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MISSISSIPPI NEWS.


from his late illness.
The Jefferson county peach crop il
pronounced to be almost a total failure,
De-. W. j. Taylor, of Holly Springs
died there on the Fourth of July, after a
lingering illness.
Mrs, NJ. W. Brown, who was at one
time aresident of Holly Springs. died in
DeSoto county recently.
Mr.. r Walpole, candidate for auditor,
was warmly endorsed by the Democracy
Of Montgomery county 10 convention as
sembled a few days ago.
Mrs. Pauline W. Turley, aged sixty
three, died at Vicksburg on the 9th. She
was mother of Representative Turley
and IN excellent lady.
The Brookhaven Ledger says: "If
General Walthal allows his name TO go
before the State convention for governor
ke will develop great strength"
A monthly paper, devoted to the in
~terests OF the colOred people, is to be
published in jackson, with James j..
Spelman as editor. 1t win be Republi-
can in politics.
Pamela county has $Ss, 900 Of clear
cash in her treasury, and doesn't owe a
dollar, and the Sardis Star says it's the
result Of wise and economical Demo.
cratic government.
Holly Springs Reporter: Colonel G.
Wiley Wells left for China on Tuesday
last. There was weeping and %wailing,
aud crashing of teeth among the 'cullud
troops when he departed"
At a mass meeting held last week at
Winoua, General Walihal was Endorsed
as the choice Of the people for governor.
The people down that way seem deter.
mined to run him nolens yolens.
A man named vresinski, in Jail at
Natchtz for whipping his wife, very
properly cut his own throat, but the doc
tors, by way Of scientific experiment,
sewel it up. and there are serious fears
that he will recover.
Colonel 7. ]. Hudson, of Lamar, is
strongly recommended for the nomins.
ton for governor by a correspondent of
the Rising Sun. Colonel Hudson came
very near getting the nomination for gov
ernor about fifteen years ago.
Rev. S. q. Scott, a presiding elder of
the African Methodist Episcopal Church
at Yicksburg, was %cowhided in the streets
By a oolored brother the other day for
intimacy with the latter's sister, which
gives promise of early and lively results.
The Democracy VI Montgomery county
met in convention last week, aud among
other things Endorsed the course of Hon.
Il. D. Money, and instructed their dele.
gates to Jackson to vote for General
Walthal for governor, Wslpole for audi
tor, and Hemingway for State treas.
urer.
Yicksbnrg Commercial: The crop
prospects are reported to be very fine in
the sections Of the State, and the
promise ia for an early and abundant
harvest. We have had an extremely
dull summer, and we have a few weeks
Of heat aud dullness to go through, but
there is promise in the future brighter
than for several years.
Natchez Democrat: No less than if
teen letters came to Natchtz by last Sat.
urday's mail from the steamship Ply
mouth. There must have been some
permanent impressions made during the
days Of intimate association between the
officers Of that ship and our citizens, and
the prospect is that the desire Of Cant.
Barrett and other officers to come again
and renew the acquaintance then
formed will be gratifed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-14

GENERAL HOWARD, the feather
bed warrior, could run afreedmen's
bureau, but he cannot run Joseph,
the noble red man, worth a cent.
Joseph gets away with him every
time.
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, July l4.-For Tennessee,
the Ohio valley and the lower lake region
falling barometer, southerly winds,
warmer, partly cloudy and clear weather,
with rain areas.
The lower Mississippi and lower Mis-
souri, rivers will slowly fall.
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M Il NJ
Saturday Evening, July IA. IS7z.

The subscription price Of the PUB
LIC LEDGER is s. per annHm for
the Daily, and 81 per Gnnum for The
Weeky-PostGge free.
Persons kaping the city for the sum
mer can order the DALI LEDGER
at 75e per month. or tIOO dollars for
three months, in advance, Nth the
pririleqe Of changing pOstOfiee.
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YE ANCIENT ORDAIRE.
The Insurance Monitor, July.l

