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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31

EX-GOVERNOR MOSES, being in
Jail in Columbia, s. c., for signing
illegal certificates of pay and other
felonious acts, tits conjectured that
he will "give away his accomplices
in rascality, including Ex-Governor
Chamberlain. There is a chance
that the whole gang of thieves who
lived on good stealing" in that
State 50 long will be brought to
Justice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31
Car or Troops Thrown f.Om me
FrneH.

BALTIMORE, July 3l.-A locomotive,
tender and n car Of the troops train
RAJ thrown from the track two miles
west of Keyser, W. Va, by a misplaced
switch. Ten soldiers we're injured. The
crew Of the Grafton trains ore 10 receive
fifty dollars each. These reopen the
third division.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31

GRANT has gone to visit his
brother-in-law NJ. j. Kramer, lie
American Minister to Denmark. 1t
would be Il capital piece of civil
service refolm in Hayes to recall
Kramer and send a gentleman,
which he is not in any sense.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31

LAW LER-Monday afternoon, July 10Th,
at Goodlett Station, Tenn Miss MARY A.
LAWYER
Funeral from tho residence Of Rev p.
t. Scruggs, Goodlett Station. to-mo. row
WEDNESDAY,, at 8 n N. Friends of the
deceased and Captain j. 7. Lawler are re
speosfu1y invited to attend. Carriages Mt
Holst's.
HAWKINS AT the Church Orphans Home.
on tho lth Of July, Jo3EPH HAWKINS the b
loved boy. three years of age, reisod oy Peter
and Maggie Pujo.
IN MBM0RIAM.
Wei done, little Joe; thy retreat is glo. Gus.
Hard WIS tho battle press.d upon thee in thy
early l'fe, over wholming the odds, and thou
hast done wo'lto retreat ON the struggle.
Well done, weary little stranger. thou art at
rest. Torn from the embrace of those who
loved thee. like a rosebud torn from the bush,
thou hast faded away. angel Of love, martyr
of sincere affection. Peace to thy ashes, etor-
nal glory to thy soul. thou Gods little
cherub. May thy angel spirit watch over us
in life. Eternal benediction to thy memory.
Joe, farewell. Thy little gravO, the grave of
an orphan and a stranger, will not be for
gotten. PETER AND MAGGIE PUJ0.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-31

The Pittsburg Post states that
over forty deaths were occasioned by
the riot at that place.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
Desperate Fight With a Burglar.

A Portland policeman, Charles G.
Morrill,, deserves honorable mention for
his brave defense of ex-senator Lot Nor
rill's house against two midnight bur-
glars short time ago. Morrill, had
made his customary tour of the empty
house, when he heard man trying the
windows of the dining-room. He crept
into the room, cooked his pistol and
waited for developments. In a moment
the blind and window fell, crashing be-
meath the blows of an iron bar, and the
burglar stepped into the room and was
instantly seized by the watchman. But
the house-breaker was cool, and with a
blow of his bar knocked Morrill's pistol
out of his hand, and a desperate strug
gle ensued Morrill, was fast getting
the advantage, and was pummeling his
adversary severely about the face with
marine spike he carried in his jacket,
when the burglar succeeded in drawing
dirk and aimed a heavy blow at Nor
rill's heart, which would have been in
stantly fatal if the point had not been
turned aside by suspender buckle.
Morrill, recovered himself at once, and
wrenched the knife from the despera-
dos hand, drawing the blade through
its owners palm as he did so. The
burglar now gave up the fight, and
called to his confederate outside to
shoot, which the latter did, sending a
| bullet within a few inches of Morrill, S
head. Morrill's adversary, by violent
| effort, then wrenched himself away and
disappeared, followed by two shots from
Morrill's revolver, one of which he
| thinks took effect. The housebreaker
left behind, besides his dirk, his iron
''billy'' and meal-sack, in which he
evidently intended to carry off his
| hOOtv
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
A Sad, Strange Romance.

