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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-12
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.

ON AND AFTER THURSDAY, AUGUST
o. Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train. .daily.............12.01 .01 am 800 pm
Express train. daily...,..... 500 pm l2'Oo am
Somerville accom- dation
Except Sunday)........... $40 pm BY a. m
jackson, Tenn, accom-
modation lex. Sunday. 4.2Op.m 11.15 a.m
Mail train will not stop at flag stations be-
tween Grand junction and Memphis. :,
Trains connect at Grand Junction for all
ooints, and at Decatur closely for Montgom-
ery and points South. Close connection. for
Nashville BY both trains. Close connections
at Chattanooga for Eastern and Southeastern
points.
No change of cars between Memphis and
Bristol and Memphis and Jackson, Tenn.
The new and magnificent sleeping car line
will have one Of their new sleepers leave
Memphis daily on Express train at 81 90 ?. IN.
for Lynchburg, Washington and Baltimore
without change. 0Rly one change to New
York and philadelphia. Time tteenty MN
Gtes faster than CITY tinls. A
Ticket Office, 27S Main street.
WI ROSS, Sup't.
Tow B. DUrH, Ticket Ag't. 4O-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-12
RAILROADS.
LOUISVILLE AND NASA Ag9lLE
AND
Great Southern Railroad.

SCHEDULE.
Express train leaves daily Except
Saturday ssf LIZ Penn
Mail Train leaves daily..........,....A.lll ll0 Am
Accommodation leaves daily--......... 5:OO pm
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on all night
For tickets or information, apply at Ticket
Office, 287 Main, northwest corner OF Madison
JOHN I. FLYNN, Sap't Memphis Div;
JAMES SPEED. Ticket Agent. I1t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-12
Saturday, September IS, 1876,

within legal hours, the following described
property. situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
and described as follows, to-wit: Lots Nos.
"A, 45. a., A, As and 4s, on the Elippin plan Of
Vaccaro's. each fronting the Horn Lake road
80 feet, and running west l0S feet to an alley,
except lot No. 40, which fronts ia feet on
said road and back west to an alley $50 feet.
Terms of Sale-0n credit of six and twelve
(6 and ~ months, the purchasers required to
execute notes with approved sureties lien re-
tanned to further secure the same. and equity
Of redemption barred.
This August %, 1876.
EDMUND A. COLE. Q. and n.
By r. ]. BLACK, ID. G. and M.
Randolph. Hammond L Jordan, Att'ys.s
l5l-l57-5-ll-l3
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MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.

MEMPHIS, TENN, September 8. 1876
an AND AFTER SUNDAY. SEPT. Sd,
1876, trains will run as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail. daily 1850 pm. 1850 pm
Sardis Ac'm 'dation, daily.
Except Sunday ,''i,;;.-4'4O IL; Pm 70 IL
eerC Sunday ................,.S;5Qo o.m. 4:3O pm
1sI-f M. BURKE, Sup't.
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STOCKS.

GI00 INVESTED HAS G1 H0O
PAVO PAID A PROFIT OF PAs tVV
during the past few months. under our i'm
proved system of operating in Stocks. Risks
reduced to nominal sums and profits in
creased. Books containing full information
sent on apS ication
TUMBRIDGE * CO.. Bankers and Brokers,
90 BROADWAY. NKw YORK.
cod dEW-1t-xxiv.13
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-12
Sheriif's Sale Of Real Estate

DUBLIC NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN.
L that by virtue Of an execution to me d.
reotcd from the Honorable Circuit Court Of
Shelby county, Tennessee, in the cas- Of w.
judgment rendered on the 23d day of MAY !,
1876. for the sum OF twenty dollars, with in
terest and costs Of SUIT, to satisfy said judg-
ment, etc., will
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-12
RAu.RoAr 1nE TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND -.e lEvILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
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On Friday, September 10, 1875,

in legal hours, in front of the Courthouse.
Memphis, Tennessee, proceed 20 sell. to the
highest bidder, for cash, the following do
scribed property, to-wit: Lot No. 42 and the
west half of lot No 4S Of II. w. Hills subdi-
vision of original lot No. 5ll, situate, lying
aud being in the county of Shelby, State Of
Tennessee, and in the city of Memphis
known as Sc and So Robson street. Sec Book
No. Ill, page All, Registers office
Levied on as the property of defendant,
Chas Worden, TO satisfy said judgment, in
terest and costs.
Memphis, 22d day Of August. 1876.
0. h, ANDERSON,
Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn.
BY w. D. CANNON, d. S.
w, Il. Bibb, Atty for plaintiff. l54-2-S
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Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

