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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

Coal oil is explosive
That is we'll known;
Mammoth oil is not explosive,
As will at any time DO shown
lbs ~. by A. HITzFELp & Soy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

D,oR SALE-A HOUSE AND LOT ON
n he southeast corner of DeSoto and Web
sster treets, containing six rooms, with els
~ AZ :. -emises, Oft
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
TILE CITY.

PIrrsBUEa and Camel coal and gas
coke. Brown & Jones, Office 2S2 Main
street, Bethel Block 7
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

NOR ga TE-A T-H0RSE POWER PORTA-
4 BE eng the and boiler, in good working
order, now n inning the presses IN TINS once
VII W solu cn TT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

News DEpor,-R. J. Walker, the Beal
street newsman, has received that cele-
brated London illustrated magazine en-
titled Bow-Bells, published by ]. Dicks,
OF London. Mr.. Walker has the latest
daily papers, weekly pictorials and mag
azines.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

The following table shows the sales kere and
riees at tho principal markets one year ago
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

SHIPPrSG TAGS printed just at New
York prices at the PUBLrC LEDGER
office. 43f
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Punrs. l6 JeITer.on slreat gsf
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

FoR solid gold jewOlry go to the set
Palace. GOT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

8 A. HIrzrnLD 3 Sos, Memphis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

JoHy S. SULnvAS,
Clerk Steamer Belle Lee.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21

welded LIFE ONLY THE BEGNNrNEo.
According to the love.idyl OF the pc
riod,n writes T. B. Aldrich, "when Laura
and Charles Henry, after unheard.oi OBJ
stacles, are finally united, all cares and
tribulations and responsibilities slip from
their sleek backs like Christians burden.
The idea Is pretty one, theoretically, but
like some Of those models in the Patent
Office at Washington, II doesn't work.
Charles Henry does not go on sitting at
Laura's feet andreading Timothy Titcomb
10 her forever; the rent Of the cottage by
the sea falls due with prosaic regularity;
there are bakers and butchers and babies
and tax collectors and doctors, and under
takers, and sometimes gentlemen Of the
Jury to be attended to. Welded lie Is
not one long amatory poem, with recur-
rent rhymes Of love and dove, and kiss
and bliss. Yet when the average senti-
mental novelist has supplied his hero and
heroine with their bridal outfit and at
tended to that little matter OF the marri-
age certificate, he usually turns of the gas
puts up his shutters, and saunters of with
bis h6ndsin his pockets, as II his days
business were over. But we, who are
honest dealers In real life and disdain 10
give short weight, know better. The
business Is by no means over-it is Just
begun. Il Is not Christian throwing of
his pack of. good and all, but Christian Ia
king up load heavier and more difficult
than and he has carried"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21
MISCELLANEOUS DISPATCHES.

HOMER, La, Oct. 2O.-Returns show an
average crop In this Parish. The Fair at
this place takes place on the Goth.
Z New ORLEANS, Oct. 20.-The Secre-
tary Of the Chamber Of Commerce has
gone TO Chicago 10 represent the Chamber
at the meeting Of the National Board Of
Trade ''t - .''' 80 VA IT,. I.
NASHVILLE, Oct 20-The Grand En-.
campment Of Odd Fellows met here TO-
day. There was very full attendance.
Tho Grand Lodge |. o. o. T. will Assem-.
BILE In this city on Wednesday morning. q
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20.-A dispatch
from Edinburg announces the death last
night Of DR. Candlish, the great Scotch
preacher.
LONDON, Oct. 20.--The steamers Adri-
attic, City Of Brussels, City Of Antwerp,
and Holsatia, from New York, and Poly
nesian from Quebec, have arrived.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-Two collection
districts ol Rhode Island have been con-.
solidated. Also, the I'd md 4th Of Con-
necticut. a- %
BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. 2O.-First snow
storm oi the season to-day, rEE
Augustus Trip, convicted Of arson In
the second degree, was sentenced to-day
to 8 years and 0 months hard labor In the
Auburn State prison. ~
SALT LAKE, Oct. 20.-The greatSt
mile race today, on the half mile track,
was won by the California horse Granger,
In 80 minutes and ~ seconds, the best
time on half mile track In America.
Ho was driven BY George Lefty. n ''
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21