The Memphis PUBLIC LEDGER
reprinted our article of last month
under the above caption, and the
following day made a somewhat ex-
tended editorial comment on the
same, in a spirit of fairness and
general intelligence; but the editor
unfortunately overlooked the vital
point OF the whole matter, which is
this: That the Ancient 0order of
United Workmen, in the pamphlets
which it puts forth to the public,
assumes that the cost of carrying
$4,000 Of life insurance is $l3 per
annum, and that assumption we
declare to be false, and in so far as
it is the means of taking money
from the psople who seek its mem
bership, this Ancient Order obtains
such money under false pretences,
and dupes and swindles those who
come upon its books.
The Monitor is not partisan to
any particular set of companies, or
any particular mode of life in
surance, provided the companies
are sound and honorable, and the
mode is legitimate; but we do not
propose to have what we say con-
corning the ''co-Operative" plan of
life insurance brushed away by the
raising Of side issues. Benevolent
orders with their rituals, and cere-
monies, and secret work, are, as
our Memphis cotemporary asserts,
doubtless instructive, improving
and attractive, and the members
have a perfect right to form an en-.
dOwment society within their own
ranks. This is all correct enough,
but this is not the main point.
When you come right down to the
marrow Of this matter the rituals
and ceremonies are merely side
play; the real pith and animus of
the whole movement is the practice
Of life insurance; the formation of
a life insurance society; and this
United Order assumes to do that
thing upon the basis of carrying
$4,000 Of insurance upon the lives
of its members at the rate of $I3
per annum, and if our Memphis
friends will prevail upon the adyo-
Gates OF that or any other like CO.
operative scheme to answer satisfac-
tOrily our plain arithmetical pro-
posal, the Monitor will most heartily
commend such societies to public
confidence. We repeat our problem
Of last month:
The average age of the member
ship sought is 50, and the average
cost per annum of $1,000 Of life
insurance is assumed to be $13. If
ten thousand men unite in a scheme
like this to secure $1,000 of life in
surance each, the total sum of the
insurance will be $40, 600, 900.
These ten thousand men will live
to pay thirty-one premiums each on
the average, and their total paw
ments will thus amount to only
S4,030,000; and the conundrum
which we PROFOUND, and the conun-
drum which the Ancient Order of
United Workmen is bound TO an
swer, ia this: Where is the 70
naming Sl5,970,000 needed to
make up the $2O,OO0,O 900 of insur-
ance promised under this plan, to
come from? If they say that "new
members will make up, then we
wish to know how the defect upon
those new members is 10 be pro-
yided for, and so on ad inlnitum.
We pronounce the plan, and all
similar plans, to be deceptive and
false in their very roots. They
assume to be cheap substitutes for
life insurance, and there is no cheaD
substitute for life insurance.
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created an opportunity for the un-
moneyed mutual associations which
the Monitor attacks.

HAoKErT, the Orangeman killed
on the 18th at Montreal, is to be
buried on Monday with full Orange
hOnOrs. The funeral was postponed
until that time in order that men,
bers from a distance might attend
and that both sides might prepare
for another row aud more funerals.
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Hank Rtatemons

New YORK, July IA Loans, decrease,
1871, 100; specie, decrease, 80, 37l,5 500;
legal tenders, increase, 1902, 200; de.
posits, decrease, 49, 4O, 300; circulation,
increase, $llO,3OO; reserve, decrease,
81, Ala. 225
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Croizette, writes Mrs, Lucy
Hooper from Paris, has left in her
recent sick chamber much of her
world-iamous beauty, which, in
deed, consisted more in the grace
and iaultless proportions Of her
form, and in the piquant play of
her countenance, than in any Der.
lection of feature or of coioring.
Her face always was strange and
attractive, more than beautiful, and
it has become haggard and drawn,
and the long, narrow eyeslook more
serpent-like than ever. The once
1.-the, slender waist has become
broad and fat, tho once shapelv
breast clumsy, and the weird Venus
Of a year ago is changing into a
coarse-looking Bohemian. Essen.
TALLY a melodramatic actress, ey.
ceiling in scenes of violent emotion
and Of strong effects, she fails as
utterly in d%elineating the delicate
shading of the character of Caroline
de Saint Geneix-its womanIy ten.
derness and sweetness-as the yer.
lest novice might do.
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OARn.

