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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, June 20. - President
Grant made the following speech last
night in responding to the serenade after
the Republican ratification meeting:
/" Gentlemen-After all the speaking you
and | have listened to tonight flor was
with you in your ratification meeting)
you cannot wish, even if | was a speaker,
to hear anything from me. But / can
not withhold my approval of the excel
lent ticket given you by the National
Republican Convention at Cincinnati, a
ticket that should receive the cordial
support Of all races in all sections. l
know Governor Hayes personally, and l
can surrender with unfeigned pleasure
my present position 10 him, as | believe
l shall do on the 9th Of March, next year,
with guaranteed security for your rights
aud liberties under the laws of the
land"
General Il. j. j. Reynolds appeared
before Clymer's committee to-day, and
testified that the house in San Antonio,
Texas, said to have been presented to
him by army contractors, was In reality
presented by the citizens of San Anto'
MO, The transaction was open and
known to everybody, and mentioned in
the newspapers. he had entertained
General Sherman and the Inspector Cen
eral of the army in the house, and they
fully understood the circumstances OF
his possession of it. He had been ten
dered property worth five times as much
BY the citizens OF San Antonio, but de-
clined because the army headquarters
we're in San Antonio. he had accepted
the present as a spontaneous expression
Of good will on the part Of the people,
among whom be had lived for several
years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

DETROIT, June 2O.-A grand Hayes
and Wheeler ratification meeting was
held last evening at the Young Mems
Hall. A salute of one hundred guns
was fred on Campus Nartius before the
meeting at the hall. Rousing speeches
strongly indorsiDg the nominees Of the
Cincinnati Convention were made by
Governor Bagley, Ex-Governor Baldwin
William A. Howard, ex-Lieutenant
Governor Lee, Of Ohio, and other
prominent Republicans. The meeting
adjourned at q late hour.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
street Car Accident.

CLEVELAND, ONO, June 2O.-About II
o'clock last night as a car on Southside
street railroad was going down Seneca
street hill the brake gave way, letting
the car go down the hill at rapid speed.
When the. car struck the bridge the
horses became loosened and ran away.
The car jumping the track, plunged into
the canal, a distance Of about twenty
feet. Three passengers in the car we're
carried down into the water. Mrs. Ger
trude Delzeid, a widow lady about forty
FIVE years old, was taken from the water
dead. Mrs. Emma L%sndsburg and J.
W. Kelly we're severely but not danger
ously hurt.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

The cheering glow diGused throughout the
gygtem By Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the
elasticity Of mind and body which they i'm
part, and tho DISAPPEARANCE which they cause
OF those vague, uneasy feelings so difficult to
describe. are most encouraging symptoms to
the depending invalid. The sensation Of ro-
turning health Is a most delightful one, and
10 enjoy II, those afflicted with dyspepsia,
liver complaint, constipation, intermittent or
remittent fevers, lack Of vitality, sloepless-
pess. rheumatic, nervous and urinary troubles
.bouid avail themselves without delay Of this
inysiuablo tonic and corrective. Besides
being specifically adapted 70 tne eraaieation
IL IN diseasee involving a diminution Of vital
power on account ofiu properties as a general
tuyiR0raut.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

NEW YORK, June 2O.-Judge West
brook Of the Supreme Court has granted
a non.suit in the complaint Of the State
against Stephens, Gale and others, con-
cerned in what is generally known as the
Belden & Denuison canal contract OF
1866. Suit was brought to recover money
of which the State had been defrauded
through the couspir Scy Of its " agents
and contractors with whom they we're in
league. 1t was regsr ded on all sides as
a test case, and the decision is expected
to terminate the social ed canal suits.
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THE srArE PRISE Avn srArR CREDIr.

