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Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

To cure badlyshutting windows, cover
the bottom of the sash with fresh putty,
chalk the corresponding face Of the frame.
shut down the window fast, and leave it
long enough for the putty TO harden. The
fresh putty will accommodate itself to any
inequalities, and harden into permanent
close-itting joint, any excess being pressed
out between the sash and the frame. The
chalk on the latter will prevent the putty
adhering to it, and so interfering with the
reopening of the window.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Ex-State Treasurer Sooy, of New Jersey,
who was convicted of embezzlement, was
sentenced at Trenton, on Monday, to i'm
prisonment in the State Penitentiary for
three years, and until the costs of prosecu-
ton are paid.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Goods are daily arriving at the Centen-
NAL grounds in large quantities, principally
from foreign exhibitors. As yet but few
exhibits have been received from any por-
tion of this country, and the consequence
is that Great Britain, France, Norway,
Sweden, Egypt, Germany, and Belgium are
ahead of the United States.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

The House Committee on Military Affairs
decided on Saturday to report favorably on
the bill for the equalization of the bounties
of all Union soldiers and sailors who served
for any time in the late war. 1t provides
for the making of all bounties equal to SIS
per month for the whole time of service
taking into account all local payments ot
bounties. The same bill passed both House
and Senate last year, but failed on amend
ments.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Frank Yarmouth, youth of II, living
near Liberty, in Sullivan county, N. Y,
tried to kill two other young men by giving
them laudanum, and then attempted suicide
by the same means. All were resuscitated
with difficulty. Yarmouth is supposed to
be insane
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

CURE FOR BURNs.-Charcoal has been dis
covered to be sure cure for burns. By
laying piece of cold charcoal upon the
burn the pain subsidies Immediately. By
leaving the charcoal on one hour the wound
is healed, as has been demonstrated on
several occasions.-Bah. Sun.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

The House has adopted report Of the
Committee on Patents, refusing the anpli.
cation for the extension of the "four
motion feed patent owned by the Wheeler
q Wilson Sewing Machine COMPANY. The
patent had continued twenty.one wears, and
protests against its extension were received
from nearly one million persons. II was
testified before the committee that the
cost of manufacturing sewing machine i
not more than from twelve to fifteen dol
lars.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Sister Harriet, Mother Superior of the
Protestant Episcopal Order Of All Saints,
died in Baltimore on Sunday morning.
She was one of the first three postulants
who entered the Order when it was founded
in England in 1859.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

THE REVIVAL in this town closed on Fri
day night last, after a duration Of ten
weeks. On Sunday night the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Stubs, in a resume of his years work,
before going to Conference, footed up the
results of the remarkable religious ingather-
ing as follows number of conversions, 300
"a few over that figure number taken
into the. church, 232; number who have
joined other churches, about 20. This
leaves about so who have not yet identified
themselves with any church. A majority
of these are children, however, under the
age Of II years, who, though not admitted
to membership, are under the pastors
care, and are being instiWcted as to the
meaning of the step they have taken.
As before stated, the results of the meet.
ing are the most remarkable that have ever
attended any revival ever held in the town
The one bearing the nearest approach tc
it was the Gracey revival of '6S, when about
225 conversions were recorded, after nine
weeks protracted effort. The next, per
haps, was the Phebus meeting of eigh
weeks and l73 conversions.
Although thu meetings have closed th,
religious zeal is still strongly defined, anC
cottage prayer meetings are TO be held a
occasion may afford, while the Younj
Peoples Christian Association are inaugural
ing plans for religious work.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Daniel Drew has gone into voluntary
bankruptcy. His liabilities are stated at
about 81, 100000; his assets at $946,OOO in
addition to us shares of the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago Railroad Company,
500 shares of the Canton Land Company
and quantity of heavily mortgaged real
estate
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Max wants to know how he may
break through the conventionality which
compels him to leave his girl at half past
ten. Give a minister 81 so and tell him to
put a stop to it--N Y. Herald.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Since the middle of November last a
Somerset Mass man trapped in that town
$50 polecats, l60 muskrats, 20 minks, and .
raccoons, and sold their skins for $567.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

j. B. Phillips, of Orwell, Ohio, is making
a cheese which will not be completed until
the Goth of May, when it is expected 10
weigh 10000 pounds.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Very pleasant and always effective is
Prof Parker's Pleasant Worm Syrup, and
no physic required. 25 Cents. Sold by j.
Wesley Denney, Druggist, Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

hunting party in CRANKY, VT, recently
slaughtered fourteen deer, the crust being
such that the men could 20 along ON #
easily while the deer cut through. Two ar.
rests have been made, this sort of snort
being unlawful,
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

