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Oogent Reasons for a GRAND succo.s

C0Reut Reasons Tor a Success
Conspicuous among the highest examples of
success which the present century can shew is
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The record Of its
triumphs over disease is to be traced in the
written Acknowledgements of thousands who
have experienced its benslcent effects. and
the evidence Of its popularity is to be found in
the vast and growing demand for the article
in North and south America, Mexico, Guate-
The reasons for its unparalleled success are
cogent ones. The accumulated evidence OF
nearly thirty years shows that it is q certain
remedy for malarial disease, as we'll az its
surest preventive; that it e~radieates dyspep.
vousness, counteraots q tendency to govt,
rheumatism, srinary and uterine disorders,
that iyimparts yigor to the feeble, and cheers
the mind while 1t invigorates the body,
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PASSED 1T ANYHOW.

After two days discussion the
house of the Legislature came up
m%anfully to its work aud passed bill
No. 40 to repeal the dog law by a
ots'of6 5 ayes to 5 nays. Theymight
almost as well have made it unani-
nous. Messrs. Coleman, Collier,
Kendrick, Lowe, Peters, Simonton
and Tolly voted in the negative.
Cannon, Freeman and Hill were
absent. The constitutional proyi-
sion was disregarded, but it ID
doubtful whether the senate will
follow the precedent set by tht
house. The a~nti-sheep member
can at least 90 back and tell thei
constituents that they voted to re
peal the dog law, whether /
Is repealed or not. inns seem
to have been the motiyI
that controlled IN yesterday
proceedings. A facetious membe
said that owing to the great victor
just achieved he would move to ad
journ until to-day in order that th
house might have a grand jollitica
ton, and another moved In lie.
that as the house had accomplishe
all they had been sent there to d
that it adjourn sine die. The whol
affair is ludicrous. In the iri
place the law is a good one, and
permitted to remain in existenC
would develop a great interest a
over the State, one which ever
farmer can make highly profitab
on a small investment and eutla
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IL'Vs DaNsI
NOn-Resident Notice.

In the Chancery Court Of Shelby County,
Tenn.-W, +. Irvine Tor \. W. IrvineJ vs..
NJ. l.. Woodson ct al.
1T APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
! this cause. that the defendants, M. L.
WoodsOn, Sallie Coyington formerly Wood
sonl and her husband A, II. Covington, Wal
ter Guerrant and Morris Guerrant are eIl nom
resident Of tho state Of Tennessee; it
is therefore ordered that they make their
appearance herein, at the courthouse.
in the city Of Memphis. Tennessee, on or
before the first Monday in April, 1877.
and plead, answer or demur to complain
ants bill, or the same will be taken for con-
fessed as to them and set for hearing OK parte;
and that q copy Of this order bs published
once a week, for four successive weeks. in the
Public Ledger.
This 18th day of February, 1877.
AcOpy-Attest;
EDMbND A. COLE, G. and N.
By 7. BLACE, D. G. aud NJ.
l44-I50I-7
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of time and attention. Perhaps,
however, the present law should be
modified. In the next place the
law, if to be repealed at all, should
have been quietly and speedily re-
pealed without SO much waste OF
ink, paper and breath. Really there
has been more said about it than
about the Presidential election in
this State. The action of yesterday
will probably count for nothing,
except to figure in future grand
political contests.
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River ~TsieEramS.

CAIEo, February l6.-Arriyed-Mary
Miller, ST. Louis, 5 p M Golden Rule,
New otleans, Sam; Jos Kinney, Vicks-
burg 8; Andy Baum, Memphis 81 Morton,
st. Lopis, g. Ironsidss, at. Louis, noon.
Departed-Belle Memphis, Memphis, s
p N; Mary Miller, Cincinnati, 2; Golden
Rule, Cincinnati, 6 ami Norton, St
Louis, 10; Andy Baum, Cincinnati, 10
Cloudy aud cold.
CINCINNATI, February l6 The river
is falling Weather. faih
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There was q fire ia tie aiympio Thea
ter, London, on January 23d, during the
evening performance, nut there was No
panic; the audience kept their seats, the
actors on the stage fought noblY, aad The
lmes we're oonlned 70 Two Wigs, Miss
Ada OavendIsh, rs the Queen Of Con.
naught," brandished a torch 80 avn
wardly that she set Gre to Mr., Hills wig
She went On with her part. c@leverly man.
aging to e~xtinguish Tue flames That en-.
cifsled heF eoapanioa's broad countq
nance, bu; unlnckily the aambeau sway
ed too near her own head, and in Q
moment her wig was cracklisg and bla7
ing. An actor sprsug to the Esseue, ant
tbs torch vas discontinued for the eyeu.
ing
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weldon. tho Assnssin.

