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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
PRINCELY WICKeDNEs IL.
A Dit Of Scandal that Has Set All
London TattIIng.


A Dit Of Scandal that Has Set All
London TattIinK.
Lucy Hooper, in the Paris letter
to the Philadelphia Telegraph, gives
the following bit of scandal, which,
she says, has set all London tat
tling:
"The details thereof have only
reached Paris within the last few
days. Possibly, they may not yet
have crossed the Atlantic. OF
course | could not think of giving
them, but will tell You, instead, a
pretty little fairy story,
"Once upon a time a lovely
princess came out of the North to
marry gallant young prince who
was heir to the throne of a great
nation, Now, the gallant young
prince aforesaid was not quite so
steady as his doting mamma and
his future subjects might have
wished, but everybody said, Oh,
the princess is SO beautiful and
gentle that he will be sure to 90 on
right But instead of devoting
himself to his charming wife, who
was so good and gracious that there
never was anything in the world
seen like her, the prince went a
what-you-may-calling after strange
goddesses, and was not a bit better
after his marriage than before. At
last he fell very sick, and everybody
was sorry for him, and the princess
nursed him tenderly, and everybody
said: Nov he will be a better man
forevermore.'
"But, like another poteRtate of a
very hot country, who, when he fell
i'll, resolved to enter "a monastery,
and when he got well renounced all
thoughts of monastic seclusion, the
prince soon went to frOlicking a
little worse than before. And so it
chanced that one day the princess,
his wife, happening to drop in to
pay him visit, found one of the
strange goddesses aforesaid installed
in that innermost shrine, which she
had considered consecrated to her
own image. Whereupon she thought
it would be a good idea to take a
little trip to her brother, who was
king Of the Isles of Poesy, (the
same whore burning Sappho loved
and sungl with intent to journey
onward to her own northern home,
and never, never to come back any
more. So she went away in a very
great hurry, and everybody said |:
why is the princess in such haste
to 60 and see her brother?' How
ever, the trouble was soon found
out. But the poor pretty princess
was not suffered to return to her
own home and take refuge with her
father and mother as wife Of
meaner degree who had been so in
suited might have. For the royal
mamma Of her husband and the
ministers of the court and all 9TH
ers in authority so begged and
prayed and commanded her return
that she came back at last. And
the prince met her at Babylon the
Great, and they were seen at the
theater together and went home
together to the capital where the
princes mamma reigns, and of
course the prince will recommence
the same game at the first oppor-
tunity."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13

There is something frightful TO the
civilized mind in such abortion of
justice, but even when the verdict
is correct and the felon is to suffer
for crime committed, the punish
ments are so truly barbarOus you
sink your detestation of the offense
in your pity for the suffering often
der. The sight of q human being
receiving 200 or 800 blows from a
heavy bamboo, leaving gashes and
flesh beaten to jelly, and finally a
helpless cripple for life, does not
tend to excite your love for your
fellow-man. Kneeling on chains
for many hours, the lash descend
ing at the slightest change of pos
ture; pinching the fingers in vlses
made of split bamboo; entwining
metal tubes about the body and
extremities, in which boiling fluid
is poured, soaring the flesh wher-
ever it touches; wearing a three
feet square, twenty-pound wooden
collar day and night for weeks,
being unable to reach the mouth
with the hand, and exposed to the
gaze of passers-by in the locality Of
the offense; placing in a cage with
the head secured in a collar which
forms the roof, the toes Just touch
ing the ground, and left to die by
starvation and strangulation; be-
heading and cutting into "ten
thousand pieces" are among the
usual punishments Of this enlight-
ann1 rano
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13

A correspondent wants to know,
I" Can a Christian go to the circus?"
Why, yes, he can 90 to the circus
easily enough, but it will cost him
a quarter when he gets there to get
in; that's where the shoe pinches.
You see Christian is always too
proud to carry water for the elc-
plant, and that's where the sinner
has the advantage over him in the
matter Of a free pass.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
A PInckx VIE.

