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The New York herald., 1876-11-05

and irregular, business being interrupted by
a political meeting in the neighborhood Of
the Stock Exchange. Gold opened at 100 3-4,
and closed at 100 rs. Money was supplied
on call loans at 3 and per cent. Govern
ment bonds were firm and active Railroad
bonds were generally steady.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

From oar reports tbs morning The probdbil-
ties are that the meather to-day ,ciN De slightly
,rdrn,er and partly cloudy or cloudy.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

WHERE Is TwEED?-What has become of
the great Boss? Where does he linger?
Do unpropitious gales blow him off the
coast? What has become of him? Is he
really at sea or is he biding his time and
waiting to make his appearance as a Boss
Koorback at the last moment?
The New York herald., 1876-11-05
The Colon LINE IN NEW YoRK.-A r,

The Colon LINE IN New YoRK.-A row
between colored republican club and some
democratic whites on the west side on Fri
day night resulted in the wounding of two
men. one seriously, by pistol balls. The
colored folks were uninjured, principally,
il is believed, because their assailants threw
the bricks at their heads. The rumor that
Zach Chandler has applied to the President
for troops is unconfrmed.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

GRAVE FEARS Of trouble in Louisiana on
election day are entertained by many citi-
zens IN New Orleans, but Governor kellogg,
and General Augur, commanding the federal
troops in that State, unite in saying that
there will be no disturbance. remarkably
full registry in the Crescent City, which leads
to charges of fraud on both Sides is a promi-
nent feature of the situation. as it has been
in many of our Northern cities.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

There are cities on this continent where
the Sheriff, County Clerk and Coroners
serve their public for a regular and not i'm
moderate salary and turn the fees into the
Treasury. 1t does not seem to have occurred
to any citizen of New York, at any time,
that these officers might be made to do so
here. Yet, allowing them ten thousand n
year each, which would be handsome pay,
considering the work and responsibility,
this would effect saving to the city Of one
hundred and ten thousand dollars q year-a
sum worth while saving with our heavy debt.
But it Is too late to speak OF this Just now,
or. perhaps, too early. For the next year the
taxpayers, which means all the citizens,
agree to fling away to five politicians one
hundred and ten thousand dollars more
than by the most liberal estimate they ought
to receive. Meantime, however, this is a
matter which the voter may as well think
over as he determines to which of the can
didates he will give these rather fat
pckings.
The patronage Of the superior officers, Of
course, goes to make up the bulk Of the
three and half millions Of servants wages,
| fees and pickings which the New York voter
gives away next Tuesday. That part only
which will fall in during the next year
amounts to two and half millions a good
deal to pay out as part Of our servants wages
for keeping the city in such order as it gets
for the money. Bear in mind this includes
only part Of the salaries, and none of the
cost of tools and work done, such as street
repairing, &c. We reprint here some figures
which we published several weeks ago, to
show the details of this part of the city
hOusekeeDinp
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

SECRETARY MoRRILL's PEEcH.-The Secre-
tary of the Treasury, in his address to Wall
street yesterday afternoon, made an impor-
tant remark. He asserted positively that it
is possible to resume specie payments in
1879, and that his party mean to do it if
they are kept in power. Fortunately, the
Secretary of the Treasury is the best au-
thority for his party on that question, and
he has now fully committed them. As Mr..
Tilden and his friends have asserted that
they, if they are put in power can and will
resume specie payments even earlier than
1879, this long vexed question of resump-
ton OF specie payments and rotuln to a
stable currency, may, we hope, be consid-
cred settled. Whichever of the two parties
is successful we are guaranteed by their
most responsible members resumption by or
before 1879. or in little more than two years
Let us not forget this at any rate. As to
Mr. Morrill's dispute with Mr.. Belmont, we
leave them to settle that at their leisure.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05
Cardinal Antonelli.

