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The Machinery Of War.

Writing from Berlin, a CORE
spondent of the London Times
says: eff all we hear about a new
invention is correct, wars are likely
to be reduced to more Of a matter Of
scientific calculation than they are
at present. According to reliable
information, NJ. LIE Boulanger, a
Belgian major Of artillery, has sue
ceeded in constructing an instru-
ment indicating the distance be-
tween two armies by the mere re-
port of the discharge. The mo-
ment the enemy fires a shot the ac-
ton of the report upon the tele-
meter-this is the name of the ma
chine-marks the distance to q
fraction. The instrument is en-
tirely Self-acting, easily kept in or
der, and requires no particular ex-
perience or intricate calculation to
use in Alright. The experiments to
which 1t has been subjected in the
artillery grounds of this and some
other countries are stated to have
been a complete success as regards
cannon. Whether the machine
marks with the same accuracy the
report Of one or many rifles, and
whether the small specimens for in
fantry and cavalry use are as relia-
BILE as the larger ones attached to
the guns, is not quite so certain.
While the artillery trial may be
regarded as at an end, experiments
in the rifle grounds are still going
on, and it is said, with fair pros
pect of producing a satisfactory re-
suit. Should the latter expectation
be realized war will be a very diff
ferent thing from what it has been,
seeing that the last campaign only
one shot in ten hit; but then if the
invention is confined to the artillery
its effect must be tremendous, con-
sidering the present deadly eff
cheney Of firearms. One of its
principal advantages, it is supposed,
will be to enable the gunners of a
coast battery to determine the posi-
ton Of a hostile ship "a calcula-
ton hitherto fraught with special
difficulty. The adoption of the telc.
meterby the German artillery on
land and sea may be regarded as
Gel ain.
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LEDGER LINES.

Soda fountains have commenced buzz
zing.
The opera entitled Lefty will be pre-
sented at the theater tonight.
Graham -four, cracked wheat and oat-
meal at Oliver. Finnie & Co.'s.
The Theater is now the only place of
public amusement open in the city.
The present rains are called April
showers, but we have enough of them.
The Shelby County Democratic and
Conservative Committee meets this after
noon.
The station'house last night was in an
almost tenantless state, but few arrests
having been made by the police.
The question in FIRE circles now is,
will the city purchase the Silsby rotary
fire engine or the Latta machines2
The City Fathers will again assemble
at the City Hall en- tomorrow evening
for the purpose of winding up unfinished
monthly business.
The eighth annual session of the
Southern Dental Association commenced
a Nashville on Tuesday and will con.
tinue in session three days.
In the Criminal Court to-day the case
of John Holmes, indictment for the kill.
ing OF Montgomery near the Charleston
depot some months since, is on trial.
The North American Review for April.
publishes lengthy extracts from Col.
Enoch Ensley's pamphlet on finances
and comments upon his views in most
complimentary terms.
The Waddy Thompson case was VI
before the Criminal Court to-day on {
motion for a change of venue, on &C
count of the alleged prejudice existing
against him in Shelby county, and es
pecially in this city.
The Nashville American says Their,
IS quite an amount Of unexpected oil il
Tennessee at present. Any dealer sell
ing such oil subjects himself to a fine o
$500 and i. liable for damages when an,
one has been injured by an explosion.
Victor D. Fuchs. the celebrated FISH
and game dealer, No. Al Jefferson street
received this morning a shipment ofstht
finest lot Of Potomac shad and rock fisl
ever brought to this market, and will dis
pose of them at prices to suit the times
The shad are large and fine, and superio
to any he has received this season.
The following new postofices hav,
been established in Tennessee: Hamil
ton, Hamilton county; Central Point
Montgomery county; Big Barren, Clai
borne county; Little Barren, Uniol
county; Gainesville, Hardeman county
Marrowbone, Cheatham county; MI
berry Gap, Hancock county; Oakdalt
Campbell county Bass Landing, LAX
county.
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BANANAS
81 80 a bunch at 2S7 Main.
3S-t
Amusements