MOBILE, February l6.-Wm. d. Wei
don, who attempted to kill Governor
Packard, was sent to Mobile last 0cto-
Der, recommended by a member Of the
honse Of Claim & CO.. to tskR gsryips
with ?. Il. Pepper q Co., a wealthy dry
goods house here. BE was engaged by
Pepper and remained until about ten
days ego. After quitting he took to
drink, and probably on that account,
coupled with a little love matter, he did
some wild things. Last Sunday be in
foruad an acquaintance that he was
going to kill himself, and had already
secured a room at Mandsey's restaurant.
The last seen Of Weldon at Pepper 4
Co. was on the 18Th, at ! am, when he
called and received a settlemsat ana
babe the cashier goodbye. Being asked
if be was going to remain here, he re
Piled NO. ihRt he bad something else
on hand, aud was about 10 leayg the
city. All who know him here say biz
resolution must have been taken ovei
the drinking table While here. H'
said that his father was a LutheFs,
m;pister in Philadelphia. He was neye.
known to take spy part or interest it
politics. An Acquaintance says be ka
got been in a condition of responsibilit.
for more than a week.
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OOburn, the FugIIist, shOats Two
pOlicem NJ.

NEW YoRK, February II about half.
past one o'clock this morning, Joe Co
burn, the we'll known pugilist, shot two
police officers, both dangerously. 1t ap'
pears that officer Tobias, who ordered a
haokman from 10 front OF Coburn's sa,
loon, 1886 Broadway, was followed to tbs
corner Of Broadway and Thirty-ihird
streets by Coburn, who deliberately 6red
two shots, one taking effect in the breas'
and the other in the arm Of the officer
Another policer Office named Jerfes
hearing the firing, ran to the assistanc,
Of his cOmrade, whom Coburn fred again
wounding the second officer in the side
Coburn has been arrested.
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shInmant OF 1nttIe to RurOpe.

New YoRK February l6. - The ship.
ment of beef from jersey City to Eug-
land this week has been SO large that
prices rose suddenly at the cattle market
yesterday. The experiment of shipping
live stock will be tried this week, aud il
it proves successful, extensive and rapid
importation Of cattle from the Yves. will
be the result.
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TaE ENGLISH CAyALRY SERVICE
7higtssn ThOunAna troopers In All


Thirtsen ThOusand Troopers Ia All.
The London Standard says: "If
the wounds inflicted by the fine
regiments of cavalry Of which
France boosted some years ago were
SO insignificant during the Franco.
German war as scarcely to call for
tabulation, VIZ can scarcely hope
that the few attenuated bodies of
horsemen that We possess will be of
much value against disciplined
troops. The eight army corps which
sanguine patriots imagine Great
Britain could mobilize in a fort
night or SO, should, theoretically,
have eight ornine cavalry regiments
attached to each of them, every
regiment with a strength of five
hundred sabres. AS a fact, however,
the returns tell us that we have no
more than $4,000 troopers in all,
within the limits of the United
Kingdom, giving, therefore, a pro
portion of rather more than 1900,
or three full regiments to each
army corps. We say men adyisedly,
for when we come to reckon up the
number of horses at the disposal Of
the war Office, we find q far more
serious deficiency still. OF the
10, 900 horses voted by parliament,
only half are troop animals, the
rest being absorbed by the royal
artillery, army service corps, engi-
neer train, etc. 1t is clear, there
fore, that the 1900 men in each
army corps would have but 1000
horses to ride upon were they
called upon to go into action
tomorrow. 1t may be said
that in each cavalry regiment
there must necessarily, from one
cause or another, always be a large
proportion of men dismounted. No
doubt, this is true enough; but
there are again among the horses,
too, a number Of young, sick or
unframed animals Of no practical
value to the regiments. A cavalry
regiment on the British establish
ment, which numbers more than
5000 all ranks, has but 800 horses
allotted to it, and the consequence
is that it seldom musters 230 or 240
sabres on parade. In Germany
they seem to put q much greater
value upon troop horses than we do
in this country, and nearly 6-7ths
Of the total number of military
horses are made over to the cavalry.
Our neighbors know very well that
they can at a pinch train a draught-
horse much more readily than one
intended to take part in the move
ment of troop. The consequence
is that their cavalry is never at a
very low ebb, and If their artillery
and train are denuded of animals
these can always be secured on an
emergency with but little delay,
since the owners of all Graught-
horses in Germany are carefully
registered for the information Of
the State. There cannot be a doubt,
if it is really desired to maintain
our cavalry upon an efficient foot.
ing, that we should be acting wisely
to attach the greater portion Of oul
horses to that branch of the ser.
vice"
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Testimony of "a Chicago Mannfae
furer.