AS it is one of the experiences of human
history that an unusual event occurring
once is repeated several times in similar
Antonelli is to make the year memorable
with one more illustration of how near
distinguished man may so to the gates of
death and yet recover, if not his health, at
least fair hold on life. In this connec-
ton it will be comfort to the
member that he is but seventy years
old, and that is not great age in Italy.
But if we measure life not simply by the
calendar but by the possible endurance Of
painful Impressions, it. may be said that no
other vital span ever stretched over what
has been crowded into the career of the man
who was the Prime Minister of the Papal
government in 1848, and who has lived to
see Rome become the capital of constitu-
tional monarchy. In the most terrible crises
of Papal history this man has been for thirty
years in the intimate councils of the Sovereign
Pontiff his associate in the endeavor to
avert calamities that were inevitable, and
participator in the prostration of hope
which results when men believe they see
the triumph of all that is evil in the world
involved in the providence Of God. How
ever we may differ in opinion with those
who view the establishment of the Italian
Kingdom as great evil, their view
is readily comprehensive to the mind
that assumes their standpoint. Thirty
years of constantly repeated defeat and
the sublime despair Of eventual failure
in the attempt to re-establish the political
fortunes Of the Papacy must prove q tre-
mendous burden on any life and if he falls
under it the Cardinal will die n martyr to
cause that he justly deemed great one,
though it was one for which the progress of
the world had made success impossible
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

TURKEYS DANGER, which has always risen
campaign, has passed away for the moment.
The details of the armistice are being ar
ranged, and diplomacy has its chance
to put things in condition to make
war impossible. 1t is not so desper-
ate a chance as 1t appeared a week
ago. but the fact that one animal was
down the stream did not hinder another
animal who was up the stream from eating
him because he muddied the water. When
the animal down the stream is Turkey the
sympathy that went out for the lamb in the
fable will not follow him if the Russian
bear finds an excuse for picking his bones.
The WEATHER. "A high pressure and lower
temperature generally prevails over the
United States eastward Of the Mississippi
River and in the Northwest. These con-
ditions are, however, accompanied by areas
of light rain. In Dakota and Wisconsin
snow fell yesterday morning, and an ex-
tremely low temperature has marked the
presence of the prevailing high pressure in
both sections. Along the South Atlantic
and Gulf coasts the morning temperature
has been comparatively low, being forty
nine degrees Mt Mobile, fifty-two degrees Mt
st. Marks, Fla, and ifty-one degrees at
Savannah. The weather in New York to-
day will be probably slightly warmer and
partly cloudy or cloudy.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

The FRENCH MINISTERIAL CRISIS. believed
to be imminent, has been avoided by COM
promise on the Gatineau bill. The long
threatened conflict between the Senate and
Chamber of Deputies has been again post
poned 1t is good sign that there is suffi-
cient moderation and good sense among the
leaders of parties in France to keep the
wheels of legislation unclogged.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

UNION SQUARE THEATRE.
sWO ORPHANS. at : T.. NJ.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
BUFFALO BILL, at r. NJ.
NEW YORK AQUARIUM.
The New York herald., 1876-11-05

BOOTHS THEATRE.
sARDANAPALUS, nj r. NJ Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Asne,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-03
" George EIIot" as a worker.

Mrs. Lewes ("GeOrge Eliot is a
tremendous though an irregular
worker. She loves to write. She
says writing is imperative with her;
that she could no more stop writing
than she could stop breathing. She
is by no means free from ambition
either. She enjoys the worlds ap-
plause, little as she has to do with
the world, and she has a clear ap-
preclation-it would be strange if
she had not-of her high intellect
ual gifts. She nearly lives in her
study. Day after day she will spend
ten to twelve hours on her manu-
scripts, and then will not touch
them in forty-eight hours. Her
work will average thirty-five or
forty hours a week. She writes
slow or fast, according to her intel
lectual temper, but never with
out frequent revision. She does
not permit a line of autograph
or proof to leave her until she has
made it precisely what she wants.
In addition to composition, she
studies hard, and is constantly in
pursuit of knowledge.
Like her husband, she is an ex-
csllent linguist, reading French,
German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch
with the greatest ease and with
critical comprehension. Her sole
recreation is about two months in
the summer, when she usually ac-
companies her liege to the CONT
nent.
Her constitution is good, but her
health is delicate on account of the
perpetual strain she puts upon it.
There are no signs of her physical
or mental failure, and she expects
to write quite as many novels as
she has already published. Her
husband is her agent and financial
manager, and has the reputation of
bargaining very shrewdly with pub
fishers, both for his own and his
wife's writings.
She has earned, by her pen, it is
reported, including her pay for
"Deronda," from $4,000 to 94O,-
600 $3.50, 900 to $2OO,OOO).
The literary couple live very
comfortably but quietly near Re-
gents Park, spending part of the
year in the country. Their house
contains a number of pictures,
bronzes, and objects of vertu, and
they are as harmonious. and con-
tented as if neither had ever seen
an inkstand.
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Talley ranh's Opinion OF Witty and
Foolish Wives.