MEMPHIS THEATER. -NotW outstanding
the very inclement weather last evening
there was quite a large and critical au.
dience in attendance at the theater. The
attraction was that semi-military and
comic opera. entitled lie Brasseur, or the
Brewer Of Preston. The Richings.B Der
nard troupe won their way still further
into public favor last night, The opera
is a very amusing and interesting one,
and affords numerous choruses and glees,
besides solos, in which the leading
singers appear to better advantage than
in either Lefty or the Rose of Tyrol.
The music was Of a light, flexible texture,
expressive and enlivening, and the or.
chestral performance was very satisfac.
tory, The audience we're particularly
pleased with the beautiful song-prayer by
"Ehie" MRS. Bernard), introduced while
Daniel Robinson, the brewer" pierre
Bernard), her betro he'd, having turned
soldier was leading the "forlorn Hope
and covering himself with glory. The
qusrtette, by four male voices, was finely
rendered, and received the we'll merited
applause Of the audience.
Tonight Lefty will be repeated. On
Friday evening LIE Brasseur will be re,
psated, and the Saturday attractions viii
be as follows: Matinee, Lefty; at night
last act Of Lefty, Old Folks ConcerI
and second act of LIE Brasseur.
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The Coming Of the rrnmns.

The Cheyenne (Wyoming) News of
March 2lst has this bit of cheering in,
telligence: Eastward the star of en-
pire takes its way. The grand army of
tramps wei the Union Pacific are now
vending their way f.om California to the
Centennial Exposition, and as q rule
wear better APP rel than this unremune
rative class of travellers usually sport.
With ponderous diamond (plste) breast
pin and an Unlimited amount of cheek,
they undauntedly mount q passing train,
and when detected by the ticket punch
ers are ready and anxious to argue the
case indefinitely, their plea being, You
are the great conductor that has offered
to put me off ! or that they have walked
every step of the distance from Frisco.
After being made to realize that chin
music won't avail, they disgustedly
step off the platform and wait for another
opportunity to slip in between the cars
and move on. 1t matters not where
these migratory, pevei Gy.stricken indi-
viduals m.y be invited to remain by the
conductors, they almost invariably wait
for the next train and always have in
their possession a time schedule over the
division Of which they're beating, and
hui being able to know just when the
next chance will be afforded, as we'll as
what kind Of q train, it will be. It's
folly to think of stopping this system Of
: excurting under the existing laws, but
so much pillaging and petty pilfering is
constantly being committed by members
of this peculiar fraternity that it is not
improbable that laws will soon be in
force over the entire continent making
it a punishable offense to thus defraud
the railroads. Until that time we
must grin and bear it."
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Rules for Calculating Interest.

A correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch says:
In talking with a gentleman on the
above subject in reference to a rule
which had been published, l observed
that this rule, though arbitrary, seemed
to be a rapid method of calculating. He
thereupon mentioned a rule which,
though not original with himself, he was
accustomed to use, viz: multiply the
amount, rate per cent. and time reduced
together, and divide the product by thir-
ty-six, and then by marking off the three
(3) right hand figures we will have the
interest in dollars and cents. Having
enlarged the rule, | find that it will hold
true for any length of time to run. 1t is
not arbitrary, but based upon strictly
mathematical principles. There are al.
bitrary rules which do hold true in all
cases, as evidenced by comparing results
in one case with results in another but
this rule, for all rates and for any period
of time, is automatically demonstrated
as follows If we take an amount, say
800, and wish to find the interest at six
per cent. for two years, nine months and
twenty days, by multiplying the amount
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-13

