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murder-Lypch Law-COttOn,

ST. LOUIS, August lS.-At Grandby,
Missouri, on Friday, during the exhibit
ton of show, Ben Kilian and Joseph
Hill, two drunken roughs, assaulted
Charles Thomas, colored man, and
shot him in the throat and breast, in
hicting severe wounds. Thomas re-
turned fire without effect Several other
shots were fred, and Mr.. Schmidt, a
prominent merchant of Grandby, was
killed, and Mrs. Swell and Mrs. Gauge
we're wounded. Kilian and Hill es-
capped.
There is great excitement still at Full
ton, Missouri, over the lynching of Peter
Kesler, for horse stealing. The Sheriff
and men who we're shot by the mob were
alive at last accounts, but thsir lives
are despaired Of.
The first bale of new cotton was auc-
toned at seventy cents per pound.
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The Turf.

LoSG BRANcH, August ls.-The Gen
tlemens Jockey Club had their annual
meeting to-day on the Monmouth Park
course. Two races we're on the pro.
gramme, and three prizes were to be
run for. As only two of FIVE riders
heard the word 90 at the start on the
second race, third race became neces-
sary. As no horse ran away with his
rider, remarkable time was not recorded.
The affair afforded good deal of amuse-
nent.
UREA, n. Y, August ls.-The clot-
ing heats of both races occurred amid
rain. The 2.SO trot for $6OO0-$30O0 70
first and $500 to second-was won by
St. James; time, 2:253, 2:253, 2.30. The
2:24 race for $4,000 $500 to 6rst-was
won by Chester; time, 2;2I, 2:223,
2:26l.
SGRATOGA, August ls.-In the steeple
chase Of three miles Blind Tom won;
time. ) 49.
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suffer most seriously IL they have given
currency to reports that are false aud
libellous, and the constituents Of the
Senator have right to know Il they are
false. Personal mAlevolenoe could go
no further. and any jury would award
such damages as would be lesson to all
future Journals. The people demand
that the Senator OF their choice should
v;nd;cate himself"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-18

MILWAUKEE,, August ls.-The evening
Wisconsin Republican Of yesterday. in
abiding to the charges published against
the private character Of Senator Car
penter, says: The New York Tribune
and Chicago Times have made serious
charges against the private character Of
Senator Carpenter. The charges are
TOO grave 10 pass unnoticed. They are
uttered by journals Of simple pecuniary
responsibility, and they can be made 10
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prOtege.
The New Plan OF Hotel Rates, In.
trOaHced by the Grand Central
Hotel, New York.

The New Plan of Hotel Rates, In.
trOauced by the Grand Central
Hotel, New York.
New York Correspondence.
A trip to New York not many years
ago was considered one OF great expense
and, by the old method of travelling, one
of much inconvenience. OF late years.
however, all this has changed. The
Palace Sleeping Car" through con-
nections, and the modern palatisl hotel
have now succeeded. Rates Of travel
have long since cheapened, but redue-
ton in hotel charges has been of more
recent date.
The most important innovation in no.
tel rates began with the opening Of the
Grand Central Hotel on Broadway, New
York. The Grand Central was built
under the direct supervision OF the pro-
prietOr, Mr.. II. L. Powers, who not only
took the first step in this matter, bet
with rare foresight and business sagaci-
ty, sparing neither pains nor expense,
in the perfection Of his plans, has now
the satisfaction Of hearing his magnif-
cent house spoken Of as not only the
largest in America, bat one Of the finest
in the world.
But even the ushering in Of this grand
enterprise would have been Of less i'm
portance had the fixing Of new rates
been neglected just here was shown
the ulfimd thule Of all business enter
prises, that is, 70 give the best and most
desirable for the least money Instead
Of charging more. as would have been
reasonably expected, the prices we're
fixed at from one to two dollars less per
day than the ckc1Dcsf rooms At other
6rst-class hotels 10 Nev York An ele-
CANT room. Injurious seals a. al hours
Of the day. The use Of grad parlor ele-
vator ruuning continually iron one
floor 10 smother Are some Of the privj-
lsgss enjoyed b. the guests e. he Grsud
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summer widowers.

