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MARRIAGE IN THE ARMY.

what General sherman Said BEFORE
the Committee ON MILITARY AT
fairs.
An officer must go where he is
ordered; must eat, dress, and live
in a hotel which has established
rates of charge, or hire a house, if
he has family, paying extra rates,
because he must contract with a
knowledge that his lease may be
determined by an order any day.
An officer in camp and barracks
can live as cheaply almost as a
soldier, if the necessity demands it,
but if he has a wife and children
the whole problem changes. Their
necessities bring on him expenses
much greater than to a citizen
with a fixed domicile. Does
Congress wish to prohibit marriage
in the army? If SO, why not meet
the question? In foreign service
marriage is forbidden to the lower
grades of officers, unless some as
surance be given that the family
shall not become a charge to the
State. Young officers, thrown with
beautiful young women, cannot be
expected to eyince the caution and
prudence of old men. The conse-
quence is that marriage results, and
from that moment begins a life
struggle for pay and allowances.
Everymember of the Military Com
mittee knows from his own expert
ence that an officer in a city can
live by himself on $1,000 a year
better than with an average family
on $4,000. I do not recommend
any legislation on this point, be-
cause it is not my business, but
simply refer to it as an unspoken
cause of the opposition to the re.
duction Of pay at this particular
time when deprecated currency
necessarily causes increased ex-
pense of living, Of clothing, and Of
all the necessaries of life, besides
education, hotel bills, and every
other manner of expense. Officers
serving with troops are subjected to
less contingencies than when de-
tached or as staff officers, but no
one can control his orders. These
come from the War Department, or
some superior, and the officer has
to obey regardless of cost; and as
three moves are equal to afre, an
officer may be said to lose all his
furniture and household effects, on
an average, every five years. This
is not the case with the citizen who
has his domicile.
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Attachment Notice.

Before J. NJ. Coleman. Justice Of the Peace
for Shelby county. Tenn.-E, w. Leidy Il
Co. VS.. G. A. Mclean and J. NJ. Mclean,
jr, composing the firm Of G.. A. Mclean 4
Co.
TN THIS CAUSE An aTTAOHMENTH HAV-
4 ing been sued out under section 34s5 Of the
the property Of the defendants, and affidavit
having been made that the defendants arc
justly indebted to the plaintiffs in the
sum Of S2i1. 20, due by account, and that the
claim Is just and that the defendants
are non. residents Of the State of Tennes-
see; it is therefore ordered that the said
defendants make their personal appearance
before me on the 18th day of May,
1876, at 10 o'clock am, at my office, No. 29i
Front ST.. Memphis, Tenn, and defend said
attachment suit within the timo prescribed by
law, or the same will be proceeded with ex
parte; and that copy of this order be pub
lished once week for four consecutive weeks
in the Public Ledger.
This 7th day eff April, 1876.
SSss-44.50 ]. M. COLEMAN, J.P.
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On the 18th day of May, 1876,

at the northwest corner Of Poplar aud Main
streets, in the city Of Memphis, Tennessee,
offer for sale at public outcry. and sell to the
highest bidder, for cash, the following de-
scribed real estate, with the improvements
thereon. to-wit; Beginning at stake at the
southwest corner Of fifty acre tract of land
heretofore sold to Jones by G. A Shafer. and
running thence north with Jones' west line 81
chains to a stake, the northwest corner Of
said Jones' tract; thence west with the south
boundary linz. Of ninety.acre tract sold BY
Il. Brook to W. O.. Bradford chains and 55
links to a stake; thence about % chains to the
north side Of the Germantown plank road (;
thence east with the said road chains and SIS
links to the beginning, containing by estima-
ten ten acres, more or less.
Title is considered good, but convey enly
as Trustee. A, s. BROWN, Trustee.
April 10, 1876. 1858
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InsOIvent Notice.

