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The PeIln nt wsst Polnt.

West Point Letter to Chicago lines
The hotel is filed with fashion.
able people. The Marquis de Valala
and Count Bohamas, the former a
dried up old man, who shuttle;
about in slippers and wears a red
silk skull cap; the latter a blowing
porpoise of human being, large
in the waistcoat and small in ideas.
Then here are the Pells-Somebody,
although | hardly know who,
Twelve immense trunks stand in
one of the upper halls; each trunk
has on it, in letters six inches long,
Pell. If initials had prefaced it |
should have passed them by, but no
one save the Pells could set their
name out SO boldly. Each of the
Misses Pell has maids, and the toi-
lets they get up by aid Of the maids
would make every youth who has
been weaned blush for shame.
Some of the cadets introduced to,
day to the ladies colored SO violently,
and had such difficulty in deciding
where they ought to fix their eyes,
that to the old men sitting calmly
by it was the subject of remark.
Several married ladies, who once
had, and fancy they have now,
handsome busts, have followed the
Pells and cut their dresses low, and
at dinner there is quite a display of
female charms - enough to take
away ones appetite for food.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-08

Mr.. Alfred Haviland lately in
formed the London Social Science
Association that many diseases were
induced by the common tendency
to place houses in valleys instead Of
on the hillsides. He says that val
leys do not get a full share of fresh
air. The winds blow over, not
through them, and the atmosphere
within their boundaries is compare
lively stagnant. His observations
are therefore opposed to the COM
mon belief that valleys are especial
channels for atmospheric move
ments; but his opinions are sus-
tanned by d. B. W. Richardson, who
is good authority. The latter gen.
tleman enumerated twenty-five or
thirty diseases which he thought
might be attributed to the propen-
sity for valley homes. Among them
are Group, influenza, scrofula, rheu-
matism, fistula, calculus, and posi-
bly, some malformations; The list
is formidable, and, to put it mildly,
it is almost incredible that diseas Is
Of this character can be caused by
living in the broad and shallow
valleys of England. Mr.. Haviland's
remarks were illustrated with maps
and models showing the geological
structure of the earth.
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EXTRAORDINARY SEMI
ANNUAL DRAWING
Tuesday December II 1877

Tickets $40, shares in proportion.
Capital Prize 100000; % Capital Prize $50 200
s522,5 . distributed in prizes of different de-
nominations: Drawings superintended by
General q. I. Beauregard, Of Louisiana' and
General Jubal A. Early, Of Virginia, Com
missioners for the State and people. For IN
formation, apply to them or NJ A, DAJJ-
PHlN, postofice box 692, New Orleans, La.
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MEMPHIS & LITTLE ROCK R.R,
ShrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TIMECARDi

TlmE CARDi
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily.,..........5.S0 pm. 11.3O pm.
Freight train daily lex.
sunday ........... ..........,7.O0 am. 5.2Op.m.
Passengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville. Nash
vile and Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains maxi, close connection at Argenta for
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas. r
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on all night
trains.
Offices 27s and 2S7 Main street. and at depot
foot of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
or TO the undersigned.
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Louisville and Great S0lthGTlR.

ll:4l pm. Night Express at Milan
for St. Louis and Chicago. at Mckenzie for
Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and the
Southeast. at Guthrie for HopkinsVille, Hen
derson and Evansville, at Louisville for all
points North and East.
lilo pm. Day Express-Connects for st..
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4:40 pm. Milan Accommodation = Daily
except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
vile. and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or inform alton, apply at Ticket
Office, 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
street -
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QI =
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Elopement OF tho Daughter OF mil.
liOmhtre.

