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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11
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LIyERPooL, August IL. W winter,
l2s@I2s Cd; Milwaukee red, los lOd@
l2s Cd; California white, Us 2d@l2s Cd;
California club, rs 5d@l3s I'd. Germ,
26s Od@26s Sd, Pork, 54s. Beef, SIS Cd
Bacon, long clear, SIS Cd; short clear,
3Ss Cd. Lard, ASS Sd. Tallow, Ais.
New York, August IL, 1920 p m.-
Flour is quiet. Wheat nominal at | 45;
Milwaukee red, | 40. Corn quiet at 500
GOT. Mess pork nominal IA 90. Lard
nominal at 9 OO@9 05. Whisky is nom
inal at l IL. Receipts: Flour, 100000
wheat, 1900; corn, 2O7, 600.
CHICAGO, August IL, II a.m.-Wheat
is steady,at l MOL OH for August; lOCs
@l OO4 for September. Corn is quiet at
As for August; 4l5@4!4 for September.
Pork is nominally unchanged at 10 20
for September; 10 10 for October; u 80
seller year. Lard nominal at 8 COOS 623
for September; 8 62l@S 65 for October.
Dry salt meats, boxed, steady and ncmi'
nally unchanged; shoulders, 5B@5i
short ribs, g.; short clear, 7B@74; long
clear and short clear, 6597; long clear,
6l@6B Receipts; Flour, oil; wheat,
28, 1888; corn, 1868, l76. Shipments: Flour,
57O2; wheat, $40; corn, 33S, 1896.
@CIEcISNATI, August ll.-Flour steady
Wheat is quiet; amber and white, l 25@
l 35. Corn steady at 47@49. Whisky
is strong at ! O8. Provisions are dull
and nominally unchanged.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11


A CORRESPONDENT of the Gal
weston News has interviewed Hon.
Samuel j. Randall at his m
ing place near Philadelphia, and
reports that gentleman in favor Of
the Texas and Pacific railroad bill
on this condition. Said he:
"The people to be benefited by that
roai should agree among themselves as
to the route it should take. Several
Southern members Of congress are op.
posed to the Texas aud Pacific bill as it
now stands. | know Mr. Mills OF Texas.
was in opposition to the bill last winter
But when the Southern members all
agree as to the geographical line the
road should take, there will be little OPP
position to it. as it is generally conceded
that some such route to the Pacific is
wanted.
This is not an unconditional COM
INITIAL, but it is more like it than
anything We have yet heard Of from
Mr.. Randall. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that all the Southern mem
bers viii agree upon any one route,
but a majority may and doubtless
will. The Texas members, inhu-
enced by Morgan's vast power, will
naturally oppose the Texas and
Pacific, for Morgan desires to con-
meet with Huntingdon and thus
make Houston or Galveston the
outlet for all the California, New
Mexico and Arizona freights gong
to New York or Liverpool. Such
a Southern Pacific railroad
would be Of no benefit to the South.
1t would merely give the Union
and Pacific a new lease of power,
an outlet to saltwater in the great
Southwest. Mr.. Randall seems to
anticipate that there will be a disa-
greement among Southern men,
bers, and perhaps no bill passed
at all.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11

PROFESSOR r. W. JOINS having
declined to accept the chair Of
chemistry, geology and m~ineralogy
in the East Tennessee University
and State Industrial College at
Knoxville, the board of trustees
have elected Mr.. W. G. Brown, a
of the University Of Vir-
ginia.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11

NASHVILLE Banner: The mon
umcnt to be erected over the re-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11
ELECTION.
NOTICE.

A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS
a of the Southern uil Works will be held
81 the Office Of the works in Memphis, Tenn,
on Tuesday. September 4. 1877, to elect a board
Of Five Directors to serve the ensuing year.
1853 JN0. II. OHIDEsTER, See'y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-11

THE President is going to Ere
mont, Ohio, next week to attend
the reunion of his old regiment,
after which he will visit Louisville.
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

hatchic River, Miss, and Pearl River
y also TO be stocked In the same way.
A New Jersey capitalist has pur-
chased $1,000 acres In Scott County,
Tenn, and will lay out new town on
the line OF the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road.
Notwithstanding the extent Of cart
ridge mfrufacturc from American cop
per abroad, the manufacture In the
United States Is the largest in the
world, aud IL the present very active,
turning out 2,O00,0OO per day.
A machinist Of Cleveland, o.,
named Charles Langschmit, has in
vented freezing machine in which no
chemicals are used, the principle on
which IL Is constructed being that air
when compressed gives of its heat
more readily. Air Il accordingly con-
densed 10 one-tenth Of its original bulk,
and, in this condition, is passed through
small pipes surrounded by running
water, which absorbs and carries off
the heat. The air Is then passed into
the freezing tank, allowed 70 expand
aud found to be Of temperature Of 20
degrees below zero.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

