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Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-11-22
ESTRAY NOTICE.

Came to my ranch, 4 miles below the mouth Of
Prickly Pear Canyon, on the Missouri river. in
Meagher County, one Blue Roam Mare, about 7
same will prove property according to law, pay for
this advertisement and take her away.
47-3w j. +. WkhNER.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
THOSE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.

Ex-Governor Neill s.. Brown has writ.
ten an able and ingenious letter in favor
Of compromising the State debt accord.
ing to the dictAtion Of the b~ondholders
and Governor Porter. A correspondent
of the Banner writes:
! wish to learn something of the gov
ernor. he says: widows and orphans
scattered all over the State have their
pittaGce invested in these bonds, by or.
der of the courts, under the laws Of the
State. Many children need this little in.
heritsnce to clothe and educate them,
and old age wants it to prop aud sustain
declining years"
Now, what | want to know is this, does
the proposition for settlement at sixty
cents on the dollar come from the "gid.
ow and the orphan2" Will the governor
please snswer2 If it does l confess it is
new to me. / had thought the call as a
proposition came from a few spectators
in our bonds who could we'll afford to
take sixty cents on the dollar. Now, if
| am right, / want to know if Governor
Brown is willing to scale the little or
phan's bond forty cents to meet the
views Of a few specializing bondholdsrs?
Is be willing to see "old age" robbed Of
forty cents on the dollar to satisfy q syn
dicate? If he is l am free to say l am
mistaken 10 the man, that is all.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
American Ar,is,.i IN ParI..

Paris Cor. Boston JOurnal.l
w. l. Shepard, the amilble and tai.
ented Southern artist, whose negro
sketches are famous throughout our
country, is staying in Paris for some
weeks. Shepard is a genius in his par
ticular line; aud his study here will
doubtless give him many new ideas. Mr..
Sargent of Philadelphia, the young art
ist who had 30 many honors at the last
Paris Salon, is still studying here. he
is very young, aud gives great promise.
Mr.. Frank Millet, we'll known in Boston,
is still campaigning in Bulgaria for the
London Daily News, and likewise
sketches for the English illustrated press,
Mr.. Millet has been ia great favorite
with the Russians, and l think he is the
only correspondent who will be able to
tell any connected story concerning
Zimmermsn's campaign in the Dobrodja.
Mr.. Wilbur Woodland, a young American
artist who has resided here some time,
has been appointed in charge of two
Paris illustrated papers, which is a trib
ute to real talent. Private theatricals
are the rage this season among the
American young ladies residing here,
and fancy we coHld send you home a
company Of which you would not be at
sll ashamed. These amateurs Certainly
have excellent models TO study from.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
THE DARKY's DECLINE,
whisky, Social Corruption, aud Eg.
Fast Using Up 1he Col.
OFed Race.

whisky, Social Corruption, aud Eg.
Fast Using Up fhe Col
OFed Race.
Nashville Cor. Chicago Times.l
II may be readily acknowledged, with
abundance OF proof 10 sustain the allega.
ton, that the negro race, since omanci.
patton, has made rapid strides from a
state of Standardization to that of at least
g common state of civilization. A class
Of them, few in number, have reached a
high state Of intellectual cultivation
Every opportunity has been afforded
in the shape Of free schools, and
a large majority have taken ed.
vantage of them. When Frederick
Douglass was here some four years
age he gave the negroes some solid ad-
vice, for which, however, they did not
thank him. He told them that he had
no hope for the future of the present
generation Of blacks. His only hope was
in the rising generation, and even with il
there would be a desperate struggle for
an elevation which would be lasting
His words we're those Of a philosopher
The present generation are passing rap
idly away. Nearly one third the popu-
lation of Nashville, for instance, are
negroes, and yet the reports of the board
OF health show that over two negroes die
to every white person.
This steady death rate Of the blacks
has become apparent as one walks along
the streets. BE sees far less descendants
Of Ham than when the proclamation Of
emancipation proclaimed their freedom.
Death has been blowing deep burrows in
their ranks. They do not only die from
natural causes. Quite a number of them
murder their infants, aud thus min the
race in the bud. Dead colored infants
are often found out in the
Some of them are found wrapped in an
old WORKOUT guilt and left TO die; others
are crowded into a cigar-box and buried
just below the surface of the earth.
" Hundreds" said a doctor to me, "art
murdered, Of whom no account is ever
given. Sometimes it is unintenional.
An infant, TO many colored women, il
looked upon as a burden. If these ia
not throw them into the open commons
or the river, they kill them with slow
poison. The child grows maturely old
and hsggard, sinks away under the NAL
administration Of %paragoric and lauda
nun, which are made to serve the place
Of a nurse, and then takes its final sleep
A funeral, perhaps, may cover up thu
damning deed, but they seldom 20 IA
this trouble. The death is taken fol
granted; the body is put up in a soap OF
herring box, buried, and forgotten"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
society Customs In Washington.
Atlantic Monthly.

