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THE FIJIAN PLAGUE,
Forty Thousand Dentha ia FOuI
mOnthS-Bu ying People Alive.

Forty Thousand Dentha ia Four
mOnths-bu yiug PeOple Alive.
Further Information from FIJI con-
veys still darker accounts OF the plague
which has recently passed over the new
celony. A resident Of long standing,
writing to a Victoria contemporary,
says The death rate IL not yet made
up, but the probability is that 10000
Fijians died duriHg the four months
plague. The native population OF FIJI
is now about one-third only of what it
vas when / landed here about twenty
FIVE years ago" The accounts given Of
tho magnitude of the disaster are less
narrowing than those of the sufferings Of
the victims, very few died OF the
measles, the majority dying Of subse
quent disease in the TORN Of dJsentery,
congestion Of the lungs, etc Want ei
nourishment, or starvation, carried off
thousands" We are told that "alI work
was suspended for two months You
could pass through. whole towns witrou.
meeting any one in the streets, which
were soon completely covered with grass
Entering house, you would find, men,
women and children all lying down in
Discriminatory, some just attacked, some
still in agony and soma dying Some
who were strong enough attempted
suicide, and not always unsuccessIully. "
We are further told that "as the
scourge became more prevalent some
four or FIVE were buried together in one
grave, and generally without religious
service. In some cases the dead were
buried in the earthen hjor OF the house
The burials were hurried, aud the probq
bility is that some were buried alive. In
many instances the husband, wife and
children all died. In one village all the
women died, and in another all the
men. /" 1t is interesting to read OF the
different mental effects produced by the
torture of the disease. 1t is not sur.
prising that some made fruitless ap
peals' to their ancient god. Some iu
land tribe, who had only recently EN-
braced Christianity, considered that the
disease was conveyed by their religious
teachers, and they dismissed them and
then abandoned their new religion.
Among these some we're for killing the
teachers, but wiser counsel prevailed
1t is said that one tribe buried shve one
teachers wife and child, whose husband
and father died of the plague, to stoI
infection. Bat while some in their dis
tress fell back on their former supersti
| tions, the greater number are said tc
have borne their calamity with fortitude
and to have suffered and died under the
influence of Christianity.
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After dinner came the event Of the
evening-the illumination of the Great
Pyramid. 1t was bold undertaking.
the lighting up Of pyramidsl mass four
hundred and sixty feet high, presenting
two Sides each seven hundred and thirty
feet long, aud broken into constantly re-
curing shadows by over two hundred
courses of stone, each forming ledge
or platform round the pyramid. First,
Bengal fires, placed at short intervals
round the pyramid, we're lighted, and
each stone shone out as clear as day.
Rockets, Roman candles, aud other com.
plicated ieux d'arti6ce filed the air with
many colors. Then lights Of all imagin-
able colors, which had been placed on
every course of stone and up each angle
of the pyramid, we're so simultaneously
lit that the blaze seemed to run up the
vast mass and in moment envelop it in
one great blaze Of variegated fire, while
magnetism wire shoue out bright and
clear from the apex. Every sort OF fire.
work cracked and blazed and made cas-
cades of colored stars in the heavens.
The sight was marvellous"
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Tha EXCAVATION. Of OlrmpIn.