Miss ANNA DICKINSON gave her new
lecture, "For Your Sake" in New York
last week. The Herald says she wore q
trimmed drab satin, and her
person was adorned by a pair Of pretty
dlamoned earrings, q charming ornament
OF the throat, and alarge topaz, and on her
wrists were largo and heavy bracelets.
The general object Of her lecture was an
advisory one, that all persons In this
world should do whatever they had to do
in an earnest and energetic manner and
without caring what other people said
about them. Some people could not walk
or talk naturally in room because other
people were looking at them, and women
were in the habit Of clothing themselves
in purple and fine linnen while their hus.
bands were being bankrupted, just to
please other people, who would say:
aWhat fool that woman Is F." and "Who
pays for III" Miss Dickinson described
her travels In the Rocky Mountains, and
told how she had assembled one OF the
peaks to see the sun rise, q feat which had
been performed before by Humboldt and
Jim Ferguson, OF White Pine. There
was not n thelecture any alluaion to any
public topic or current sensation.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21
10 Nredill,s Echo 70 the Panic.

The Ex.Mayor of Chicago, "honest 10
Medill," now in Europe, writes letter to
his paper, the Chicago Tribune, telling
howthe news Of the panic impressed him
when he heardit. Hesays: -'s5
2"When first heard OF the collapse OF
Jay Cooke had just commenced a long
letter 10 the Tribune about Ireland; but
! could not go on with It. I took in the
situation at a glance, and saw thatit was
the premonitOry symptom Of. the big
earthquake and tidal waves toiollow. !
have seen and known, for a, year or more,
that things were rotten financially, as
well as politically and morally, in Ameri.
CO; and that we were approaching repe.
tion of the experience OF 1857, and would
soon shoot Niagara, as Carlyle would call
1t. But the hurricane came q year or two
sooner than I anticipated. It will do
good, and is needed to purify the moral
atmosphere. Bankruptcy and hard times
will promote piety and honesty"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21

yANpERBILr.-How true 1t Is that IN
this world there is nothing successful
but success" But yesterday WANDER
bits name stood against all Wall street.
Now, when It is supposed that he has lost
immense sums Of money in the panic
some say twenty millions-we arc treated
to disquisitions on his character that we
probably should not have heard for some
time, il ever.
The Tribune gives Its opinion that the
losses Of the obstinate old man. have
been "nearly or quito twenty millions"
but we presume this is meant to include
the shrinkage on stocks yet in his posses
sion. The Times says that the great
Commodore, who stood at the head ol
stock operators, and controlled an enor.
nous capital, is now in q most perlloas
and awkward position; but "whether he
weather the storm or not, he has lost all
prestige and influence. and his vast ap.
parent wealth has melted like snow be-.
lore the sun."
To the above also tho Times adds tho
following severe language:
"Those who remember Mr.. Vanderbilts
operations with his steamers to the 18th
mus know that he Is utterly indifferent to
public faith and private contracts. He
would leave his Credulous friends, as he
would his most bitter enemies, 10 utter
ruin, II he could thereby escape himself.
He Is simply bold, able unscrupulous,
and selfish stock speculator and adven-
turer, and over his ruin, when 1t comes,
there will be few tears"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21
FNIR e g..

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT TOPEKA, Ks. q q
B, TOPEKA, Ks, Oct. 20.--The most de.
atructiye fire that ever visited Topeka oc-
CURED last night. The Commonwealth
bloch, occupied gbys the Commonwealth
newspaper, Kansas Epangel, Kansas
Monitor printing establishments, G. M.
Cronesibook bindery, Warmers hardware
store and Dr. Tiff. Total loss estimated
at 800, 900; insured for about 800, 1000. ~
FIGURING MILL AND BREWERY BURNED.
i MADISON, Wa, Oct, ,2O.--E EARLY yester.
day morning the large, Touring mill OF
Robins & Thornton, together with Rod
erman's brewery adjoining, including
cooper shop, stables and other small
buildings, were destroyed totally by fire,
which caughtin the mill, from what cause
Is unknown. 'Wm Plaunekerche q mill,
er, was lying drunk in the second story
Of the mill and. was burned to death.
Loss on mill and contents about $40 1000.
Loss on brewery $85, 900; insurance $S7,-
600. The mill was one Of the best In
the State and had been recently put in
thorough order. : sa,.....-h raF
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Something for tbe Boy,s 10 Road.