Il is proper to allude to one or two
customs Of the place which may be con,
sidered to illustrate the simplicity" of
the society, or the reverse. The rule in
Washington is that ell strangers pay
visits irst-s rule which, like most So
cial rules, ia observed with strietnsss by
foreigners, and considerable lsxity by ma.
tives. Not only this, but it is to a certain
extent de rigueur for all the Washington
magnates to return visits 10y leaving a
card on all persons, known or unknown,
who call on them. For instance, the
wife Of the smallest tradesman in Wash.
ington takes it into her head that she
would like to have the acquaintance of
the wife of the secretary of state, all that
is necessary for her to do lie, after secur-
leg some passable costume dressing
in Washington need not be what it
must in Paris or New York., to present
herself on the regular day at the sec
rstarys house. She will be admitted,
will pay her respects, and the next day
she will have the satisfaction of having
left at her own door by the Official foot
man a card bearing the official in.
scription, The Secretary Of State"
Now, this tends to great complica.
ton rather than simplicity, and If
il could be given up would make
life for the wives OF high officials more
cndurable An attempt was made during
the last administration to break it up,
but, like one OF two other more serious
reforms undertaken at that time, the at
tempt failed. The existence of such a
custom tends to make society altogether
too easy of an entrance, and to foist upon
it gradually many characters, whom. if
/ left TO itself, it would not recognize. II
exists nowhere but in Washington, and
would not be tolerated for q moment any.
where else. Il is, of course, regarded by
everybody as very democratic" and so
it is; but it must be confessed that when
democratic principles are carried 30 far
as to permit atraDgers to force their &C
quaintance upon people who do not care
for it, it is risking a good deal for the
sake Of political consistency. The Gus.
tom is like that tabled to prevail along
the Western frontier, which entitled any
member Of the community to force a
stranger to drink with him or be shot.
No such custom could prevail in a 90.
ciety which aimed at being exclusive"
and il a fault may be found with society
at Washington, II is that of not baing
exclusive enough.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
T%ELEGRAPHIC X
STOCKS AND BONDS.

LONDON, December |, 2 p.m.-Consols
for money, 955; on account. 81 SIG;
United States new four-and.a.halis, l04k;
United States 6ve-twenties Of 1865, lO4l;
United STATES ive-twenties Of 1867, 1921;
United States ten-forties, 1881; new 6ves,
lO7; Erie, lot.
New York, December l, ll:5O am
United States skies of 1881, llOA@IlOa;
United States skies Of 1881, coupons,
l075@lll; new four-and.a-halfs, l043@
lO44; coupons, lO43@lO4a; 6ve-twenties
of 1865, new issue, lO68@lO63; fve-twen.
ties of 1867, lO9f@lO98; fve.twenties Of
1868, coupons, = Gill; ten.forties,
OS5@lO8f; ten-fortios, coupons, l083@
1888; currency Eixes, ll9@l2O; new
fves, lO7@lO7B.
The following is the weekly bank state
ment: Loans, increase, 5000, 800; spe-
Gle, decrease, 800; legal tenders,
increase, s630, 500; deposits, increase,
$726,6OO; circulation, increase, $780,;
reserve, decrease, 1894, $50.
BREADsrUFFs.
LIyEEPooL, December Wheat, win
ter, lOs9d@lls6d; Milwaukee red, los Cd
oils Cd; California white, Us Ida
rs lid; California club, l2s 9d@l3s Sd.
Germ. 29s d@2 3D.. Pork, new, SIC Cd.
Beef, new, els Cd. Bacon, long clear,
39s Cd; short clear, 4os Cd. Lard, 43s Cd.
Tallow. 4Os Od@4Os Sd.
CHICAGO, December l, 1880 a.m.-
Wheat active at l Oh for December; l OSa
for January. Corn is steady at 42k@42a
for December; 4l@4lt for January;
435@43i for May. Pork steadier, IL So
oil 874 for January. Lard is quiet at
I SO@7 823 for January. Receipts
Flour, l478; wheat, s4.282; corn, lOl, 636.
Shipments-Flour, 6 ,O49; wheat, 49,.
549; corn, 5528.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
THE KNIGHTS OF pYrHlAs.
a New and Important Feature of
the observation-disclosures of an
Endowment Rank.

