplar ST.. Memphis. Tenn.
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MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE R.R.
Arrives. Leaves.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.

IESPHIs AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
AfriYeg. LeAYea.
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.Jepot at foot Of Main street. !.
c.sket ONCE. 2a Main street. corner OF
NJ. BURKE. Gent sup't.
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!HumRnnr%syyss,p yysspsePsie sessiSi'MSS 'MSSedIcIne &c

res,a and Depot, No. 562 BROADWAY, s-s5w SoAA-
OA-oS For sale by all Druggists.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
QUARANTINE AGAINST YELLOW
FEVER.

Quarantine is an important matter;
and we commend the following re-
marks on the subject, copied from the
Selma Times of Nov. 4:
1--WE are confident that everyone will adj
init that the three distinguished gentlemen
who went from New Orleans to Shreveport,
while the epidemic was at its most fearful
death-rate, were heroes, and are entitled to
the thanks of humanity everywhere. That
they, Doctors Choppin-fOrmerly Beaure-
CARDS Medical DirectOr-Bruns and David
son, stand at the head of their profession in
the South, is fact that is too well known
TO demand proof at our hands. Those gen
tlemen have made a report to the Howard
Association of New Orleans, showing that
the yellow fever, which proved so deStruc-
tive and fatalat Shreveport, was carried from
New Orleans i'll a steamboat, or in goods
shipped from there. A letter from a diStin-
guished physician of Mobile, to a member
OfOu Board of Health, states the fact that
the first case in Mobile this season was de-
veloped in person just from Shreveport,
and that the majority Of the other cases
originating there were among those who
had been exposed as nurses and attendants
upon the original case. The science of the
quarantine We do not propose to discuss,
but the fact is palpable to all, that We have
had no yellow fever, and we have had a
quarantine. The people understood that
kind of logic, whether scientists and the0-
retical physicians endorse it or not. In
behalf of nineteen-twentieths of our people,
we thank the Board Of Health. Common
Council, and acting Mayor Silsby for their
prompness and efficiency in enforcing the
quarantine regulations
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
CALIFORNIA WINE AND BRANDY

There will, il is estimated, he produced
this year over 100000 gallons of wine, of
the value of s., 100000; 100000 pounds
of grapes for table use, with $250,000
pounds of raisins. The acreage under cul-
tivation of the vine is estimated at less
than 10000 acres, and it is further esti-
mated that 100000 of acres is especially
adapted to the cultivation of the vine; so
that could we estimate the value of this
crop as it might be developed, and as in
some not distant future it probably will be,
the value of the wine production would
reach fabulous figure.
aside from the production of wines and
raisins, there is large amount OF brandy
to be produced; at present there is an I'M
wise discrimination against the manufac-
ture of this article. Our delegation in
Congress could not do wiser thing nor
better employ their time than by giving
their especial attention to the matter. The
vine ought to be to our State a source of
great wealth; and as California is really
the only vine-growing portion of our eoun-
try, it is a matter of National Importance
The present system of taxation is unjust
and oppressive. In fact, there ought no
to be any tax or burden placed upon this.
new and yet undeveloped industry. If it
is in accordance with our government to
have a revenue system that shall give pro-
lection to American industry, if the manu-
factories ofNew England, the coal and iron
of Pennsylvania and the sugar of Louisiana
demand tariff laws to encourage and slim
late them, why is it not proper to encourage
and stimulate the vine-grOwing and brandy
making interests of California by giving
them absolute exemption from taxation?-
San Francisco Chronicle.
If it is wise to encourage the prOduc-
ton of wine and brandy in California,
it can hardly be unwise to foster the
manufacture of whisky and alcohol,
at least for expectation. in Tennessee
There is a large foreign demand for al
cohol, and we have surplus of corn
that ought to be exported in that form;
nsing all still slop for the production
of meat and fertilizers. 1t is far bet
ter to export alcohol than burn corn
for fuel. Our tariff and internal rev.
enue system needs revising, and cur
tailment. Instead of some regard for
freedom of labor, trade and commerce,
every mans hands are tied lest he will
do something in the way of farming or
manufacturing, which Radicalism dis
likes.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
WOMEN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.

