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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-29
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
MONEY.
PUBLIC LEDaKR 0FFIoM,
Mwapura TnNN .Inlv ~ 1oIS-

MEMPHIs. TxSS.. July Is, 1851
The money market this morning ruled
quiet and steady, with little stir on Mad
ison street and nothing doing, aside
from the local checking and deposit.
ing. The discount market remains
unchanged, frst-class commercial paper
ruling at SOLO y cent. y annum; on
the streets money is in demand at 2@S
. cent. y month for short loans. Bro
kerS are paying llO@lll4 for gold, with
few transactions. Exchange is in light
supply, with a light demanda at the follow.
ing rates: On New York and Eastern
points bsying at par and selling at fc
premium; New Orleans, ic discount buy
ing and selling at par. There is no
movement in the scrip and bond market
or transaction in securities Of any de-
scription worthy Of note.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-29

NAToNA TEMPLE OF H. AND 7. No. l-meets
every Friday evening at 5 o'clock at new
Masonic hall, Gayoso block, Main street.
.. g. Reaherd, w. @. T.; A. J. McGarvey,
". y. IT. John W; Brush W, Ri z; g.
a. Ra;q 2ieT w. HUM a. ~ ". Alfred r.: D. a. ny wfbi sD,o W. y I.
D. U, &c, +. Tate. W. a.; Bun T. Price, w.
B.; John W. Graham, W. TT.
CHELSEA TEMPLE OF II. AND t. No. z-meets
every Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock, at their
NC. T.; g. r. Dawson, W. V. T.; B. j.
Carr, W. r.; @. N. Hobson, W. A. r.; j.. F.
Sh9ndler, WE. R.; VIM. NJ. Carr, w. TT. ;
T. X. Boyd, W. u; ThOs. B. Rawlings, W.
~; " s.F. NOyes. W. g.. @. G. Scudder.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-29

The market this morning opened quiet
with light offerings and a limited de-
mand, and in consequence transactions
were light. Estimated sales for the day
100 bales; sales yesterday, l25 bales,
New York spots we're firm and futures
quiet. Liverpool was higher. New Or.
leans was qaiet aud unchanged.
COTTON KxcHANeK ~oTArIoss
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Henry Bligh is staying at Newport.
he is seen to wander alone for hours
along the beach, lost in thought, and it
is rumored he intends establishing a
marine gymnasium, in the belief that it
will aid in the development of the
muscles.
A woman will reach up and pull at a
window-sash for a few seconds quite
good'naturedly, but when it doesn't come
down and she turns around and sees her
husband looking comfortably on, she
mentally asks herself, us civilization a
failure?" and wades for him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-29
DRY GOODS

ARE OFFERING SELECT LINES OF
Black and COIOred Silks,
Spring and Summer Dress Goods,
Suit and Housekeeping Linens,
FOnlard Finished CambrIcs,
Prints, CalicOeS, ETC., Etc.
Together with an extensive line Of
Hamburgs, in all grades,
Insertions, Edgings, Trimmings, ETC.,
silk Hose (all cOIOrs),
Plain and Fancy Hose for
Ladies, Misses and Children.
ALSO
Gloves, Fans, Parasols, Sun Umbrellas, Etc
rB- Our Ladies' Shoe Department contains
a stock unsurpassed for elegance, durability
and lOwness of price, Directions for self
measurement sent on application.
pB Complete assortment of Gents Furnish
ing Goods, Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Ties. Hose.
Gloves, etc. Goods sent TO any mart Of the
country. Shirt measurements sent on appli-
cation.
ps- For the accommodation Of Ladies and
Families who are unable TO visit the city, full
lines Of samples Of all grades Of Dry Goods
will be sent, and orders By mail filled with he
greatest possible care.
Broadway and Twentieth Streets,
NEW YORK,
l5-1st27-4
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

