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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-31

RAILROAD.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.

Change OF ScheOuASs
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, AUGUST %,
~ 1875, trains will run as follows;
Arrive. Leave
N. O. Mail. daily .....,-,- ESQ PIN, 200 pm
Express train daily Sun
days excepted 80. ."...... $3.50 am. 4:4O pm
Freight and Accommoda-
ton Sundays excepted) 4:90 p m. $3.50 am
Trains on this road make close connection
at Grenada with New Orleans, st. Louis and
Chicago railroad for Canton, jackson, Vicks-
burg. Meridian. New Orleans and Mobile. and
for all points North and South; at Memphis
withlconnecting lines for all points North and
East, and with the Memphis and Little Rock
railway for all points in Arkansas, Texas
and the West.
Tickets on sale at 2S7 Main street and at the
Depot. nj. BURKE, Sup,t.
JAMEs SPEED, Ticket Agent. 1874
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LErrER FROM JEFrERsoN DAvTs

As mentioned a few days since in the
LEDGER, Mr.. Jefferson Davis was invited
to make an address at an agricultural
fair in Bartholomew county, Indiana,
and before deeieing the most violent
opposition was raised by the warriors
around there who hired substitutes or
had to 90 out as hundred days men.
Not many Of them ever saw a rebel, IN
less they guarded some captured by sol.
diers. Perhaps none Of the loyal ho@lers
ever killed one. So they announced that
they would set themselves right on that
charge by killing JEFF Davis, the big old
rebelof all. The managers Of the fair
we're Republicans and gentlemen, and
in the face OF these threats stood by the
invitation and urged Mr.. Davis to come.
His final reply declining is published in
the Courier.Journal, and is altogether
what was to be expected from one SO
able, ready and dignifed. 1t is as fol.
lows:
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. %. 1875.
Jacob Davis, Esq:
Ny DEAR SIR-In addition to the tele.
gram sent to you Of this date, l write in
order that l might state fully the reasons
which induced me to notify you not to
expect me at your agricultural fair. |
sensibly feel the cordial invitation which
you extended to me, and hoped that the
contemplated address might be useful to
the material interests common 10 all
portions of the Mississippi Valley.
Nothing was further from my purpose
than the discussion Of political Ques-
tions, and, therefore, / did not ask wheth-
err my audience would be in accord with
myself on political subjects, OF Of a
creed wholly antsgonizing my own,
From your letter oi the 18th iDstq ]
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River Telegram.

CAIRO, August 3l.-Arrived-Eddy-
vile, Nashville, 4 am; Bee, St, Louis,
10. Departed-John Gilmore, Ohio
river, 6 am Lioness and Kanawha, st..
Louis, Z; Eddyville, Nashville, o., Clear
warm.
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BONDS.
QUARTER BONDS
or THE
Industrial Exhibition Co.
FIVE DOLLARS EACH,
So EACH,
FIVE DOLLARS EACH,
80 90,

WILL BUY AQUARTER BOND OF THE
wv Industrial Exhibition Company Of New
York.
Each Quarter Bond participates in -Four
series s%llotments every year, until 1t is re-
deemed.
The following Premiums show what any
Bond may receive. a quarter Bond would
receive one quarter Of the below named pre-
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The Boston News, a Republican jour
nal, advises the W~innebagoes to tie their
ears in a bowknot over their heads, so as
not to step on them. This is an insult
to the whole iacksss tribe.
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EDUCATIONAL.
THE
ONLY POLYTECHNIC HOME SCHOOL,,
ST. CLEMENTS HALL, Elliott City, Nd.

1--WE VACANCIES OWING TO EN-
Il largement, Apply at once, Graduates
rank high. Receives only irst-olass boys.
Four courses: Classical, Liberal, Scientific,
Comm'l., Send stamp TO MASTERS for Decen-
NAL catalogue. IS6-3dAY
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The cornerstone Of the old Masonic
Hall at Halifax, which was laid by Queen
Yietoria's father in 1900, has been ex.
humed, with the inscription in a fair
state Of preservation. It will be built
into the wall Of the new temple, whose
cornerstone is to be laid on the 3lst
instant.
Limitation was represented by ladies'
dresses a few years ago, contraction is
we'll represented by them now. The
Bazaar says n can neither sit down nor
walk in them, and they are so long that
il is impossible to raise them in walking.
Never says that oracle Of fashion,
has o lady so closely resembled an
umbrella tightly eneased in its sheath as
at the present time"
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FRACTIONS AT IS EACH.

