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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-13

The disgraceful ~squabble between the
Harvard and Yale crews at SARATOGA last
year seems happily to have left no bit.
t%erness behind it. Captain Cook, of the
Yale crew, visited Cambridge a day or
two ago, and while there dined with Mr..
Dana, Captain Of the Harvard crew of
last year, and coach Of the present crew.
Captain Cook saw the Harvard crew 20
out, and ssid he thought it a stronger
one than tbatof last year.
In London, Canada, last week, they
had a circus and a hurricane at the same
time. The two did not harmonic we'll.
Very suddenly, as the performance was
at its height, the air darkened, the light
ming flashed, the wind rose, and rain fell
IN sheets. The canvas fell down with a
crash upon the menagerie, and the ami
mails and spectators alike were overcome
by terror and wild confusion. The ex-
element resulted in the death of one of
the ladies present.
She tried to sit down in the street car
but a pinned back so tight she couldn't.
Old lady peeped over her specs and ask
ed her; HHow long have you been afHict.
ed that way2 The young lady blushed
and made "a break" sitting down side
ways, and holding her knees together so
tight that she looked as if she had on a
one legged pair of breeehes. Old lady
noticed her sitting in this sidewise,
cramped position, and whispered; 3'Bile,
s'pose; I've had EN- myself"
A woman in India recently resorted to
the expedient of offering herself as a
prize in a lottery. The amount offered
the fortunate drawer of the right tickets
one lac aud 10000 rubles. The lady re.
serves to herself the right of refusing to
marry the owner of the winning number
should he prove to be a person she would
not care to espouse. In that case he
will receive $4,000 rubles. And this
lady is said to be very rich in her own
name, titled and-a foolish, vain crea-
ture
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-13

GET shaved at 80! Union street, and
enjoy the tanning machine. ll6
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-13

A HANDSOME illustrated Family Bible
100 fine %engravings. Sold in this city,
by w. S. Rogers, Agent. 1872
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The LEDGER job Office is in constant
receipt from the foundries of new type,
embracing all the latest nd best styles.
l2St
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PATRoNIzE a home institution and
drink Berliner Weiss beer,
1921 FRANCIS SCHULZ, Proprietor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-13

had a greater affection for the tree and
the Water-pipe, both of which appeared
to be better conductors.
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MILITARY.
MILITARY INSTITUTE.

CIXTIETH SESSION BEGINS SEPT. 9TH.
- Kind and rigorous discipline; thorough
mental, moral and physical training. Tuition,
3l00; estimated total expense for one cadet,
1926. R~eferences-S. P. Read, Cashier U. up.
Bank; Captain J. NJ. Irrelevant, \ II White
and I; A, Lamb, 26S Front street; II Harder,
ESD, Major RobertH Wildberger. of the Fac,
alton and catalogues till June Is. Address
COL. R0Br. ID. ALLEN,
Sup't. Farmdale, franklin county, Ky.
&-12Qdl7-20W
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EVERY irst-class saloon keeps it
Berliner Weiss beer. Tl22
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For daily papers from all the leading
cities in the Union, illustrated weekly
and monthly magazines and novels, or
for fancy stationery and school books,
call at Thos. Hanson's, No. COZ Beal
street. Hot
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Gentlemen will not neglect TO ex
anime our white shirts at 81 and
81 % a piece.
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SEE sartOrius 4 Reiniq's card. us
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MOystOn's beautiful re-
touched and FURNISHED pho
tOgraphs, "a per dozen, at
Star Gallery, 240 Main st. [75t
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SEE Sartorius & Reinig's card. n
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GREAT INDICTMENT
100000 CIGARS at Cosr.

900, 900 CIGARS at COST.
% -
The undersigned offer, FOR Thirty
DAYS ONLY, any of their stock of cigars,
in any quantity not less than ons thou
sand, at the above rates, FOR CASH ONLY.
sARTORIUs q RGINIG,
lis 40 and AZ Jefferson 81.
SEE Sartorius & Reinig,s card. Ills
C~oNvERsE's Billiard Parlors,
GOT 81 South Court street.
The great summer drink-Berliner
Weiss beer. [l22
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MEMOIRS Of General W, T. Sherman
at Mansford's. 100
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Our alpaca coats, 81 rs.
KAHN g. FREIBERG.

snE s%artOrIus ; Reinig's card. nd
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Our silk sun umbrellas, 81.
KAHN & FREIBERG.

