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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18

ore on the watch, gladdened awhile by a
sail that appears for a little while. and
then floats out OF sight, below the horizon.
They might be out Of the world, for all
they know of its concerns, its losses and
gains, its battles and its victories, the
changes that each day brings forth.
There are other light houses situated on
the coast, but so remote that they are
never visited; and others that are sur
rounded by the civilization OF fishing
village, and on summer days are crowd
ed by fashionable people from the neigh
boring watering-places But for the
most part, except in the approaches to
hourishing ports they are built out on
the farthest margin Of the land, on far
reaching capes and peninsulas or iron
bound head lands, on detached rocks
and sandy shoals. The light-ships are
still worse off, anchored as they are in
stormy waters, and forever rolling,
plunging, leaping in perpetual unrest,
clipped of their wings, while other yes
sells are passing and repassing, shorten
ing sail as they enter port and spreading
the canvas as they start out anew.
The light-ships are manned by men
alone, but in the lighthouses the keep
ers are allowed to have their wives, and
children are born unto them and brought
up with the sea and the sea birds and
the distant ships for companions Many
a pretty story or poem has been woven
about children living in this fashion.
They learn the secrets and wonders of
the sea, and feel glad when it sings
softly on the calm days and sad when
its bosom is ruffled and white in the
storms. Their little heads are full Of
strange iancies about Nature, and | do
not believe they could understand or en-
Joy the life that you and lead at home.
Somehow / cannot think of them as rea
children. They seem more like water
spirits that have their home in the blue
depths among other delicate plants that
blossom there. But they have lessons
to learn from school books, and great
many things to do in their father house
hold. Their life, with all it's romance,
is not one of idleness, you may be sure.
". II. Rideing, in S. Nicholas for
October.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18
KAiLR0AD TikE TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND LOUItV LILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18

A controversy has been raging in Eng
land for two or three weeks and occupy
ing a large share Of public attention,
over the question whether q Wesleyan
minister is entitled to prefix T" Rev. to
his name. A Wesleyan minister named
Keet put up a headstone in the parish
churchyard al his daughters grave, on
which be described her IS the daughter
Of the REV. d. Keet, Wesleyan Minis
ter" To the Rev" the vicar objected,
addressing himself 10 the stone cutter,
and refusing 70 bold any communication
whatever si..hh As. Kset k,=sslf where
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18
LirInrin . liEht.Hou.e.

Lighthouses are strange and lonely
homes for men to live in. Some Of them
are perched out on the ocean. with the
land scarcely in sight. and the restless
ses forever beating aud moaning around
them. The keepers OF these do not see
other human faces than thsir own for q
uarier Of q year. Night and day they
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18

A new horticultural garden has been
opened at st. Petersburg under impe'
rial patronage. 1t is fifteen acres in ex
tent, and is to be devoted principally to
illustrate how native plants may be COM
biued for tasteful and pretty decorations
One large portion is to be devoted to
conifers, in order that there may be,
wen 10 winter, green promenades.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18
DirecfOrs;

JAMES D. PORTER. JR.. Gov. of Tennessee,
LOUIS HANAUER. of Schoolheld. Hanauer
4 Co.
+. NJ. WHITE. Of z. NJ. White 4 Co.
NJ. G. PEARCE. Of Pearce, Suggs Il Co.
x. URQUHART. of e. Urquhart & Co.
7. B. HAYNES. Of T. B. Haynes x Co.
HENRY WETTER. Of II. Victor & Co.
Insures at Board rates. Private dwellings
especially desired; policies issued for three
years for two annual premiums. At
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-18
MARBLE WORKS.
MONUMENTAL
MARBLE WORKS.