A MEETING of the stockholders of the
German-American Building and Loan
Association, for the purpose of organ.
ization and election of officers and board
of directors, will be held on Thursday
evening, April 18th, at I! o'clock pm
at the Office of Marx & Bensdorf, No. I
Madison street.
A constitution and bylaws vii also
be presented for adoption.
|. IGLAUER, JOHN SoHEIBLER,
M. MARX, J. SoH1LL1YG.
N. M. JONES, F. s. DAVIS,
Louis HANAUER, Jos. UHL,
Il. BENsDoRF,
Charter Members.
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by the rate of the product in cents will
be the interast on the amount at the Civ
en- rate for n year. Then divide by
1850 (being the number of business DAYS
in a year. quotient viii be the interest
on the amount at the given rate for one
day. The interest for one day multiplied
by the number of days two years, nine
months and twenty days-l,OlO days)
gives the interest for the entire time,
which, in this case, is SIG SO. Thus the
rule is strictly mathematical, and is not
only true for any n rate, but equally
true for all rates, whether FIVE per cent,
seven per cent, or any per cent. Now,
for the sake of a~bbreviation, the cipher
eliminated from the divisor 800, hence it
becomes 36. But to make up for the CT
pher eliminated in the division we point
off one more figure in the quotient, ma
king three pointed off in all. Hence we
have the simple rule Multiply together
amount, rate per cent, and time reduced
to thirty day, and divide the product by
36. Then pointing off the three right
hand figures, we have the interest in dol
lars, cents and mills.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-13


How two Texans passed two nights
and days amid a sea of waters, and their
remarkable escape from death, is related
Shreveport La Telegram of Both
March, as follows
On last Monday morning DR.. A. W.
Elliott, of Jonesville, and Mr.. Neal Will
liams, son of Judge John f. Williams. of
Marshall, Harrison county, Texas, went
down to Caddo Lake, at or neal Swan
sons Landing, on a fishing excursion.
Securing a skiff, they started to a favor
lite fishing point some distance across the
lake, which at that point is several miles
wide. A fierce gale came up, upset and
destroyed their boat, and left them at the
mercy Of the angry waves. Both man
aged to reach a willow tree that was
growing in the comparatively shallow
portion of the lake where the accident
occurred, and in its branches they took
refuge. The distance to shore was too
great for them to attempt to swim it, and
there, in the willow tree, the unfortunate
gentlemen remained from Monday until
Wednesday morningin the cold and wet,
when they were discovered by some col
ored men and rescued from their peril
GUS position, with life almost extinct.
Their experience during the long land
it must have seemed ages to them pc
riod Of their suffering was unquestiona-
bly, fearful, and their most intimate
friends could scarcely recognize their
bruised and well-nigh famished bodies
when brought in their midst. On
last night Of their stay on the tree in the
midst of the waste of water around them,
DR.. Elliott, we are told, bocame over
powered by sleep and physical exhaus-
ton, and it was with great difficulty that
his companion in peril could keep him
sufficiently aroused to prevent his falling
off the friendly tree and finding a watery
grave. The gentlemen will soon recover
their usual health, we are told, but they
will never forget the terrible ordeal
through which they so recently passed.
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or lnterest 20 the PublIc.

The Peabody Hotel was never so we'll
kept as it is at present under the able
management of Mr.. G. B. Galloway, who
has entire control OF the establishment.
The house has been improved in every
department, aud to the satisfaction Of
guests. Excellent fare, elegant rooms
and beds and polite attention are appa-
rent under the new order Of things. The
Peabody now is one of the very best
hotels in the country.
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Poor ola Pratt.

