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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
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The Appeal, in commenting on the
substitution of two normal schools fol
the two high schools abolished, says: 1T
is like marching up the hill, then down
again" The Appeal is old and slow,
but we have faith in il yet. We believe
it has been misinformed and misled by
certain parties who gained its ear and
made misrepresentation. But we do
not hesitate to record u faith that the
Appeal will yet get its eyes open to the
great wrong done our schools by placing
an incapable man over them, a man OBJ
n~oxious because of his illiteracy, because
of his egotism, his spitefulness TO the
home teachers, those born and bred in
our midst, spiteful because they could
not stoop to the meanDess Of hAttering
him, Because he felt they saw through
his pretentiousness believe the Appeal
will yet come to the rescue Of our public
schools and advocate the appointment of
some home man in whom the people have
confidence. And the man or men who
impudently asserted there was not in our
city a single person fit To superintend
our schools can be pardoned on the sup
position that their position here socially
has been such as has never brought them
acquainted with educated gentlemen and
ladies'. Colonel Leath aud Mr.. Slaughter
were both good superintendents; young
Foute would make an active and able
superintendent; Colonel Meigs would be
a splendid man for the place.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

When married" said ext Chancellor
of the Exchequer Lowe at a London
dinner party, / declared, with my
worldly goods | thee endow," although
hadn't a shilling in the world. But"
chimed in his wife, you had your
splendid talents" Yes, my dear, but
you know / didn't endOw you with them, .
was the right honorable gentleman s
reply.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

LARAMIE CITY, WYOMING, July l-Co!-
onel L. B. CARING, quartermaster at
Fort Sanders, Wyoming, committed sui
eide last night by cutting his throat from
ear to ear. Financial embarrassment
and the complication Of his official Of.
fairs are assigned as the cause
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
Prnnnrntora OF nisense

The Pail Mall Gazette says: Among
the many agents for the spread Of infec-
tious diseases are, it seems, our domestic
pets. For the propagation OF a fever a
dog is sometimes as bad, if not worse,
than a drain, and a case is referred to in
the Sanitary Record, in which scarlet
fever was carried from one child to
another by q favorlte retriever. The dog
had been reared in a house where scar
latina prevailed, and was subsequently
given to a friend of the family. Shortly
after, one of the children in the dogs
new home was attacked with malignant
seariatine and died. Disirf fec anti we're
used plenti. ally, and every ~precaution
taken to prevent a recurrence of the
malady, but in two months time a sec
ohd child took the same disease, in it's
worst form, and died. As the dog had
been the constant companion and play
fellow Of these children, its woolly coat,
1t is alleged, became so charged with
contagious matter as to render it a
source Of disease and death. Although
it is fair to the dog to admit that the
children may have caught the fever from
other es than his woolly coat, yet
there is reason to fear that both dogs and
cats, especially the latter, do occasional
ly assist in the circulation of infectious
illness, and where fever prevails the
they are lodged out Of the house
the better, They are, however, probably
not more dangerous in this respect than
books. No one who takes up a book
from a library ever troubles himself or
herself as to the antecedents of the vol
umei it may have just left the hands of
fevar nafiantn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

Rev. Samuel P. Putnam. who says he
finds quite as much, if not more, spiritH-
al quickening in the writings of other
men as in the words Of Jesus, has reques-
ted hat his neme be removed from the
Unitarian Year Book.
The will of Miss Mary Telfair, who
died in Savannah, Georgia, a few days
ago, gives Sl75, 900 to the Georgia Histo.
rical Society, $50, 900 to the Independent
Presbyterian Church in Savannah, and
$4,000 to the Presbyterian Church in
Augusta.
The rude crowds that scramble out Of
railroad cars and steamboats,, and tram
pie the honest but difident hackmen I'M
der their feet, are to be checked some
what in San Francisco. A hackmea's
protective association has just been
organized there.
A child was lost in the woods near
Blooming Grove, Pike county, Penn, a
few days ago. For three days and nights
parties searched the woods. When the
child was found he was unconscious and
lying in a r~attlesnake's den. Four o.
the snakes had to be killed by the res
cuer before the child could be touched
This is regarded as one Of the most won
derful escapes ever recorded.
Rev. W. james, presiding elder in tbt
United Brethren Church, in one of thu
districts in Kansas, says that in tn,
bounds Of his work one Of the preachers
for the want Of bread, takes but one mea
a day, and another could not attend hi
quarterly meeting for the want n shoes
The question Of bread is very seriou
among them, as the grasshoppers hay
destroyed everything.
Queen Victoria sent to Captain Mares
Of the Arctic Expedition, just prior t
his sailing from Portsmouth, the follow
ing telegram; II earnestly wish 20
and your gallant companions success
and l trust that you may safely accom-
plish the important duty you have S
bravely undertaken The Queen ais
sent each commander a package, whic
was not to be opened until the ship
were well out at sea.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