Prom the brooklyn Raele.
About this time look out for summer
widowers. For the past two weeks the
number has been steadily increasing,
and il will continue TO increase for the
next two 10 come. While the partners
of their lives are enjoying the cool
breezes OF Newport, Shelter Island, Ma
liant and Long Branch. or the reinvig-
Grating pleasures Of Saratoga, they.
poor fellows, are blistering their feet on
the sidewalks aud sweltering in their
places Of business IN town. And yet, TO
be frank about it, they seem TO submit
to their fate without much reluctance
Meet them at q restaurant about eight
o'clock in the morning. and one says to
another:
why, you here"
Yes, is the reply, I'm widower
just now
so am /. !"
Then they order tenderloins and boiled
eggs, and soon clear their plates with
the keenest Of apetites. To go step
further, one may say with close APP
Proclamation to the truth that they are
inclined to enjoy, to revel in this tempo
rary separation from their families.
Some, indeed, act pretty much like boys
when school is out. Not many evenings
since, several residents of the Heights
met on business at the Academy Of Mu-
sic, two Of them with their hair cropped
as close as it could be, after the fashion
which rs said to be prevalent at Grow
Hill and Sing Sing. In tonsorial phrase,
their heads had been shingled.'
Its so nice and cool, said one. al
don't know what my wife would say if
she saw it. But it will grow again be-
fore she gets back.
Ny wife's away, too, said the other,
rubbing his fingers with delight through
the short, bristly covering of his scalp.
81 cant bear long hair, as | have TO
wear it, so I've just had it clipped of
short"
The more this subject is examined,
the wider and deeper it becomes. There
is certain member of - street, -
Church, who, almost every night, has a
party of jovial friends at his house, and
there they sit till after twelve, enjoying
cigars, lager beer and poker. Not that
he cares anything about cards himself,
in fact he can't tell knave from king,
but his wife--good pious woman-would
faint at the sight of one. Hence, no
doubt, the fascination the game possesses
for him, as she is five hundred miles
away. Orce more. There is summer
widower whose wife is stopping with
some relatives on the shores Of Lake
Erie. The odor of tobacco always afflicts
her with nausea. With that fact he is
tolerably we'll acquainted by this time,
and yet there he sits, like a grim Turk,
smoking pipe in his parlors in the cool
Of every evening.
Won't the smell of that tobacco stick
to the curtains and everything else in
the room2" a caller-in remarked.
Il don't think it will, was the heart
less response "But if it does, I'll neu.
tralize it somehow. Burn tar. If that
won't do it, I'll try asafetida.' IS
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Central AT the very moderate price OF
three to four dollars per day, ACCORDING
40 location Of room. Anything better
than his. in the way Of hotel manage
msnt could hardly be desired.
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ADVERTISING.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.

IRON AND AFTER THIS DATE. WE
IN viii charge l0l ccnu per line for the frst
insertion, and ave 90 cents per line for each
subsequent Insertion Of all legal advertise
ments, except such a. may be inserted for
thirty days or longer cunsccutiFeiy. which
will be CHARGED az card rate, By TIE square,
counting eight 49, line nonrarCil, solid, % The
lcuare. The printers fees % Be paid In ad-
vance In ever instance.
q. W. ALEXANDER.
u. ~. Memphis Appeal Pub. Co.
"A. j. kELLaR.
Memphis Avalanche.
II. WHITMORE,
Public Lsirsr.
Memphis. January 81. ls73. mt
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Wednesday, December 8, 1873.

Only Sixty Thousand tickets will be sold
and one-half of these are intended fer the
European market. thus leaving only 10000 for
sale in the United States, where 100000 were
disposed Of for the Third Concert. The tickets
are divided into ten coupons or parts, and
have on their back the Scheme with full ex-
PLANTATION Of the mode Of drawing.
At this Concert. which will be the grandest
musical display ever witnessed in this coun-
try, the unprecedented sum Of
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MEDICAL.
DR.. Curtis on Manhood"
nnOa A EnnnunN

Revised and Corrected by the Author, Y. DE-
T. CURTIS. NJ. D., etc.. etc.
A MEDICAL ESSAY on the cause and cure
Of Premature Decline in Man, showing how
health Is lost and how regainod. II gives
clear synopsis Of the Impediments TO Marriage,
the treatment Of Exhausted Vitality, Nervous
and Physical Debility, and other diseases ap-
pertaining thereto. and the remedies therefor,
the fesults Of twenty years successful prac-
"'CURTIs ON MANHOOD. > There is no
member Of society By when this book will mt
ccptor or clergym. "-lLondon Times.
Price 50 cents, By mail. Address the author,
DR.. CURTIS,
t0-xviiis9 9Tremont Place, BoFton, Mass.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-18

