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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
FEATURES or THE NEW TEXAS PA
ANNA mn

The bill introduced in Congress the
first day of the session looking to the
Endorsement Of the bonds Of the Texas
Pacific Railway, is substantially the
same as that reported in the House last
session, modified in accordance with the
views expressed by the convention re-
Gently held in St. Louis. The Nashville
American, in noting the difference in the
two bills, says: 1T will be interesting
to note the difference in the two bills
The first change from the old text
confines the starting point OF the St.
Louis branch within the Tooth and
1884 degrees of longitude; p~articu-
lar pains are taken to prevent any dis
elimination against or by connecting
lines; the eastern terminus Of the road
continues TO be at Shreveport, Louisi-
ana; the portion upon which tic United
States is to guarantee the interest Of the
bonds is 10 commence now at Sherman,
Texas, in lieu Of the Texas State line,
leaving out a quadrilateral embraced by
a piece of the Memphis and Ell Paso road
and the International road Of some four
hundred miles in extent; the connection
to New Orleans is to be made by the New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg
Company, a company that already has
land grant from Congress equiva-
lent to that given to the main trunk
line. The extension to Vicksbdrg Is re-
strained, as in the bill Of the last Con.
gress, but an additional extension from
Shreveport through the State Of Arkan-
sas, at a point on the Mississippi river
opposite Memphis, has been inserted.
The Government Endorsement Of interest
upon the bonds for the main line is to
be to the amount of five per cent. on
$40, 900 per mile on the branch to St.
Louis, and upon the other extensions to
the Mississippi river, interest on $751; 600
in the named amount"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

ST.. Louis, December l4.-A dispatch
from Attorney General Pierrepont to
District Attorney Dyer says the commits
sion of Colonel James O. Broadhead as
special counsel in the whisky prcsecu.
tons has been forwarded on a retainer
Of $1,000.
Another dispatch says the President
desires that Ex-Governor Thomas c.
Reynolds be engaged to assist Colonel
Broadhead. Mr.. Reynolds has been
proffered the appointment and has de.
clined, but for what reason has not
t~ranspired.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
THE MOSEL DISASTER.
List Of Passengers Killed and In
fured.

-
List of Passengers Killed and In
Jured.
New York, December l4.-Oelrich d
Co., agents of the North German Line,
received a cable dispatch this morning
giving the names of passengers Of the
steamship Mosel killed and injured by
the dynamite explosion at Bremen Ha-
ven, on Saturday, as follows Second
cabin-killed Hartmann Cramer, Alfred
Granichstadter; slightly wounded, Ber-
tina Lehr; missing, perhaps left, George
Meter. Steerage = killed: Heinrich
Keutz, Otto Kunicke; wounded, Ernest
ine Kruger and child, Rudolphe Witte,
Hermann Happ, Carl Mosel, Edward
Becker, Adalbert link, Josef Dancer,
Wilhelm Schmidt; missing, c. Lane, ].
Grimon, James Wiesne, Johann Roth,
Frederick Suemann. The Salier will
sail from Bremen to-day.
BREMEN, December l4.-The Weizer
Zeitung this morning asserts that the
passenger, Thomas, confessed to the in
tention of destroying the steamship Mo
sell for the sake of assurances he held,
and implicated others in the plot. The
report needs confirmation, which cannot
be obtained before the end Of the Judi
cial investigation now going on.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

New YORK, December liza special
from Washington says the Democrats
are generally accepting the idea that
they should fall in with the Presidents
suggestion Of the Constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the supporter sectarian
schools out Of public moneys, and at a
meeting of the Democratic Association
of the District Of Columbia, last night,
the first step toward such a movement
vas taken by the introduction of resolu-
tiors stating that the free school system
of the United States is the brightest star
in the galaxy Of the republic, and that
upon it's maintenance and perpetuity
depend the present and the future o.
the American people; that the Demo.
cratic party always has, and at all times
hereafter, will resist allattempts looking
to a division Of the public school fund
no matter for what purpose; that the
Democratic party has been, is now, anC
always will be, in favor Of free schools
free press, free speech, free trade, ant
gold and silver as The only constitutions
money of the nation, paper money beinl
the illegitimste offspring Of the Republi
can party.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
FROM Texaa.

