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COCO A month. Agents Wanted on
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STORY OF CHARLEY ROSS

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CONSUMPTION

DY SP EPSIA w Z
CURE. Liver and Kid
neycomplaintsare eTec-
tually reached by Oxy-
genated Air.
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Bronchitis
Asst H NJ A !

wEGUARANTEE TO
CURE Coughs, Colds,
Diptheria, Pneumon n
Neuralgia, and nearly all
other severe attacks
whom all other remedies
fail.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
or drawing blood, with
very little or no pain.
Any person troubled
withCancerandTu mors
will please write for tes-
timonials &c, from pa
tlents cured. We war
rant a perfect cure.
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FOREIGN.

LONDON, April l4.-Ths Times CORE
spondent at C%ettiuie represents that the
Turkish army has been able TO enter the
country Of Miridites. Fighting, so far,
has been confined to the territory Of
Satirima. The losses have been small
on both sides. a movement of the
Turks is expected toward Gozausko,
which fortress needs provisions.
Turkish aad Russian securities have
reached the lowest paiut touched since
the outbreak of the insurrection. Rus
sian we're four per cent. lower on the
day.
Turkeys quarrel with the Miridites is
owing to their refusal to furnish the
usual contingent for war against Mon.
tsnegro.
PARIs, April l4-There was a thor
ough panic on the bourse shortly after
opening to-day, but a q%uieter feeling
prevails nov.
A St. Petersburg telegram says: Wa
is regarded in official circles as inevita
BILE, but Russian military measures d.
not indicate an immediate opening o
the campaign. 1t is nov believed Austrii
will make an effort at ~pacifcation, bu
success ia not thought probable"
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The JoaoBnltcs.
San Franeiseo Post, March 81

San Francisco Fost, March 2s.l
From the fact that the Mormons ar.
rived in this city in large numbers as
aarly as 10 l647-came here by the ship
load-and made California an important
missionary field ever since the Pacific
sosst was acquired BY the United States,
it is not surprising that the execution OF
John d Lee and his confession should
have awakened more than ordinary inter-
eat among our citizsna. The truth is
there are quite a number Of Mormons in
California, Nevada and Oregon, and
some few disciples in Washington Terri
tory, ard two or three times as many
thousands Of persons who have at one
time or another been M0rmons, lived in
Utah and apostatizod from the faith,
abandoning it altogether and associating
themselves with Christian societies where
they reside. These "apostates," as they
are called, as soon as ever they lost faith
in Brigham invariably sought to fee
from his rule. jained Gentle trains pass,
ing through Uteh, aud coming west have
scattered all over the coast, The only
organized bedy OF these, however, IL
known here as the "Reorganized
Church Of the Inter Day Saints, and
its members profess allegiance to JOSEPH
Smith, the eldest son Of their "martyrea
prophet, and founder Of their system
In San Francisco they are not numerous
but they are respectable, good citizens
eschewing all the vagsries Of ~polygamy
and deneuncing the doctrines of blood
stoning," milking the Gentiles,
" blind obedience" to the l" priesthood,
and the other kindred teachings tina.
have made Utah a veritable inquisitior
and pandemonium. Their members ART
quite large in San BarnGrdino county
Of this State, and 0rmsby county, O
Nevada, and they have little patches 0
di' ciplsg in nearly every county in thr
States and Territories of the Pacific
The present headquarters Of the new
organization is at Plano, Ill where thei
young prophet resides; but they adherI
10 their original faith, and are moviuI
back again into Missouri, where they ez
pected to build up their New Jerusalem
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THE LOUISIANA sIruAr1oH.

