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, 1876-04-07

A NATION OF LIARs.-The island of
Ceylon is very beautiful, the scenery
lovely, and the soil productive in spices
and many kinds of fruits; indeed, it is
said that it alone might produce sufficient
coffee for the consumption of the entire
world. The natives are, however, far from
pleasing; they are generally of short
stature, very eifeminate looking, ,apathetic,
and such liars that it is impossible to de-
pend upon their word. If they may but
repose for hour after hour under tree
with q piece of bread fruit beside them,
they seem to care for little else. The men
wear their hair turned up behind with a
comb denoting the rank of the wearer.
This and their small features gives them
altogether such an effeminate appearance
that it is difficult for European to dis
tinguish them from the females. A Wis
itor lately entered one of the schools, and
seeing arrow of boys ssitting with their backs
toward him, and each with a comb in his
head, unconsciously asked if boys and
girls were educated together. One of the
natives of high rank was lately called
on to give evidence at trial, and swore
such complete falsehoods that he was i'm
prisoned for perjury. He applied to the
English governor, and with surprise
asked why he should be punished for
what his peoHle did.
my father" he said, "was liar, and
my grandfather was liar, and my great
grandfather was a liar, and we are all
liars. 1t is the custom of my country.
Why should l be punished1"
, 1876-04-07

LUTaOUR PUMPa uNrounrrn
= Ior Yarn Stock and Irrigation. Kfbnse I'm
rrtsnt Engines. especially adapted for butter afd
ing from 70 10 Horsepower P-'P''e ietuii
Also fountana. sfatuary Figures, Vases, Rustic
Tor descriptive circulars and price lisis. -~-~
=. N. KEELER 4 CO..
a2a and aao sansoune q. q =
, 1876-04-07
The Scene When Lincoln was Shot.

Walt Whitman, in his forthcoming book,
thus describes the scenes in the theatre at
Washington after Lincoln was shot: "a
moments hush, incredulous-a scream -
the cry of murder-Mrs. Lincoln leaning
out of the box with ashy cheeks and lips,
with involuntary cry, pointing to the
retreating figure; He has killed the Pres
dent And still moments strange, in
credulous suspense-and then the deluge !
then that mixture of hoEor, noises, un-
certainty-(the sound, somewhere back,
of horses hoofs clattering with speed)
the people burst through chairs and
railings, and break them up-that noise
adds to the queerness of the scene-there
is inextricable confusion and terror
women faint-quite feeble persons fall
and are trampled on-many cries of
agony are heard-the broad stage sud
denly fills to suffocation with dense and
motley crowd like some horrible carnival
the audience rushes generally upon it
at least the strong men do-the actors and
actresses are still there in their play cos
tunes and painted faces, with mortal fright
showing through the rouge, some tremb-
ling, some in tears-the screams and calls,
confused talk-redoubled, trebled-two
or three manage to pass up water from
the stage TO the Presidents box-others
try to Chamber up-etc., ETC., etc. And
in the midst of that night pandemonium
of senseless hate, infuriated soldiers, the
audience and the crowd-the stage, and
all its actors and actresses, its paint p5ts,.
spangles and gaslights-the life blood
from those veins, the best aHd the land,
drips slowly down, and deaths ooze al
ready begins nttle bubbles on the
lips.
, 1876-04-07

CANCER CAN BE CURED-Dr. BOND, Of
Philadelphia, announces his discovery for
the radical cure Of Cancer. No Knifsl No
PAM No Cdttstic! Remedies with full diree-
uons sent anywhere. Pamphlets and particu-
lars sent free. Address with stamp, DR.. II.
I. BOND, $50 North Broad st., Philadelphia, Pa.
, 1876-04-07
MCCOrmick'S Mowers
and ReaperS.

Everybody knows that McCormick's s
Reapers and Mowers have worldwide
reputation. McCormick's inventions on
these machines have been the most i'm
portant ever patented in this or any other
country. Selling thousands of them in
the older States, in the face of all kinds
Of opposition, the inventors and makers
(who have an immense factory have not
hitherto pushed the machines on this
Western shore, as they now intend to.
Farmers can depend upon every machine
and all its parts when sent out from the
factory Of this old established firm.
r AG0EiAHT,
General Agent for the Racinc Coast.
zoe Davis Street. San Francisco.
, 1876-04-07

PERFECTION IN PHoToGRAPHs-The beau.
tiful Spherical" lpatent applied for, by |.
w. Iaoer q Co., No. % Montgomery street,
opposite LICK House, near sutter. Great re-.
duction in prices.
, 1876-04-07

A CURE for rheumatism, simple, but pene.
trating TO the seat Of pain and giving instant
relief, Is Trappers Indian on Sold every.
where, at fifty cents per patent flask.
, 1876-04-07
MULLER,s PFRRLE sPECTAcIr.

nIRECTION AND PRICE LIST MAILED FREE
- Orders oy mall receive prompt attention. Good
IorNarded per Wells, Fargo Co, G. o. D. subject 4
approval Address q. MULLER Optcian ieS Mont
gomery st., near Bush san Francisco. Cal
, 1876-04-07
New willoox q Gibbs Automatic Tension
Silent Sewing Machine.