Any fraction Will pc GOOD AFTER tne dIaWlng
for S5 in the purchase of q whole bond. The
distribution will take place on September 9Th,
positively.
Bear in mind always that in case a fraction
fails to receive a premium it is good for IS
anyway. This Is a speculation without a loss.
A limited number Of fractions only remain
TO be sold.
The Company is not responsible for any
money sent, except il be by check, postal or.
der, draft, or express payable to the order Of
Circulars sent on application.
Address.
Industrial Exhibition Company,
IL East 18th street,
l4s-2&w26.7 Now york City.
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Buy Before september 9th.
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PREMIUMS.
ACHANCE FORAPREMIUM

NO CHANCE FOR LOSS.
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SEND FOR

GovERNoR's OFFICE.
RICHMOND. July 8, 1874. !
1t affords me pleasure to say that | am we'll
acquainted with a large majority of the officers
of the Montpelier Female Humane Associa-
ton, who reside in the vicinity of my home,
and 1 attest their intelligence and worth and
high reputation as gentlemen as we'll as the
public confidence, influence, and substantial
means literally represented among them,
j. i. KEMPER, Gov. Va.
They refer, by permission, to every member
Of Congress from Virginia.
For full particulars, etc., apply 10
G.. II. SAMUEL,
No. 6 West Court street. Memphis.
151-xxi22
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PRICE OF TICKETS:

Whole Tickets. $40; Halves, $40; Quarters. SIS;
Eighths: or each Coupon ,s2. 80; Five and
one-half Tickets. for S100; Eleven
Tickets for 5000.
"reminiscences for tickets may be made by ex-
press prepaid, postotice money order on
Washington. d. @ or by registered letter ad-
dressed to HON. JAMES BARBOUR,
Pres't NJ. +. II. A., Alexandria. V.
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LTsT or GIFTs:

22.17S Cash Gifts. amounting to...-. 81, 900. 900
NUMBER OF TICKETS, ~...~rIOO,OO
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WHOLE BONDS.

T 1sT OF PREMIUMS TO BE AWARDED.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12
Tnct. opm,
Capsici,
Rhei CO.,
Nlenth pip,
Canpho.

Wicked Understanding candles.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12
A Bear on a Spree.
ing

When the editorial party were at the
summit yesterday morning number of
them who had been informed as to the
amusing performances of the large CHINA
mon bear kept at Cardwell's Hotel ex-
pressed desire to see him accomplish
his feat of drinking glass of whisky, and
Cardwell, to oblige them, ordered the
keeper of the animal to take him into the
saloon, where the bar-keeper promptly
prepared whisky punch and placed it on
the counter before him. The bear placed
his fore-paws on the edge of the counter
and drank the liquid with apparent relish
many of the excursionists meanwhile pat
ting him or feeling of his coat The glass
having been drained of its contents, the
bar keeper compounded second punch
and passed it to the bear with his left
hand but at that moment one of the by
ISLANDERS playfully took the bear by the
ear. The beast, becoming enraged in
simultaneously, seized the bar-keeper's
hand, sinking his teeth deep in the tieshy
portion Of it and attempting meanwhile to
pull the man over the counter. The
keeper beat the bear over the head to make
him let go, but without the desired effect.
The bartender drew a revolver and
pointed it at The animals head but
did not fire, fearing the shot might
not be fatal, and that matters would be
made worse, and some Of the by-standers
would also have used their reyolycrs but
for the same reason. A scene of intense
excitement prevailed All efforts to make
the bear loose his hold failed, and in the
end the hand had to be pulled by main
force out of his jaws, causing terrible
laceration, strings of flesh hanging down
as the hand was finally withdrawn. The
bear now grew much more violent, and
the crowd of ladies and gentlemen that had
filled the saloon became panic stricken and
fled in all directions, the men shouting
and the women screaming. The keeper,
however, having hold of the bears chain,
took a turn around post supporting the
ceiling of the apartment and kept him
from doing further hurt, and finally, after
receiving Il considerable beating, he was
removed to his cage. The bar keeper,
whose wonderful nerve and courage We're
commented upon admiringly by all-he
having scarcely changed color, notwith-
standing the pain-eNpressed his determl-
nation To kill the bear, but the keeper and
others opposed him, and he then gave up
his situation at the house in disgust Sac
rGH2fHto Union
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12
The Lafayette Statue.