Nv o. R0A oAAAA ~ NAN w
age free.
THE STATE PRESS AND STATE CREDIT.
Some of the high State credit
organs that have uttered so many
anatbemas against all who differ
with them as to the best means to
permanently restore State credit,
we are glad to see, are toning down
greatly. They are beginning to
family realize the situation as the
voice of the people breaks forth IN
distinctly upon their ears. A fair
investigation of this all important
subject from a practical standpoint
at the start would have obyiated
many Quixotic fouriShes and
unnecessary agitation. We note
with great satisfaction that the APP
peal has not called anybody a ere
pudiator" for a week-perhapS not
since Colyar was last discussed.
The Nashville American has
spoken out for the first time
since the consolidation of its
predecessors, and to the surprise
of nearly everybody opposes an
increase of taxation above forty
cents, although, of course, DESTROYS
of presel wing State credit. The
GAINESVILLE Chronicle, which has
often been violent and nearly
always able, has Subdued its
towering passion and talks learn
edly and sweetly of fine theories
that fall like music on the drOwsy
ear. The tigers claws are drawn
within their cushions and a velvety
paw is used to pat the dear tax-pay-
ing people on the back or take
them byfheir horny hands. The
Knoxville Tribune has not taken
back anything yet, but scars to ma
tional politics and seems to have
indefinitely pretermitted the ques-
ton it started out SO boldly to dis
cuss from Pisgah'S nights in favor
of the bondholders. There is a
little paper at Chattanooga, we
have forgotten its name-as Ed
Shaw once said about the LEDGER
oh, yes, the Times, an
extreme high tax journal, en-
tirely unbalanced on the subject.
Even this paper has followed the
example of Zacchius when he came
down out of the tree. Several edi-
tors have begun toTealize that fine
editorials do not lubricate the
wheels of government or tighten
the burdens of the people, and we
are satisfied that in less than
two years, if not within -four
months, nearly eyeryhigh tax organ
in the State on the Democratic side
will yield to the logic of facts and
the voice of the people, and come
to the position occupied by the
LEDGER for the last two and a hall
years. And we venture further tx
predict that the State Convention
which meets in August at Nashville
to nominate a Governor and ap
point an electoral ticket, will no
recommend an increase of taxation
for any purpose. If, however, it doe
there will be such a weakening il
the party as has never before bee
witnessed. Let the people sen.
practical business men to the Ger
eral Assembly and have a confe-
ence% proposed with the bondholder
and this question may be adjnste
satisfactorily and h%onOrably to a
concerned.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

To all who arc suffering from tho errors and
indisoretions Of youth. nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood. etc.. / will
send A recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was dilcov-
cred By a missionary In South America. Send
a sslf-addressod envelope 10 tho Rev. JOsHPH
T. ISHAE, station D, Bible House, Now York
City. FiVV-eouS"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
FACTS M FANCIES.

Miss Martin, Of Cincinnati, had her
hustle shattered by three bullets shot
from q revolver by her lover.
Vanderbilt has got so that he reads
the papers, runs over the markets, and
smokes his cigars every day.
Colorado mothers string dried potato
bugs together for beads. The latest
fashion in scarf pihs is a p~retzel.
The Massachusetts pond sea serpent
has again appeared. 1t creates much
CONSERVATION among the insbriates.
Seventeen residences in Waterford, N.
Y, are connected by telegraph wires,
and the occupants gossip handily.
Cardinal Antonelli, the Pope's Secrc-
tary of State, is likely soon to die of
asthma, and the Pope's health is very
bad.
Dom Pedro pays $S5 a day for two
Pullman cars, exclusive of the cost of
tickets for the party and the expenses of
the table.
a monument to Bartolomeo Christie
fall, who invented the piano at Padua,
Italy, has been placed in the Church Of
Santa Croce, at Florence.
Dom Pedro does not intend that the
fawning, ridiculous American shall lick
his boots, and as he is M honest married
man the beautiful and accomplished "
of the more absurd sex cannot reach
him. Mr.. Alcantara, you are thrice
welcome to these shores.
Nine. de Rothschild lately gave a
grand ball in Paris, and the Countess de
Pourtales' toilet is described as having
been the most marvellous of the many
beautiful ones present. How the wearer
got into it was impossible to discover;
there was no seam at all visible to the
unsophisticated eye.
Mile Aimee's sister was married TO {
man named Mariande, an idle, worthless
fellow. Some days. ago, exasperated b.
the refusal of his wife to give him moneJ
he shot her, and then killed himself. |
appears that he rendered her a grea
service, inasmuch as she will recover
and he is fortunately disposed Of.
Speaking Of the influx of Western
visitors at the Exhibition, a Philadelphi
paper relates the following inciden
which transpired in the main building
"Those people come from the West,
said one to the other. Why, how ca
You tell them2' said the other. "Wh!
don't you see how high they wear theI
corsets T"-BostoR Transcript. Ind
eating, Of course, a long stay.
William Sexton, the champion billiar,
player, was, ten years ago, a beot-blac
in Burlington, Vt. His sister is o
d waiter at the American House in thi
{ city. His sudden rise to fame and hone
J reminds one Of Mark Twain's bitter r
: pinings at his slothfulness in youth. "
l had been an early riser" he say
y where might | be now7 Keeping stor
q no doubt, and respected by all"
When the late Sultan Of Turkey 90
the Russian flag floating in the Bosph
rus, he rose from his snug place on d
floor in a furious passion, drove l
women to their harems, ordered a hu
dred slaves 1oggsd, knocked two pan
es Of glass out Of his window, and-call
IS for a pipe, after which he subsidized, a
70 thought no more about it. Such is
1s Oriental mind when it bucks against
be stone wall.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