In the year 1927 excavations were be.
gun at Olympia, under the direction Of
the general staff Of the French army.
These excavations we're successful in
every way, and from the east end of the
Temple OF Zeus admirably presented re-
liefs of the metopes, which now adorn
the museum of the Louvre, we're OBJ
tanned. Unfortunately for the cause
Of arh@iogioBl research the sudden re-
call of the army from the Peloponnesus
rendered it necessary to abandon this
promising and interesting field. Some
twenty years later Prof. Ernst Curtius,
of Berlin, who gives a glowing account
in the current number of the Interna-
tional of the present prospect at Olympia,
delivered an address in which he re-
vived the old project of Winckelmann,
rousing in the mind of the youthful
Crown Prince of Germany the determi-
nation, so soon as circumstances should
allow him, to carry the original plans
into execution, Immediately following
peace With France negotiations were
opened with the Greek Government. An
agreement was signed April, 1874 which
was not, however, ratified until . later
year, the terms of which were, that act
ing in the interests OF science, the Ger
man Government resigned all claim TO
the possession Of the objects which
might be discovered The Greek Govern
meut, Jealous OF it's ancient relics, yet
unwilling to act in the matter upon its
own account, would not listen to the
surrender to foreigners of native works
Of art. Indeed many persons in Greece
we're openly opposed to the acceptance
Of an offer which must ever rebound TO
the credit of German enterprise and
scholarship. 1t was finally conceded
upon the part Of the Greeks thst the
Germans in return for their trouble and
expense, shoald receive such antiquities
as might be considered in certain
sense duplicates.
In accordance with the terms Of this
agreement, on the I'd Of last September
two young men, an archGologist, DR.
Gustavus Hirschfeld, and an engineer
Paul Bottacher, set out from Venice fol
Zante, en- route for Olympia, where they
are empowered to begin the excavationl
which have been determined upon BY th'
government OF the German Empire
These forthcoming excavations will dii
fer from those undertaken above tn
sites Of the famous cities which for cen
turies have lain embosomed in lava an
ashes, in that no ancient cities OF Greco
have been so buried. In the languag
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of Professor Curtius, "it is only neces'
sary to select site where first, the orig
inal abundance Of statues and works of
art is sufficiently established; and sec
ondly, one where, unh;Ddered by modern
buildings the excavations can be carried
forward at will on every side" All the
conditions desirable for excavations ex-
ist at Olympia. There is an area clearly
and sharply defined by unchanging nat
ural boundaries. The temples, alts:s
and other buildings required by the va
rious necessities of the festival are all
clearly indicated. On the north stretch
the Olympian mountains, and flowing
down in deeply worn channel roll the
Alpheios and the Kladeos, it's tributary.
Within the space inclosed by these
heights and streams Icy the sacred area
of the Altis. while outside OF this in
closure stood the Stadium, the Hippo
drome, and the buildings where the mul.
titudes which streamed to the festivals
were lodged The ruins Of the Tenp.s
Of Zeus Olympus form a sure landmark
within the Altis The sanctuary Of
Pelops is within easy range, and in the
direction Of the hill Kronion lay the
Great Altar. Then came the famous
Temple of Hera, aud other buildings
At the foot of the hill Kronion there
stood a double terrace, whereon was sit.
uated the treasure. houses, in which votive
offerings we're deposited, with number
of bronze statues of Zeus. Affairs and
votive oferiAgs we're interspersed be-
tween the buildings, and here it is conf
IDENTIFY expected at every step that YES
tiges Of antiquity Of undying interest
will be recovered.
Notwithstanding the ravages of Nero,
and the destruction and plunder of sin
gle works of art, it is confidently be-
lieved that the treasure. house of 0lym-
pia has suffered no material harm. The
great monuments of public worship, the
temples, with the statues which they
contained--these, says the learned and
eloquent Curtius, are treasures on which
we may be sure neither Romans nor bar
barians have laid their hands. The
temple of Zeus at Olympia in its en-
tirety is doubtless one Of the most inter-
esting architectural works Of antiquity,
and it may be expected that through tie
excavations to be made in and around
its site new light will be thrown upon
the relation of Attic to Peloponnesian
art. In respect to everything which
stands in connection with public worship
and the public festivals Of ancient
Greece, the excavations recommended
by Professor Curtius, and undertaken
with such bright hopes by these German
experts, may be confidently expected to
reveal a rich mine OF archa illogical
treasure which must materially increase
our knowledge of that ancient life so in.
limately connected with our modern
culture.
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The Denth Kiss,