Talleyrand's wife was more re-
markable for her beauty than her
intelligence, though it is probable
that some of the stories told of her
excessive naivctte may have been
invented for her benefit, and others
may have been given to her which
originated in other quarters. There
are skeptics, for example-and NJ.
Amedoc Pichot is one of them
who doubt whether the Robinson
Crusoe story, which is the best one
told of her, ought to be given to
Madame de Talleyrand. As a stray
reader, here and there, may not
know this anecdote, it would be a
pity to omit it; it is this. Talley-
rand was going to entertain at din
ner NJ. Demon, a sayant who had
been to Egypt with the army of the
First Consul. Talleyrand on the
day of the dinner informed his wife
that she would have at her right at
table learned man and a traveller,
and that she would do well before
he arrived to glance at his volume,
which she would find on his library
table. Madame de Talleyrand at
dinner, by way Of compliment to
the author, spoke of the immense
pleasure which she had found in
the narrative of his adventures.
"But you must have found it
very tiresome being alone on a de-
serted island" she said.
"Madame, / do not understand" "
said M. Demon.
90, but you must" she said "and
you must have been very happy
when your man Friday arrived"
Madame de Talleyrand had, by
mistake, been reading the "Adven-
lures Of Robinson Orusoe." NJ. de
Talleyrand, it is said, remarked on
one occasion, when she had COM
mitted some such mistake: ga
witty wife can compromise her hus-
band, but a foolish wife can only
compromise herself"
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mo. 2I34.
mo. 2l34.l
NOn.Resldent Notice.


In the Chancery Court of Shelby county. Ten
nessee--J, A. Anderson, administrator OF
B. II Norris, deceased, VS.. Mary A, Norris
ct al,
IT. APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause that the defendant, Il. P.
Norris, is q nonresident of the State
he make his appearance herein, at the
courthouse, in the city Of Memphis, Ten
nessee, on or before the FIRST Monday in June,
1875, and plead, answer or demur 10 complain
ants bill, or the same will be taken for CON
fessed as 10 him and set for hearing ex parte /;
and that a copy Of this order be published
once q week, for four successive weeks, in the
Public ledger.
This 18th day Of April, 1876.
A Acopy-Attest:
EDMUND A, COLE, @. and NJ.
BY n j. BLACK, Deputy o. and M.
VANCE 4 ANDERs0N, Soils. for complainant.
so 58 6i-70
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Altitude Fasclnatlon.
From the ealaxy.I

From the Galaxy.l
Jumping from points of elevation
is a fashion of suicide. To stand
on an elevated site exercises a sin
gular fascination over some people,
leading them to Jump into the air.
1t causes others to perspire and
tremble with fear. Last summer l
talked with the guardian of the
steeple of the Cathedral at Stras-
burg on this subject, and he in
formed me that few visitors were
free from the feeling of fright on
reaching the first terrace, which is
one of great altitude, and that it
was SO pronounced as to. generally
prevent them from going any
higher. Sometimes the women
tainted. l confess l was not free
from a vague dread in looking out
over the Immense reach of land
scape which this view takes in, al
though there was absolutely no
danger, the terrace being securely
guarded by strong iron rails. This
man Of the upper air-the guardian
or guide informed me that the
summer before that an Englishman
had tainted, but determined to over
come his fright, and continued to
ascend every day for week, until
he could look out in the direction
of the Black Forest, from theI
tern, with equanimity. During
the summer man had jumped
into the air through altitude fasci-
nation. He was probably dead be-
fore reaching the ground, on ac-
count of the immense hight from
which he hurled himself. Formerly
the Vendome Column was the scene
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-03
e. WHITMOnH,
Publisher and Proprietor.
A Notable Resort In Rev YOrh
Closed,

