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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-11

RB- Referring to the above. the undersigned
would respectfully inform his friends and the
public IN general, that he will continue the
agency for the sale Of the celebrated KNABE
PIANOS and other irst-class Instruments, as
also the business in Sheet Music and Musical
Merchandise, in all its branches, at the old
stand, No. 375 Maia street. A large stock of
Knabe. Pianos received for the holidays.
Special inducements offered in Sheet Music
and Musical Merchandise. A call respect
fully solicited. LEOPOLD 60EPEL,
trading under firm ef u, 6oepel & Co, 975
Main street. Sl-S7
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-11
T"ELEGRAPHIC
STOCKS N BONDS.

LONDON, December IL, 2 p.m.-ConsolI
for money, $751; on account, 50 9 l6.
United States new four-and. a.halfs, los.
United STATES Rve.twenties Of 1867, 1891
United States te%n-forties, 1888; new ives
1911; Erie, %.
New York, December II, ll:50 am
United States skies of 1881, lO73@lO73
United States skies of 1881, coupons
-@llO5; new four-and-a-halfs, 1850
1865; coupons, lO5@lO55; fve-twentiet
of 1865, new issue, = @lO6s; fve.twen
ties of 1867, -@lO9f; ive-twenties o
1868, coupons, -@lll3; t%en.forties
= @lO8t; ten.fortics, coupons, lO8B@
lOS3; currency skies, -@l2O; new 6ves
l07@l011.
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BREADsTUFFs


LIVERPOOL, December ll.-Wheat win.
ter, llsOd@lls6d; Milwaukee red, los 4d
oils I'd; California white, 12s lido
l2s Id California club, l2s 1Gd@l3s 4d.
Germ, 29s 6d@29 %. Pork, 58s Cd.
Beet, S6s Cd. Bacon, long clear, 36s Cd;
short clear, 31s Cd. Lard, ABS Cd. Tai.
low, 40s Cd.
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January; IL 1902 III for February.
Lard, 7 95@7 973 for February. Receipts
Flour, 1882; wheat, 64,l26; corn
Sc, 1893. Shipmeuts-Flour 1898; wheat
6423; corn, 1896.
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9Th SERIES COMMENCES JAN. I, 1878
RusIMEss GRANGE.
Dissolution Of Partnership.

nNHe copattnership existing between the un-
dersigned, under the firm name Of J..
Goepel & Co, has this day been dissolved
by mutual consent, O.. Kesmodel retiring
from the firm. Leopold Goepel will continue
the business on his own account under the
same style and firm, and Will collect all out
standink accounts and assume all liabilities.
lSignedl hEOPOhn G9kPkL.
CHAS. KESM0DEL.
Memphis, December Z, 1877.
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

For goodness sake, Mime" I said,
"don't let Sam Riley see you in this
way!"
But the door opened, and there stood
the schoolmaster again. He said he
had come back for his cane; but he never
even stopped to pick it up, but stood
staring at Mime as if she was ghost in
stead of the fresh, pretty, wholesome
creature that she was. She raised her
head, and, though her face was half hid
den by her hair, her eyelashes were
wet, and the tears not dried yet on her
cheeks.
The schoolmaster, not minding me
any more than if was block of wood
or something, walked straight over to
Mime.
You know very well, he said, "that
| am only going away from here because
love you. Because it was not the class
that was distracted by your pretty ways
and devices; it was I. You know all
this very well, and can tell me whether
had better go or not. Now tell me,
shall [ stay?' :
| You might have knocked me down
with feather when [ saw Mime put
her hand out timidly to the schoollmas-
ter, and he turn pale and catch it in
both his own.
"Of course not" I broke in, for was
near distracted by the way things were
going. eff you're an honorable man,
and got any sense left, and an eye in
your head, you'd see that my niece is as
good as engaged to Sam Riley"
"Sam Rileyp' said Mime, as scornful
as if poor Sam was toad or something,
and holding on to the schoolmaster' s
horny hands as if she was drowning.
Like enough they'll beat her some day,
and If SO she'll like him all the better
for it, for before I'd got out of the room
] heard her tell him she'd teach any way
that suited him best; and my only hope
is that he's got a little money laid by,
for he said he didn't intend she should
teach at all. But, dear! dear! when ]
heard the crack of Sam Riley's whip
outside, and knew the evening stage was
in, and poor Sam not knowing what was
in store for him, I had to go up stairs
and have cry all to myself. And all !
can say is, if Mime marries the school
master, it's mighty queer courtship.-
Horper's Weekly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
CuriOSitieS of Crime.