The latest and most marvellous invention
in Sewing mechanism. The only SEWING
MACHINE that can be used successfully
withoutinstruction or experience. Invariably
does perfect and durable tCork. Send for circu-
lars and price lists, to Wilcox & Gibbs Sew
ing Machine Company Ill Post street, San
Francisco. E. B. CUTLER, General Agent.
, 1876-04-07
CANCER.
HafmannlS Patent Lianii Fertilizer.

AN ARTICLE FOR FERTILIZING THE SOIL
"A and protecting Seeds and Plants from the ravages
Of insects, worms and such small animals de-
structiye to vegetable e Also for testing the gerni
mating quality Of seeds The Liquid Fertilizer
Will be furnished at the price OF IS cents per gal
Ion, either in Of two and half and hve gallons
respectively, barrels liberal discount will be
made large orders Directions sent with the article
HOFFMAN, a GREENE. care Of Hucks. Lambert& 4
Greene, 1A4 Nat0ma st.. near New Montgomery, S. y
, 1876-04-07


The huge, drastic, gripping, siekening pills,
constructed of crude, coarse and bulky in
gradients, are fast being superseded by DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, or Sugar
Coated, Concentrated Root and Herbal Juice,
Ant-Bilious Granules-the Little Giantn Ca
thartie or MultuD in PdITo Physic. Modern
Chemical Science enables DR.. Pierce to ex-
tract from the juices OF the most valuable
roots and herbs their active medicinal prin-
eiples, which, when worked into little Pei
lets or Granules, scarcely larger than mustard
SEED, renders each little Pellet as active and
powerful as large pill, while they are much
more palatable and pleasant in effect
DR.. IRA A. THAYER, of Baconsburg, Ohio,
writes; u regard your Pellets as the best
remedy for the conditions for which you pre-
scribe them OF anything have ever used, so
mild and certain In effect, and leaving the
bowels in an excellent condition. 1t seems
TO me they must take the place Of all other
eathartic pills and medicines"
LYON q MAooMBER, druggists, Vermilllon,
u. 1, say; I'VE think they are going TO sell
like hot cakes as soon as people get Gcquaint-
ed with them and will spoil the pill trade
as those that have used them like them much
better than large pills"
, 1876-04-07
BUSINESS CHANCE.

VXTANTED.-A LIVE BUSINESS MAN
w In each county on this coast. with from 1900
TO 5000 capital who give security to take
valuable Ouslness. Address P. o. Box 1879 san
Francisco.
, 1876-04-07
VIM. CULLEN BRYANT
And
Sydney Howard Gay.

GULLY ILLUsTRATED WIrH
original designs BY the leading Americ-u and
foreign artists. To be complefed in four volumes.
large octave, of about 7O0 pages each The rst vol
ume will be published early In 1876 and the other
three volumes Will follow as rapidly the magni-
tude and Importance Of the work viii permit.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
Some CurIonn FounlnIns.

At Languedoc, in Switzerland, there
is a spring that flows every day for above
seven hours, and then stops for nearly
five hours, rising each day fifty minutes
later than the preceding one. The Bull
lern, a fresh-water spring in Westphalia,
rises with q great noise. There is an-
other at Colmars, in Provence, which
stops every seven minutes. One of the
most remarkable fountains of ancient
times was one Of which Diodorus Siculus
and Herodotus have transmitted an &C.
count. 1t was called the Fountain of
the Sun, and was situated near the TEN.
pie Of Jupiter Ammon. At the dawn of
the day this fountain was warm; as the
day advanced it became progressively
cool, and at noon it was excessively cold.
At the setting Of the sun it became again
warm, and continued to increase as the
evening proceeded, until midnight, when
it reached the extremity Of heat; as the
morning advanced it grew again pro-
gressively cold. There was a fountain
equally curious in the forest Of Dodona.
1t wal said to have had the power of
lighting q torch. At noon it was dry; at
midnight full-from which time It de-
creased until the following noon. Phil
i~stratus mentions a fountain that caused
leprosy; Virtruvius speaks of another
near Zama, in Numidia, that gave I'M
usual londness to the voice; we read of
some that caused immediate death; some
the loss Of memory, and some that re.
stored it. Pliny speaks of two fountains,
one in Judea, the other in Ethiopia,
which, being im~pregnated with sulphur,
had the property Of oil, with respect to
burning. Vitruvius imputes the same
peculiarities to a river in Cilieia, and a
fountain near Carthage. Some writer's
mention a spring rising in Mount So
crate, whose waters boiled every MORN
ing at the rising of the sun. At Gull
ford, in Connecticut, there is Tor was a
fountain, the water of which will evapo-
rate if corked in a bottle ever so Sc
curely.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05

