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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
LEDGER LINES.

Fresh oysters daily at Mdm. v%inceut's.
Squirrels to-day at Victor D. Fuchs.
New crop suga,-house molasses at
Lyle & Shields. 1924
Workmen are still e~xcavaiing on the
bluff custom-house site.
The Howard Association sent $1,000 to
Brunswick, Ga, yesterday for the relief
Of the yellow fever sufferers.
To.morrow will be known as the Day
OF A%tonement, and will be duly cele-
brated by the Jewish population of the
city.
The Union and Planters Bank has de.
creased the rate Of discount from ten to
eight per cent. for its customers and de.
positors.
Mansford, the newsman, OF the corner
Of Monroe and Second streets, has
George Eliots famous novel, Daniel
Deronds, complete in one volume.
At the First Methodist Church, on
Second street, at 5 o'clock this after.
noon, a wedding will take place between
Mr.. B. ". Stratton and Miss Avery,
daughter Of Colonel W. I. Avery.
The receipts from internal revenue for
the past fiscal year show that the amount
realized from Tennessee was 1896, lib,
being ouly excelled by hat Of California,
Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New
Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin.
Divine services will be held at the
Hebrew Reformed synagogue on the cor.
ner of Main and Exchange streets THU
afternoon at half-psst six o'clock and OF
tomorrow morning at ten o'clock. Rabb
NJ. Samheld will conduct the services il
celebration Of the Day of AttonemeD
or Yom Kskippurim.
The committees are outin the diferen
wards to-day soliciting aid for the yelloV
fever sufferers at Savannah and Bruins
. wick, Georgia. Those whom the com
mitteemen fail to call upon can leav
their donations with Mr.. John s. Too
Of the Cotton Exchange, or with Mr.. I
S. Davis at the First National Bank.
Galveston has quarantiued New 0
leans on account of the yellow fever pr
vailing in the latter city. The Board
E Health should take every ~precaution 9
against the introduction Of the few
from New Orleans or other points sout
! The quarantine hospital at the foot
a. Presidents Island should be got in reat
= ness at oDce and an order Of quarantil
should be issued if deemed necessary.
On Sunday evening next the Mempt
4 Msennerchor will give a concert al
theatrical exhibition at Cochran h
for the benefit Of the yellow fever sufi
= ers of Savannah. The Committee
Arrangements is composed of Mess
John L. Eichberg, H. W. Schultze,
" Schmidt, F. G. Schaper aud A. Go
schmidt. The entertainment will be l
u der the direction of Prof. Winkler,
: sisted by Arnold's full band. Tickle
, fifty cents, and for sale throughout I
:, city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
The Gates Of "a !
Philadelphia Bulletin,l


Philadelphia Bulletin,l
The New York Sabbath Com
mittee-not the Bible Society, as
the telegraphio dispatches made it
has put itself into a rather absurd
position by making an open issue
with the government officers upon
the explosion of the mine at He'll
Gate. The very respectable gentle
men who are prominent in that
organization-we mean the Sabbath
Committee, not He'll Gate-are dis
tnrbed because they consider the
explosion a d~esecration, a conces-
sion to foreign usage" and a
thing threatening the attendance
at Sunday schools and afternoon
meetings.
DR.. John Hall, the great Presby-
terrain preacher of New York, seems
to be about the only man broad
enough to have an Independent,
sensible opinion on the subject.
This distinguished divine SAYS:
If the explosion, from any cause
whatsoever, such as danger to the
community or danger to the works,
cannot be delayed after everything
is in readiness for the final blast, it
would be perfectly proper that it
should occur on Sunday General
Newton probably understands the
necessities of the case much better
than anybody else" And DIR. Hall
hits the nail precisely on the head.
1t is a total mistake to suppose that
the blowing up of Hell Gate is a
"foreign usage" 1t is a strictly
American affair, conducted on sci
entifc principles, applied with most
delicate precision, and if General
Newton explodes his mine on Sum
day he does so for the simple reason
hal that is exactly the right time
to do it.
We respectfully submit that the
Christian religion is only brought
into ridicule by such narrow bigo-
try as is suggested by this extra0r-
, binary attempt to NEEDLE with q
thing concerning which the med
dlers are constrained to confess their
3 total ignorance. We hope every
minister in the land, instead Of
blowing up General Newton, will
: devote a day to the good work
which that good soldier is to take a
+ hand in, and each, in his own place,
3 do what he can to blow up the gates
!. of hell in his own way. General
Newton has been carrying on the
business Of this mine for years, aud
d surely knows what he is about. He
has been mining his own business,
and it will be a good plan for all
the good people Of New York to
90 and do likewise,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
BA3E.BALL MATTERS.
The Crack baseball OIIbs 10 Ap-
pear in this City.