Chancery Court Of Shelby county-P Paul A.
Cicalla, executor. etc., Of the estate Of Jshn
Bogianno, deceased, vs.. Mae Ellen Bogi-
anO ct al.
DY VIRTUE OF AN INTERL0CUToRY
ID decree for sale, entered in the above
49, 1874, and June q, 1876. will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder in front Of the
Clerk and Masters office, Courthouse build
ing, Main street, Memphis, Tenn, on
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Miscellaneous Journal

Tho Commercial, News, Miscellaneous and
Local departments will be kept up to the Ugh
est standard Of approved journalism. endeaV-
o-ing to please all tastes and to
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-12
FIRESIDE VISITOR AND FAMILY
G0MPAkI0MI
ADVERTISERS

Cannot fail to see the unrivaled inducements
offered by us in the way of cheap and profit
able Advertisements.
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MEMPHIS AND CHARL .STON R.R.
Arrives. Leaves.
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MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE k.R.
Arrives. Lesvel.
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LETTER FROM sOMERVILLE.

Mr.. Scott, the East Tennessee Col
Ored Conservative, on she stand
ATellfnR speech to His Race.
soNERvILLE. Tenn, Sept. o, 1876.
Wo tLo E1;4o, 90 ~ . I 49,.
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Depot at head OF Main street..
Ticket 0fhcs. ssl Main street. corner oi
HadiFon.
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The Fonnisn Young Preacher.

He got it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30

SURGEONS IN HARNEss.-Robert L.
Pell, residing near West Park on the Hud-
son, has made an experiment in utilizing a
sturgeon, from which he extracted much
entertainment for himself and visitors.
Having caught fine fish of the kind, nine
feet long, it occurred TO him that it was
sufficiently powerful to draw a boat with
at least one man. The fish was therefore
secured until a leather and rope harness
could be attached to his body in a way
which prevented its slipping back of the
fms. The fish was placed in an artificial
lake, about quarter of mile long, on the
grounds of Mr.. Pell. In order to obtain
the services of the sturgeon when needed,
pair of rope reins, eighteen feet long,
were attached to the harness, aud these
were fastened to large cork float, which
swan upon the water. A boat five and
half feet long and two and half feet wide
was constructed. 1t could contain but one
man, and in that Mr. Pell took his seat,
and attached the chain at the bow TO the
floating cork. The sturgeon soon began to
move, and the moment he realized that a
further impeachment existed TO his move
L
swayed to and fro, and the spray, dashlug
furiously from the prov, flew in every di-
rection. Frequently the gunwale was an
inch or two below the waters edge, but
such was the rapidity of motion that the
water had not time TO overflow it. The lake
being but seventeen feet deep, and the reins
eighteen feet long, there was no possibility
of being pulled under the water by the
diving of the fish, and the career of the
boat was uninterrupted. The sturgeon
kept near the sides of the lake, and
swan four times around without Stacking
his pace. He then rose to the surface,
rolled on his back, and exposed his white
stomach to the sunshine, as if to say, 'I
have swum long enough, and am not GO
ing any further" Mr.. Pell, satisfied with
his experience, then detached the boat
from the float and landed. At each subse-
quent sail, whether by Mr.. Pell or any one
else, the fish wonld rush regularly four
times around the lake and no more. He
would then, as at first, regularly roll over
on his back and rest. A neighbor of Mr..
Pell caught large sturgeon, and initiated
his experiment in the river. Matters
worked we'll for a few moments, but it sud-
denly occurred to the sturgeon to dive.
This, the river being deep, he could easily
do. To the dismay of his owner, under
went the cork float, and a violent jerk at
the PROV OF the boat was a warning to
jump into the stream. The boat went
down and was lost to sight for several min
utes. That was the beginning and end of
Harvesting sturgeon asa river pastlme.-
Albany Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30
BrattlebOrO Church Directory.

