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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
General Grants RaiIroad Tickets.
Whitehall Review

l hear an instructive piece of eossip
from Stratford. on-Avon. When express
ident Grant arrived at the railway sta.
ton there the other day, he. Mrs. Grant
and Mr.. Grants secretary we're about to
leave the platform when one of the off,
Gals Of the Great Western Company
demanded their tickets. Ticketsl Moth
ing OF the kind had been heard of before
in England by the party. Well, the
station-master felt himself in a difficulty.
for he had received no instructions 10
treat the travellers exceptionally; he
would telegraph to London for guidance.
With this understanding the party passed
into tewn. Upon their return 10 tho
windy little station they learned that tbe
reply from London was that his excel.
lency and party should pass free. What
a sensation we have missed. Fancy The
placards Of the morning papers with
Arrest OF President Grant at Stratford.
on.Avou for ~defraudiug a railway conn.
pany. Mr.. Grant beiled by the mayor
Of Stratford; Mrs. Graut By the lsdv
custodian of Shakespeare house. The
secretary still in prison Bot. 10 be
serious, things OF this kind ought 10 be
better ma~naged-on either side.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Friday Evening, Nov. 10, 1877.

The Public Ledger at Five Cents.
The PUBLIC LEDGER will be supplied
on all trains and at all stations on the
following railways, at FIVE CENTS per
copy, by the agents of the Southern
Railway News Company, viz;
Memphis and Louisville railway.
Memphis and Little Rock railway.
South and North Alabama railway.
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway.
Memphis and Charleston railway.
MISSISSIPPI N TENNESSEE AND PADUOAH
AND MEMPHIS RAILWAYS.
Mr.. John Epperson, or employees, will
supply the PUBLIC LEDGER at FIVE cents
on the above named railways.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
Hot springs. sure Enough.

On Wednesday, the l4th instant. at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, owing to abusive
articles published in the Sentinel, Mayor
Linde and the editors of that paper en-.
gagged in a street fight. Mayor Linde
shot four men; the editor of the Sentinel
was shot four times-all flesh wounds.
A second man shot is said to be MORALLY
wounded, and two other men received
severe aesh wounds. The news of the
fight was received here in a private let
ter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
LEDGER LINES.

Smoky atmosphere and bright moon.
shiny nights are enjoyed by Memphians
just now.
Fresh oat meal, cracked wheat, Ora.
ham -four and buekwheat at Oliver, Fin.
ME & Co.'s.
Very fine sweet butter, maple syrup,
drip syrup and New York State buck
wheat-pure-at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
A Southern exchange states that the
oyster reefs on the coast are becoming
exhausted, and an oyster famine i:
threatened.
Said one of the female minstrels last
night, What vegetable is most neglected
in Memphis Just now2 Answer-The
policeman's beat.
Oliver, Finnie & Co. roast very Gne
Rio and Java coffee on their new Burnt
Rooster, and use a patent cooler, the
only n in the State.
The executive committee Of the Mem.
phis and Shelby County Bible Society
meets this afternoon at the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. :
The elegant piano used at the thester
last night during the performance Of the
opera Bohemian Girl was the celebrated
Kuabe furnished by Mr.. L. Goepel.
The Memphis. Theater remains closed
until Monday night SO that Manager
Rickaby can paint scenery, etc, for the
appearance of Fanny Davenport in
Pique.
At the Greenlaw Opera House tonight
the Nine Rentz Female Miustrels will
give a performance, They will give a
matinee on tomorrow and q farewell
performance at night.
To-day the Manhattan Bank of Mem.
phiS funded $lO,OO7. 10 in city bonds,
paving scrip and interest account, and
received in exchange S., 0 Is in new
bonds and funding certificate.
Quite a large and fashionable audi.
ence attended the theater last night and
enjoyed the presentation of the Bohe.
milan Girl by the amateurs for the benefit
of the Lee Monumental Fund.
Tonight a sword will be presented by
a number of colored girls to the captain
of tina Mcclellan Guards, on which occa.
sion Captain Glass will of course say
Put away the sword, States can be saved
without it,"
At the Shelby county Circuit Court
to-day the jury in the case Of Peter Nc
Ksnna aLd wife VS., the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company rendered a
verdict in favor Of the plaintiff for five
thousand dollars.
The Sherman (Texas) Courier thus
addresses them: THE rush for clerk.
ships in this city is undated. The bites,
however, are not gilded ones, as salaries
don't exceed a board bill. Young man,
you'd better 60 Westl Yea, a little
wester stilll'
Next week we will have Fanny Daven-
pert at the theater in Pique, Frou.Frou,
As You Like 1t, and Oliver Twist, and
the succeeding week Maggie Mitchell
will be the attraction. The box-sheets
are filling up rapidly for Miss Fanny's
engagement.
At the Criminal Court seven jurors
we're obtained in the Wooldridge.W Wait
homicide case up to noon to-day. Ii is
generally believed that the remaining
FIVE jurors will be secured by tomorrow
afternoon, and that the hearing Of testi.
mony will commence on Monday next.
The Avalanchian is a bad mar and
nov advocates suicide for the nan who
gets drunk and abuses bis family. He
should not have advised the brutal inc
briate to 90 down TO the river and drown
himself; he should have suggested to the
unfortunate that it would have q happy
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
The best Of Norfolk oysters
received daily by q. QuenteI
e. Son, 500 Main st. 70
Accident 20 a MemphIan.