CAIRo, June 20 -Arrived-St. Gent,
We've, Vic ksburg, 2 am; Dick Fulton
and Franz; Willard, New Orleans, 2.
Departe d-Bigley, St. Louis, 9 p mi
st. Genevi eve, St. Louis, 4 am. Fulton
and willard, Louisville, 4. Clear and
cool.
CINCINNATI, June 2O.-River falling.
Light rain.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

WASHINGTON, June 2O.-For Tennessee
and Ohio valley, slight changes in pres
sure and temperature. southwest winds,
cloudy or partly cloudy weather. posi-
bly, followed by higher temperature and
local rains
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
AuCTIoN.
ATTENTION!
Members of Building and Loan Com.
panieS and All Others.
UNRESEKVED SALE
Three Beautiful Building Lots at
Auction,

WE HAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO SELL,
Porter avenue in font of Captain Lenpw's,
being lots 5. 6 and 70 Of Porter's subdivision
Of lot 81, Willoughby Williams tact, each
lot lC0 feet front by 20 feet deep. Among the
inducements TO buy these lots we may men
tion health, good %neiehborhood, convenience
TO street cars, exemption from city taxes. and
on SATURDAY, JUNE 2iTH, at IL o'clock.
southwest corner of Main and Madison SITS,
Terms Half cash, hall in II months, with
6 per cent. interest.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

Hon. J. A. TRoUsDALE, Of Sum-
ner county, is announced as a can
didate for the State Senate from
his district.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

SAN FRAScIsoo, June 2o-The Bay
sugar refinery, a seven.story brick build
ing, corner Of Battery and Union streets,
was totally destroyed by FIRE early this
morning. Loss, $500, 900; insured for
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
MEETING.
Fourth of July.

THE VARIOUS CIVIC AND MILITARY
i societies and associations are requested to
send three delegates, each, 70 a meeting TO be
held at Cochran Hall, on TUESDAY, June
10th, at 5 O'Clock pm. for the purpose Of
completing arrangements for the Fourth of
July Celebration.
By order of the Chairman.
ei9j FRED G. SCHAPER. Sec'y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

Hon. WIN. MCFARLAND, Of the
First Congressional district, has
given such general satisfaction that
he will probably be accorded the
race without opposition, at least on
the Democratic side.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
PUBLIC

The subscription price Of the PUBLIC
LEDGER is 50 per anuum for the Daily,
and SO per annum for the weskly-POst.
age free.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
DIED, in BufOrd township, Union

DIED, in Buford township, Union
county, N. G., May 9, 1876, James
Belk, Esq, aged one hundred and
eleven years, three months and five
days. He had nearly six hundred
children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
PROFESSIONAL.
sTAMPINo.
STAMPS! STAMPS!
FOR
and Embroidery

mo THOSE INTHE BUSINESS OR GOING
into il, L wish to inform them / h9vetaken
the agency for Tennessee, Mississippi and
Arkansas for the sale of l.-nfrr
BOrden's Excelsior Block Stamps.
have used the same kind for thirteen years
with perfect success. Have tried others, but
found none 10 equal the blocks, either in du-
liability or beauty Of work. Therefore | feel
confident in recommending them as being the
best stamps in use. Having q largo assort-
mont Of patterns TO select from, | feel sure Of
pleasing all. All orders promptly filed at
manufacturers' prices.
FOR particulars address
Mrs. NJ, Y. ARMSTRONG, ls9 Main st.
p. s.-Stamping done on short notice.
03.95
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
The full vote Of the Cincinnati

