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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
Love az Long Range.

The Bridgeport Conn Leader, of
the I'd, tells the following story of a
Memphis African:
a case in which there is disappoint-
ment on both sides has just occurred.
The express Sunday evening brought a
colored gentleman to this city. he car
ried a little poodle dog in one hand aud
in the other a cane. Securing the ser
vice Of a hickman be was driven to the
residence Of one OF our first families on
State street extension. In answer to
his summons he Was informed that the
subject Of his inquiry had started for
Memphis the day previous on q visit to
her husband. Praise de Lord" said
the visitor. Use dat chap an | cum all
de way from Tennessee to see dat wo-
man" There was no help for it aud he
had to move on. He spent the balance
of the night at the police station trying
to dry his clothes and determine his
future ourse
The servant who came to the door was
his WI wife, who had left him in Mem
phis owing to bad treatment. but it being
dark at the time Of his visit, he did not
recognize her voice. The girl left this
city with the family Of a well-known citi-
zen who have taken a summer tour to
New England. A day or two since the
negro returned to Memphis, and told the
tale of disappointment with reference to
HE trip, which cost him eighty dollars.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
The Temple az IerusaIem.
ReYiew.l

hoNiOMsl
1t is probably no exsggeration to say
that more has been written regarding the
temple at Jerusalem than in respect to
any other building in the known world;
and unfortunately, it may be added,
more that is wild and utterly untenable.
This last popularity arises from several
causes:
First, Because all the earlier restorers
we're entirely ignorant Of the ground on
which the temple stood, and Of the local
circumstances that governed its con-
struction. 1t was not, indeed, till the
spot was surveyed by the late Mr.. Gather
wood in 1888, and his plans published
on a sufficient scale in 1862, that restor-
ers had such q map of the ground as
would enable them to adjust their meas
urements to the locality with anything
like certainty. Though that plan was
wonderfully perfect, considering the cir
clmstances under which it was made, it
has since been superseded by that made
under the direction Of Capt. (now Major)
Wilson, r 4 in l864-5, which leaves
nothing to be desired in this respect. 1t
can be depended upon almost to inches,
and has been engraved on a scale sufi.
cienlly large for all typographical if not
quite for ell architectural purposes.
A second cause of the wildness Of the
r|estorations hitherto attempted is, that
the temple at Jerusalem was quite
unique. Not only had the Jews this one
temple, but, so far as we know, it was en-
tirely of their own invention, and utter
y unlike the temples Of any of the ma
tons around them. 1t certainly, at all
events, was quite unlike the temples OF
the Egyptians or Greeks. 1t may have
had atinities with those OF the Babylo-
mans or Assyrians; but, notwithstanding
all that has been done Of late years, we
know so very little Of what the temples oil
Mesopotamia were, that these hardly
help us even at this day; and the as
sumption that this might be so was Of nc
use whatever TO earlier %restorers.
Having thus no a~nalogies to guide
Them, aud as it is literally and absolutely
true that not one stone remains or
another ofthe temple, properly so called
it is not to be wondered &C, that early re
storers failed TO realize the truth, and in
dulged in iaueies which we're utterly IN
tenable. In nine cases out Of ten thei.
object was to produce a building which
would be worthy Solomon in all his glory
rather than a sober reproduction of tn,
very modern building described in tn,
Bible.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
Mempnls Amateur FLshermen.

Scene on a lake back Of Scanlan's
Landing! Three fishermen (Memphiaus)
in a dugout; one propeliing the boat, one
trolling, aud the other a calm observer Of
the placid water-the latter had init
mated to his companions that he was
unable to swim. A trout accidentally
attaches itself to the trolling liue; IL e
fat man (who by the way knows more
about billiards than trout, overcome
with excitement in attempting to secure
the fish, upsets the dugout; climbing on
the upturned boat, aud remembering his
helpless friend, be seizas him by the
collar and makes frantic endeavors to
lift him to a place of safety beside him.
Imsgine the scene when it is discovered
that the doctor who cannot swim is
standing upright in only three feet OIL
waterl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
Reuben Fields, the Mathematical
Prodigy.