a New and Important Feature of
ths observation-disclosures of an
Endowment Rank.
Nashville American. S0th.l
At the last session OF the Supreme
Lodge OF the Knights of Pythias, held 10
Cleveland, Ohio, in August Of this year,
a fourth or higher rank was added to
the order, to be known as the endow
ment rank, and embracing the endow.
ment feature, by which q stipulated sum
shall be paid to the family OF a deceased
member, by an equal assessment upon
all the members Of the rank. This rank
is entirely separate and distinct from the
other ranks Of the order; has its own
ritual and officers, and is composed ex.
elusively Of Knights of Pythias who are
in good standing in their respective
lodges.
The members of this rank consist Of
two classes, designated as first class and
second class. Any member of the rank
may belong to either or both classes, but
no member can hold two memberships
in the same class. Until the member
ships shall reach one thousand in the
first class and two thousand in the sec
oud class the benefit to be paid in either
upou the death Of q member is one dol
lar for each and every surviving mem
Der; thereafter, one thousand dollars is
to be the maximum benefit in the first
class and two thousand dollars in the
second class.
Considerable delay has been incurred
in the preparation Of the printed forms,
etc, for the proper working OF the new
rank, so that it has only been p.omul-
gated by the Supreme Lodge officers dur
ing the present month. 1t is thought
that within sixty days the membership Of
the rank will be such as to insure the
maximum benefits to both classes,
A section of the endowment rank was
instituted in this city, ia the Castle Hall
OF Myrtle Lodge No. ;, K. OF P, Wednes-
day night by W. B. Thompson, supreme
representative from Tennessee. The fol-
lowing officers we're elected andinstalled:
W. B. Thompson, president; 3. Lanier,
vice president; A. j. Wheeler, chaplain;
john S. Cullinan, secretary aud treasu-
rer; George j. Goodrich, guide; H. b.
GTubbs, guard; Gervas Sieferle, sentinel.
DR.. Charles Mitchell was also elected
as medical examiner.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
Janauschek as a LIngulst.


SlnclhndIE nqulrer.l
The other morning we were chatting
with Madame Janauschek, and the con.
versation turned on the subject of Ian.
guages. you know" said she, lam
a Bohemian, and did not learn German
until | was quite q young lady. I had
to learn it to act, and / mastered it thor.
ougnly IN about q year. In Vienna /
learned Italian aud French, and when in
st. Petersburg acted in French But.
although pressed to do so. | never played
in Paris in French, for ! was afraid Of
my accent. | am sorry for it now, for
every one says | speak it Auently. AS
TO my English, | began that FIVE years
ago. When | arrived in America
did not know five words Of your Ian
guage. Some one, Mt. Daily, |
think, observed to me that il | could
speak English | should DO very success.
fol. determined to do 90, and sacri.
heed an entire year to the study.
went into the country, took four PROBES.
eors-one for reading, D for grammar,
oRe for pronunciation and another to 20
over my roles with mo. / studied twelve
and fifteen hours a day. | have read all
the best English works; | know Shak.
speare by heart, Dickens, T~haekerey
Bulwer, Charlotte Bronte, Hawthorne,
Poe. | read necessarily all kinds Of
books, in ell mauner OF languages.
Reading at night has nearly ruined my
sight, aud | am as blind as e bat Never
mind, reading may do you harm in one
way, but it will serve yoe in another. Mr.
Lohgtellow was very polite to nae IN Boz
ton, ard much pleased with my BruDhilde
| visited him at Cambridge, and had a mics
chat with him. / wigh young ladies' ant
gentlemen who embark 10 the profes
sional career would study all kinds 0
things - general literature, languages
mpsie and OF. They viii neger 90 any
thing unless they do so, and there Ia
great deal Of artistic ability aud impulse
in this country. but II runs to seed fol
want Of training You see 10 Europe WI
have such dnA sehnolino q ous AT nm,
then when you become known YOU cal
mig With ARTISTIC society, and beeOmI
saturated With art. II people who 20 OF
the stage we're more serious and bette
students they would not have half Tn.
t. temptation and trouble they have nov
Az any rate they would have something
10 talk about beside their dress s an,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
H WRONG NAN hung.
NumfOrd Not Ihe Man who Pulled
Down tue Flag on the NeH Or.
leans Mint.
Galveston News.l