The novelist who should make and tell
in romance such story as that which
Mr.. Floyd tells of the recovery of his
recently stolen property would get him
self into trouble with the critics. Mr..
Floyd's house at Englewcod, N. J., was
robbed recently. The detectives have
been busy searching for the thief and
goods, but have been able to make moth
ing out of it. Yesterday man came to
Mr.. Floyd's Office, and, declaring his pur-
pose to right the wrong, took Mr.. Floyd
in broad daylight to the house in which
the stolen goods were stored, and, within
sight of detective policeman, loaded
the goods on q truck and sent them
home. He declined the proffered re-
ward, too, only asking that no descrip-
ton of himself should be given.
Here is strange story, whether we
regard the strange recovery of the prop
erty, the strange conduct of the man
who restored it to it's owner, Or the
stranger inability of the detective police
to accomplish anything in the case.
Another story, not quite SO singular,
comes from Long Branch. A theft
there, which had excited great deal of
comment, had been traced to a negro
parson whose reputation was so good
that no one suspected him; and we hear
of another case in which we have sin
gular prayer-test to wonder over. A fire
occurred ON the evening of the 4th of
July, in the village of Chester, in this
State. It was at first believed to have
been the result of careless use of fire.
crackers, but after a while incendiarism
was suspected, and, after the rural man
ner, the people of Chester made the
matter theme of town talk. Que pious
young man even made it subject of
prayer. In the weekly prayer-meeting
of one of the village churches he en-
treated the Ruler of the Universe to bring
the guilty person to Justice: to bring
about his detection, in order that he
might be properly punished; and we now
learn that the prayer was SO effectuaily
answered that the pious young man is
securely lodged in jail, with fair pros
pect of serving term in the State
prison for arson.-NeW York Eve,siag
Post
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

At the recent session of the National
Board OF Trade, in Milwaukee, Mr..
Hamilton A. Hill, of Boston, advocated
the repeal OF the navigation laws of the
United States which forbid registration
under the American flag to foreign
vessels purchased and owned by Ameri-
can citizens. Claiming that they shave
not only failed to yield the advantages
expected from them to the American
| ship-building class, for whose benefit
they were enacted, but have also contrib
uted to the serious decline, and almost
threatened extinction, of the American
ship-owning interest, and to the ocean
carrying trade of the United States" Mr..
Hill said that the shipping interests of
the United States, which had made such
wonderful strides during the first half of
the century, had fallen off, and had act
ually refrigerated since 1856. This he
supported by statistics prepared by DR..
Young and submitted by him to Con-
gress. The figures showed that in 1916
the total tonnage amounted to 1,130, 900
| tons, in 1856 to 2, 400, 900, in 1866 to L.
400, 900, and in 1876 to 100000 tons,
showing falling-of in twenty years of
100000 tons. These figures related to
ocean commerce alone, and do not in
clude coasting vessels.
/ The great building interest of
this country had, in twenty years, dimin-
ished by one-half. What would the
board think if they could see the West
as it was in 1856, with the commerce of
that day and the railroad system as in
complete as then. He blamed the ship
ping laws of the United States for much
of this, and thought the best way of re-
moving the trouble was to get rid of the
disabilities which pressed upon them.
They wanted a modification of the navi-
cation laws, which would allow the
American merchant to purchase foreign
ships, and to bring his property into
American ports and register it there,
with the American flag at the peak. In
order to make business for builders,
it was necessary to have carrying trade,
and if they could not get American built
ships at first, let them get the ship at
all events. The trade would revive, and
would be entirely recognized. It was
stated that ships, whether of wood or
iron, could be built more cheaply in this
country than in England, and, if this
was so, merchants certainly would not
go abroad to purchase them.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
The SOcratic Method.

AS every one knows, who knows any
thing of the tricks and manners of Soc
rates, that remarkable philosopher never
conversed except by asking questions
If he wanted to express the opinion that
Xantippe had put too much lard in the
pie-crust, he would begin by PROFOUND
ing to her series Of seemingly irrele-
want questions, with the view of ulti-
mately leading her into an inadvertent
admission of the evils of excessive lard
His famous conversation with Alcibiades,
in the course of which he convinced the
latter OF the non-existence of his dog,
furnishes a fair example Of what we have
come to call the Socratic method; and,
as the dialogue has never been translated
into English, brief extract from it will
not be out of place here.
S.-"They tell me, Oh, Alcibiades,
that you have cut off your dogs tail"
A.-"It is true, Oh, Socrates; I did it
with my little battle-ax."
S." What is dog? Is it not an an
NAL with four legs and tail ?"
A" You say truly"
S.-"Then your dog is not dog, for
it is an animal with four legs, yet with
ont tail"
A" I see that I must admit it.
S." But will also admit that neither
among Greeks, nor yet among barbara
ans, is there an animal which, having
four legs, has no tail"
A-"Again thou sayest what nobody
denies of"
S." How then can you claim that you
have the very animal which does not
exist?'
A.-"By Zeus, make no such claim.
S.-"Then you see you have no dog"
It was by this method of cross-ques-
tioning that Socrates achieved ire
mendous reputation. It is to be regret
ted that in his later years he did not adj
here to his early custom of always having
three or four persons about him whose
business it was to admit everything.
Unfortunately, he fell into the habit Of
asking everybody questions, IN conse-
quence of which his long suffering fell
low-citizens had to kill him. -NeaO York
Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
The Fighting McCOOkS.

