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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15

TIME.HoSoEED Fort McHenry is un-
dergoing change. Modern improve
ments in artillery needs corresponding
improvements in the construction OF
Notifications, as the old methods Of de-
fence would be practically useless
a gainst the monsterprojectiles OF to-day.
With this view, work is now in progress
to place Fort McHenry in defenslble
condition by the construction Of new
earthern works. A parapet on the water
front, twenty-thrse feet high around
m can tide, is being raised, and when
completed will be nearly 1000 feet long
The interior arrangements Of the fort
will also be changed, and it is believed
several years will be required TO com
pIete the contemplated improvement.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15

When the Shah was in Paris he Wis
tied the Geological Gardens, and was so
well pleased with what he saw and the
attention he received, that he took a
note Of the names Of several Of the
professors, intending 10 send them some
thing by way Of compliment. Soon
after his heather majesty left Paris a
batch Of orders Of the Sun and Lion
arrived, but then il was discovered that
a very awkward bluHdsr bad occurred.
The Shah had mixed up the names Of
the professors with those Of some 81 the
extinct animals, so that not only we're
the men Of scieRcs decorated, but also
the megartherium. dinoiheFiEn and
other monsters Of the prehistoric sga.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15
ADVERTISING.
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insertion. and Eve 60 cents per line for each
rubssquent insertion Of all legal advertise
nett. except such az may be inserted for
thirty days or lonCc- consecutively, which
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square. The printers tees 20 be paid m ad-
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15

Fresh oysters received daily at Ma
dame yncents Crystal Palace. Served
in every style, and in cans to families. lGt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15

dams at the Uintah reservation is not
considered encouraging by the writer
who has given this history OF the agency
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15
TX entu ols v Agency.
Country Knit soch.

Five hundred dozen just received and
for sale, Mt louisville prices, to the trade.
A. Il FRASHLASD.
lG Nos. 1876 and 1917 Main street
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15

Martin Cohen, the halter has removed
TO his new store, No. 223 Main street.
under the Worsham Honse All the
latest styles of hats and caps for men
and boys always on hand, and received
direct from manufactures. ID
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15

Boy yoaf vood from C. n. johnson.
~ Poplar s,resi, near foursh. lo2i
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15
NOW Is THE TINE TO BUY

Country Merchants, Schools and Seminaries
will please send in their orders. az I can an
them at LESS ihau New York prices, for cash,
OF seed city acceptance az thirty, sixty or
ninety days.
aB- Planes Tuned and Repaired By compe-
tent Workmen. r. A. BENSON.
st 81 Main street. Memphis. Tenn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15

BUTLER-Ats 81 o clock last night Sunday,
18th Instant, MARIA l.. BUTLER. wife Of Geo.
d. Butler, aged twenty-tbree years.
Funeral from the residence on Jefferson
street, at 2 o'clock this Monday afternoon.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-15
INSURANCE.
Which is the Best Investment
A Game for n Day 4;
A Game forLife:

Thirty cents day for man at the age Of
twenty-five years. invested in the Globe Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company Of New York /.
will guarantee his family $500; at the age Of
thirty years, $500.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21

market for the especial stocks he has been
watering by rushing in to buy whenever there
were symptoms of serious decline In this
way they have been compelled to 'carry'
enormous quantities of N. Y. Central, Lake
Shore, Union Pacific and Western Union,
hypothecating their certificates by millions as
collateral securities for call loans. Every one
of these stocks has been inflated to a fictitious
value by the managers and represents in capital
great deal more than it is intrinsically worth.
The Central and Lake Shore have contrived
to pay dividends. but this has been
done by such extortions upon the
producing and consuming classes in the
way of freight that general revolt is now
in process of organization, and the entire
West-the great political power of the land by
reason of its geographical position and limit
less resources-is girding on its loins to wage
battle against such glaring and rapacous
monopoly. They will storm Congress if need
be to lend its aid to create rival route by which
they can reach the seaboard without having
their substance literally consumed in the cost
of transportation. In view of such contest
between the giants of production and monopo-
ly, prudent men will be likely to hesitate about
investing in shares the future of which is in
volved in uncertainty to say the least. The
nominal prices of the day are between So and
90 for the Central and 65 and 20 for the Lake
Shore, but it is extremely questionable whether
these are not largely attributable to transac-
tions within the pool At any rate it is not
probable that the outside public will buy into
these roads at anything approximating to these
figures The feeling is nearly if not quite uni
versal that Commodore Vanderbilt has lost his
overshadowing influence as a stock operator,
and that his satellites are permanently Grip
pied 1 do not hear any lamentations over the
deposition of the Railway King Whatever
other consequences of the late revulsion may
be deplored, this is quite unanimously regarded
as favorable one for the masses
Until the liquidation of The affairs of suspend
ed and insolvent firms has assumed definite
shapes and the relation Of debtor and creditor are
readjusted, we shall have season of quiet and
torpidity. But as business flows into new and
more healthful channels, confidence will be
steadily increasing, and the energies of the
American people will be found equal to the
happy solution of all our financial difficulties
A great deal of property will change hands
and will count less in dollars by the transposi-
tion, but nothing has been lost. The country
never was so rich as it is at this moment All
that was destroyed ip the war has been since
regained, and the surplus of this years crop
will fully offset the prodgious havoc occa-
stoned by the burning of Chicago and Boston.
The situation is in all respects SO hopeful and
auspicious that the future may be contemplated
with unclouded cheerfulness.
4 YARMOUTH
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
The Springfield Republican says public