The shipments of clover seed from Phil.
adelphia to foreign ports this season are
only l,500 bags, against 5000 bags at the
same time last year.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

A hundred pounds of flour cost twenty
eight dollars in the Black Hills.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

The KENT County LEVY CoURT held its
session at Dover last week The delinquent
lists were returned and allowed as follows
Dover, East and West Election Districts,
l20; Little Creek 40; Milford llS; South
Murderkill llS; North Murderhill 55
Kenton 81 Duck Creek S3; Mispillion As
making total of $50. In some of the
Hundreds there are a number that are
marked as having left the State" "paid
in another hundred" assessed twice,
which are not counted in the above esti
mate. The following appointments OF
Constables were made: Nehemiah Stayton
Duck Creek John s. Poor, Kenton; David
M. Cloud, Little Creek Clayton f. Haw
lxins, Dover, for one year only; Il. X
Smith, lreapd,) North Murderlill; Isaac
Jacobs, South Murderkill; Henry n. CLARK
and Elijah Sapp, ,(reapd, } Mispillion; Joshus
Ii. Hill, (reap'd,) Milford. The following
gentlemen were reappointed Jail Commits
sioners J. G. Pennewill, C. II. b. Day, j
5. Jester. Jail Physician, Il. s. Anderson
Attorney to Levy Court, JAS s. WaIcott.--
! Sentinel.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

Oysters supplied in the she'll or by the
quart by N. Moore, who now occupies VIM.
B. Farrel's old place, on Main st. Oyster
stews at the counter at any time. Oysters
served in any style, cooked or raw.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

California is stocking some of her forests
with wild turkeys.
Smyrna times., 1876-03-15

A FACT WoRTH KNOW ING.--Are you
suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe
Colds settled on the breast, or any disease
OF the Throat and Lungs2 If so, so to your
Druggist, James p. Hoffecker, Agent,
smyrna, and get bottle of Boschee's Ger
man Syrup. This medicine has lately been
introduced from Germany, and is selling ON
It's own merits. The people are going wild
over Its success, and druggists all over our
country are writing us of its wonderful
cures among their customers. If you wish
TO try its superior virtue, get Sample
Bottle for 10 cents. Large size bottle 10
cents. Three doses will relieve any case
! Try it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
The CooK-rOOm.

The first consideration in a cooking.
room is cleanliness. Tried by this test,
papered walls are an a~bOmination in
such a place. You cannot darken this
room through pArtof the day in summer,
as you do others, and consequently fly
specks will be numerous. These walls
absorb the kitchen odors and steam, and
the smoke rests lovingly upon them. If
creeping things get into a house they
are sure to insinuste themselves into the
paper-on the walls. Hard finished walls
are really more clearly, for they can be
washed; but, unless the finishing Is bet
ter done than the kitchens we have seen,
they soon look dirty, and this is the next
worst thing to being so; for such finish
ing soon becomes discolored and
=" splotchy There is nothing that will
compare with the old-fashioned white,
wash, not color wash, hut whitewash,
pure and simple. The color wash may
give the walls a prettier tint, but it must
be put on by a practiced hand, whereas
whitewash can be applied by any one,
whenever a dirty spot mskes It's appear.
ance. II is true that Impractical hands
do not apply the brush as evenly as
could be wished, but q few streaks more
or less don't matter when all can see
that the streaks are white and clean.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17