ITALIAN. AMERICAN AND TALADEGA
l. marble at very low prices, as follows;
Headstones 2 feet, with socket and foot
STONE. -s.,S o w
70 astono. lettered.'..... IL tsr.' win ~o. II 90
Headstone, 3 feet, with socket and foot -
stone, lettered 10 W
And all other sizes in proportion. Italian
and American marble box tombs. 9aneled all
round. and full siz', $3.50 Also Italian mar
BILE spire monument, 7 feot nigh and lettered,
500 These rates are lower than marble was
ever Did at in Memphis before. Designs sent
to the country free of charge. Elmwood curb
ing at reduced rates.
b7-S2 THOS MAYDWELL. 3s Union at.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
Suicide of Prominent Citizen
TO BE CONTINUED. I

Last evening, while Mr.. +. l.. Delesderner
was standing on the wharf of the JAG kson
street Ferry Landing, he observed man
sitting out on the floating stage, with his
hat and coat oft. A few moments after, the
man arose, and going to the edge of the
stage, deliberately dropped himself into the
river.
Mr.. Dtlesdrrnier Immediately gave the
,.larm, and with a crowd of citizens ran to
the edge of the stage, but nothing was to
be seen Of the unfortunate man, the body
having sunk Immediately. His hat and
coat were found lying where he had been
sitting previous to his fatal step, and from
papers found in the pocket it proves to be
Capt. john III. Bowen, of the firm of Halves
Il Bowen, and an ex member of the Legsla-
t,ire of 1870 and 1871.
Mr.. Bowen leaves not Only large family
to mourn his loss, but an extensive circle OF
acquaintance and friends, who will deeply
regret this unfortunate end of so worthy a
gentlemen. The cause of Mr. BOwen's TAX
ing his own life is not as yet known, but
deep must have been his sorrow to have
driven him to this extreme step.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
The Grand Jury Moving.
True Bills for r sbbery and Larceny, and
False Imprisonment and Assault and
Battery, Found Against Don Car.
los Pie, Spanish Consul. Gen.
Badger, and Specials Pier.
son and Harris.

No greater outrages have been recently
committed by the police than the kidnap-
ping of Mr.. Heyman and the kidnapping
and robbery of Rodriguez, the ex-Spanish
Paymaster, who was charged, by telegraph
from Cuba, of embezzling $4,000 from the
Spanish Government. In both of these
cases the outrageous conduct of the police
was SO palpable that the journals of the
North and West joined the New Orleans
press IN denouncing it.
What was especially aggravating in the
Rodriguez case was the fact that our police
should have been made instruments to sub
serve the interests of the Spanish butchers
and tyrants, whose pleasure it is to insult
Americans, to massacre them upon any pre-
tense, and to render Cuba too hot a place
for any man to live who dares ventilate his
love for America and freedom.
The Grand Jury, after the adjournment
Of Judge Abell's court and the converting of
the Superior Criminal Court, yesterday,
presented number of indictments for rob
berry and larceny, and false Imprisonment
and assault and battery, being'two separate
and distinct counts.
AS is customary, no names were read by
the clerk when the return was made, but
as the bond was fixed at $4,000 in the first
case, and $500 for the false imprisonment and
assault and battery, it was pretty generally
understood by those who We're present in
court at the time that the parties indicted
were Don Carlos Pie, the Spanish Consul,
General Badger, Superintendent of Metro
politan Police, and Special Officers Pierson
and Harris, the parties implicated in the
Rodriguez case
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13

And now it appears that lion buried
Livingstone in Westminster Abbey. Some
years ago a sprightly lion sprang upon the
doctor and broke his arm, which, from the
absence of skilful surgery, to the day of his
death remained unlimited. On examination of
the body by Sir NJ. Ferguson, the face was
wholly unrecognizable, and, indeed, the only
part of the remains which could be ident-
fed was the arm with the fractured bones
So, if the distinguished howadgi had not
had the good fortune to be bushwhacked
and slightly smashed up by lion, the
chances are that the members of the Royal
Geographical Society would have hesitated
about having taken his remains in and do
ing for them as they did See how small
a thing can turn the key of fate to open the
door of Westminster Abbey.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
BUSINESS PROSPECTS.

