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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
Effects of a Long Sermon.
Hartford Cor. Springfield Republican,


The large congregation that at
tends the Congregational
church were much amused a Sun
day or two since by an incident
that occurred while the eloquent
and learned pastor was preaching a
sermon on "Saint Thomas" He
had devoted some half hour to that
disciple when something led him
off on to Joseph Cook and some of
the subjects on which that gentle
man has recently been lecturing
here. Forgetting his manuscript
and watch that lay on the desk
before him, he went on and on for
another half hour in a flight of
eloquenec that was very interesting
to all but the unfortunate people of
avenue, who were keeping one
ear open for the Semi-occasional
Sunday horse-car that takes them
home. Suddenly its approaching
bell was heard by all but the clergy
man. AS the sonnd grew nearer
and nearer q portion of the would
be passengers rose, hoping to quietly
slip out Of the church. just then
one Of them "a gentleman -
dropped the watch that chad been
holding hall open in his hand. 1t
struck the floor and rolled short
distance with a noise that covered
the departing persons with con-
fusion, especially as the parson
suddenly coming to himself gazed
at them blankly an instant, and
looking at his watch started back
with astonishment at the lateness
Of the hour, shut the leaves of the
neglected manuscript with a bang,
and exclaiming, "That'S all l have
to say about Thomas" gave out the
closing hymn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15

The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard gives the follow
ing account of the goring Fran
scaelo, a noted matador in the bull
ring at Madrid; recently, in the
presence of King Alfonso and an
immense assemblage. Franscuelo's
injuries were supposed to be fatal;
"a bull had knocked over in
succession two picadors and dis
posed of their horses, when a third
tumble called for the assistance Of
the cuadrilla. The bull was a large
and ugly beast, with long, sharp
horns, and he was in the habit Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15

This is the true and only remedy;
we have never known man to get
further than 100000 without either
going to sleep or becoming crazy,
and, as insomnia is natural to in.
sane persons, the patient will then
be on his own stamping ground,
and acting in the regular and APP
proved way, to which no alienist
can possibly take exception. Doubt
less there are other devices more or
less connected with bottles, books
and noisome weed, but the one to
which allusion has just been made,
though it be heroic, is not more so
than scarifying the back with a
white-hot iron after the manner of
DIR. Brown-Sequard.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
MIS SiSlssgi q TENNE SSEE.
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
MEMPHIS. TENS., May 10. 1877.

MEMPRIs, TENN, May II, ISI7.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY. MAY 18TH,
" 1877, trains will run as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily 800 pm. 1880 pm
Freight and Ac'm dation,
daily Except Sunday $50 am TO- An
63-f IA. BURKE, SQp't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
snlomon,s Judgment.
isOn (Kansas) Champion. ]

Atchison (KansAs) Champion
During the trial of the celebra
ted Leavenworth baby case,in which
two women claim to have given
birth to the same child, one of the
lawyers, in the course of his re-
marks, pointed to the painting of
Solomon ordering the child to be
severed in halves and divided be-
tween the two women. His Scrip
tural knowledge being small, he
alluded to PLATE instead of Solomon.
The opposing counsel supposing he
knew all about it, instantly jumped
to his feet and called him a id
fool, he stating that the order was
by Caesar and not PLATE. After a
heated discussion they agreed to
leave it to the judge. His honor
decided that both the attorneys were
talking upon a subject foreign to
their knowledge, and pointing to
the painting, said it was intended
to represent Herod, and not Pilot
or Caesar. The lawyers considered
the matter as settled, and proceeded
with the case.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
FashlonabIo Remedies for sIcknesa.