The full vote of the Cincinnati
Convention was 756. Tennessee
had "A votes. Those were cast as
follows: On the first ballot-Bris-
tow 10, Morton 10. Second ballot
-Bristow 8, Blaine 8, Morton g..
Third ballot-Bristow 8, Blaine Z,
Morton 9. Fourth ball6t-Bristow
10, Blaine Z, Morton Z. Fifth bal.
ot-Bristow 10, Blaine Z, Morton
z. Sixth ballot-Bristow II, Blaine
Z, Morton l, Hays A. Seventh b. :
lot Blaine 6, Hayes IS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
&6OO.OOO.
Total, ll,l5e Gifts all Cash .:;:-..seOO,O

IOtaI, II,I0O UlIIS, al OHsU s.sssasWVVVsVWV
PRICE OF TICKETS;
Whole Tickets. sl2; Halves, So; Quarters, SO;
@ Tickets, SlOG: 27h Tickets, $500; 46A Tick
cts. $500; 95A Tickets. $1,000. 10000 Tickets
at Sl2 each.
Remittances can be made by Express, Draft,
Postofioe Money order or Registered Letter,
made payable to Kentucky Cash Dis
IrtbuTIOn Company.
An communications connected with the
distribution and orders for Tickets, and APP
plications Of Agents TO sell Tickets, should oe
HON. THOS. p. PORTER.
General Manager, Frankfort, NY,
Q5-118d6W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

GENERAL E. A. JACKSON, a
prominent citizen Of East Tennes-
see, celebrated his golden wedding
at Jonesboro last week. :
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

to burn their houses, take their
goods and run them out of the
land. If the Chinese had kinky
hair and lived in the South they
would have sympathy; New Eng
land would send down schoolmarms
and tracts to teach them to hate
one-third of the people of the
Union, and carpet-baggers would
go down in the thickly-settled dis
tricts to solicit their votes, and oc-
casions might arise when 1t would
become Necessary to send one ofthem
to Congress that the world might see
the progress of the race and another
striking evidence that all men are
born free and equal, if not more so,
in this glorious land of ours. AS
it is. the almond-eyed, long-tailed
emigrant from the far off land of
rice and chop-sticks is in the wrong
pew. He is not wanted or encour-
aged. There is a GOODNESS toward
him on all sides utterly irreconcila-
Bile with the cardinal doctrines of
the Radical party. The exception
against one particular race noted
for industry and peaceable habits
is most notable. 1t is a species of
Known othingism springing up in
an unexpected place. The party
of great moral ideas is sadly neg
Letting this field of missionary
labor. They have failed to inform
the onfdingfollowers Of Confucius
that they are as good as any other
man, regardless of color or previous
condition of servitude. They have
not even told him that he is the
equal of the squalid red man on the
plane of human rights. We see
but one chance for John Ohinaman
on this continent. He must join
the Republican party and go into
politics. Then let Congress place
him on a reservation and appoint
agents, post-traders, suffers and
chaplains to look after his temporal
salvation. Then he will begin to
loom up into consequence, and
party factions will rival each other
in the desire to promote his welfare.
He will become a factor in public
affairs. Congressman will make
speeches in his behalf, and rich con-
tractors will shed tears for the good
of his soul. But should he pursue
his present reckless course-refuEe
to go to Sunday schoOl, keep on work
ing for low wages and boarding up
his money-the heather Chinee is
doomed. He might as well cut off
his pig-tail and hand in his checks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

BRIsTow is called a Southern Re
publican, but he is not a Radical.
That Southern Republicans gene
rally are Radicals is best indicated
by the light vote cast for Ken
tucky's fayorite sun by the Southern
delegates. OF the 113 votes he re-
ceived on the first ballot only 81
came from south Of the Ohio
river, and "A of these were cast by
his own State. On the next ballot
he received only As from the same
direction; on the third ballot, 40.
and SO on through. His highest
vote, 126, was on the fourth ballot
OF this number 81 were cast by
Southern delegates, out Of a tOta
Southern vote of 1928.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
Mr.. morton sought Yesterday to

Mr.. MORTON sought yesterday to
prevent the Senate sitting in trial
on the Belknap case during recess
by offering a motion that the trial
should only proceed in the presence
of the House Of Representatives.
His idea was, and the desire Of the
Republican leaders, to postpone and
get rid Of this most disagreeable
trial until after the November cleo
ton. Mr.. Morton's motion was re-
jected by a decisive vote. The
Court of impeachment adjourned
until the 9th of July, after the st.
Louis Convention, when, it is pre-
Sumed, the trial will have to pro-
coed. The managers are divided
upon the question whether the trial
can proceed after Congress adjourns.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20

$25, OOo. 1t wa owned by an incOrper-
ated company.
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I. O. o. r.