Woman's Lowell is there anything like
it? A Canadians wife has just died in
Raleigh, and he has taken her to Canada
to bury her under the native sod. She
died in a land of strangers, but she left
behind her the name Of devoted swife.
1t was love in death. He saw her sink
ing fast, he knew it, she knew tit was
consumption. He nursed her like a lit.
tie child, the great stropg man, and there
they were in the irontroom together the
night she died. She wanted to see out,
to gaze once more on the outside world
but he entreated her against it, and told
her that to take her up would make her
worse but she told him she was dying
anyway; and he lifted her tenderly in
his arms and walked with her about the
room, holding her to his breast and show
ing her this object and that. pointing
out every pleasant thing, and she kissed
him with every breath till the last breath
was gone, and the kiss died cold on his
cheek. When God made man be put all
of heaven in a womsn's love, and told
him to win it and be worthy Of it.
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SPECIAL NOTIGR.
The Evil Fruits OF Wenk DIc

The Evil Fruits OF Weak Digestion.
There is no pathological fact more clearly
ascsrtained than that the most formidable
phases Of nervous disease are directly trace
able to imperfect digestion. Insomnia. with
it's traia Of direful consequences. proceeds
more frequently from weakness of the stom-
ach than from any other cause. Mere seda-
tives are pOwerless to cure nervousness, and
soon cease to palliate its symptoms. The true
way to strengthen the nervous system is to
invigorate the digestive and sfsimilative or.
gans, upon whose unObsructed action its
equilibrium Is absolutely dependent. The
daily use Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will
do more 10 brace and soothe tho weakened
and irritated nerves, and induce sound. re-
ireshiDg sleep natures grand cRtholicon-
than all the so -called nervines to be found in
the pharmacopeia or out Of it. A wineglass-
full Of the Bitters should be taken before each
meal
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seryIan Doputios sketchea.

We read the following in description
Of the Servian Skupochtijns, supplied
by a correspondent Of the Times "Hav.
ing heard so much of the Radical ten
denotes Of the Assembly, you would i'm
agine that it was in its majority com
posed OF ambitious lawyers and halted.
ucsted demagogues. Nothing can be
further from the reality. The over
whelmiug majority are Kmetes, or vii
lage Mayors, and other peasant proprie-
tors, who sit thereintheir simple national
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-07
COUGH RALsAM.
WILLIAMS
Balsam Wild Cherry and Wood
'NapthR

BaIsam Wild Cherry and Wood
'NapthR
for Coughs. Colds, Consumption, Bronchitis,
aud all Diseases Of the Throat and Lungs.
This unequaled preparation is paying the
usual penalty Of merit and we would warn
buyers to be cautious in receiving the asser-
tions Of unscrupulous pafties claiming to have
" the same thing" or made in the same
way" or just as good"
We are now nearing season when COUCH
Balsam is placed on its merits, and when cold
days and nights, and rainy weather. calls
upon cough preparation to prove its efficacy,
and no other medicine will answer the same
purpose as Williams BRl;am for the immedi-
ate relief Of the diseases for which II is so
confidently recommended. We earnestly ask
a trial, and rely upon its merits to prove our
assertions that 1t is the BEST REMEDY ever
offered to tine public for all complaints arising
from diseases Of the Throat and Lungs. Try
il aud be convinced Of its magical effect. II
you cannot obtain it from your druggist, send
to US and We will forward it.
All wholesale orders addressed TO @. G.
Ward & Bro, Memphis, Tenn, will receive
pr.mpt attention.
Meme genuine without our Trade Mark on
each bottle. Beware Of counterfeits.
Respectfully, G. G. WARD Il BRO.
S0-l05
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PROPOSALS.
CRY EEGrSEER's OYF1cE,