A great deal has been said and written
about the great mathematical Prodigy,
Reub Fields, who lives, says the Warrens-
burg mo } Democrat, at Fayetteville, in
this county, and the more that is known
Of him the greater wonder he becomes
He does not possess the simple rudi-
ments of a book education-does not
know a letter or figure from sight-and
yet he can solve the most intricate prob
lem in an instant, or can perform a cal
culation in less than a minute that would
require the work of an hour by the or
binary modes. For instance: We gave
the day of the month, and he told US in
less than q half minute our age in sec
onds, minutes, days and years. Give
him the day of the month aud the year Of
any event, however remote, and be will
instantly give the day of the week.
We spent two hours with him recently,
and, Notwithstanding we have often
talked with him and seen him display his
wonderful gifts, yet we a ways find some
thing new in him.
We placed a column Of figures upon q
paper, equal in length to the columns Of
an ordinary sized ledger, and called them
off TO him in rapid succession, and when
the last number was called he gave the
sum without a moments hesitation. He
did not see the paper, aud would not have
known o character if he had. One hour
later he repeated those numbers in the
exact order in which we called them to
him. We then began at the bottom, and
Seuld call two or three numbers correct
ly, aud then one incorrectly, and he
would correct us by giving the proper
number.
More mysterious than this to us is the
fact Of his ability to give correctly the
time of day or night, whenever called
upon, without any reference whatever
70 atimepioee,
In this town the timepieces are all reg.
ulGted by railroad or st Louis time. II
you ask Reub the time, he will say, ]
am l5i minutes past one; if you have
railroad time, you have so and So CIV
ing the exact difference between sur
time aud railroad time,
Another remarkable fact is that he
gives the exact time of his locality. /
he is in Washington City, he gives Wash
ington City time; if in San Francisco
the time there. He cannot possibly %
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
Little Ghost story.

A Paris newspaper has this story.
A French student occupied q room
in which a companion had died,
1t had the reputation Of being
haunted, but he was not dis
turbed, Two fellow-students de-
termined to frighten him, and robed
in sheets, they paced around his
bed and awaited his shrek Of hor-
ror. Suddenly a white figure
emerged from the closet and joined
the procession, and the intrudeyG
thought it was a real ghost and
took to their heels, The complete
Joe Miller has recently been trans-
lated into French,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09

Mississippi and Arkansas
is plenty Of work for thousands.
The soil is so rich that when you tickle
it with a hoe it laughs with q harvest.
August meteors are beginning to be
numerous, and have begun to give that
brilliant display when the earth is about
to enter the belt Of meteorites, through
which it passes twice a year. But the
cause of the meteoric displays yet re-
mains q mystery.
Memphis bellies thoroughly compre-
bend the respective theories Of iuha-
ton and contraction, if such can be
concluded from the styles in which they
appear on the streets-one day inflated
with voluminous dresses, and the mex!
contracted to the smallest circumfer-
ence of a pinback. They are to a woman
for Tilden and Hendricks, the Demo.
cratic nominees.
A pistol shot and a fight in a gambling
room on the corner Of Second street and
North Court, last night, attracted quite a
large crowd Of people who expected to
see a wounded or dead man, but the ris-
tol ball sped wide of the mark aud moth
ing resulted except a smashing of glasses
and o%verturning Of tables and q little
free fight over the cards. The police
we're unable to find the Shooter who
turned her loose" he having vamoosed
the ranch.
The Days DoiDgs, pictorial newspa-
per, of the 18th inst, contains pictures Of
Frances Thompson, alias "Crutchy, >
with a lengthy account of his successful
im%personstion Of the dual role of man
and woman 10 this city, and his Radical
Joke played off upon that Congressional
Committee sent down here to %investi-
gate the Memphis riots, Messrs. Wash.
burne and Bromall, of hat committee,
can now see Frances Thompson both
before and after taking his testimony
aud indorsing it as a Southern outrage.
A lively and very tolerant correspond.
ent of the Avalanche proposes to ram
q corn cob down the throats OIL
those who beg leave to differ with him
on the subject as to whether or not Mr.
Mullett, late United States Supervising
Architect, is a great architectural genius
When the correspondent carries his cob
around and attempts to use his patent he
may find himself going through a corn
Smelling machine. The irate CORE
spondent should read Supervising Arch
t4ct Potter's opinion of Mullett and hi
fraudulent contracts for government
buildings as published in the New Yorl
journals before he becomes a corn col
toter.
Our reporter was offered several dele
gate proxies yesterday aud he was SC
licited to 90 to Nashville ard immortaliz
himself at the Gubernatorial Convention
by making a motion to adjourn, lay O
the table or take a recess; but our III
8 patriotic representative refused the 81
] ductive invitations in a manner worth
of a Joseph. He has no ambition to pa
his W expenses for the pleasure Of a
4 tending to some other MAS bushes
aud not being a millionaire or a note
ward politician he concluded to hold tn
fort on the bluff until the boys com
= home. Like a patriot, however, he il
= dorses in advance the action of the col
v%ention on all subjects.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09