HunAOFu MOI the mah VINO FuiiSu
Down Flag on the New Or
Galveston News.l
In q casual talk with Professor B W.
Burgess yesterday, he gave to a News
reporter the following startling disclosure
as one Of the adventures Of his somewhat
eventful life:
During the time General B. T. Batter
vas in possession of New Orleans, it will
be remembered what a great feeling of
excitement and indignation was caused
by the hanging of Mumford for pulling a
Usited States flag down from a staff on
the New Orleans mint.
Professor Burgess states that be was
the person who pulled the flag from the
staff and passed it 70 Captain Oliver
Canton, Of the lower Mississippi river
coast packet Isabel, who, the professor
says. is ready to c~orroborate this account
Of the affair. Mumford wss on the roof
Of the mint at the tine, with a crowd OF
men and boys, and iii is believed received
the flag from Canton.
Professor Burgess says q young man
named Adolph Harper has bsen accorded
the credit for first taking hold OF the flag.
aud in the history of H. W. Allen, by
Mr.. Dorsey, where reference IS made IA
a lad fifteen years Of age as the one who
got the flag, Mr.. Harper was the person
bad in view. The Professor was about
hls v age at tue time Of the great in.
cident that has gone down to history, aud
young Harper was iodeed Que Of the
party.
Professor Burgess was wise in keeping
his own counsel On the subject till now.
as the News is the first TO receive ID,
above particulars from him.
General Butler, please take notice
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
Borrowing a senator.

Washington Cor. Boston Journal (Rep.)
South Carolina has at present out one
senator, Mr.. Patterson, and he is not re,
cognized az such by the white liners Of
the Palmetto State. They send all Of
their petitions, claims, requests for office
AID other business before congress and
the departments to General Gordon, OF
Georgia, who is one of the most ultra
believers in the Lost Cause" and the
principles which it embodied. Aside
from these heretical political views, Gen.
ersl Gordon is one of the ablest and
most useful Of senators. Indeed, it may
be said Of him, that be is the best of ths
soldier legislators among the many now
in congress who wore the blue or "the
gray" BE has thoroughly mastered the
red-tape routine which is so prevalent
here, aud cuts the knots with the sam
elan that used to characterize his mill.
lsry movements 1t is not to be won
cered at that the South Carolinians. in
selecting a senator by brevet to look
after their interests, took the senator
from Georgia.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
secret service.

WASHINGTON, December Assistant
Secretary Mccormick. General Green B.
Rsum and Solicitor Rsynor, of the
treasury department, the commission APP
pointed by Secretary Sherman to inves-
tigate the operations of the secret service
division, will make their report imme.
distely. They recommend no radical
change in the division, concede the value
of the division and pay high tribute to
the improved morale of the secret service
under the present management.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01

can designate conditions as to how thai
subject shall be considered, the best thing
that can be done is to adjourn sine die
and the sooner this we're done the better
We see that the Nashville American con
tends hat the legislature is to meet fol
the purpose of adjusting the State debt
and that the governor has no constitu'
tional right to restrict the members to
any enc proposition in considering that
question. The governor can recommend,
but he cannot dictate measures Of legis.
lation to the general assembly, The leg
~islative and executive are CO ordi-
nate departments of the State govern
ment, and the constitution prescribes
the limit of authority of both.
A correspondent of the Knoxville
Chronicle says:
The adjustment or compromise of the
bonded Indebtedness is a specific SUD.
ject matter for the consideration of the
legislature when convened.
Suppose Governor Porter had con-
vered the legislature to adjust or com.
promise the bonded Indebtedness of the
State according to such terms as have
already been offered or may be offered
and accepted by the two parties during
their session. In U opinion this would
be strictly according to the constitution
And we contend Gov. Porter, although
he may have attempted to do so, has no
right or power to gag members Of the
legislature, and confne them to any one
proposition that he may select to adjust
or compromise the States bonded debt
Bat having mentioned the adjustment
of the State Indebtedness, the legisla-
ture would have the right to accept Of
any terms they could obtain. But,
the governor having in bis proclamation
very significantly told the b%oudholders
he thought they ought to have sixty cents
on the dollar, we suppose it would now
be impossible for the legislature to make
any other bargain. From all we can IN.
derstand, we think it probable q majority
Of our people were in favor Of fifty cents
and that this might have been agreed
upon if the governor had not lorestalled
the legislature by approving the sixty
cents and inducing members of congress
and other prominent persons to sustain
him in this position.
Since the adjournment Of the legisla-
ture, if we mistake not, Tennessee bonds
have been selling at forty.three cents to
the dollar, and, no doubt, large amounts
have been bought up at this or near this
price. II, then, these spectators should
get sixty cents on the dollar they will
make from seventeen to twenty-five per
on their purchases. This is quite a hand.
some profit.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01