MEMPHIS, Tenn, November 30, 1875.)
GEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE EE-
- ceived at this Office until o'clock pm,
Friday, December 10. 1875. for grading, paw
ing. piling and protecting the wharf in front
of the city Of Memphis, commencing at the
north side Of Jefferson street and running
down parallel with the river to connect the
north end Of the present Elevator, said work
to be done as hereinafter described. Tne
present stone pavement to be taken up and
carefully piled away; the grading to COM
mence at extreme low water mark, and con-
tinue up about TWO hundred feet, and to be
prepared and graded so as the ascent or de-
scent will not exceed, when complete, eight
degrees; the front at extreme low water mark
70 be protected with two tiers of piles; said
piles to be spliced, banded, capped and shod;
also, said front 10 be protected with square.
bewed timber of cyp' ess or cedar, free or
clear of all sap. to be bolted and fastened with
the best Of wrought iron in said bolts and
taps, the footings or adverse anchors TO be OF
cypress or cedar, we'll tr0tected; the pave
ment TO be relaid from the north side Of Jeifer-
son street to the south side OF Union street By
regular stone masons or PAYERS, IN the most
approved manner, with sufficient quantity
of choice sand or gravel; that p0rtien of the
wharf from the south side OF Union street to
the north side or end of the Elevator to be
paved with such stone, and in such manner,
IS the present pavement on Beal street. from
Main to Shelby street. Also. for the erection
of one breakwater at or near the foot Of JEFF
ferson street. or such other point as may be
hereafter designated, of the following named
ma erials: Piling of sound cypress, spliced,
banded, capped and shod in the most substan-
tial manner. with willow or other timber of a
choice selection. together with a sufficient
quantity Of stone to co mplete said breakwater.
The grading to be done at SO much per cubic
yard the paving to be relaid at so much per
superficial yard the paving. where the stone
is to be furnished By the contractor. to be laid
at SO much per superficial yard; the piling to be
paid for at so much per lineal foot for the
amount Of pile driven; hewed timbers to be
paid for per cubic foot; iron bolts and nuts to
be paid for per pound; willow wood or fascine
in breakwater to be paid for at SO much per
cord; and stone to be paid for at 80 mucl per,
perch. All proposals to be in accordance with
the spirit and letter Of the 9Th section of the
city charter.
Blanks for proposals will be furnished at
this Office on application.
The city reserves the right to reject any or
all proposals.
79SS G. G. BURKE, City Engineer.
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I4th Day Of December, 1875,


And said subcommittee arc hereby in
structed that no person is authorized to vote
for said delegates unless he is q resident voter
Of his ward and comes within the qualifca
tions heretofore fixed by resolution of this
Committee, and will agree to support the
nominee. Of the Convention hereby called;
and said subcommittee are to be the sole
judges as TO whether said applicant is entitled
10 vote under the qualifications as above set
forth. And they will appoint two of their
number or others under their direction to re-
cord the name of each voter. and make return
Of said election TO the Chairman Of this Com
mittee without delay.
The election on said 14th day of December.
1878, as above stated. will be for the number
of delegates. and at the places in aid wards
as follows;
No. lat southwest corner of Main and
jackson streets; IA delegates.
No. 2-At engine-house, Poplar street; 9
delegates.
No. Sat McCullougb's old stable, on the
north side Of Adams street, between Second
and Main streets; Is delegates.
No. 4-At Greenlaw Opera House; II dele +
gates.
No. Smear corner Beal and DssOto streets,
9 delegates.
No. 6 AT waldran Block; 8 delegates.
No. ION Beal street, near Memphis and
Charleston railroad; s delegates.
l3 delegates.
No. 9 At corner of Fifth and Mill streets /;
delegates.
No. 10 Near corner of Main and South
streets; delegates.
Total number Of delegates, l02.
The Executive Committee hereby request
that the sub committees be especially cautious
not to exercise influence for or against any OF
the candidates coming before the convention.
And the committee wsuld state that they are
exceedingly anxious to have convention
composed Of competent, honest and reliable
men, for it is a well-knOwn fact that the best
guarantee that the nominee of the convention
shall be competent. honest and reliable is to
have delegates Of like qualifications
The names Of the sub committees in the diff
ierent wards are as follows:
First ward-W Richardet. Henry Frick,
Tom ConsOdine, Patrick Kerns, j CQoney.
Second-John Donovan, Fransiola, F
Feillng, VIM Worsham, Sam Dreyfus
Third-V Bacigalupo, A q luther, Henry
Schilling. II NJ Nicely. Joe Flynn.
Fourth-W Bruce. R 6totz. Thomas Bar
rett, N Malatesta, Dick 0'Brien.
Fifth-J K Ballard. c Bonner, J H West,
James Hall. G W Tomlin.
Slxth-B Bingham. L NJ Hearn, Jacob We'll
Ter, A Myers. G Riordon.
Seventh J T Hillsman, J Carpenter, w
L Cooper, P Perota. W II Bates.
Eight. J DuBose, Henry Seessel, ST., j
Waters, 5 J Camp, VIM Featherst0ne.
Ninth-Geo r Powell, S Scheibler, L Karr.
Geo Williams. I G Bettis.
Tenth-J l. Sharp. B P Anderson, Geo Has
singer, Henry Rocco, Martin Finn.
TIE delegates elected on said l4th day Of De-
cember, 1875. will meet in convention at the
Exposition Building, in the city of Memphis,
on Thurtday, the 10th day Of December. 1875.
at II o'clock AN, for thepurpose Of nominat-
ing candidate for Mayor of Memphis.
By order of the Committee.
II I ELLETT, Chairman.
L w CLAPP, Secretary. 81 SO
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OFFICIAL.
.PROPOSAI.S.
CRY EsGISEER's .0FPIc 3,