DR.. WELcKER, Russian professor OF
political economy, has just published a
pamphlet on the present relations OF
Russia with Germany and Austro- Hun
gary, in which he advocates the sale of
Russian Poland to Prussia. " 1t is the
interest of Russia, he says, " in accord
ance with the precedents afforded by
the Ionian islands, Lauenburg and Rus
sian America, to sell Poland either to
Prussia or to the German empire. Prus-
sia has already occupied Warsaw and a
considerable part Of Poland from 1895
10 1907. She would be able to counter
act any aggressive tendencies of the
Poles in the direction Of Lithunia; her
superior civilization would by degrees
Germanize the whole of the Polish terri
tories under her rule; and all danger of
a union between Congress Poland and
Lithunia weuld then cease. Russia
would even gain if she gave up this
costly possession for nothing; but this
she can hardly do with propriety. Both
sides would profit by the bargain; Rus
STA because she wants money, and Prus'
STA because she wants fertile territory.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-18

Mr.. G. H. WHALLEY, member Of the
British Parliament, and believer that
the Tichborne claimant is the rightful
heir, has come to this country in search
of testimony, and to collect funds for
the defense Of the claimant" who is
now on trial on the charge of perjury.
Americans are heavy contributors to all
charitable objects, but what conceivable
interest any one on this side of the wa
ter can take in the claimant is beyond
the comprehension Of man. Mr.. Whal-
ley is certainly over here on a sentiment
tai mission, and will be fortunate if he
succeeds in securing testimony for his
protege.
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LIST OF GIFTS
TOTAL. l2.oso GIFTS. ALL CASH. 81 500. 90

amounting to.....-....-.-.-.---...'''
The distribution will be posi,e WIENER ~ ds AZ
the tickets are sold or not, ~ the ~
All paid 10 proportion 70 ~ y. ~ ~ pis,
s5 1sy second Concert and not represented in
the frnmfnr.
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FOUNTAINS.
FOunIainsi FOunIainsi

/ HAVE BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS OF ALL
II sorts Of fountains AZ the once Of the Water
company which can be sold AZ prices less
han any other parties can oicr. as We ds not
Elsh % make any profit.
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$I.5OO.OOO

divided into L, 900 cash gifts. will be distrbu-
ted By lot among the ticket holders-the num-
bors Of the tickets 10 be drawn from one wheel
By blind children and the gifts from another.
:
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GIFT CONCERT.
GRANDEST SCHEME EVER KNOWN
FOURTH GRAND GIFT CONCERT
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Public Library Of Kentucky.
$4,000 CASH GIFTS, sI,6OO,OOO.
Every Fifth Ticket Draws a Gift.
$25O,OOO for $50.
GRANDEST SCHEME EVER KNOW
$4,000 CASH GIFTS. $1,000. 900.
Every Fifth Ticket Draws a Gif
$e5O,oOo for $50.

HNIIE FOURTH GRAND GIFT CONCERT
J. authorized by special act Of the Legisla-
ture for the benefit Of the Public Library Of
Kentucky, will take place in Public Library
Hall at Louisville, Kentucky,
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TAXES.
Important City Tax Notice

:OFFIcE OF CRY Tax COLLECTOR,
MEMPHIS, 1ENEEssEE. July 26, 1873.
THE BOOKS FOR 1873 HAVE BEEN
u turned over 70 me for collection. We now
oder great inducement 70 PROMPT TAX PAY
EEs. They will be allowed TWO AND HALF
fEK cENI. PR MONTH DISCOUNT up 20 the let Of
January. IL paid By the lst of August the
DISCOUNT would be TWELVE AND A HALF PR
FELIX W. ROBERTSON.
lLl-li3 CITY Tar Collerfor
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EDUCATIONAL.
ST. AGNES ACAnEMY
For Young Ladies'.
EDUCATIONAL.