Max Won Grollman, aged SO, employ
ed as a pressman in the paper-staining
factory, No. Sc Lewis Street, says the
New York Star, was found dead in bed
yesterday morning at his residence, No.
115 Sheriff Street, from an overdose of
opium taken by him, as was his wont,
to drown his sorrows. The history of
the deceased is full of interest. Born of
a wealthy and titled family, in Hesse
Darmstadt, he received liberal educa-
ton, and became endowed with the title
of Baron. When the young Baron be-
came of age he entered the service as a
soldier in the Hessian army, and soon
rose from the ranks to the position of
Captain. He received many medals by
reason of his meritorious service in the
late Franco-Prussian war. After the
war he came to this country with con-
siderable amount of money and letters
of introduction to many of our promi-
nent German residents. His money,
however, soon gave out, and
the property belonging to
him in Europe had been
confscated by the German Government
for some unexplained reason; but, by
the help of some newly found friends
here, he obtained new start in busi-
ness, and for time succeeded very well.
He meantime wooed and won the heart
of a Miss Hartman, and soon made her
his wife. The young couple lived to-
gether for a time, but soon quarrels
arose between them, and the welded
life of the Baron ended by his wife OBJ
tanning a decree of divorce for alleged
cruel treatment, and he was compelled
to pay weekly alimony of $5 for her
support. After this separation from his
wife he took to drink, and, as his neigh
bors say, was invariably under the in
fuence of liquor. He had also become
addicted to the use of opium, and on
Tuesday night was last seen under its
influence. Not having put in appear
ance at his place of business yesterday
morning, inquiries were made for him,
and on going to his room his dead body
was found.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

Alfred Jones, aged ~ "a afarmerresiding
in the vicinity of Linnville, Licking County,
o., ,on the 18th deliberately killed his daughter
Susanna, aged about A, with hatchet, after
which he walked to town, distance of eight
miles, and surrendered himself to the au-
thorities after giving them full information
regarding the horrible affair. The father
suspected the daughter, who kept house for
him, of improper intimacy with some of the
neighboring men, and while in fit of anger,
caused thereby, committed the murder. He
has lived in Licking County over 43 years ,and
was universally regarded as a worthy and
upright man.
Near Lawreneeville, Dearborn Coun-
ty, Ind, on the 18th, Joseph Kuntzler was
killed by his own son, boy aged only 13
who shot him in cold blood as he was return
| ing home from town. The parricide, after
being arrested, confessed to the shooting, but
said that he was instigated to it by his
mother, who deliberately planned the muir
der, and after his father was shot she took
the gun and placed it by the side of the mur-
dered man, in order to make it appear that
he had shot himself, which was the story
that they had agreed to tell. Mrs. Kuntzler
was seeking a divorce from her husband.
Mother and son are both imprisoned.
A popular variety singer in New Or
leans was dressing for the stage few nights
| ago, when the lamp in her room exploded.
In a few moments she was corpse.
J. D. Easter & Co., of Chicago, the
largest dealers in agricultural implements
| in the Northwest, have made an assign
ment. They claim to have a quarter of a
million dollars in farmers notes, due and
unpaid.
Sam. Holmes, noted Kentucky des-
perado, who shot and killed Sheriff Napier
of Lincoln County, in 1869, was captured on
the 10th and is now safely lodged in jail.
There was standing reward of 81 500 offer
ed for his apprehension.
Mrs. Frank Flynn, of Providence, r.
l., was fatally burned on the 18th while kind
ling a fire with kerosene.
Ham and Mccullough, two of the
Kansas City forgers of Texas land titles
thave been sentenced at Austin-Ham to 1C
years and Mccullough to six years in the
tTexas Pennitentiary. Tullis, one Of the
Texas partners, has been sentenced to sever
years. imprisonment.
A Tucson (Arizona) dispatch, 18th
says that Gen. Huerato, former Governor O.
Sonora, is reported in Mexico with 200
American filibusters, stationed near the So
nora line, preparatory for an invasion o
Pesquardno. A Mexican man-of-war haC
arrived at Guyamas to look into the matter
and several thousand troops are concen
trated at Mazatlan.
Boot Alexander, colored, who muir
dered Thomas Daughty near Murfreesboro
Tenn, was taken from the Jail by an armet
mob and hanged on the night of the 18th.
The Springfield Ql.) Savings Banl
suspended on the 18th. Its financial diff
culties date back to the panic of 1878.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
Musical Pitch.

