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What right have you to tyrannize
over a child q? l have very little
respect for a man that cannot gov
ern a child without brute force.
Think of whipping childrenl Why,
they say that children tell lies.
Yes, cowardice is the mother Of lies
tyranny is the father of lies.
Suppose a man who is much larger
than You as you are larger than a
fve.year-old child should come at
you with a pole in his hand: "Who
broke that plate ?" You would
tremble, your knesS would knock
together, and you would swear you
never saw the plate, or that it was
cracked when you got it.
Think of a member of the board
of exchange whipping one of his
children for prevaricating. Think
of a lawyer beating his own flesh
and blood because he eyaded the
truth. Think of a dealer in stocks
furnishing his child for setting
aaoat false reports. What an in
consistency! Think Of it. If you
should hereafter whip your child, l
wish you could have a photograph
taken when doing so, with brows
corrugated with anger, your cheeks
red with wrath, and the little child
shrinking, trembling, c%rouching
and begging If this child should
happen to die, wouldn't it be sweet
in the autumn, when the maple
leaves are turning to gold, and when
the scarlet vines run like a sad re-
gret out Of the earth-wouldn't it
be delightful to 90 and sit on the
mound that covered the flesh you
had beaten, and look at the photo
graph Of yourself in the act of whip
ping that child?
Now think of it; and if all | say
tonight will save one blow from the
tender flesh Of infancy, | Inn more
than paid.
| have known men to drive their
own children from their doors, and
then get down on their knees and
ask God to watch over them. |
will never ask God to do a favor for
a child Of mine while | can do it.
Never. Another thing: There is
nothing in this world like being
honest with these children. Do
not pretend you are perfection; you
are not; and if one Of them hap
pens to tell a story, do not let on as
if the whole world was going to
burst. Tell them earnestly you
have told thousands Of them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
NallonaI RING Assoelatlon.

New YORK, July 1.-THE National
Rife Association yesterday accepted the
gold medal offered by General D. D.
Wylie, chief Of ordnance, to be shot for
with military rifles at three hundred and
FIVE hundred yards, with seven shots at
each distance.
A letter was received from Thomas J..
jacques, chairman of the New South
Wales Rifle Association, relative to the
match for the centennial trophy. He
suggested as the views of the association
that the ranges should be 900, 1000 and
llO9 yards, as these distances are a bet.
ter test of skill than those adopted at the
late match; that the match should not be
shot on any ground on which the mem
beers of any Of the competing teams have
had frequent opportunities for practice;
that no member Of any competing team
be allowed to fire on a range selected for
the match; that the match be shot every
third year, in order that the teams from
distant countries may be able to take
part.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

To the Editor of the Ledger:

MKNPHIs. July 9. 1877.
To the Editor Of the Ledger;
I find in passing through the city that
several Of our old and respectable citi.
zen are talking of removing aud settling
in Texas, and as yoa were one OF the
excursion party who lately visited that
State to look at the country, would ask
you to enlighten US as to what there is
to induce a citizen OF the great State of
Tennessee lone of the oldest and best)
to leave it for a comparatively new
country like Texss2 Please give me
your advice, as | have been almost per-
suaded to pack up and join the band
Yours, SHELBY.
We would advise " Shelby to 60 aud
see for himself, or he can consult any of
the gentlemen who lately visited Texas.
1t is certainly a wonderful country, and
immigration is pouring in there at the
rate Of two or three hundred thousand g
year. Lands are cheap as yet in the
thinly settled counties, aud bought soon
must prove very profitable as invest
ments. The people out there are mostly
generous and hospitable, and give a most
hearty welcome to all of the right sort
who come, and especially to actual set.
tiers. There is some talk Of a company
forming here to buy a large body of
land aud form a Tennessee colony.
This has been kept very quiet, however,
aud we know nothing about it except
that the idea is to lay off a town in the
middle, cut the land up into small farms
and give each actual settler a town lot
as an inducement to identify himself
the community. The scheme looks
attractive, but we are not advising
any one to go until he has investigated
for himself.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
Athleuo Contests