New York Special
The Ingersoll-H Hayes scandal is
again before the public in New
York city. Mr.. Ingersoll had
stabbed Hayes, who is a well.known
local politician. He brought suit
against Hayes for $4,000 damages
for seducing his wife, and yesterday
was in the Office of his lawyer con-
sulting about the case, While there
his vile also came in, and reproached
him for bringing the suit, telling
him that he had lied, will!ully and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
Louisville and Great Southern RR.

Hal pm Night Express Connects tMilan
for st. Louis and Chicago, at Mckenzie for
Nashville, CHATTANOOGA, Atlanta and the
Southeast. at tGuthrie for HoPkinsville, Hem
derson and Evansville, at Louisville for all
points North and East.
lilo pm. Day Express-Conneets fer st.
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North asd East. VI
4:4O pm. Milan Accommodation - Daily
except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
vile, aud on Night train to Nashville.
i For tickets or information, apply at Ticket
Office. 2S7 Main, Northwest corner Madison
JOHN t. FLYNN, Sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
RQIf
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
The N oaques OF constnntlnople.


The MOaques OF COnstRntinOpIe.
G. W. Stoddard's Letter to the San Franci.co
Chronicle.l
There are mosques in Stamboul
that rival st. Sophia in magnitude
and splendor, The Mosque of Su-
LEHMAN is considered one of the
most glorious monuments of Os.
manli architecture. The court fac
ing the entrance is surrounded on
three sides with colonnades, which
are covered with twenty-three
domes. A fountain with cupola
stands in the centre of the court.
The effect is very striking and ele-
CANT. Attached to this mosque are
numerous endowments = three
schools, four academies for the four
sects of the faithful, and another
for the reading of the Koran, a
school Of medicine, kitchen for
the poor, resting-place for travel
ers, a library, fountain, a house of
refuge for strangers and mauso-
leum. Several of the imperial
mosques are as richly endowed.
Mohammedan charity begins at
mosque, and all good Mussulmans
are very much at home in their
houses of prayer. The fourteen
great mosques are built upon the
self-same plan. The mosques meas
ure 225 by 2O5 feet, and are inclos.
ed on the entrance side by a fore
court, and in the rear by a garden
or cemetery. Besides these lmper-
ial mosques there are about 220
Others, built by individuals of infe-
rior rank, and 800 or more chapels,
some of which are chiefly frequent
ed by women The Doves Mosque,
or the Mosque of Bajazet II, in
Stamboul, has for me a special
charm. The building was compile
ted in 1906. The court is exceed
ingly beautiful. You enter by
gates elaborately decorated in ara
besque; the cloister that surrounds
the court is incloSed by range of
commons of porphyry and verde
antique, with capital Of white mar
bic ornamented in arabesque.
In the center of the court is a
marble fountain under a canopy,
and sheltered by a cluster of Gne
trees. As you enter the court, you
hear the roar Of wings, and for a
moment the air is darkened with
the sudden flight of miriads of
doves. These birds-the offspring
Of a pair purchased from poor
woman by Sultan Bajazet, and pre-
sented to the mosque are as sa-
cred as was the ibis of old. AL
grave and reverend fellow, with a |
huge turban. sits under the cloister
and sells grain to the faithful and
the tickle. The former feed the
doves for charity; the latter, for
fun. While the fountain is knee
deep with swarming birds and the
trees clogged with them, and the
caves of the cloister lined, and even
the high galleries Of the slender
minarets not unvisited by these
feathercd dervishes, you throw a |
handful of wheat into the court, |
and, like a thunder cloud, the
whole tribe swoops upon you with |
the rush and roar of a storm. |
They crowd one another, and heap |
themselves t0gether and stand on |
their heads in their eagerness to
get morSel of grain. In mo-
ment some one enters the court, |
and the birds take fight, stirring
the wind in the cloister, and filling |
the air with soft, floating down. II
almost envy the placid pleasure
that the granger in the turban
takes, for his way is easy and his
burden light, and those doves are
cuob 1o1;cl,t tc,1 okc,,,1;k;e.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
MEMPHIS T. lITTLE ROCK R.R.
shrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TINE CARD,