Remedies for disease are more or less
iashionable-at least the following stats.
tics would indicate a tendency to make
run on certain favorite drugs, etc In
1855 the central Pharmaceutical estab.
lishment of the Parisian hospitals fur.
nished 2S2 pounds of chloroform; in 1875
the quaHiity had risen to GIG pounds.
The increase OF chloral from 1869 10
1875 was from 10 pounds to 720 pounds,
Bromide OF potassium, pounds in 1855,
l,6OO pounds in 1875; morpaine, l pound
6 ounces in 1855, 20 pounds in 1875.
The progress of alcohol, considered as
therapeutical agent, is especially worthy
Of notice. Between 1865 and 1875 the
consumption of alcohol in the hospitals
increased from l,a97O to 10000 quarts
Brandy does not appear on the list until
1862, when q1aris we're supplied. In
1875, the quantity had risen to 4,l08
quarts. Rum followed nearly the same
rate Of progression during the same time
from 80 to 5 6S2 quarts. A remarka-
BILE fact brought to light by these statis
tics is that in proportion as alcohol rose
leecbes fell, Up to the year 1889, 1000
600 OF leeches were annually supplied to
the Paris hospitals during the last twelve
years the annual supply has been about
80, 900.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
Cares for slespIsssness.

NSH loIh WOIlusl
There is the well-known rubbing
of the feet together till the bed.
clothes bear an astonishing resem-
blance to the sea violently agitated
by an earthquake. To get up, run
about for a while swinging pillow
at imaginary mosquitoes will some
times ease the perturbed spirit and
bring the mind into that restful
state which is the natural precursor
of the descent of the sweet restorer.
Again, one may suppose that there
are burglars about, and 60 down
stairs and bang away at them with
his pistols, as the lecturer is known
to have done on a memorable occa-
sion, when all that his theory of
medical jurisprudence required was
the calm exhibition of a bottle or
two of the hypophosphites, If this
maneuyer fails, let the patient re-
turn to his room, repose himself at
length and fix his mind on
something vast and bound
less, such as the immensity Of
the universe, the foolishness of
poets, the ocean, or his account with
his bootmaker. This seldom fails,
but in case it should now do so let
the sufferer count one, two, three
up as far as he can get to q million.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
One German Girl who WAIIzed Six
or Seven HOurB-WOnderfuI Endn.
FAnea


One German Girl VINO WAIIzed Six
or Seven HOurs-WOnderfuIE Endn.
rance
9utfalo Cor. New York SUM-
The papers of our city last week
gaze accounts of the exploits of a
Mr.. Cottier who waltzed for five
consecutive hours. This perform
ance was equaled, if not excelled,
in Buffalo forty years ago by a blind
German girl named Lena Schmidt.
AT that time a military force was
stationed here under General Scott,
to which was added one regiment
Of militia, under Colonel McKaye,
including six companies of city
guards, Americans, and three com
psnies of Germans. The officers
of the latter were men of educa-
ton, among them being the la
mented German editor, Major
Zham, who was killed by the falling
of hickory pole during the Polk
campaign. In the exchange of
clvilities between the companies,
the American officers and their
wives accepted an invitation to a
great ball at the armory given by
German officers.
stood in the center of the floor
while 100 couples waltzed around
me, who were succeeded by another
100 couples, the two sets alternat-
ing in this way for many hours
My attention was attracted to a fig
ure in a long plain white dress,
looking more like a shroud than a
ball dress, with a tall white cap
with long white streamers, a volu-
minous kerchief on her neck, and
white cotton gloves. This woman
waltzed in both sets. She had
waltzed three hours when | left the
armory, and my servants, who did
not return until daybreak, said she
waltzed three Or four hours longer.
Moreover, she had been famous
dancer in Strasburg, and had been
known to waltz the shoes off her
feet at the great yearly fairs. There
was q suspicion that her blindness
was consequent on the incessant
whirling, but at any rate her pas
sion for this pastime was almost a
disease. Her friends INDUCED her
IN it on every available occasion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
TriaIs OF RituaIism.