WHEN men 60 to sea and the vessel is
not heard Of fer twenty-five years the
world is justi6able in %supposing they
are lost. About twenty-five years ago
fifteen or twenty men chartered the
schooner Florinda at New Orleans and
sailed for California by way Of Cape
Horn. The last heard of the vessel was
from Rio Janerio. A vessel touching
there late in the year lS49 reported hav-
ing spoken to the FlOrinda in the Pacific
just beyond Cape Horn. The families
Of the men gradually gave them up as
lost. And now comes the strange story
in a round about way that a British ves-
sci driven out Of her course in the lower
Pacific came upon an unknown island
and found most of the men of the
'orinda alive. They had never heard
. word from the outside world and de-
,lined to leave the island, not knowing
n what situation they would find their
families and feeling est to the world.
The story is not very reasonab.'s' out 1t
has greatly agitated the friends OF the
lost men in New Orleans, and every
effort will be made to solve the mystery.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

one hundred reporters have attended
regularly upon the Beecher trial, and
the New York and Brooklyn papers will
be stale and insipid when it is over.
This peculiar kind Of pabulum hos be-
come ss essential to the average Brook
Ignite as the Police Gazette or Days
Doings is to its readers. What vii
lains, what numbers Of fallen men and
women, Of desolated homes and dis
graced children, what wr~etchedness, mis-
cry, discomfort, abominable suspicious,
and direful heart burnings and sad.
ness will be made by this exposition
Of iniqaity. The christian people Of
this country will have need to guard
their homes and inculeate strict moral
ity around the Preside with more vigil
lance and zeal than ever before to coun-
teract the baneiul influences Of this
great trial, which seems to pervade the
very air.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

LoFDER, the little Englishman who
saw so much at Tilton' house, now takes
it all back and says when he slipped in
on Beecher and Mrs. Tilton they were
on their knees at prayers. Price and
Loeder have lied about this affair, and
what they may say for or against Beecher
is entitled to no weight. They have
been seeking notoriety and found it in
iail.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
BONDS.
Local Agents Wanted.

An Agent Wanted for Each Town,
and county in the United states.
Parties desiring to act as agents must &C.
company their application by letter Of recon-
mendation as to Character and responsibility
from and signed by the editor of a newspaper
published in the town or county for which
agent proposes to act. The agency is to sell
the bonds of the Industrial Exhibition Com
noo,,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
Fire.

CLEVELAND, July LA fire last night
burned the tobacco mandatory Of John
A. Wheeler & Co., l3a River street.
The estimated loss on the building, stock
and machinery is $4,000; insured for
$4,000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

There is far too much of this centen
NAL matter, this Bunker Hill and other
old continental stuff. 1t is gratifying.
however, to feel that the most of us will
not have to go through it again in 1875.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
The Public Ledger for Absenlees.