The Crack bnse.BaII CIubs "a Ap-
pear In this City.
Some six weeks ago the Cincinnati
Reds, jr., came to this city and played
two games Of base. ball with the Memphis
Reds, which games resulted in favor of
the latter. The Porkopolis boys re-
turned home ehagrined over their defeat
and at once sci about recognizing their
club. They have o made arrange
meuts with the management of the
Memphis Reds to play a series Of three
games, the first game to come off next
Sunday.
The management Of the Memphis
Reds has also engaged the Buckeyes, Of
Ohio, for a series of games, to come Cd
on the 9Th, 9th and 10Th of October. The
Buckeyes have q reputation equal to the
best clubs outside Of the League.
On the 18th, l4ih and 10Th Of October
the Louisvilles, of the League, a crack
club, will play the Memphis Reds a
Central Park. Before the season closes
others Of the League clubs will appear il
this city in response 10 the invitation
Of the Central Park managers, who have
determined to give the Memphis publ,
brilliant exhibitions of ball-tossing thil
fall. By way Of a hint, we suggest tina
an exhibition game between the Chi
Cages and St. Louis Browns would pal
the Central Park management.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
nPrixnere rnr.n


- n |WT||I 2 T w INNTWT
Knowing that you have ever taken an
earnest interest in the question OF taxB-
ton, etc the merchants and business
men Of Memphis and West Tennessee
very naturally expect the valuable assis.
lance of the LEDGER in bringing about
the repeal Of the odious Privilege Tax"
which has 50 long disgracsd the statutes
Of Tennessee. The time for discussion
Of all questions affecting the peoples
material welLbeing having nov arrived,
please allow me to cali the attention Of
all candidates especially to this particu-
lar question, upon which they must show
an unmistakable purpose if they expect
to get the votes OF the merchants and
business men of Memphis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
Order of Business Of the supreme
Court of Tennesse~ at Jacb son,
HFDtemher Term. 1875.


Order of Business Of the supreme
Court of rennessee at Jackson,
september Term, 1875.
The Court will FIRST take up and dis
pose of all causes filed in the Clerks
office on or before the fourth Monday Of
September, 1875, from the Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth
circuits, in the following order;
/. Thirteenth circuit Blacks.
2. Fourteenth circuit (Flippin'sl
3. Eleventh circuit (Bateman's).
4. Twelfth circuit (Hawkins).
The criminal cases from these circuits
will be heard at the same time with civil
cases.
After disposiOg Of the four circuits
above named the remainder Of the term
will be devoted to the Shelby county
understandable of the time to be
given to the Law Docket and two-thirdi
to the ChaAcery Docket Of Shelby county
On the third Monday Of October the
Easy Docket for the Eleventh, Twelfth
Thirteenth and Fourteenth circuits vii
be called.
On TIE fourth Monday Of October th'
Easy Docket for shelby county will b
called.
Any cause, 10 matter when filed, maj
be placed on the Easy Docket if attor
neys claim that it is unlitigated. 0ppo
site counsel must have notice when
cause is placed on the Easy Docket
Immediately after the call Of the Eas.
Docket for Shelby county the shelb.
Criminal Docket will be taken up an,
! disposed Of.
By order of the Court.
JOHN II. FREEMAN, Clerk.
l jackson, Tenn, Sept. %, 1876.
1851
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

Parties having Eastern or Northern
business which they would like to have
attended to viii find a reliable person
going on about the 9th OF October, A
strict attention will be given to the exc
cution of business intrusted to me
Address OCTOBER" Ledger Office. RS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
Comic ctlOnery of our own
manufacture, fresh and pare,
ut Bartee's, 32S Main st. got

OUR enterprising friend, George W.
Miller, of the Cutoff saloon, has pur.
chased the entire crop (lS75) Of B. B
Barnes Scuppernong Champagne, where
it can be had by the half case or bottle
at reasonable rates. 40
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

Mr.. J. Wiggin, the renowned hAt
merchant. has just returned from New
York, where he laid in a magnificent
stock of everything kept in his line.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
OLD FOLKS,

Tomorrow at Leath Orphan
Asylum. Omnibuses RUN from
the terminus of Main street
railway to the grounds, I5c
for the round trip.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

A fragrant breath and pearly teeth
Are blessings twain
Which we should all and always seek
Nor seek in vain
BY using S0Z0D0NT We will
To both attain. eodkw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
HannY Thought.