The St. Louis Times, of the l4th,
states:
D. G. Irwin, a journalist, and formerly
editor of the Memphis LEDGER, slipped
on a fruit peeling on Fourth street, near
Washington avenue, yesterday morning
about 10 o'clock, and fell, striking en-
his face and becoming insensible. He
was picked up and taken into a store
adjacent, where he remained uncon.
scious for two hours. A physician was
called, bis wounds dressed, and be was
removed TO his rooms. He was some
what better in the afternoon and will
soon be out. The wound may leave an
ugly scar.
The Times is mistaken. Mr.. Irwin
w0s never connected with the LEDGER,
he was connected with the late Memphis
Register, IN evening paper, which -four.
ished and faded here some three years
Ego.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
Choice Mallard Ducks,
VenisOn Steaks, Fish,
oysters and Celery,
65t q. Clement, Sc BeaI st.
PolIee Patrol Inslrucuons.

The police should reach forth for the
gambling ropers and fakirs and take
EN- in" We fear the patrolmen have
been instructed as we're the constables in
the play by Dogberry:
" You shall comprehend all vagrom men;
You are to bid any mau stand in the 'City's'
name"
And when the patrolmen replied
"How if he will not stand;"
The instructions were:
Why then take no note of him but let him
go;
And presently call the rest of the watch to-
gether,
And thank God you are rid of a knaye."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
Joe LOry's Shaving Saloon,
3S South Court Street.
Hot and Gold Baths. 80
Potter Court.

To day the recorder disposed of the
following cases; Lizzie Stein, Maggie
Davis, Margaret Wright and Sam A. Ker.
mar (whites) were arrested on the
charge of assault aud battery. Lizzie
Stsin and Sam A. Herman were fined IS
each; the others we're discharged. Geo.
Leonhard and Frank Seymour (whites),
fighting, fined $40 each; Jack Turner
black, suspicious character, fined $25;
VIM, Henson, disorderly, fined s.; NJ,
Wright. disorderly, discharged,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
COTTON REPORT,
TENNESSEE Takes the Laad-A Cood
ShOWtng.

showing.
WASHINGTON, November l5.-The cot.
ton returns of the department of agri.
culture, made on the first week in No
vember, compare the product in bales
within the the following comparison by
States with the crop OF last year: Texas
has the lowest percentage, aud would be
still lower but for fifteen per centum in
crease Of acre. Arkansas and Tennes.
see stand high, not only by reason of
good crop, but because their yields we're
relatively low last year. Alabama is
above one hundred only because her last
crop was q very poor one. The figures
are as follows: North Carolina, 81; South
Carolina, 80; Georgia, go; Florida. 81;
Alabama, 1866 Mississippi, 80; Louisiana,
81; Texas, 81; Arkansas, Ito; Tennes.
see, lis This indicates about four per
cent. reduction Of the aggregate Of last
year, if even the future Of the picking
should be as favorable as that 1876.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

Marion Jones (negro), was arrested
last night on the charge of killing a ne.
gro near the mouth Of White river, In
Arkansas, about a month since. he will
be held fora requisition, unless he agrees
to accompany the Arkansas officer with.
out such a document.
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o