| The New York Bulletin, discussing the
business prospect, says that we enter May
with an improving prospect. That is true,
although the turn for the better is neither
so substantial nor SO general as could be
desired; but, compared with the situation
earlier in the season, we think it may
safely be said that the signs of recovery
from the disastrous experiences of last a,l-
tumn, measured by the months as they go
by, are increasing on almost every side.
True, the spring trade, generally speaking,
has been so far aught but success in any
branch of trade; but of the spring four
weeks still remain, and within that period,
and well into the summer, we may reasOna-
bly, look for increasing activity.
The disturbing influences of congressional
uncertainty, with regard to the finances, is
not altogether removed but as the settled
policy of the Government seems to be defin-
itely fixed, these influences are being grad
ually elimted from the calculations of the
business future. Money is plenty and cheap.
The towns in the interior are unqueston-
ably depleted Of goods, and making due al
lowance for the numerous adverse circum-
stances under which many portions of the
country are still contending, as the inherit
ance of last years financial trouble these
two conditions warrant the expectation, that
by the time we reach the anniversary Of the
September panic, most of our leading COM
mercial and industrial interests will be well
on their feet again.
The recovery in majority of the manu-
featuring and mechanical branches would
be speedier and surer, but for the interpoSi-
ton oI arbitrary arrangements for the regu-
lation of wages aud hours of labor. That
interposition, however, it seems to us, must
soon wear itself out by the operation of
laws which 10 combination of men can long
resist. There are. even now, the most con-
vincing evidences that the end is near. A
serious draw back is the wholesale destruc-
ton Of sugar, rice and cotton plantations
by the overflow of the Mississippi and its
tributary streams. Louisiana. Mississippi
and Alabama even before this new mis-
fortune came upon them, were not in
a very strong position, and their
credit now is such as must appeal anow to
the foTbearance of their Northern creditors.
The generous promptitude with which our
merchants are responding to the call for the
relief of the submerged districts is, too
most encouraging. On the whole, therefore,
the prospect ahead, if not all that we could
wish it to be, is far from discouraging
Contemplated, from almost any point Of
view, tie country is III many respects
stronger, sounder, healthier than it was on
the LIST of May, a twelve-months ago, though
on the then dclusive surface of things, the
prospect may have presented fairer face
than it does at present
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13

as professional black mailing enterprise
nor do care to consider that question.
only wish to say that both in its statements
| and Its lnslnuatiOns as regards myself it is
utterly false; and that in my opinion the
writer knew this when he fabricated it.
| might here make reference to several
cases in which this unclean sheet has re-
Gently given circulation to untruths and ex-
aggerations which could have no cause but
an inherent taste for mendaeity and others
wherein the bid for bOOd-mOney was equal
ly conspicuous. l imagine, however, that
these things have made themselves visible
already, and that the public needs no sug
gestion from me. The style of patriotism
affected by the BULLETIN is not original, and
though in these days of closely watched pay
rolls it may have changed its objects and Its
manner Of attaining them, i scarcely think the
identity of character open to much doubt.
BQt with all this have no special concern.
Ny purpose is to say that the BULLETIN has
printed lies concerning me, and that no
black mail from my pocket has swollen its
Golfers in consequence.
The glbness with which the Chief of
Police INDUCES in insinuations of black
mailing and blood money indicates fami-
arity liz that line Of business greater than
we ever suspected. But the admission, on
his part, that no black mail from his pocket
had ever swollen our Golfers is liable to the
construction that he had attempted to buy
off the BULLETIN but had ing,oriously failed
There are others Of his party who have
attempted that "little game but finding
it could not work, they propose now to
threaten, intimidate and sue for libel, thus
hoping to end the disclosures that we are
making of frald corruption and disgraceful
conduct of the Republicans officials i'll
power.
The chief cOnservatOr of the peace, whose
duty it is to guard and protect the lives ard
citizens of the place, leaves his post and
steps forward as the champion of less re-
doubtable officials. This officer, however,
forgets the peculiar position he occupies
and which we fully appreciate, and when
we suggest the advantage he enjoys Off :
cially he will recognize the proprety on
our part of treating him with that contempt
this card SO richly deserves.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
Our AsSiSne g.