New 1ork World.I
Mr.. Charles Reiche is a well
known importer of wild animals
and one of the principal owners of
the New York Aquarium and of the
one at Coney Island. He is re-
puted to be worth 81, 100000. His
residence at Hoboken is one of the
finest in Hudson county. 1t is sit
uated at the corner of Tenth and
River streets. Mr.. Reiehe opened
the latter street as far as his resi-
dence and paved it at his own ex-
pense. Mr., Reiche has a very pretty
daughter, aged seventeen. He
spent large sums upon her educa-
tion, and she became a fine linguist
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All who have once used it pronounce
Dr.. Bulls Baby Syrup the best medicine
known for the complaints of early child.
hood. 25c per bottle
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Five Thousand Copies
Are read by at least
Twenty Thousand People

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. 1t is Just to SAY
that tho patrons of the WESTERN
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community.
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of the above facts before completing their
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free Of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
tising for many Good people seeing an ad-
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abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,
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recommend to our friends and the public
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paper.
Our Terms shall be in Harmon
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LIST OF PRIZES.

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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-13
JUDGE RRADEEY.

JUSTICE BRADLEY, Of the Su
preme Court, writes a letter to
Inc Newark Advertises, in an
swer to the charges of the New
York Sun, noticed in these col
umns. lie pronounces the story
about changing his views and
about the pressure brought to
bear on him by Republican poll
ticians wholly false. Not u sin
Gle visitor called at his house the
evening before the decision. and
during the whole sitting Of the
commission he had\ no private
discussion whatever on the sub
Socts at issue with any Republi-
can. As to the much talked OF
opinion he says:
The allegation that | read an
opinion to Judges Clifford and
Field is entirely untrue. | read
no opinion to either Of them, and
have no recollection Of express
ihgNny. If did, 1T could ohly
have been suggestively, or in a
hypothetical manner, and not in;
tended as a committal of my linaI
Judgment or action. The ques.
ton was one Of grave Importance.
and to me of much difficulty and
embarrassment ! earnestly en-.
deavored to come to d night, de-
cision, free from all pclitlca! OF
other extraneous considerations,
in my private examination Of the
principalquestion (about going
behind the returns) | wrote and
rewrote the arguments and con
siderations on both sides as they
occurred to me, sometimes beme
inclined to one view Of the sub.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-13
Affairs in France Becoming
Alarming.

TIE New York Tribune says:
Private letters from Paris report
that the situation there is grow
ing as exciting and full Of suS-
pense as the third act Of a melo-
drama. jacques and his cOntre-
res are said to congregate about
the w~ine-shops Of St, Antoine,
and indulge in fierce talk, while
Madame Dcfarge, back Of the
counter with a flower in her hair,
knits hard and scOwls with dark
err meaning than in the days OF
Jones the lockmaker. 1t is re
ported in these council chambers
that the Prince Imperial is to
marry the Marshal's daughter as
soon as he is seated on the
throne, a. the price Of McMahon's
treachery to the Republic. Mad
anne McNIahon is also believed to
hold all the strings which move
the larger puppets, and hence,
that plump, well-pTeserved Old
lady, who drives comfortably
about with a poodle in her arms,
is doomed by the, people to a
worse fall that Marie Altoinette,
if jacques should ever get into
power again. Meantime, the
Marshal has crowded every al
ley-way with soldiers, the police
force are doubled within the last
three weeks, and all 30 about
armed to the teeth. AS half the
soldiers in Paris two months ago
had wives and sweethearts in the
quarter of st. Antoine, city-born
men have been ordered to the
provinces and the forces now
guarding the metropolis are all
from the country. They are q
lean, hungry, spiritlesS set of
men, but will probably prove
more effective tools should the
Marshal find that the result OF
the GIeCJlOnS calls o II coup
etat on his part. Persons are
even to be found who prophesy
that this coup d etat is certain
and will be successful, and thai
the exposition will be opened
next summer by the Empress
and her son, instead of the Mar
shall and his comfortable wife
Baseless, as most OF these rumor'
undoubtedly are, they give evi
dence Of a feyerish, excited con
dition of the public, mind, which
must continue until the Octobe.
elections restore cOnlidence-o
destroy it.
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OSMAN PkSEEA.
Not EsaZainc but am EX-Feder-
al Colonel.