Rituahsm in England has its
downs as we'll as its ups. When
the rector of st. Ethelburg, Lon
don, was threatened with ecclesias-
tical prosecution he did not go to
prison after the manner of Martyr
Tooth, but substituted a rubrical
for a ritualistic service. Three par
ishioners had entered a complaint,
and the Bishop of London refused
to stay proceedings under the pub
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
WEDDING ON lHE WING.
A Leaveuw0rth Woman Married at
the Rate OF Forty Miles an HOur.

A LeavauwOFth Woman Married at
the Rate OF Forty Miles an Hour.
San Francisco Chronicle. April sO.l
The passengers on the ovei41ind
train from the East, which arrived
here on Saturday night, were treat
ed to a little sensation pleasanter
than the regular ones of the rush
through Echo Canyon and the
rounding of Cape Horn, or the oc-
casional one of meeting on the same
track a train accidentally bound
the other way. 1t was a marriage
at the rate of forty miles an hour
between Gait and Stockton, by the
Rev. j. G. Hamilton, of the latter
place, of DR.. Israel Davis, of the
latter place, to Mrs. j. Susan Arm
strong, of Leavenworth. 1t would
be too long a story, the romantic
one Of their youthful betrothal, the
interposition of a cruel fate that
married each to one other than the
first choice, the combined death by
relenting fortune of both of the
second choices, and the renewal,
through the United States mail, of
the uninterrupted love of their
younger years. The engagement
was renewed, and Mrs. Armstrong,
very pronounced brunette, verg-
ing now upon embonpoint and
forty, set forth to be spliced at
Stockton to her real affinity. She
was detained for a short time by
snow near Cheyenne, and the ar
dent doctor, determined that no
malign circumstances should again
put aside his happiness, set off post
haste to meet her. The minister
set off post-haste after the doctor,
and it is supposed if there had
been any intervening trains the
guests would set off post-haste af-
ter the officiating clergyman. The
doctor, an elderly but remarkably
well preserved gentleman, in full
dress and faultless beaver and black,
three-buttoned kid gloves, met the
train of his alfianced at Sacra-
mento. She was tastefully and
stylishly clad in a brown travelling
suit, and the greeting between the
lovers was most affecting. Both
came on to Calf, where they were
met by the Rev. Mr.. Hamilton. All
three then continued on to Stock
ton, but the long endured strain
had now become too severe. There
was an ardent and unheard request
by the gentleman; a coy and blush
ing consent by the lady; the pea
nut boy was dispatched for the con-
ductor to lend an official air to the
ceremony; the gentleman and lady
stood up in the aisle as well as they
could, hanging on to each other
and to the ends Of the seats; the
Clergyman stood up in front of
them, and, amid the boom and rush
of the train, the questions were hol-
loaed out and responses shouted
back hap-hazard, and then the min
lister, in voice like trombone,
declared the Loving and long sep
arated couple man and wife. In the
excitement Of the moment the
lady released her hold of the seat
and was shot head first against the
lower extremity of the conductors
vest. He gallantly kissed her and
returned her uninjured to her
happy husband, and the two sat
down and received the stentorian
congratulations of the pleased spec
tators. At Stockton the marriage
party got off and were Immediately
driven to the residence of the
groom, and the train relapsed into
its humdrum gallop to the Pacific.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
100000 for Only Ten.
READ THE LIST OF GIFTS.
Drawing Positively June 80, 1877
And Every Three Months Thereafter.