GALVESTON, December Lax. Cover
nor Davis has issued a call for a Repub.
iiSpp State Convention at Houston, Jan
pary 18th. Active preparations are be.
ing made for toe State Denocraic Con
vention to assemble in Galveston, Gan.
uary 9th.
Advices from Matamoras state that
during the municipal election there on
Saturday fighting occurred. Morgan
End Fuenls, candidates for Mayor, we're
wounded three men ana 6Ss hoy were
killed. Senior Fuenig, Cortina's oapdi
date for Mayor, was elected The city
is now quiet.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

II is announced thst seyeral surgeons,
representing some kind Of medical in
stitute 10 a distant State, have arrived in
the city and will tarry only three or four
days. Is il not strange hat our people
will run after strangers who are unknown
when we have in our midst we'll known
physicians and surgeons Of the highest
attachments and standing? The novelty
Of the thing and ~exttavagant promises
made seem to captiyate the thought
less, and possibly mislead the ur-
wary. The doctor who traYels
abroad to find patients IS always
liable to the imputation Of dearth
Of practice at home. where he is
best known. No city in the Union ofits
size a boast Of a more accomplished
medical fraternity than Memphis. We
have not only general practitioners but
surgeons Of great experience in this
country and in Europe, where some of
them we're educated, and physicians who
make sp%eciaIties Of particular diseases.
But the itinerant aomes along heralded
as 3 circus or a psesiidigitatenr would be
on the fences, and the people rush after
bin ~ssA a. much esgerness as If they
we're certain Of being humbugged and
delighted in the luxury.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

: The total monetary coinage OF the
UuitedS States mints last month was 200,
go pieces, Of the value Of $4,000, 100.
There are in dc new House of Repre-.
%seniatiyes seven members BY the name
Of Williams, and only two Smiths
The prospect is said to be that toe i'm.
proyement Of uptown real estate in New
York next season will run almost en-.
tirely in the direction Of houses built 10
Data, after the Eur manner.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
On Wednesday, january IL, 1871
Attachment Notice.

In the Circuit Court Of Shelby County, Ten.
nossee-M. i. Meacham 4 Co. vs.. r. A.
Howes a Co.
TN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENTHAV-
u ing been sued out under section 1855 of the
Codo Of Tennessee, and returned into courl
levied upon 800 hts Of mackofol. tho prop
erty Of the defendants. and AFFIDAVIT having
5eon made that the defendants are Justly in
debted TO plaintiff in the sum Of 500 due bJ
account, and that they are non-residcntl
Of the State Of Tonnessee;. It IS there.
fore ordered that the said defendants,
r. A. Howeg 3 Co., make their per.
oonal appoaranoe herein. before the Judge
bf the Circuit Court Of Shelby county, AZ
the courthouse in tho city Of Memphis. on
the third Monday in January next. and do
fond said attachment suit within the time pre-.
soribed BY law, or tho same will be proceeded
with @. partoi and that q cory Of this order
DO publisnen re a week for four consecptiyl
wcoKs in the Public Ledger.
This 9th day Of December, 1910.
D, Y. COLEMAN, Clork.
BY Gro. j. CAMPHELI, d. @.
AUMEs a Posr0N, Atty for Plaintiff.
e7.Q3.Q0 lW
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

A curious story Of unjust justice
comes from Florence. An English resi-
dent Of that city wal visited By a fellow
member Of his club, an Italian, who
asked him to pay him that 5000 lire"
The Englishman owed him nothing, and
told him so. He promptly brought sui,
for the gctitiong debt. The defendant,
thunderstruck, consulted q friend, who
told him to leave the whole matter il the
hands Of q certain lawyer. He did SO.
When the trial came Oh, three witnesses
swore that they had seen the money lent
to the defendant. The latter was ap.
palled TO hear his counsel say, we I'D.
nit the debt" and was pleasantly
stunned when six witnesses promptly
swotc that they had seen the aoney re.
paid. Verdict for TIE defendant" This
peculiar case throws q stgong light on
Tho Italian Judicial system, though false
swearing Is unfortunately by no means
confined 10 trnns'atlantie courts.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
Ronton Prenehers, meetlnr