Elk Governor Hampstead, Of Iowa, is
in the city, the guest of his son Mr.. j. L.
Hampstead, of the house of Guy, Nc
ClellAn 4 Co.
Ernst Ksabe, Esq, the Oldest partner
Of the firm Of that name engaged in
manufacturing the famous Knabe pianos
at Baltimore, has arrived in the city on
a Southwestern trip, and will remain
some days.
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OYSTERS AND L
Received Daily by Express
BY Victor ID. Fuchs,
30 and Al Jefferson st. AT

The most complete stock of furniture
carpets, oil cloths, shades and lace cur
tains at Bryson & Camps ever shown in
the city. Prices as low as the lowest.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
Kentucky Sausage,

Kentucky Sausage,
Spare Ribs,
Salmon and Red Snapper,
Rock River Butter,
III. Seessel, ST., & Son,
Cor. Jefferson ana Second.
66-t
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POSTAL UNIFORMy.

description of the Suits 10 be Wcrn
In Future by Agents m Clerks.
The following order from the post
master general to postal employees de.
scribes the new uniform to be worn by
them in the future:
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JeTerson,a RIp van Wrinkle.


New York Times.l
1t would be difficult to a~nalyze the ele.
ments of Joseph Jeferson's success in
his single character of rip Van Win.
kle." Here is the case where an actor
has taken a part which was only the husk
of what he has made it. The rip Van
Wrinkle" of Jefferson is not Boucicault's 8;
much less is it Washington Irving's. No.
body could have made this character but
the man who he's endowed it with his
own tenderness, humor and profound
pathos. Neither the original story.
writer nor the cunning playwright could
possibly have created the rip Van
Wrinkle" which has cast a magical spell
over almost a generation of English.
speaking people. Theater.geers familiar
with every line of the piece go again and
again 10 submit themselves to the sweet
illusions Of the hour. The quaint humor
of the roysterer at the tavern, the sur
prised sorrow of the husband driven out
into the storm, the childlike curiosity Of
the wanderer in the haunted mountain.
and the pathetic simplicity Of the long.
lost sleeper who asks, "And are we, then,
so soon forgotten Y'-how we'll everybody
knows all thesel Yet they seem never
to lose their charm. Like the measures
OF a noble poem, they com aud come
again, and, ike unto the poem, nobody
thinks Of complaining of their age. The
play is good enough, the character is a
charming one, ever in different hands.
Irving created it. But the subtle spell is
the actors. 1t is Jefferson who has
made it real. And when the dark curtain
has fallen, and the lights are out, and
men turn from the mimic wonders OF the
stage to the cold aud practical world out
Of doors, like some tender refrain yet
vibrate those parting words, land may
they live long and prosper-live long and
prosperl'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
The MA1ornI,r EIantion

The municipal election comes off early
in January, and at the next meeting of
the general council the mayor will send
in a list of judges and clerks, and the
locations of the voting precincts. The
Democratic executive committee OF the
city has not, as yet, met to make arrange
ments for holding ward meetings or a
convention. The ward meetings will
probably secure the election of a mayor,
the candidate gaining or working up the
different wards and securing the dele
gates in his interest, being the prospec.
tive nominee, and the nomination settles
the matter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16
KAHN g. FREIBERG.

Corner Main and Poplar Streets.
Elegant cashmere suits, $40, $l2, SIS.
Fine cashmere pants, So so, $3.50, So.
Finest box-toed boots, $3.50, 81, s..
Elegant hats, 81. so, 81 so.
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Our &c, 64c, 73c calico.
Our SC, lOc bleached domestic.
Our 79c and l0c Canton flannel.
Cheapest in:the city.
KAHN u FREIBRRG.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

Choice maple syrup, choice
new sugar house mOIasses,
choice creamery butter,
choice buckwheat-pIain or
self'rising, at O. II. Ryan e.
Co.'s, 342 Main st. 65t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

LADIES aud misses FUR Cars" in
Seal, NutriA aud Conoy, very low prices,
at Wiggin & Co.'s, 3l9 Main st. 58t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

Go TO the Memphis Iron Works, L. T.
Risk & Co., 299 Court street, for all kinds
of castings, machinery, repairing and
re6tdng. Orders may be left at 800
Main street. 48-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