One of the effects of the existing
money stringency is the discharge of
large numbers of women from various
employments in New York. The
World. of that city, after referring to
the increase in the number of applica-
tions at the various institutions for the
relief of destitute women, adds:
Already the number of women who
walk the streets by night is perceptibly
larger, and police officers declare that
while on their beats they continually
see new faces which they can tell be-
long to no hardened women of the
town.
One of this description appealed to q
gentleman recently, who recognized in
her former maid of his wife's, and
she told him that she had been for more
than twenty four hours without food,
and only was induced to take such a
step by the hope of getting food for her
starving brother and sister at home.
Similar instances are occurring night
". and their number will increase in
fearful ratio as the winter comes on.
The results of retrenchment do not
reach seamstresses and the other class
referred to merely, but women in all
phases of employment. Families that
had two chambermaids are getting on
with one, and those that had only one
send away the nurse aud give the cham
bermaid the care of the children.
Shop girls are being dismissed from
the stores in large numbers. The ac-
tivity and quickness of woman is to her
disadvantage in these cases. While it
is difficult to make eight men do the
work of ten, half dozen shop girls
when pressed, do the work of almost
twice that number, and the shopkeep-
ers are well posted enough to be aware
of that feminine faculty. They dis
miss the supernumerary half-dozen.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
NLET THEM STARVE A WHILE"

A correspondent of the NelU York
Times, Radical, writing from Philadel-
phia under date Of the Sd inst, details
an interview with the Radical Mayor of
that industrial beehive, who ought to
have the interest Of the workingmen
most at heart, as they constitute about
three-fOurths of his constituents. We
will let the correspondent tell his own
story:
Thinking that it would be interesting to
ascertain the views of the Chief Magistrate
upon the subject OF vital Importance, Of
what steps Were proposed to be taken by the
city authorities looking toward the relief of
the thousands of operatives and work peO-
pie so suddenly thrown out of employ, |
paid visit to his Honor this morning,
when in reply to my inquiry as to whether
the corporation proposed to take any action
having in view the relief of the distress
likely tOexist, that gentleman informed me
that lac did not see what could be done
He did not see that there were any more
people out Of employment now than is us
ual at this time of the year, and asked me to
an extraordinary dismissal of hands had
taken place. Immediately named three
or four firms who had already discharged
among them about three thousand people
His Honor the Mayor then yentured the re-
mark that he thought if these people had
not saved enough money to carry them
through the winter they ought TO be
made TO stare for rble and thus be
brought to their senses. ] then pointed out
to him that their present condition was not
brought about 10y any ordinary operation,
but that they had in other years received
work week in and week ont throughout
the wear, and in many instances had de-
pended on this constant employment for
their support and that Of their families,
which were in many instances SO large as
to prevent them from putting by any sums
of money. SO much the lCOrSe for them,
said the Mayor, such people do not deserve
help, and if they are allowed to suffer, they
will learn a lesson for the future.
Such is the Radical sympathy with
the workingmen, as recorded by a
Radical chronicler, in town wholly
under Radical control, and where the
great bulk of the voters are working
men. If. in the next election, this
heartless and corrupt Radical ring
rule is not overthrown in Philadelphia,
the workingmen need blame nobody
but themselves.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
SCIENCE IN SCOTLAND.

We find in a late number of the
North British Mail an interesting re-
port of the proceedings of the Glasgow
Society of Field Naturalists, from which
the following is copied:
Specimens of the leaves of the prickly
comfrey (Symphytm asperrimum) were
exhibited, and it was stated that a gentle
man in the neighborhood of the city was
making an experiment of cultivating it as a
forage plant. 1t is easily cultivated, yields
a large crop, atfording three cuttings during
one season, and remains some years in the
soil; cattle eat it with avidity, and it i'm
parts no disagreeable flavor to their milk.
Mr.. w. ID. Benson gave an account of
long series of interesting experiments he
had made during the summer months with
infuSionS of different vegetable substances,
in order to make observations on the devel-
Opment of infusOria. The infulsiOns were
kept in test tubes, some Theoretically sealed,
others open, some kept in the dark, others
in different degrees Of light. Life began
to appear in the open tubes exposed to the
light in thirty-six to forty hours, the devel-
Opment of life was slower, and not so
abundant in those tubes kept in the dark,
and in those Theoretically sealed no signs of
life were seen till after six or seven days.
The first forms of life that began to appear
were bacteria and vibrioneS, then little
later paramecia were seen. In making
some of his experiments in a room where
some water containingrotifers was standing,
he found rOtifers in great abundance in all
his open tubes, but none in the closed
tubes, so that it seemed that the
germs of the rOtiferS had access to the
open tubes through the air. Tubes with
the same infuSiOns placed in the same cir
cumStances, were found to contain quite
different forms of life. He also described
the sun animalcul@ (ActinOphrys soD, and
its manner Of feeding; having had an oppor-
tmity of seeing it taking It's food. The
particles that serve for its food acme in con-
tact with the long tentacles, and seem to
adhere to them, and are gradually drawn
towards its body and pressed into it, where
they are digested. From the conversion
that followed Mr.. BensOn's account Of his
experiments, it seemed to be the general
opinion of the members that that the eX-
periments did not favor the idea of sponta-
neous generation"
The passage of the rotifers or their
germs from one vessel of water to an
other in the same room is suggestive
fact, as is also the appearance of vibri-
ones in an infusion sealed Theoretically,
after six or seven days. An infusion"
is simply the remainsof organized mat
ter and life-being food for life in an
other form. Mans daily food comes
from substances the product of plant
and animallife; and in turn is devoured
by both vegetable and animal parasites,
some of which are seen only by the aid
of good microscopes,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08