Light, which travels with amazing
velocity, required eight minutes to
reach the earth. Sound would require
fourteen years to travel from the sun to
the earth, so that If we saw an explo-
sion at its surface it would be fourteen
years before we could hear it, But Il
we could place rod Of iron from the
earth to the sun and then strike it with
q hammer on one end the sound would
reach the opposite end in about eleven
months. But perhaps the most singu-
lar illustration Of the suns distance was
drawn from the human economy. Sem
sation took certain time TO travel to
the nerve centers, and II we could i'm
agine human infant with an arm long
enough to reach the sun it would take
$50 years for the sensation to reach him
after burning his fingers; in other
words, he would be dead several years
before the sensation Of burning could
reach him. The suns distance was 90
inconceivable that it was only by max
ing such comparisons that we could
form any idea OF II at all.-RJessor
Young's Lecture.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

Every one has noticed the dark spots
which mottle the surface Of the full moon.
These long ago used to be considered
seas, and IN the geography OF the lunar
orb went under such names as the Sea
Of Tranquility, the Sea Of Nectar, the
Sea Of Serenity, the Sea of Ruins, and
the Ocean Of Tempests. They are still
designated seas by astronomers, for
convenience sake, but are known to be
nothing but vast plains hemmed in, in
some cases, by lofty rugged mountains.
When examined through the telescope
some Of these plains exhibit greenish
tint, strongly marked, but here and
there difficult to catch except under
favorable conditions. This verdant hue
has excited speculation. II the moon
has no atmosphere and no water It may
arise from the color Of the ground, but
certainly can not indicate vegetation.
II, however, the moon has an atmos-
phere the case il entirely altered, and
recent studies Of the state Of the lunar
surface have excited grave doubts as TO
its being nothing but an airless, water
less, unalterable desert, changeless
mass of dead matter. An American
scientific contemporary proceeds boldly
from doubts certainty. 1.-The moon,"
II observes, els now known to have an
atmosphere Of considerable volume and
density, to present abundant evidence
Of physical activity and change,
and TO have in all probability water
enough to make life easily possible on
its surface. The moon is dying, but
not dead. Being so much smaller than
the earth 1t has run its course more
rapidly, but it is still a good way of
from that goal Of ultimate deafness TO
which so many astronomers have theo-
retically assigned il. There Is not the
slightest adequate evidence, Nelson
says, Of the popular view Of want Of
life, and its truth would be admitted by
no astronomer who had devoted sufli-
cient attention TO selenography TO cna-
bic him TO thoroughly realize the prob
able present condition of the moon.''
Ii such Is the case, the green-tinted
plains may be nothing but vast grassy
regions covered with ilocks and herds.
The "man in the moon" may have
abundant pasturage for his cattle, and
many shepherd boy may be there seat
cd on the ground, piping as though he
should never grow old. IL isa pity we
can only speculate. Reality Is true
romance, and II we knew all that goes
on in the moon, astronomers would
probably shut up their books and break
their telescopes. -Casscu's Mdgdstnc.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