these things By any method Of c~alculat-
ing the passing time, for be will give the
time as accurately when awked from
sleep at night as if it were daylight and
the sun shining.
There seems to be nothing too great in
numbers for his mind to grasp, and yet
nothing too small. He can tell what the
interest of one cent would be for three
seconds at the rate of ten per cent. per
annum IS readily and as easily as we
could tell the interest on one dollar for
one year at the same rate per cent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
How N eLadIes DenI with California
Fleas.



For the first few days after l
landed in Santa Barbara | was sur
prised to see ladies with whom l
was c~onversing excuse themselves
every few moments to rush into an
adjoining room. l was all the time
suffering agonies from the bites of
myriads Of heas; but l supposed
the usages of polite society made it
necessary for me to present a smil-
ing front to my callers-in other
words, to grin and bear it until l
should be alone. But / soon
learned that it was the custom in
this strange town, Immediately
upon the first warning bite, to rush
pell-mell from the eye of the world,
and, even in the midst of a sentence,
dispose of the flea before finishing
conversation.
1t is astonishing what practice
will enable one to do in the way Of
flea killing. l hatter myself l am
now an adept In the science.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
A Defeated Yet victorious Candi.
dale.

A Defeated Yet victorious Candi-
date.
Hon. j. A. Strehl, the popular, favor
lite and tender meat man Of South Mem
phis, was voted for by some waggish
friends for the Office of Criminal Court
Judge. For a while Mr.. Strehl held
high hopes Of dispensing tickets to the
State circus at Nashville to some of his
supporters. His adherents say they
we're influenced in casting their ballots
by the lots Of fine and juicy steaks and
tender mutton always to be had at his
unrivalled meat store. But alas, how
ungratelul. Mr.. Strehl now declares he
did not want tue office nohow, especially
as he was beaten by over 5000 majority
by the worthy Democratic nominee, as
the notice at his store informs his many
patrons, who are happy, and congratu-
late themselves on the fact hat he will
now continue, with pleasure, to cater to
their wants in his line, and exert himself
in the future, as in the past, to furnish
the finest meats inJhe market, such as
will satisfy the astronomical fancy Of
the most erudite epicurean. He tenders
thanks, and cordially invites ali to call
on him at his business place, No csc
Main street, where all orders will re-
ceive prompt attention at living prices
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
RAILROADS.
EXHIBITION,
philadelphia, Penn.

uynYs GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXIT
bition, designed to commemorate the one
bnnSredfh anniversary Of American indie
pendenee, will open May, 10th and close No
pember IN. 1875. All the Nations Of the world
aand ali ths States and Territories Of the Union
will partieipate, bringing together the most
comprehensive collection. Of art treasures
mecbanieal inventions, scientific discoveries,
MISUNDERSTANDING achievements. mineral sPeci-
mems, and agricglturS Io Rr9d u tSs sy sabi aanlU
are s;tnated on the line Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and embrace four hundred and htty
acres of Paramount Park, all highly improved
and ornamented, on which are erected the
largest buildings ever constructed nYe Of
~ az no nm The total number Of buildings
erected for the purposes of the Exhibition Is
over one hundred.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
SMOKE
JOHN G, CALHOUN.

In the LEDGER jos Office can be found
competent, skillful and tasteful printers,
who can give entire satisfaction in the
display of any job of printing. 1881
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09

"Retrenchment" is a word thor
oughly obnoxious to the President,
his Cabinet and the Senate. 1t is
hateful to them because it islinked
with reform, concerning which
Morton said the other day that the
necessity for reform, like the poor,
was always present with us, but he
intlmated the government had no
business obeying any such neces-
sity. That is the Republican doc
trine outspoken. The rule of that
party has been that if we pay an
annual average Of $50, OOO, 1000 on
the public debt, we are entitled to
increase the expenses of the govern
ment and the appropriations six
times the amount of the public
debt payment. In 1872 they prom
ised to limit expenditures to $780,
100000. They have spent nearly
$500, OOO, 900 a year, and wanted to
increase the amount this year, but
the Democratic House has reined
the s~pendthrifts in.-Courjeg- Jour
nal
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
Indge Linch,s Oourf.