Ladies', how many times have you got
TO be told that it's leap year2
Madame Borgese, wife Of the Brazilian
Minister at Washington, has introduced
supday-evening receptions.
Little Nell" the California Dis.
mond," is reported to have run away to
Australia with a noted comedian of the
Pacific slope.
Two women, Misses 0rme and Richard
son, have commenced business in Lon
don as conveyancers. Their chambers
are in Chancery Lane.
1t appears that the statement that the
Khedive Of Egypt offered bis shares in
the Suez Canal to France has no founda-
tian in fact. The French Government
knew nothing Of the transaction till il
was completed.
A Madrid journal the Epoca, referring
to the questions pending between Spain
and the United StateG, gays that time
will speedily dispel the illusions of those
who now make such sinister prognostics
respecting the future relations between
the two countries.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
WASHINGTON



WASHINGTON, January lT-SESArE,-
The chair laid before the Senate a COM
muucation from the Secretary of the
Treasury, inclosing a report Of the Su-
perintendent of the United States coast
survey, showing the progress of work
during the year ending June 30, 1876,
accompanied by engraved maps showing
the condition Of work on the Atlantic,
Pacific and Gulf coasts. Ordered to be
printed and lie on the table.
Mr.. Morton gave notice that he would
ask the Senate Wednesday next to pro-
coed to the consideration of the resolu-
tons submitted by him in regard to the
Mississippi election.
Mr.. Gordon presented the petition Of
G, P. I. Beauregard for the removal of
his political disabilities. Referred.
Mr.. Sherman from the Committee en-
Finance reported, with amendments, the
Senate bill to amend the act granting a
charter to the Freedmen's Savings and
Trust Company, and gave notice that he
would call it up for consideration to-
morrow. Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Edmunds from the Judiciary
Committee reported adversely on the
Senate bill concerning the competency
of witnesses in Federal courts. Placed
on the calendar, with the adverse report,
at the request of Mr.. ingalls,, who intro
duced the bill.
The death of Vice President Wilson
will be announced in the Senate. Friday
next, by Senator Boutwell,, who will
speak on the life and character OF the
deceased. Senators Anthony, Cameron
of Pennsylvania, Crogen, Dawes, Cor
don, Hamlin, Ingalls,, Merrill of Yer
mont, Morton and Stevenson will also
make addresses.
HoUsE.-The Speaker called the States
for bills for reference and the following
we're referred:
By Mr.. Joyce, to refrain stamp duties
on medicines; also to prevent traffic in
spirits or intoxicating liquors in the
Centennial buildings or on the grounds
during the exhibition.
By Mr.. Banks, for the removal Of all
political disabilities.
By Mr.. Stsrkweather, prescribing the
form Of oath for members Of Congress.
By Harris, Of Virginia, to repeal an
act prohibiting the payment of debts by
the United States before the war except
on proof Of loyalty.
By Cutler, applying the proceeds of
public lands to. the support Of free
schools.
By Packer, resolutions Of the Penn
sylvsnia Legislature in reference to the
appropriation of 81, SOC, 900 for the Cen
tsnnlal celebration.
By Townsend, Of Pennsylvania, to
repeal the act providing for the redistri-
button Of national bank currency.
By Mr.. jerks, to reduce the salaries of
all the executive and legislative officers
of the government, except those Of the
army and navy under fifteen hundred
dollars, twenty per ceRt., and to fix the
salary of the President at twenty-five
thousand dollars.
By Mr.. Randall, directing the discon-
tinuance Of work on the streets in Wash.
ington aud to prevent the further use Of
certificates by the Board Of Auditors.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
A singular story.