Leaves. Arrives,
Mail train, dsily...........5 20 PIN. ll.SO pm.
Freight train leaves bope-
feId daily(ex ,unaay)7 80 AN. 5 20 p m.
Passengers going on this road will take
villa and rraat ulhern railroad. Mail
trains riake close connection st ATgsn.l Tor
points on the i'te Rock nd Fort Snith
railroad snd at lille Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton isurtal lcr points in Southwest
Arkansas and Tcxas. :,
trains
Far tickets and information sppy at Ticket
offices q and 2s7 Ma street sud at depot
foot of Washington street, or a. Louisville.
Nashville and @ at Southern railtoad depet,
or TO the undersigned
RIA. WILLIh W., Pass A 4, Memphis.
M.S.JAY q. P R.lT Ag't, Little Rock
w +. SMITH snp'i. Memphis Tenn.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
FIFTY OTIS. PER BOTTLE.

VHIS is THE CHEAPEST AND MOST
delightful purgatiye before the public. Is
a delicious beverage. and as pleasant and
sparkling as a glass of soda water. Far supe-
rior to sckening pills. 1t is held in high re-
pute by physicians and surgeons for the
speedy cure of constipation, biliousness,
torpid liver. dyspepsia. loss of appetite,
heartburn, collie, sour stomach, hatulency'
sick headache, kidney affections, etc.
For those who lead sedentary or closely
confined life, and become OF cOnstipated
habit, II acts like q charm. 1t is specially
prepared for the masses; is put up in large
bottles and sold by all druggists at SOC. No
family, no mother, nc one travelling, no close
student, no. sewlng-girl should fail to use il.
Sold BY all Wholesale and retail druggists,
j. p. DR0MG00LE 4 Co., Prop'rs,
s7-xxy-I- Louisville, kentucky.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13

Aildness conquers-and hence it is
that the gentle yet positive influence Of
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup overcomes so
quickly the disorders OF babyhood.
Price 25c tlu
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-13
PUBLIC LEDGER.

TNHE PUBLIC LEDGER Is PUBLISHED
every afternoon Except Sunday at No.
Is Madison street. gi7s7 1T
The PUBLIC LEDGER Is served 10 city subacri-
bers BY faithful carriers at FIFTERN CENTS
PER WEEK, payable weekly to the carriers.
BY mail lin advanced: One year, So: six
months. 81; three months. 50; one month, rs
cents postag@ free, l1 TlF' r
Newsdealers supplied at 2% cents per copy.
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MISSISSIPPI & TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
muxrHIs, TENN, May 70. 1877.

nN AND AFTER SUNDAY. MAY 18TH,
~ 1877. trains will ruA as follows:
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail. daily ...3:OO pm. l:sO pm
Freight and Ac'm dation,
daily Except Sunday ,..;6;S, am 5O 2 N
63-t .H NJ Bb hhEt sup l.
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Weekly Public Ledger,

Published every Tuesday at % per annum (in
ivance). Postage free.
Communications upon subjects Of general
Interest to the public are at all times accept
able.
Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
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0ee a week in your, own town. Terms and
DOU S outfit free. Il. HALLETT 4 co.
Portland, Maine.
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1kkSQrrY Week to Agents. $40 outfit
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OK EXTRA FINE MIXED CARDS, WITH
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QRoQO0 per day at home. Samples worth
0OE0AU t5 tree STiEsoN b Co.. Portland.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-23