Court opened at midnight. Judge
Lynch sent his messengers. to the Can
yon City Jail, and the prisoners, two Mex
leans, we're brought TO the bar. What
had they to say for themselves2 Well,
they had done it, but a woman had put
them up to it She had told them that
the Oregon householder had a large
amount OF money in his belt. He hired
them to &c with him on his trip, and the
night after they left Canyon City they
had murdered him while he was asleep,
smashing in his skull with a large stone.
Each accused the other of striking the
fatal blow. Judge Lynch found blood
stains on the clothing of each, and ab-
ruptly sentenced them to be hanged at
once. One Of them was strung up under
a bridge with a pair of leather lines. The
other, after a desperate attempt to es-
cape, was hanged to a tree in the Mexi-
can quarter of the town. The trial and
execution occupied scarcely an hour,
and the docket having been cleared, the
court adjourned. Justice in Canyon City
may be blind, but it can scarcely be said
to have a game leg.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09
TIE Pennsylvania Railroad,
THE GREAT TRUNK LINE
Fast Mail Route Of the United States

v;ll ha most direct. convenient and economi-
81 nov Of reaching Philadelphia ana lnls
great Exhibition IRON all secuons OF ~
eonntry. It's trains to and from PhiIade5pnla
will pass through a GRAND VENlENNLhh
DEPOT, which the Company have erected AZ
he Main Iintrance to the Exhibition drounas
nr Tba no commOdation of passengers VINO
vish In sfoIp al or start from the numerous
large hotels contiguous TO this station ana tne
EY6ibition-N convenience OF the greatett
TaIus To Visitors, and afforded exclusively BY
he Penpsylv, ania Railroad, which Is LIE
GNIV LINE RUNNING DIRECT TO THE
CENTENNIAL BUILDINGS. hxcurslo1
trains will also stop at the Encampmeht Oh
the Patrons Of Hw'bandry' at Eli Sta'ion' VI
his road.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is the gTanaest
galway Organization in the world. IL con-
ttrols seven thousand miles of roadway, form
ing continuous lines to philadelphia new
York. Baltimore and W ashington, over Wnlcn
luxurious day and night ears are run nI "
Chicago, st. Louis, Louisville, CInelnhat' IA
d~ianapolis, Columbus, Ioleao' OieVelanN anu
Erie. without change
ns main line is laid with double and third
tracks Of heavy steel rails upon Q deep pea OF
SroIon stone ballast, and its bridges are all OF
iron or stone. Its passenger falhs aIe
eouipped with every known m~prO'ement. I
comfort and safety, and are run NJ FASTER
speed for greater distances than lne tIains oi
any line OH lHO IOnAAANhNs
LARGELY increased its equipment for Gentleman
travail. and will be prepared to build IN ls
own shops locomo ives and passenger cars at
short notice sufficient to fully accommodate
anv extra demand The,unequaled resources
st the ommand Of the Company guarantee
the most perfect accommodations ior all ls
patrons during the Centennial Exhibition
THE MAGNIFICENT SCENERY for which
tthe Pennsylvania railroad is SO Justly ceIe
brated presents TO the traveller over It's perfect
Toadway an ever-changing panorama oil river,
mountain, and landscape views unequaled IN
America.
THE MANIFESTATIONS on this line are
unSurnassed. Meals will be furnished at
s,1itabte hours and ample time allowed iOr
en-, 1yinE them.
pvcURsIUN-TICKETS at reduced rates
III So old At oil principal Railroad lioke
e eFt SY IN he VEST, Northwest Southwest
Re- sure tbat your ticket reads VIA
the Great Pr NuBsyIEania Route 10 Tile
Centennial.
FRANK THOMSON, 2, N, BOYD, JR;:
General Manager! SenlfassF ASeH'
IN QEdHU
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09

THE type, material and workmeu of
the LEDGER job Office are as good as the
best, and hence we guarantee first class
work and full satisfaction to our patrons.
1924
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Coon cashmere pants at IS 80, worth
Sc, at the grand closing out sale at 227
Main street. l42
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PERsoMAL.