New York, December l4.--Professor
Wells, who made q speech before Bishop
Haven at the now famous Boston Preach
ers' Meeting, aud to whom was attributed
the language that Grant was the saviour
Of his country and the people could not
dispense With bis services" writes card
to say: The truth is / never ALLUDED 70
General Grant in any way, shape or
manner whatever, and 10 the whole
course Of my remarks l had not the most
distant thought or allusiou concerning
what followed. Indeed, ! Do not believe
a single individual came there with the
slightest anticipation OF what would be
said by the Bishop. The whole tenor Of
my speech, from beginning to end, was
a censure Of Ecclesiastical interferegce
with the civil governmental Europe, and
as such the logical sequence would
scarcely be the intermeddling Of the
Methodist Church with national politics"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

To the Voters Of the Seventh Ward:
At a meeting Of the Democratic-C Con.
sentative Club Of the Seventh ward held
last night, | twice made the request oil
the club to drop my name from the list Of
candidates to be voted for as
delegates 10 the convention to meet
on the 10th i1stept, to nominate
a candidate for Mayor Of Memphis
/ see my name appears in the list Of
names published in the morning papers
10 be voted for this evening. | now mn.
co~nditionallg withdraw my name, and
will not serve il elected.
Respectfully
Jgo B. RoBlSsoy.
Memphis, Dec. IA, 1875.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

In reply to a card in the Appeal of to.
day, headed "a Warning" we would
state that the residents Of the Third
ward are fully conpetent TO attend to
their own affairs without ~interyention
from outside parties. We claim that the
"so-ealled regular nominees" were Sc.
lected by q number of non.residents,
and the opposition is the genuine ticket
and should be supported b. ala.
THIRD WARDERs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

SENATOR KEY has been appointed on
two committees: Education and Labor,
and Postofices and Postroads. Ex-
President Johnson was on but one com.
mittee, that Of Postofices and Postroads.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
fire at p~ittsburg.

PITrsBURG, December last night
a FIRE occurred at Freedom, Beaver
county, Penn, which destroyed Mueller's
grist mill, Biddle & Waggoner's dry
goods store, and the residence Of D. E.
Lowery. Loss about $4,000; insurance
$500 on the residence and $4,000 on
the store
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

The Presidents message of 10000
words was transmitted ever the wires
from Washington to Philadelphia in the
incredibly short space of thirty minutes,
so perfect we're all the telegraphic ar
rangements.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

REMEMBER the meeting of the Cham
Der Of Commerce to-day at 8 o'clock
pm. to consider matters pertaining to
the Memphis and Knoxville narrow
gauge railroad. A full attendance is
desirable.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

LAMAR's friends are rather overriding
the thing in urging his claims for the
Senate. 1t strikes us that the Missis.
sippi Legislature had better be consulted
about that. The programme seems to
be to elect him to the United States
Senate and then run him. for Vice Presi-
dent. Lamar is doing good service
where be is, and should remain there
without blocking the way to the Senate
to other worthy aspirants.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

A PRESIDENTIAL message without an
a%llusion to the darby is like Yankee
Doodle with the Doodle left out. YET
that is what is the matter with Grants
message. Has freedom played out, or
what2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

The Secretary Of War will ask for an
appropriation of 100000 for the Ten
nessee river, to be expended between
Muscle shoals and the mouth Of the
river, but mostly at the shoals. An ap-
preparation will also be asked for the
Cumberland.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

AID now the Republicans are ponder
ing over Grants policy of taxing the
churches to see that it consists with his
position as the Methodist nominee for
reelection to a third term. The Metho.
dist vote, if represented by that Bos.
ton meeting, is considerable; but how
can the property Of the Catholic church
be taxed without laying it on the Metho-
dists2 Just how to reconcile this appa-
rent paradox is the great Republican
problem.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
bIIities.

WASHINGTON, December l4.-For Ten
nessee and the Ohio valley rising bar
ometer, warmer and clear weather and
westerly winds. Lower Ohio will remain
stationary or slowly fall.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
river TeIerramn.

CAIRO, December l4.-Arrived St.
Joseph, St, Louis, 3 am; Fearless. St.
Louis, Ii. D~eparted-St. Joseph, Mem
phis, 6 am John Gilmore, St. Louis, I.
Weather clear and cool.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

SINCE the Presidents wishes in regard
to taxing church properly have become
known, the remark is made all around
the line that that is a matter which be
longs to the States. he cares about as
much for States rights as the imaginary
lines Of latitude and longitude on the
man.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14
no %TENANTs.
NouNoEMEN
For school visitor.