SEE SartOrius & Reinig's card. Ills
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INSTEAD of going North, drink Berliner
Weiss beer. [l22
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SPECIAL CARDS.

9 HINs0N. DENTIST, $50 MAIN ST..
%. Memphis, Tenn. Price for each plug
from one to three dollars in general. Artif-
cial set Of teeth from fifteen to fifty dollars.
Special attention % directing children teeth.
Also Treats ALI Diseases OF The
Office hours from s ana. to- pm. % xxi-2i
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KAHN & FREIBERG,
Corner Main and Poplar streets.
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500 Pairs boys fine linen pants, 81.
KAHN 4 FREIBERG.
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$50 to $4,000 has been invested in
Stock Privileges and paid 900 per cent.
profit. How to do it." A book on
Wall street, sent free.
TuNBRIDGE & Co., Bankers,
xxi-l4-d&w 2 Wall street, N. Y.
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THE SCHOOL BOARD.

The Clay street and Other Negro
SchOOIa Turned over 10 Negro
Principals and TeaeheTs-BaTnum
Dismissed and mrs. Thompson Re-
instated.
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Wnter Pines. HOSE

BoUoTETs and cut flowers at Craig's.
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"OLD MARGARET" by Henry Kings
ley, at Mansford's, l5c. ZIG
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M LUMBER !

Lumber Dealers and Manufact'rs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
A NATIONAL MISFORTUNE.
immigration.

The New York Times gives the
following interesting statistics of the
addition to our population by immi-
grafton during the past year:
The annual report of the Commits
sioners of Emigration to the Legisla-
ture for the year 1874, dated Jan. IL,
1875, has just been received.
The total number of alien passen-
gers who landed at the port of New
York during the year 1874 was 140,-
041, less number than in any year
since 1862, 126,777 less than in 1873.
The entire number of passengers
from foreign ports who landed at the
port of New York in 1874, was 1884,
800, of whom 140,041 were aliens,
and 49,759 were citizens or persons
who had before landed at this port.
The number landed at Castle Garden
was 149, 762. Of these 100, APO were
aliens, 3, $50 were born in the United
States, and 1852 had previously
been in the United States. Of the
total number of passengers that land
ed 1877, 1876 came by 955 steamships,
and 2,615 came by 246 sailing vessels
OF the whole number of aliens who
arrived there were from Germany
40, 302; Ireland, 81 ,447; England, 10, :
or; Scotland, 4739; Sweden, 3,743;
Italy, 1904; Norway, 3 AT; Austrian
Empire, 321; France, 316; Hol-
land, 1885; Denmark, 3,154; Switzer-
land, 296; Russia, 1865; Belgium,
1926; Wales, 1926; Luxembourg, 800;
West Indies. 307; Spain, 249; South
America, ia; Canada. 1913; Australia,
SO !; Africa, II British Columbia, 3 (;
China, 81; East India, 43; Greece. q;
Isle of Man, II; Japan, 20; Malta, 7 f;
Mexico, %; Nova Scotia, Ga; New
Brunswick, ID; New Providence, 4;
Portugal, 20; Tur key, %.
OF the alien immigrants there were
52,577 male adults, 1920 female
adults, and 30, 1914 children under II
years of age.
OF the passengers landed at Castle
Garden, 50. 444 avowed their inten.
ton of remaining in the State of New
York; 1850 went to the Middle
States; 36,615 to the Western States
and terril cries; IL 237 went to the
Eastern States; $500 to the Southern
States and 2, 1872 80 Canada.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
One of the Sorrows Of Life.