DERSONAL-J. M. COLEMAN, JUSTICE
L OF the Peace. Notary Public and Commits
siOner of Deeds. Special attention given to
collections in the county. Once 294 Front st.
1I9-f
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The best soda and mead in
Memphis, 8 glasses for 25c, at
BarIee's, 32S Main st. l22-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-09

The finest cakes and best
candy, also SODA and mead, at
FlOyd's, Main ST., two doors
above Jefferson. l23
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SILK front pndeFshirts at Aoc, good
value at 81, at the grand closing out sale
at 227 Main street. l42
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PRESCRIPTION FREE

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weakness, lost manhood and all disorders
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irugFiit has tho ingredients. Address IA
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Base Ball.

Reds VS.. Riversides at Central Park
tomorrow. Admission, 25c.
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SIP Cooks Billiard Parlor has fans
that make the room cool. ll3f
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Tinware Tinware!
Is. Ford, I28 Poplar ct.
146

PAPER collars SC a box at the grand
closing out sale at 227 Main street l42
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Smoke GOLEMAMVS
FINE white shirts at 81, worth 80, a tthe
grand closing out sale at 227 Main st.
BEFORE insuring your lie investigate

BEFORE insuring your life investigate
the merits Of
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company,
Assets over 1872, 0O0, 900.
Has age lover thirty.one years., and is
undoubtedly one of the strongest inan-
oial institutions of the kind. Hundreds
Of our most prominent and shrewdest
business men are now insured in this
company.
WARNER & SHEPHERD, State Agents,
"a Madison street.
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GOODS.

Our ecru ties, Toe
Balance of our Isle gloves, lOc
Balance of our cotton gloves, DC
5000 yards dress goods at : l0c
80 dozen ladies' kid gloves, SOC
$500 yards Sea Island domestic : SC
1000 dsmask linen towels, 25c
Gold stick fans less than cost.
Elegant article Vineyards wide, iron
frame ~grenadine at 81 so, worth 81 so
Our ecru ties, l0c, l0c, l0e
KAHN l. FREIBERG,
100, 171,I73 Main St., cor. Poplar.
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in clothing and furnishing goods 90 to
the grand closing out sale at No. 227
Main street. l42
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Orders for subscriptions must be accompf
MED by tho Cash, in all cases.
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Now ia the time to subscribe If you desire.
at small cost, to DO kept fully informed OF the
important events Of the Centennial year IA,
GLIDING Local as we'll as National Politics, and
of the changes and progress Of Southern Agrl-
culture and Industrial interests.
ADDRESS
, 1876-10-14

and though we repeat thousand times
that we do not oppose their schools, any
more than we nuorc images, or trust more
i'm the Blessed Virgin than in the merits
Of Christ, they will Il thousand times re,
new the charge and swear that we do
We do not expect to silence such men;
but we appeal to all tuirmindcd citizens
not to lee led ostray by the bigotcd or
ignorant rnting OF men who would
blind them for their own political ends
We ask no favor or privilege, All we
ask is to be let alone in following the
dictates of our conscience, and you can
not refuse this without undermining the
Constitution, and preparing the way for
the loss OF the same freedom Tor your
selves.
Americans we are willing to rally
with YOU under the flag and Constitution,
and maintain them with our blood as VI
have done heretofore. But we cannot
help fearing that both are in peril whilst
a large number OF our fellow.ctizcns in
and out of office, allow themselves to be
influenced by tanatical or sclt-intercstcd
politicians or by infdel and revolutions
ary foreigners, who come to lis with the
proud prctcnson of teaching Us what re.
publican government is, about which
they know nothing themselves. All we
ask is that you will not so to such men
to learn what we aim at, what are our
sentiments. Give us fair hearing, and
receive this declaration as the sincere eX-
preston of our true principles, which we
make before God and men, actuated by
no other motive than our desire for the
welfare and progress and pcrpctuity of
our country, such as the fathers of '76
made it and intended it should remain.
Your sincere friend and lover of tho
American republic,
t JOHN 3. PURCELL,
Arhb&hop Of Cincinnati.
--Cincinnati Telegraph.