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Contested Land Gases, Private Land Claims,
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The Rusatnn Chief Atnn

The correspondent of the Daily
News at Kischeneff, writing of Gen.
Nepokoitschitzky, the Russian chief
Of staff, says:
General Nepokoitschitzky's hair,
whiskers and moustache are snow
white; but there is a flush of hale
color on his cheek ; his eye is not
dim, neither is his natural force
abated. He wore a simple undress
uniform, with the aiguilettes, which
distinguish the staff officer, and his
only decoration was the Gross of ST..
George.
"The General has seen more SER
vice than most of the Russian lead
ers, and his experience of staff duty
in particular has been long and con-
tinuous. He joined the army as an
infantry officer, and first saw active
service in the Caucasus, where his
merit was so conspicuous that he
speedily received a staff appoint.
ment. He held an important and
responsible Office on the general
staff in the army which Russia sent
to cooperate with Austria in quell-
ing the Austrian insurrection in
1S49.
"In the Orimean war, or rather
in the war which we know conyen-
tionally by that name, he was chief
of staff to one of the corps compos-
ing the army with which Gortscha-
koff occupied the Principalities, and
took part, under Paskiewitz, in the
memorable siege of Silistria. Since
1856 the General has seen no active
service,s ,sbut has been continually in
military employment of one sort or
other.
although chief of the staff of
the Army Of the South, for which
position he was chosen because of
his acquaintance with the region of
the Danubian Valley, derived from
his experience in the campaign of
1854, he is not the head of the great
general staff of Russia. That high
Office is filled by Count Heidan.
Before his appointment to the Office
he now holds, General Nepokoit-
schitzky was at the head of the
Commission for the reorganization
of the army on the new system,
which has replaced the old Russian
system, and the operation of which,
although its institution is so recent
that its full value is as yet not real
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almost sure of hitting an iron-clad
at 1000 yards, even when the ship
from which it is fired is moving at
the rate of 10 or IL knots an hour
1t follows that our powerful IRON
clad fleet might be beset by a swarm
Of almost invisible enemies, too
rapid to be caught, too small to be
easily hit, and capable Of deliver
ing absolutely fatal blows from a
distance Of more than half mile.
1t had been supposed at first that
these torpedoes might be kept at
bay by surrounding the vessels with
some kind of wire netting, but it is
now stated that the torpedo boats
can be provided with weed cutters
which would easily cut through
such q defense. This would seem
sufficiently formidable but men
ton was made in the course of the
discussion Of an invention which
would seem even more formidable
still. There is said to be kind of
rocket, which, by the aid of recent
Improvements, may now be accu-
rately projected for 5000 yards, in
stead of 1000, with a destructive
charge. If this be the case, it
would seem that it furnishes the
means Of diScharging the most pow
erful shells without the enormously
expensive machinery of heavy guns.
Should this rocket be really under
control and sufficiently destructive,
it would be a far more terrible
weapon than the torpedo; and it
would seem likely to be as formid-
able in military as in naval war
fare. If belligerents can avail
themselves of all the power of ar
tillery without the inconvenience of
transporting guns, warfare will be
revolutionized alike by land and
sea-"
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The View Power.
Letter in the Iris h world.l