1t is well known to musicians that
during the last century there has been a
gradual rise in the pitch of musical
notes; that is, the note which formerly
used to be regarded, say as A, has
gradually become considered fiatter and
f1atter, so that the sound produced by a
given key on modern instrument is
sensibly sharper and more acute than
that given by the corresponding key on
an older instrument. To SO great an
extent has this variation now arrived
:hat the highest concert pitches of the
present day are at least a tone above
those in use in 1850; that is, the note
which now would be regarded as b fiat,
or even almost A natural, was consid-
cred to be G natural or close to it in the
first half of last century, while even dur
ing the last so years there has been a
rise of from a semitone to a semitone
and half in pitch. One effect of this
is that the music of the older composers
as now played produces an entirely diff
ferent effect from that which it was
intended to do; it sounds as though
it were transposed into higher key;
while music originally written for fair
average tenors and sopranos can now
be efficiently sung only by exceptional
voices, the highest notes, which former
ly were fairly in reach of ordinary culti-
waited voices, being now made so high
through the raising of the pitch as to be
expressed only as screeches and notes
unpleasant through their great shrill-
ness, and consequent deficiency in rich
ness and fullness of tone. The differ
ence of pitch is acoustically expressed
by saying that the number of vibrations
per second required to give certain
note is now considerably greater than
was formerly the case. A number Of
exact comparative measurements Of
pitches in use at various dates and in
different places has been recently made
by Mr.. Alexander Ellis, the materials
for the investigation being derived from
standard organ-pipes, ,tuning-forks, etc.,
carefully preserved by their various
owners.-London Society.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
A Turkish Lady Unveiled.

The following extract is from letter
written by the captain of Maine brig,
now loading in Smyrna, Turkey:
/" Speaking of Turks makes me think to
tell you that have been highly honored
since 1 have been here, having had as a
visitor Turkish lady of high rank
something that never happened before
in Smyrna, so my consignee informs me.
She was the most beautiful woman |
have ever seen, and wonderfully grace
full. 1 suppose you are aware that the
Turkish ladies are always yelled to all
except their husbands, if they have any ;
but this lady was unmarried, and came
on board accompanied by the consignee
of my vessel, with his wife and sisters
and small army of assistants. She
kept closely yelled while she remained
on deck, but when resting in the cabin
a photograph of my little girl was hand
ed to her. She, in order to observe ii
better, dropped her veil, and thus re-
manned during the short time of their
visit. She was just like all handsome
women, perfectly well aware OF the fact,
and evidently willing that others should
be, when out of sight of her own people
She was perfectly at ease, and just be-
fore leaving recovered her face with hel
veil, and assumed that mysterious look
and appearance common to all TurkisI
women.''
In the Forest Hill Cemetery, neal
Boston, two dogs, having burrowed un
der the fence, killed in the night S40(
worth of imported swans, geese ano
ducks. Only one escaped. The birds
were from Australia. The dogs were
killed by the keeper, and their ownef
threatens to sue the corporation fo
damages.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29

Jack Hunt, aged %, was hanged at
MadisOnville, Tenn, on the 18th, for the
cold -blooded murder of his wife in July, 1875.
On the night previous to the day fixed upon
for his execution, he attempted to cheat the
| gallows by taking a fatal dose of morphine.
supposed to have been furnished him by his
mother and brother, but by the prompt use
| of emetics and a stomach pump his design
was thwarted.
w. f. Endicott, President of the de-
funct Central National Bank of Chicago, it
| is believed has fed to Europe. An examina-
tion by the receiver shows that at the time
the bank suspended Endicott unloaded all
his stock upon the bank, taking in lieu there
of cash for its par value. 1t was at first
given out that the concern would pay de-
pOsitOrs dollar for dollar, but the receiver
now says that but comparatively a small per
centage can be paid.
AT Hanging Rock, Lawrence County,
o., on the 14th, Mrs. James Winkler was
burned so badly by the explosion of lamp
that she died a short time after.
A PARIS dispatch of the goth says that
a son of NJ. Provost Paradol, aged II years,
shot himself. Cause of the act not known.
1t will be remembered that N. Provost Par
adol, the father, committed suicide when
Minister of France to the United States,
few years ago.
The gable of Mines Hotel, Edin-
burgh, Scotland, which was weakened by
fire, fell on the Goth, burying a number of
persons in the ruins. Ten lives were lost.
At Boston, on the 10Th, John Cronin,
8 years old, was shot in the head by Henry
Hickey, IL years old, and died in a few min
utes. The boys were in an upper room at
play, when the Cronin boy scratched Hickey
in the face and started to run down stairs.
The latter followed to the head of the stairs,
and fired the fatal shot with a revolver.
Ray, White & Co., proprietors of the
Louisville Tobacco Warehouse, have sus-
pended payment, with liabilities amounting
to $145, 900, and assets said to be considera-
bly, in excess of thatsu but not Immediate
ly available.
Michael Davitt, Fenian, sentenced to
Is years. penal servitude, has been released
from Dartmoor Prison on ticket of leave
after serving half the term of his sentence.
Sam Mills, colored, was hanged at
Elko, New, on the 21st, for the murder of
James Finnerty.
Henry Norfolk was hanged at Annapo-
lis, Md, on the 21st for the murder of his wife
in May last. Van Dyke, another wife mur-
derer, was hanged at Canton, n. Y, on the
same day.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
Killed by a Runaway LOcOmO.
tive.