boston Courler.J
He yanked ont his greasy hand
kerchief and commenced hopping
up the sweat and tears that were
making ruts through the dirt that
adhered to his stricken face. Mr..
league said: "0ld woman been
harryin' We agin?" And he an
swered: EFF l warn't tuffer'n rub
Der l should have been a dead
corpse fore now. burned eff I don't
wish Use def or suthin. | don't
git no peace nowhere. l got ter
60 clear up ter Mount Auburn ter
day and plumb up her fust hus-
bands grayestone. She gin me a
Two foot rule ter measure from her
third husbands restin' place ter
Baylie's lot, ter see if there's room
huff ter deposit more remains. Cuss
SIGH business! 1t looks significant
and makes me Uneasy. Her dog
goned tongue is frightful. Jaw,
jaw, bout suthin' the whole time.
Saturday night sot her claws inter
my hair and I'll be blessed if she'd
leggo till Hackett's wife gin her
etherF" And the old man drove
the stopper into a can of oysters
and went out and slammed the
door. MI. league remarked {;
f" Poor old Pratt has got hisself
inter a difficulty, and eff he don't
put ON Immortality and wear a
shrowd lessen one year, l am a liar.
| knowed the old woman fore he
married her, and she's a peeler,
Won het %
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ACCIDENT TO THE QUICKSTEP.

she COIIides with the Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad Bridge at
Madison, Tearing Her Guards OH.
The steamer Quickstep, Captain Mark
D. Flower in command, which is plying
between here and Madison, running in
connection with the Little Rock railroad,
in coming through the draw this morn
ing collided with the bridge at Madison
and had her guards from the lower deck to
the hurricane roof cleared of of one side
of her. She landed below the bridge to
make repairs and will leave there this
evening for Memphis. The Quickstep
had gone through to Wittsburg and re.
ceived some cotton there for Memphis,
besides her railroad freight. According
to the dispatches no freight or lives we're
lost, and that she would make such re.
pairs as would enable her to come to
Memphis. The old reliable and safe
packet George W. Cheek, Captain Nat
Green, has gone from Helena to Madi-
son to bring her passengers and railroad
freight through.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-13

Mr.. VIM. J.. Duval, for several years a
practicing attorney Of this city, has re-
moved to the county of Crockett
in this State, and settled at the town of
about six miles north of Bells
Station, on the Memphis and Louisville
railroad, where he will give prompt at,
to all business entrusted to him
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The celebrated Rocky
Mountain Gnat OIL"
30t +. J. TuInbuII, 234 Main.


The question of the origin of the great
lakes is one that requires more observa-
ton and study than have yet been given
to it, says J.. S. Newberry of the Michi-
gan Geological Survey, before we can be
said to have solved all the problems it
involves. There are, however, certain
facts connected with the structure Of the
lake basins, and some deduction from
these facts, which may be regarded as
steps already taken toward the full un-
~derstanding of the subject. These facts
and deductions are, briefly, as follows:
/. Lake Superior lies in a synclinal
trough, and its mode of formation, there
fore, hardly admits of question, though
its sides are Geeply scored with ice
marks, and its form and area may have
been somewhat modified by this agent.
2. Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake
Erie and Lake On ario are excavated ba-
sins, wrought out of once continuous
sheets of sedimentary strata by a me-
chanical agent, and that ice or water, or
both. That they have been filed with
ice, and that this ice formed great NOV
ing glaciers, We may consider proved
The west end of Lake Erie may be said
to be carved ont of the doniferous lime
stone by ice action, as its bottom, and
sides. and slands-horizontal vertical,
and even o~verhanging surfaces-are all
furrowed by glacial grooves, which are
parallel with the major axis of the lake.
All our great lakes are probably very
ancient, as, since the close of the De-
woman period, the area they occupy has
never been submerged beneath the
ocean, and their formation may have
begun during the coal epoch.
This, at least, may be positively asser.
ted in regard to the agency of ice in the
excavation of the lake basins, that their
bottoms and sides, wherever exposed to
observation, if composed of resistant
materials, bear indisputable evidence Of
ice action; proving that these basins were
filled with moving glaciers in the last ice
period, if never before, and that part, at
least, of the erosion by which they were
formed is due to these glaciers.
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A curious Indian Deed.