The friends of H. M. JAMES announce him
as a candidate for School Visitor for the Sixth
ward.
l am a candidate for School Visitor from the
Third ward. X. j. B. L. WINN.
At the solicitation Of many friends Of the
City Schools, I am a candidate for School Wis
itor from the Ninth ward. r. B. MILLER.
am a candidate for School Visitor from the
Second ward. S. M. WARD.
B. P. ANDERSON is q candidate for School
Visitor from the Tenth ward.
j. NJ. GREER is a candidate for School
Visitor from the Fourth ward.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

The municipal breeze is stiff and
strong. Nearly every good citizen will
take part in the primary elections co.
A.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

THIS is THE THIRD LARGEST. COMPANY IN THE WORLD. AND PAYS THE
i largest Dividends to its POhcy-h0dMs.
This Companys sewerage dividends fort elat thiHyy ears have been higher, and H~ r.
erage expenses, fol- same time have been, lower hana ny other Company in the United States.
in t. old ans sterling Institution renivet he same dn1dendsn the Northern Policy koderS
Policies non rfdtable anor payment of second years premium.
Whereas, Within The past seven years, fry-ono weako or worthless Life Insurance Com
pantcs have been excluded from the State by orders Of tn Insurance Departments and
whereas, There IS good Lgsono oemeve RatW luhn the nexts seven yeAnm anym more of
La like wartheR character will be forced to retire,
This message is Issued to admOnlhu the citizens Of Tennessee and so mr. aA movk.
save hem from loss in consequence ureoE
TO guide the citizens Of the State in the selection of the best Life Insurance. coupanies.
In dom tMs We emphcaly didam any unfiendhnen toward my cOmpanv $780,
desire to AZURE any. Referring to tho Massachusetts, Insurance Rep0ts AZ T y" my
three OIL the best and hfeeo of the pooprc class Of companies; Aqeop
RHo o. EpENHET TO INCOME FROM 1886 II 1917, INoLugvR
Mumal Benefit m..... m.. O8 Continental m . .a
Life ~mmm mm. ...m...~lO.@ Washington. ~ " """~aJ
Connecticut mutual. security. ~~. m - 49,
- twill he noticed hiatt ratio ~ Expense oLho hstu pe companies vera rc-Mmso
same companies to their ohc y-hodesH nQh Q Organization of each: "Deu "Ho
Mutual Beneht~m --. m- .r "ww W. Continental - rXo
NonneyIy n"nN'A" w * b,MMheo n"""""~~@ w mm~mmHW
more than 0sFHAl LESS than tho dividends paid BY the tthoe. hi nsSV dsrr. ~ NJ
an a-Qager return dividend Of 8pr cent. furnish It's poicyhoiders IGss w. sn nonombS n
cent cheaper tnr ms comPnnssw which Gu5ss ostyn per cent Dividend. @"~"~
ta Beneht. bgt worse nan thrown away waen paid 70 the weak or worhieIyn TdTonsT f %
We will yeprcmpta intention %sspicaions for insurance or for aeonrios q, .A...-
lpany. ana Em ms h ~ W !pr-nh inormaion IN regard Life InWmncef in ann 6Tn
or sJegaros W. eAefeg"r4 ana standing OF any company.
aucM RyRg1'H ln hepu6SsEintI q hMeo 81 modea nlhdes and now forms intro
hokind send y0ura address, and receive Information on tho eubeot """b"
Life Insurance Agnfg and solicitors wNh ind wS thsc company the most fvomhiec am
dhona for mnceHulwMk.
District and Local Agents wanted thrcusbontthe State. Apply to
y, y. WARNER, State Agent "a Madison and sS7 Main st, Memphis, Tenn.
eeil6
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-14

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A Second Mammoth Cave.