tlemen, and we're they to 20 to New York.
would be equally as Successful What
eaptivated the lawyers here was the clear
and condensed statement that MacFar-
land made in the Atlantic, Mississippi
and Ohio railroad receivership case.
am told by a gentleman, who has seen
these parties at practice, that this state
ment was not gotten up by Mr.. MacFar-
land, but was made by one OF his clerks.
he gives the following sketch OF the way
these1aw firms in New York practice:
When Mr.. Evarts, for instance, comes
down to his Office in the morning at nine
o'clock, he finds a number of papers on
his desk, and a few baskets Of books near
by. BE takes up one pile of the papers,
on which he finds something like this;
AT blank Court at ten o'clock, Smith VS..
Jones; statement of the case Here
follows an able condensed statement like
Mr.. MacFarland had Near by is a
basket full of books labelled: Books in
case Smith vs.. Jones'" He takes up
another pile OF papers labelled: AT Sur
rogate Court twelve o'clock. Brown VS..
Robinson; statement of the CASE and
a pile of books as in the other. There
may be five or six such cases on his
desk.
He orders his driver to pitch the books
and papers in the carriage and hurries
off to BLANK Court" where he argues
the case of Smith VS.. Jones'" This is
the first time, perhaps, he has ever seen
the case, but the work is all cut out for
him. The pages are turned down in the
law books at the very cases he wants to
cite, and the statement which he reads is
admirably prepared. All he has to do is
to argue the case. This he does, and
then hurries off to another court. This
work of preparing the statements and
searching up the authorities is ell done
by either the clerks OF young members
of the firm, OF which there are FIVE or six,
1t is not generally known that there
are several young men from the South in
Mr.. Evart's Office as clerks and studying
Law
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
TIE VERDICT IN COURT.

About 8 o'clock Judge Crawford was
sent for, and soon appeared and took his
seat. After the usual preliminaries, the
verdict was received and read in silence.
Not many we're in the court room. The
accused was present, and the verdict Of
I'VE, the jury, find the prisoner guilty Of
adultery, vas read.
Solicitor Little objected to the form,
and stated that it should read ADULTERY
and f%ornication." Colonel Hawkins, one
of the counsel for defense, objected on
the grounds that no such charge haC
been given the jury by the Judge. The
Judge sustained him in that he had mo-
SO charged. The court then adjourned
to 9 am. without passing sentence.
MOTION FOR DISCHARGE OF DEFENDANT.
The defendant has fled in the Clerk &
office a motion to discharge him upon
the following grounds. to.wit: That the
verdict rendered in his case is for adul-
terry, when the indictment does not al
lege hat he was a married man; anG
further, that the indictment does not
charge him with being a single man, or
that be was any other than Q. A. Ken
drick; further, that said verdict is for
adultery, when it appears that the girl
mentioned in said indictment was an I'M
married female.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
CENTRAL PARK.

1hA Game Yesterday Between the
Reds and Memphis AmR.eurB.
This game was the all.absorbing topic
the last week in baseball circles, and
more than one thousand people gathered
at the pnrk yesterday to witness the con
test. The Reds are professionals, and
their excellent playing in previous
games made them the favorites three and
FIVE to one with the Spectators. The
Memphis amateurs are city boys, with
the exceptions of Messrs, Ellick, Meath
and Boro, who were Of the original
Olympic Park club, and Leech, the
pitcher, Of the Louisville Riversides. OF
course not a doubt was expressed that
the Reds would win the game without q
struggle, Blu! the result proved otherwise,
to the great discontinue Of their over
enthusiastic friends, who exhibited their
extreme confidence in a number of wild
bets. 1t will forcibly remind them of the
old adage, there's many alslip, etc.
Mr.. Smith, manager of the Olympic
Park, was highly elated at the success
of his new nine, and well he should be,
for their skillful playing was far beyond
the expectations Of their most sanguihe
friends. He demonstrated his delight
by extending each a grasp Of the hand
aud an evident desire to hug them all.
Below we give the names of those com
posing the respective mines: Reds
Moore, Brookshaw, Dyler, Clinton, Ma
her, Walker, Kennedy, Rsja, Oran'
Memphis Amateurs - Ellick, Leech,
Meath, Boro, Proctor jackson, Michel
son, W. Jones, +. Jones. The return
game between these clubs will be played
at Olympic Park next Sunday. Thefol
lowing score Of runs shows the result o
yesterdays game; 'iA vHlOh
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
OUR B CHOOLS.
superintendent Pickett Disposed OF
~ the school B0aFd-Jaa. A. Leath
Elected Al His Place.