MEMBERS OF HARMONY LODGE. NO.
Nl 1879, 1. o. o. F., are requested TO meet at
Odd Fellows Hall this TUESDAY evening
at 7 o'clock sharp, TO participate with sister
Lodges in the anniversary Of Leath Orphan
Asylum, at the Cumberland Presbyterian
O. W. L. CROOK. n. G.
d. A. Mc9NBER, Sec'y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-20
PRESCRIPTION FREE

TOR TIE SPEEDY CURE OF SEMINAL
\ weakness, lost manhood and all disorders
brought on by indiscretiOns or excess. Any
druggist has the Ingredients. Address, DA.
WILSON Z CO.. Box 2296, New York.
s-yViii-S-and
Connecticut western news., 1876-12-22
Funerals as Disease Breeders.

The London Lancet says: There is good reason to believe that disease is oc- casionally disseminated through the medium of funerals. We have at least one fairly authenticated instance in this country of diphtheria being diffused broadcast through the crowding inciden- tai, occasionally, to the last ceremony. In America this question is beginning to receive much attention, and several cases have been reported of late where the transmission of the disease from the corpse seemed highly probable. The Suffolk District Medical Society sent out 400 circulars to medical practitioners with view to ascertain the opinion of the profession on the alleged danger of permitting public funerals of persons who had died from diptheria. Two hundred and thirty nine answers were received; of these 143 writers express @ belief in the possible danger of conta- zion at such funerals, seventeen believe that there is danger from funerals in the houses of the dead, but none in churches, twenty-nine fancy that in the present state of knowledge there is no justification in prohibiting public fune- rals, and eight record circumstances which occurred in their own experience conirmatory of the proposition that peril may ensue,, but the testimony these latter advance is not quite satisfactory. The society after due consideration re- commend that funerals at the houses of those who have died of diphtheria should be private, owing to possible exposure to the poison of the disease.
 Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them, then, or bear with them.
Connecticut western news., 1876-12-22
The Wheel of Fortune.

Those in this country engaged in trade and commerce, says the New York Sun, are liable st any moment to be overwhelmed by financial panics, politi- cal disturbances, and other ausesagainst which no human foresight can provide. The millionaire of to-day becomes the bankrupt of tomorrow.
 We have had notable instances of re- verses of fortune among the rich men of this city, the most recent and the most notable being that of MT. Edward Matthews, the great real estate owner. MT. Matthews owned buildings in the heart of the down town business DOT tion of the city, renting hundreds of offices and stores in Broadway, Bond street, Wall street, and Exchange place, all at high rates. It is said his income from real estate alone, in ten years, be. ginning with 1863, amounted to over $8, ,O00,O 900. MT. Matthews became in volved, aid his creditors are, as we un- derstand, now seeking to throw him in. to bankruptcy. For many years Mir. Matthews, his house on Fifth avenue, near Eighteenth street, his choice col lection of pictures by modern masters, and his faultless equipages, have been much talked of in fashionable circ es in this city. At one time nobody turned out better appointed four-in- hand than Edward Matthews. Now he is in very serious difficulty. On the twentieth of Oc- tober lst he conveyed all his real estate to his son, J. Brander Matthews, for consideration of $50, ,000. It is charged that this conveyance, which transfers property valued at over $3, 900, 900 even in these times, is assailable. Certainly in this case the wheel of fortune made sudden and disastrous turn for gen tleman. who so long had been rolling in wealth.
 Another painful case is that of the venerable Daniel Drew, who, at one time, and that not so long ago, threw about his millions in Wall street with the best of them. He could at any time during ten successive years have re- tired from the street worth $5, ,000,0 ,000, but be ventured once too often, afld is now utterly bankrupt of his houses and lots, his farms, his bonds and stocks; they have all passed into other hands. MT. Drew's case is particularly ssbad one. He finds himself stripped of worldly possessions at an age when he can no longer hope to retrieve his fallen fortunes.