LOUISVILLE, September 4.-llis
mornings Courier-Journal pub
fishes the following: We have
received the following brief but
exceedingly explicit and pointed
communication from a source
which we have every reason to
credit.
70 the Editor of the Courier
Journal, Mount Washington,
Kentucky, September I'd. 1871:
II see by a cable telegram in the
Courier. Journal that Osman Pa
sha, of the Turkish army, is be-
lieved to be General Bazaine,
late a Marshal Of the French ar
my. This is a mistake. | hap
pen to know very well who Os-
man Pasha is, as | have cores
pended with him for several
years and have received letters
from him since he has been Civ
en- command of a division Of the
Turkish army. Osman Pasha is
an American, and a native Of
Hawkins county, Tennessee. His
mare is II. Clay Crawford. He
was a Colonel Of a regiment Of
artillery during the late war be-
tween the States. He after
wards entered the service Of the
Liberal Government of Mexico,
and was made q General Of Il di-
vision, He created considerable
stir by the capture Of Bagdad,
Mexico, passing his forces over
the Rio Grande from the Texas
shore. lie finally quarrelled
with Juarez, the Mexican Presi-
dent, and returned to the United
States with u large fortune. He
resided for several years at a
beautiful country seat on the
Delaware, near Philadelphia. His
restless disposition caused him to
seek excitement, and he entered
the service OF the Khedive Of
Egypt, was coon after transferred
to the service Of the Sultan and
commanded the Turkish army at
Pleyna.
L. b. WIcKcLIrFE.
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Saturday. The Army of the Gar
owitch will hold the line Of the
Yantra, near Biela, withIthe 18th
corps. As lar as | can learn the
llth corps still holds out its posi-
ton east of Tirnova. The 18th
corps has retreated across the BIZ
ella and the Rutschuk road hold
ing Terstenik and Metchka. The
camp at Terstenik has been fOrti-
fled within the past few days, and
is situated on a hill overlooking
the Danube"
REPOETED CtPITrLATIoE or NICsICs.
A Reuter- telegram from Wen
ma says a dispatch received there
from Centinje asserts that Nicsics
has been capitulated.
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iect and sometimes to the other.
But, finally, | threw aside these
lucubratiOus, and, as you have
rightly stated, wrote ont the
short opinion on which read in
Florida case during the sitting Of
the Commission. This opinion
expressed the honest conclusion
TO which | had arrived, and which,
after a full consideration OF the
whole subject seemed to me the
only satisfactory solution OF the
question, and may add that the
more | have reflected on it since
The more satisfied have | become
that il was right. At all events,
it was the result Of my own re
Elections and consideration, with
out any suggestions from any
quarter except the arguments adj
duced by counsel on the public
discussion, and by members o.
the Commission in its private
consultations.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-13
h. Clay Crawford as Csman
paShn.

THE excitement for The past
week has been over the discovery
that Il. Clay Crawford, an East
TennRsseean is the dashing
young Turkish General OSman
rPasha.
Crawford is well known in East
Tennessee. He was dismissed
from the Federal army and was
afterwards sentenced to the pen
itentiary for ROBBERY. He made
his escape and went to Mexico
ard was the leader of a band Of
thieves. He went from Mexico
to Egypt and joined the Khe
dives army and was a few months
ago transferred to the Sultans
army and is now the hero OF
Plevna. He is a bold daring bad
1nan and is not afraid Of the devil
himself. He was raised in Haw-
kins county Tennessee.
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Arranging "a Government for
INC MnrIN,Am Church.

A SALT LAKE special Of Sept. Z,
says: A meeting Of Apostles was
held, and David II. Wells and
John w. Young councillors to
Brigham, were present to take
steps for the future management
of the Norman Church. 1t was ar
ranged that a quorum of Apostles
meet in order to the President,
assume control of the Church,
Wells and John W. Young ac.
quiescing. The meeting was am
icable and arrangements are sat
isfactory to all present, and
doubtless will be so to the Nor
mons, generally. John Taylor,
first of the Apostles, is now Writ
ually the head Of the Mormon
Church. A committee was APP
pointed to manage the financial
affairs until October the 9th,
when the semi-annual church
conference will be held and a
trustee in trust elected.
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DUCKTOWN