To the Creditors Of the Estate of the late
Susan Powell, deceased:
HAVING SUGGESTED THE INS0L
III veLcy of the estate Of said Susan Powell
deceased, you are hereby notified to appear
and file your claims against said estate with
tho Clerk Of the County Court, authenticated
in the manner prescribed by law on or before
the 29th day Of September, 1875, and any
claim not filed on or before said day will be
forever barred.
DANIEL KUSW0RM, Admir-.
MEMPHIS, TENN, March %, 1875.
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The Lake-DweIIers in Switzerland.
Pail Mall Gazette.l

Pail Mall Gazette.l
A report drawn up by the chief
local antiquaries on the remarkable
discovery Of the place of sepulture
near Neufchatel Of the lake dwell
ing Swiss race gives the following
results: The tombs found may be
classed as Of the stone.cist variety,
allied in character to the dolmen,
but differing from it in having been
formed from the first beneath the
natural surface of the earth, after
the custom Of our graves. They
were not quite long enough to re-
ceiye the bodies of adults stretched
out, but it is probable that those
were inferred in the sitting posture
much practiced elsewhere in pre-
historic days, and propped up by
the large pebbles which were found
in numbers in the cavities.
The hight Of the adults was, if
anything, rather below that of the
Swiss of the present day, and the
skulls present no real typical differ
ence of form from those of the latter,
except that the forehead is more
contracted, or, as it might be more
correctly said, less developed. The
actual discovery of the admixture
in these tombs among the same set
Of remains of bronze ornaments
with those of the pierced teeth Of
carnivora generally assigned to the
age of stone has a double impor-
tance. 1t proves conclusiyely that
the notion of some antiquaries that
cremation was everywhere char
acteristic of the bronze age, as op-
posed to the simpler interment used
in that of stone, is not universally
true. 1t also establishes the fact Of
the gradual passage-in Switzer-
land, at any rate from the one era
to the other, and so makes it doubt
full whether a hard and fast line can
really be drawn between the two
anywhere.
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Attachment Notice.


Before ]. M. Coleman, Justice Of the Peace
for Shelby county, Tenn. .-E. L. Cleayesys.
W. NJ. Inge.
TN THIS CAUSE AN ATTAC CHMENTH HAV-
i ing been sued out under section 1855 of the
Code of Tennessee, and returned levied upon
the property of the defendant by garnish-
ment on X. P. Duncan, Esq, who answers
that he has in his possession thirty dollars be-
longing to the defendant, and affidavit hav-
ing been mode that defendant is indebted
TO the plaintiff in the sum of fifteen dollars,
due by account, and that the claim is just, and
the defendant is a nonresident of the State
Of Tennessee; it is therefore ordered that
said defendant make his personal appear
ance before me on the 10th day OF May,
1876, at II o. o'clock am, at my office, No. 29I
Front street, Memphis, Tenn, and defend
said attachment suit within the time pre-
scribed BY law, or the same will be proceeded
with ex parte; and that copy of this order be
published once a week for four consecutive
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the 11th day Of April, B76.
36 A2-4S-54 j. M. COLEMAN. J. p
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:. THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL lS. 1876.

editary title of baron. Despite
their hundreds of millions, they are
still willing to add to them, for the
love of domination is strong.
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Trustees Sale.

pY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST EX-
ID ecuIed and delivered to me on the lst Of
April, 1875. and recorded in the Register Z
Office Of Shelby county, in Book l06, page 1876,
and 70 satisfy the remainder OF the indebted
during legal hours,
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LEGAL.
Attachment Notice.

Before ]. M, Coleman, Justice of the Peace
for Shelby County, Tenn.-W. A. Wheat
ley VS.. Il. S. VOllentine,
IN THIS CAUSE A SUMMONS HAVING
been issued en- the 18th day of February,
1876. for the sum Of one hundred and sixty
three dollars and forty-one cents and interest,
due by note, which summons was on the 18th
day Of March, 1876, returned into court by .
IL. Murray, Deputy Sheriff, as follows:
Came to hand the 18th day Of February,
1876, and afler dilligent search and inquiry,
and going to the residence OF Mrs. b. S. Vol
lentine three times, she is not TO be found in
my county. @. L. Anderson, Sheriff, by )
II. Murray. Deputy Sheriff. March IT, 1876. -
And on motion Of plaintiff judicial attach
ment having been issued herein on the Sd day
Of April, 1876, as provided by section No.
3i66 Of the Code Of Tennessee. returnable be-
fore me or some other Justice Of the Peace,
and the same having been levied by the proper
officer on the property Of said defendant, and
returned into courts 1t is therefore ordered
that the defendant make her personal ap-
pearance before me. on Tuesday, the 18th day
Of May, 1876, at 10 o'clock am, at my Office,
No. 294 Front street, in the city of Memphis,
Tennessee, and defend said suit, or the
same will be proceeded with ex parte and
that copy Of this order be published once a
week for four consecutive weeks, in the Public
Ledger.
This 1lth day Of April, 1876.
J. M. COLEMAN, ,J.P.
\. M. S. RHETT, Attorney for plaintiff.
36-42- 1854
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" never saw an oft-remoyed tree,
Nor yet an oft removed family,
That throve as well as those who settled be. -
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RAILROAD THE TABLES.