The Lexington (Va.,) Gazette tells the
following: Governor Letcher, the other
day, related a very interesting incident OF
the war while In Kemper's room at the
hotel. BE said that, in one Of the battles
below Richmond, four flag bearers had
been shot down, and a call was made Tor
. volunteer to carry the colors. A strip.
ling took the torn standard. In few
minutes the staff was snapped by shot.
The boy sat down, unloosed o shoe string
and tied 1t. He started in,iront again.
Another bullet spIintered the staff. 1t
was then fastened by the other shoe string.
He had hardly shook the folds out sec
ond time when down fell the flag, struck
by ball, The shoe strings had given
out. He unbottoned his jacket, ripped his
shirt to ribbons, and wrapped the broken
rod, and carried the tattered ensign
through the fight. Governor Letcher
said: when they brought me the boy,
with the shattered staff patched up with
shoe strings and shirt tail, made him an
officer and gave him the best sword Vir.
ginia had" The gallant fellow was from
Monroe county, West Virginia. he was
killed in battle,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21
Trial Of Edward s. Stokes.

NEW YORK, October 20-The trial OF
3. 8. Stokes was resumed this morning.
The defence introduced testimoney 10
show that the prisoner intended going to
Providence atthe time,he was passing the
hotel on the opposite side oi the street,
when he was saluted by lady from the
window, and entered the hotel TO speak
TO her. Fisk o few minutes alter.
wards. John Moore testified that when
he heard shots fired he went to the door
OF the front entrance and saw Fisk
wounded, who said Stokes was too quick
for him, this time. e. ,-,zz.g4s
Polk Logan, o court officer at the first
trial oi:Stokes testified to the converse.
tions he had with Hart and the Redword
Hotel servants, and the witnesses for pros.
ecution while conveying them from the
court room 10 the house Of Detention. He
said they informed him they expected q
$1,000 each for their trouble, and Red
mond told him they were furnished copies
OF their testimony 10 commit to memory.
Hart and Redmond, the witness said call.
ed In number Of liquor saloons on the
way from the court room 10 tho house OF
Detention.
The story told by Polk Logan in the
Stokes trial to-day took every one by
surprise. Logan speaks in the richest
West OF Ireland accent, and is Of o deter
mined aspect. The District Attorneys
efforts 10 shake him entirely failed. He
admits concealing the story for q year; his
reason for not telling was that he did not
wantt to be made witness, but he expect
ed the jury to disagree and as last resort
II Stokes was in danger Of being hanged,
he would 60 10 Albany and tell the Gov.
ernor all. Alter this, the District Attor.
ney brought out that Logan was dis.
charged from the police, on the charge oi
not doing his duty at the 4th Of July riots.
He explained that he saved from club
bing by the brutal policeman, an old man
waiting for admission to the dispensary,
and that officer accused him OF interier-
ing. Logan swears he saved the old mans
life, and that there Is no other charge
against him.
Alter testimony by Vanderbilt, Horace
CLARK, J. ii. Ramsey and other railroad
men as TO Fisk's character, taken on the
former trials, was read the court adjourned.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21
YELLOW FEVER.
THE scouRaE ABAr1Na AT MEMPHIS.

THE scoURaR ABATINa AT MEMPHI3.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 20.-To.dsy the streets
were crowded with vehicles, the side
walks thronged with pedestrians, and
| there was more activity In business thar
there has been for Q month past. The
disease Is rapidly yielding 10 the cold
weather. At noon the mortuary report
was 20 yellow fever deaths, and 6 from
other causes; total 20.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 20.-A ReagInG
special reports five deaths in Columbus,
Texas, from the yellow fever since Sun
day morning. -. Et 10. q
There was one death from the fever al
Bryan, Hon. William n. Berwell, Of the
Republican.
A FIGHT BETWEEN DocToRs-FRosT YES
TERDAY MoBNIN0-LACK OF WINTER
CLOTHING.
MRMpHrs, Oct, 2G.-A difficulty occur.
red between Dr.. L. P. Blackburn, Of
Louisville, and Dr.. ]. M. Ryan, Of Chica.
60, the former claiming that the latter in.
terfered with his patients. Words passed
between them and Blackburn admins.
tered severe Gaming to Ryan.
A heavy frost this morning and the
prospect Of q heavier one tomorrow
morilg had favorable effect on the fe-
yer, but II Is fearful on the thousands not
clothed for the witer and made destitute
by the succession Of calamites the past
year. A msjorityoi the societies and re.
lief boards are unable to supply the ap.
plications for assistance. ~ -
Propositions havo been received TO
be decided to take some Of the orphans,
but great many more are yet to be pro-
vided for. :; 70
John Walsh, undertaken and alderman
from the first ward died TO day, he was
sick only forty.eight hours.
MEMPHIS, Oct 20.-Mortuary report to.
day-Yellow fever, 2S; other causes, Z;
total, 80. ~ HihieA-hi
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21