Many a volume has been written
about the love of parents, the love OF
mothers, its enthusiasts of hope and
fancy, its alterations of the unworthy.
its agony for the lost; but / do not
remember that any one has ventured
to touch on a still more terrible view
of the subject, the disappointment,
| for example, with which such woman
as | have attempted to set before
the reader-a woman full of high as
pirations, noble generosities, and, per-
haps, an unwarrantable personal pride,
all intensified by the homeiy circum-
stances of life around her-sometimes
looks upon the absolutely common
place people whom she has brought
into the world. She, too, has had her
dreams about them while they were
children, and all things seemed posi-
| ble-while they were youths, with
still some grace and freshness of the
morning yelling their unheroic out
lines. But a woman Of seventy can
cherish no fond decisions about her
middle-aged sons and daughters, who
are to all intents and purposes, as old
as she is. What a dismal sense of
| failure must come into such a woman's
heart while she looks at them! Per-
haps this is one reason why grand :
fathers and grandmothers throw them
selves so eagerly into anew generation,
by means of which human nature can
60 on deceiving itself Heavensl
| What difference between the ordi-
nary man or woman of fifty and the
ideal creature which he or she ap-
peared to the mothers eyes at fifteen!
The old people gaze and gaze to see
our old features in us, and who can
express the blank of that disappoint-
ment, the cruel modification of those
old hopes which never find expression
in any words?-Mrs. Oliphant.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
The Proposed Constitutional Amend
ment.

In the House, Mr.. Harrison, from
the Com mittee on Elections, reported
bill proposing al amendment to
the Constitution in reference to the
election of President and Vice Presi-
dent.
The first section provides that the
President and Vice President shall
be elected by a direct vote of the
people. Each State shall be divided
into districts equal in number to the
number of Representatives to which
the State is entitled in Congress, and
the person having the highest num-
Der of votes in each district for Pres
ident shall receive the vote of that
district, but candidates for President
and Vice President are not 10 be
both citizens of the same State.
The second section provides that
the person having the highest num-
Der of votes for President in the
State shall receive two Presidential
votes from the State at large.
The third section provides that
the person having the highest num-
Der of Presidential votes in the Uni
ted States shall be President.
The fourth section provides that,
if two persons have the same num-
Der of votes in any State Git being
the highest NUMBER, each of them
shall receive one Presidential vote
from the State at large, but if more
than two persons shall receive the
same number, it being the highest
number, neither shall receive any
vote from the state OF large. If
more than one shall have the same
number of votes in any district, 1T
being the highest number, no Presi'
Dental vote shall be counted from
that district.
The fifth section makes the same
provisions applicable to the Wee
President.
The sixth section gives Congress
power to provide for holding and
conducting Presidential elections.
The seventh section provides that
States shall be divided into districts
by the Legislatures thereof; but
that Congress may at any time, by
law, make or alter the same.
The eighth section provides that
no person who has been Justice of
the Supreme Court shall be eligible
to the office of President or Vice
President.
Mr.. Harrison was going on to ex-
plain and advocate the bill, when he
was interrupted by observ2t'ons
from Lamar and Speer, members OF
Committee on Elections, 10 the effect
that they had not given their assent
to the report.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
What Every Wife Ought to Know,
From Lecturer by Monsieur Pallis

From a Lecturer by Monsieur Pallis
Every action and emotion depletes
the physical system. Milk, the first
food absorbed by men and animals,
is the only natural mixture, contain
inc all the elements of blood save the
coloring Water constitutes three
fourths of the body. To work well,
either physically or mentally, we
must be fed judiciously and thorough
". The worker must eat mixed food.
Food properly administered stimu-
lates the system as wine does, only
more naturally. The long night hours
empty the stomach, deplete the sys-
tenn, and chill the body. On arising,
the physical condition is low, and
should be recruited. If we loose
time at early morning in bringing the
body up to its natural heat and
strength, we can not regain it during
the day. A healthy man requires
about one pound of nutrimcnt per day
to keep him in good condition. While
working man would need daily five
pounds of solid mixed food, two and
half would be enough for persons
who lounge and sleep much.
Lite, said the lecturer, can be sus-
tanned two or three weeks on two
ounces a day. A change of diet
should follow change Of seasons
in winter, fats and sweets; in summer,
fruits, fish and light meats. Milk and
eggs, blood food; steak, flesh food;
potatoes and wheat, which, being
heating material, are fuel; and coffee, a
stimulent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
A Vessel Attacked by Whale.