AkMPHIS AND L0ULRVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Ls.Es..
p.. An. Pm. An. IN.
sunday ......... ............... 3.l5
Man Train :...............:.. $40 1880
Nashville Accommod'n... $40 AIS
Depot at head Of Main street.
~. Ticket Once. 2SI Main street. corner Of
EIssIssPPl AND TENNESSEE
Arrives. Leaves.
- ~
N. o. Mail daily. ....,... 2'& $50
Express daily 81. Sunday s.b 1850
Freight daily ex; Sqndayl 4-S5 600
Ticket Once. 2S7 Main street. corner Of
Madison.
M. BURKE. GsnT sup't.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON R.R.
@-=
AN. Pm. AN PIX.
Mail train daily............... 2.10l 40
Express train daily-..... 2.30 $40
Except Sunday )............ $50 500
Grand Junction Accom-
mediation lex. Sunday 1l.0O $50
Ticket ofice H8 Main street:
W. J. ROSS. Gen'l sup't.
y MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
~ --
A.M.P.N. An. Pm.
Mail Train daily y..-..... lao
Leaves
Louisville Depot.."..". $50
freight and Aoconmoda-
tion daily.........-........... 500 500
Sleepig cars on mail train. Ticket Offices,
Louisville Depot, 2S7 Main (Oor. Madisonl
and H8 Main street.
W. &. SMITH. Act'g Gen'l Sup't.
PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.
Nail Train arrives...-.-......... ...... 300 a. IN
leaves.."................ " I'm
Freight Train M a. n
arrives.............."........oV w pm
The mail train leaves Covington for Mem
phis at 7 am. and returns to Covington at
$500 Pm. Trains leaving Memphis VIII start
J. W. WILBUR, Sup't,
H. II. GIVEN, Asst. Sup't.
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Miscellaneous Journal

The Commercial. News, Miscellaneous and
Local departments will be kept up to the Ugh &.
est standard of approved journalism. endeav.
oring to please all tastes and to
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ooRsETs.

:T,oR POSTERS, SHOW BILLS. CARDS,
Circulars, etc.. gotten MP WITH the latest
style Of types and on suPerdloa peH ecs srasr.
10 Inc stock and pEicVS'
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RAILROAD.
RAILROAD.
MEMPHIS 4 CHARLESTON R.R.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.

.ON AND. AFTER SUNDAY. MARCH u.
" 1876;
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily y...............4.10 10 am 210p.m
Express train, daily........5.40 pm 2.30a,m
Somerville accom- datiOn
Except 90 pm 830a,m
drand junction acc0m-
dation Except Sunday $50 am 11.OOp.m
Special Notice 10 Local Passengers,
Trains will not stop at Vance street.
Express train leaving Memphis at $40 p. m .
will stop only at Telegraph Stations. Grand
Junction accommodation will stop at Stations
ONLY where the Company has agencies.
The accommodation train leaving at $50
am. and arriving at II pm, makes connec-
tlon to and from points on N. o., st. l., and
e. Railroad with Memphis.
No change Of cars between Memphis and
Bristol and Memphis and Montgomery.
The new and magnificent sleeping car line
will have one Of their new sleepers leave
Memphis daily on Express train at $40 .. m.
for Lynchburg. Washington and Baltimore
without change. 0Aly one change to New
York and Philadelphia. Time twenty min
utes faster than city time.
Ticket office, 27S Main street.
WI. ROSS, Sup't,
Tow B. DUN. Ticket Ag't. ST
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MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
AND
Great Southern Railroad.