a friend. 1t stands as marked contrast
with those sent out from our Assignee's
office:
YAzoo CITY, Miss May 8, 1874
Dear Sir-We have resolved to declare dividend
in the matter of Harrison Mclean, ill bankruptcy,
. n the 10Th day of May, 1874
The meeting for that purpose will be held at ick
son. Miss a, the office of A. Mc(ihee Register. and
the amount pro rata due on your claim wi then be
paid, subject 20 your order.
Not knowing the exact amount OF costs and ex-
penses we unable until that day to give the
amount you vii be entitled to, supposed to be in the
neightorhood of forty per ce t.
The remaining assets of the estate amount in round
numbers to $40 O0O in open accoun and notes. to be
closed up during the CROP but to what per cent
age they will amount it is impossible to estimate at
present INGRAHAM JENNINGS, Truste. e.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
The Pets Still at It in Spite
of Kellogg's Letter.
[CONTINUED.1

Between the hours of 2 and o'clock
last A. NJ. an attempt was made by some
burglars to enter the house of Mr.. Alexander
Hay, of the firm of Hay Il Mehle, on the
corner of St. Charles and Philip streets
The thieves first got upon the roof of the
adjoining house and then made their way
into the upper gallery of Mr.. Hays resi-
dence.
The noise aroused that gentleman, who
Immediately rushed out, but just in time to
see the thieves making their way, at a rapid
pace, down the street.
Mr.. Hay then blew his whistle for
some time, and called vociferously for the
watch. but without any success, or even
awakening one of the dreaming peelers from
their sweet slumbers
TO BE CONTINUED.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
Across the Lake.

We would assure Subscriber that by TAX
ing the early train of the Mobile Railroad,
he can go to any.of the watering places and
return the same day.
Custom has had many innovations lately,
and now it is generally observed that ladies
wear their engagement rings on the third
finger of the left hand, which was oZce call
ed the wedding finger.
GROWER would again reiterate- She fact
that this column Is not devoted to the
lighter interests of society, but only to those
grivances which annoy and affect our people
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13

A Charleston, Is. CO. paper says: "One
day last week mule was choked to death
in East Bay in very peculiar way. A
heavy boiler was lifted on to the dray, to
which the mule was harnessed. As the rear
end of the dray was depressed by the weight
of the boiler the shafts flew up, lifting the
mules off his legs, and causing death by
stransulation. Usually a band is passed
under the body of a draught animal to pre-
vent the dray or cart from fitting; but this
whole pressure was thrown upon the throat
of the mule, with the result already de-
scribed"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
The Immaculate Auditor.
Something About Pensions
That Suppressed Report.

During the session of the Kellogg Legisla
ture, a Committee on Pensions was appoint
ed to investigate the claims of pensioners
and to see that their just claims" were
satisfied, and those who were entitled to pay
should receive it,
Mr.. NJ. Lozaur was the clerk Of the com
mittee, and Milton Jones chairman. VIM
Decker was appointed as one of the com
mittee, but his opinion was never asked l.,
reference to the business of said committee
the functions and responsibility.
| Mr.. Jones, who is shrewd negro, after
careful consideration concluded that there
was some fraud existing in the payment OF
pensioners, and sent his clerk to investigate
the books of the. Auditor, and found that
nearly sirty thousand dollars had been paid
| out, purporting to have been paid to pen
sioners, bit no rouchers could be found to prove
that said money was paid to those entitled
| to pension, or by parties without warrant
of law.
| The amount was so large that the chair
man of the committee prepared repor,
| condemning "honest" Clinton and to re-
port these facts to the House of Repre-
who signed the report. This report was
held back several days, until Mr.. Clinton
| had been able to gather his forces in the
! Legislature, but found them so weak that
| he did not attempt to refute the report but
Mr.. Jones, who had a careful record of the
| whole transaction, who, in the presence o.
many witnesses, said that there was a
good many things he could tell about that
pension business"
Mr. Jones gave notice in the House that
he was ready to report, but his g notice" was
declared out of order, and that was the last
Of the report. Why was that report not al
lowed to come up! Will Mr.. Clinton
answer? He was on the floor of the House
every day-for fear of some resolution being
offered to impeach h;m-and the position
that Mr.. Jones low holds in his parish, may
possibly afford some reason why the report
was not read in the House of Representa-
tives.
And here the question arises, why the
special committee, &. B. Wands, chairman
to investigate the accounts of the Auditor
have never reported and why Mr.. Clinton
paid the two clerks who were on that com
mittee leopold Guichard and T. Moproe)
their vouchers, which were paid by resolu
ton two days before the adjournment of the
House, and refuses to pay Others Of SINH
lar nature, passed before that time and
still more remarkable, those same vouchers
which Mr.. Clinton positively declines to
pay, are bought by certain parties we know
of, for merely song.
We know Of one party who was offered
$40 for 1920 voucher. What does all this
mean! Somebody should make some in
quiries about the Auditors office, and it
strikes us that the Grand Jury would be the
proper parties to do it.
In connection with these facts. may it be
mentioned that some loud threats have been
uttered by certain men that they are pre-
pairing complaints, and intend to lay facts
before the Grand Jury, against high officials
and men in authority ?
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13