And Every Three Months Thereafter.
CERTIFICATE OF SUPERVISORS OF
DRAWING.
This is to certify that the first drawing of
the Kentucky Cash Distribution Company
took place on the 9Th of December, in Major
Hall, Frank fort, Ky, in our presence and
under our immediate supervision.
We further state that every ticket, and part
of ticket, which had been sold, were repre-
sented in the Wheel and that the dra sing was
fairly and honestly conducted. We further
state that we had no interest whatever in the
enterprise. nor any connection with the same
except in the character Of supervisors, whose
sole duty was to protect the interest of the
ticket-holders and 10 reside over the drawing.
Hon. Alvin Duvall. late Chief Justice Sup.
Court Of KY. James q. Dudley, Chm Board
Of schpol Trustees; Grant Green, Cashier
Farmers Bank of Kentucky; Hon. S. |. M
Major, Public PriAter State of kentucky;
Hon. Thomas N. Lindsay, Pres't Farmers
Bank Of Ky; Hon. Thomas C. Jones. Clerk
ofSupreme Court Of KY; Judge r. A. Thomp-
son. Pres dg Judge Franklin Co. Court; James
& Crockett, Clerk Frank County Court.
Remittances can be made by mail, express
draft, pOstotfice order. OF registered letter
made payable to G. W. Barrow 4 Co.
All communications and orders for tickets
should be addres sed TO
@. W. BARROW &CO,
Courier-Journal Building, Louisville, Ky.
send for Circular. 47-eod-ll0.d d&w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
MEMPHIS g. LITTLE ROCK R.R.
Shot Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TINE CAEDi

H v u 2 q TsWi
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily...........-5.0 60 pm. lilo pm.
Freight train leaves Hope
field daily lex aunday)6. 30 am. 7.l5 p m.
Passengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louiaville, NASH
Vile and Great Southern railroad. Mail
points ON the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
Pullman / alace Sleeping Cars on all night
trains.
For tickets and information apply at Ticket
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.
r. A. WILLIAMS, Pass. Ag't, Memphis.
M S. JAY. q. P. ayd L. Ag't, Little Rock.
" Il. SMITH, Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
1o3-t
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RAILRoADs.
Louisville and Great Southern R. R

llI5 pm Wight Fxprss Connects at Milln
for -. Louis aud Chicago. A. McKeuE I, r
NalhviIle, ChattanoOta. Atlanta aud tho
Southeast ~ Guthrie for uoBkipwille, Hen
d'nCn ard EyansNhe, at Louisville ior all
poiIis NoIth aud Z s.;
ll;25 an Day txpress Connects for St.
Louis and Chicaso at Louisville for al
points North nd fast.
Ais m. milau Accommodation = Daily
excsI; Suulay
Pullma luace or on oither train 10 Louis.
Vile q on eh train to Nashvil'e
For Tickets or fruation. a ply at Iicset
Office 2J7 NWn Northw,s, corn Madison
street
) Me- EE3. Ticket Agent.
81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15

Clear thought and vigorous action de-.
pend upon that perfect condition OF sys-
TEN resulting from pure blood When
symptoms provocative Of dullness and
inactivity present themselves, then use
at once Dr. Bnlrs BlooA Mixmre
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-01-24

good men at the North will cease
to be the dupes, that good men at
the South may cease to he the vie
tins, Of bad, extreme leaders in
both sections. We must have wis
dom in the head or we shall find
no rest for the feet. 'Footstore and
weary with our sectional wander
ings, let us all return to the start
ing point Of mutual good will and
reciprocal benefits, which alone can
form worthy bonds for free and
united people. Then all men will
SEQ clearly how it is that the I'M
trained negroes prefer good gov
eminent TO bad government, as
they have done and will continue,
more and more, TO DO in Georgia"
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-01-24

As the organs have claimed, the
duty of counting the electoral votes
is a constitutional duty devolving
upon the President of the Senate
Congress cannot take away from
him, by law or otherwise. the pow
or of doing what the Constitution
enjoins upon him. But IL the bill
reported by the committees on the
electoral count is passed by Con-
gress-as it probably will be-the
President of the Senate will not
fulfill "the obligations imposed upon
him by the constitution" rs the
organs put it.
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A majority of the members o

A majority Of the members OF
the Louisiana Senate, including as
Senators those fraudulent counted
in by the Returning Board, recog-
nize the Nichols government as
the legal one. There is good rea-
son to believe that majority OF
the members holding Returning
Board certificates of election to
the House are Of the same way OF
thinking with the Senate majority.
This is unquestionably the case If
the members of the House who
have supported Pinchback for the
United States Senate concur in his
views. 1t would 60 far toward
clearing up the political difficulty
II Legislature with an undisputed
title in both Senate and House
should meet together and proceed
to legislate for the State.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-01-24
The Electoral Count.