TCHIs INSTITUTION, CONDUCTED BY
i the Sisters Of st. Dominic, is delightfully."-
situated in healthy and retired part Of the city
of Memphis. Tennessee. The buildings are
ample and commodious, standing in the CEN
ter of extensive and highly improved grounds,
shaded by forest trees, and laid cut and set
with rare plants and shrubbery.
The course of studies comprises all the
branches. useful and ornamental. that are
usually taught.
The academic year consists CT two sessions
of Eve months each; the first commencing on
the first of September, the second on the first
Monday Of February.
Terms per Session,
Payable half yearly, in advance;
For board and tuition in any of the following
branches: Reading, Arithmetic. English
Grammar. Geography, History, Rhetoric,
Composition, Criticism, Principles of Natural
Philosophy, Chemistry and Botany. Mental
and Moral Philosophy. Plain Sewing, Mark
ing, etc.. SIS. $50, $50 and 500. according to
the age or class of the pupil.
For day scholars. tuition. SIS, $40. S25 or $50,
according 10 age or class as above.
For further information apply to or address
the MOTHER SUPERIOR"
131-l57 st. Agnes Academy.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27
Remarkable Discovery

A remarkable discovery has recently
been made by Prof. o. G. Marsh in the
upper cretaceous shale of Kansas. from
which it appears that the long expected
INK between birds and reptiles has come
20 light. The skeleton of a bird was
lrst found, which was about the size of
\ pigeon, and had the remarkable char
4cteristics of a bird-skeleton with BIZ
eoncave vertebrse, belonging to reptiles.
On subsequently removing the surround
ng shale the skull and parts of both
avs were brought to light, bearing IN
doubted reptilian peculiarities, with
Ather parts of the skeleton entirely avian
4 type. That all the parts belonged to
ne same individual is unquestionable.
nus furnishing the Darwirlians another
ROOF of their theory. It was an aouatic
'ird, carniverous, and it is the only one
bus far found exhibiting these double
haracters of bird and reptile.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27

The PoIsoNMoNGERs who advertise
compounds of Fluid Fire and pungent
alkalles as balsamic Medicines " safe
and harmless tonics," and "eeniaI in
MIGRANTS, " are worthy of being classed
with the old Barnegat wreckers who
kindled deceptive beacons, in order
to decoy mariners to inevitable death.
But time came when the lures of the
coast bandits failed, and time has
come when the vendors of Filtered AL
cohol fail to impress the reading public
with belief in their fictions.
1t is due to that conscientious and
able physician, DIR. Joseph Walker, of
California, to say that he has largely
contributed to this desirable end. by
providing the world with Tonic Cor
receive and Anti-Febrile Vegetable prep
aratlon, which acconpGshes all that is
mendaclously promised on behalf of the
alcoholic nostrums. His CALIFORNIA
VINEGAR BTTTERs, prepared from botanic
productions, now for the first time en-
ployed IN the pharmacy of civilization,
Is the leading tonic in every State and
Territory of the Union. The fact that
this wonderful elixir contains no alcohol.
no mineral, no dangerous element. is
one OF the causes of its immense popu-
iarlty; another is that as stomachic
lnv!gorant, blood-purifer, alternative.
antl-spasmodic and anti-bilious medi-
cine, 1t is as far ahead of every other
preparation as Temperance is ahead of
Drunkenness. Com.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27
a PRUpENT business man will ha q

A PRUDENT business man will be as
careful to insure his life as his goods.
insurance is absolute protection when
secured in good companies. Before
closing any contract to insure your life
examine the plans and look into the
practical workings of the old New York
Lie insurance Company. If there is an
agent OF the company in your vicinity,
invite hlm to your place of business and
he Will give you some interesting facts.
and, II not, send to the home office, $40
and 348 Broadway, New York, for
statement of the vast business done.
assets, and dividends paid.-TCom.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27
Foreign Items.
ON has 1000 lawyers.