New YORK, July 7.-At the inter.col.
iege athletic contests yesterday the
Columbia, Of Princeton, and the Univer-
sity, of Pennsylvania, carried off the
honors. The witnesses Of the sport were
fairly numerous, and were, for the most
part, college boys and alumni, who bet
quietly but freely notwithstanding the
prohihitorY law.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
Boiler Explosion

ST Louis, July THE boiler Of the
steam thresher of George Patterson, in
operation about a mile from Nashville,
ILL.,, yesterday, exploded with great force,
injuring N. W. Moore and Harry Lee SO
badly that they died during the day, and
dangerously wounding George Wells,
William Ahrens and a young son Of N.
McCracken.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

at a general meeting in Lon
don in 1875. At this meeting,
the principal Presbyterian churches
throughout the world were repre-
scented. 1t was agreed that the
first general Presbyterian council
should be held at Edinburgh in
July, 1876, but owing to the Amer
lean Centennial celebration, it was
postponed until this year. The
meeting also adopted a constitution
aud arrived at an agreement as to
the principles held in common By
the churches. The council com
prises delegations for ten countries,
representing forty-eight branches
of the Presbyterian denomination,
embracing upward Of 10000
churches, and $4,000, 900 people.
According to the programme, the
formal opening Of the council and
DR.. Flint's discourse will be fol-
lowed by successive sessions for
about ten days, at which papers
viii be read and addressed will be
delivered OH the progress Of religion
in various countries. A synopsis
of a constitution will be con-
sidered, embracing a few great
doctrinal principles, which will
serve as a common ground for
the proposed union. Since its
inception DIR. McCosh has been
regarded as a prime mover in
this great project, which has met
with the cordial approval of the
Presbyterian church in this coun-
try. The range of topics to be
considered is greater than can be
disposed of in ten days, but the
proceedings will attract the atten-
of the whole religious world.
1t has been said that this is in one
sense an ecumenical council, mas
much as delegates are present from
the most distant parts Of the earth.
Australia, Ceylon, the Cape of
Good Hope, Egypt, Syria, Persia,
America and the Continent
Of Europe have sent their ablest
representatives to this great gather
ing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
The Object Of Governor HamptOn,s
Visit North,

New York, July 7.-Governor Hamp-
ton and Attorney General Ccnnor leave
for South Carolina to-day. The object
of their visit has been very satisfactorily
accomplished, which was, among other
things, to arrange for a temporary loan
Of 500, 900 to pay the present expenses
Of the State government and some float
ing claims demanding attention. Both
Governor Hampton aud General Conner
have suffered somewhat from illness
during their stay here, but both have re.
covered.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
THE ECUMENICAL PRESBYTERIAN
COUNCIL.

The n-Presbyterian Council
which began its session at Edin-
burgh on Tuesday, Sd inst, is the
result of a proposal made nearly five
years ago at the precautionary of
the Scottish Reformation in Phila-
delphia. 1t promises to bring into
a closer union all who are in afhlia.
ton with this large and influential
denomination. The proposition to
hold this council was approved in
May, 1878, by the general assem-
blies Of the Presbyterian church in
this country, and also of the Irish
Presbyterian church. In October,
1878, when the Evangelical ALI
ance met in New York a provisional
committee was appointed, which
communicated with thirty-eight
churches, asking their cooperation
In the summer of 1874 the propo.
sition was ratified at meetings held
in London, Belfast, and Edin.
burgh, and it was decided
to organize the whole scheme
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
Attachment Notice.

Before g. D. Crockett, Justice of the Peaos
for Shelby County, Tenn.-H. X S. Gross
VS.. Joe L%aurOnzi.
In THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT
i having been sued out under section 1886 OF
the Code of Tennessee, and returned levied
upen the property of the defendant, and All
dayit having been made that the defendant il
indebted to plaintiffs in the sun of sSI n
due by account and that the claim is lust. and
shat the defendant is a nonresident of the,
state Of Tennessee it is therefore ordered thai
the said defendant make his personal aps
1871, at 10 O'Clock am, at my Office. M SSss,
Main street, in the city Of Memphis Tam
and defend said attachment suit, within ihs
time prescribed by law, or the same Will be-
proceeded with ex p9rte and that a copy Of
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This 9TH day Of July, 1877.
.ll-III-lz5,Izg q. D. CROCCETP, J.P
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

MONTREAL, July Young, McNaugh-
ton d Co., importers OF dry goods and
shirt manufacturers, failed yesterday;
liabilities, $3.50, 900; assets, fifty per cent.
Sir Hugh Allen has transferred 5000
shares Of stock in the Merchants bank
to the Bank Of Montreal, Labanque Du
People, and the Union Bank. BE still
holds 5000 shares.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
Fire at JeGsrsonvlme, indiana.