The following is copy of the re-
port made by the bark Minstrel King,
official No. IS, 359, of Swansea: "May
10, 1874, latitude 81 deg. south, longi-
tude 80 deg. west; strong breeze and
fine weather, ship going seven and a
half knots through the water. From
a quarter past two a. m. to six a. m.
a large sperm whale chased the ship,
and struck her several times, and
when under the ships bottom raised
the after end of the ship from twelve
to eighteen inches out OF the water,
started steering gear and knocked
two men from the wheel, although we
had two tackles on, with two men on
each tackle. We then got the ships
bell, fog horn and tin drums, which
made tremendous sound, which l
considered caused the whale to leave
the ship. When alongside, | consid-
cred the whale to be from $50 to lao
feet long, as the tail was striking the
quarter of the ship and the head
square with the stem, all hands on
deck expecting the rudder to be un-
SHIPPED and the stern post started.
Happy to say, no damage was done
outside the ship. The whale along
side extended from the after bump
kin to before the cathead; length of
ship $50 feet" This statement is sign.
eddy George Jameson, master, and all
the officers who were on board.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
WHOLE NO. 1867.
The Rates of Interest.
From the St. Louis Republican.


The usual rate of interest in the
West is 10 per cent, and it is gener.
ally believed that this is the correct
measure of the value of money. II
the measure of the value of CON-
modify is what it will bring, this is
true; but if the true measure OF
value is what the article can be made
TO yield, it is not true. Experienced
capitalists and business men give it
as their mature opinion that there is
no kind Of property as profitable as
money loaned at 10 per cent. which
IS tantamount to saying that the
average yield of industries, enter
prises and speculations is less than
10 per cent. on the amount invested,
or IN other words, that money is not
really worth 10 per cent. There are
several considerations that strength
en- this conclusion. Money loaned at
10 per cent. will double itself in
seven and half years; $4,000 will
grow into 10000, and in that time
$4,000 will grow into SAC. 600.
That the average investments in
business ventures and industries will
not DO this is too we'll known to
need demonstration. While 100
men who loan money at 10 per cent
compounded will, with prudent
management, double their fortunes
in seven and half years, 100 men
who borrow money at that rate will
fail In spite of all the prudence and
foresight they may exercise, to dou-
BILE theirs. So far from it, fifty OF
them, if not more, will break. There
is nothing more clearly established
by the experience of business than
the fact that q man who conducts
his enterprises on borrowed capital
whose only resources, or chief
resources, are the products of bills
drawn on his shipments, will, in four
cases out of five, come to bankrupt
cy, And farmer who mortgages his
farm for half its value to secure
money at 10 per cent. in hope that
its net yield will pay the interest
ana principal, Will, IN TOUR cases out
of five, be sold out. These plain
and well known facts appear to prove
that the average annual product OF
money industry and agriculture is
not ten per cent. and that, while it
may bring that price, it is really not
worth it. If all classes of borrow
ers in the West could be brought to
appreciate this important fact, it
would De worth millions TO this re-
gion. There is a world of financial
pbilosopy in it. Nothing is more
absurd, ID, in the long run, more
disastrous than the delusion that a
man can get rich by borrowing mon
ey to speculate on it is the secret
of four-fifths of the cases of bank
ruptcy that occur in business and of
the sheriff's sales that take place in
the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
FALL OF A METEORIO STONE.
The Lands Near West Liberty, Iowa.

The Times has already made men
ton of brilliant meteor that was seen
at Iowa City and other points in Cen
trail Iowa on the evening of the 18th
inst. at half past ten O'Clock. Its
course was from southeast toward the
northwest. 1t was apparently about
half the diameter of the moon, and ac-
companied by beautiful train. The
color and vividness were about like
that of motion iron. While in view
it was seen to separate into many
fragments, and, after about three
minutes, the reports of three explosions
were distinctly heard. One of the
fragments seems to have fallen about
three miles south of the village of
West Liberty. An observer near that
point says: "For fully a minute the
heavens were lighted by the fierce
glare of the swiftly decending fire
ball, and when it struck, the earth
shook as from an earthquake for miles
around, and a noise of the conclusion
was heard by the people of Grinnell,
% miles away. The fiery ball strik-
ing terra firma in large open field,
frightened residents in the vicinity
half out of their wits. 1t sank fifteen
feet into the ground, and left a hole
of that depth and ten feet in diane
ter. For hours it continued to spit
forth flames, crackle, sputter and
smoke aud occasionally discharge
loud cannon-like reports to the inf
mite terror of the people in that vi
cinity. None dared approach while
this miniature volcano continued ID
action, but with the cessation of life,
hundreds gathered around to investi-
gate the wonder. "-Dubuque Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25
THE GAG" LAW.
Democratic Senators Endorse it.