First BAPT1sT.-Main ST.; Rev. Horace Durchard
Pastor. Sunday services at $50 q. M, 1880
p. m. Sunday School II 80 a. m. Missionary Con-
cert 1st Sunday evening in each month, Sunday
School Concert last Sunday evening in each month.
Prayer meetings the other Sunday evenings.
Monday evening, young peoples prayer meeting,
Friday evening, prayer meeting, 74S.
WEST BRATTLEDoRo BAPTIsT.-Rev. @. A. Votey, Pas
tor. Sunday services at 10 80 a. IN. :15 and 100
p. Sunday School at 2:15 p. m. Wednesday
evening meeting at 1880. Seats free.
CENTRE RCoEGREGArIoNAL.-MainS ST.; -,
Pastor. Sunday services 1880 a. M, 1880 p. m. |;
take the place Of the evening service the LIST and
I'd Sundays OF the month, respectively. Young
peoples meeting Monday evening at IA to g.
Prayer meeting Friday evening at IA to g. Thurs
day p. M, ladies' prayer meeting, O'Clock.
CoNGREGATIoNAL.-west Bratteboro; Rev. C. II. Mer-
rl, Pastor. Sunday servces-Sermon in morning
at lO:9O. Missionary concert the fret Sunday even
ing of each month. Sermon every other Sunday
evening at O'Clock. Seats free. Sabbath school
follows morning service.
EPIscoPAL.-Man ST.; Rev. W. H. Collins Rector
Sunday services: Morning prayer and sermon 1880
a. M; Evening prayer and sermon 800 PM Sun
day School IL rs p. m. Holy days, IL 90 a. Holy
Communion 1st Sunday in the month, and on all
great festivals The children of the parish arc cat
echised on the 1st Sunday In every month at p. m.
METHODIST Observation-Disclosures in lower town hall
Rev. N. f. Perry, Pastor. Preaching Sunday
at 10: 80 a. M; Sunday School 10 M; prayer
meeting in the evening. s. 8. Concert 4th Sunday
of every month. Glass meeting Tuesday evening;
prayer meeting Friday evening. SeatBfr
ROMAN CATHoLIc-walnut St. 4; Rev. Henry Lane,
Pastor. Sunday seryices-High mass 1890 m.
Vespers and Benediction 1880 p. m.
UNITARIAN FREE CHURon.-Main St. Rev. VIM l..
jenkins, Pastor. Services Sunday a.. M, at 1880;
Sunday School and Bible Class after the morning
service. Seats free.
FIRST UHIvERsALIsT.-CanalS st. Rev. NJ. II. Harris,
Pastor, residence North st. Sunday sermon
1880 a. m. Services Monday and Friday evenings
atT:30
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE UNITED
SrATEs-lS76.-In 1875 there were, accord
ing to the official statistics OF the various
dioceses, five thousand and seventy-four
priests, twelve hundred and seventy-three
ecclesiastical students, and six thousand
five hundred and twenty eight churches
and chapels in the United States. There
were ALSO at the same time thirty-three
theological seminaries, sixty-three colleges,
five hundred and fifly-seven academies and
select schools, sixteen hundred and forty
five parochial schools, two hundred and
fourteen asylums, and ninety-six hospitals
under the authority and control of the
Catholic hierarchy of this country.
One hundred years ago there was not
Catholic ecclesiastical student, or theolog-
ical seminary, or college, or academy, or
parochial school, or asylum, or hospital
from Maine TO Georgia.
Father Badin, the first person who ever
received Holy Orders in the United States,
was ordained in the old cathedral of Bati-
more on the 25th of May, 1898, just eighty
three years ago. 1t is now eighty-six years
since Bishop Carroll was consecrated, and
down to 1905 he remained the only Catholic
bishop in the American church, whose hi,
erachy is composed at present of one card
inal, ten archbshops, forty-six bishops,
and eight vicars-apostolic.
In 1880 there was not convent in the
United States in 1900 there were but two
to-day there are more than three hundred
and tifty for women, and there are proba-
bly, one hundred and thirty for men.
We may be permitted TO refer also to the
increase of the wealth of the church in this
country, especially since this seems 10 be
the cause of great uneasiness TO the faith
ful and unselfish representatives of the
sovereign people. The value of the prop
erty owned by the church in this country
as given in the census reports, was, in 1850,
S9,25G, 1853; in 1860, s26, IA, ,1l9, and in 1870,
$50, ,9S5, ,565. The ratio of increase from
1850 10 1860 was. ls9 per cent, and from 1860
to 1870, Us per cent; while the aggregate
wealth of tho whole country during these
same periods increased in ther former dec
ade only l25 per cent and in the latter only
Sc per cent. In 1850 the value of the church
property of the Baptists, the Episcopalians,
the Methodsts and the Presbyterians was
greater than that of the Catholics, but in
1870 we had taken the second rank in point
of wealth, and to-day we think there Is no
doubt but that we hold the frst.-IHe Cath.
ollie World.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30
Great shOp-Izeepera.