Hartford Post.l
A gentleman acting as private seore.
iary Of q cabinet minister took exception
10 aome heavy wording Of q letter he was
writing from dietation, saying he knew
the party TO whom it was addressed
and that the language used would
be m%isconstrued. De was ordered
to write as directed, and the letter vas
sent AS feared its language was mis-
understood, and a reply decidedly gharp
aud Saucy came back. He took il TO his
chief, calling attention to the fact that
be had suggested y different wording from
that which had occasioned such a reply.
He was Immediately asked for bis
resignation, prefaced with the remark,
You know too damned much for me-.
Soon after be succeeded in obtaining
employment 10 2 subordinate capacity,
az book-keeper IN another department.
While at bis desk a gentleman stopped
at the door opening into the ball near
him, and the following colloquy e..
CURED:
Where is the secretary Officer"
don't knOw, cir"
In ghet direction is the White
II don't know"
Where is the capitolY'
don't know"
What DO you know p
was turned opt Of office last week
for knowing too much. Nov | am IN
Rgaio, ! know nothing outside OF M
books you see here-not il / know
myself"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
Indians Waiting Warrington,

WASHINGTON, December IA dslega'
ton Of Fox Indians have arrived here
Unexpectedly and without the consent 81
their agent. They had an interview with
the secretary Of the interior, asking pay
ment Of their board, but we're informed
that as they left their reservation with
out permission they would have to use
their own means. They replied that they
would. The secretary inquired their
business, and the Indians answered they
would tell that to the Great Father. 1t
is understood that they want pay for
former lands in Kansas.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
Selecting seed Corn.

II is not too late yet to 20 through the
seld end select the best matured ears for
seed The ears beat filed out should
always be taken for seed. 1t is lust az
important to have well.rounded np eers
for seed ash is to have well.formed siock
70 breed from. The ears thus selected
gsoqld be put 10 a dry place till thor
ppgliy dried 4gt epd then they may Be
stored away ih Bulk. 4 llttls Of lhs
S1erk IN season, sometimes, nay ir5
qnently save . deal Of vexatlon, delay
and loss when the crop seds6h retgrns,
C9In is generally sound aud we'll ma
tpred inls season, and Il will not be hard
TO make good selections Of ears for seed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01

their ~neighbor's doings. l hate gossip
aud / like study. Ii there a nothing
left for me to study | should have to in,
vent something" We make no common
on the above words Of the great actress
whose scholarly attachments are so well
known that what abe says is no idle
boast. but a positive fact. Nine Jan
ausohek speaks English in private life,
il anything more huently, but less dis
tinctly, than on the stage.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01

~S
New YORK Graphic.l

new 1Ork 6raphlc.l
Several hundred babies all in a row.
will make their FIRST appearance at The
baby show. When the babes are hungry
they'll begin to sing, and you shall have
your moneys worth Of baby cry and din.
There we're some old women who got out
OF shoes, who had 50 many children they
couldn't pay their dues, so they packed
up their babies and vowed they would
30. To the city of Gotham and hold a
baby show. He would not rank among
his list Of friends, though grseed with
polished manners and fine sense, the
man who heedlessly set foot upon a babe
WHICH cra|ls at evening in the public
path. Canes and umbrellas will not be
alleged IN the coming baby shows in the
hands OF careless people 10 poke out
infants eyes with. The little animals.
We hear, will be fed daily at two O. clock
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
indications.

WASHINGTON, December For Ten
nessee and the Ohio valley falling bar
ometer, winds backing to soathwesterly
and sou~theasterly, warmer, clear or partly
cloudy weather.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
RiEer T~eIesrnrnr.

CINCINNATI, December River fall.
ing; light snow.
CAIRO, December l.-Arrived-C. R
Peck, st. Louis, 9 am; City of Chester,
Memphis, 10. DepArted-Lillie, south,
6 q n. Clear aud cold.