1a
Steamer James D.. Parker, Cincinnati.
John A. Scudder, N. Orleans.
City Of Chester, st. Louis.
Illinois, Vicksburg.
Frank Forest, Ashport.
st. Genevieve, St. Louis.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer John A. Scudder, st. Louis.
Phil Allin, Friar's Point.
BOATS IN PORT.
Ruth, Osceola, Illinois, Frank Forest,
City Of Chester, st. Genevieve.
WEATHER AND BUSINESS.
Weather hot and sultry. The river
heredeclinedl-6 of ainch since last ever
ing, ssd will be declining rapidly by to-
morrow. At Cairo the river is 80 feet
inch, and falling. At St. Louis the
decline yesterday was IL inches. AT
Pittsburg the river is 5 feet 4 inches, and
falling, At Cincinnati the decline was
ID inches. At Louisville the river is ris-
ing, with l6 feet I inches in the canal.
Arkansas river is falling from Fort
Smith to Little Rock, with IL feet IN the
channel. White river is recedipg, with
a good stage Of water from J~acksonport
to the mouth.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Heavy rains last evening at St. Louis
and along the Ohio river.
Business in the bends is gradually
picking up.
The Grand Tower left St. Louis yes
terday for Memphis.
The decline in the river at Cairo up to
yesterday was II inches.
The John A. Scudder passed up last
evening for St. Louis with a light trip.
Messrs. Andrews, Joplin & Co. have
contracted at Jacksonville for a new
sidewheel steamer for the 0sceola trade.
Captain Joe Dalieres is building a new
boat for the machinery of the Lizzie
Hopkins.
The 0sceola, Captain A. Haycock,
leaves'this evening for all points on St..
Francis river through to Wittsburg. She
also attends to all way business in Coun-
Gil and Walnut bends. James Hall
presides in the Office.
The City Of Chester, Captain Zeigler,
came in from St. Louis this morning
with a full cargo Of grain and produce.
She returns to st. Louis this evening,
attending to all way business, and con.
meets with the principal railroads for all
points East and West. Billy Blenker is
her prime minister.
We regret to learn that Owen Jamison,
second clerk Of the Illinois, is quite i'll.
We hope he will soon recover and be
able to stand his watch again.
The st. Geneyieve, Captain vickers,
IS the Anchor Line packet leaving this
evening for Vicksburg and the bends,
carrying the mail and attending to all
way business. Captain Lee Finney
presides at the desk.
The Frank Forest, Captain O. K. Jop-
lin, is the regular Friday packet for
Ashport and the upper coast, leaving to.
morrow evening, attending to all way
business. VIM. Joplin does the honors
Of the office.
The Illinois came in last evening from
Vicksburg with a big trip Of people and
a fair freight list. She is receiving for a
return trip to Vicksburg and the bends,
and leaves tomorrow evening, paying
strict attention to all way business. She
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-29

NEW YoRK. July %. lao pm. - Cotton is
firm. Futures quiet and firm, with sales for
January at Il l-l6gl4Zc; February, l4119
a 5.l5c; March, Il 7-l69l4hc; April. Il Ills
@gl411ci May; ltssl5e; june, Is l;l6
OCTOBER and November. 10 l3-l69l31e; De-
cember, 1894 1915. Sales for future deliv-
cry, 1890 bales.
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PRINTING E,
MANHOOD.
MANHOOD

A VICTIM OF YOUTHFUL IMPRU.
IA dence, causing premature decay, ner-
yous debility, ETC., having tried IN vain every
known remedy, has found q simple self-oure.
which he will send free to his fel~low-sufferers'
address J. !IH.EREEVES, rs Nassau street.
New York.H WLeod-iG '
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mso


For Mariana, Wittsburg and all Way Land
ings on st. Francis and L'Anguille Rivers,
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"RECORD,'
SEARCF ARKANSAS,

nIRCULATEs AMONG ALL THE MER.
~ chants in the White and Red river val
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

The watchfulness of the order over all
the interests of the people, is seen in the
fact that in Illinois the state grange has
made arrangements to furnish country
schools with cheap desks, chairs and tables.
while in a certain California county the
patrons appointed committee to examine
into the assessment rolls, and they have
already corrected some notable cases of
differentiation.
The Wisconsin oranges have established
forty-one cooperative associations for sell
ing goods and manufacturing, and twenty
nine insurance companies, all fiOurishing
and representing capital to the amOuntof
"a GOO, 600.
The three grange insurance companies
of Muscatine and Cedar counties, Iowa
carry over 100000 of risks. An ex-
ample of the way in which the patrons
are investing in halls and stores is seen
in Decatur county, Iowa. There they
have bought the HoOsier Hall at Greens
burg for $4,000, and will use the lower
part for a general store, and the hall for
meetings. There are 2,032 subordinate
oranges in Missouri, and 2,031 in In
diana. Iowa use to lead in numbers, and
she has now, in proportion to population,
a larger number than any other state in
the union.
The state lecturer of Kansas illustrates
the profit of grange shipping warehouses
by instancing that of Florence, Ks,
which was erected on basis of 1920, has
cleared $1,000, and is not one cent in
debt. The patrons of nine counties in
the southwestern part of the same state
have united in a commercial agency at
Wichita, and their agent informs millers
and grain men that they have over two
million bushels of wheat to dispose of |
That sort of work, kept up honestly and
wisely, would put a considerable check |
upon grain speculation in cities.
An instance of one of the various ways
in which factories are being established |
under grange auspices is found in Mis- |
souri,. A responsible firm invests at
least $4,000 in a factory at Macon, upon |
condition that grangers furnish $4,000 |
by way of stock at so per share, the |
stock to bear interest at six per cent, |
payable in implements at cost. They |
propose to manufacture plows, cultiva- |
tors, hoes, rakes and other implements, |
and the object of getting grangers to take
stock is to insure their good will.
There are COZ oranges in Arkansas. |
The secretary of the state grange says:
g From every part of the state accounts
are cheering; every grange expects to
fill up this fall" The number of mem
bers is now 20, 900,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22
PERSEVERANCE.