JEFFERsoYyILLE, July The entire
saw.mills Of D. S. Barmore, steamboat
builder, Of this city, WAS burned at mid
night. The loss on machinery and build.
ing, including lumber, patterns, etc, will
reach sixty thousand dollars; no insur.
ance. Captain Blanche's Red river boat
on the stocks, partially finished, was
slightly damaged. A large number of
men are thrown out of employment.
The origin Of the fire is yet unknown.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
LEGAL.
Attachment NOfice.

Before S. B. Robbins. j. P. for Shelby county
Tennessee-W. IL. Bingham VS.. Samuel o.
Rilts.
IN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENTHAV-
i Ing been sded out under section 1855 of the,
Code OF Tennessee and returned levied upon
the property of the defendant, aud afidavit.
having been made that the defendant is
indebted to the plaintiff in tho sum of
$40, due by account, and that the claim Is
Just, and that the defendant is a non-resi-
dent Of the State of Tennessee, aad n resi-
dent Of the State Of Arkansas; il il there.
fore ordered that the said defendant NIKE
his personal appearance before me on tho
llth day Of August, 1877, at 10 o'clock am, at
see, and defend said attachment sait with
in the time prescribed by law, or the same
will be proceeded with ex parte; and than =
copy of this order be published once n wssk
This July Z, 1871.
1ll-ll7-l23-l29 s. ROBBINS. ID
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
European TOurfsta.

New YORK. July Five steamers
leave port to-day for Europe, carrying
in all about four hundred saloon passen.
gers. John A. Kassou, minister to Aus.
tria, and Theodore Tilton and two
daughters sail in the City Of Brussels.
Fanny and May Davenport, actresses,
and George Fuller, correspondent Of the
Louisville Courier-Jo Journal, are booked
for England.
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Drowned.

COLUMBUS. o., July 7.-Commodore
NJ. Meredith, Of Mareojo, Morrow county,
was drowned last night in the 0lcntszg
river, while foarding the stream in bis
buggy.
Concord, N. H., July willis Beard
and Willis Eastman were drowned yes.
terdsy by the oapsizing Of their boat in
a pond.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
Bank Abatement.

New YoRL, July 7.-Loaus increase,
1858, 200; specie increase, So. SOC, 800;
legal tenders decrease, 81, 9l2,5OO; de.
posits increase, 81, 74O, 400; circulation
decrease, $85, 100; reserve increase, ST.
087 600.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
Inter.State sunday school UnioD,

Iater-State sunday school Union.
TOLEDO, July THE first annual as
sembly of the Interstate Sunday School
Union, composed Of the State unions OF
the various Northwestern and South.
western States, will convene at the lake
side, near Put-in-Bsy, Lake Erie,
July 10Th, and continue ten days.
Prominent divines from various
parts of the country are expected to
be present and take part in the exer.
cises, among them R4v. 7. DsWitt Tai.
madge, Of Brooklyn, and j. H. Vincent,
ID Of New Jersey, who will speak on
the 18th, 18th aud l4th.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

The subscription price Of the PUB
LTO LEDGER is IS per Gnnum for
The Daily, and 81 per annum for the
Weekk-POstGge free.
Persons learning the city for the SUM
me- can order the DAILY LEDGER
at 75c per month. or tVO dollars for
three months, in Gdpdnee, Nth the
privilege of changing pOsto6ice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
State of Tennessee,
Countv of Sholhv SIS
OFFICIAL
ORDINANCE.

SECTI0N 52s OF THE CITY ORDINANCES
- prohibits the running at large of any dog
unless muzzled so effectually as to prevent his
biting, during the months of July, August and
September.
This is to give notice that on and after Tues
day; July 10th l will cause to BIO destroyed
all dogs found running at large, whose owners
have not complied with the provisions Of the
section quoted.
P. R. ATHY, Chief Of Police.
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Notification Not TO Purchase Ger.
thin Bonds.