LONDON has 1000 lawyers.
A RUSSIAN company has been organ.
lied to cultivate tea in the Caucasus.
SWEDEN exported over 5000. COO
pounds OF matches to England last year.
No LESS than twenty steamships are
now in course of construction at Glas-
gov, on the Clyde.
PROF. LIEBIG, the great German chem
lst, says he is convinced the time is com
ing when American beer will drive Ger
man beer from the market.
The London Bookseller laments the
decadence of Irish literature, and comes
to the conclusion that the best Irish in
tellects are now out of Ireland.
SPAIN puts our Western States to the
blush by adducing the case of one Sal
Vader Calero, who. at the age of $50, not
only retains good sight and muscular ac-
avlty, but Is particularly noted for the
Eoracity of his appetite.
A YOUNG girl of Perugia, Italy, found
out new way of committing suicide.
Her life had become burden to her be-
cause her parents broke off a match
which they thought had not been made
In Heaven-so she broke off the heads of
several lucifer matches and boiled them
IN cup of coffee, which she drank and
died III two hours after.
The Grand Duke Constantine of Rms
STA arrived in Paris, recently. on his wav
to Nice. He had been ordered by the
emperor not to stop in Paris, but the
tram being two hours late, he was nm
able to proceed. In order to obey his
father, he shut himself up in his apart
ment at the Grand Hotel, and only left
1t when it was time to start.
TELEGRAPHIc rates are far cbeaper in
the old world than with us, yet the I'M
thankful Europeans are not satisfied |
with the privileges which they enjoy in
this respect. The Edinburgh Chamber
OF Commerce has Just nemorialized the
Postmaster-General to reduce the exist |
ing tariff to the rate of sixpence twelve |
cents Tor twentyword messages through |
out the United Kingdom.
NJ. MARION, of Paris, has devised n
rather simple method of Photographic
printing, 1t consists in lmpregnating
paper with ferro-prussiate, which renders
1t sensitive to light. The drawing. which
Is made on tracing paper, is laid upon
the sensitive paper as a negative and ex-
posed to light, after which the sensitive
paper Is washed in water. The copy is
!, Inen found to be produced on it in white
line on blue ground, which NAV be
to black, the drawing still re-
naming white, by using a tannin solu-
lion. ''o'''-
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Total. -... ..sl72. AIS, 564.22 sl95 536 sa3 6


The appropriation for the navy above
Includes the construction of steam YES
sells Of war, and does not include in the
amount the seventy-five per centum of
longevity pay allowed by said act. In
the total of the Legislative Appropriation,
above named, the general increase of
compensation of President, Congress.
Judges, Cabinet offices, and others
amounting to about 81, 300, 0O0-amount
not yet possible to be ascertained-is
not included. LII the sundry civil bill is
included $4,000, 900 for new public
buildings, and $4,000, 900 for those in
progress. In the deficiencies is fully
s., 900, 600 which was cut out of the sun
dry civil and other bills last year for DO
htlcal effect. Gen Garfield then warned
the House that it would appear in this
shape at this time In the army bill is
81. 800, 900 for new uniforms for the
army. There is 81 500, 600 for postage
for the departments, but this comes
back again in the revenue. The total of
appropriations is really no criterion of
the expenditures, and it may be assumed
that from so, 900, 600 to so, 600. 600 an
propriated at this session will lapse bv
iaw INTO the unappropriated fund.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-03-27
The Atmosphere Of spring.

with every change of season we have change in
the hEgenic character Of the In the spring it
Is hnpregnated, especially in low-lying wet dis
trlcts, with mephitic vapors, which generate chiIs
and fever, rheumatism, indigestion, biliousness
aho diseases of the organs Of respiration 1t is,
therefore, particularly necessary at this time of
tne year. to lnvigorate and regulate the system SO
as to enable it to repel the mo7b bid influences to
which 1t is more or less subjected The stomach
should be toned, the bowels freed from obstruc-
ttons, the blood purified, and the nerves braced
and strengthened. This be easily done. Hos
tetter's stomach Bitters everywhere procura-
PEE ana IN the whole range of remedies and pre-
fehtives prescribed by the faculty or recommend
90 through the press, there is not one that COM
Diies' III SUCH an eminent degree great efficiency
anu perfect harnlessness. 1t is positive antidote
70 malaria Whoever takes it habituaIly nav
breathe the atmosphere Of the worst fever and
Ae"e loeality without danger Damp and chilling
"inos make little or no impression on the organ
lzaon reinforced with this powerful vegetable in
slgorant, and consequently it is good safeguard
against asthma, coughs, colds and other pulmoua-
~ complaints. 1t is not recommended as a ren,edv
Tor TINS latter class Of maladies but simply as
means OF Strengthening the system against the
aerial conditions and changes which go often pro-
ouce them AS a spring invigorant and Alternative
{ wiz be found extremely beneficial to persons
who are peculiarly sensitive to unhealthy atnos
pheric influences.
C@-rrn~ D.