A swallow in the spring
Come to our granary, and meath the caves
ESSayed to make a nest, and there did firing
Wet earth and straw and leaves.
Day after day she tOiled
With patient art, but ere her work was crowned,
Some sad mishap the tiny fabric spoiled,
And dashed it to the ground.
She found the ruin wrought,
But not cast down, forth from the place she flew,
And with her mate fresh earth and grasses brough
And built her nest anew.
s'- But scarcely had she placed
The last soft feather on its ample floor,
When wicked hand or chance again laid waste
And wrought the ruin DER.
But still her heart she kept,
And tOiled again, and last night, hearing calls,
] lOoked-a2d 10! three little swallows slept
Within the earth-made walls.
What truth is here, o man!
Had hope been smitten in its early dawn?
Have clouds o'ercast thy purpose, trust, OF plan
Have faith, and struggle on.
R. s. s. ANDROS
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

A Poor SUBJECT.-"1 This is the deaf
man, ell ?" inquired the court as the last
prisoner came out. Then, raising his
voice, he asked:
"Guilty or not guilty."
The man held his hand TO his ear and
replied: .,
you'll have TO talk up loud"
Guilty or not yelled the court.
"You'll have to speak up!' replied the
man.
Come here" called the court, crook
ing his finger.
Getting the prisoner where he could
veil in his ear, he continued:
al can't fool around and burst q
blood-vessel by straining my voice! Get
out o here!"
"Of course-of course" replied the
man, and he got.
Mrs. Monroe being the only one to-
90 up, the boys made up purse and
bought her a banana, and as she sat ana
| peeled it they sang:
"Beautiful maid Of the lee,
We sorrow to see you goi
But take care of your health, accumulate
wealth,
| And remember us Sarah Monroe"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

A PROFESSOR of Music at Trieste has
succeeded in the difficult task of teach
ing a number of deaf mutes to sing.
A public exhibition was given in Paris
some time ago by these deaf mutes, at
which they not only sang in perfect time,
but presented the pitch, which was con-
viewed to them by the teacher in some
mysterious way.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

A CAR LoAD.-The following is esti-
mated as a car load: 10000 pounds, or
20 barrels of salt, 20 barrels of lime, 30
of -four. go Of whisky, 200 sacks of four
6 cords of soft wood, Is 10 20 head of
cattle. 50 to 60 head of hogs, SO TO 100
head of sheep, 5000 feet of solid boards,
II 600 feet Of siding, $4,000 feet of floor
ing. 10000 of shingles, one-half less OF
hard lumber, one-fourth less of green
lumber, one-tenth of joists, scantling,
and all other large timber, $40 bushels
of wheat, 500 Of corn, $50 of oats, 400
of barley, 800 of fax seed, 800 Of APP
ples. 436 of Irish potatoes, $50 Of sweet
potatoes, 900 bushels Of bran.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22
TIMELY TOPICS.