A monument to Gen. Robert Latimer
McCook, one of the famous fighting fam
lily of McCooks, has just been unveiled
in one of the Cincinnati parks. Gen.
McCook was lawyer in Cincinnati at
the outbreak of the war, and partner of
Judge Stallo, leading German. few
days after Lincoln's first call for troops
he, with his partner, addressed the Ger
mans. A number of them organized
the Ninth regiment and elected him
Colonel. He was promoted to Brigadier
General for good management and gal
liant conduct at Mill Spring, but, on Aug.
5, 1862, while lying sick in an open car
rage. his regiment being on the march
from Athens, Ala, to Tennessee, and he
three miles in advance with an escort,
was surrounded by band of guerrillas
and shot, dying the next day. Capt
Frank Gurley, his murderer, was sub
sequently captured, tried, found guilty
of murder, and sentenced to be hanged,
but, after remaining in prison eighteen
months, was by some error exchanged.
Five of the McCooks met violent deaths.
Charles M. McCook, private of the Sec
ond Ohio, was killed at Bull Run. Maj.
Dan McCook, the father, was killed
while riding at the head of Morgan's
pursuers, at Burlington Island, Ohio. 4
Dan McCook, Colonel of the Fifty
second Ohio, was mortally wounded at
Kenesaw Mountain, in July, 1864, and
Gen. E. S. McCook was assassinated at
Yankton, Dakota, in October, 1874.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
Horrors of War-A Turkish Report.

The Turkish Minister of Foreign At
fairs informs his diplomatic agents
abroad that the Russians on entering
Eski-Saghra disarmed the Mussulmans,
employed mokhtars to fetch the Mussul-
mans out of their houses, and they were
massacred. Eleven hundred were thus
put to death.
When the Russians entered Lovatz
fifteen woman and children, fleeing from
the invaders, were killed. Others, to
escape outrage or death, had to aban-
don everything, even their children.
Every Mussulman house In Lovatz was
pillaged. After the recapture of the
town, the Russians carried devastation
and carnage into the neighboring CHS
tricts. The Russians drove out all the
Mussulman inhabitants of the vii
age of Herste, and burned all
the men and some of the women.
Only one woman escaped. Seventy
Mussulmans and the Imaum of Yuklem
were shut up in a barn, which was fired.
Forty-four other Mussulmans were mas
sacred. and all the Mussulman women
outraged. Eight young girls who re-
OloOCO WC1O hlllCNA, ol4u UWO UuIu6u Will
the men. The greater part of the other
women, with their children, were taken
outside the village, where, one after an
other, with their children at their sides,
they were slaughtered. Twenty women
and children who escaped massacre were
rescued by Ottoman troops.
The English militaryattache himself
witnessed all these horrors. The kus
slams disarmed the Mussulmans of Eski-
Saghra, Kezanlik, and the neighboring
villages, and distributed the arms among
the Bulgarians, who drove down 400
Mussulmans to the river Tundja, and
massacred them.
At Eski-Saghra and it's neighborhood
the Bulgarians continue the massacre of
Mussulman population.
Atrocities committed by Cossacks and
Bulgarians continue. Women and
children who had sought refuge in
Khidirkeni were massacred. Otherfam-
lilies shut up in granary were delivered
by our troops. Among them several
women and children were wounded.
The Bulgarians put to fire and the sword
the Mussulman village OF Sofedji and
several others, after having carried off
women and girls, whom they outraged,
killed, and mutilated horribly. One
woman and her two sons were the only
persons saved.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
A Faithful Dog.