1t is hardly fair on the strength
Of a mere supposition Of the plan
for counting the electoral vote
submitted by the Senate committee
to the House committee to criticise
the plan thus set forth as II 1t were
authentic. II it be true, as has
been intimated, that the plan con-
templates the selection Of five
members from each House and the
dropping by lot Of one Of the ten
thus selected, the nine remaining
members with the addition OF the
four senior Justices of the Supreme
Court to constitute a tribunal for
determining the questions which
have arisen in respect to certain
ELECTORAL votes, the door to serious
criticism is at once opened. In
this case the action of q majority
OF the tribunal, or committee,
might be decided by the accidental
majority in the composition Of the
nine Congressional members. It is
true that the unanimous opinion of
the Justices associated with the
Congressman or the opinion Of
three of them as against one, OF, II
the Justices were evenly divided,
the refusal Of one Of the Congress-
men to accept q purely partisan
view Of the case might be the means
OF deciding the main question con-
trary to the general view Of the
party which had q majority Of
members on the Congressional
branch Of the committee but the
plan would, in advance Of the de-
cision Of the committee, SAVIOR so
much Of chance as to subject it to
merciless ridicule, and there would
be strong disposition, II it we're
adopted, to discount the result as
soon as the results of the drawing
of cuts" was announced, by pro-
claiming that the fates would favor
the candidate of ths opposite po-
liticsl faith to him who, by their
stern decree, was debarred from
committee service.
Il is great deal easier, however,
to object TO q plan for an accommo-
dation of the differences than 1t Is
10 suggest one which will not be
more or less open TO criticism. II
Is not proboble, however, that the
Senate committee has made pro-
position u the character referred
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-01-24

According TO the army register
for 1877 the regular army OF the
United States consists OF 2S,5H
officers and men, this including all
branches of the service. The or
ganized militia force Of the United
States is 90,347, and the number OF
men available for military duty is
returned at 2,S75, 400. No enroll
ment is reported in Virginia, South
Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Wiscon-
sin, and Minnesota, and no returns
were received from Delaware,
West Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Nevada,
and Oregon.
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and 80 Of other States.
"But / mean to say that good
government comes, and comes only,
Of intelligence, property and virtue /;
and bad government comes and
comes surely and invariably, of ig-
norance, pauperism and vice. Men
who rule the State for the peoples
good are always blessings. Men
who usurp a State, only to rob the
people, are always curses.
"Now, the policy Of the Repub-
lican party toward the South hiss
driven all the intelligence and pro-
perty and virtue of the South into
the Democratic party. There are
not, in Georgia, individual excep-
tons sufficient to exhaust one
count on your fingers. The
Republican party has been pro-
tecting burglars in the South for
ten years, and every time we COM
plain we are denounced as rebels.
IL know the honest masses of
the Northern Republicans are not
guilty Of these things, and they do
not believe their leaders are guilty.
For many years passions have been
controlling, and demagogues have
been active, to keep these passions
for their own uses. But / trust
these passions will now subside.
l trust the time has come when
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Wednesday, Jan. q, 1877.
As far as now appears, the re-

As far as now appears, the re-
sponsibility for the Ashtabula
bridge disaster rests upon the
shoulders Of Amasa Stone, who was
President Of the Lake Shore Road
at the time the bridge was built.
He first dismissed the constructing
engineer who had charge OF the
bridge because he insisted it need
ed strengthening, and then employ
a man who is said to have had no
experience with iron bridges.
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to. 1t is not in keeping with the
character and dignity Of the dis
tinguished Senators upon the COM
mittee. They are not men likely
to propose to leave the decision OF
grave questions to chance major
ity.-Free Press.