\ DUCKrOwN correspondent OF
the Chronicle speaking Of con
Wet labor says:
The Legislation is nearly all
the States, especially the South
ern States, in which the Demo
Gratis hold Il balance Of power, has
oflate years been such as to IA
vor the rich man, or capitalist,
and Cypress the poor or laboring
class. Are not,all the States in
which convict labor used in com
petition with honest labor con
trolled by Democrats! Ere long,
if the poor but honest laborers
submit, he will be brought into
4 worse condition than that Of
abject slavery. Because, as a
guard against loss, slave holders
we're compelled to furnish slaves
food to sustain life; but, not so
with the laboring class when
driven from their employment
by the Introduction Of convict la
Dor. They are forced to leave
home-perhaps the land OF their
birth-in search Of charity, be
cause our Legislature, rathcs
than protect the class Of c~itiZenf
that conduces to the wealth or
the State by their industry, has
seen proper to barter the welfare
Of a large majority Of its citizens
to O'Couuer, Shook & Co, there
by giving them change to accu-
muIate a fortune by p2nitc ntiary
convict labor.
70 whom does the State Of
Tennessee belong? lsit to Il few
individuals. 1t seems to be GOV
erned in the interest ofthc latter.
| Economy is a poor excuse, The
honest people OF the States are
willing to pay taxes TO help sup
port the penitentiary rather than
bring about such a state Of affairs
as will wreck the hopes Of the
industrial class. Could not con
vict labor be used in making and
keeping up our public roads,
which. as the law now stands,
and always has in the Southern
States, is an imposition to the
poor man, the truth Of which eve
ry thinker can at once cOmpre-
bend. Let them turn out in full
force and elect men to Office who
will legislate for the benefit Of
our great and once proud State,
and in behalf other good citizens.
Such Il revolution must be
brought about, or there will nee
essarily be found a remedy Of a
more potent and summary char
acter when cOnyicts with their
striped suits are brought into
mines and other pvblic works to
fill the places occupied by honest
men, dependent upon their EN- p
ployment for Sustcnance for
themselves and families, notwith.
standing it may be urged by
friends OF O'Conncr d Co., Of ia
yored fame or by such j urnaIS
as the New York World, Knox
vile Tribune and other like
tone.
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ENDIAN AFFAIRS.
Five Men Die from Thirst on
The Staked Plains.

\ LETTER from Lieutenant
Cooper, at Fort Concho, Texas,
who was with the party Of sol
diers who become lost recently
in the Staked Plans, in henorth
western region and who nearly
perish from thirst, recOunts all
the horses gave out and the men
fought to drink their blood. This
only intensified thirst and TIE
soldiers suffered symptoms OF
blind staggers, from which the
horses died. The loss on the trip
was four men and one citizen
died from thirst, twenty-thrce
horses and four mules persisted.
The reported fight with the In
dams and the massacre Of sol
diers in the Staked Plains, was a
canard.
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The Religions Of tI,e World.

New York SUM-
"Will you be kind enough TO let
us know through the Sun which
church has the largest member
ship in the world? Are there
more Catholics than nOn-Catho-
lies of all kinds! Several boys
here are more than anxious for
YOU to settle a question that we
are in dispute abOut.'-B. +. IL.
The Buddhist Religions the one
most extensively accepted in the
world, having, in round numbers,
340,000,0 0J adherents. There are
not more Roman Catholics in the
world than people Of other reli-
gious classes. The total number
of Roman Catholics is about POO,
OO0,0 900, against S0,000,000 Of the
Greek Church. 100000 Protes-
tants, and 100000 of other Ori-
entail Churches than the Greek.
or the 1,400, 100000 people in the
world, about 1,000,000,0O are not
Christians, but, with the cXcep-
ton of six million Jews, are what
are called heathcns. 1t will be
observed from this that there is
still 4 great field left for the
spread of Christianity.
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The Weekly Herald.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1877.
Thc CamrornIn EIeciIon.

