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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-09-26
NOTICES
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NOTICE.

Until yellow fever subtides at Memphis,
u We are prepared TO attend 70 any 6usi-
ness intrusted 10 as at Louisville and IT
Louis, Letters addressed 10 us No. 900 North
Main street, ST, Louis, No. and No. 1s9 Main
street LOuifyils LED KY, wiz rsssys cur Gtssn-
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The old Slate Rock, at Provi-
dence, R. /, where landed Roger
Williams, in 164O, was blasted last
Saturday with a view to raising o
portion of it to the present grade Of
the land for an enduring monu7.
ment. The rock being full of seams
it was feared that a large piece could
not be obtained, But the blast
proved more successful than was
anticipated, and a block from eight
to ten feet square, containing some
of tho inscriptions, has been loos-
ened, and can, it is thought, be
taken out of its place with little
trouble. 1t is then proposed to fin
ish the stone on three sides, leaving
the side bearing the inscription as it
Is. In this manner a graceful and
impressive memorial could be made
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HOWARD ASSOCIATION.
H0WARD IINFIRMARTEs.

AT The request Of the Medical STAFF Of the
"A Howard infrmariss, IL is hereby earnest
y requested that Visitsrs 10 patients call be-
tween II and IL an, Asd to pm. Visits
phyIisiaus. W. T. WALTHALL,
1871 Supt Of InGrmAries for Howard Assn,
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SPECIAL NOTICE
GARD.

"A OAA v.
To all who hsringifromlthe.errOrs ant
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay. loss Of manhood, ETC., will
send receipt that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
By missionary in South America. Send .
.solf addressed envelope 70 the RRV. JOSEPH
7. lNMAN. Station d, Bi5le House, NeO York
CIV. fiIfHHG1 q lf sxxvii-9S eodhw
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The business man who thinks
that "a few lines on the local side
occasionally, is all the advertising
be needs, is twin brother to the man
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The Cheapest and Best News
Medium In the South.

1T Is ENTERPRIsINa. FEARLESS, RE
liable and newsy, and the peer of any weekly
newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all local events of Importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor OF expense will be spared to maintain it
in every department at the highest possible
standard, aud to commend it in all respects
to the confidence and approval Of the best
classes in the surrounding country, being
strictly
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-09-26

New Ysrk Telegram, l9th,l
The funeral services over the re-
mains Of Col. James t. Leath, one
of the most esteemed citizens Of
fever stricken Memphis, Tenn, and
who was also the President Of the
Bord Of Police and Fire Commits.
sioners and Superintendent Of pub
lie schools OF that place, took place
to-day at his temporary residence
in this city, No. rs Fifth avenue,
the Rev. DR.. Oonkling, Of the Rut-
gers Presbyterian Church, TWcn-
tY.ninth street and Madison avenue,
officiating. During the services
the remains rested in the parlor
and were encased in a rosewood
casket, with eight silver handles
mountings, the inscription plate
bearing the following:
Ir1ls Eaa JAMES LRATH.
rta Died September Is, 1878.
Aged 67 years, moathS aud 70 days
AT the head of the sasket a pillow
of lilies, across the center Of which
was the word ''Father," and at the
base stood column Of immorteller
After the regular services of The
Presbyterian Church were rendered
by the Rev. DR. Oonkling, the re
mains were borne to the hearse il
Whiting, followed by the immediatl
relatives Of the family, and were
conveyed to the Marble cemetery
11rEast Second street for inter
ment. There were no pallbearers
The funeral services were largel
attended by many citizens Of Mem
phis, who have left that city an,
came 10 this until the ravages Z
the yellow fever have ceased, /
The death Of Col. Leath, Memphi
laslost Que Of her most esteeme
and active citizens. His death Wa
not caused by yellow fever.
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INIHsn.
Oorat

lnni9 DIED. ll luE iQl.
ClEARY-At the residence Of her parents,
NELLIE, youngest daughter Of Captain I'D.
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Banks.
P0URTH NGTIONAL BANK,
EVAMET BANK OF NaEMPHIS.

CNc MRNPHIs, September IS 1873.
nWING 70 the prevalence and sohtinued
~ mAlignity Of the yelleW fever ] have this
yaded the cashiers family agd lsft me With-
out assistants, i thought this the NEST prudent
course ts pursue. Funds deposited at the
Germsn National Bank. I will make ny bead
quarters with the Ninth National Bank ef
heW York, and am prepared TO re'Pend to all
Oslls Of depOsit0ra. Speeisl deposits in my
charge. hope The Abaten snt Of the fever will
be init ne 10 resume business at an carly day.
1237 TH0S. FISHER. Pres't.
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TRANSPORTATION.
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1 iISsISSIPPIAND TENN ESSEE R.R.