The Senate Judiciary committee,
having been directed by the Senate
to report what is the meaning and
extent of the so-called "press gag
law" of June %, 1874, submitted a
report February 16, expressing their
opinion that the second section of
the act of June %, 1874, confers up
on the courts of the District of Col
umbia the power to arrest offenders
found ia the District who are charged
with crime committed within the
District, and hold them for trial
| (Which was the law before), and to
arrest offenders found in the Dis
trict who have committed crimes
| against the United States in some
judiciS. district of the United States.
and to send them to such district for
trial, and that is all. No person can
be brought into the District of Col
| umbia under it, either for libel or
any other crime. The committee are
of opinion that both sections Of the
act are necessary and proper, and in
perfect accordance with the princi-
pies of justice and of civilized juris-
prudence. Without provisions of
this character the District of Colum-
bia would be an asylum for often ders
committing crimes against the laws
of the United States and escaping
hither. 1t only remains to report,
as directed by the resolution of the
Senate. whether the said act has any
application TO prosecution or indict>
ment for the crime of libel in any
case: We are of opinion that, as
before stated, no person charged
with the crime of libel can be brought
into the District of Columbia under
it, for no person can be brought here
under it for any crime whatever, and
1t is equally plain that no person
charged with the crime C. libel in
any other district or place in the
United States can be arrested here
and sent to such district or place
under it, for ths following reasons
Libel Is not crime against the
laws of the United States in any of
the States, so that no case could
arise in which court or judge in
the District of Columbia could be
called upon to arrest person here
and send him to any State for trial
for libel. 1t should be here observed
that the jurisdiction of the courts of
the United Sta tes 10 criminal cases
is confined to offenses created by the
statute of the United States. No
offense at law is indictable or triable
in courts of the United States. 1t
was early determined by the Sapreme
Court of the United States, and is
the settled law of the land, if in any
Territory libel is crime by it's laws,
and if such laws could be held for
such purposes to be the laws of the
United States, the act under consid-
GRAFTON provides no aid in sending a
person from this District to such
Territory, for the third section of
the act of 1889 has no application
whatever to Territories. The result
is that the act of June 26, 1874, is
not, in our opinion, obnoxious 10 any
criticism, and in respect of the crime
of libel, it confers no power either to
bring person charged with it into
the District of Columbia, or send
him out of it.
GEORGE f. EDMUNDs.
Roscoe CoNKLING.
FRED F. FRELINGHUYsEN
GEORGE g. WRIGHT.
ALLEN G.. THURMAN.
JOHN w. STEVENSON.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25


I1fAST NATIONAL BANK OF BoSCOBEL, GRANT
4 Ce Wis 4. Meyer. Cashier b. NJ. Coates, Pres,
Dree -B. NJ. Coates j. II. Sarles Edward eyer,
Geo. +, Hiliebraud. Joseph Walker Transact Gem
er9l Banking Business; buy and sell Government Sc
cuutes, Gold, silver, Bullion Nc. Draws direct on
AZ tue principal citios Of Germany England ireland
Scotland, Scandinavia, France, Italy the orient and
Austfaa. Special attention given to the collection
Of monies and le2acies in foreigueountries Passen
rer Tickets tor luman and Guyou Zines. 3i-42
n ED. IS FYaAND BANKER LANCASTER, WIS.
" Deposits received Foreign aud domestis exchange
gold and United states bonds bought and sold
Loans negotiated and collections alto uded to. 81 Is
HUMPHREY = CLARKE BANKERS BLOOMING.
u ron, Wis. Buy and seil Goli and Government
BaHts sal Eastern Exchange. Prompt attention Civ
t3 collections At all points, and tho payment of
taxes Deposits received an 2 Loans negotiated. Al,
vlur+s made upnp approved securities. Interest al
owed special deposits at hest rates 30-42
H1nGEs i Co, BANKERS AND DEALERS
~ EAchange ana Government Securities Platte
vilIe Wis Particular attention. Given TO Collections
t1i ptag-ti- promptly RENTED on day Of paymont
Refer T. ienry 2iews CO., n y T.. EGgettan n Y,
Second National Bank Chicago, National Bank q
Gtlena. 30-42