They have just caught full grown
Jesse Pomeroy in France. He was taken
in the act of killing a little girl, and the
remains of three missing children were
found in his house.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

-" You never saw my hands as dirty
as that said a mother reproachtully
yesterday to her little eight-year-old girl.
''Cause l never see you when you was a
little girl, was the prompt answer.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

An exchange says thai hnky's hymns '
soon be sung IN eyery4f country, and gi
the words Of Tick 1wA
l love to tell a ST.
OF unseen things ABOVE.
OF Jesus and His glory,
OF Jesus and His love;
love to telfthe story
Because / know tits true;
1t satisfies my lOngings
As nothing else can do.
ChOrus-Ilove to tell the story.
Twill be my theme in glory,
Totell the old, old story
80 OF Jesus and His love.
] lore to tell the story:
More wonderful it seems
Than all the golden fancies
OF all our golden dreams;
love to tell the story,
1t did so much for me!
And that is just the reason
l tell it now to thee.
1 love to tell the story;
Ills pleasant to repeat
What seems each time | tell it,
More wonderfully sweet
1 lOvet to tell the story
For some have never heard
The message of salvation
.r.r From Gods own holy word.
I love to tell the story;
For those who know it best
| Seem hungering and thirsting
70 hear it like the rest,
And when in scenes of glory
= Using the new, new song,
Twill be-the old, old story
That l have loved so long.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

A New Haven boy stole some APP
pies and hid them under his shirt; then
a horse kicked him and the apples saved
his life-which is a story not to be told
in Sunday-schOOl.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

Conclusion of the last Philadelphia
obituary poem; "Gone to meet her
favorite uncle who died about twelve
months since on her step-brother's side. %
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22


MARINE OBSERVATIONS IN THE SOUTH
SEAs.-The coral reefs and shoals that
abound in the neighborhOod of the Nav
igator group, remarks the Overland
Monthly, affords a fine field for the
special studies of the cOnchOlogist.
When the tide Gibbs it leaves behind 1t
ON the reefs numerous pools, each OF
which is an aquarium on grand scale.
Here rare and valuable shells can some
times be found, while for specimens OF
coral, alfia, and the lower forms of ma
| rine life, the field is practically mex
haustible. Not merely can specimens be
obtained, but the living animals them
sclve. their habits, and their lives from
day to day, can be studied under excep-
! tionallv favorable circumstances.
Equipped only with a paddle nd'
canoe of shallow draught, the student
can drift at leisure over miles OF calm
clear water, and at the distance OF few
feet contemplate the strange and mystic
| life of the beings that lie below him. 1t
is indeed a rare treat to drift thus In
calm weather over a belt of reef, and
through the pallucid water see the mil
lion stems and branches of the coral forest
peopled by gay cOlored fishes, and by
welt-nigh every form of marine life, from
the crustaceans and echinidans down tC
the various sea-weeds, whose brilliant
and. delicate spores are here displayed
with a beauty and completeness at once
the delight and despair of the scientih'
| collector
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

SINGER, the sewing-machine manufac-
turer, died, leaving an estate worth nine
teen millions of dollars. just think how
many poor WON n worked themselves al.
most to death to raise each sixty dollars
to make that ma too rich to be healthy
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

MEAT has advanced rapidly within the
past few days. 1t is not due to scarcity,
but to the speculative spirit prevailing
among the capitalists of the north and
west. At the same time cotton is going
down, and southern farmers are COM
PEELED to buy meat which they could
better have raised at home.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22
COurtship i'm Greenland.

There is something exceedingly melan-
choly in the accounts which are given of
the custom of cOurtship in Greenland.
Generally women enter upon the blessed
estate with more willingness and less
solicitude than men. The women of
Greenland are an exception to this rule
A Greenlander, having fixed his affec.
ton upon some female, acquaints his
parents with the state of his heart.
They apply to the parents Of the girl;
and, if the parents are thus far agreed,
the next proceeding is to appoint two
female negOtiators, whose duty it is to
breach the subject to the young lady.
This is matter of great tact and deli
cacy. The lady ambassadors do not shock
the young lady to whom they are sent
by any sudden or abrupt avowal of the
awful subject of their mission: Instead
of this, they launch out in praises of the
gentleman who seeks her hand. They
speak of the splendor of his house, the
sumptuousnes5 of his furniture, of his
courage and skill in catching seals, and
other accomplishments. The lady, pre-
tending to be affronted even at these re-
mote hints, runs away, tearing the
ringlets of her hair as she retires, while
the ambassadresses, having got the CON
sent of her parents, pursue her, take he'd
by force to the house of her destine r
husband, and there leave her. Compelled
to remain there, she sits for days with
disheveled hair, silent and detected, re-
fusing every kind of sustenance, till at
last, if kind entreaties do not prevail,
she is made by force, and even by blows,
TO submit to the detested union. In
some cases, Greenland women faint at
the proposals of marriage; in others,
they fly to the mountains, and only re-
turn when compelled TO do so by hunger
and cold. If one cuts off her hair, it is
a sign she determined to resist to the
death. The Greenland wife is the slave
of her husband, doomed to life of toll,
drudperv. and prjvatiOn.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