Packard dies hard. In fact it is
not altogether a settled fact that he
will die at all for the present. AS
a cGrpet-bag corpse he guarantees
well and may live for months. The
commission has been holding a sort
Of ante-mortem inquest, to ascer-
tain which will die first, Nichols
or Packard. The chances are about
even, if the commission act any
thing like fair. The members have
telegraphed to Washington for in
structions. They want to know
which to snuff out, but as Hayes is
not a candidate for reelection, and
sent the commission down to settle
the question, he viii probably save
himself the trouble of deciding for
them. Heis a slow man, and in that
probably lies his chief recommen-
dation. 1t took him over a month
to remove a company Of troops
from a State-house where Trey
never had any business. 1t will
take perhaps another month to de-
eide the Louisiana question. The
fact is, Hayes is a timid man when
not on the side Of the majority
For a while he was afraid of hi:
own presidential shadow, but he il
getting used to it, and survives the
proclamation of Chamberlain al
well as the cuss words of Senator
John James Patterson. If he haC
a few more States to practice on,
and could once get his hand fairly
in, he might in time become the
great American carpet-bag smasher
When a slow man gets started there
is no telling sometimes where b,
will stop. Caesar never hesitatet
any more after he crossed the Ru
bicon. Mr.. Hayes has a magni6
cent opportunity. If he will set u
Nichols and do a few other littlO
things, we will agree to fad lots D
Democrats who will exclaim, in tn.
language of Mulberry Sellers, g.
am reconstructed. / have shool
hands across the bloody chasm.
am fer the old flag and-an apprC
priation."
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A PRAYER TEST.

Governor Pilsbury, of Minnesota,
has set apart the 26th of April as a
day Of prayer for the destruction
Of the grasshoppers. Should the
aforesaid hoppergrass take wings
and three days rations in the mean
time, and emigrate during a strong
wind, the people can turn it into a
day Of thanksgiving and claim a
credit of one when Hayes issues
his first Thanksgiving PROCLAMATION.
It is becoming in all people to
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humble themselves in times of ca
lamity, and at all times to feel their
~helplessness and littleness in the
presence of the great Creator who
made and directs all things. Yet
it seems a poor tribute to Deity
to make such concessions only
in times of peril and distress,
and then forget all about it
until reminded by some other trial.
Take the people of Minnesota, for
instance, and they compare fayora,
bly, with the people Of other States /:
as long as the grasshopper winged
its fight in upper regions of the
air and journeyed south to Iowa,
Kansas or Missouri without alight-
ing on their broad, fertile prairies,
theylooked upon it as the workings
of an ordinary law Of nature, and
only said their prayers about once
a day. But when the plague comes
down as upon the ancient Egyp-
tlans, enters their houses, honey
combs their gardens, takes in their
early strawberries, nips the buds on
their stunted apple trees and cuts
off their crops, they say their
prayers from three to five times a
day, and offer to spend a whole day
in that manner if the Lord will
only reverse the laws Of nature and
remove the awful grasshopper to
some other State. 1.-THE eggs were
destroyed by the severe cold weather
of the winter, or if the grasshopper
gets big enough to fly by the goth
of April, which is even more doubt
full, and a strong wind blowing
where it listeth should sweep
over Minnesota, the people will
be spared the threatened calamity.
This may be delicate ground for a
secular newspaper, but we are free
to express the opinion that people
who go to bed seven nights in the
week without thanking the Author
Of their being for all the mercies
Of the day, and while appearing to
listen to prayers at church are
really thinking of a horse-trade
they expect to make the next week,
or Of a new dress and its owner in
the next seat, presume considerably
when they expect to be delivered by
a special providence every time they
get into a little trouble. The bible
says "The prayers of the righteous
availeth much" But we under
stand the righteous to be those who
are devout, sincere and humble all
the year around, and never attempt
to deceive themselves, their neigh
bors, or their Maker.
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SUPREME COURT.
Proceedings at jackson, Fem.
Special to the Ledser.l