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscrotions Of youth, nervous weakness
early decay. loss of manhood. etc., 1 will send
a recipe thet will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
by a missionary in South America. Send a
self-addresssd envelope to the REv. JosEPB
T. Imam. Station D. Bible House, New York
City. l29-xxiv. 12Sd&w
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RIVer ToIeKrams.

CAIRO, July Ia -Arrived-St. Gene
We've, st. Louis, 9 pm. Departed-St.
Genevieve, Vicksburg, lOp,m. Fair and
warm.
CINCINNATI, July H-Rivsr falling.
Warm and clear.
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A LARGE number of sudden
deaths have occurred in New York
within the last few days, especially
among children. Hot weather, i'm
pure air and poor diet are the
causes.
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Buainess Failure.

ELLSWORTH, MAINE, July l4.-H. NJ.
Il B. Hall, lumber men, failed. Liabili-
ties estimated at Sl75lOOO; ONE half Sc.
cured; assets unsecured; creditors most
ly nominal. The failure caused much
financial distress on Union river.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-14

AN alderman named Doering
hung himself in st. Louis yester-
day. This is the first instance Of
the kind on record.
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LIST OF PRIZES.

Syl2 Cash Prizes, amounting L. ...........S slO. OO0
soWhoIs Tickets, $40; halves, SIS; Quarters
Tickets, $500. A'''' ''VV' VVN
KemittancSs can be made by mail, express..
uIais, posiemce order or registered letter.
maze payable to g. W. Barrow K Go.
Al communications connected with the ais-
HiDeu9n, or orders for tickets. and applica-
Slohs Of agents to sell tickets, should be adj
&S,osseu 70 q. ", BARROW Il CO..
u9neral Managers, Courief-J ournal Building,
louisville, Ky.
d6wll6-lR u'A~S'
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1910. 900 Cash in Prizes.,
FARMERS & DRovERs BANK. Louisville. XIV.
Treasurer,

The public are respectfully notified that in
consequence Of tho precedent established bv
the former company, and not wishing TO make
q scaled or fractional drawing, the MANAGE
ment have made a shert postponement of
sixty days. While regretting to ask the i'm
diligence Of their patrons even for this short
period, 1t is on their account that this post
ponement is made, as many have expressed
one.
The company Is pleased to announce that
the courts Of Kentucky have decided that ne,
charter under which their distributions take
place IS LEGAL BEYOND QUESTION.
Hence, sustained by law, and the reoeipts
being most encouraging, the homogeneous
emphatieally. state that this drawing will
positiyely take place on August 3Oth, or
MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED In FOLL.
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Five Thousand Copies
Are read by at least
Twenty Thousand People

old aud young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.
We desire our business men to make a noto
Of the above facts before completing THAR
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.
We use our best efforts to keep our columns
Tree of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
Using; for many good people seeing an ad-
vertisement in a paper. especially thoir
church paper, take it as a guarantee of re-
SpOnsibility. Such confidence should not be-
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,
Tbs Advertising Patronage
OF such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and tho public
without compromising the character of the,
paper.
Our Terms Shall be In Harmony
with the Business OutIOOk.
Send In Your FavOrs.
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Cash Distribution Co.

Authorized by IN Act Of the Legislature for
the support Of the City Schools Of Frankfort.
Will positively have their second drawing In.
the city Of LOUISVILLE, KY, on AuTSs1.
80, 1877, or money will be refunded
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Wine is made from oranges extern
in ST. Augustine. Fla.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-14
THREE YEARS OLD.
The Youngest Murderer On Record.
[Ohicago Times