superintendent Pickett Disposed OF
~ the school BoaFd-Jaa. A. Leath
Elected I'm His Place.
At the regular meeting of tk School
Board, held Monday night last, it be-
came necessary to elect a s~uperintend-
ent Of public schools for the ensuing two
years. Considerable skirmishing has
been going on for months by the friends
Of Superintendent Pickett, both in and
out of the Board. to secure his re-elec-
ton, no matter what injury such r~e-elec-
ton might do to the public schools, that
have been so mismsuaged for nearly
three years under his superiutend-
ency. His friends talked about
cliques and rings, but the Pickett
clique and ring has done more injury to
the cause Of public education than can
be remedied for several years to come.
Men have a pride Of opinion and desire
to indoTse themselves as often as possible,
consequently those who imported and
inflicted Pickett on the community felt
it incumbent upon them to sustain their
selection in every respect; but public
opinion, that great lever which moves
the world and removes incompetent su-
p~erintendents, as well as unpopular
school visitors, determined that a change
in the superintendency Of our public
schools had become necessary. The
LEDGER represented public opinion and
fought it out on that line for over two
years. and would have fought the good
6ght against incOmpetency and illiteracy
for two years more had such been neces.
Sary or been made necessary by the re
election of Superintendent A. Pickett.
The true friends of the public schools
went to work and eauvassed the city.
The School Visitors were visited and
talked to. The result Of the good work,
that is the saving Of our schools from
ruin, became apparent on Monday night
when by a vote Of the Board Colone'
James T. Leath received eleven votes
and Mr.. A. Pickett, seven. The friends
of Pickett can now sing hat pretty sons
entitled We are Seven" The salar!
of Superintendent elect James 7. Leatl
was fixed ct $2500, and the term OF ofic,
at two years.
: 'Cslenel Leath is at present abseh
from the city on a summer tour. h,
will of course, resign his position a
: Police and Fire Commissioner, and tn
General Council will have to fill tina
vacancy. But there is no hurry neceI
{ sary about that, as a quorum or four c
| the Commissioners are here, and ar
!. sufficient to do all police and fire bus
! ness during the summer months. How
ever, active %canvassiug is progressing j
] certain quarters to select a mar Tor tn
office.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05

The other day in Detroit, a farmers
wagon halted for half an hour while the
owner disappeared on an errand. When
he returned'he said to his wife, who had
been holding the lines: "a dozen pho
tographs will cost twelve shillings."
well, that isn't high" she replied,
But it will buy an eight foot chain to
hold that mule" but you promised l
might have some photographs" ayes,
| know, but just think of it, Mary; pho
tographs are always twelve shillings a
dozen, while mule chains 90 up and
down. By tomorrow that very chain
may be four dollars. Think of it, now,
aid tell me whether it's better to fool
twelve shillings away or buy a nice
chain"
Sir Jane Gray Swisshelm is winding
her bugle horn along the slopes Of OPP
pressed Europe. After disclosing the
slavish condition of. many European
women, she writes: ut carries me
straight back to the silly, mischievous
moths at home, who are eating up warp
and wool of our national flag; to tho
painted things that have gained wings
by preying on our national honor; to the
fine ladies who have made us the SCOT
Of the world that they might loll on satin
cushions, sweep streets with velvet trains
and fash like frehios in The light Of O.
chandelier. For this they have inflicted
a cruel, perhaps i~repsra5le, wrong on
these toilipE, long-suaering millions hy
confirming many doubts Of the eapabil.
ity Of the people for self government,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
spontnneons Generntion.