The best thing you can do is to 60 to
the Great Western Clothing House, 227
Main street, and buy a suit OF clothes al
half its value. mwfs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
Fine Tailoring.

respectfully call the attention of my
patrons, friends and the public generally
10 the fact that l have just returned from
the East, where l purchased a large and
we'll assorted stock Of the best of wooden
goods of the latest styles, which l am
prepared to make up in the finest style
possible. Prices as low as possible.
Respectfully,
A. IL. GOODMAN,
26 1870 Main at.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

For good bargains in boots and shoes
you must 60 to the Eagle boot and shoe
store, 344 Main street. The largest Sc
lected stock, best variety and lowest
prices. 1851 j. W. VoEGELI.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
III GRAND N
ALBERT SEEsSEIs MEAT MARKET,
Corner Vance and fernando,
Will take place
Saturday, September 3Oth.

The public are invited to call aud in
spect the new store and select choice
meats. During the season oysters, fish,
game, poultry, vegetables, etc., will be
always on hand. 1t is guaranteed that
the stock shall be second to none in the
city, aud at the lowest rates. 26
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LEUBRAE'S NEW STORE,
247 Main Street.

Zephyr l5c per ounce,
Embroideries half price,
Notions aud Fancy Goods ct cost,
Pattern Hats, Flowers,
Feathers and Millinery Of all kinds,
AT the lowest figures.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

Gabe Klein, agent for Mos
ler's Safe and Lock Company.
Office, No. I75 Main street,
Memphis, Tenn. 46
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

The Great Boss OF oil the BOsses.
The best five cent cigar in the United
States for the money, For sale by ell
dealers.
FRANK & DEssAUER, Proprietors,
81 2O6 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
His Old Patients

DR.. ]. A, C%lopton's room is crowded
with friends Of his old patients. See his
card in another part Of the paper.
Piles, fstula, etc., cured. DR.. G. is at
the WOrsbam House. %
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
ROOk II,

The Alligator stove for coal, and the
Occidental for wood-the best cooking
stoves ever invented-for sale by John B.
Ford, No. 1913 Poplar. 2lt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
John Walsh, Undertaken,
34l Second St, next to Postofice. [37

LOUISIANA PERIoUE 10 carrottes at II
Esch's, 27O Second st., opposite Court
Square. I'll Main st, Worsham House
eOd-f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

A. E. FARMLAND S auction sale.rooms,
3O6 Main street, opposite Peabody Hotel
If
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
SOL COLEMAN,
Five Cents,
9 Main t.

SEQ Main Street.
In consequence of the Jewish holiday,
Sol Coleman's store will close this even
ing at 6 o'clock and reopen tomorrow
night at 6 o'clock. So call early and lay
in your supply.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

Fresh Oysters and Celery
received daily by express at Victor D..
Fuchs Al Jefferson street. 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

In consequence of Jewish holiday,
Sol Coleman's cigar stores, both at 200
and S26 Main street, will be closed this
evening at six o'clock, to reopen to,mor-
row evening at six o'clock.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

Save your money by buying
your furniture, carpets, etc.,
Of Ames, Beattle Il Co., $50
Main street. l9.t
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Bear in Mind.

he who purchases a suit of clothes
from the Great Western Clothing House
buys the same at half it's value. mwis
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

The type, material and workmen of
the LEDGER job Office are as good as the
best, and hence we guarantee first class
work and full satisfaction to our patrons.
1904
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

Yeast Powder, 35 cents per
pound, or 5 pounds for $I, at
Tea Store, 366 Main st, l45.t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
Boots and shoes,
Marsh e. Co.,
LOT 80 Beal Street.

Commission merchants filing orders
for their country customers will find it
to their interest to examine the stock Of
saddles, harness, collars, etc., Of Fergu'
son & Co., 5000 Second street. They
make special inducements. Call and
see them. Let
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
Did You Ever? No, / Never

Saw clothing sold al lower prices than
they are sold at the Great Western
Clothing House, 227 Main. mwfs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27

In the LEDGER job office can be found
competent, skillful and tasteful printers,
who can give entire satisfaction in the
display of any job Of printing. 1887
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
!''

These are centennial days, days when
old by.gones are brought back to tighten
our sad hearts, and each patriot is bound
to add his mite to the glory of the era.
Therefore, |,
SOL
do hereby declare that | will sell the
GRAND TEN GENITAL
cigars to all my customers, old and new,
aged and young, at the grand old ante
bellum price Of
Five Cents.
Five centers are now the 60. as in the
days of old, and he who would, but can
not, enjoy the Philadelphia Centennial,
are cordially invited to enjoy
OOLEMAN'S TEN CENT.IALS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-27
20 business men.

Remember az Main street
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-27
Jesse POmerOY'g Terrible Doom.