THE augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
mentions the sale on the lst inst, of
seventeen shares of Langley Factory
stock, at $ll0 per share, and truly says:
''This is encouraging for Southern man.
ufactories in the face of the unfavorable
accounts from Northern cotton facto-
ries." 1t would be great advantage
to the cotton growing States if much
larger portion of their staple was man.
ufactured at home. This would create
a market for all grain, vegetables, fruits,
meat, and all other provisions, and give
both land and labor the full benefit of
our admirable climate. The sunny
South ought to be distinguished for its
extensive factories; land and its pro-
ducts are cheap, winters mild, and the
country generally very healthy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
REAL ESTATE AGENCIES.

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THE scarcity of animal food in Lon
don has led to the adoption of one
rather curious means of increasing the
supply. A number of rabbit establish
ments have been started in different
parts of London, and are said to be
paying very well. At these places rab-
bits are being bred in large numbers,
and if they increase at their present
rate they will make an appreciate ad-
dition to the food of London. Where
rabbits are tame and quiet, they give a
good return IN meat for the food con-
sumed. Their powers of reproduction
are something remarkable; and at the
present price of corn in this city it
might be changed into the edible flesh
of rabbits at a profit. While they like
green food best, they will eat cured
heritage like sheep and goats.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
surkEGsNG rAsoRlERs.

- = -. j. - -
The distress among the working
classes at the North and East is already
great. One-fourth of the working peo-
pie of Newark, New Jersey, are said by
the Neac York Herald to be idle. Three
thousandx seamstresses 4are ,Dut OF. ein-
ployment there. In Philadelphia thir-
ty-two thousand workmen, it is esti-
mated, have been discharged. ssAll the
iron works in the country are cultail-
ing their number of laborers; nearly all
the cotton and WOODEN mills are doing
the same. The railroads are using the
smallest force with which they
can operate. cannot be less
than one hundred thousand
persons out of employment at the
North and East now. since the panic
commenced. From one end of the
country to the other our seeming pros
perity has suffered sudden and disas-
trous collapse sudden willing. This
may not be felt long by the richer
classes, but to the poor it means Lack
of work, money and daily bread-a
foreboding present and hard winter
to face Many of those thrown
out of employment, are already suffer
ing. In New York the applications
for relief, especially from women and
young girls, have rapidly increased.
We notice that various proprietors OF
the New England cotton mills have met
at Fall River, and agreed to run on
half time after the 4th inst. That, at
least, is better than turning the OPP
eratives adrift. 1t will reduce the
wages of the men, women and children
very materially. The pay is not high
at the best of times, but it will enable
them to get through the winter, if no
worse befalls them. That is the spirit
in which the crisis should be met.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
PRIZE LIST,

tVOVO S45O,OOO
The title TO the above real estate is guaranteed
perfect.
The liberal terms of the scheme brings it with
in the reach of all-the greatest opportunity
ever offered for the poor man to rise to wealth.
PRICE OF TICKETS.
Single Tickets, $3.50; Eleven Tickets, $500;
FiXty-six Tickets, S125y00; One Hundred and
Fifty-six Tickets, $4,000.
The drawing will be made under the superin-
tendence of committee appointed by the high
est officials in the State, duly sworn to the faith
full performance of the duties assigned them.
The highest officials both of City, County and
State have not only endorsed Mr.. Abeles, but
also his scheme -s.- ' TT.
The demand for tickets is unparalleled, nd
all desiring to participate in the drawing shot, d
at once form their clubs and send in their orders.
Agents Wanted in all States, Cities and Towns
in the United States and Canadas.
~ Money should be sent by Registered Let
ter, P. o. Order or Express, with the full adj
dress of the purchaser in plain writing
For further information and particulars, send
for circulars to the Manager and Proprietor,
and address
SIMON ABELES,
LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08