The statue of Lafayette, which was or
dered by the French Government, under
Theirs, in 1871, for presentation to the city
Of New York as an expression of gratitude,
and in remembrance Of the friendly offer
ings and kind feelings of its people during
and at the close of the late war, arrived at
this port last week, consigned to the Con
sul-General of France, and in the honorary
charge Of NJ A. Salmon, President of the
Cercle Francois de PHarmonie. The statue
was finished one year ago, but no arrange
ments had been made for its shipment, nor
would there have been at this time had not
NJ. Salmon taken upon himself the duty of
investigating the matter, and assumed the
expenses attending its removal. The fig
urc is seven feet high, exclusive of the
pediment, and is the work of M. Frederic
Bartholdi, an eminent sculptor of the
French school, and native of Colmar
in Alsace. The design represents Gen.
Lafayette in his twentieth year, and
was suggested to the sculptor by the pas
sage taken from his memoirs in which he
says: GAS soon as ! heard Of the Declare
ton OF independence my heart was en-
rolled in the cause" He stands upon
the bulwarks of the ship, as if in the act
of speaking His right arm is thrown
across his breast, the hand grasping the
hilt of his sword the left arm is graceful
ly extended, and supports a mass of
drapery which falls at his feet The
body is firmly posed upon the right foot,
while the left leg is extended, and only the
toe of the military boot rests upon ihe
bulwark The head is partly turned
to the right, and is strikingly in accord
with the action Of the body. The pose of
the figure Is excellent, and the
simple yen graceful arrangement of the
drapery adds greatly to its force. The
military cloak envelops no part Of the fig
ure; but, as it falls from the arm, lends a
grand suggestion of strength to the design,
and the formal lines of the military cos
tune assume a picturesqueness which is
really attractive The portrait was studied
from paintings Of Lafayette taken from
life, and is said to be accurate. The sculp-
tor received $50, 900 francs for his work. 1t
is the wish of the French residents in
New York that the statue should be erect
ed in Central Park, and this has been ac
quiesced in by the park authorities, No
time has yet been set for the unwilling
ceremonies, and before this can be done a
proper pedestal must be provided, rs well
AS the necessary expenses connected with
it.-4ppletons' Journas
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12
Cooking Food for Swine.

THESE steamers and food cookers one
sees at the fairs are all very nice, but a
farmer can make a better cooker for him.
self at one-third the cost of those patented
affairs Make box Of hard wood and of
the desired capacity, ends and sides slop-
ing. For the bottom use piece of sheet
iron as wide as the outside of the box
Place the box upon brick work "a trench
in the ground can be made to answer the
purposel, within which the fire is placed
1t should have door, with a damper be
meath, to admit the air, that the fire may be
properly regulated; the escape for smoke
ut the opposite end. In the end of the box
should be "a faucet or slide, through which
the box can be emptied. The cover is
movable, and should consist of plank, cut
on bevel to correspond with the slope of
the sides and the ends of the box, and made
to fit inside, not on the top.
Place few loose cleats or supports at
intervals in the bottom of the box, after it
is placed in position over the tire-box or
trench, and upon these supports place a
false bottom. The false bottom should be
perforated sufficiently to allow water TO pass
down and up freely, but the perforations
should be sufficiently small to prevent con
siderable quantities of the contents of the
box from passing down. The false bottom
should be taken out whenever the box is
cleaned, in order to prevent an accumula-
ton of material beneath it. Its object is to
prevent food from burning, which itwould
do if upon the bottom of the box proper.
1t not only has the merit OF economy IN
construction, but OF being very economical
in operation. The box will hold all that
will likely be required at one time. The
fire box is large and roomy, and the fire
can be made largely of old chunks fit for
nothing else, or of long pieces of wood,
and when the fire has once got fairly I'M
der way the hampers can be closed, and
the farmer can go 10 other work while the
cooking is proceeding, for if the wood
does not burn long enough the bed OF
Goals remaining will be sufficient for the
purpose.
In constructing such an apparatus it
would be well TO make the sides of the box
long enough to admit of their being fast
ened together by iron bolts outside the
ends to prevent spreading, and the bottom
might be made foot or more longer than
The box at one end, and in the projecting
portion joint of Stove-plpe fitted To act Is
a chimney, and before the bottom is nailed
to its place a heavy coat of thick white
lead should be smeared upon the edges of
the boards that will receive it, that the
joint may be tight, The tire-box or trench
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12
How Rotten Hazel.Nuts and Filberts
Are Rejuvenated.