Subscribers leaving the city for the summer
months can have the PUBLIC LEDGER mailed
to any address at 75c per month. postage paid.
Leave orders at counting room. No. 10 Madi-
son street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

The numerous storms and earthquakes
this year are accounted for by the transit
Of Venus, which occurred last Decem-
Der, and it is believed disturbed the
electrical equilibrium Of the earth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
robabuttie

WASHINGTON, July l.-For the Ohio
valley and Tennessee, northeast to south
east winds, high pressure, cool, partly
| cloudy weather and occasional rains.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

WHETHER Price and Loeder swore
falsely or told the truth and were fright
ened or bribed into a retraction, their
evidence would be Of no use in future.
They have rather strengthened the
Beecher crowd, who now cry out Justify,
conspiracy! perjury persecution
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

IHE ex'Emperor Ferdinand the First
died at Prague on the 29.h of lung
disease a. the age Of eighty-.wo.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

are those who demand the pound of
flesh, and will be satisfied with nothing
else.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
River q

CAIRO, July l.-Arrived-St. Gene
We've, Vicksbure, 8 am; Future State,
81. Louis, 5. Departed-St Geneyieve,
St. Louis, 5 am. Fair and hot.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

WHO will care for mother now, or 90
to California, since the Appeal has
stopped the movement?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01

Most Of the Episcopal Bishops of Fog.
land have al last concluded that Nj odyTs
Lord aud their Lord are identical.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
How the Brigands Serve their TraI.
tors.

The Visalia california; Delta says:
About two months ago a Mexican by the
name Of Francisco Viella came to the
rancho of John Heinlan, of Mussel
Slough, ard hired out 10 herd horses.
He subsequently, stated that he had been
one of the Chavez band, had resolved to
leave them and was fearful that be would
be murdered for so doing. On the morn.
ing of the 10th instant, after Viella had
gone to his work, a large, well dressed
man-whom the China cook took to be
either q Mexican or a Frenchman-rode
up and wanted breakfast. He was
mounted on a large bay horse and armed
with pistol and gun, He rode away
over the plain. Toward night the horse
of Viella was found tied to the fence,
with the saddle removed, and forty or
fifty rods away the dead body Of the
rider was found, where he had been
lassoed aud dragged over the plain until
his neck was broken and life extinct.
There can be no doubt but the MUIR
derer was a member OF the Chavez
gang,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-01
FuRNIsHlMo GOODS

WE WOULD REQUEST THE ATTEN-
' lion Of gentlemen to the following lines
OF goods, which we are now selling at prices
lar below Their actual value:
Gentlemen's fine White Dress Shifts,
81 each and upward;
Gentlemen's Gauze Undershirts, 75c
each and upward;
Gentlemeh's Summer MerinO Under.
shirts, 75c each and upward;
Gen;lemen's Checked NainsOek I'm.
dushiits, Use zach arc upward;
Gentlemen's Fine Drill Drawers, SOC
per pair;
Gentlemen's Fine Linen Drawers,
81 IS per pair;
Special lines of Gentlemen's Scarf.
bows and Ties at
UNPRECEDENTEDLY LOW PRICES
b. LOWENSTEIN q BROS,
gag, 244 and 246 Main street, cOr.
nar ~ Jefferson. 80f
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-26

in the camaristas of Italy, to gain
ground here. Let them not think that
the evil of mob rule will cease with
the intimidation or determination of Re-
publicans. The same remedy would be
applied to any other alleged wrong. Sep
arate the schools between white and
black, and the schools will be here as
elsewhere, separated between Romanist
and Protestant. Overthrow Governor
Kellogg because he is hated by the De-
mocracy, or Lieutenant Governor An
tome because he is of color, and you may
have an American governor attacked be-
cause he can not speak Spanish, Italian or
French, or mayor driven from the city
because he wishes to collect the drainage
tax. Let not men who abandon the re-
straints of the American constitution eX-
pect that the practice Of multiplying the law
by combination or riot will cease at their
bidding. All the contagious of Europe,
which our ancestors of the Revolution
crossed the sea to escape, have followed
them. The monarchists first denounced
and ridiculed republicanism. We could
well withstand their enmity, but their
friendship is fatal. They have sent their
emissary doctrines with other epidemic
diseases among US. We are taught that
the right to educate our children
and to form their faith abides
abroad. We are told that when law does
not suit any part of the people, they should
assemble in riot, or secretly and silently
stilletto the men who enforce it. 1t is
proclaimed that the established opinion
of this country is Democratic, and those
who teach anything else are political
heretics FORGETTING all the rights of social
and political fellowship. A Jew was never
more prosecuted for the uniform of color
that he was compelled to wear, the Pro-
.cctant woe never more n nroner subject
of being burned at the stake, than is Re-
publican who, living under the republican
government which his ancestors gave their
blood to found and form, bears any part
in the administration of the government
which those ancestors bequeathed him.
Such is the European plan of reforming
a government which has been introduced
in this republic, and, unhappily, the Eu-
ropean plan finds too many disciples
among US.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-26