There is at present a deadlock among
men Of science in regard to spontaneous
generation, although in 1870 Prof lux
ley said that those who did not believe in
hat doctrine were victorious along the
whole line. DR.. Bastian's record Of his
experiments a few years ago was accep-
ted as final by many enthusiastic people,
some of whom believed that it added
great strength to the theory of evolution
by showing the untensbleness ofthe dog
ma that all life came from pre-existing
life. 1t seemed to prove that life was,
under some conditions, evolved from
dead matter, aud this would at once
overthrow the psuspermatists. Enthusi-
asm was checked when Prof Tyndall and
Prof Huxley, with The old pauspermat-
list, Pasteur, and some other well-known
scientific men, asserted their conviction
and endeavoreds to prove that DR.. Bas-
tian's experiments had been bungling,
and he was wrong in his conclusions.
They had every reason to believe that
Living germs could not resist the action
Of boiling water, but are now obliged to
admit that here it was not DR.. Bastian
but themselves who we're mistaken.
Some of them have therefore abandoned
their belief in the killing power of boil.
ing water, but have not forsaken the doc
trine that all life comes from a~ntecedent
life. Bastain has indeed proved that
germs may live after undergoing a tenn
perature of two hnndred and thirty de-
grees Fahrenheit for an hour, so that the
pauspermstists are reduced to great ex,
tremities to maintain their position. The
question involved is one Of the highest
scientific and philosophical Importance,
but, as already said in regard to it, there
is a deadlock among scientific men oil
the first order, like Tyndall and Pasteur
on the one side, and Bastian and others,
backed by many theoretical evolutionists
on the other.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
How New York Lawyers Practice
Richmond Cor. Petersburg Post.l

June l1th.
Messrs. Shipman, MacFarland and
Choate, the three lawyers from New
York, who came here in the interest Of
the foreign bondholders, | am told, get
the largest practice in New York. /
mean the firms to which they are at
tached.
Messrs. Shipman and MacFarland are
members Of the same law frm-that oil
Shipman, Barlow & mcfarland. Mr..
Choate belongs to the firm Of Evaris
Southwaite h Choate. Now the lawyers
here tell me that these firms make i'm
mense piles Of money, from $200,O 900 tC
$3.50, 900 a year. We have some lawyers
here every bit as able as these three gen.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
FIRE LAST NIGHT.
A TWO-StOry Frame Residence n
aNWnUah

A T~WO-StOry Frame Residence De-
strOyed.
At IL o'clock last night a FIRE broke
out in the two-story frame residence Of
Mr.. Smith, of the Louisville railroad,
on Belleville avenue, north of Union
avenue. 1t being far outside the corpor-
alton and the fire engines not being able
to get out ia time, the house burned to
the ground in q couple Of hours. The
cause Of the fire is said to have been
6~re.crackers exploded by some children.
The furniture was partially saved, but in
a damaged condition. We understand
that Mr.. Smith had a small insurance OIL
the furniture. The building belonged tC
the heirs of the Kit Williams estate, and
upon it, it is reported, there was no insu
rance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
HYDARANT HOSE cheap cheap
.le9 BROWNE, 263 Second street
PersOnal,

Colonel Il. Townsend left Yesterday
for Colorado, to be absent several weeks.
Mr.. Joseph Wetter left for the North
to-day, and after a s%ojourn Of six weeks
at White Bear Lake, Mimi, will pro-
coed to Philadelphia.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
RAILROADS.
CE NTENNIAL EXH IBlTION,
Philadelphia, Penn.

THIS GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXHI-
i bition, designed to commemorate the enc
hundredth anniversary Of American indie
pondence, will open May 10th and close No
yember 10, 1876. All the Nations Of the world
and all the States aud Territories Of the Union
will participate, bringing together the most
comprehensive collection Of art treasures,
mechanical inventions. scientific discoveries,
manufacturing achievements, mineral speci-
mems, and agricultural products ever exhib-
are situated on the line Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and embrace four hundred and fifty
acres of Fairmount Park, all highly improved
and ornamented, on which are erected the
largest buildings ever constructed five OF
these GOV ering an area Of fifty acres and cost
ing SIS. OO0,O 900. The total number Of buildings
erected for the purposes Of the Exhibition is
over one hundred.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05

Ard now comes Miss Susan B, An
thony and says she has ratified the heel
and toe with G, Washington many a
time. We have engaged Suse to join US
in leading the grand walk. around at the
Centennial OF an early day, and no one
need apply. County Progress,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05

Umpire, Mr.. James Carr, Of the River
sides; time Of game, two hours; FIRST base
by errors-Memphis Amateurs, 5 times;
Reds, 3 times; runs arned-Memphis
Amateurs, 4 times; Reds, 0. al
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-05
at two years
The Beautiful >,

DR.. Winchelrs commencement ad-
dress at the State Female College on
THE Beautiful" is published in this
weeks Western Methodist, Office 2794
Main street. Five cents a copy.