KEEsvILLE, N. Y, July 6.-The Ma.
tional Bank has notified brokers rot to
buy town Chesterfield bouds, payable at
Park Bank, for $1,000 each, Nos. 3, 8, 10,
IL, IL and IL. and Essex county bonds,
each 800 or more, Nos. 10, IL, II, 10
and l6
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscrOtions Of youth. nervous weakness
early decay, loss Of manhood. etc.. l will send
a recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
by q missionary in South America. Send a
self-addressed envelope to the REV. JOSEPH
7. ISNAS. Station D, Bible House. New York
City, 129-xxiv. l28dhw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

WASHINGTON, July I For Tennessee
aud the Ohio valley, falling barometer,
soutberly winds and warmer, clear or
partly cloudy weather.
TIE lower Missouri and lower Missis.
sippi rivers will slowly fall.
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THE WAR-BOTH sIDBs CONTINUALLY
VICTORIOUS.

By reading the dispatches care
fully that come by cable about four
hours ahead of the actual occur
renee of events described, we are
satisfied that each side has had a
succession of brilliant victories and
that the other has been badly
thrashed at every point. The Rus
slams are more reticent than the
Turks, and sometimes conceal their
victories from an anxious world ;
but when a batch of Russian vic
tories do get through the lines we
have something to read about.
Turkish news, through English
correspondents and fltering ma
chimes, comes right along regularly.
The Turks batter the Russians to
pieces one day and polish them up
the next. They are generous to
war correspondents 10 a fault, al
lowing them to go to the
front and see all the fine STRAIT
egy and successful movements.
Those who see anything else
are never known to speak of it.
Where two opposing armies cut
each other to pieces on the same
battlefield without knowing that
they suffered any loss it relieves
grim-yisaged war Of its terrors and
puts a pleasing aspect on all nature.
The Russians have not taken Kars
merely because they had no use for
it as a summer residence, and the
Turks allowed the Muscoyites to
cross the Danube merely to draw
them into a cleyerly contriyed am
buscade. BY reading all the dis
patches and studying the newspa-
per maps a mere child can in a few
days know as much about the geo
graphy, topography, tactics aud
army commanders as his father and
mother both. The Atlantic cable
is a great thing, and it always seems
to work best just after a steamer
arrives at New York with a batch
Of late French, English and Ger
man papers. But for these maps
many wellinfOrmed persons might
have gone down to the grave with
out knowing the names of the passes
in the Balkan range, or the best
crossing places on the Danube. But
for the kilograms by cable what
would we have ever known in par
ticular about the Sofas or the com
paratiye merits of those warriors
Midhat Pasha and Mahmond Da-
mad Pasha, and all the other Pashas
and Mahomets. On the other hand
we might never have learned to
pronounce the musical Russian
names which have become house
hold words-such as Gortschakof,
Skobeletf, 0klobjio, and several
dozen others Of the same kind. We
have learned a great deal by this
war, although wheat is not as
high as 1t might be and speculative
prices have not been realized on
munitions of war and such other
goods as we might furnish the bel
llgerents. The stock Of information
we have acquired, however, is i'm
mense, and is increasing every day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
River kilograms.

CAIRO, July 7.-Arrived-John Gil
more, Mound City, 9 pm Coal Hill,
Memphis, midnight; Idlewild, Evansville,
noon. Depsrted-John Gilmore, Louis
vile, Gam, Clear aud warm.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
Drath Of IA wealthy manufacluroy.

New YoRK, July Charles L.. Rich.
ards, a wealthy retired manufacturer
died last Thursday Of an overdose Of
hydrate Of chloral.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

A CULTIVATED aud intellectually
inclined middle-aged young lady
known as Miss Mary Ann Moxon, of
Cambridge, recently inscribed on
the collar of her unpopular poodle:
Sim Mary Moxon's dog; whose
dog are your" The next time that
dog came home he was in a hurry to
see his mistress, and he saw her con-
siderably. After she caught him and
put on her blue glasses she read on
a card caudally attached: "Tur-
pentine is what's the matter with
me; what's the matter with your"
This pleasing incident in the do
nestle life of a. single young lady
was employed to illustrate the
plight of the Harvard boats crew
at Springfield, who had inscribed
on their headquarters: Reporters
and loafers not wanted here" The
complimentary notices these nice
young men have since received
may have given them as clear an
idea of the potency of reporterial
rhetoric as Miss Moxon's dog and
herself had of turpentine. The
New York Tribune, speaking of
the circumstance, says very truth
fully and aptly, that not more
than one in fifty university gradu-
ates can get into the newspaper
profession, and not one in a thou
sand succeeds.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
hank Robbed.