sically sui generis. Yank, as we have init
mated, is not even a Pacific Coast Pioneer
He came into Lake Valley: or, rather, he tool
charge of the stage station at his old place or
the Placerville road, in 1859 or 1860, at the
instance of Chorpenning, Prior to that time
he had been a little while in Cuba, overseeing
a cooper-shop or some such industry; and was
as he continues to be, an unmistakable speci-
men of the genus Yankee from the granite
hills of New Hampshire. And yet we find
him described in leading periodical as if he
were half-cracked Missourian, expressing
himself like border ruffan, and in all re-
spects different from any Yankee ever seen at
home or abroad. The New England provin-
cialisms are uncouth and grating, harsh and
Extensively coarse to sensitive ears; but they
are as distinct from the provincialisms of the
West and Southwest as the cawing of crow
is different from the chatter of a magpie We
believe it to be essential that in all writings,
these shades and infections, localisms and
small but decided contrasts should be taken
into account. "The large brown tree" of the
old landscape painters, detected and exposed
by Ruskin, was a product of an age in art
when any picture of a tree was accepted as a
representative of arboreous nature, generally
More modern art, better enlightened, demands
that when tree is represented it shall stand
for one or another of the many genuses or
species of trees known to the Eoodman and the
botanist. Glittering generalities are no longer
admissible. Criticism has banished them.
An equally just and exacting criticism should
be levelled at the slipshod style in descriptive
writing. Just as Boucicault has portrayed in
his Irish characters so should it be carefully |
set forth in all attempts to illustrate Ameri-
can character: There are Americans and |
Americans and tho they be rated as of the
common social level of ''Yanks' and ''Pikes,"
they are as different in texture, in looks, in |
language and in the fashion of their pronun-
citation as Dublin man is from Far -downer
or a Canuck Frenchman from a cultured ma
tive of Paris, We even detect, occasionally,
in the highly artistic workmanship of Bret
Harte and Mark Twain evidences of this care
less treatment, this use of the stock phrases
of the professional comic writer's, regardless
Of their strict and technical application.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-23
THE PRESBYTERIAN PICNIC.

At the picnic at Treadway's park yesterday
there was very attenuated sprikling of joy
less humanity. The affair was one that might
appropriately be termed extraordinarily tame
The picnickers brought no music with them
from Virginia; but the services of the Carson
little girls brass band were called into requi-
sition to stimulate the lethargy which over
took the pleasure hunters, even before they
arrived at the park The fallish sort of wind
which whistled through the foliage all day
long also had much to do with dampening the
drowsy enthusiasm which made frantic efforts,
at times, to exhibit itself. There certainly
could not have been many more than 100
people upon the grounds, and one can imagine
how hfeless the vast area of the park appeared
with only such a handful of picnickers dis
tributed over it. In one corner of the grounds
spiritless game of croquet was being played
at by a few little girls and boys, but the Gus
tomary gayety attendant upon this sport was
manifestly absent; it seemed as if the game
were merely played to while away the leaden
winged hours before the train would carry the
picnickers to their verdureless homes again,
instead of making it source of amusement
A languid sort of indifference or ennui was
plainly imprinted upon the countenances of all
those good people which could scarcely escape
the attention of the most casual observer In |
another corner of the park some of the larger
boys were making futile attempts to amuse
themselves with game of football but no
life nor soul was thrown into the sport. 1t
was a sad and sorry effort Why, even the
ball lacked the proper elasticity to make it
useful. The picnic, as failure, was grand
success. 1t is difficult to determine what IN
known agencies could have combined to pro-
luce such drowsiness among lot of pleas
Ire seekers as was apparent at Treadways
park Yesterday
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-23
PIERCE FATALLY SHOT.

Of the shooting of Pierce by Hayes at Tus
carora the Enterprise of yesterday says: "a
dispatch was last evening received by jim
Orndorff of this city, from Nose Haynes o.
Elko, to the effect that Mr. Pierce of Tusca
rora was evening before last shot five times
and it was thought he would die He was
sho- - n ,5r 3ayes in quarrel about town
lot Pierce is interested with Governor Brad
ley and Professor w Frank Stewart in town
property at Tuscarora. In 1872 Pierce killed
an old man named George Wilson, who was
tending bar for him, in saloon at Carson
City. 1t is said to have been cold blooded
murder, as the man killed was old and feeble,
being almost dead with consumption. Pierce
accused the old man of having taken some
money from the drawer and gambled it off
The old fellow stoutly denied the theft, and
raised his cane, when Pierce shot him down.
The money he was accused of having taken
was afterward found in the old mans boots,
it having slipped through hole in his pocket
without his being aware of the fact For this
Pierce was sent to the State Prison He was
pardoned by Governor Bradley" This last
is mistake. Pierce was not pardoned by
Governor Bradley nor by the Board of Par
dons, whose province it is (and not the Gov
ernor's) to pardon criminals. Pierce was con-
victed of murder in the second degree in the
District Court for this county and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for term of years. He
got new trial on technicality; and then,
under change of venue, he was tried twice
in Douglas county. No verdict following, he
was discharged from custody, the indictment,
we believe, still hanging over him. His very
faithful wife brought him that sympathy and
eniency of feeling which he otherwise would
never have had. Now he seems to have got
lis deserts
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-23
EXAMINATION OF GUM LEE FOR
MURDER.