CITY ENGINEER OFFfC y,
memphis. TENS, November 30. 1875.
SEALED PROPOSALS WILL lBE RE-
- ceived at this Office until o'clot * pm,
Friday, the 10th day Of December, 1875, for
furnishing all labor ana required materials
for the paving, with stone, Of the est por-
tion Of Main street, or that lying betR ieen the
west rail Of the street railroad and he west
curb Of said street, from Beal to alhOun
street, in similar manner and with msteri
ais as that specimen pavement On NJ ADDISON
street, near Third street. is constr noted.
Also. for the balance Of the west side Of, Main
street, from Btal to the Louisville and Nash
vile depot. but in similar manner an q ma
terial as Washington and Market streets are
constructed, or Of block stone. as the judg-
ment of the Improvement Committee. fdaJ'or
and Engineer may dictate, and in accordAn ce
with specification on file at this office. ALI
proposals must be in accordance with the
letter and spirit Of section 81 of the city
charter.
Ihe city reserves the right to reject any or
1888 G. C. BURKE, City Engineer.
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GROCERIES.
DEAN g. co,
We are receiving this week

We are receiving this week,
N. Y. State BuckWheat Flour,
Choice Creamery and Roll BITTER,
25 bbls and half bbls Extra Choice
Pickles,
New MOlasses and Sugar,
ChOw.chOW by the TALON,
Mixed Pickles by the Gallon,
French Mustard by the Gallon,
100 bbls OF the celebrated Emerald
Isle Flour,
10 cases Russian Mustard, the finest
favored Mustard In the world,
New Figs and Raisins,
Extra Mess Mackerel In bbls and kits,
Fresh Irish Oatmeal,
Large Assortment of Canned Goods,
10 half chests of Fresh Teas, fine
grades.
We. make TO extta 'harge for roasting or
POWER, II is done with very little expense.
VIM. DEAN & co,
lS9 Poplar Street.
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Although the writer of II Want to be
an Angel is an old maid and school
teacher in Newark, N. j., she still ex-
poets to become an angel And will be
one if there is any desert in true merit
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ELECTION.
Order of Executive Committee
-FOR =
ELECTION OF DELEGATES
AND
HOLDING OF A CO VENTI0N.

TNHE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM
J.. MITTEE Of the City Of Memphis hereby
order the election Of delegates and the holding
OF a aConyention for the nomination Of candi-
date for Mayer Of Memphis. And to carry out
said objects. said Coz mittee hereby direct that
the sub-Committees in their respective wardR.
whose names are hereinafter stated. shall
open and hold ON election for the number Of
delegates hereinafter stated at the respective
places in their wards hereinafter mentioned (;
the election of said delegates to be By ballot
o'clock pm. to o'clock pm on the
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