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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-26
MEMPHIS g. LITTLE ROCK R.R.
slarOt Line to Arkansas and Texas
TIME O6EDi

TBHRE O6 EDs
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily...........5.S0 pm. ll.S0 pm
Freight train daily tex
Passengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville, Nash
Vile and Great S9utherP railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argenta for
points on tho title Rock and Fort Smith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on ell night
kfains
For tickets and information apply at Ticket
Offices q and 2T Main street. and at depot
Xoot Of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railIoad depot,
or to the undersigned
K. A. VILLA Ms. Pass. Aa't, Memphis:
u. S. JAY q. 2. ayd Z. Ag't. Little Rock
w. E. SMITH. eup't, MOmpbis Tenn.
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to dine; be ready at five, sharp"
marketing be ordered from the par
lor, and calls made without leaving
ones room.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.

THE PUBLIC LEDGER is PUBLISHED
l every afternoon Except Sunday at Ne.
l3 Madison street.
The PUBLIC LEDGER is served TO city subscri-
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Equal TO the Crisis.

London World.l
Clubbing the other day with the
Pytchley hounds, pretty Mrs. -
came to grief in a brook, from
which she emerged dripping from
hat to boots. "What am l to do?"
she said piteously to Captain R.,
who, seeing the fall, had ridden to
her assistance. The gallant captain
was a lady-killer and an Irishman.
@ think | must squeeze you," he
said, in his happiest manner.
Thanks" said the little woman,
rising to the occasion, "but L see
my husband coming, and l think
he would do that better than YOU"
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RAILRoApa.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

cCHEDULE ON AND AFTER SEPT. 10,
y 1877;
Mail and Express. daily~ll 5Op.m 5.45p.m
Bonneville accom- dat'n
Time Twenty Minutes TSster IhaE
City time.
SOmeTviIIe train will stOp at reg
nlAr nRd flaG stattOas.
The II. 90 pm. TPatp makes the qnlek-
eSE Ifme ever made TO Chattanooga, Knox
lille. Lynchburg, Washington, and the East,
and will stop at all Regular Stations, and at
Flag Stations when tagged, except Flag Sta
lions between Collieryille and Memphis.
Ticket effice 27S nRtu street and Depot
Mem phis and Charleston railroad.
JOHN A GBANT,
Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
7. S. DAVANI,
81 Assistant General Passenger Agent
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Weekly Public Ledger,

Published every Tuesday at 90 per annum I'm
advanced. Postage free.
Communications upon subjects of general
interest TO the public are at all times accept
able.
Rejected manuscripts WILL Net be returned.
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MISSISSIPPI & TENNESSEE
RAILROAD
@S-'TIHDUKR,

ON and after Wednesday, November II
" 1877, trains viii! run as follows:
Leave. Arrive
Main Train daily.......... $500 pm. 1:O5 p. N
iSardis Accommodation
daily tex. sundays ...-ll:50 am. 9:l5 AN
Freight Train daily lex.
Sundays) ........ ............ 500 am. 400 p. II
CAT NJ. BURKE. Sup't.
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DR. Bulls Cough Syrup has been be.
tore the public for years, aud is pro-
nounced by thousands superior to all
other articles for the cure Of coughs,
colds, influenza and all pulmonary com
plants
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SIX hundred men are employed in the
granite quarries Of Hurricane Isla nd,
Maine, preparing stone for the St. Lo uis
postofhce and custom house.
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the inch
To regular advertisers we offer superior in
ducemeRts, both as o rates Of charges and
manner Of displaying their favors.
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cents per line for each insertion.
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Notices of deaths and marriages, twenty
cents per line.
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tracted and payable on demand.
Ali letters, whether upon business or other
wise, must be addressed to
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Publisher and Proprietor.
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A.'e read By at least
Twenty Thousand PeOpIe
old aad young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.
We desire our business men to mako note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.
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free of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
Using; for many sood people seeing an ad-
III PaPeIs especially their
church paper, take it as a guarantee of ro-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not be-
abused whom it can be helped. We want.
therefore,
The Advertising Patronage
of such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.
Our Terms Shalt be In Harmon
with the business OutiOOa.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18
Decrease in the Rate. of Intere...