In Scribncr for July, DIR. Holland says
that A. T. Stewards "business was one
which he did not do, and could not do,
without "a depressing influence upon all
who were dependent upon the same busi-
ness for a livelihood. His great establish
ment was a shadow that hung over all the
others in the town. Tie man with ten or
twenty thousand dollars; the man with
one thousand dollars, each, alike, was
obliged TO compete with this man, who had
millions outside of the necessities of his
enormous business. The hosier, the hat
ter the woman la her threa1-and- needle
shop, the milliner, the glove-dealer, the
carpetdealer, the upholsterer, all were
obliged TO compete with Stewart. If he
had followed single line of business, it
would have been different but he follow
ed all lines. Wherever he saw profit to
be made, in any line of business that was
at all congruous with dry-goods, he made
it. He thus became a formidable compet-
itor with half tho shop-keepers in New
York. His capital made it possible for
him to ruin men by the turn of his hand
10 fix prices at which everybody was oblig-
ed to sell at whatever loss. However proud
the New Yorker may have been of bis
wonderful establishment,-and there is no
doubt that it was pretty universally re-
garded with pride,-it is easy now to see,
in this period of upexampled depression,
that our business men at large would be in
a much better condition if that establish
ment had never existed. If all the money
that has gone 10 swell his useless estate had
been divided among small dealers, hun
dreds of stores, now idle, would be occu-
pied, and multitudes of men now in strait
ened circumstances, would be compare
lively prosperous.
"But it is said that he employed a great
many people. Yes, he did; bnt did he
pay them well2 Would they not have been
better paid in the employ of others? The
necessities of his position, and his ambi-
tion, compelled him TO pay small prices.
The great mass of those who served him
worked hard for the bread that fed them,
and the clothes that covered them. The
public bought cheaply; the outside dealers
suffered the employees laid up no money,
and Mr.. Stewart got rich. Under the cir
cumStances, and under the necessities of
the case, was it desirable that he should
get rich? We think not; and we think
that the final result of this great shop-keep-
ing success is deplorable in every way.
1t has absorbed the prosperities of a great
many men and women. New York would
be richer, happier, more comfortable, more
healthy in all its business aspects, if the
great store at Tenth street had never. been
bnilt Five hundred men who invest their
little capital in the varied lines of business,
and pay their modest rent, and devote their
time TO their affairs content with profits
that give them and their families a fair liv-
ing and a few savings for rainy day, are
certainly better for n city than single
Stewart, who absorbs their business and
leaves them in distress"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30
The Signing Of the pecIsra,ion.

The Declaration, being adopted, was next
to be signed; and here again we come up
on an equally hopeless contradiction in tes-
timony. This same Thomas Mexican wrote
in 1914 to ex-President Adams, speaking
of tho Declaration of Independence, mo
man signed it on that ay,"-namely, July
4, 1776. Jefferson, ON tho other hand,
writing some years later, thought that Mr..
McKean's memory had deceived him, JEFF.
ferson himself asserting, from his early
notes, that, "The Declaration was reported
by the committee, agreed TO by the House,
and signed by every member present, ex-
cept Mr.. Dickinson" But Jefferson, who
was also an octogenarian, seems to have
forgotten the subsequent signing of the
Declaration parchment, until it was recall
ed to his memory, as he states, few years
later. If there was previous signing of a
written document, the manuscript itself
has long since disappeared and the ac-
cepted historic opinion is that both these
venerable witnesses were mistaken; that
the original Declaration was signed only
by the President and Secretary, John Han
cock and Charles Thomson and that the
general signing of the parchment copy took
place on August I'd. 1t is probable, at
least, that tifty-four OF the fifty-six names
were appended on that day; and that it
was alterward signed by Thornton of New
Hampshire, who was not then a member
and by Mexican who was then temporarily
absent.
Jefferson used to relate, with much
signing ofthe Declaration was fastened by
very trivial circumstance. Near the hall
was large stable, whence the flies issued
in legions. Gentlemen were in those days
peculiarly sensitive to such disco mforts by
reason of silk stockings; and when this
annoyance, superadded to the summer
heat of Philadelphia, had become intolera-
be, they FASTENED to bring the business to
a conclusion. This may equally well re-
fer, however, to the original vote; flies are
flies, whether in July or August.
American tradition has c!ung TO the
phrases assigned 10 the different Iartici-
pants in this scene: John Hancock's COM
mentary on his own bold handwriting,
"fhere, John Bull may read my name
without speclacles !" Franklin's, "We
must hang together, or else, most assured
ly, we shall all hang separately" and the
heavy Harrison's remark to the slender
Elbridge Gerry, that, in that event, Gerry
would be kicking in the air long after his
own fate would be settled. These things
may or may not have been said; but it
gives a more human interest to the event,
when we know that they we're even altrib-
uted. What we long 10 know is, that the
great acts of history were done by men like
ourselves, and not by dignified machines.
IT. W. Hig0inson, Scri6ner for July.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30