WAsHlYqToy, February l6-D. NJ.
Clifford, q manufactures of Chicago, was
before the house subcommittee to-day.
The only few points ELECTED were that
Spe lring and Little6eld, in a couversa'
ton with witness in New Orleans, stated
that they had been approached by prom
inent Democrats, among them Governor
Palmer, of Illinois, to tell for money
what they knew about the returning
board. Littlefeld said he had been ap
preached by Palmer, and could get $40,
900 for squsqling.
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RADICAL TACTICS.

The Republicans after doing all
in their power for sixteen years to
erase State lines and abrogate all
States rights and set up central
lied government at Washington
have suddenly become greatly enam-
orel of States rights, and preach
the once repugnant doctrine with
all the zeal Of new converts. 1t is
now argued by them that the right
to cast its votes rests in the State,
and was not a grant from the gene
raj government, and that whatever
power the federal government pos
sesses is held through the terms
of the federal constitution that
the whole matter of selecting
electors, and determining the
mode and issuing of certificates be-
longs to the States. The federal
government can only count or verify
the vote after it has left the State.
Such was the tone Of Mr.. Eyarts'
ARGUMENT before the electoral COM
mission yesterday. They say vir-
tually that the federal government
may prescribe the qualifications OF
electors, but that the State is not
bound thereby. Thus, if the State
board certifes that some one hold
ing a federal appointment was
chosen as elector, the government
could only count. the vote cast by
this e%lector. How they will escape
the effect of this line of reasoning
when the Oregon case is reached is
rather more than we can foresee,
except upoa the theory that eight
votes count for more than seven
The proper and only legally consti.
tuted authority certified to Cronin'i
appointment and the vote he cas-
for Tilden. The Republicans start
ed out on a long, crooked route
when they conspired to thwart tht
will of the people, and they seen
to adopt new tactics and a differen.
set of rules to meet each particula.
case as it is reached. When the,
have bridged over the Louisiana cas-
they will tear down the structure
and commence laying %pontoons, S,
as to walk over Oregon. They re
gard the whole electoral bill as
makeshift and a temporary arrange
ment, which will enable them t,
count in Hayes and Wheeler an'
give them a now lease of power
and in doing SO they do pot min,
going square back on their recor
and former declarations.
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Roxaltr.s D .nrerous sport.

The newspapers Of Pesth report
an extraordinary scene that was
recently witnessed in hat city.
The empress Of Austria, aecompa-
MED by o numerous cayalcade OF
ladies and lords of high degree, Get
out on q deer hunt, some distance
from the town, and started q doe
that ran out Of the woods Hpon the
railroad track, and down the track
to the city. Swimming the moat,
it entered the paved streets of the
town with the hounds aud the en-,
tire hunting party in close pursuit.
1t was the hour Of poon, a time
when the streets were usually full 0.
school children on their way home.
but Notwithstanding the imminenl
danger of encouatering 0nd run.
ming over some of these, to say
nothing Of ordinary pedestrians
the furious riders galloped madl,
with their wild hounds after thi
painting deer through streets afte.
streets, past dwellings, stores an(
churches, until the faded ANNA
fell exhausted upon the cObbl
stones. The empress and til
Baroness of Walleree, and til
Baroness Of Edelsheim -Gyulai an.
the noble Princess Rose Hohenloh
enjoyed it immensely, but the cit
zens of Pesth are very indignan
about it.
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wednesday, March IA, 1877,