Letter in the Irish World.l
Providence seems to lave kept
back from men until now a knowl-
edge Of the most powerful agent in
nature. | refer to itro-glycerine,
or rather the su5limated essence of
that agent, known as dynamite.
This wonderful agent is now used
instead of the old plow by scientific
farmers, to plow up their fields.
All the dangerous properties Of
dynamite are removed by kneading
it up with brick dust or some such
mineral powder, while at the same
time all its valuable properties are
retained. In this form the COM
pound is quite harmless, if only
kept free from spark of fire or a
sudden shock, either of which will
explode it with terrific force. The
Duke of Sutherland uses it in the
following manner:
A certain number of cartridges
are sunk in the soil at regular dis
tance in a straight line from side to
side of the field, and, by means of
an electric wire, connected all along
the line with the sunken cartridges,
the whole are exploded in an in
slant. There is then a terrible
roofing up of the earth, and a
deeper furrow is formed than was
ever made by horse or steam plow.
The great submarine exploit at
Hell Gate, l am told, was carried
out by the application of this new
power, without a single hitch or
accident, Notwithstanding that
millions of cartridges Of the explo-
siye were hauled about, and driven
home into the submarine rock,
which, at the proper moment, was
broken into atoms, though deep
under the surface of the East river.
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nice to look at, and pet, and put
on exhibition, but so tender and
weak that they are fit neither for
our climate, our work or our cir
cumstances. Our fathers worked
twelve or fourteen hours a day and
never thought of getting tired. We
are used up when we have worked
four or five hours. Our methers
made butter and cheese, fed the
pigs and chickens, did the milking,
raised a dozen children, made the
clothing for the family, and when a
shower was coming could rake or
load hay. Our wives want maid
to tend the baby and another to do
the housework, boy to do the
chores, and if we keep more than
one COW, cheese factory to keep
the milk from spelling. 1t is safe
to say that ten farmers wives to-day
cannot do as much hard work as
would two fifty years ago. AS a
farming people wo are played out.
II the young New Hampshire
farmer, who wants a wife to help
him get living instead of one to
hang ribbons on and pour patent
medicines into, would Just 60 down
to your city and find good, strong,
vigorous, industrious and frugal
Irish or German girl, he would find
his farm would pay better than. it
does now, and his children would
be likely to be worth ten times as
much as farmers as will be any of
the next generation of pure-bred
Yankees"
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Louisville, KY, Saturday, June 80, ~
AT PUBLIC LIBRARY HALL.
100000 for Only Ten.
READ THE LIST OF GIFTS.
Drawing Positively June 80, 1877
And Every Three Months Thereafter.

The present management emphdticdllv notify
the public that there ,cM be no postponement Of
his drOloiHg, as Is usual IN such enterprises, bat
that Il WiH positively and uneQuiuocally take
place on ht date named.
This, che Second Draicing, tciU be conducted
ike he FIRST 10 the fairness Of lchich the folLotpiRg
named gentlemen hare testified:
Hon. Alvin Duvall, late Chief Justice Sup.
Court Of KY. James g. Dudley, Chm Board
Of School Trustees; Grant Green, Cashier
Farmers Bank Of Kentucky; Hon. S. l. Nj.
Major, Public PriRter State OF Kentucky !;
Hon. Thomas N. Lindsay, Pres't Farmers
Bank Of KY; Hon. Thomas G.. Jones. Clerk
ofSupreme Court Of Ky; Judge r. A. Thomp-
son, Pres dg Judge Franklin Co. Court; James
G. Crockett, Clerk Frankl IN County Court.
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TURKISH FORTS.
About ghe Defenses of
the Danube.