The Springfield Republican says public
sentiment has been strongly in favor Of Miss
Mink since her arrest, but what shall we say
OF community in which shameless amour
like that from which this. murder, arose can
DE carried on for seven years,in offensive pup
lefty without eliciting any indications OF pub
lie disapprobalion?
The members Of the evangelical alliance in
Washington the other day gave three cheers
for the whole world. This was well, very
well indeed; but if we had been consulted in
the premises we should have insisted uoon
two Oh three exceptions IN advance, to be fol-
lowed by formal vote. and the great Ameri-
can privilege, finally, ofmaking it unanimous.
1t is always well to get at these things regular
ly and in order.-Rochester Democrat.
This is an ''off year," and Ohio indicates
the prospect in New York, provided, always,
that the Democrats appreciate their opportu-
nifty. And yet, if they recover the State, in
an election on a short vote, going by default,
their victory like all these other incidental
successes, will, for Presidential purposes, sig
nifty nothing. Next year, in the elections for
new Congress, the reserves on both sides
will be drawn into the battle. and the results
will have an important bearing upon the con-
test for the Presidential succession. This
year, we repeat, whether Democratic or Re
publican, the party Qualifications over our
local Elections, beyond their local results, are
mere ''sound and fury, signifying nothing
N. Y. Herald.
The Commercial Advertiser, in view of the
Ohio election, thinks the Democracy veri-
table Ant@us. deriving fresh strength from
every fall upon the bosom of its native earth.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
The Headless Skeleton.
Further Discoveries Looking 10 an Ideu-
tifca tion-staternent of Lowell.

A broken ear ring, faded ribbon and some
bits of lace, found near the skeleton above
Barkers Mills. have been identified as part of
the attire of Mrs. Lowell The remains were
found about so feet from rough carriage road.
Dr. Jennings thinks from their position they
have not been disturbed since DEATH
Lowell was brought to Lewiston Saturday
and by some mistake was placed in the cell
where the bones of the missing woman were
deposited, He stated to the Journal reporter
who interviewed him, that he had freouept
trouble with his wife on account of her had
temper and her unfaithfulness, After a time
he ceased to live with her and went to visit her
frequently. The night before the disappear
ance he accompanied her to the circus, where
she amused herself by carrying on a Irritation
with one of the performers. On the afternoon
of the disappearance he took her to ride They
were gone about three hours and returned at
o'clock in the evening. He left her near her
boarding house, and has never seen nor heard
from her since. He says his sister saw her in
Norway some time after. After leaving his
wife he went to ride with another woman and
then drove home to his fathers, about three
miles out of the city.
{ A great crowd assembled at the depot to
greet Lowell on his arrival. When he caught
sight of the multitude he calculated
s'Guess all the mills have shut down" saws
Lowell, and adds, "What are they making ali
this id fuss about"
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21

THE very peculiar attitude of the Boston
snd Maine Railroad toward the city is the
subject of general and lively comment among
our citizens. The railroad company has ask
ed the city to discontinue High street. Pend
ing the decision OF this question the compa-
ny was permitted to maResits cut through the
street in the regular prosecution of its extern
sion. Now, instead of building fine, hewn
granite wall on the upper side of the cut, as
it has at all the other streets crossed by its
line, it is building wall of common stone, in
evident confidence that the city will thus be
forced to permanently discontinue the street.
There is degree of cool effrontery in this
proceeding which will excite the indigna-
ton of the average citizen. Whatever his
former views on 'discontinuance" may have
been, he is not likely to relish the spectacle
of the city deliberately bulled by railroad.
When the company has effected this unwar-
rantable seizure of public property it may
learn that the city has rights and has sufi-
Gent self respect to enforce them against such
an assumption of supreme power over the
public property. Which is master, the public
or the railroads? afas
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
The BANKRUPT Law.