0FFIcE OF SUPERINTENDENT,
iimm Memphis. September Is, 1881
'CteMMRNCING Wednesday, September IS,
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06

ton can a man pick in the same length of
timer The cheapest agricultural labor
IN the world is the cottOn-groWing labor
OF Egypt and India. Is it wise for south>
ern farmers to go 80 far out of the way
of legitimate husbandry to compete with
the poorest paid labor that tills the earth?
S0ch industry 10 the south naturally,
perhaps, unavoidably, consumes the fers
tility Of land long devoted TO cotton, and
ultimately impoverishes the peopleas well
as the soil. Does not history teach this
lesson to all who take the trouble to read
1t? Before the war cotton culture made
one white family rich, and ten white
families poor in the cotton States.
Is not this paying too much for the
wealth and power that cotton gives to q
few in state or nation? With very
little toll or trouble, grass yields an
income ia this country of a
thousand million dollars a year. In
stead of neglecting grass, stock,
wool and dairy produce; instead of greatly
over estimating the importance of cotton,
Southern farmers should learn to see
things as they exist, not SIS tradition
teaches. It is mistake 10 believe that
cotton Is the =" sheet anchor of southern
hopes of prosperity in the present and
independence in the future Diversified
industry, based on sound hnsbandry, with
very little planting Of any kind, will
Increase the natural fruit illness of the
earth, and with it augment wealth and
com tort for all.
Cotton culture has never done this
good to mankind in any country that
raises it. They are all alike poor, and
seek health from outside capital and in.
telligence. Cotton is false god, saying
to the deluded worshippers: God has
given the southern planter in the cotton
plant the source of wealth and power
that no other people possess" This de-
PsIture from agricultural truth can only
lead to poverty, while the arrogance of the
doctrine provokes criticism, and is likely
to end in serious trouble Nashville
American.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06
Russian Law and Justice.

A few days ago we gave an account of
the experiences of Vera Sassulitsch, a
Young Russian woman, who had been
Imprisoned in Russian dungeons for nina
years without trial. She was arrested
simply because she was the school friend
of the sister of conspirator, the arrest
and Incarceration having taken place
when she was only seventeen years old.
She was lately liberated without q hear
ing, but resolving to be heard, she shot
at the Project of Police of St. Petersburg,
her chief enemy and prosecutor. For
this she was arrested and tried and her
story came out. She was acquitted by
the court, and there was q crest public
demonstration for her in the streets as
she was driving off in her carriage. She
knew there was then an order for her
rearrest in spite of her acquittal by the
court. The gendarmes tried to get
through the crowd to the carriage fer
the purpose of transferring her to another
one which they had near at hand. Her
friends-the excited populace-were so
strong that the police failed to reach her.
There was firing and a great riot, in the
midst of which she drove off and got
safely away. She disappeared. The
police thought they knew she was going
to the house of q certain lady friend, and
this was the original intention, but she
changed her mind on the way and went
somewhere elsewhere, her hunters do
not know. They went to the friends
house and rummaged it all over for the
girl. but she could not be found, and
they gave up the search in that quarter.
Then it was noised about that Vera
Sassulitsch had been spirited away to
Siberia. Thinking this rumor would
distress her relatives and friends, Vera
writes a letter to st. Petersburg news
paper from her hiding place, explaining
her conduct. She says that she was
prepared to suffer the judgment OF the
court, without a murmur, but was re-
solved not to endure the endless perse~
cutions of the administration. She states
that she was, therefore, compelled to
hide herself until the day when there
viii be no risk of being again arrested.
After nine years of dungeons she has
gone into voluntary exile to escape from
the administration and its police, and
that after being tried and acquitted by
the proper tribunal. This Is the Russian
idea of law and JUSTICE Missouri Re-
publican.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06
A Novel Brick Kiln.