keepers will require them to adhere closely
to the rules of the bylaws of the ex-
change association, regardless of the con-
stitution of travellers. If low class of
guests should get into first class hotel
by false repres entaton, or by oversight of
the genial clerk, he must be Immediately
put out. The same action will be re-
quired on the part of the low-class land
lord who may have unwittingly received
traveller who is anxious to pay for first
class fare.
When the system is completed, how
ever, there will be but little confusion.
Regarding travellers, baggage will be the
standard of the man. 1t will be the duty
of each hotel keeper to paste his label on
each trunk, that it may be determined
where man came from and where he
ought to go, and hackmen could be
punished for taking travellers of one class
to hotels of another class. To effect such
an exchange here might require some
legislation; but we have able Democrats
who have done wonders in. the monopoly
line, and we have no doubt they could
easily manipulate bill securing a mono
poly on travellers.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-26

shall be stuck. Terms are applied to the
Republican press which can alone be ex-
planned by the unjust determination to
silence or destroy. 1t is asserted. that this
"cormorant press violates every decency as
well as every right" "Cormorants' are
not expected to be very decorous or respect
full, but we demand to know what decency
we have violated? What right have
we denied? What partisan false
hoods have We forged? What statements
have we invented? 1t is a proof of the
authority assumed that the Republican
press has been denounced in terms far
more insulting and abusive than even
those which We quote. But there are, it
seems, certain parties having exclusive
rights to employ abusive language to-
wards the Republican press, to which it
would be an insolent offense to reply. 1t
may be that same campaign combina-
alton which wreaks its local power upon
those weaker than itself, and receives
stronger power than itself with obsequous
obedience. 1t may be the same party
which Expresses those weaker or more
timid than itself, and then cries out for
American sympathy by complaining of
the expressions which are practiced upon
itself by those who attempt to protect the
weak.
We deny on behalf of the Republican
press that it has disregarded the proprie.
ties of political or professional warfare.
We call for the proof of forgeries or in
ventions. What has been done has been
decisively AMI resolutely done, and will
be repeated. If we live in land where
opinion may be freely expressed we shall
avail ourselves of our rights. If we in
habit country where the imprimatur of
a Democratic central committee is indis-
pensable to the expression OF publication
g or::=:c::. &c :::-.c:! .sc ~hc!c A::c-
lean people shall know it,
Our present object is to show that the
purpose is avowed by part of the
Democratic party to repudiate the CON-
promise of last spring, and that the Dem
ocratic party, not feeling able to cope
with the Republican press, and not being
willing that the events of the ensuing
campaign shall be published abroad, ex-
cept through Democratic version, have
determined to spike the Republican press
by intimidation, prescription or-destruc-
ton.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-26