MR. CREssWELL's scheme for
postofice banks does not please the
Cleveland Leader, Republican organ
in Ohio. That journal shares the pop
ular opinion that the Postoffice Depart
ment has more on its hands now than
it shows a capacity to manage well, and
in very disloyal spirit says: .
'There are hundred ways in which Mr..
Cresswell could expend his surplus time
10 better advantage than in devising new
schemes to increase his already too burden
some duties, and we fear he will be re-
minded this winter, when he asks TO run
the telegaphs and savings banks, that he
had better look after the mails first"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08

PROF. SILLMAN has recently called
attention to the probable occurrence of
small diamonds in the sands let in the
sluices of hydraulic washings in Cali
fornia. A microscopic examination of
a sample of these sands from Cherokee,
in Butte county, revealed the existence
of numerous crystals of hyacinth or
zircon, associated with crystals of
topaz, fragments of quartz, black
grains of chremite and titanic iron ore,
and few small masses of a highly re-
fracting substance, which from its phys
ical and chemical characters is believed
to be true diamond. ..-..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08

Now that the elections are over,
Treasurer Spinner makes the following
report for the edifcation of taxpayers:
Diminution in receipts from customs,
S28, 280,764; diminution in receipts from
Internal Revenue, Sl6,912,863, while
the expenditures are largely in excess
of those of the previous year.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
THE Neav York Tribune tells the fol

THE Nelv York Tribune tells the fol-
lowing: .
"One of the things you read of recently
occurred in Wilmington, Del. A man was
detected huiTying away from a butchers
stall with a steak which he had stolen, I'M
der his coat. A policeman followed him to
his home, and peeping through the window
saw him give the steak to his children,
who devoured it raw. Upon report of this
being made to the butcher, his bosom so
glowed with benevolent sympathy, that i'll
stead of prosecuting, he sent the starving
family large basket Of meat and little
cash to buy wood to cook it."
That butchers heart is in the right
place. If there were more such men IN
the world, it would be all the better for
If
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
A CARD.

T r. & C. II. FREEMAN & co. HAVING
L A. sold their stock of Pier and Mantle Looking
Glasses, Portrait and Picture Frames, Gilt
Moulding, Window Shades, etc, to Freeman &
Orchard, and their Wall Paper Stock to G. III.
Freeman, who will respectively continue the
business, take pleasure in recommending them
to the public, while returning my own and the
thanks of L. X. & C. H Freeman & Co. to those
who have so literally patronized the house in
the past W. FREEMAN.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08

EIGHT of the Massachusetts, cities
gave Democratic majorities on the 4th
inst, Even Worcester which has been
known all over the country as the hot
bed of Republicanism, was carried for
CASTOR. This result is charged, not to
the unpopularity of the Grant admins
tration, but to absenteeism.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08

MANY of our eastern and western
exchanges come to us with displayed
advertisements of immense stocks of
goods marked down..to bottom prices,
ETC. Most lines of goods seem-.to be
offering at prices 20 to IS per cent.
lower than those of thirty or sixty days
ago.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
NEW FIRM.

r r. FREEMAN AND JNO. W. ORCHARD
IL. have formed eOpartnership under the firm
name of Freeman & Orchard, and will continue
the manufacture of Pier and Mantle Mirrors,
Picture and Portrait Frames, MOuldings, etc,
at the old stand of L. r. & G. H. Freeman &
Co., No. Is North College street, where they
will be pleased to see their old friends and the
public generally.
FREEMAN & ORCHARD.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
SLATE ROOFERS.
MEDICAL.
A Stitch i'm Time Saves Nine

no NOT NEGLECT A COUGH BECAUSE
IL it troubles you but little now. Now is the
very time it is easiest removed, and none would
suffer if they knew how easily they can be cured
by the timely use of DUCoNGE's PICTORIAL
BALsAMIC SYRUP. Sufferers from all ailments
of the Breast, Lungs and Throat, viii find that
by using the Pectoral Balsamic Syrup they are
using the best expectOrant, which removes all
phlegm, sOOthes all irritation, and radically
cures. For sale by r. II. PAGE, Druggist, 100
North College street, Nashville, Tenn.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-08
Clubbing Rates.

To clubs Of fue or more subscribers zoe
11iH send oar MAMMOTH WEEKLY
for one gear, each, $50.
Any one getting up club Of tSoelUe.
$50 each, shall hare one copy gratis.
10 clubs of tloeaty or more subscribers
ace 1viH send our Mammoth Weekly for
one gear, each $3.50, and one copy Cratic
to the getter up Of the el'tb.
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UNION AND AMERICAN.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1873.

THE sea serpent has turned up again,
this tine in San Diego Bay, Cal. He
was thirty feet i'm length, shaped
like snake, with three sets OF fms, a
tail like an cells, and head like an al
ligator @&W