Proceedings At jackson, Tenn.
Special to the Ledser.l
JACKSON, April l4-The following
cases were decided to-day: The city Of
Memphis VS.. Grieshs5er; McGrath VS..
McGrath; Page VS.. German National
Bank; Anderson vs. Ssllars; Sullivan
vs.. Memphis aud Charleston railroad;
Grifing vs.. Carver; Harding vs.. Ward;
Sigler VS.. Bolton, affirmed; Weaver vs.
Selden, affirmed and bill dismissed as to
Sslden, but judgment against Ventress;
Merriman VS.. Canovan, modified and de-
PENDANTS set-of allowed; Luke E Wright,
Encouragement, VS.. Shelby county, re-
versed aad judgment rendered here for
The proper amount of attorney-generaIs
fees in each case. TIE commission will
proceed with a peremptory call Of the
Shelby law docket on Monday, and dis.
pose Of the cases as reached, No case
will be continued or passed on account
Of absence Of counsel.
The Supreme Court will take up The
Shelby criminal docket on Monday and
as soon as that is disposed of will re
sumo the Shelby %csaucery docket.
The easy docket for Shelby county and
all the circuits will be called on the 18th
of May, After the call Of the easy doekeI
the court will take up the fourteenth cir
cult aud then the twelfth circuit.
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The board Of finance Of the
Centennial exhibition has in bank
$2,35O,OOO. The late decision Of
the Supreme Court of the United
States that a million and a half
must be paid back to the federal
government will still leave $S50,OO0
in the treasury. The patriotic
Philadelphiaps are greatly aggra'
waited and enraged because the gov
eminent does not devote this mil
lion and a half toward the grand
scheme Of establishing a perma.
nent exhibition, which was organ
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son and Green. If he is a chip of the
old block he will be mighty hard to ham
die. But he's no tailor.
KILLED.-A mar named Lahif was
killed at a dancing party in Pinch"
the upper part Of Memphis, on Friday
night last. He was stabbed twice, once
in the middle of the breast and once
over the pit Of the stomach One OF the
wounds penetrated his heart, and he
died Immediately.
DECLINES Colonel t. j. Fipnie, in a
card published in Fridays issue OF the
Avalanche, declines to allow the use Of
his name in q canvass for mayor Of
Memphis.
The News copies very freely from the
Memphis aud other Tennessee papers.
The above items are given as specimens,
Over half the men named in the paper
have passed away. Some yet remain
one prominently before the public. The
changes, however, are much greater
than one would be likely to expect. To
read such an old paper is very suggestive
of mortality and the uncertainty OF per-
manent success, especially in political
life
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River Tefegrams.

CAIRO, April l4.-Arrived Simpson
Horror, Pittsourg, 10 pm; Coal City
aud Glencoe, New Orleans, 2 a N; Cbes.
ter, Memphis, 4; Hillman, Nashville, 6;
Cherokee, New Orleans, I, Departed
Colorado, V%icksburg, s pm; Yipt shinkle,
Cincinnati, s; Simpson Horner, New Or
leans, 10; Glencoe, St. Louis, 3 am;
Coal City, Louisville, s; Chester, st.
Louis, 6; Cherokee, Cincinnati, 8; Hill.
man, Nashville, .. Weather cle4r and
cool.
C~IycISYATI, April l4.-Tbe river is
rising. Clear and pleasant
PTTsBURG, April l4.-River 6 feet
inches and falling slowly. Clear and
pleasant.
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WASHINGTON, April 4.-For the east
ern gulf States, Tennessee and Ohio val.
leys slightly warmer, partly cloudy
weather, with %noriherly winds becoming
variable during the highs and in eastern
portion slowly rising barometer.
The Mississippi river will rise between
Cairo and Vickaburg. 1t is Inches above
danger line at Cairo, 8 feet 4 inches be-
low at Memphis, | foot 4 inches below at
Helena and 2 feet 4 inches below at
YickSburg. Tennessee river will rise
above Decstur.
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KANSAS Cry, April IA special
from Baxter Springs, Kansas, says the
Baxter and Joplin mail, coming this
way, was robbed yesterday afternoon by
highwaymen, who presented pistols a.
the head Of the driver and compelled
him to throw of the mail bags, which
they took and escaped to the woods
There we're no passengers on the stage
No clew to the robbers
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Omaha Items.

OMAHA, April 1.-The grading on the
6rst ten miles of the extension Of the
Omaha and Republican Valley railroad
has been let and commenced. The road
has to be completed to David City, But
Ter county, by July lst,
Grasshoppers have begun to search
out this vicinity during the warm
weather Of the past few days.
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Chicneo z eta.