The California election is only
another Republican rebHke to
the soft-shell President. The Re
publicans stayed at home and
the Democrats carried the State
by a small majoriiy-gainim the
Legislature and insuring the elec.
ton of a ID emocrat to the Senate
instead of sargent. Let Mr.. Hayes
hold the reins a little longer
and every State in the Union
will be Democratic. He has
gathered around him and appoin.
ted to Office all over the country
men that are sore-heads and
Democrats, and who have only
the ruin OF the Republican party
at stake.
Next goes Ohio and Pennsylva.
MIA.
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Coat Greek Mines

a correspondent writing from
Coal Creek to the Cincinnati
Commercial in r%eferance to the
convict labor question says:
1.-The miners themselves say
but little, but the citizens Of the
upper class express them selves
freely, and talk OF organizing and
sweeping away the evil by force.
There are not less than Il regi-
ment of ex-soldiers in Anderson
county alone, and if trouble is
prccipitated it will be only ephe-
neral, fol- the convicts would be
swooped down upon and released
in Il twinklmg, and ilthe guards
possess common sense they
would offer no resistance. The
fact that more guards than prise
ners were brought up is in itself
an insult to the citizens Of An
derson county, but even We're
General Cheatham himself i'll
command of the escort Of thieves
he would find himself more heav-
.ily oyermatched than at News
burg, South Carolina, in the
spring of 1865, when he and Gen
eral Logan had their rough meet
inc.
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Ten Per Cent.

TIE repeal of the conventional
interest law did not work such
wonders at last. Men are not
seen rushing around town with
cart loads of money to lend at
six per cent. like some people
said. The fact is money is more
plentiful and no easier to GET
than it was before. And the fact
is again the conventional inter.
est law had no more effect in
producing the scarcity Of money
and the hard times, than the war
in Turkey had in making the Rad,
ical members Of the Electoral
Commission honest men.-PulaS-
Ei Citizen.
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FRANCE.
Burial Of Ex-Pres1dent ThCirs.

PARIS, Sept. s, 8 p. M,-The po-
lice cleared Place st. George and
streets adjoining the church. The
cortege left the place at noon in
the following order: sBearers Of
orders and decorations worn by
deceased masters Of ceremonies,
families of deceased Senators,
ex-D Deputies, members Of the
French Academy Of Moral and
Historical Sciences, other classes
Of Institutes, and Council Gener-
al Sof the Seine. Deputations
from various counsils-general and
municipal counsils, and deputa-
tons from Amin and other depu-
tations were invited by the
friends of the deceased. The open
hearse was drawn>by six horses,
on which the coffin rested, aud
was covered with palm branches,
wreathes Of flowers immortelles
and tricolored bows and r0settes.
The whole route was lined with
an immense number Of people
Notwithstanding the rain. All
shops are closed and display on
their shutters a placard bearing
the words: National mourning
Perfect Tranquility prevails every
where. The rain ceased at |
o'clock.
Madame Theirs was accompa-
MED by Madamoiselle Dosne at
The funeral service in the church
of ,,Notre Dame DeLorette. NJ.
Gambetta was cheered as he left
the church after the ceremony.
The deputation from Belfort was
the only one which carried a ban
ner. At 2 o'clock the cortege ar.
rived at the Boulevards, preceded
by a squad Of mounted gems
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-13

SENATOR INGALLS,, Of Kansas.
who is"generally Disguised with
tho conservative dOings Of the
administration, grew somewhat
sarcastic, the other day. at Leav-
enworth, when he said: "When a
repentant rebel is Gagged as a
Cabinet Minister and made chief
attraction of a peripatetic menag.
erie, called on at every railroad
station and compelled to speak
his little defamation like a
naughty pupil by his master.
telling the multitude hat he has
been very wicked, but means tc
do better, and hopes in time tc
be Il good Yankee, the specta-
Gle is 'edifying and Instructive
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-13

TIE next triennial session Of
fhe General Convention of the
Episcopal Church will be held at
Boston, beginning Oct. 3, and
continuing about three weeks.
Between $50 and 400 delegates
will be present, and the House Of
Bishops will hold their meetings
in the chapel Of Trinity Church,
md the House Of Clerical and
Lay Deputies in Emanuel Chulch
the opening and closing services
will be held in Trinity Church.
Among the important topic to
come up for consideration are the
proposal to change the name
''Protestant Episcopal Church" to
something else, and methods for
simplifying and facilitating mis-
sionary work.