GA popular impression has gained
currency that General Hooker sue
ceeded in surprising General Lee at the
battle Of Charlottesville, in his cross
ing Of the river Rappahannock. Gen
eral Lee said TO me during the ten days
| staid with him in 1867: II was much
surprised TO see your history Of that
battle favor such an idea. Ii was
no secret move Of General Hooker's.
AS he was situated, it was impossible to
tell whether he menaced Fredericks-
burg or my communications. had to
wait till he showed his hand, as he did
in crossing the river, TO make proper
preparations TO oppose him. Indeed,
real surprises in war are much less
common than is usually supposed. y"
With the above incident, in his lee
ture, "reminiscences of War Cor
respondent" delivered before the
Brooklyn Teachers Association Friday
afternoon, Professor William Swinton,
an ex-war correspondent, illustrated
how necessary it is for historians TO
carefully study both sides. "The com
mon misconceptions Of what battles
really are, are sometimes very lu-
dicrous,' said the lecturer. IAN artist
once asked me TO criticise his picture Of
General Sheridan as he appeared direct
" after his famous ride. General Sher-
idan was made to appear like very
Mars, whom he does not much resem-
BILE. He has more Of Punch and
Judy element in his character.
In the picture he sat on q colos-
sal charger, was dressed in faultless
garb, had epaulettes and typical mil
itary hat with white plume, and flour
ished in his hand the traditional brand.
His soldiers were in the form Of beau
tiful phalanx. felt like turning three
or four somersaults round the studio,
but contented myself with telling the
artist that his picture would more truly
represent the original If Sheridan were
painted with a crumpled army cap,
with spattcrs of mud instead of spangles
on his clothes, and his men in two small
iIr' gular lines behind trees, stumps
and rocks" "a respected New York
City editor, now deceased" continued
the lecturer, "visited the front with Z
stove.pipe hat. The hat became the
immediate subject for fun and chatting
sCome out of that one soldier says
Another, know you'rein it, because
see your legs dangling down. Still
another: Boys, he's one Of them fel
lows that goes up North and write
cords about us bein' eager for the fray.
In one Of General Grants most impor
tant interviews with General Sheridan
the conversation ran much like this
Are you ready, Philip Yes We'll
90 I'M Scores of important interview
between generals were no moro mag
niloquent than this. - New York World
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/. DO not keep others waiting for you
either at the beginning or close Of the
meal.
2. DO not sip soup from the tip but
from the side Of the spoon. .
3. BE careful not to drop or spill any
thing on the table-cloth.
A. Keep your plate clean; do not
heap all sorts of food on at once.
5. In passing your plate TO be reheap-
ed, retain the knife and fork.
6. When asked for dish do not
shove but hand it.
z. When drinking do not look around.
3. Instruct the servant TO hand the
cup at the left side, so that it may be
received by the right hand.
.. Do not drink your tea or coffee
without first removing the spoon from
the cup to the saucer.
10. Use the knife for cutting only;
never put it to the lips or mouth.
IL. Break your bread into small
pieces and rest them on your plate while
spreading.
y. DO not eat too fast; besides Civ
ing one the appearance ofgreed tits not
healthy.
13. Ii you find any thing unpleasant
in your food put it aside as quietly as
possible, without drawing the attention
Of others to it.
IA. DO not open the lips or make any
unnecessary noise in chewing.
Is. DO not touch the head.
16. Do not rest the elbows on the Ia
BILE.
IL. Be thoughtful Of and attentive to
the wants of those about you.
Is. Converse on pleasant subjects
with those sitting near you.
10. DO not say any thing not intend
ed for all present to hear.
20. Leave your plate with the knife
and fork laying parallel, the handles
pointing to tho right.
q. Never leave the table before 9TH
ers without asking the lady or gentle
man who presides to excuse you
Washington Chronicle.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

--Alphoso Stacy, one Of the editors
Of the Tccumseh (Alich. Herald, jump
ed from moving train the other nj ght,
and, striking against water-tank, was
thrown under the cars and run over.
He lived but a few hours.
Christian Hanson, well-to-do
farmer, living near Northwood, Iowa,
was few days ago burned to death in
his barn, which had taken fire, and
from which he was trying TO rescue
some Of his stock.
Henry Edwards, yard-man con-
nected with the Little Miami Railroad,
while attempting touncouple some cars
at Columbus, o., slipped and fell, and
two freight cars and an engine passed
over his body, cutting it in two.
On Thanksgiving evening Mr.. and
Mrs. II. "A. Pierce, Of Delaware Town
ship, Sac County, Iowa, started to at
tend party. The night was cold, and
they were well wrapped in robes and
blankets. Upon their arrival at the
party, it was discovered that their little
babe--a bright boy about three months
old-was dead, smothered.
Mrs. Nellie Hendricks, residing
ne n Sacramento, Mclean County, Ky,
carefully and neatly attircd her person
and walked out to spring near the
house into which she plunged head
foremost. The spring was inclosed in a
hollow log, commonly called "gum,'
with an inner diameter Of about two
feet, about five feet deep, with depth
Of four feet Of water The unfortunate
woman was found dead in the gum, her
feet protruding above it, and her bon
net and shawl hanging near by on the
limb Of a tree. No cause is assigned
for the deed.
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ITEMS or INTEREST.