Stories are common enough of ma
chimes which receive a live pig at one
end and deliver him in the shape of sauN
sage and salt pork at the other in incred-
ible short time, but to believe that car
of moist brick can be pushed int kiln,
and in four or five hours be drawn out
at the other end perfectly baked and ceol
enough to handle, requires an effort.
Yet it is said that at NormantOu, Eng
land, Mr.. Foster has such kiln, and
that it works perfectly. The kiln is q
little more than one hundred feet long
and is only eight feet broad. Through
this kiln is laid q track, on which travel
iron cars, whose iron work is protected
from the fire by burned clay, by the cur
rent of fresh air which is drawn under
them by the draught, and not being fully
exposed to it's fury, in that the cars are
on a lower level than it. This fire is in
the middle of the kiln, on either side oil
the track, and as the chimney.fue is at
the entrance end, the fire is drawn to meet
the entering car, with its load of 5000
raw bricks, and thus gives them q pre-
iminary drying and baking before they
are exposed to the fullest heat of the
FIRE, and also allows them to begin to
cool OF as soon as they have passed the
middle. The kiln will contain nine
cars, or, in other words, $4,000 bricks
and as the bricks are unloaded from The
cars directly into wagons, the progress
of the line OF cars is slow enough to al
low the bricks to cool thoroughly after
passing the fire. There seems to be very
little heat wasted, foI the cars are JUS
the width of the opening of the
kin, and their load of bricks reache.
quite to the top of the srched passage
At any rate, as the cost of burning Loo
bricks is said to be less than six cents, tht
process cannot be called an expensive
one American Architect.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06
BOYS, Rights-By a Boy.

Talk about the women and the dar-
kies, and the-the-al1 the ret of 'em;
none of 'em all are half so badly used az
boys are. know lot and can give you
all their names. Ask 'em all. They'll
tell you, to be boy is to be somebody
without a tight in the world.
You're to take all the sass that's given
to you, and give none back, cause you're
q boy. You are to pay full fare in the
cars and omnibuses, cause you're boy,
and not a child, and never have a seat,
cause you're boy and not man. Fat
lady gets in after it's ell full, and looks
about her; everybody looks at you.
Old gentleman says, MY sonl" re-
provingly. Conductor says, "Come
now, you boyI" You've paid your six
pence. No matter, that's nothing. You
have been on your legs with a bundle
all day. Who cares2 you're a boy
Now a horse has such q load given to
him as he can carry. and a man won't
take any more than he can walk under
Ask boys what grown folks think they can
carry There is no limit to it.
Who doesn't know boy who does q
mans work, and does it well for tenth
of what 8 man would get for it? Who
hasn't seen an advertisement for a boy
who writes a good hand, understands ac-
counts, is willing to make himself useful,
boards with his parents, is trustworthy,
no objections to his sitting up all night,
no impudence ebout him. the best recon-
meDdations required, and two dollars q
week wages
Ask boys whether old folks don't make
as much fuss about such places as if they
we're doing you q favor that would set
ysu up in life.
Who wants q boy anywhere Your
sisters don't in the parlor. Your father
don't; he always asks if you are not
wanted to do something somewhere. You
make your mothers head ache every
time you come near her. Old ladies
snap you up. Young ladies hate boys.
Young men tease you, and give it to you
if you tease back. Other fellows, it's
because they're aggravated, always want
to fight, ii they don't know you; and
when you get q black eye and torn
Jacket you hear of it at home.
You leok back and wonder if you ever
were that pretty little fellow in petit
coats that everybody stuffed with candy
and you wonder whether you'll ever be a
man, to be liked by the girls, and treated
politely by the other fellows, paid Tor
your work, and allowed TO do as you
choose And you make up your mind
every day not to Re boy any longer
than you can help it and when your
grandfather or somebody complains that
there are mo boys now" you wonder il
he remembers the life he led, that be
don't consider it as q subject of rejoicing
There is only one comfort in it all
boys will grow up, and when they do
they generally forget all they went
Orphans Friend.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06
Grapes ms Bee Food.

Every farmer living in fruit-growing
district should keep a few swarms OF
bees, enough at least to furnish honey
for his own table. There is an
abundance of honey material in the
flower garden, in the meadow, in the
orchard and in the vineyard to support
half dozen swarms of bees ON each farm
in the neighborhood But, more espe.
Cially should they be kept in sections
where the culture of the vine is made
speciality, for there can be no better
honey food than ripe grapes. 1t is true
that the honey bee has not been pro
vided by nature with any means of
puncturing the skin of sound fruit, but
there is always more or less fruit with
broken or cracked skins, sufficient for
the bees to carry away. AS far as any
difficulty might be concerned, q few
punches could be picked each day and
placed where the bees could find them,
the grapes first having been bruised or
the skins broken. First, in the spring,
would be the wild and tame flowers,
then the fruit flowers, then the ripe
fruit, and, finally, lasting until late in
the fall, the grape crop. From this it il
easy to see how the hives would be filled
with honey, and the pleasure of having
white comb honey for table use, saying
nothing Of what would be sold, would
moro u III repay the cOst and trouble.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06