SCHEDULE.
Express train leaves daily (exoept
Sunday S:l9 am
Accommodation leaves daily............. 4:l5 p. m
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on all night
trains.
For tickets or information. apply at Ticket
Office. 287 Main. northwest corner of Madison
JOHN T. FLYNN, Sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent. 72t
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MEMPHIS AND LoUIEVILLE RAILROAD.
Ht Arrives. Leaves.
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DDRIN0 The CENTENNIAL

Exhibition at Philadelphia. this line will sell
ALL Tor Tickets via LOUISVILLE AND
THE SHORT LINE. the only line running
fbroueh cars to Eastern Cities. For sale at
ali the Ticket Offices in the South and South
"eS'' JNO. MacLEOD, Gen. sup't.
SIS. PARKER, Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent,
louisville, Ky. l04-11ln-tOS
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Interest all Readers,

Thus making the WEEKLY LEDGER = vel
come. pleasing and interesting
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N H w " OR X

Tbig Is th only line Fnlning its e9tITe trans
from Louisville to Cincinnati. ana an t.S the Only
1inI rnnIo ~ y Eastern and Northern Cities can
avoid avoid a tedious haul through Louisville boy
CHANGING cham cars cars at Short Line junction. with
Z. and e. S. r. R.. three miles south OF the
city. where they can BE- ssSysG Tisf a II SonT SnrS
TbrouSb HHIc % SIeepers from New Orleans. Mobile,
jneSsonyilie, Atlanta. Little Rock, Memphis,
MoptSomery and Nashville. make direct CON
nection at Short Line Junction with thF9pgn Cll!I
Sleepers to New York and other Eastern Ultles
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-25
A GENERATION ON THE MARCH.

A generation on the march from the
cradle to the grave is an instructive
spectacle, and we have it carefully pre-
sented to us in the report by DR.. Farr,
an English physician. Let US trace the
physical fortune which any million Of
us may reasonably expect The num-
Der. to begin with, is made up Of 5ll,-
745 boys and ASS, 1856 girls. a dispro-
portion which, by and by, win be re-
dressed by the undue mortality Of the
boys, and will be reversed before tho
close of the strange, eventful history.
More than a quarter of these children
viii die before they are five years old
in exact numbers. 1887 boys and
l2l,795 girls. The two sexes are now
nearly on level. The next FIVE years
will be much less fatal. in the succeed
ing five years-from ten to ffteen-the
mortality will be still further reduced
Indeed, for both sexes, this is the most
healthy period of life; the death-rate,
however, is lower for boys than for girls.
There will be some advance in deaths in
the next five years, and still more in the
FIVE which follow, but 6S4,045 will GER
tainly enter on their twenty-sixth year.
Before the next ten years are at an
end two-thirds of the women will have
married. The deaths during that peri
cd will be 62,o52, and of those no few
er than 27.l34 will be caused by con-
sumption. Between thirty-6ve and for
ty-fve still larger "death-rolf' will be
paid, and little more than half the orig
inal band-in exact numbers, 502,9I5
will euter on their forty-sixth year.
Each succeeding decade, up to seventy
five, will now become more fatal, and
the numbers will shrink terribly. At
seyenty-fve only l6l, T24 will remain
to be struck down, and of these 122, 500
will have perished by the eighty-ffth
year of the march. The 1866 that re-
main will soon lay down their burdens
but 2l53 of them will struggle on to be
ninety-fve, and 223 to be 100 years old.
Finally, in the l08th year of the course
the last solitary life will flicker out
Such, then. is the average lot of mil
lion men and women.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-25
CONGRESSMAN sEELYE's VIEWS.