Kentucky sausage, Rock
river dairy butter, fresh sal
mon and trout, all kinds of
fresh meats, at Seessel's mar
kot, corner of Market and
Main streets. 67
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LADIES and misses Fur Cars" in
Seal, Nutria and Coney, very low prices,
at Wiggin & Co.'s, 3ls Main st. 5st
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Fine Kentucky Beef,
Choice Meats Of all kinds,
Schilling's Market,
Corner Jefferson and Third,
66
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The Alligator

is acknowledged TO be the best stove of
the age. Sold only by j. B. Ford, 2l4
Main and l23 Poplar streets. 64t
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ORDER.
POsToFFIoE DEPARTMENT,
fNCToN. ID. O.. Octohar 05 IQT7

NAOh OAIA IN
WASHINGTON, D. c., October Is, 1S77.j
Insomuch as the public interests seem
to require it, all employees Of this depart
meDt who, in the performance of their
official duties, are obliged to handle the
mails in public, should be known by some
outward designation, it is therefore or.
dered that each railway postofiee clerk,
route agent, mail route messenger and
local mail agent be, and is hereby re-
CURED TO provide himself with O uniform
within sixty days from this date, the
same to be worn at all hours when on
duty, and to be made according to the
accompanying specifications.
ID. M. KEY, Postmaster General.
SPECIFICATIONS.
Accompanying the above we're the fol.
lowing Specifications for railway mail
service uniforms" y:
Materials to be used: Pure indigo
dyed wool cloth, to weigh not less than
twenty ounces to the yard, 6 4 width.
Style Of coat: Double-breasted sack,
four buttons on each side and two on
each sleeve; inside and outside lined
through with Italian cloth of good DUAL.
ityj length to be halfway from hip Joint
to knee; buttons used to be regulation
postal button. Goat can be lined with
wooden lining for winter, if so desired,
and Italian cloth for summer.
Style Of vest. Single. breasted, no col.
lar, six buttons high; lined through the
back with a good article of indigo.blue
flannel; inside and outside breast
pockets.
Style Of pants: Three-eighths welted
seam; hip and corner pockets
Style of cap: Regulation navy; three
inches deep, oHe and three.quarter inch
with black corded silk band; cloth
to be full indigo, dark navy blue; lining
of cap to be ~silesia, and ~oil-glazed cover.
Working uniform. Style of shirt:
Material used, pure ~indigo-blue flannel,
to weigh not less than six ounces to the
yard; double-breasted front, medium
collar, deep cuffs, black lasting
buttons On bosom and wrists; good quail
ity pearl buttons on body band.
Style Of overslls: Material to be jute
duck No. 10, with stomach protector to
run from front, as marked, to back seam;
back waistband lulled in; suspenders to
button on apron front, with back straps
and patch pocket.
d. M. KEY. Postmaster General
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

Bartee's hOme- made can.
dies 25e per pound. 32S Main.
rot
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VIM. Floyd, the co4teOROner. Fine
cGrGmels a specially. est
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RAr ExrERmIMAToR

New la the time 10 use the
LIGHTNING RAT EXTEH.
.MENATOR, preDared only by
FMhIen d. KIeimscllnl1dl.
chemists. corner Heal and
.Nec0nd streets. 697O
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

Sid Cooks Peabody Billiard
Room is pronounced first
class by all visitors. 33-t
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LADIES and misses FUR CAPS" in
Seal, Nutria and Coney, very low prices,
at Wiggin & Co. q, 3l8 Main st. 5st
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

new SnOOtAnB GnAiofys
Ten.pin Alley and Saloon,
II. j. Kelly, 2O0 Main. eli
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FOR SALE.

n1OOO of Bluff City Cotton Mills stock,
0lUUU at Mechanics and Traders Bank,
No. 9 Madison street. vt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

4 BRICK HOUSE and a Frame House.
"A with large yard. stable, ETC., on Washing
ton stI eet, near corner of Orleans. Inquire
for terms at 1856 Washington street, corner. Of
Orleans street, AT
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FOR RENT.