| BGsToN, June "a sad homicide oe.
CURED in the Bunker Hill district this
| forenoon. when an infant Of two years
| and elk months XII eda companion three
years old with a brickbat. At 40 Henry
street, In the vicinity Of Stetson' g Court,
| there resides q shoemaker named Chas.
M. Eagerstrom, having son about three
years of age. This little one, named
Charles, has been in the habit of going
into Stetson's Court to play, and was In
the custom Of freauenting the premises
occupied by Mrs. Catherine WEIGH, who
also has son some two years and sir
months old. Whether the children
were in the habit of quarreling or
not does not appear: but for this
or some other reason the WEIGH
family disliked to have him about their
house, and sister of Mrs. WEIGH. nam
ed Mrs. Turnbull, Instructed her daugh
ter Lizzie to drive Charley away when
ever he came there, even Ii she had to
slap him. This display of hostility to
the Fagerstrom boy doubtless made q
deep Impression upon the Weleh boy,
and last Wednesday evening, about
half-past O'Clock. while the former was
crossing from his house toward Htetson
court. the WEIGH boy picked up O brick
having a sharp point, and, going up to
the Fagerstrom boy, struck him in the
head with it just above the left eye,
fracturing the skull. He was taken
home by neighbors who witnessed the
affair, and died at S o'clock this morn
ing. Coroner Bradford was called, but,
after learning the particulars, he deem
ed an inquest unnecessary. owing to the
extreme youthfulness of the Welch boy.
The families themselves are represented
as being quiet and peaceable, and have
never had any trouble with each, other.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-14
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
MONETARY.
OFFICE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT,
Wednesday Evening, June ID, 1877.
MON ETARY
ANS CLEARING HOUSE.

The demand for money was moderate to-day
both in bank and on the street, and commercial
paper was unchanged Under ths advance at
New York Gold was u higher. The movement
WAS moderate. Foreign Exchange followed the
course of gold, closing at an improvement Of nc
for sterling and 1S@A y cent for francs. Only q
few sales werd reported. New York Sight was
unchanged. Stocks were firm. Meeting with
less demand, State Consols gave way about "a fs
cent. Premium Bonds were ID fair request and
stronger. City Scrip ruled at about previous
rates. Halfpaid City Coupons and State War
rants were easier.
We continue to quote: Exceptional commercial
paper So % cent per annum discount; Al do.
100; second grade do. 12@15; collateral loans
-@s; first class mortgages $685., and second
grade do. 10@l2
Gold opened at 1O4ss4@lo5, against los at New
York, and after limited business closed at the
opening rates, against 1855 in that market. The
sales summed up 5000, embracing $4,000 and
$1,000 at 1919, 5000 at 104a4 @1O477s, $4,000 and
1000 at l041ss, and $4,000 ana $1,000 at los.
Under the course OF gold at New York, sterling
advanced 10 and francs H0A y cent
The sales Of sterling Comprised $4,000 bill of
lading at sos. $4,000 Al clear at $685., f25Oo bill
of lading at 500, and $1,000 bank at 5l3.
The only sale Of francs reported were 100000
commercial sight at 93s4.
At the close sterling bills we're quoted at 50711s
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-14

The Masters la Chancery, three of
them, appointed by Judge Billings to
report upon the valuation oil property
and improvements in the suit OF Mrs.
Gaines VS.. large number Of property
holders in this city, have been inces-
sanity at work for more than six weeks
and have not yet executed their work.
Judge Billings has communicated to
them his urgent desire that their work
be finished by the latter part OF next
week, so that their report may be filed
before the term of court closes.
The difficulties In the way Of the
masters arise from the many difficult
and novel questions which beset them
in the course of their inquiries. Under
the Judgment In favor Of Mrs. Gaines
the defendants are entitled TO the value
or their improvements in case she
accepts the property with the improve
ments. IL she refuses, the defendant
may remove the same. But such i'm
provements as filling up and perma-
nent buildings cannot we'll be removed,
and in those cases the defendants, by
appraisement at the full value thereof,
are able to set of the plaintiffs claim,
and actually put her in debt. This
would be another Of the curious phases
OF this extraordinary case.
There are equally embarrassing col
lateral questions, which involve novel
and nice questions in law and arith-
metic. that will introduce new perplex-
titles into the case. One Of these in re-
gard to the taxes which are assessed
upon improved property, as to the divis-
ion Of the assessment between the owner
of the naked ground and that of the i'm
provements. These vexatious questions
have been thoroughly discussed by the
able attorneys on both sides before the
Masters in Chancery, and will have to
be re.discussed before Judge Billings
when their reports come before him for
final decision.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-14
NOTES.