A strange story is reported from Spain.
A detachment of Alfonsist soldiers re-
Gently discovered in a secluded part of
a mountain chain a cavern which was
inhabited by robbers, who had taken ad-
vantage of the civil war in order to ply
their criminal avocations. An alcove
was attached to this subterranean dwell
ling, the doors OF which the soldiers
broke open. They were astonished to
find the apartment so decently furnished,
and provided with books, flowers, and
aver a piano. In an easy chair sat a
venerable old man. The soldiers inter-
rogated him, but obtained only incohe-
rent replies. 1t has been ascertained,
from the confession of one of the robbers
that the old man was the cashier of a
banking firm at Bourgos; that they had
broken into the bank, and stolen the
safe, and taken the cashier with them,
in hopes that he would assist them to
open the safe. During the retreat which
was marked by many adventures, the in
trepid old mar succeeded in evading the
vigilance of his guardians for a short
time, and secreted the safe in a place
where he would be able to recover it
aftewsrd. When the booty was missed,
and the robbers failed to ascertain the
place where it was concealed, they re-
vived the proceedings of the famous
chaffeurs by roasting the feet of their
victim in order to extort q confession.
But the inflicted tortures had a different
effect. The nan got mad; and it was
with the object Of restoring him to rea-
son that the robbers bestowed the utmost
attentions on him, in hopes hat when
he recovered his reason he would reveal
to them the place where the safe was
concealed,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

The Nashville American Of the 10Th
instant, without the fear Of the spooks
before its eyes, says: "Dr. Watson, the
spiritual parson Of Memphis, assures
the editor of the Appeal that in a recent
mediums seance his former wife sp-
peared in the flesh IN a green silk dress
he had given to her when living. The
deceased Mrs. W. actually came down
off the stage, cut a piece out of the
dress and gave it to Watson. Just here
the query comes up, how long will a
green silk dress last in the other world,
and do they wear them gored or biased
down there2"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

A MELANCHOLY case Of insanity is re-
ported in the Nashville American Of
Sunday, the 18th inst. General Tom
Benton Smith WA the youngest Briga.
der in the Army Of Tennessee, and
served with great distinction under
Bragg, Joe Johnston aud Hood, first as
Colonel of the Twentieth Tennessee,
commanded originally by Colonel Battle.
When General Bate was promoted
to Major General at Dalton, Smith,
being senior Colonel, succeeded to
the command Of the brigade, and dur.
iag the campaign between there and
Atlanta received his commission as
Brigadier General, being at that time
under t~wenty-four years Of age. He
fought il nearly every important battle
in the West, but was finally captured at
the battle in front of Nashville and while
being conveyed to the rear was met by
a. drunken officer on horseback,
who cut him down over the
head with his sabre, and continued
to strike him when down. The
guards stood and law it well done. The
wounds inflicted on the skull were Sc
we're and the unfortunate gentleman was
the same afterward. After the
war he went into business, but without
his customary energy and clearness of
mind. he failed at everything he un.
dertook, even as brakeman on a freight
train, and it gradually became evident
to his friends hat he was losing his rea-
son from the effects Of the saber cuts in
his head. A few days ago his insanity
took a violent form; he imagined that
he was the Indian Emperor Of America
and became dangerous. BE was con
Gned in jail and will shortly be sent to
the lunatic asylum. He was an edu-
Gated, heightened, cbivalrous gentleman,
of commanding person and in manners
as gentle as q child. His case is truly
pitiable.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

CINCINNATI having been selected as
the place for holding the National Re
publican Convention on the l4th Of next
June, the Chicago, St. Louis and other
Western papers, as well as some in the
East, are explaining that it will not be
much Of a show no how, and that they
did not want it held in their respective
cities. Some of the Eastern papers,
however, take a more serious view Of it
and regard this as a move in favor Of a
Western candidate. 1t is not unlikely
that the locality will have some influence
on the ultimate result. In this connec-
ton the fact is recalled that the last ma
tional party convention, if not the OILY
one ever held at Cincinnati, was that Of
the Democrats in 1856, when Buchanan
was nominated. In 1872 the Liberal
convention, which nominated Horace
Greeley, was held there, but this was not
a strict party convention.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
7 ANp ARYssINrA.
F~Orbearance OF tine Rhedive aud
Perf7dy of King Johannes.