During the greater part of yesterday the
sidewalks in front and opposite the County
Building swarmed with Celestials, anxiously
waiting to hear how the preliminary examin-
alton of Lum Gee for the murder of All Ping
would result. The prosecution is in the hands
of the District Attorney, assisted by Judge
Harris, and the defense is conducted by
Messrs Wells and Stewart. This case occu-
pied the attention of the Police Court all
day. There was considerable conflicting
evidence adduced Further examination of
witnesses was postponed until 10 o'clock to-
There is much hard feeling between
the companies to which the accused belongs
and of which the murdered boy was a mem
Der. Serious difficulties among the Chinese
may yet arise from the late assassination.
-
A discourse will be delivered by R. D. Rob
erts, in the Court House, this afternoon, at
2 o'clock. Subject: "The Great Milennial
Ezra new thing under the sum-" All low
ers of truth invited
The operations of the Mint are now
principally confined to the execution of SUBJ
idary silver coins, on Government account.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-23
LATEST FROM THE GENOA sUICIDEQ)

A well known citizen of Genoa came in on the
stage last evening, who informs us that futile
the man who threatened to kill himself day
or two ago, has not been heard from since he
| left his home. He had been drinking very
hard for some time past, which fact very
evidently produced melancholy, remorseful
condition of thought. 1t is not generally
thought that he has taken his life Those who
are most intimate with futile, and most famil-
lar with his peculiarities, believe that he has
struck across the country into Bodie or some
other now mining camp with view to better
ing his fortune
A LITTLE Folks PARTY.-Yesterday after
noon the little friends of Miss Eva Read,
aged ten years, gave her surprise party at
Theater Hall. The little people had very
pleasant time of it. There was more candy
and exhibitions of sweet dispositions than are
often encountered at similar gatherings of the
more matured, The young folks express
themselves highly satisfied with their after
Moons entertainment.
Wells, Fargo & Co. received last evening
per southern stage, bars bullion from the
Northern Belle mine, valued at SO, 81, bars
bullion from Columbus, valued at 81, $50,
making total shipment of S12, 256.
Mr.. NJ. S. Campbell, of the Mint, went to
San Francisco last evening, in quest of health
Mr.. Campbell has been ailing for some time
ct oI,,;e ! II C
The Austin Reveille constantly and inces-
sanity harps upon the fact of having the most
proficient Sazaracker in the State connected
with it, Isn't that little Austin tatious2
We learn from one who ought to know that
IS much as $50 profit was realized from the
moonlight party, given by the ladies of the
Episcopal party on Friday night.
Police items are scarce No arrests. All
If which is indicative of the quiescense and
Jhrlstianhke spirit which prevades the
moral atmosphere of this city.
ST. PETERS CHURcH.-Services to-day as
Usual, morning and evening. Rev. S. P.
Kelly will oficiate. Sunday school immedi-
tely after morning service.
NJ. E. CHTRcH.-Rev Mr. Hinkle, of Win
emucca, will preach in the morning. Sub
ect of evening discourse, by the pastor:
Simple Addition"
Services in the Presbyterian Church to-day
II A. NJ. and 7;30 P. NJ. Sabbath school at
2:15 P. NJ
Cap'n Pray was in the city day before yes
erday. He reports his mill closed for the