CHICAGO, April II, l p,m,-Wbeat is
quiet at 81 4l4@! 44B for May; l 45B for
June; offered l 482 buyer al the year.
Corn is steady at 45B for May; 48g for
June. Pork is irregular at $l4 40 for
May; 10 o24 for June. Lard is easier at
3 10 for May; 995 for June. Dry salt
meats, boxed, quiet; sides, 81; long clear,
75; salt rib, a. sugar cured, sB@84;
long clear and sugar cured 1908; hams
nominslly unchanged; meats, loose,
irmer aud more active, with sales at
Z 1901 70 for May; 7 1901 81 70 June.
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lied after the International exhibit
ton closed. They bought the
main building, secured the art gal
lery and propose to run a show all
the year around for their own profit,
and vet expected the people at large
to subsidize the scheme. The So
called International exhibition paid
a clear profit of nearly a million,
and yet, like Oliver Twist, they cry
for more.
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The following cotton items appear on
the exchange ~blackboards to-day: Re.
ceiptS for the week, Poll; for the season,
372. 5S7. Shipments for the week, 2Sl6;
for the season, 329,OS5. Stock on hand,
As, 800. Sales for the week, 1850 as fol.
lows; To exporters, 800; to spinners,
1850; to spectators, 100.
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CUMBERLAND, Mo. April l4-Butler's
furniture factory and Colsmsn'a carpen-
ter shop and sash factory is burned loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
MILFORD, DEL, April l4.-The Amer.
lean Basket Company large factory was
burned this morning. Loss, $4,000; in.
surance, $500.
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hank statement.

New YoRk. April IA -LoEss decrease,
1851, 100; specie decrease, Sl,7S9,S00
legal tenders increase, 81, lOl, 700; de-
posts increase, Sl74O 500; circulation
increase, $4,000; reserve decrease,
Sl63 725.
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rms Corn market.

BALTIMORE, april 1.-THE specule'
tive operations in corn for several days
past were increased yesterday by the war
rumors from London and orders from
Chicago to charter vessels to load with
grain, and dispatches from New York
that freights were excited gave additional
animation to operations. The sales o.
corn yesterday, it is said, amounted to
900. 900 bushels, the largest by 10000
ever sold in the market in one day. AZ
the regular board Of corn and -four ex.
change operations reached 100000 bush.
els, and in the afternoon the street sales
reached the same figures. Seventy thou
sand bushels spot sold at Coo. Charters
to take corn to Cork we're made at IS
and Cd. per quarter, an advance of 81
in the past few days.
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Another Great mast.


w. @@NfA
On the l9th of April there will be a
gigantic blast Of iron ore at Minevlle,
seven miles from Port Henry, Essex
county, New York. The Port Henry
Iron Ore company is the greatest mining
corporation in the United States, if not
in the world, its annual production being
about $4,000 tons. IL has decided to
remove by one mighty blov.up two or
three enormous pillars which formerly
supported the roof. Three pillars have
been uncovered in the excavations. com.
posed Of iron ore They are from l40 to
10 feet in height, and from 90 to 100
feet in circumference. They are est.
mated to contain 1880 tons in gross.
The pillars are TO be blown up by stimuli
%tansous explosions, with q composition
resembling nitro-glycerine.
The company has issued 300 invita-
tons to prominent engineers, professors
Of colleges, representatives Of the press,
and others.
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CLEVELAND, april IA. About five
O'Clock lest evening a man named Pet
ter, at Geneva, Ohio, shot and killed hia
wife aud then committed suicide. The
only cause that can be assigned for the
rash act ia that it is supposed that Potter
and his wife had some trouble q day or
two ego and Mrs. Potter left her husband
yesterday. She returned to get her trunk
and other articles belonging to her, and
while packing her trunk Potter shot her,
the ball taking effect in the back Of her
head. BE then proceeded to the next
room and shot himself. Mrs. Potter s
brother, who was waiting for her at a
neighbor's house, after allowing a
sufficient lenghth Of time to elapse
for her to return, became alarmed, and
in Company with a Mr.. Cook, went to
Potter's house. Upon entering they dis.
covered them both desd-Mrs. Potter in
one room and Mr.. Potter in another.
The afair causes great excitement in the
nsighberhood.
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stoHeWaIi sacksoa's Real Nature,

htOEeWaii Acks0a's neal haiure'
Mrs. stouewall jackson says OF her
husband: THE dignity, %sternness and re.
serve that be wore in public we're thrown
of the moment he was out Of the sight Of
the public, and be became natural, spon'
tsneoua ard happy. You q never
know how irksome it was to keep bis real
nature bound dowo beneath this habit Of
reserve. 1t was a mask, and he wore il
as a martyrdom BE never took a day &
furlough during the war; not even to
come to see his child. Just before the
battle Of Charlottesville, / took the liz
tie baby and went to see him. You
should have seen what raplures he went
into over that little girls cradle. have
seen him kneel by her cradle Tor hours
at a time, just gazing into her sleeping
face. Those who had known him only il
public we're a~stonished at the apparent
transformation Of his character" II wal
suggested to Mrs Jackson that the Gen
erals letters to her during the war would
be interesting for publication, but she
blushed and said, "0h, mol They were
all real love letters"
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and ArIinnlnn Rst,te.