County Physician Brown of Elizabeth
inquired yesterday into the death of Ed
ward Helppeny, brakeman, and the de-
struction of two locomotives of the Cen
tral Railroad of New Jersey at the
EsPort'' on Saturday afternoon. Benz.
Moore, engineer of locomotive No. 81,
and James Groat, engineer of the "bob-
tail'' locomotive, both of which were
wrecked, gave their testimony. Moore
said that after he had cut loose from a
coal train short distance from the JEFF
ferson Avenue switch in Elizabeth, he
started to back down the track toward
the ''Port," but at Spring Street was
forced to stop, as a rail projecting from
a hand-car had lodged between the bot.
tom of the track and the engine tank.
He and his fireman then jumped to the
ground 80 remove it, leaving the throt-
tie valve closed. While at that work
they heard a rumbling noise ahead, and
on looking up the track saw the coal
train, which they had left only few
minutes previously, running rapidly.
Both men endeavored to reach the cab
before the collision, but were not
train struck the engine. The throttle
valve was thrown wide open, and the
locomotive started at the rate of forty
miles an hour. They knew that if they
turned on side track it would plunge
headlong into the company's shops be-
low, and many would be killed; but they
had no way of communication with the
sc Port''
Engineer Gleason followed up the
narrative by relating what happened to
his engine. He said that he was sitting
in the cab, which was standing on the
scale track, few rods from the shops
at the Sc Port" when he saw locomotive
No. 81 approaching at terrific speed.
Comprehending the situation at a
glance, he told Fireman Anderson and
Brakemen Beaumont and Helppeny to
Jump, at the same time leaping to
the ground. Beaumont and Anderson
escaped, but Helppeny did not hear the
warning, and remained at his post. The
collision that followed was terrific; both
engines being crushed out of shape.
Helppeny was found mangled beneath
the wreck of the engine on which he
had been standing. He died within a
few minutes. Engineer Moore was cor
roborated by his fremen, and both
Groat and Beaumont were substantiated
by other eye-witnesses. The loss to the
Central Railroad Company will be about
S15, 5,0O0.-NeaO York sam.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
New Form of PIastering.

A new style of wall and ceiling plas-
tering has been introduced that offers
some advantages in case and speed in
covering the walls and in securing the
plaster against falling and fire. Inplace
of spreading the plaster on laths fixed
to the wall, it is prepared in solid blocks
or slabs, and these are nailed to the raft
ers or joists. The slabs are made of any
convenient shape or size by simple
process that may be carried on in the
building or at the plasterer's shop. A
smooth, hard surface is prepared, and a
sloping edge is set up to give the slabs
a beveled edge, and on this is spread
layer of plaster of Paris. Upon this, and
securely bedded in it, is spread sheet
of canvas or other heavy fabric, or
layer of some loose fibers; laths are then
laid along two opposite sides of the slab,
and over all is spread a thick layer of
common plaster; before this sets it is
brushed over with a coarse broom to
give it a rough surface to make key
for the finishing coat of plaster. When
the plaster has set, and the slab is hard
and dry, it is raised to its place and
fastened there by nails driven through
the laths. The finishing coat is then
applied in the usual way, covering the
division between the slabs so that the
surface is uniform. Such a system of
plastering has the advantage of quick
and cleanly work at a saving of labor,
and making wall covering that will
not fall in masses when wet, nor take
fire at the back as two laths are bedded
in the plaster r.--JGnuaTy Scribraer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
WIT AND WISDOM.