The interest manifested by the public in the
pending Grinnell bankruptcy case shows the
deep concern felt in the practical application
of the bankrupt law. intimately related as If is
with the everyday affairs of busy men. 1t will
be remembered that application was made by
a creditor of the firm of Grinnell & Co., bro
kers of this city, to force them into bankrupt
cy, and injunctions were issued restraining par
ties holding colaterals from that firm from dis
posing OF them, App ications were made by
several such parties to have the injunction set
aside. Judge Blatchford decided to do SO in
one case, and although the public will doubtless
approve the decision in this case, the necessity
for clearer clause in the law on this and other
points suggests a general overhaulng of the
bankrupt act by Congress this winter The
need for such law will not be questioned now,
but there do exist the strongest possible reasons
why its practical application should be so mod
flied that all the assets of the bankrupt shall
not be, as at present is almost uniformly the
case, eaten up by lot of law officers created
and supported by the bankrupt act. In nine
cases out of ten, among our merchants, when
ever notice of bankruptcy is received, it is
put down at once as total loss They never
expect to receive a cent and in this one in
stance at least in life their expectations are
realized. If there were no lawyers nor courts,
half dozen good, cOInmon-sense business men
could frame law that would answer every
purpose, settling up bankrupt's affairs in one
tenth part of the time it now takes, and divid-
ing at least ninety per cent. of the realized
assets among the creditors. But there are both
lawyers and courts, and as they must all be
supported we need not calculate on any such
halcyon days. AT any rate we may demand
some simplifcation, and every business man,
we know, will approve it.-Thc american Gro
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
sINCETHE INTRODUCTION OF
Is. Pc Il II " VIS, z
p A I N X I L L e RI

And after thirty years trial. the pain. KILLER
may justly be styled the great medicine OF the world
for there is region of the globe into which Il has
not found its way, and none where it has not be
largely and hi ghy priced. Moreover there is no
mate to has not proved be well adapted
for the cure OF considerable variety of Diseases it is
admirably suited Tor every 1t has lost none of
its good name by repeated trials but continues to
occupy prominent position in every medicine chest
and is still receiving the most unqualified Testimonials
to its virtues, from persons Of the highest character
and responsibility Physicians of the first resnect-
ability recommend it is most effectual nrenora
ton for the extinction of pain 1t is NOT only the
best remedy ever known for Bruises, Cuts Burns. SC
but for Dysentery or Cholera, or any sort of howell
complantt is remedy unsurpassed for efficiency and
rapdity ofacton In the great cities of India and other
hot climates. it has become the Standard Medicine
for ali such complaints, well as for Dyspepsia
Liver Complaints and other kindred disorders. For
Coughs and Colds, Canker Asthma aud Rheumatic
difficulties it has been proved by the most abundant
and convincing testimony to be an Invaluable medic
cine No article ever attained such unbounded pom
ularity. As an external and internal me dicine the
Pain-Killer stands unrivalled.
Thirty Years are certainly long enough time to
prove the efficiency of any medicine and that the
PAIN-KILLEkis deserving of all its proprjetors
claim Tor II. " amply proved by the Unparalleled
popularity ~ mas attained 1t is SURE ami EFFEC
the world, and is becoming more and more popular
every year. Its healing properties have been fully
tested, all over the world and it need only to be
known to be priced Be sure you buy none, but the
genuine manufactured by PERRY DAVIS s. Son,
Providence, X. L. =
Va Sold by all Druggist. se3Osneod 1m&w
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
P0IitieaJ N0tac

The Tribune makes the majority of Allen,
DEM, in Ohio, 1923. Not heavy shower.
Col. Green, of the Boston Post. has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats,
that he may be beaten by Mayor Pierce.
Horatio Seymour has been nominated for
the New York Assembly by the Democrats
of the first district Of Oneida County.
In the thirteen counties of Ohio which have
been officially reported, the Democrats vote
this year is 5076 less than last No great ere
action in that.
Missouri papers say that Ex-Governor
Gratz Brown has announced openly that be
intends running as a candidate for the Leeis
lature from Iron County, at the next election
His objective point is understood to be the
united states Senate, as successor to Carl
Schurz.
The Chicago Post thinks that the rldicu-
lousy light vote of the October elections
should be accepted for exactly what it is-s
silent, but emphatic protest against the abb
surd system ofannual elections, which leaves
the people no breathing time between the
continually recurring exeitements of politics.
The Conservatives of Virginia, alias Demo-
Gratis, are forming 'Kempes Kampaign Hubs"
These initials, K. K. K. are strongly sugges-
live of another political organization once in
sympathy with, and defended by the Demo
cratic party. 10 &
Among the matters influencing the selec-
tlon OF candidates for the Massachusetts, Leg
stature, is the Hoosac Tunnel tits expect
cd that this work will be completed before the
term of the next Legislature will expire. and
u VIII therefore, become necessary for that
Dooy 10 lake some definite action as to how
and In what manner the tunnel shall be used
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21