Something About ghe Defenses of
the Danube.
The Danube river now presents a
formidable line of defence for
Turkey. Besides completely com
manding the Black Sea with her
navy. Turkey has a large fleet of
gunboats which patrol the river
from the impossible cataracts of
the Iron Gate to the Black Sea.
The smaller class of these gunboats
are light armored, to resist the shot
from field cannon, but the larger
vessels are strongly armored, to
resist the heavy fortifcation guns
which the Russians can trans
port by their long land route
to the river, the only one now open
to them. Along the Turkish shore
there is line Of strong fortresses,
which in 1928 and 1858 resisted the
attacks of the Russians, and be-
tween these are a chain of smaller
forts capable of resisting for a short
time the attack Of any force which
the enemy could throw across the
river.
The fortresses on this line are as
follows, commencing at the west
Ada Kale, on a rocky island of
about 5000 acres, situated in the
middle of the river, where the
channel is bounded on each side by
nearly perpendicular rocks 1000
feet high, and utterly inaccessible
to an enemy with even the smallest
cannon. This fortress is above the
cataract Of the Iron Gate, and is so
placed as to be able to prevent the
passage of any gunboat down
the river from Seryia, etc. J
or of any land force along the only
road-the :" Trojan Way" which
is an admirably-built modern mac
adam road, over the same ground
that the Roman emperor built a
military road in A. D. 78. The
next fortress is Widdin, 100 miles
below Ada-Kale, on the right bank,
and on the opposite side is Kalafat,
a Roumanian fortress, now occupied
by the Russians.
The next fortresSeS are Rahova,
Nicopal and Sistova, dividing about
the distance between Wild
din and Rustchuk (175 miles.) The
sixth fortress is Rustchuk, which is
very strong, and has .withstood the
attacks Of the Russians in former
wars. On the opposite side of the
river is the Roumauian fortress of
Giurgeyo, now also in the hands of
the Russians. There is a railway
of 1S0 miles length, from Rust
chuk to Varna, on the Black sea,
which passes over a spur of the
Balkan mountains at an elevation
of 1000 feet above the level of the
Black sea (Which is fourteen feet
above the Mediterranean. The
seventh fortress is Turtukai, half
way to Silistria. The latter is a
very strong place, and has with
stood all modern attacks. Below
this are Oornovado and HirSova,
Brahilo and Isactchi and Ismail,
together with a fortress near the
sea.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-11
MEMPHIS & LITTLE ROCK R.R-
Sh,Ot Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TIME CARD.

Leaves. Arrives.
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freight train leaves Hope
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trains at the depot Of the Louisville, Nash
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points on the title Rock and Fort Smith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
trains.
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Less Vigorous Thnp Their Fathers.

A New Hampshire correspondent
of the Manchester Mirror expresses
his views on the deserted farm
question thus bluntly; If farms
have run down the people who oc-
cupy them are a long way ahead in
the race. We have got on our
farms to-day a class of people who
can cipher through the algebra,
play the piano and boast of an ac-
quaintance with fine arts, but they
can't work. They have got fine
minds, but their bodies are sickly,
puny and weak. To talk the mat
ter plainly, we have bred the bone
and muscle out of our families
until we have got a kind Of human
Jerseys, fne-boned, mild-eyed and
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lied, has done SO much to improve
in all respects the Russian army.
although then in years and SER
vice, the General is unquestionably
an old soldier; his position as presi-
dent of this commission sufficiently
indicates that he is a disciple of the
modern school of military organiza-
ton and of strategy and tactics.
General Leyitsky, the sous-chef of
the general staff, has, l believe,
been professor in the military
abademy of st. Petersburg, and has
also commanded one of the cavalry
regiments of the Guards. He
has not seen active service. l
believe that, without exception, the
generals commanding the army
corps Of the army of operation saw
service in the Crimean war"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-11

John G. Downer, Of Nevada, an expe
rlenced miner, writes to the Reno Ga
zette from the Black Hills: II have
visited nearly all the mines within ten
miles OF this place, and, taken alto.
gether, do not think very favorably of
the country. The gulch mines will not
prove very rich or extensive; but few Of
them will pay to work. Some quartz
mines show free gold, and some Of the
ore looks rich, but there are no defined
ledges. l think this country is the poor.
est mining camp that | ever saw"
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Louisville and Great Southern R. R

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For tickets or information. apply at Ticket
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MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
MEMPHIS. TENN, May 70. 1877.

AN AND AFTER SUNDAY, MAY 18th,
~ 1877, trains will run as follows:
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily 800 Pm. 1880 pm
Freight and Ac' dation,
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Weekly Public Ledger.

Published every Tuesday at 50 per annum lin
aovance). Postage FREQ.
Communications upon subjects Of general
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Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
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Mildness conquers-and hence it is
that the gentle yet positive influence OF
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup overcomes so
quickly the disorders of babyhood.
Price Csc.
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