in legal hours, in front of tAe Court-house,
Memphis, Tenn. proceed TO sell, to the high
est bidder, for cash, the following described
property, to-wit:
In Civil district No. l. Shelby county, Ten
nessee, containing so acres, more or less, and
bounded as follows: Beginning at an elm
and black-gum, with elm, white-oak and
black-gum pointers; thence south 20 chains to
\ stake in the dividing line betweea the tract
| herein described and a 50-acre tract conveyed
by VIM Boult to b. Hill (see Book SO, page
Az; thence east along the dividing line
"a .O75 chains to a stake with two white-oak
and one blaek-gum pointer; thence north
20.2 oh sins to a dogwoOd marked w b, with
two white-oak and one black. gum pointer:
thence west A.0I5 chains to the beginning
corner, being a part of the l00-aore tract con,
veyed to VIM. Boult by II. p. Shaw by deed
recorded in Book s. page471, Register Office.
Levied on as tho property Of defendant.
VIM. Boult, to satisfy said judgment, interest
and costs.
Memphis, December 80, 1875.
Q. Il, ANDERSON,
Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn.
BY THos. Il. TAYLos. ID. 3.
,Heiskell d Wcatherford. Attorneys for
plalnllu. ia 1901
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Chicarn Mnrnafs.

CHICAGO, February l6. HIS p M
Wheat is fem at 81 32f for March, 81 S35
@l 342 for April. Corn is easier at 42c
for cash February 4Sic for March 46tc
for May has sold at 46sa for May Oats
are inactive and nominally $3.50 for
March; 355c for April; 3S, for May.
Pork is firm, with large sales, at St5 S73
ior March, SIS O5 for April has soll at
$l5 10 for April, Lard is firm al sic 52l
for March; $40 659lO 674 for April.
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Bank Failure.

PorTsylLLE, February l6. = The fol-
lowing notice was posted on the door Of
the Miners Trust and Safe Deposit Bauk
at Shamakin this morning: Owing to
u inability to realize. money on our
notes held as bills discounted, we are
compelled to close this bank and suspend
payment" Considerable excitement
exists. The principal business men Of
the place are heavy depositors. and the
loss falls principally upon them.
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LET THE nEcrsroN CONE.

1t has been suggested that the
Democrats in Congress, by dilatory
proceedings, can prevent a COM
pletlon of the count until after the
5th of March and thus allow the
president of the senate to become
President and bring about a presi-
dental election next fall. The
proposition is not seconded with
much enthusiasm and should not
be. The country has been in a
state of feverish excitement for
many months, and the strain has
been so great that we begin to feel
the evil consequences of reaction OF
lethargy and morbid Indifference
This is not a healthy state of affairs.
Business of every kind is seriously
affected; capital is locked up; people
r out of work and dissatisfied;
everything is at a stand-still. An
other election would plunge the
country into a state of greater ex-
element for the next eight months
than has occurred since the war.
Every interest would suffer, and
every industry and every enterprise
languish. The electoral law seemed
to be the best plan that could be
devised to settle a grave and omi-
nous question. One side or the
other must have a slight prepond'
erance, for if evenly balanced there
would be no one to cast the decid-
ing vote. The people, and over
two.thirds of each house, regardless
of party, agreed to abide by this
plan. 10 attempt to thwart the
decision likely to be reached would
be an act of bad faith and a mos
unfortunate policy for the party
adopting it. We are not Of those
who expect the heavens to fall ani
the pillars of the republic to tumble
about our heads every time oul
party is defeated, whether fairly Oh
unfairly. There is recuperativ'
power, virtue and intelligence ii
the land yet, let the high join.
commission decide as it may. Whel
that decision is made let it stand
and give the people a chance to g
to work and think about something
else than politics and the possibili
ties of civil war. There will b
another day Of reckoning and th
party that acts in bad faith a
this critical time will be held to
strict accountability in the future
In any event, the Democrats ar
almost certain to sweep the coun
try in 1873 and 1880. Meantime
corn and cotton will grow as usua
if planted and worked, and the OIL
binary course of nature is not like
ly to be reversed merely to max
good the forebodings of the mel
curial grumblers who see the en-
Of constitutional liberty every tim
their own ideas do not prevail.
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HtLENA. AJAX.

wars-Hoase Burnsd-Loss, 100000
Special to the Ledger
HELENA, AK February l6, p. I.
Anderson's warehouse, containing five
hundred bales Of cotton asd a large 10;
of oil cake, caught Ere at six o'clock
this morning. and is still burning; loss
about $2O,O Three horses, a COW and
a calf were burned. Some cotton near
the warehouse was burned. The cotton
was mostly uninsured. Supposed to be
the work Of an iEcehdiary.
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earn.