bunal0 EXpress.I
John @. Graves, clerk of the SUI
perior Court, has in his possession
the original quest from the Mo-
hawk Indians to Telles Fonda
George Klock of eight thousand
acres of land in the county of AL
bany, made in the year 1851, and
signed by t~wenty-one Indians Of the
Mohawk tribe. Each signature sac.
companied by a grotesque
sketch of some animal, in
some way connected, we sup
pose, with the name of the dusky
brave who laboriously made his
mark upon the parchment over one
hundred years ago. Mr.. Graves OBJ
tanned the document from his
father, aud intends to present it to
the Historical Society, though for
the present it will occupy a place
upon the walls of his office. The
parchment is in a remarkable state
of preservation, and is a Centennial
curiosity Of no little value,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-13

The LEDGER job Office, 10 Madison
street, is prepared to execute any kind
Of job printing in a neat and tasteful
manner and at as low rates as any other
establishment in the city. I
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-04-13
A milwaukee, man closed bis skating

A Milwaukee man closed his skating
park in Janualy when people thought
spring had come, and now be wants to
sue somebody for damages.
A fashionable young man in Boston
last week had his bridal supper attached,
and was oblidge to invoke the assistance
Of papa-in-law prematurely.
A life Of leisure and a life Of laziness
are two things. Many without labor,
would live by their wits only, but they
break for the want Of stock,
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PEABODY Billiard hall, newly reGtted,
tables in Grst-class order. Call and see
for yourselves. 33t
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CRYSTAL Headlight oil, lamps, chin.
neys, wicks, etc.
l2t f. j. TURNBULL, 234 Main st.
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GAS Pipes, Water Pipes, Bath Tubs,
Pumps, Hydrants, Hose, etc. Prices
lew. Browne, the Plumber. 263 Second
street, opposite Court Square. ll6-T
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TISwARE and queensware.
JOHN B. FORD,
81 l23 Poplar street.
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THEY HAVE COME,

What? Why, 500 silk para
soils from auction mt soc each,
former price 81 80. Great
bargains in straw goods, mil.
linery, ribbons, etc. Zephyr
15c an ounce.
EUBRIE BROS,
38t 22O and 222 Matn street.
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DISTRESS warrants on personal prop
erty will issue April 10, 1876. AZ
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NEW ERA

Bartee, ass Main st. Soda
and Mead, sc. SIT
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BUCKEYE SALvE, sure cure for Piles, at
Al G. W. JONES & Co.'S.
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PAY your State and county taxes and
save costs and penalties, AZ
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CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
Nnranr,

DISTRESS warrants for polls aud dogs
will issue April 10, 1876. AZ
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ACTIVE" coal and wood cook stove.
l2t F. ]. TURNBULL, 234 Main st.
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PAY your State and county taxes and
taye costs aud penalties. AZ
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PAY your State and county taxes and
save costs and penalties. AZ
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BASE BALL GUIDE for 1876, at Mans
40
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DISTRESS warrants for polls and dogs
will issue April 10, 1876. AZ
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Potomac Shad received dali
Iy by Victor ID. Fuchs, Al EFF.
GersOn street, Al
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DISTRESS warrants for polls and dogs
WI issue April 10, 1876. az
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IL you want to pass a pleasant hour,
call at Sid Cooks Peabody Billiard
Hall, 33T
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PILEs.-Cahnon's Salve will cure. For
sale at W. N. Wilkerson & Co.'S. Sc
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"THE Mysterious Island" by JULES
Verne, ten cents a copy at Manford's
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WANTED Cash PAID FOR CHAM
w payne bottles, wine bottles and ale bot
ties, ut 80 Monroe street.
a-99 HENRY THURMAN.
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Plants and evergreens cheap, at Otto
Schwills Seed Store, BAG Main. 62
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WANTED - SlCO PER MONTH PAID
w agents Tor the best CAMPAIGN book pub
lished. s. 1. MARROW, Indianapolis.
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