"A movement Is making to procure
the appointment Of the widow Of Gen
Custer as postmistress at her home in
Monroe, Mich.
MIR. Carly h said to Professor IIux-
ley recently: "You Darwinians are
spending your lives in trying TO prove
that men are descended from apes and
il needs more than our civilization 70
prevent them from being ogres."
Samuel l.. Clemens MARX Twain
and Bret iiarte have, through their
publishers, the American Publishing
Company, OF Hartford, Ct, entered
suits against persons in Canada for in
fringemcnt Of copyright.
Mrs. Coleman, the daughter OF
Senator Crittenden, Of Kentucky, and
the translator Of the intcrminable Muhl-
bach novels, is tall, majestic person,
strikingly like her distinguished father
in feature. She lives in Washington.
"A German critic of Mr.. Haw-
thorne's recent Saxon studies, speaking
OF the women, says: 81 have my
doubts whether studier class OF women
exists in the world, from the stout old
countess 70 the bare-legged peasants. ="
What contrast To the French and
American angelic but dyspeptic con-
sumers Of bon bons.
--Peleg Sprague, formerly H.. many
years Representative and Senator in
Congress from Maine, and subsequent
ly Judge OF the United States District
Court OF Massachusetts, now lives in
Boston, and is totally blind. He Is the
last survivor Of the memorable Senate
OF 1880, among whose members were
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton,
Wright, Haync, Grundy, Marcy, Ew-
ing, King, Clayton, Tazewell and Tyler
Speaking Of the bores and imposi-
tons inflicted upon the literary commu.
nifty, | am reminded of an incident in
Longfellow's experience which is not
generally known. He received a letter
requesting sim to compose an acrostic,
the first letters of which should spell
my sweet girl" The applicant add
ed, "Write as il it were some beautiful
girl with whom you were in love-just
as II il were for yourself" At the foot
of the letter were these words, {" Send
BILL" How grttified the poet must
have been with such a testimony To his
talent from an utter stranger.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

3. hop and gambling hell; their very at
no, sphere Il crime. A boy who would
be 4 IMPLY Disguised by the open vice in
publ cations which the law prohibits
accen the concealed poison in these
withou, suspicion. When we read Gas
in our CT changes Of last week. OF muir
derers Of 4 ourteen years old, Of burglars
Of nine, Of delicately reared girls ia the
first bloom OF innocent youth leaving
their homes a nd coming TO this city in
the mad desire for adventure, TO be
rescued on the very verge Of ruin, we
can trace the motive canse in every case
u these publications, or their
dramatization on the boards
of variety theatcfs. In even
the best class Of juvenile literature be-
longing to the present day there is too
much Of fever and unrest. The child's
brain, cTammed and forced at school,
is still further heated by tales Of wild
adventure or fantastic improbability.
Robinson Crusoe and the Parents AS
sistant are voted dull by our boys;
even SCOTS magic wand moves TOO
slowly TO enchant them. But il our best
juvenile literature be thus open TO
criticism, what is TO be said Of this the
worst and lowest deep?
We speak this warning advisedly to
parents. 1t would be well if they would
pay closer attention not only TO the
books which are bought for them TO
study at school, but TO those which they
buy themselves to study outside.-New
York Tribune.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

Not long ago q teacher in one Of our
public schools was convicted Of having
had in his possession certain vile pam
phlets and pictures, which he used for
the decentralization of his pupils. The
mans sentence was . heavy one, but
there was probably no father or mother
in New York who would not willingly
have doubled IL, to be sure that their
children were safe from the corrupting
influence of such q monster. We wish
- warn them, as we have warned them
before, that there Is just as corrupting
an influence daily set before children
who pass through the streets on their
way to school, which parents appear
strangely 10 ignore. We mean the flash
newspapers and cheap novels which
are offered for sale TO half-grown boys
and girls by their vendors, or thrust
gratultously into their hands as they
pass, with the certainty that they will
buy the succeeding numbers. Very
few girls and fewer boys, unless they
have been forewarned, can resist the
tempting dramatic pictures Of kneeling
womcn with streaming hair, braves
armed TO the teeth, ETC., etc. The
opening chapters seem harmless
enough, and the boy or girl, reared
most probably in a refined and Chris
tian home, plunges unchecked into this
ofial Of kitchen literature.
These papers and magazines to which
we advert would not strictly fall under
the prohibition against obscene publ
cations, and SO they manage to escape
the law; but the views Of life they
present are those taken from the grog-
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