People who are fond of sampling hazel
nuts, or their still more delectable con-
gener-the tilbert-are frequently dis
gusted to discover that what appears to be
a remarkably beautiful nut contains a
moldy and nauseous kernel. During the
last week many hawkers have been en-
gagged in vending haZel-nuts, and there
has been more profanity among nut fan
ciers than ever characterized any previous
week in our history For the nuts have
been so fair and inviting to the eye and
so rotten and repulsive to the taste. A re-
porter was vending his way through
Crosby street the other day. He had been
cracking golden filberts for an hour, and
had catered to his craving by about per
cent of sound kernels. Just behind the
Theater ComiQue, up a frowsy, odorous
gagged in violently agltating the contents
of IA large tub by means Of well-worH
broom. The reporter thought he might
be washing potatoes, turnips, or other
bulb, and stopped to make a note of the
operation. Suddenly hazel-nut leaped
clean out of the tub. The reporter ad-
vanced, and discovered that the man was
washing nuts. The Italian, by pantomimic
gestures, llulCdtcu us piedSuTc at tlle iuNd-
sion of his den, and when the reporter
stopped and captured piece of stray pa
per, on which was label, the mans eyes
looked Indignantly. The paper was la
beled "OXalic acid-poson, and the re-
porter, by the aid of that paper, has since
been able to crack the problem of the nuts
Oxalic acid, which is composed of char
coal, hydrogen and oxygen, is a vrulent
poison, and is used largely in the manu-
factories for bleaching straw, cane and viii
low work. 1t has long been known that
straw hat may be rejuvenated by washing
it in a solution of OXalic acid and then dry
ing il in the sun. 1t has the same effect
upon the outer skin or shell of the hazel
nut or tilbert 1t is comparatively cheap,
and as much of the salt may be obtained
for five cents as will rejuvenate two bush
els of nuts. They are then dried, and to
the most experienced eye they then look
fresh, sound and tempting. When rotten,
fusty nuts can be thus doctored it would
seem that there is hardly any limit to the
articles of Observation-Disclosures
HePGN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12

should be little narrower than the bot.
tom OF the box, so that the fire will No,
act directly upon the bottom where il il
nailed to the wood. ! "
Such an apparatus as is here described
will cook corn admirably, and would, We
elieve, answer the purpose with meal if
the mush were not required too thick. IF
corn unground is cooked long enough IN
become soft, it will probably be found tn
answer all the purposes of grinding. Such
an apparatus can also be used for SOAKING
corn when it is not designed to cook IL
and, when hog killing time comes, it will
be found Of great use as scalding vat
keeping fire under it all the time, and re-,
ducing the temperature of the water, when
necessary, by the addition of cold water
National Lire Stock Journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12

throwing the party in the water. The
workman swan about for mo-
ment in search of the rest, but
could not find them in the dark, and
came to the sad conclusion that they had
been crushed by the falling stones. He
managed to save himself but believed the
others lost. In the morning he met his
friend, who told him that he had saved his
baby and had left it at the hospice during
the night. The wife was drowned The
poor man ran to the hospice to ask for his
child. Immediately on receiving the lit
tie creatures some fifty or sixty in num-
Der, they had been stripped Of their wet
clothes and the clothing of all had been
sent to be washed and dried. No one
thought OF marking the clothing for the
purpose of identification. The father
found that all the babies Of five months
looked so nearly alike that he could not
pick out his own, and every day since he
has spent hours in the hsspice trying to
find which Of the children saved belongs
to him. AT one moment he believes that
instinct has guided him to the right baby !;
the next he picks cut another and then
another, until he is himself confused. A
mother would doubtless recognize her
baby by many marks familiar to her, but
it is not so easy for the father, who knows
less of his child's body than of the clothes
it wears Very many stories of this kind
are told, and some of them are very touch
inp'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12