Jesse Pomeroy, says Boston paper,
has been transferred from the Boston
iail to the State prison in ChaIlestown,
the institution which Governor Rice
has designated as his home during the
balance of his days. A room in the up
per arch of the prison has been specially
prepared for the young fiend. Over 1t
is the hospital and under it a stOrehouse.
The entrance to the arch is from land
ing leading to the hospital stairs, ac-
cess to which can be obtained from
the yard by opening heavy iron door,
and also from the lower corridors OF the
west wing, by means of a wooden door,
which is always kept locked when not
used. At the landing is another heavy
iron door, which, on being opened, re-
veals dImly-lighted hallway, on each
side of which are seven rooms or cells.
In the farthest room from the entrance
on the southerly side of the wing is the
apartment prepared for POmerOy. 1t is
nine feet long, eight feet wide, and seven
feet high, lighted by two crevlces, each
two feet long and six inches wide, which
are not grated. The door is close iron
one, which is fastened by heavy pad
lock, In the room is q wooden bedstead,
proper bed-clothing, and a stool. Pom
eTOy will be visited nree.tlmes ually oy
officers, who will bring his food to hlm,
but no conversation Will be allowed be-
tween him and any person, except, per-
haps, he may desire the consolation OF
the chaplain. He will, it is believed, be
allowed to have books from the prison
! library, and possibly religious papers.
| 1t is a question what Will be the effect
of the close confinement of the convict.
1t may affect him physically, make him
demented and more dangerous than he
| is now. 1t is thought now, since his
sentence is committed, that he will not
give up all hope for PARDON that he will
TRY to make himself a model convict
and merit the commendation of his
guardians for good conduct. 1t is
! thought also that he will seek religious
consolation, thinking by that means to
impress upon people the belief that he
is a changed person. 1t is believed that
his physical health will not be impaired
by confinement.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-27
Gail Hamilton on Prisoners.

This popular writer thus discourses in
the Ne1O Age regarding the treatment
of prisoners
When a man is imprisoned for ever so
short a time, let his intellectual and
moral, as we'll as his industrial, educa-
tion be taken up at precisely the point
where it was relinquished outside. If
he is a scholar, let his scholarship come
into play. If he has robbed, let him re-
store. the amount robbed before his re-
turn to freedom. Let him learn the
value of daily earnings and accumulated
treasures by accumulations and earn
ings of his own. That is, let not society
intiict purely arbitrary but natural
and logical punishment. He is wick
ed man but half the value of punish
ment is lost when we remember only
the wickedness and forget the manhood.
Just as much is gained by treating
criminals nationally as by treating
children nationally ; for criminals are a
sort of spoiled children. They have
violated State law, but we have no right
to violate it towards them. No more
should we violate or disregard natural
law in dealing with them. Cause and
effect, motive and sentiment, have just
as full play with them as with outside
folk. A violent and desperate fellow
entered upon his Imprisonment, declar-
ing that nothing should induce him to
perform the allotted task-work. When
| he was brought out with the others, he
sat passive. For several days the war.
| den took no notice of him. Then he
| quietly asked him who he was, why he
was there, ow.long was his sentence
as if he knew nothing about him-anC
then as quietly added that the term o
his sentence would be considered to be
gin from the time when he began tt
work. The man looked at the warden
moment. A new light broke upon hi
mind; he went to work at once, anC
remained, during his mprisonment, on,
of the most orderly and well-dispOsed o
all the inmates.
l wish | could add that after he cam
out he led life of industry, honesty
and sobriety, and died lamented bu
that l do not know. 1 am sure he wa
more likely to do so than if he had beel
fiogged and "burkedh and shower
bathed, and hung up by his thumbs
and kept in solitary confinement in
dark cell.
Let the signing of the prisoner com
before thee, not that he may be releases
from prison, but that his soul may b
loosed from its bonds.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-27

HE WAS A AWIDOwER.-Thec cars were
running through deep cut, whose rocky
wall re-echoed the noise of the train
with startling effect. A pale, detected
looking man sat by au open window,
through which came the deafening
roar. A lady on the next seat express
ed her dislike of the noise in such terms
that a gentleman requested the pale
man to lower his window. This the
pale man refused to do, and sat drink
ing in the confusion of sounds with an
expression of great satisfaction. As
soon as the cars stopped, the passengers
expressed their contempt of the pale
man for his rudeness. The pale man
stood in in his seat and said:
Gentlemen, L don't want you to
think me a hog, but I've been married
for eleven years, and last week my wife
died. I've lived a terribly lonesome
life since then, until L heard the noise
of the cars coming through that cut,
and you've have no idea how it brought
back old times, and revived me-"
The passengers forgave him.-ROck-
land Courier.