The New York Tribune has recent
ly published some statistics Of the cost
Of worship in that city. In one FASH
ionable church an assessment ~ 6 per
cent. yearly is laid upon owners Of
pews, who paid for them rates ranging
from $500 20 $4,000 annually. and those
who only rent pews are additionally
taxed at the rate OF ID per cent. on their
valuation. This makes the annual
rental Of the highest pew $3.50, aud the
lowest $50. In one church, where the
clergy and music cost $1,000, the in
come from the pew-rents is S45.OO0 an
nually, which sum is paid bs . per-
sons who compose the entire congre-
CATION. Bishop Potter said recently the
poor had but small chance 70 near the
Gospel preached in the grander temples
Of worship.
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saith that the only one Of his children
who showed him any real filial affection
was his youngest son Larry, for he
never struck him when he was down"
The worst case yet is that Of a
young New York gentleman who visit
ed New Jersey. lie retired at mid
night, after seven /" hot apples" and he
was found at the next morning stand
ing against the wall trying 10 pull the
mantel-piece up round his neck and
complaining that "the clothes" were
not tucked Ia.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05


The infant daughter Of the luke
and Duchess Of Edinburgh has received
the name Of Victoria.
--All-Hallows Church in Bread
Street, just out of Cheapside, London,
is TO be destroyed TO make room for
business. 1t is over 800 years old, and
John Milton was christened in it.
When an English Prince is born, u
member Ct the Government, generally
the Home Secretary, is required TO be
present. The Duchess OF Edinburgh's
recent ACCOMPLISHMENT took place AT NAL
Ia, and the Governor Of that possession
stood in place Of the Secretary.
During their short stay in Constan-
tinople, the Emperor and Empress Of
Brazil received hundreds Of petitions for
aid, written in great variety of Ian
gliages and dialects. On leaving they
distributed 100 lire among some Of the
petitioners, and sent $3.50 to q charita-
BILE institution.
The retiring Lord Mayor Of Lon
don recently gave banquet to 800
members of the dramatic profession,
and told them that he regarded the
English drama the most perfect in the
world in variety Of representation, in
Guiding Shakespeare, melodrama, old
and new comedy, burlesque and farce.
Lucy Hooper tells how the prond
French Baroness de Ia " has just
been sentenced 10 imprisonment two
years for stealing fincry for her two
daughters. The daughters have en-
tered a convent, and the young man
who was to have married one Of them
has become a gloomy bachelor, neglect
full Of his clothes and extremely nissan
thropical.
In the German Parliament q mo-
ton on the part Of the opposition that
prisoners arraigned for high treason,
as in Count Arnim's case, should be
tried by jury instead Of the Imperial
Court, was rejected by large major
ity, also the proposal that in the Polish
provinces the Polish language, as well
as German, should be admitted in the
law courts.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-01-05

Detroit puts up 100000 fish annu-
ally for the Southern market.
A Massachusetts firm has had an
order for 10000 barrels Of picked fish
from Germany.
&C. q. Atkins, Of Grand Lake, Me-,
will busy himself this winter Matching
out $4,000 fish eggs.
The cotton factory at Wesson,
Miss, employs a force Of $40 persons,
and produces 5000 yards Of cloth per
day.
A California farmer has recently
disposed Of his wheat crop for $685.
600, realizing profit thereon Of $780,
GOO.
San Francisco consumes 90, 000,0 600
oysters per annum. One-third Of this
vast total are transported all the way
from Baltimore.
The United States Stamped-envel-
ope Company at Hartford now employs
l15 hands, and turns out some 100000
envelopes a day.
Fifteen thousand salmon have been
placed In the headwaters Of the Talla-
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Companions in arms--Twins.
DOESN'T man contract debt when
he pays part Of it.
Never tell what a success you are.
Let some one else do it,
A man who drinks lightly is now
called "a Durham" because he is Of
the short. horn" breed.
christmas "grecns"-Men who
give their wives S25 with which to buy
their husbands $3.50 Christmas pres
ents.
--"Look AFFAIR."" remarked o Gran
ger TO the waiter Of q Mains Street lunch
room last week, "your coffee Is q. X;
your hash Is about correct, but amt
your eggs leetIc too ripep"
"A man swearing the peace against
three Of his sons thus concludes his af-
fidavit; "And this deponcnt further