For many years State Legislatures have
attempted to fix the rate of Interest, or in
other words regulate the price of money.
The fact, however, that the current rates
remained at from eight to ten per cent. in
States where the legal rate was six per
cent, have led lawmakers in many States
to conclude that despite their generally
admitted powers in many directions, they
had as well leave the matter of the price of
money to the lender and the borrower.
The high rate of interest which pervaded
during the war, and continued until the
crash in 1878, was the result of natural
causes. During the war the government
received currency at par for loans, for
which they gav bonds payable in gold,
with gold interest at 8 per cent. This real
~, for several years, was equivalent to
from 10 to II per cent. OF course other
borrowers were compelled to pay like rates.
After the war, when the premium on gold
declined, there was corresponding de-
cline in the rate Of interest. At that period
railroad companies put their bonds on the
market at prices below par, bearing inter-
est at the rate of even s per cent. All busi-
uCS9 lHNCICSIS anu hlduuldCtuIeIS were
compelled to pay this high rate for the use
of money, and during the flush times OF
the war and the few years Immediately fol-
lowing, were not crushed. When, how
ever, prices began 10 fall and competition
to increase, so that profits were reduced,
they could not pay such rates aud still do
paying business. At the same time some
of the roads that had issued 8 per cent.
bonds ceased paying their interest, their
life blood being already drawn out.
At about this time when business inter-
ests were paying the heavy rates with diff
Guilty, and railroads were dshonoring their
coupons, the government made an effort 10
reduce its rate of interest. 1t found some
difficulty in placing its five per cent. bonds,
but so well does our credit stand, and so
abundant is money In the markets of the
world, that already $40, 600, 900 of the $780,
100000 of four-and-a-half per cent. bonds
have been sold. 1t will not be long ere all
of the bonds bearing this rate of interest
will be disposed Of, when the only remain
ing issue will be those authorized at four
per cent, which will then become the
standard for government loans.
When the government fixes fsur per
cent. as the rate of interest it will pay, and
there is little or no premium on gold, so
that four per cent. will be about the cur
rency rate. the minimum interest for I'M
doubted securities will be established at
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

about that figure. This will be decrease
of about one.half in government bonds
from what they brought from the time they
were issued until about 1873.
The reduction Of the government rate OF
interest not only diminishes the public
burden but its influence in forcing down
the price of money employed in private
enterprises will be far wider aud much
moro important one of the embarrass-
ments under which our manufacturers have
labored, in competing with those of other
countries, has been high rate of interest.
When this is reduced to nearly the stand
ard which the world recognizes, and our
currency, instead Of being iluctualing and
deprecated is the same rs is used by the
commercial world, the country will have
arrived at a basis of permanent prosperity
quite different from the speculative era OF
the war. And one Of the most important
measures in bringing about mole prosper
Gus times will he the reduction Of the ma
tional rate oil interest from what was prac-
tically eight per cent to four per cent
Boston Journal.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