as they generally baptize by sprinkhng,
not by immersion. The Mennonites OBJ
serve the ordinance of feet-washing, and
forbid their members to be married to any
except those who have been united to the
church. AS they have been compelled in
Europe for generations to remain in col
onies, the continual intermarriage which
has thus been necessitated has not only
retained all the original surnames,
but made the addition of new ones
as the numbefs increased almost i'm
possible. The consequence is that
in every community many families
bear the same name. Among the 800 i'm
migrants which arrived yesterday the ma
jority answered to the name either of
Funk or Harms immigration to this
country began in 1858, when small colo
ny Of Mennonites settled in and about
Germantown. In 1909 other families from
the Palatinate settled in Pequa Valley,
Lancaster County. The tide of immigra-
ton has since been increasing, of late years
the numbers have rapidly become larger,
and Mennonites can now be found in
many parts of this State, in Maryland
Ohio, New York, Canada, and, more re-
Gently, in the far West 1t is estimated
that they now number in this country over
100000 souls. The Mennonites brought
over by the Nederland will leave this city
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, this morn
ing, and go direct to points along the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chica-
go, Milwaukee & ST. Paul, and Burlington
Il Missouri Railroads, where they expect
to purchase land About dozen families,
however, will 60 to Manitoba, Canada. A
small party will settle on Government
lands in Dakota, but almost all the others
will purchase land of the railroad compa-
MES.
There are now on the way to New York
500 more Mennonite immigrants, who will
shortly arrive by the Red Star line steam
ship Nevada. They will go direct TO the
West and join their friends who came in
the Nederland. Philadelphia Press, July
%
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-12
The MennOnites.

Over 100 families of Mcnnonites from
the south of Russia were yesterday landed
in this city by the steamship Nederland
of the Red Star line There are in all
about $50 persons, most of whom bear the
impress on their countenances of oppression
and persecution extending back through n
long line of ancestors, but all seemed yes.
terday joyous with hope and determined
to make the most of the advantages of the
country of their adoption. In this connec-
ton brief sketch of the history of the sect
may prove of interest
The denomination known as the "Men-
nonites' was first organized in Holland
by Memo Simonis, retormer, in the six
teenth century. Memo was originally a
priest of the Roman Catholic Church. but
declared himself in favor of reformation
OF the church after Witnessing the behead-
ing of Sicke Snyder, who was put To death
for having been rebaptized, and also see
ing his (Nlcnuo's) brother killed in 1875,
when an AnabaptiSt movement was put
down by force. He separated from the
church, and gathering together the scat
tered congregations OF the WaldenseS,
founded in Holland the denomination of
Mennonites, or Dutch Baptists, rs they
Were originally called. For a long time
the sect suffered greatly in their native
country from the national prejudice which
contounded them with the AnabaptStS,
and as they rejected beth p9do-haptism
and "the oath" they found little sympathy
among the majority of European Protest,
ants, In 1881 they were granted degree
of liberation Ivy William of Orange, hut ii
was not until almost 100 years later that
they obtained full liberty OF worship. Their
number in Holland was estimated in the
middle of the eighteenth century nj 100,
0o0 but this was made up partly by i'm.
migration from Germany and Switzerland
In Germany they numbered during the
seventeenth century over &c 600. hat they
were greatly perSecuted, and it was not
until the revolution of 1918 that most of
the German States granted them full civil
liberty. Toward the close of the eight
zenith century several thousand German
Mennonites found a quiet retreat in the
south of Russia, near the Sea of A2of. and
obtained a charter from the Emperor Paul
granting them freedom from military Serv.
ice forever. This was To them a great
boon, as, like the Society Of Friends. they
are utterly adverse TO war aS we'll as TO
capital punishment and oa,hS In doc.
,rinc &ad usagos they are not unlike the
BaplStS, except in the mode OF baptism,