FURNISHED rooms, IS to SIS per month. at
Y Whitemore House, Ill Adamt st. &c 81
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A TWO STORY brick. sS St. Martin ST.; 5
66 II A. }. VIENNA, 35 Main st.
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HOUSE Of Eve rooms, besides kitchen and
Ill servants room. Large lot. Apply at
Dod's book store, or Rl Alabama st. 23.t
OOc SECOND ST. Apply to
QUO l6-tl j. B. HILL, S14 Main st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

CHED-4Ox14S Union street between Second
- and Third. Slate roof. Do to store cot
ton. salt or totton-seed.. A. S. BROWN.
63.68
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

DRICK dwelling; 7 rooms handsomely fin
ID ished, gas. water and bathroom on Tai
bot, near Main street.
New store, 26x50 feet, corner Of Second and
Jefferson; $50 per meDth.
New store, two stories, As Jefferson; 20x70
feet; $50 per month.
Two suburban residences. 4 and s acres
respectively. Apply to
S. 81 Miner MERIWETHER, 245 Second.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-16

HOUSE No. S3 Exchange street extended.
III Also rooms at No. IA Second street.
ApnIv to MRS. JUST. 5S-4
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-07-07
School and Church.

Girls can study at Harvard next
year.
The degree of Phi. ID. was recently
conferred ON Miss Magill, daughter of
President Magill, by the Boston Univer-
sity.
Gen. d. H. Hill, of North Carolina,
has been elected President of the Arkan-
sas Industrial University, located at Fay
etteville.
Nearly 100 clergymen left New
York for Europe on Saturday, the 10th,
most of them bound for the Pan-Pres-
byterian Convention at Edinburgh,
which meets on the I'd ofJuly.
Miss Agatha Ives, American, has
been awarded two medals in the SEM
mary of nuns in Rome-for superior
knowledg in eastern dialects and Ian
guages, and for compositions in the liv-
ing tongues.
The American Missionaries, whose
stations are in Asiatic Turkey, have de-
termined to remain, although they will
remove their families to Trebizond for
safety. There are missionaries at Ere
roum, f1arpOrt, van, anu Ditis.
s-It is mentioned rs a notable fact
that the first translation of the Bible into
the Russian vernacular, approved by
the Gar, as head of the Greek Church,
and by the Church itself, has been COM
pleted only within the present year.
Among the members of this years
graduating class at the Annapolis Naval
Academy are Karaka Katz and J G Kari
tomo, two japanese youths, who have
been educated at the Academy under
law allowing certain Japanese youths to
be placed at the Academy at the expense
of the japanese Government.
The Reformed Outch) Church of
this country has had great prosperity
during the past three years. In 1879,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-07-07
Alcohol in Hot Weather.

The London Lancet has rendered
good service by calling attention to the
evils arising from the use of alcohol
during hot weather. 1t says: 1.-The
first important thing to be observed in
great heat is temperance-temper
in all things. Heat gives rise to feel
ings Of exhaustion this leads to drink
ing repeated doses of alcohol in some
shape or other, than which nothing can
be worse. We do not say that a strictly
temperate man never gets sun-stroke;
hut we do aver that man who keeps
his house and his person, if we may so
express it, well ventilated by opening
the windows Of the former, and clothing
himself nationally, who attends to the
functions of his skin by clubbing" reg
ularly and who lives temporarily, is a
very unlikely subject indeed for sun
stroke. A manifest want at this season
is some non-alcoholic beverage that IS
cold and pleasant, without being at all
sweet or mawkish."
In another part of recent issue, un-
der the heading I" Sunstroke and Alco-
hol, 1.-THE Lancet remarks: 1.-The ne
cessity of temperance in drink on the
part of those whose ayocations lead
them to be exposed to the sun this
weather can not be too forcibly urged.
Over and over again in India the immu-
nifty from sunstroke enjoyed by temper
ate men has been observed. 1t may be
interesting now to recount Sir Charles
Napier's description of his personal
seizure while serving in India Gas re-
ported in Sir Ronald Martins excellent
work The Diseases of Tropical Coun-
triesD: Il had hardly writes Sir
Charles, written the above sentence,
when was tumbled over with heat APP
oplexy; forty-three others were struck,
all Europeans, and all died within three
hours, except myself. LIDO not drink.
That is the secret The sun has no ally
in liquor in my brain.'r
The philosophy embodied in Sir
Charles Napier's shrewd observation
ss The sun has no ally in liquor in my
BRAINS gradually becoming better
understood by the people, and il is graf
flying to find that the medical press and
many members of the profession are
now striving to enlighten the public on
this important point. Our readers
should, at this season, bring these forci-
BILE remarks under the notice OF their
Notwithstanding friends.