The past winter has been very sey ere up
on the orange trees in some parts of Flori-
da. Mr.. S. B. Parsons, of Flushing, who
has an orange grove, states that during the
extreme cold of December last the Their
mometer went down to Is deg. on the west
side of the river opposite his grove, and
fruit was frozen and young trees destroy
ed. This also happened one hundred miles
south of him, while at his grove the Their
mometer did BOT fall below 81 deg, and
neither fruit nor trees were in the least in
jured. This is attributable solely TO the
act that the grove lies on the southeast of
long stretch of the st. Johns river, and re-
ceives the air tempered by the exhalation
at night from water heated by warm sun
during the day. y grove that has safely
endured such unprecedented cold, and on
which the growth and bearing of the trees
show that it has the true orange soil, has
definite money value. The maximum
produce of an orange tree OF some age is
from 5000 10 1000. This, however, is rare
crop, and 1000 per tree for grove ten years
old is considered 10 be a successful result
100 trees planted on an acre thus producing
| 100, 900 oranges per acre. Mr.. Parsons sold
his crop the past winter at the rate of two
and half cents an orange, the purchaser
pick ing the fruit. a common rate is two
cents each, and this would give an annual
inc ONE of nearly $1,000 per acre. Reduce
the bearing one-half and the price one half
and you have $500 per acre, which he says
is certainly satisfactory. Under proper
care and greater age the produce will be
increased. One of his trees, ten years old,
produced over 1000 fruit, and few years
more age will doubtless double the crop.
The most experienced men, who deal large
ly in foreign fruit, hold a very decided
opinion that the price of Florida oranges
can never go very low, their quality being
so superior that they bring twelve dollars
per barrel, while the West India or Medit-
terranean oranges realize only three dollars
per barrel. Mr.. Parsons thinks we shall
soon ship them largely TO England. The
packing is now so well understood that
they are sent all over The country in the
most severe weather. He attributes the
superiority of the Florida orange to the
fact that the tropical orange blossoms and
bears without cessation, while in Florida
there is always more or less frost, and the
tree has distinct period of rest, bearing
one crop annually, and maturing at the
same time.-Americdn CultiUdtor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

Do not forget the farm garden during the
hurry of Spring work. The space devoted
10 this purpose is the most valuable por-
ton of the farm, not only from the food
supply which il furnishes, but for the COM
forts Of life which it supplies. Now, good
vegetables and fruits in their season are
not only agreeable in themselves, but tend
directly TO preserve the health of the iami-
ly, and make their possessor more content
ed with the farmers lot. Don't fail to have
your few grape vines and currant bushes,
your asparagus bed and your strawberry
plot. Melons grow rapidly in most locali-
ties, require little care, and bear heavily.
A melon at break fast time is luxury not
TO be despised. For the garden, rlow deep
ly, and pillow in your manure, and al the
same time harrow in top dressing. a gar
den cannot well be too fertile, for on this
small field of ground, large crops are TO be
raised, as any one who figures out the pos
sible result will be convinced. For garden
use a compost seems better than raw ma
nure, and well rotted dung seems better
than the first. A small quantity Of COM
mercial fertilizer used in the drills or hills
will be found helpful.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

In the dairying districts more improved
land is devoted to pasturage than to all 9TH
er purposes, and more income is derived
from it annually. Yet there is compare
lively but little done to improve that
branch OF husbandry. 1t is noticeable in
passing through the country that pastures,
as general rule, are growing less Produc-
tive, and the quality of feed poorer, by rea-
son of foul weeds that are increasing In the
soil. Thistles, milkweed, daisies, and
many other unwholesome weeds, OCCUPY
the soil instead of nutritious grasses. To
eradicate them and get clean sward of
grass that will pay for fertilzing, keep
them from seeding for a season, so their
seed will be ploughed under, then Guilt
vate and kill the root and re-seed with a
variety of grasses adapted to the soil. Nov
the first crop of grass, to give the roots a
good spread in the soil before tramping it
by cattle, and keep cattle of in spring till
the grass gets sufficient growth to strength
On and protect its root. 1t will then yield
more fed during the season following than
if kept closely grazed in early spring. If
cattle are turned into large pastures before
there Is iced enough to get their fill, they
rove about and cripple the young grass by
their travel, and acquire thereby restless
habit of rowing which lessons their thrill.
Where the sward is not much engrossed
with foul weeds, many kinds may be de-
stroyed as follows: Daisies, Jehnswort,
and others that are not tap-rooted, are kill
ed at once by pulling of their top and
dropping handful of salt on the root bed.
The milkweed $50 called is easily kept
down by whipping and splitting the leaves
late in August; then the thick sap will flow
so coplOusly from the wounded stalk as to
kill the root. No time of the farmer is bet
Ter employed than in plucking all foul
weeds before they seed for if thoroughly
done in due time it will enable him 10 keep
master of his soil. No practice will more
fully verify the old saying, that one stitch
in time saves nine. Dairy farmers espe-
cially should war against any plant growth
that would injure the quality of milk for
butter and cheese, or lessen the growth of
others that are more desirable. The quail
~ of milk Is varied by the kind of forage
eaten. 1t therefore behooves the milk pro-
Queer to keep clean grass sward for graz
ing with cows Utica Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