I. THE BEST ScHooLs.-From two COL
umn article in the Liberal Christian, made
up Of eHintsto Parents About Schools" ,"
we extract the following: Large schools
are, as q rule, better than small ones
They are better furnished, more syste-
matte, ,lesssubject to whims and caprices
more governed by the best established
educational principles and processes
The great thing about first rate college
10 that there no respect needs to be paid
to the ignorant preiudices OF private pat
rons, to local requirements, or individual
whims. A great college has lie expert.
ence,, and traditional and cumulative wis
dom Of Its own. 1t has It's own ideas OF
education, and It carries them out with
out consulting patrons or pupils. Small
colleges must seek patrons, and accom-
modate themselves 10 the whims OF par
ents and then 10 the whims OF pupils. 1t
is Sery much so with great and small
schools. Great schools are independent,
above dictation, discourage interference,
beat down private caprices, compel all to
submit TO their drill. This Is a great ad-
vantage. But parents are prone to think
that the more sprcial the attention given
to their own child the better the chIlda
chances. Thlsis natural mistake, but a
serious one. II every soldier in COM
pany; were drilled by himself he would
not learn The soldiers business half as
well as when drilled 10 company. It Is
the compulsion oi the common movement
that carries each boy or girl in class for
ward. Children's faculties are often
bllghted by too direct attention. Indirect
pressure upon them as parties In q COM
mon movement Is much the healthiest and
most effective method. A school where
individual pupils need or require much di.
rect attention Is not q good school,"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21
A Miscellaneous Massacre OF the In
nocent and GuiltY. ~

CINCINNATI, Oct. 20.-A Gazette special
from Bedford, Lawrence county, Indiana,
says that Thomas Christopher, q black
smith living near that place, who had lost
one leg, entertained q neighbor named
John Morrow last night, who had put up
with him for the night. Having suspected
arrandue intimacy between this man and
his wife for some time, he watched close.
ly last night, and entering his wiie's bed
room about ten o'clock, he verified his
suspicious. In a fit OF frenzy, armed
with q knife, he first stabbed his
three children, then bis wife and
turning on John Morrow, dealt him
two gashes in the lace. Morrow then
threw him down, took the knife from him,
and plunged It In his body ten or eleven
times, killing him instantly. Mrs. Chris
topher was stabbed in the abdomen, and
her bowels protrude from the wound. Il
Is thought she and one child will die. All
the parties bore good name and were
respected. s. .a
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21
WASHINGTON.

| WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-The Supreme
Court Of the United States to-day affirmed
the decision OF the lower Court inthe ap.
peal Of the New York Central railroad
from the decision Of the Circuit Court ofthe
southern district oil New York, awarding
damages to q droyer named Lockwood,
who received injuries while riding on q
drover's pass. The Court directs the pay.
ment OF interest until paid, Of the usual
rates in such cases In New York, sustaining
the rulings below, that contract made by
deiendant and pass issued TO him were no
impeachment In the way Of recovering II
he was not guilty oil neglect of the ordin-
arY care and prudence which contributed
10 his injury, and that there was no such
negligence on his part In leaving the Car,
and proceeding TO look after his cattle In o
manner stated, as would debar recovery.
Bradley delivered the opinion, Davidson
rs. the United States. Error from Cir.
cult Court for Indiana, affirmed on the
authority of Dare rs. the United States,
No. 90 Of last term. No opinion. a. =
Daniel E. Wilson was appointed Gau.
ger for the Third District Of Missouri. =.
To-day In the Bankruptcy Court amor
der for publication TO absent defendants
was made In the case Of Jay Cooke g. Co.,
on the petition Tor involuntary bankruptcy
Q II. W. Atkinson and T. g. Williams,
Commissioners appointed TO negotiate
for the removal OF the Kickapoos, Potta.
wattamies and other rowing bands Of In.
dians, from the frontier OF Mexico backto
their reservations in the U. s., submitted
their report to the Secretary Of the Interior,
today. It's information has been antici4
pated by the newspapers. except as To-
the fact that the appropriation made Tor
this service, has been found insufficient,
and the Secretary Is urged to request an
other to complete the work. In conclu-
sion, the Commissioners express the
opinion that what they have oil:
ready accomplished has added very
largely to the wealth Of the country, and
in enhancing the value Of vast and splen.
did grazing and agricultural lands Of
western Texas, which heretofore were
Stunned by the settlers and emf.
grants on account OF the presence of
these Indians on the Mexican border.
Moreover, the remaining Indians take
away the pretext hitherto used by the
Mexican cattle thieves and marauders
No further raids into Texas can be charg.
ed directly to the lawless frontier citizens
OF Mexico.
The action Of Admiral Almy In protec.
ting the Panama Railroad during the re.
cent revolutionary disturbances Is com.
mended In the official circles.
Assent to his government having been
Sir Edward Thornton has con.
sented to serve as umpire for the United
States and Mexican Claim Commission,
and has signed the requisite declaration
In the office.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21

We have had an oldisshioned rain fall
within the last 4s hours, and no doubt
will have good sized river by to-mor'
row, even II we have little or no freight
to ship on It. The storm seems 10 have
been general In the east and somewhat
destructive. Hereabouts the principal
damage will be to delay the fall work oi
the farmers, such as getting IN the corn
crop. The panic having preceded the
storm the bulk OF the damage to Others
was already effected.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-21

TIE WHEELING AND LAKE ERIE R, r.
"A letterput in our possession by DR..
McGarvan, this morning from gentle
man in Carrollton, Ohio, states that the
Wheeling and Lake Erie R. R.is now q
settled success, meeting with new friends
every day. From Wheeling for nearly
one hundred miles the road passes
through the fine coal beds In the country,
the strata OF fifty miles Of which lies high
enough 10 run directly into the cars. Tho
road also passes through valuable regions
oil iron ore, and the whole line Of the road
is along fertile agricultural districts. The
completion Of this route will develope
quite a mine OF mineral and agricultural
wealth.-Sttubenpilb Nttrs, 17th.l
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The Future OF the Republican Party
with the Next Congress.

"As@- 49,
We are glad to find the. views we have
been expressing in the INTEIL1aENoRR
since the Ohio election In regard TO the
rationale Of our defeat in that State CON
firmed by the views Of Gen. BoYSToN, the
well known Washington correspondent
Of the Cincinnati Gazette. he has let
ter in yesterdays Gaseth in which he
alludes to the opinions expressed al Wash
ington over the news. We quote from
his letter as follows: - 2
There are at present few politicians her Q,
but there are some oil much sagaclty, and
they seem to agree that the people have
spoken to the Republican party In 0 voice
| that must be needed II the party expects
TO succeed again In o national campaign.
| Il IL looked upon as an indication that the
people are becoming tired OF excusing
faults in administration, and faults in leg
islstion, and still voting with the party,
wear by year 10 save the country from the
Opposition, on the ground that the inter
ests of the country are safer In the hands
OF the party that saved 1t In the days Of
rebellion, no matter how glaring the faults
Of that party may be, than they could be
In the keeping Of the Democracy. The
returns are held to indicate by many poll.
ticians here that the days OF this worn or.
eument are numbered, and the Repub-
lican party must henceforth be able to
show better claims for continuing to exist.
All here seem to. agree that the lie OF
the party depends upon the course OF the
next Congress, and that ifIt attends to
the lesson Of these fall elections 1t can
make itself strong with the people, and
increase the power with which It has
been 80 long intrusted.
There Is much to hope from the cir.
cumstances Of It's organization. Many
new men will take their seats. Their
second election, and so their continuance
in political life, depends upon their course
at the coming session. From It's first day
to lis close, they will be watched as no
members Of Congress lhave been watch.
ed for years. OF the old members re.
elected, and so necessarily the leaders of
the body, there are number who desire
to reinstate themselves, who In their
hearts are pure men, and true men, and
men of unquestioned ability. And these
Influences will all aid In making the rec.
ord Of the next Congress what 1t should