IT takes nearly three columns of the New
York Times, including plot of the premises,
to show just how DR.. J. G. Aver, lannon's fol
patent medicines, popularized by plentiful yet
cheap advertising, obtained return of "a pei
cent. on some stores in New York City,
which this enterprsing gentleman leased to
Uncle Sam. Bad Tom Murphy, when collec.
tor of the port, would not renew the lease,
and now the treasury officials have found
cheaper and better accommodations elsewhere,
whereat, ahat independent journal, the Iri-
bane, of which DR.. Aver is stockholder, has
gone nearly ma whenever it has thought OF
the niggardIy officials who have interfered
with the very thrifty business the Great Dis
penser of Cherry Pectoral has been doing in
real estate.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21

COMMANDER BELKNAP, of the Pacific
Exploring Expedition, has forwarded dis
patch to Washington in which he announces
the discovery of a Pacific plateau similar to
the celebrated submarine telegraphic plateau
between Ireland and Newfoundland. The
bed from the Aleutian Islands to Victoria
was found to be very favorable, increasing
gradually in depth to $3.50 fathoms in lati-
tude 81 north and longitude 1853 west, dis
lance of LOO miles. This intelligence set
ties the problem of the feasibility of a Pacific
telegraph, aud will probably result in its
early undertaking. The demand has long
existed, and is now proved as practicable as
it is imperative. The distance from the
Aetians to the Asiatic Islands, is but five
hundred miles. If further researches confirm
the promise of'the exploring expedition tel
egraphic communication be, ween New York
and Pekin may be considered assured.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21

THE Chicago Inter Ocean holds Up as a
fair illustration of so-called reform and peo-
pies movements, the action of clique TN
that city acting under that guise who at re-
cent meeting to prepare ticket, voted to ex-
pei newspaper reporters, as matters would be
discussed that should not be known to the
general public! Nevertheless a ticket die
tated by hafdozen leaders in this way is
STYLED PEOPLES movement.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21

ALL have read of the narrowing accounts
OF the ravages of the yellow fever at Mem
phis; yet clearer and more startling idea of
the extent Of the ravages OF this fearful dis
ease may be gathered from the despatch pub
lished elsewhere, which states that in eleven
weeks 1900 persons have died Of the disease,
and this in population of 0,226, as indica-
ted by the census of 1870.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
Troops Of Ailments Vanquishcd.

On account of the prompIness with which it checks
the fevers generated by unhealthy exhalation Hos
letters Bitters is considered indispensable fami
ly medicine on the boruers of our Southern and
Western rivers, and in new settlements where the
the plough the for the first time disturb
ing the solitudes of nature Its reputation however,
is not confined to such localities. Wherever the
elements of disease rife it is the surest safeguard
of heatn wherever sickness prevails it is efcacous
as remedy. Among the serious diseases which it is
guaranteed to conto are indigestion, biliousness,
and all the minor ailments connected with derange-
ments of the stomach the liver and the bowels such
as heartburn headache, fatulence, costiveness,
sea, distaste Tor food languor and debility, palpita
zion OF the heart trembling of the hqds noises in the
ears disordered vision, disturbed Sleep and mental
inquietude. As these physical and mental disturb
ances tend to general failure of all the powers of
the rsstcIr, tses eheal Is edas they
.i.~oss may he, by course of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21

WE had begun 20 hope better things from
Mexico. There had been no revolution for
nearly three months, and meaptime the GEN.
tial government has adopted new constitu-
ton and announced principles that commend
the country to the respect of its sister Repub-
lies. But the latest news leads us to believe
that the malcontents have only been enervat-
ed by the hot season and now that the cooi
weather returns have resumed their sole
home industry of manufacturing revolutions.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. s1, 1873.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with card certificate countersigned by Stanley I.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hote
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of person claiming to represent our
Journal, as we have information that several .sbum
mers" are seeking courtesies in the name of the
Press, and we have no disposition to be, even pas
lively. party to such fraud
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoGG1N COUNTY.

The Continental Mill in Lewiston. 80 Ooo
spindles is nearly completed and is expected tn
go into operation in a few weeks. There are
few as large factories in the country. The An.
droscoggn is the next largest mill in lewiston
having $4,000 spindles. The Barker Mill q
new factory on the Auburn side, of some 90
600 spindles, is receiving its machinery and
will soou be in operation.
The Portland daily press., 1873-10-21
THE Dominion people are fully awake to the
importance of securing for the st. Lawrence

importance of securing for the st. Lawrence
the great and growing trade of
Board OF Trade at its quarterly meet
ing had the subjec: under consideration
and as the result, recommends the Govern
ment to increase the capacity of the locks of
the Welland and other canals. This matter
is of no little Importance to Portland, since
the completion of the Portland and Ogdens-
burg Railroad will divert still larger part
this traffic at all seasons of the year to this
port as an outlet, as is now the case in the
winter by the Grand Trunk.