In Belgian village, last month, a
Young butcher died after short illness.
During his entire illness his pet bulldog
remained at the foot of the bed, refusing
all food; and, when his master was
buried, it was with great difficulty that
the dog could be induced to leave the
cemetery. A few days later the grave
digger was astonished to perceive large
hole in the young butchers grave, which
he recolleeted to have entirely filed up.
On approaching he found the faithful
animal curled up in the hole. Upon be-
ing taken home the dog obstinately re-
fused to eat, and died of starvation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
A PORTRAIT.
BY CLARENCE COOK.

sE know not wherein lay the charm
She had in those remembered days.
The Olympian gait, the welcoming hand,
The frank soul looking from her race,
The manly manners all her own
Nor yet coquette, nor cold nor 1ree'
She puzzled, being each IN turn
Or dazzled, mingling all the tnree.
Ont of those gowns so quantity rich
They grew. unshaped by Milan's shears =
Rose, like tower, the ivory throat
Hinged with the rings the Caytle wears.
gat. when you sought the Roman face
THAT on such columns grew-and grows!
You found this wonder in its stead
The seashell's curve, the seashell's rose!
Her eyes, the succory's way-side blue;
Her lips, the wilding way-side rose;
But, Beauty dreamed prouder dream,
Throned on her forehead's moonlit SHOWS.
And, over all, the wreathed hair
That caught the sunsets streaming gold,
Where, now, a crocus bed was set,
Or violet, hid in the braided fold
But she, so deep her conscious pride,
So sure her knowledge she was fair
What gowns she wore, or silk, or serge,
She seemed to neither know, nor care.
:sSlle smiled on cat, or frowned on friend,
Or gave her horse the hand denied.
To-day, bewitched you with her wit,
Tomorrow, snubbed you from he
Loyal to truth, yet wed to whi1n,
She held in fee her constant mind.
Whatever tempests drove her bark,
You felt her souls deep anchor bind.
YIN that daVI. dau when fnvnr-driVaD
Her wits went wandering up and down,
And seeming cruel, friendly shears
Closed on her girl-head's glorious crown,
Another woman might have wept
TO see such gold 80 idly spilled.
She only smiled, as curl and coil
Fell, till the shearer's lap was filled;
Then softly said: " Hair-sunsets fade
AS when night clips days locks of gold
Dear Death, thy priestly hands bless,
And nun-like, seek thy convent-fold!'
1den slept, nor woke.
o, miser Death,
What gold thy hidest in thy dust
What ripest beauty there decays,
What sharpest wits there go to rust
Hide not this jewel with the rest
Base gems whose color fed thy breath
But, worn on thine imperial hand,
Make all the world in love with Death
.ISssrt6paeT for September.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
THE SILv II BRIDGE.
By ELIZABETH AKERs ALLEN.

By ELIZABETH AKERs ALLEN.
Inc sunset fades along the shore,
And faints behind yon rosy reach Of sea
Night falls again, but ali, no more,
No more, no more
Ny love returns to me.
The lonely moon builds soft and slow
Her silver bridge across the main
But him who sleeps the wave below,
Love mourns in vain
All no, ali no.
He never comes again
But when some night, beside the sea.
L watch, when sunsets red has ceased to burn.
That silver path, and sigh, "Ah nue.,
All me, alb me,
He never will return"
If on that bridge of ripping light
His homeward feet should find their way
should not wonder at the sight,
But only say,
All love, my love,
knew you would not stay %
Atlantic Monthly for September.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

GLASS slippers have been produced by
the coming artifcers of Vienna. The
slippers are actually woven Of fine fex-
ible threads of glass.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
A FEW DAYS AGO the perishable pro

A FEW days ago the perishable prop
erty Of man lately deceased was to be
sold ia Columbus, Ca, by the admins
traitor. Among the assets were two bar
rels of whisky, worth about $50. Just
as these were reached the internal-reve-
nue. agent forbid their sale until the adj
ministrator took out wholesale liquor
dealers license, which cost 800.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30

The seventeen-year locusts are re-
ported to have done great damage to the
trees along the base of the Blue noun
tains in Pennsylvania.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-02-17

signed reasons therefor, which are un.
derstood to also cover the case OF Ore
gon and South Carolina. His resolu.
ton was adopted by u vote of eight to
seven.
Justices Miller and Bradley and
Representative Abbott were then ap.
pointed q committee to draft report
for presentation to Congress, and at
6;l5 p. m. the commission took a re-
cess to o'clock.
Commissioners Payne moved to allow
the counsel one hours time, but the
counsel declined, and the commission
resumed their secret session, with q
view to reaching final decision to-
night.
The understanding that Morton's
resolution covers the South Carolina
and Oregon cases may be received
with very slight hope, as the person
who communicated the information
secretly may have misconstrued 1t.
The commission adjourned without
removing the pledge of secresy. Moth
ing further TRANSFERRED.