A WOMAN in Baltimore, desiring death
but having no home in which to die
bought morphine at drug store, and
drank its she walked in the street. She
kept ON as the drug began to take effect,
and crowd of boys, surprising that her
staggering was the result of intoxication,
followed after her. At length, after
trayersing several streets, she fell, and
the boys threw mud on her. In that
way she died.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

regularly out of the hands of death, and
Pm not going to give up now. Pev
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love TO TELL THE STORY.

ss sSs5sy ny ssa s E
the words of it. The Z z IVA
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

MOODY brought over with him from
England several blOOded sheep and other
STICK, which he proposes to present tohis
granger friends for the improvement of
their fiocks. His Chicago friends are go
ing to secure the exposition building for
him when he comes to evangelize that
city. In Philadelphia, 100000 have
been raised to defray the expenses of his
meetings there, and building is to be
erected especially for the purpose
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

THE Rhode Island authorities will not
allow financial aid to be extended to the
Fall river operatives. This might be ex-
pected in this state, where the mill
owners control the state government and
own nearly everything. They fear that
the rebelious spirit of the Fall river
men might extend to their borders and
another d" Dorr rebellion" might occur
Universal suffrage does not exist in Rode
Island. 1t is necessary for the white la
bOrer to have property qualification.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

WHEN we have built double track
railway from Texas to California, com
pleted Ead's jetties, reclaimed the Mis-
sissippi river alluvial bottoms, estab-
ished direct trade between Liverpool and
the South Atlantic States, and admitted
Cuba as State into the Union-then
look QUE lor prosperity in America that
would make The national debt a mere
climber
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-22

DIR. PAUL jolly, in a recent work on
tobacco and absinthe, gives the following
table as showing the percentage of nj
cotine to be found in tobacco obtained
from the several sources indicated: The
percentage of nicotine from tobaccos of
the Levant, Greece, and Hungary, is
600; in those of Arabia, Havana, and
Paraguay, 200; Maryland, 2.29; Alsace,
8.S1; Pas-deCalais, 1876; Kentucky,
COG; IIllet-Vilaine, $50; Virginia,
@,S7 LOt-et-Garonne, 7.34; Lot, 7.36.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-13

A BOY in st. Louis was recently
presented with jack knife, with
which, boy-lile, he cut and marked
every thing that came in his way
from the dining-room table to the
cats tail. A few days after he had
become the happy possessor of the
knife, his father was startled by see
ing two men bringing home the
young hopefu.. in q very dilapidated
condition. His face seemed to be
cut and bruised and covered with
blood. The father of course, was
very much alarmed, and inquired of
the boy who hit him. "Nothing
didn't hit me, Sir" the boy answered,
between his sobs; sit was only q mule
kicked me in the eye.'' Ga mule
kicked you in the eye, eh?' replied
the father. Haven't l told you a
thousand times or more that mules
and gunpowder were not fit things
for boys to fool with? What were
you doing to the mule?' 81 wasn't
toolin' with i'm at all" said the boy;
Il was only trying to cut my name
on his back"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-13

CHOW CHow.--One peck of sliced
green tomatoes and cucumbers, on
ions, cauliflower, peppers, radish
pods, etc, not emitting horse radish !;
one oaHce cloves, one ounce Of bro
ken cinnamon; three quarters Of a
pound Of mustard seed, one pound of
ground mustard. After slicing the
above, put them in a stone jar with
salt between each layer, and let it
stand twenty four hours; then drain
off the water, put it in q porcelain
lined kettle, cover with vinegar, and
boil fifteen minutes. Wet the ground
mustard with cold vinegar and stir
it in the last thing, then take imme-
diately off the stove; it will be bet
ter if it boils after the mustard flour
is added. Pack in jars and cover
well.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-10-13
-TuE crane crop of California


The grape crop of California is
the largest ever raised. The re
ceipts of California wine at San Fran
cisco from June 1st to September II,
were 100000 gallons, 100000 being
from Sonoma. Sonoma and Los An
gelos counties are the heaviest pro-
ducing counties in the State. The
product of Sonoma county last year
was 100000 gallons, and it will be
fully as large this year. Most Of
the product of Los Angeles is ship.
ped direct to New York by steamer.
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