TIE GREAT EXHIBITIoN at Philadelphia
promises TO be financial success, as the
weekly receipts from visitors are more than
sufficient to pay the weekly expenses. AS
a display of the arts, and industries, and
natural products of the earth, it was al
ready an assured success. 1t is the united
testimony of those who visited the great
exhibition at Paris and Vienna that as
whole this centennial display is more at
tractive and more instructive. In either of
the great departments-the machinery, the
agricultural, or the horticultural-in the
art galleries or in the main building, visit
ors can wander for days or weeks, finding
each hour new objects of interest that will
pay examination and study, aud those who
have been able to give the fullest examina-
tion to them are the most enthusiastic in
their admiration. Visitors are also finding
out that the expense of weeks sojourn in
Philadelphia is less than has been reported,
and that in no city can those who wish to
live cheaply study economy TO better ad-
vantage. AS this fact, and the magnificent
proportions and attractive character of the
exhibition become known, tens of lhOus-
ands who heretofore have supposed that
the expense was too great for their means,
will join in the great throngs that for the
next twenty weeks will crowd all the ave-
nues of travel 10 and from Philadelphia.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30

Mrs. Minnie Sherman Fitch can take
home her diamond present from the khe-
dive of Egypt as soon as she likes. The
bill exempting them from duty has been
signed by the president, and the necessary
order releasing them has been received at
the New York cuslom-house.
"A Little Compton, r. l., man caught
turtle weighing about 10 pounds, which
had been depredating on his gOslings, and
cut its head of. For long time aflerward
this seemed to affect either of the severed
parts but little. More than twenty-four
hours after the execution the headless body,
If disturbed, would defend itself with
much spirit, and the trunkless head would
bite and snap at any who approached.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-30
NO. 26.

append directions for acquiring tho art of
swimming, as furnished by a correspond
ent Of the American Agriculturlst:
When was a boy learned to swim by
means OF a swimming board. This is the
safest method possible. If corks arc used,
they may slip from around the breast down
beneath the body, throwing the head be-
low the surface, and putting the wearer iu
danger of drowning. Some country BOYS
get two ladders and tie them together with
short cord, and use these as supports.
They are the most dangerous things possi-
BILE for boy to have. The board is per-
fectly safe, aud one may learn to swim in
very short time by using one. 1t should
he about feet long, over foot wide, and
two inches thick, made of soft whito pine
or cedar. To use 1t, a boy wades out into
the water up to his shoulders, then taking
hold OF the end of the board, he pushes It
before him-towards the bank and not into
deep water-springs forward with his feet,
and throws himself flat upon the water,
This movement carries him along few
feet. He then draws up both legs at the
same time, keeping the knees as far apart
feet, not straight backwards, but sideways,
just as frog does. The stroke is made
slowly, and is repeated again, drawing up
the legs slowly and steadily. The board
keeps the head above water. When the
leg stroke has been learned, one hand is
taken from the board and the stroke learn
ed, or the chin may be rested on the board
while the stroke is made with both hands.
This is very good plan, as it compels the
swimmer TO keep his hands under the wa
ter, which he should always do. By and
by the board may be pushed ahead, and the
young swimmer may swim after it, al
ways keeping it within reach. When a
number of boys go 10 swim, although they
may be good swimmers, they should aways
have two or three of these boards with
them for use inease of accident.