To all wAS are suffering from the errors and
iadiscretions Of youth, nervous weakness,
sarly decay, los 0 fmanhood, etc.. l will send
a reeipo that will euro you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
by a missionary in South America. Send a
self. addressed envelope to the REy. JosFPH
7. ISMAS, s'aticn y. Bible House, New York
City, l29-xxiv. 12Sdsw
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In an Edinburgh trial a witness was
asked: What do you cOnsider excessive
politeness to q lady not your wife2' and
he answered: When a gentleman at.
tends to a lady as if she were a piece Of
blown glass aud be we're afraid she might
break. Husbands are not generally so
particular"
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WASHINGTON, February l6.-For Ter
nessee and the Ohio valley southwest
veering to colder northwest winds, rising
barometer and light rains followed by
clearing weather.
The rivers will remain stationary or
slowly falling.
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THE Packard affair does not
amount to much after all. 1t seems
that a patriotic lunatic, hailing
from Philadelphia, and having been
in New Orlegns only tvepty-foqr
hours, undertook to come the
Wilkes Booth business on Packard.
Packard's wound is very slight, and
the lunalic was shot in the arm by
a bystander, but pot seriously hurt.
This is one Southern outrage WHICH
cannot be turned to much political
account by the Radicals, although
the attempt will doubtless be made
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DefauIuDx Cashier.

FIsHKIbL. New YORK, February l6 -
Alexander Barlow, the alleged default.
ing cashier of the Fishkill Bank, has
been arrested, and has given bail Of
$50, 900. BOY
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Whore lhe snn Jumpa ) Dag.

Chatham Island, lying off the
coast Of New Zealand in the South
Pacific ocean, is peculiarly situated,
as it is oneiof the habited points Of.
the globe where the day of the
week changes. 1t is just in the
line of Gemarkation between dates.
There high twelve on Sunday OF
noon ceases, aud Instantly Monday
meridian begins. Sunday comes
into a mans house on the east side
and becomes Monday by the time it
passes out tho western door. A
man sits down to his MONDAY din
Nor on Sunday, and it is Monday
before he finishes it.
That Saturday is Sunday aud
Sunday is Monday, and Monday
suddenly becomes transferred into
l Tuesday. 1t is a good place for
people who have lost much time.
for by taking an early start they
can always geta day ahead on Chat,
ham Island. 1t took philosopher
and geographeTs a long time to set
tie the puzzle Of where SUNDAY
noon ceased and where Monday be
gan, with a man travelling ives
fifteen degree an hour, or with tn,
sun. It is hoped that the mex.
English archie expedition will settl,
the other mooted question, "Wher
will one stop who travels north
west continually 7"
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New HAVEN. February l6.-A FIRE in
Edward NJ lley's dry goods store last
night caused a damage to the stock q
about SIS, 900. Insured.
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SheriR's Sale of Real Estate.

DUBLIC NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN.
to me directed from the Honorable Supreme
Court Of Tennessee. in the cases Of McClelland
4 Eakin, A. r. Barrett, c.. j. Singleton ct al.
VS.. VIM. Boult, judgments rendered on the
18th and l4th days of November. 1876, for the
aggregate sum Of two hundred and sixty
eight dollars and thirteen cents. with interest
and costs Of suit, to satisfy said judgments.
Atn. / will. on
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The Kansas legislature employs young
lady pages, and when a married man is
elected a member, there are not enough
knotholes in all the backyard fences in
his district to accommodate the women
who want to interview each other about
t.-Brooklm Argus.
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9z r N Il NISt
Friday Evening, Feb. Is, 1877.

The subscription price Of the PUB.
LIC LEDGER is IS per Gnnum for
he Daily, and 81 per snnum for the
Reekll-POstaqe tree.
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YaehtiBg.

New YORK, February l6.-The Yacht
Club is so embarrassed that it has voted
to give up its New York and Staten
Island houses,
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A man in a red velvet waistooat aud q
yellow satin necktie can generally man
age to create some sensation as al adgo.
cate Of dress reform.
The American Grocer, a COMMERCIAL
journal, keeps this advice prominently
before its readers: Count, measure,
weigh and gauge everything you buy,
mr.. Bsecher is working for money
during two mouths vacation. ,Heisun.
der a contract with the lecture bureau to
deliver a hundred lectures for $4,000.
There is an old German p%tOverb to the
effect that q great war leaves the eoan
try with three armies-an army Of Grip
pies, an army Of mourhers and an army
Of thieves.