SCOT As a GARDEN FERT1L1zER.-Per-
haps 1t may not have occurred 10 some ofour
lady readers that the refuse SCOT OF our
chimneys is one Of the most valuable slim
ulants aud fertilizers they can have for
their garden flowers The following Incl
dent Of practical experience is from lady
contributor to the Rural Carolnian: Dur
ing two seasons We nursed. fed and retted
the Hartford Prolific erapo yine-as much
for its shade over the window as for its
fruit but it persisted in remaining stunt
cd cane, yellow, and refusing to climb.
Despairiug Of shade Of grapes and roses,
we finally bcthought ourselves of SCOT as a
manure, aud forthwith made "soot tea
by stepping tcacup of SCOT in quart OF
water. This we administered, two doses
each, to both the trees and the vine. The
vine grew six feet in height in the space Of
six weeks, the rose bush four feet in the
same length of time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18
a Good Suggestion.

In a communication to the Free Press
Mr.. II. l.. Sowles, of Alburgh, appeals to
the farmers of Vermont to each cultivate
an extra acre or more of land this season.
He says that Of the 100000 acres in this
State devoted to farm crops only about o.,
900 acres are sown to wheat and $4,000 acres
planted to corn, with an average of about
II bushels of wheat and 80 of corn to the
acre; and these crops arc generally more
profitable than oats or buck wheat. The
one or more extra acres, then, should be
given to corn or wheat If each farm in
the State would have two extra acres given
to one or the other Of these crops we would
have $40, 600 extra bushels of wheat or 740,-
900 bushels of corn. These suggestions and
figures are worthy the thoughtful consider
alton of the farming community.
The pending war between Russia and
Turkey will draw on the surplusage of the
American grain market for considerable
amount; and in case the Western powers
become involved, there will necessarily be
a large European deficiency TO be supplied
from this country. The American wheat
product of last year was nearly SOC, 600, 900
bushels 1t has been found that about 20O,-
100000 bushels are annually required for
home consumption, leaving 10000, 900
bushels for expectation. The average wheat
exports usually amount to 60, 000, 900 bush
els yearly, and this could probably be in
creased TO at least S0,0OO,O 900 bushels this
season, if an ordinary crop can be raised.
About IS, 900, 900 bushels of last years sup
ply are yet in this country, waiting for
shipment in the event of a war and an in
creased demand from abroad.
Advices from the department of agrcul-
ture show that the winter wheat yield this
season will undoubtedly be larger than the
average in years past. 1t is thought that
this crop will amount TO 10000, 900 bush
els. No estimate of the spring wheat crop
can yet be made with any certainty, but it
will doubtless be much increased over last
years yield; and if our Vermont farmers
do not wish to pay high prices for flour and
corn, they must contribute something
toward meeting the extra demand from
abroad, and also keeping the prices of our
products within reasonable bounds. At
any rate our Eastern farmers should begin
TO appreciate the necessity of becoming
more independent of those of the West,
and endeavor to produce more of the grain
crops specially required for home consump-
ton,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