of those which are placed in the two
extreme directions.
Although China has long been known
to possess enormous eeal fields, the
superstitions of the people have prevent
ed all attempts to explore and use them
up to the present time. 1t is worthy of
note that mandarin has at last obtained
permission to form q company to work q
coal mine about enc hundred and twenty
miles west of Cheefoo, with all the
modern scientific appliances, and also to
construct a tramway to the sea for
transportation.
Mr.. Stab, corresponding member of
the society OF arts st Smyrna, reports
that the plague of field-mice, or rats, has
again broken loose, and that they are
wasting the fields far and wide, digging
up the seed-corn, and devouring all they
can. This is the plague from which
Homer records that Apollo Smythius
delivered the Greeks. As the SmYthian
Apollo no longer has believers, Mr.. Stab
wishes to know what remedy can be
recommended. The western stateg of
America suffer much from this pest.
PROF. STEVENSON, from an examines
tion of the sur ace geology ofsouthwestern
pennsylvania ana the adjoining portions
of Maryland and West Virginia, cons
cludes that, after the submergence fol-
lowing the glacial period, the continent
rose to q greater height than it had at
tanned before submergence, or that the
ocean was drawn off to lower level than
before, the result in either case being
the same-to depress the mouths of the
great rivers, to increase the fall of the
streams, and therefore to cause the rapid
deepening of the water ways.
A Paris correspondent of Nature says !:
"On March 10 a parricide was guillo-
tined at Evreux (Eure), and fraternity
for burying the dead existing in the
place, the body was not, as usual, thrown
into large basket and sent hurriedly TO
its grave. An ordinary coffin was pre-
pared, and as soon as the execution was
completed the corpse was laid in it. To
the horror of the spectators the body was
seen to be agitated by spasms so power
full that it almost jumped twice out of
the coffin, and it was necessary to use
force in order to control its motions.
These contractions were, of course, unac-
companied by consciousness"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06
SCIENCE GOSSIP.

FROM the annual reports of the luna.
tic asylums of Bengal it appears that net
less than 80 66 per cent. of the total
number of cases of lunacy can be traced
to the excessive use of gunga, one of the
most deleterious preparations made from
Indian hemp.
MEUNIER and Tissander have noted
facts showing that the sediment of exist
ing seas contains magnetic globules like
those which constantly fall from the
upper atmosphere upon the earth, and
that these globules must have formed
part of the deposits Of the oceans of the
ancient geological epOchs.
In a paper on famines, Cornelius
Walford, of the London Statistical So
ciety, showed that periods of excessive
restitution had given rise to several of
the most important of English institu-
tiOns-first, the Poor law, in the reign
of Elizabeth, and its equivalent in India
in 1871 8 /; second, the system of govern
ment relief works in India and third
the laws regulating the importation OF
corn.
SALICINE has been found to be a cura-
tive of ague, coryza, and some cases OF
neuralgia in which quinine has failed.
1t is a curious provision of nature that
quiniBe, the best remedy for fever, grows
in countries where it is most needed, and
now we have salicine extracted from the
willow, which grows in localities where
fever aud ague most abound. This is no
doubt accidental, but il is nevertheless a
curious Coincidence.
1t has been proved in regard to rail-
WAYS that rails placed in the direction of
the magnetic meridian are affected quite
differently from rails placed at right
angles to this direction; the former
oxydize and do not become brittle; the
latter do not oxydize, but do become
brittle in intermediate directions rails
participate more OF less in the qualities
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-06

Professor Blot used to say it is a fact
beyond question that the intellectual
and moral faculties of man are Influenced
in large degree in their operations by
those physical conditions which are
dependent upon our food. Physiology
proves that it is the contraction of
muscles that produces wrinkles; and a
person whose food is properly prepared
appears younger and more beautiful than
one that follows no scientific principles
in his eating. Good food, properly pre-
pared, will keep his muscles in order
and elastic. Any one, male or female,
young or old, starting with q good
stomach, can keep healthy and in coed
flesh with proper food it is only neces-
sary to select the kind required by the
constitution, and prepare il judiciously.
1t is not what we eat that makes US fat,
but what we digest. Bad food may
bring Temporary bloatedness, but not
the plumpness of good health. He
agreed with the opinions expressed by
Thomas jefferson, as we'll as by q cele>
brated New York clergyman, that good
things have been made by the Creator
for good people.
Another thing in food--itought always
TO be prepared according to the age OF
the person for whom it is intended, and
for the sex, as well as according TO the
climate and season. In winter more
fatty matter Is necessary TO be eaten than
at any other time OF the year. La spring,
green's, which purify the blood and
remove the bile OccasiOned by eating
fatty substances in the winter. In
winter we need more bile in the spring
we must get rid of it if we would be
healthy. When warm or hot weather
comes, we must supply the wasted sys-
TEN by eating meat. Meat is better in
summer than anything else.-ESouthern
Farmer.