WASHINGTON, April l4-Gsneral G..
w. Gusts Lee has instituted "a action
for ejectment for the recovery Of the Ar
lington estate, devised him by his grand.
father, W. Parke Gusts.
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Julius Otto, the musical composer
died at Dresden in the early part Of this
month, aged seventy.three years. Si1
hundred singers sang at his funeral.
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Saturday Evening, APril IA ls77.

The subscription price Of the PUB.
Lie LEDGER is IS per Onaur for
The Daily, and 81 per mum for the
KseklY-P0staqe tree.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-14

Boston is endeavoring to ciyilize and
intellectualize heather humanity with
baked beans. This istrue beaneyolence.
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j. A. SIMMONS,
No. 3 Madison ST.,
/: TENNJlsSEEo
Q. AND |. AaaoclATIoNs=
Notice to Stockholders.

OFFIcE DESoTO BUILDING AND Loan Ass'E,l
MEMPHIS, April 13. lST7.
TIME ANNUAL MEETING or OUR
! stakeholder will DO held on TUESDAY,
May IS. 1877, at the Office Of Che company, be-
tween the hours Of 10 am. and 8 pm, for the
purpose Of e~leeting Nina Directors to serve
the ensuing year Also 70 take into conside-
ratIon ana vote upon certain proposed amend
order of the Board.
r. A. PARKER. See'v. SS. A
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
The Patrons Of Husbandry.

NeSsrs Editors Not having access, probably,
to the same sources Of information rs yourselves,
get a quite different idea Of the condition
of this society from the report of the proceedings
Of the National Grange. cannot take the vigor
with which needed changes are proposed and
made as an indication of failure, or Of languish-
ing vitality. That no organization Of men can
exist without evils creeping in, is certain Decay
and extinction is most likely to those that
cannot shake off such evils That does not seem
to he the case with the Patrons They hold their
officials to strict responsibility, and promptly ahol
ish such offices as seem to be useless, or Ia have
outlived their purpose. OF the latter take it,
are the agencies to which you refer When the
society of Patrons was established the exactions
Of the middlemen were, in many places ex-
tremely oppressive to the farmers The establish
ment of purchasing agencies was intended to
meet and overthrow that evil Aided by the
changes in the times lit is useless to speculate as
To how much these very agencies had to do with
bringing the speculative eras To an end, business
has been brought down to hard-pan, and goods
are now sold at such a small margin of profit that
grange agencies have ceased, in many places to
be needed That was what was expected when
they were established. measure cannot be
said to have failed when it goes out of use be-
cause its aim and purpose have been accomplished
Nor is the purpose to choke of the "army of
leeches" "a very small army in this case, so far
AZ the facts show a sign Of failure.
The charge Of meddng with politics is one of
ten made but never proved, against the Patrons.
Their very constitution forbds IT, Other farmers
organizations have been formed for political ac-
ton, and rs the Grange Is the most conspicuous
in the public eye, it has been supposed by those
not acquainted with the matter to he also poti-
cal Can you name an instance Of political
grangerism p
The grange is responsible, and is proud Of it,
for the movement to make all corporations amen
able TO the laws of the state which gave them
life. Through much obloquy 1t has pushed the
movement ON to complete success; and II the So
ciety should die now, as you seem TO anticipate,
or shall live to aid and benefit generations OF
farmers yet To come, it has earned the gratitude
Of every patriotic American by It's triumphant
biting of these wild beasts, of whom, but a few
years ago, the whole country stood In fear. Your
own columns have frequently borne eloquent tes-
timony to the dangers OF corporate greed. Who
but the grangers have ever made any-not To say
any successful-eifort TO put bounds to that great
and threatening power, which, bribing legisa'
lures and substituting courts threatened the very
foundations of free government T.B.n.