CARE OF THE GALA LILY.-A lady says:
keep my lilies growing all Summer, set
out on the ground near my dining room
door, in a somewhat shady place, because l
think them such fine plants to look at l
have not repolted mine in five years, but
every Spring and Autumn dig out some
soil aud put in new, mostly the black, soft.
velVety muck that abounds in our swamps.
let from one to six bulbs live in the same
pot used TO think that only one bulb OF
my Gala or amaryllis must occupy pot.
. From each bulb have four flowers each
season; and treated in this way my Gala
blossoms ten months in the year, or from
September to July inclusive. When re-
pot my amaryllis oflen lose a seasons
fOweringi one that disturbed last Sum-
mer, missed its Autumn Towering, and the
others, not disturbed, gave four stalks oil
gorgeous lily-like flowers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

Why do people so frequently say to DR..
Pierce, 81 suppose your Golden Medical
Discovery cures every thing?" Because il
has been the practice of knavish charlatlns
to manufacture worthless nostrums and at
tempt TO dupe the ignorant and credulOus
by recommending them TO cure every form
of disease. To such an extent has this
been practiced that ii is no wonder that ma
ny have acquired prejudces against all adj
veItse1 remedies. But DIR. Pierce does
not advertise his standard preparations as
"cure.alls," does not claim that they will
perilim miracles, but simply publishes
the tact that they have been developed as
specifics for certain forms of disease for
which he recommends Them, after having
tested their efficacy in many hundred cases
with the most gratifying success. 1t is a
fact known to every well-iniormed physi-
elm that many single remedies possess
several different properties. Quiniue for
instance, has tonic quality, which sug-
gests its nse in cases OF debility; an anti
periodic, 10y which it is ef1icacuus in sgue
and febrifuge property, when renders il
efficacious in cases of fever. The result of
its administration will also vary with the
quantity given and the circumstances I'M
der which il is employed. So likewise, the
Golden Medical Discovery possesses both
pectoral and Alternative, or misunderstanding
properties of the highest order. BY reason
of these two prominent properties it cures
two classes of diseases. First those of the
respiratory organs, as throat, bronchial,
and lung affections, chronic coughs and
asthma and second, diseases Ct the blood
and glandular system, in which affections
all skilful physicians employ alternatives,
as in cases of blotches, eruplions, ulcers,
swellings, tumors, abcesses, and in torpor
of the liver or "biliousness." While its
use is. by its combination of properties,
suggested in cases of pulmonary cons ump-
ton, yet you need not take it expecting it
will cure you if your lungs are half con-
sumed, nor because il is recommended as
blood medicine would its proprietor ad-
wise you to take il expecting 1t to cure can
Ger. II will not perform miracles, but 1t
will cure many grave forms of disease.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

The first and the best is a suspended
looking-glass. Take two small cheap mir
rois, fasten them back to back, attach
cord 10 one angle, and hang them to an
elastic pole. When the glass swings, the
suns rays are reflected all over the field,
even If ii be a large one, and even the old
est and bravest of crows will depart precip-
itately should one of its lightning flashes
fall on him. The second plan, although
terror to crows, is especially well suited to
fields subject TO the inroads of small birds,
and even chickens. 1t involves an artit-
cial hawk made from big potato and long
goose and turkey feathers. The maker can
exercise his initiative skill in sticking the
feathers into the potato So that they resem-
BILE the spread wings and tail of the hawk.
1t is astonishing what lerociouslookin
bird of prey can be constructed from the
above simple material. 1t only remains TO
hang the object from tall, bent pole, and
the wind will do the rest. The bird will
make swoops and dashes in the most head
long and threatening manner. Even the
most inqustive of venerable hens have
been known to hurry rapidly from its dan
gerous vicinity, while to small birds it car
ries unmixed dismay Scientific american
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-18

d. {. BoYDEN, of Waitsheld, says that
the'most successful mode of destroying the
early potato beetles, soon after they come
out of the ground, is to place small pots-
toes or potato parings near where potatoes
we're planted Last year, and near where po-
tatoes are to be planted this year, and dust
them with Paris green. The beetles that
would, few days later, lay large num-
Der OF eggs, will readily fluid them, and
win be destroyed. BY slightly bruising
the potatoes every day or two, the beetles
will be more readily attracted.