A most wonderful and magnificent
cave has been discovered near the Ka-
olin mine at Bedford, Ind. A party re-
Gently went down distance of seventy
feet, and then an incline ofthirty feet, and
found themselves in chamber eighty
by one hundred and fifty feet in area, and
one hundred feet high. In the cave
there Is dome one hundred feet high,
and the other remarkable natural beau
ties were viewed with wonder and admi-
ration by the exploring patty. An en-
trance into another apartment of the cave
wrs blocked up 30 securely that the par
ty was unable to get through. Some
time next week several gentlemen are
going to explore the caye.-[LJuisville
Z Courier Journal
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-25

Another declaration Of independence,
antedating Mr.. Jefferson's by two weeks,
: has turned up in Kentucky. What pur-
ports to be the original document il in
the possession of Col. Jno. Mason Brown,
of Louisville, who received it from the
venerable Colonel George Hancock, to
whom it was presented many years ago
by relative, the son of Patrick Lock-
hart, who was Secretary of the Virgin
ia Convention. It bears date June 20,
l776, and purports to be declaration of
the settlers on "Kentucke (or louisa"
river against the right of KING George
to exercise sovereignty over them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-25
The Rocky Mountain LOeusts'


1t is shown by the best authorities
that the insects which are causing so
much alarm in portions of the West are
not grasshoppers, but locusts. They are
designated Rocky Mountain locusts to
distinguish them from other species, such
as the seven year locusts, etc. They are
indigenous to the dry, sandy regions of
Montana and Idaho. and other far west
ern States, and, the colonies which in
long intervals take their fight to other
St&tes to the East, rapidly degenerate.
lose the power of propagation, and be-
come extinct in two or three years. The
last visitation was in 1865. The tribes
now wandering in Missouri, we are as
sured, cannot penetrate farther east.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-06-25
MISCELLANY Y.
European Echoes of Bunker Hill.

These men, both the rank and file and
the leaders, were undoubtedly full of the
modern spirit, and their uprising against
British aggression had echoes from the
liberals of Europe, and certainly helped
on the freethinking of the 1lluminists, aS
we'll as the reforms of the philanthrOpists.
Their success was welcome at the court
of Frederick the Great, who liked liber-
ty of thought and action when il did not
cut into his own royal prerogative; and
the patron of Voltaire was the friend of
America. France, of course. could not
be Indifferent to 30 important blow at
the dominion of England, and Vergen-
nes Immediately sent Bonvouloir on
mission to America, while the egotist
and dreamer, Rousseau. then at Paris
greater power than Vergennes of his
master Louis XVI, the prophet Of de-
mocracy with peerless style, had here in
Young Thomas Jefferson an emissary
stronger than score of Bonvonloirs-
an emissary who was to put the ideas Of
fame in the Declaration of July 4, 1776,
under the spell of battle that pointed
ideas with bayonets and loaded them
with powder and ball. Voltaire at Fer
ney was no stranger to the struggle that
was ID introdnce him to Franklin; and
even Goethe, the serene artist and poet
of the future, then young man in the
fever of that storm and pressure period,
and just made famous by the romance OF
"Werther," had in 1773, two years be-
fore, been greatly stirred by the story of
the Boston tea party; and be could not
have been Indifferent to its bloody Sc
: queI. The masters of the rising age of
human culture, Kant, Herder, and Less
ing, although not then known by their
chief works, were full of sympathy and
hope for free institutions, and ready for
every cheering word from the new re-
public, whose cause they afterward SO
heartily vindicated.
So Bunker Hill belongs to modern
times, and had more to do with modern
thinking than its heroes knew. The
new age was beginning, and they were
part oft The characteristic elements
of the nineteenth century were in &hem;
and this century, as has been we'll oh
served of the century that reckoned from
the birth Of Christ, actually began about
thirty years before its nominal date
CDr. Samuel Osgood, IN Harper's Maya
& zine for July. s~sars
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TRAVELS OF BowLDER.-The fa-
mons bowlder in the middle of the
Niagara river channel below the main
Goat Island bridge, says the Buffalo
Commercial, lies about thirty feet fur
ther down the stream this summer than
it did last fall. During the heavy flow
of ice the huge rock was moved from its
former to its present situation. Before
the rock was barely visible, lying just
under ledge; now it resists with very
considerable portion ofits ragged surface
above the rapids. A new bowlder was
brought down the river by the ice dur
ing past winter, and now lies, . very
prominent object, few yards south of
its more famous companion. Itls to be
hoped the new bowlder will not receive
its future name through any such tragic
circumstances as that which Avery's
Rock commentaries.