Per6dy of King Johannes.
The great Egyptologist, Herr Brugsch,
has contributed a letter to the Cologne
Gazette on the subject Of the present
complications between Egypt and Abyss
sinia. Herr Brugsch endeavors to prove
that the Abyssinians are altogether in
the wrong, and that the Khedive has
shown them unparalleled forbearance.
King Johannes has, according to bis &C
count, openly violated every agreement
made after the late war. The writer
goes on to narrate the well known pro-
gress Of friction between the two eoun-
tries, from the rupture of commercial
intercourse and the concentration OF
small corps of observation on both sides
of the frontier to the outbreak of open
war, ending, for the present, in Egyptian
defeat. He then considers the present
condition of the Abyssinians as a people,
and disposes very summarily of their
claim to European protection on the
ground that they are Christians: The
truth is they are not Christians at all, but
pagans with some Chr~istianized supersti-
tons. They may have been Christians
once, but for centuries past they have,
under the guidance of a ~disreputable set
Of monks, given way to drink and other
vices, andedegenerated so as to afford in
the present day a truly pitisble picture
OF what Christians may sink to be Long
habitual indulgence in vice has afflicted
them with one of the most loathsome
diseases, aud altogether they are the last
people to which one would attribute the
character of Christians. The present
wal between Egypt and Abyssinis is not
a war between Islsmism and Christianity.
but between Egyptian civilization and
Abyssinian barbarism. Missionaries who
have lived in Abyssinis give most repul-
sive descriptions of their nominal fellow
Christians, among whom, being of a
higher type of Christianity, they have
found themselves scarcely tolerated.
Herr Brugsch concludes with a thrust at
the supposed instigators of the present
war, which readers will be slow to Under
stand unless they bear in mind the abuse
which was heaped upon England during
the Franco-Germa wal under the mis-
conception, general in Germany, that
Remington rifles are Of English manu-
%facture. 1.-THE saying goes" says Herr
Brugsch, that the majority Of Abyssin-
ians are armed with Remingtons and
commanded by an English military man
of the name of Cochran. / do no more
than state this fact, which requires no
further comment"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
Temperance Conference.

New YORK, January 1.-THE National
Temperance Society has issued a call
for an international conference at Phila-
delphia, June 10, as a fitting occasion to
consider the relations Of temperance re-
form in its scientific economy, intellec-
tusl, social, moral and religious aspects
to individual and national life. its prog
ress and needs, and to invite to M de-
liberations representatives of the cause
of temperance from foreign countries.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
shot and Killed sx HIS wife.

CNDINKATI, January II. = Edward
Richardson, q prominent citizen of Mas
.sillon, Ohio, and member of the City
Council, wal shot and instantly killed
yesterday by his wife. She states that
the act was committed in self-defense, as
her husband was approaching her to cut
her throat with a razor. 1t is thought by
many to have been a premeditated affair.
The coroner verdict was that Richard
son came to his death by Q pistol shot,
fred By his wife. Emily Richardson.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
FOREIGN.

LONDON, January l7.-Sir Henry Hal
ford hes arranged all the preliminaries
for a rife match for small bores between
the National Rife Association of Great
Britain and the American Association.
The match will take place during the
Centennial exhibition.
CALCUTTA, January 1.-THE Prince
of Wales has left Delhi for Lahare and
Cashmere. The Rsjah Of Cashmere is
preparing a munifcent reception.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

A BILL offered in the House Of the Mis-
sissippi Legislature the other day making
the larceny Of hogs, pigs, etc., punisha-
Bile by confinement In the State peniten-
tiary was vigorously opposed by a colored
member, because, he said, that under its
operations oil the agricultural labor in
the State would be transferred to the
~penitentiary. 1t passed nevertheless.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

At Orleans, New York, one day last
week a shOpkseper hearing a rafting
and squsalipg in bis cellar vent down
and discovered a large rot which, IN
running over q pile Of clans, had been
caught by the tail by one of the she'll
hSh. The animal had dragged the b.
valve to is hole, bat YES unable to pull
II through on account Of lie size, and
was IN this situation when il was cap.
tured and killed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-17

COLONEL J. D. c. ATKINS, Of Tennes-
see, an ex-Confederate, reported the
annual pension bill for the benefit Of
Union soldiers in Congress last Friday,
which passed. This is another evidence
that the South is hostile to the defenders
Of the Union.