WmrEEALL, N. Y, July THE First
National Bask Of Roseville was robbed
last night Of the entire contents of the
safe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

Gov. HAMPTON failed to borrow
one hundred thousand dollars on
Wall street for the immediate use
OF the State government of South
Carolina.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

The New York Tribune says /:
"ofice-holders would be happier
to-day if there was less independ-
ence in the air."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

The twentieth commencement of
the medical department of the Uni
yersity at Nashville, and the fourth
of the medical department of the
Vanderbilt University, was held at
Nashville on the evening of the
9th, and diplomas were awarded to
th~irty.one graduates.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07

GEN. FITz-HUGH LEE, and Mr..
W. II. +. Lee, the first the nephew
and the other the son of Gen. Robt.
&. Lee, are candidates for the Dem.
ocratic nomination for governor of
Virginia, and the latter is said to
have a reasonable chance Of obtain
ing it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-07
The Cincinnati Commercial OF
the 9Th says:

The Cincinnati Commercial of
the 9th says:
Tie telegram" from Woodstock with
which We are favored mentions that Mr..
Blaine spoke briefly at the close, and
did not deliver a formal GRAFTON, which
accounts for the fact that We had the
pleasure Of receiving the proof slips Of
Mr.. Blsine's informal and unpremedi.
lated address through the Associated
Press twenty.four hours before we had
occasion to place the matter in type.
Mr.. Blaine's unpreneditated alarm
about Mexico was not the great feature,
in a literary sense, Of the informal affair
at Woodstock. The orator of the day
was Mr. Chamberlain. of South Carolina,
late governor Of that State, and the proof
Of the informal aud uuconsidered nature
Of the Fourth Of July proceedings at
Woodstock, further appears in a formid-
ALE pamphlet Of twenty.nin pages, con.
tanning the remarks which fell from the
fiery lips Of Mr.. Chamberlain, whose
appearance on this festive occasion was
doubtless as accidental as that Of Mr..
Packard before the Republicans assem-.
bled at The Iowa State convention.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-31
new ORLEANS, DECEMBER 81, 1877.

DIR. Lnderman, Director of the Mint, in his
report to the Secretary Of the Treasury, calls
particular attention to the United States
Mint in this city, and the tenure by which the
government holds it, and asks that Congress
take some action in the matter at once. The
facts In the case have been fully related
hundred times over. The City Council OF
this city in 1886 presented the ground upon
which the Mint now stands to the United
States. for ''the express and only purpose OF
erecting thereon a branch OF the united
States Mint, together with the necessary APP
pendages."
The act of cession expressly stipulates that
"should it hereafter be deemed necessary by
the government Of the United States to re-
move the Mint contemplated to be established
as aforesaid, or to cease to occupy it FOR such
purposes, then the said act (of donation) is to
be- null and void
These facts were made public some time
ago, and proceedings were even instituted TO
secure the reversion Of the ground to the city
This being brought to the attention OF Con-
gress, that body, in order to prevent the
reversion of the property to the city, sought
to escape the proviso by establishing an
assay office in the Mint.
DR.. Linderman expresses the opinion that
Congress has not been dealing properly by
New Orleans In the matter. He recognizes
the assay Office dodge simply as a subterfuge.
and wants to see our Mint i'm full working
order. In case the Senate agrees to the silver
bill, a Mint at New Orleans will be, he de-
clares, an absolute necessity for the coinage
OF silver dollars. Ii the government loses
the ground by Its refusal to carry on the
Mint, In accordance with its agreement with
the city, and it becomes necessary to pur-
chase new ground, it will not only put the
government to heavy expense, but will Sc
riously cripple the coinage powers Of the
sountry, already too small, and greatly inter-
fere with the promised success OF the silver
dollar.