New York Sun.
Delmonico's, on the corner of
Chambers street and Broadway,
was closed finally last Saturday
evening.
A history of the events that have
occurred there and a description OF
the characters that at different
times have been included among
the guests, would constitute o large
and curious volume.
1t was in one Of the rooms on
the second floor that Colt killed
Adams, many years ago, before Del
monico had the building. Great
efforts were made to save Colt from
the gallows. Seward was then
Governor Of the State. Greeley
was even then a formidable power.
He was zealouSly opposed to capital
punishment, but it was a notion of
his that the way to make the law
odious was to execute it. and he
pertinaciously insisted that Colt,
who had rich and influential friends,
should be hanged. 1t is not un-
likely that it was Mr.. Gresleys de-
termination which made the Gov
ernor inexorable. But at the last
moment, the prisoner saved the ex-
ecutiOner his task by taking his own
life.
Many a time has the bloody oc-
currence between Colt and Adams
been referred to by cOnviyial par
ty, as the beakers were drained,
on the very spot where it occurred.
Delmonico's was formerly the
Irving House, at that time one of
the most fashionable hotels in the
city, kept by Mr.. D. D. Howard.
Among the boarders was Mr.. James
Gordon Bennett, the editor of the
Herald. In the Office, one morn
ing, Mr.. Bennett was sitting on a
sofa. William L. Marcy, who hap
pened to be a transient guest, ap-
preached him and extended his
hand. Mr.. Bennett refused to re-
ceive it. He thought that Mr..
Marcy had been treacherous when
he filed the Office Of Governor,
many years before, and he would
not forgive him. The forgiveness
of enemies was not in his line.
AS the hotel business began to
move up town, Mr.. Howard, with
characteristic sagacity, sold out.
His successor was inaugurated with
a great trumpet blowing. John
Tyler was among the speakers at a
great dinner given to the new land
lord, a man Of the name Of Bur
roughs. But the splendid start off
for Mr.. Burroughs was only start
toward failure and bankruptcy.
And after awhile the place came
into the hands Of Mr.. Delmenico,
who kept it as a restaurant.
Many of the distinguished guests
who formerly frequented this fa-
nous place will not be inconve-
nienced by its close, for they no
longer take part in the things Of
this world. But, up to the time Of
its close, a large number Of the
most prominent lawyers and mer-
chants were in the habit Of taking
lunch there at midday, while at
five o'clock numerous persons Of
note would be seen enjoying o more
elaborate meal.
There is no similar place in the
same neighborhood, and with other
departing landmarks the disappear
ance of Chambers street Delmon.
ico's will be regretted by many.
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his feet a number of bricks, one
above the other, just enough to en-
able him to stand on tiptoe. When
this position, from weariness, be-
came uncomfortable, his only relief
was to hang by his neck. The de-
sign is to make a man suffer as
much as possible, but not to kill
him too quickly. Usually, after a
criminal has been standing thus
for day or SO, one of the bricks is
removed, and then another, until
he hangs by his neck altogether.
1t is said that a strong man ordin-
arily will endure this torture several
days before life becomes extinct.
On the present occasion death
was hastened more quickly. The
man was put into the cage on Sun
day afternoon, / believe, about one
o'clock. heard of it on Monday
morning, and went over to Annoy
about two o'clock in the afternoon
to see him. He had then been dead
some time, The guard said that
he died just before daylight; that he
was conscious of having committed
great crimes, and had fastened his
own death by kicking the bricks
from under his feet. But the peo-
pie said privately that the guard
wished to get rid of their charge
that they might prepare to keep
New Years day (the Chinese New
Year was near at hand, and there
fore had taken the bricks from un-
der his feet during the night. This
probably was the fact.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING. MAY 8. 1876.

of SO many deaths of this kind that
a decree was issued to prevent Wis
itorS from ascending it unless ae-
companied by guardian. 1t was
the Tarpeian Rock of Paris. Such
a number have killed themselves
from the fascination of altitude, or
the fright produced thereby, that
elevated places must be looked upon
as dangerous for certain people.
Those whose selfkilling is pre-
meditated of course are not com
prised therein.
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Organs Fr'qNented by Parasites.
poDular Soienca MnnthIv