Hon. Julius H. Seelye Of Massachu-
sets. who was elected to Congress on
the Independent ticket strongly endOrs-
es Hayes and Wheeler. At recent
meeting in Amherst he said:
Mr.. Chairman, fellow citizens and la
dies: The flag you see is the flag of our
free and liberty-lOying Union, and the
Union which, if the Democratic party
had had its way. would not now have
been in existence. The war which was
waged against that flag and which cost
untold millions of money and unnum-
bered hosts Of brave men, had its birth
in the spirit which the Democratic par
ty constantly fostered. During the war
no repulses were felt by the army moro
than that inflicted by the proclamation
of the Democratic Convention of ga, of
whose Committee on Resolutions, Samu-
el ]. Tilden was ruling member, which
proclaimed the war for the restoration
of the Union failure. The Constitu-
tional amendments adopted after the
war, and which were intended to guar
antee the fruits Of the war, met the con-
slant opposition of the Democratic par
ty. and the grandest of these. the thir-
teenth, was voted against by Thomas A.
Hendricks. . ], for one, am not willing
to transfer the great power of the Gov
ernment from the hands which have held
and supported 1t to the hands still reek-
ing with the blood of its brave defenders
/ do not stand here to defend everything
which the Republican party has done I;
but when the Democratic party is held
up as the party of reform, | am remind
ed of the decrepit old lion in the fable,
who sought to gain by strategy what he
could not gain by strength. The spirit
and tendency of the Republican party is
toward reform. 1t is still worthy of con-
idence, and though l am not willing to
throw up the party, am willing to ex-
pei those men who have used the party
for their own evil ends. l accept the Re-
publican party because | believe in Its
principles, which it has never belied. /
do not hesitate to say that William A.
Wheeler has been my first choice for the
Presidency; but this is no disparagement
to that quiet, thoughtful, unpretending,
yet unfinching man, whom the Cincin-
natl Convention assigned to the first
place on the ticket; and recommend
to you the Republican party. and these
It's nominees, as worthy to be the defend
ers of this proud flag in time of peace
just as they were wise and strong anc
brave to uphold and defend it in time o.
war
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SCHOOL-ROOM PERILS.
war

DR.. Richard McSherry of Baltimore,
has an article in the Sanitarian for this
month on the above subject. He charges
that 1.-The local authorities of cities, and
very largely throughout the country,
out-Herod Herod in the slaughter of in
nocents." There is no bloodshcd. in
deed, in the beginning, but there is, he
says, towards the end, in various forms
of hemOrrhage.' In speaking of schools
for girls, he expresses the opinion that
the evils of the school-room ''often tend
to the extinguishment of families" He
adds, and the reasoning applies in the
main to children of both sexes
What else can be expected when
young children are imprisoned for long
and weary hours. day after day and year
after year, in close and sitting school
rooms, where the air is habitually 50
foul as to be exceedingly offensive to
any one entering from without. though
unnoticed by those within, who are
breathing it over and over again ? A
lady who is fond of plants and flowers,
and has but small space for cultivat-
ing them, say in window gardening,
finds that her fayOrites require goodly
quantity Of sun and air to thrive, which
she seeks for them accordingly, while
she sends those more tender plants, the
children, TO horrid school-room, whence
the rays Of the sun are excluded, while
the artificial heat, often loaded itself
with coal gas or carbonic oxide. is made
mephitic with carbOnie acid from many
breaths, and all the exhalations thai
arise from miscellaneous crowd Of help
less and innocent little prisoners. 1hii
is not q matter Of comfort or discomfort
but more clearly a matter Of life or deatt
with the children What is the good o.
all the learning, such as il Is. aequlree
in the schOol-rOOm, and By gasight a
home, to a young girl who has spina
curvature and perpetual headache. ans
. weak chest. and Indigestion. and fab
By muscles, and. in short. universal del
ieaey in every part Of her organism
How is she prepared for the wear an
tear Of life duties. and what kind u
belpmeet is she going 70 make 2 Tb
evil is crying one il i fraugkt Wit
ruin. yet scarcely any but few nedica
|, men seem 70 appreciate It's importance.
What is the remedy Fewer hour
AZ school, be says. and fever studie
r at any one time" Frequent changes .
position aud air: brief recess ever
/ hour 70 relieve the mental tension
stretch the erzmped limbs and enabl
r the scholars 70 take 10 good inspiration
' Of fresh air.
r ..Let the sehooI-rOom be cleared ever
!, hour. and thoroughly ventilated Viii
the ehildren play for few ninutss
z the open air 10 good weather. o. und'
shelter while il rains. The shelt'