"A large army Of crickets has visited sew
efal cities In California, but have not injure,
the crops.
The Providence journal alludes to TIN
prevalence OF CHAMBERS among horses in thai
city as frightful.
Senator Merrimon, of North Carolina
has spoken strongly In Raleigh In favor of {
prohibitory liquor law.
The Toronto Globe Tsays that the temper.
allure sank below the freezing point in tina
city on Monday night, 4th inst.
The Louisville CoMier-.Journut says tina
certain Southern cities have been warned of
raid In prospect by burglars from New Yorl
city.
The sympathy and indignation of many
citizens of Atlanta Ca, have been moved by
the sight of a young white girl In the chain
gang.
Pennsylvania has, holding over from the
last administration, three Foreign Ministers,
one Secretary of Legation, one Consul Gen
eral, and ten Consuls.
The Boston policemen's clubs have followed
their belts into retirement, by order of the
Mayor. Moral suasion, probably, Is to bring
the unruly citizens sin"
Members of the School Committee of
Boston have issued short and earnest adj
dress to the school girls, requesting them to
dress simply on the day Of graduation.
--Twenty-three vessels are now on the
stocks In Bath, Me, and the little city has
not been 80 busy before since the war. 1t is
said there is not an unwillingly idle man In
the place.
ant an4t,,
1nemorate at Windsor, on the sth and 9th of
July, the .one hundredth anniversary of the
adoption of the constitution Of the State.
The authorities and citizens of Windsor will
assist
The increase Of the India trade WILL 1t is
predicted, make the shipping of Boston
larger this year than for several years past.
Already thiity-eight Insliamen have been re-
ported on the way to that port, and 1t Is
probable that during the year at least sixty
arrivals of East India vessels all with full
cargoes, will be recorded.
Ludwig Runeberg, the national poet of
Finland, died at Helsinfors. May 6. aged sew
He came Of an hunllle family.
studied at Abo, where subsequently, he be-
came distinguished professor; and by his
poems, famous wherever the Scandinavian
language iS spoken, won lucrative position
ut Torga, which enabled him still to devote
himself to literature.
Arithmetic men everywhere can amtise
themselves by computing what are the odds
against O submarine volcano in COCO feet of
water upheavinga ledge Of rock precisely as
, ship is passing over it, SO as to tear off ten
eet of her keel and sink her. Yet such was
he experience of the steamer Knight Temp
ar. When about eleven miles off the island
VI Galita. Tunis, there was q submarine
lasting a minutes the ocean seethed
white all around her, and she received the
low about fifteen feet from her stem, sinking
our hours afterwards.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-14
by THE GOVERNOR.

STATE OF LOUISIANA
Executive Department.
Whereas section 3e49 of the Revised Statutes
Of the State OF Louisiana approved March IA,
1870, provides that the Governor shall issue his
proclamation. upon the advice CT the Board of
HEALTH declaring any place where there shall
be reason to believe Presidential, contagious or
infectious disease existst to be an infected place,
stating the number of days quarantine is to be
performed by the vessels. their passengers Off
GERS and crews coming from such place or
places"
Now therefore, in pursuance to the provisions
of the statutes aforesaid. and upon the recon-
mendatibn Of the Board of Health stating that
there is reason to believe that, at this season of
the year, there is danger Of the introduction
from the tropics Of yellow fever contagion, I.
FRANCIS T. NICHOLAS Governor of the State
OF Louisiana. have thought proper to Issue this
my proclamation declaring that all vessels arriy-
ing, from and after the fifteenth day OF June.
A. D. 1871 from the ports of Rio de Jansiro, Ha-
vana, Matanzas, Sagua La Grande, Cardenas
Cienfuegos, Santiago de Cuba, Kingston, Porto
Rieo San Juan, Santo Domingo and Vera Cruz.
shall be subject to quarantine. and that their
officers, crews, passengers and cargoes arriv-
ing from the above named places. or having
touched or stopped at any Of them, shall be sub
ject to quarantine of ten days
And do hereby direct the proper officers at
the Quarantine Station 10 rigidly enforce the
execution Of this proclamation, and any VIOLA
ton Of the laws OF this State on This subject mat
ter to be vigorously prosecuted.
Witness my signature and the seal OF the State
Of Louisiana. at the city OF New Orleans, this
fourth day Of June, A. d. 1877.
FRANCIS r. NICHOLS,
Governor Of the State Of Lou isiana.
BY the Governor:
WILL A. STRONG. Secretary of state.