Organs Fr'qNented by Parasites.
Popular Science Monthly
All animals, man included, have
their parasites, which usually come
from without, those entering the
body being generally introduced
with the food or drink. No organ
is exempt from their incursions, as
they have been found in the brain,
the ear, the eye, the heart, the
blood, the lungs, the spinal cord,
the nerves, the muscles, and even
the bones. Cysticerci have been
seen in nearly all these situations,
and worms Of various kinds are
common in the cavities of the body,
as well as in many Of the solid or
gans, such as the muscles, liver and
kidneys. As a rule, those which
inhabit a temporary post install
themselves in a closed organ; in the
muscles, the heart, or the lobes Of
the brain; those, on the contrary,
which have arrived at their desti-
nation and which, unlike the pre-
ceding, have a family, occupy the
stomach, with its dependencies the
digestive organs, the lungs, the
nasal foss@, the kidneys; in a word,
all the organs which are in direct
communication with the exterior,
in order to leave place of issue
for their progeny.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-03
Trustees Sale.

ON MONDAY, TIE 18th DAY OF MAY,
" 1876, within legal hours, in front of Plant
| will sell for cash, to the highest bidder, lot
No. 35, block / Of A. Wrights subdivision,
fronting 30 feet on Wright avenue and run
ming back $50 feet to an alley, with the i'm
proVements on same.
sell as Trustee under a deed made TO me
by Mrs. @. Wright and Thomas Wright, re-
corded in the Registers office Of Shelby
ocounty, Tenn, Book 81, page 1855. to which
reference is made.
&. G. JONES, Trustee.
L. B. MCFARLAND, Attorney. 5l-T
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How they Hang Men in ChlnR-A
Fearful Puuishment.

observed one mode Of Chinese
capital punishment known as the
Gage" The "cage" used was be-
tween two and three feet square.
and over six feet high, Near the
bottom was q close floor of plank.
The four sides were open work Of
plank palings. The plank compos-
ing the cover were made to fl
around q mans neck, close enough
to hang him, but not close
enough to strangle him. The con
demned man was put into this cage
his head projecting above, the cove
iitting around his neck, and undei
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-03

HAVING QUALIFIED as ADMINIsTRA-
IL tor, with the will annexed, of Ferdinand
Montgomery, in the Probate Court of Shelby
county, all persons indebted to the estate Of
the said Montgomery will make payments to
the. undersigned and all persons 20 when
said estate is indebted will present their
claims, properly verified, TO me or to my at
torney, Il. @. King. Esq.
W. B. MALLORY,
Administrator, with the will annexed, of
Ferdinand Montgomery.
MEMPHIS. April ~, 1876. 44-50-56-62
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Attachment Notice.

Before John 7 Elliott, Justice Of the Peace
for Shelby county, Tenn.-J. A. Dogan VS..
Hardy Alferd.
IN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT HAV-
4 ing been sued out under section 34S5 of the
Code Of Tennessee, and returned by th proper
ethcer, levied upon the property Of the defend
defendant is justly indebted TO the plsintif in
the sum Of $3.50. due by account, and that the
defendant is a nonresident Of the State of
Tennessee; it is therefore ordered that defend
ant make his personal appearance before
1876. at his office, No. 3l5 Second street, in
the city Of Memphis, Tenn, and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed Dy
law, or the same will be proceeded with OK
parte; and that copy Of this order be pub
lished once a week for four consecutive weeks
in the Public Ledger.
This 2Sth day Of April, 1876.
52-5S 64-70 JOHN I, ELLIOTT, J.P.
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RAILROAD.
MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R.R.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
special Notice TO Local passenger

Trains will not stop at Vance street.
Express train leaving Memphis at 500 p. N.
will stop only at Telegraph Stations. Grand
junction accommodation will stop at Stations
ONLY where the Company has agencies.
The accommodation train leaving at 4.2C
am. and arriving at p.m. makes connec-
ton to and from points on N. o.. st. Il, and
@. Railroad with Memphis
No change OF cars between Memphis and
Bristol and Memphis and Montgomery.
Close connection for Nashville by both
trains.
Tho new and magnificent sleeping car line
will have one Of their new sleepers leave
Memphis daily on Express train at 5.90 pm,
| for Lynchburg, Washington and Baltimore
without change. Only one change to New
York and Philadelphia. Time twenty min
utes faster than city time.
Ticket office, 27S Main street.
W. j. ROSS, Sup't.
Tow B. DUHN, Ticket Ag't. iO-f