MODEST VALoR.-The wonder that has
been expressed at the meagreness Of the
honors conferred upon Sir Garnet Wolseley
for his successes in the Ashantee expedition
is explained in the recent speech of Mr.. Dis
raeli proposing grant to him of $l25, 200.
The Queen proposed to give him peerage,
with money enough to support his rank.
But Sir Garnet declined, as he was already
heir to two baronet,ies, and he wished no
honor that was not strictly professional
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13

Two mur,lerers were hung on Friday last,
who richly deserved their fate At Catskill,
New York, Joseph Waltz, who murdered
three men, and on Thurs lay prepared him
self for the future life by brutality murder
ing his keeper was sent where he can do no
more HARM In Washington county, Ken
lucky, negro was strung up for the murder
of his master, and dying confessed the deed,
but implicated his victims wife in the con
spiracy. Thest murders were of the most
atrocious descr ption, and the execution OF
law that ribs the world of their perpetra-
ors will meet with the cordial approval OF
every good citizen.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
Cuba.

NEW YORK, May "a letter from Havana
says the court-martial is doing its work,
and by wholesale, prOnouncing the penalty
of death, chain gang, perpetual imprison-
ment and confscation Of property all over
the island. Nine persons tried for treason
at Mayari, one at Santiago de Cuba and FIVE
at Havana have all been condemned to sui
fer the death penalty. Four persons at
Puerto Principe, for the same crime, have
been condemned to work on the fortifica-
tions during the continuance of the rebel
lien. Six persons at Gouaimaro have been
sentenced to ten years on the chain gang,
and one from Trinidad has been condemned
to perpetual chains. The American, Fred
erick Dockery, was taken from Nuevitas, on
the gath of April, to prison in Puerto
Principe, for security and safety, as the
Cnbans have been SO near Nuevitas as to
render the capture of the place not lmprob-
able.
The approval of the DEGREES of the Govern
ment in regard to tho finances appears to
have arrived from Spain. The home gov
eminent hesitates long before approving
of them. but Concha was firm, and tele-
graphed to Spain that they must be ap-
proved or he would resign.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
Defender.

A citizen has a perfect right, under the
Constitution, to openly bear arms and guard
his property, Pitt to the contrary notwith-
standing If a people are quietly going to
submit to the threats of a man who, by
usurpation, happens to be placed in power,
then it is time Louisiana was more humbled-
To Defender. we can only say that we duly
appreciate his expressions of regard for the
stand we have taken.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
Police ORGANIZATIONS. .

We assure Constant Reader that there
will be meeting of citizens of the Fourth
District, on Thursday night, and due prep
aratons made for the proper protec-
ton of property and life. People are be-
coming aroused to the fact that they must
depend on themselves.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13
For the Bulletin
-


Nover say G cd morrow 10 Misfortune
Till you meet her;
VIII ,tever sad torebcdings importune,
Wait to greet her.
She's but at est sadly tickle jade:
TO defeat her,
You must as with every 9th er maid,
Boldly treat her.
As most of maids are won by bravery,
entreat you,
To show no smallest sign of slavery,
Or she'll cheat you.
Push ever onward, dl ectly forward
To unseat her.
Vince not, though things may seem untoward,
And you'll beat her.
ERrA
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-13

The elevators of Buffalo have storage ca
pacity for 100000 bushels of grain and a
transfer capacity Of 2,643, 900 bushels every
twenty-four hours. The grain dryers con-
nected with the elevators have combined
capacity equal to drying $4,000 bushels of
corn every twenty-four hours.