The Lomsianian is not, at present, doing
itself much credit in discussing the school
question. 1t is, unfortunately, neither
truthful we'll informed nor profound. For
instance, it asserts that at the recent
election of teachers, "many most
unobjectionab]e and worthy teachers
were made to give way for especial frienls
of the REPUBLICAN" There is not one
word of truth in this statement. No
friend of this paper, nor any one con-
nected with it, asked for the dropping OF
single name from the old list, and not
one new appointment was made at the
request of anybody nearely or remotely
connected with this ONCE. me marking
for decapitation was done in secret meet
ings, of which five or six directors had no
knowledge until those who participated
in them began to vote solid from pro-
grammes, all written in the same hand,
and distributed among those who had
pledged themselves to support that slate.
Unfortunately, the members who had
joined in the ring were obliged to confess
that they were Ignorant of the character
for ability of nearly all the teachers thus
marked to be dropped. They first neg
lected their duties as directors by failing
to visit the schools, as the law and their
oath of Office requires, and then turned
out the best teachers in the schools, be-
cause they did not know whether they
were good or not.
Again, the LouiSianian says: at will
be noticed with considerable regret by
the colored friends OF the REPUBLICAN that
it says it was opposed to the election of
Mr.. Edmunds, as matter of policy,
owing to the opposition he would en-
counter on account of his being 'one-
eighth colored."
The REPUBLICAN never gave utterance
to such sentence. This journal had no
knowledge of what was transpiring in the
secret meeting of the board, and had no
opportunity to express any views on the
subject of Mr.. Edmunds' election, pro or
con. We stated, as a matter of fact that
some of the directors doubted the pro-
priety of substituting Mr. Edmunds for
Mr. Brossnan, and gave the reasons
falsely attributed to this paper. The
REPUBLICAN is not responsible for the
individual opinions of directors, nor dis
posed to dictate to them rules for their
guidance in determining the proper policy
to be pursued by them, so long as they
keep within the law,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-26
A HOTEL KEEPERS EXCHANGE.

A Chicago paper is advocating the es-
adjustment of hotel keepers exchanges
not bar rooms, as we know them at coun-
try railroad stations, but associations
comprising hotel keepers, for business
purposes, after the manner of boards of
changes. The organizer says the hotel
business demands three grades of hotels
first, second and third class; these grades
are to be fixed by the exchange according
to the article of hotel submitted, and land
lords are to keep their places before the
pablo, and play no tricks on travellers.
The paper referred to means business,
and believes much. good would come out
of hotel keepers exchange.
At the outset will arise the difficulty of
grading. Grading hotels will be found
uphill business. The proposition is to
class according to price; but in these
oleaginous days all that glitters is not
Goshen butter; and men often get third
class dinner at first class hotel, and the
knowledge that he must pay the highest
price for it will not improve his appetite.
The exchange though, will give some
sort of sanction for high rates, and hotels
will be known as very nice, middling and
low. The first class must have brown
stone appearance, have an elevator, bou-
quets, walters with swallow-tail coats,
gentlemanly bell-boys and bald-headed
clerks with diamond pins; they must
have style and charge five dollars per day.
restrictions; they can advertise, employ
runners, feed well, put up conductors for
nothing, and charge the public what they
can get. The third, or low class,
can be run on the you.rope-in
plan, or any other, and will
depend on the consistency of hash, the
pliability of butter and the responsibility
of bugs in the apartments of repose. The
grading will give guests confidence in
what they eat; it will fix the character of
travellers, and subdue unfounde0 preten-
sions on the part of landlords. The first
class guests of one city will go to the first
class hotels of another city in travelling,
and the middling and low travellers will
also be sent to proper divisions. They
will be accepted as sight drafts, and dis
posed off in one town as they have been
in another. Exceptions on exchange can
be made in case of editorial excursionists
who puff all classes and pay none.
The success of the proposed organiza-
ton will depend upon the integrity of the
hotel keepers. That it will greatly bene-
fit them there can be no doubt. A fra
ternal fellow-hotelship would result in
mutual advantage; landlords would be
known by the company they keep. The
exchange will be made national organ
ization, and result in a free interchange
| Of guests. Good faith on the part Of hotel
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-26

Extremes meet again. Ourselves and
the fiery, untamed Democracy of the first
ward agree in the opinion that the recent
effusion of Mr.. Mari is "a sagacious and
patriotic letter" We know of nothing
more calculated to emancipate the think
ing conservative masses of our white fell
low citizens from the thraldom of Last
Ditch rule than the autocratic action of
Mr.. Mari and his three dozen hackers;
and we hope he will continue to crack his
little whip at intervals from now until the
campaign opens. With the assistance of
the welcome allies he must thus send US,
the Republican party will soon be able to
weed out from leadership its unworthy
and impracticables, and fulfill its high
mission of giving the State honest, econo-
mical and progressive government, such
as is required to make Louisiana the
richest and happiest State in the Union.