BLONDES are out of fashion; even dolls
have dark brown hair and eyes.
A BOYS advice to school-masters-
Let all the ends thou aimest at be thy
country's.
MANY a poor woman will have to
struggle through the winter rounds OF
society with only three-button gloves.
THE man who went into malarious
district and asked chow much that land
was an ager'' received chilling reply.
-COurier-.JOatr71GL.
In Switzerland donkeys have bells on
their necks. In this country it is not
unusual to see them with bellies on their
arms.-LoaCeU Courier.
THERE are rare occasions when run
on bank cripples the bank but little.
One of them is when a steamboat at
tempts it.-OiI city Derrick.
Boston is to have an exhibition of 500
good-looking ladies.-Graphic. Five
hundred beautiful ladies, please; all our
ladies are goed-looking.-BoStora Post.
Oh, yes; good looking for husbands,
probably. Graphic.
"WHAT did the Russian soldiers send
some hot grapes to the Turks for, papaP"
asked six-year-old, who had been
spelling out a newspaper paragraph
''Hot grapes, my dearP" eyes, papa;
the paper says: 'The Russians threw
grapes-hot for two hours '"-BostOh
Commercial Bulletin.
HE waltzed out of the front door, fol-
lowed by wash-board and two bars of
soap; and as he Strengthened himsel
and walked firmly down the street, he
remarked: GA ma must draw the line
somewhere, or he can't be boss of the
house; and I'll be hanged if I'll pump
more than one tub of water for no wash
ing, and there amt woman can make
me do it unless she locks me inn
You can count on finding tolerably
big story in Virginia City (Nevada)
paper every time. Here is the Enter
prise's latest: Formerly a faro game
was kept on the second floor of Gowen's
saloon in South G Street, but the place
was closed, and on the steps of the
stairs leading to the upper floor was
placed the sign: ''No game" Yester-
day DIR. Conn's educated pointer was in
the saloon snuffing about, and finally
started up the stairs. When halfway
up he saw the sign, and at once turned
about and came down. evidently consid-
ering it useless to pursue his researches
any further in that direction.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
WAR NEWS.

A report from Vienna, 10Th, says that
the Russians have commenced forward
movement from Plevna and are about to at
tack Shipka Pass.
A Vienna correspondent reports
Suleiman Pasha, with 10000 men, arrived at
Constantinople on the 2Oth from Varna. He
goes to Adrianople to take command of the
army of Roumania. Suleiman's circuitous
route is explained by the fact that, in con-
sequence of the ice and snow in the
Balkan passes, heavy material is more
easily transported by railway to Varna, and
thence by sea to Constantinople, then by a
more direct route. 1t is thought, also, that
a portion of the troops from the quadrilateral
have gone to Roumelia by land direct, as the
Czarowiteh reports Turkish forces outside
of Rutschuck and on the lower LON with
drawn.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-29
Rfghted by the Courts.

A will case that has for months excit-
ed extraordinary interest on the eastern
shore of Maryland and the adjoining
counties of Delaware has just been de-
cided in the Somerset County Court.
The point of interest centered in the dis
inheriting of his only daughter, aged
%, by Capt. John Hamblin, who at the
time of making his will, was SO years of
age. The estate was then worth $780,
600, but has since shrunk to about $75,-
900. In adding the codicil, Capt.
Hamblin left his sons, who are over 40
years of age, each about $12 900, but
cut off his daughter without a cent. The
latter has had the sympathy of the en-
tire neighborhood, the interest in her
case being heightened by her friendless
condition, remarkable beauty, education
and accomplishments. The case occu-
pied an entire week. The most dramatic
feature presented was the story of the
fair plaintiff on the witness stand. She
told, with touching pathos and delicacy,
of having been ordered by her father
with oaths and curses out of his house,
the latter being prompted to his un-
natural act by the influence of disrep-
utable female who had him completely
under her influence, Notwithstanding
his advanced age. The whole of the
last night of the trial was consumed il
| the argument of counsel, and after {
short deliberation the Jury returned
verdict in favor of Miss Hamblin, which
provoked the applause of the spectators
InulM. ,z.aement was intense.