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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
ORIENTAL TRAFFIC.
VIM. Dan FraneIsso Alms At.

Nnns DNA N"SNCAHNV AAaAo AAs
A correspondent, Writing from
San Francisco to Boston, says:
But very little gold is sent to
China. The shipments are con-
fined mostly to silver bG'ilon. The
amount sent this year will not fall
much short of$1S,0O0,0OO. 0ne-half
of this has been in trade dollars,
the remainder in silver bars mostly.
The total amount does not include
what Cinnamon who have returned
to their native land have taken with
them upon their persons, which
must be considerable, as every one
of the thousands who have gone
back carried with him more or less
coin. The amount Of silver bullion
shipped the present year is consid-
erably in excess of last year. Since
shipments of bullion to China aud
Japan commenced eleven years ago,
over $50, 900, 900 have been export
ed from this port of which record
has been made at the custom house.
Previous to the past four years
Mexican dollars were principally
exported, for the trade dollar had
not been coined; but with the in
PRODUCTION of the trade dollar that
coin has come to be shipped largely
in excess of the Mexican dollar, al
though not interfering with the
movements in Mexicans. It's evil
dent from the increased shipments
of bullion that the trade relations
between this port and China, Japan
and the East Indies are rapidly
gaining ground, and yet the trade
of San Francisco with the Orient
is yet in its infancy. The great am
bition of San Francisco business
men is to wrest the China and East
India trade from Boston. They want
this city to become the manufactur.
ing center of this country. They
claim that on account of its geogra.
phical position it has an advantage
over Boston and other Eastern
ports, and is really the natural de-
pot of the United States for ORR.
entail traffic. Already they are &C.
static over a multiplicity Of indus.
trial interests which they believe
are to be established, and you would
Judge by their talk that the time is
coming when the Pacific slope will
become as celebrated for its indus
trial activities as Sheffield or Birm-
ingham, and that it is to be the des.
tiny of San Francisco to supply the
population of the world with every
thing that human wants may de.
mand. 1t is a characteristic of
Californians to indulge in great
expectations. They wouldn't be
Californians if they didn't.
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and only a few of the neighbors
besides, who are on the most inti-
mate relations, have known of it's
existence. 1t eats when food is
placed to its mouth, and is kept in
a cleanly condition by the most
constant care. A long beard has
grown on its face. It's about three
feet in length. 1t crawls about
some, but moves with great diff
Guilty. That such a creature has
lived so long is singular. That a
family, instead of placing it in some
asylum, has endured its presence in
their midst, and nurtured it in as
siduous privacy through all these
years is strange and affecting in
cident Of paternal devotion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
MR.. HAYES STAFF.
CIe'N'"t the White white Ho House and whst
Il. WHITHGRE,
Publisher and Proprietor

CIeI KS at the white House and whs
They Do.
Cor. Boston Herald.l
The large amount of clerical and
official work done at the executive
mansion requires the services of
about dozen men. President
Hayes has a larger personal staff
than has been maintained by any
of his predecessors. The man who
stands nearest to him is Mr.. w. K.
Rogers, who holds the official posi-.
ton of private secretary to the
President, with a salary of
$3.50 a year. Mr.. Rogers oc-
cupies the large room adjacent
to the Presidents room, on the
side opposite to the library
and Immediately over the southern
end of the east room, all the officers
beingin the second story of the ex-
ecutive mansion. Mr.. Pruden, the
assistant secretary, who receives a
salary of $2250, is a man of con-
siderable experience, who holds over
from the last administration. He
has charge of most of the details
of records and the general work of
the Office. The law also provides
for two executive clerks at $4,000
each, which positions are held by
Mr.. w, II. Crook and Mr.. W. O..
Chapman, both Of whom were there
in Grants time. There are several
other clerks who are employed under
a practice by which the President
details men from the departments
for special work at Che White
House. Private Secretary Rogers
has a shorthand amanuensis, Mr.
Henley, who is borne on the rolls
of the interior department. The
Presidents stenographer, Mr.. Gus
tin, is borne on the rolls Of the
postoflice department as private
secretary to the postmaster general.
Another clerk for general work,
Mr.. Price, is borne on the rolls of
the paymaSter generals Office. Mr..
Moreton, who cuts up the newspa-
pers and keeps the scrap-books of
the President, is detailed from the
Congressional Library. In addi-
dition to these clerks there are five
messengers, who are detailed from
what is known as "the general SER
vice force" of the war department.
Two ushers are carried on the rolls
of the local police. The steward of
the White House is provided for
by law, and receives a salary of
$1,000. Besides all his clerks the
President has the constant service
Of one Of his sons, who is a good
worker. The duties of the private
secretary are not very onerous. He
is much sought by people who
think that he has influence with
the President, and many office
seekers pour their stories into his
ears rather than to wait to have an
interview with the President 1t is
probable, however, that none of
the Presidents assistants have very
much Influence over his mind.
They are, however, frequently able
to obtain places in the departments
for their friends,
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bone of the American continent,
which measures less than two hun
dred miles from shore to shore here,
and see the gulfof Mexico so plain ly
that you might distinguish the
smoke-trail of the New Orleans
packet or the glittering towers Of
St. Juan Ulloa, while the Pacific,
though thirty or forty miles nearer,
glistens family through a gap Of
the Chiapas mountains, and, but
for the sharp-drawn line Of its hOri-
zon, might be mistaken fora noun
tain lake.
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Not far from the old military road
which unites the Mexican seaport
of Tehauntepec with the cities of
the tableland there stands an an
cient Spanish fort, El Forth de
Turija, which is now used as a
storehouSe by the proprietors Of a
neighboring copper mine, while one
of the larger buildings has been
converted into a tavern, where the
stage coach stops for dinner.
PoSada de dos Mares, Hotel OF
the Two Seas, seems rather a
strange name for a posada situated
in the heart of the Sierras, and at
an elevation of at least $4,000 feet
above the level of any sea; but if
the traveller designs to alight and
join the table d'hote of the humble
posadero, he may convince himself
that the name is not so very inap-
propriate alter all. "Forty minutes
before the coach starts, senor," my
host will observe after dinner, "and
if you never passed here before per-
haps you would like me to accom-
pany you to the fort and show you
the alta vista, the grand view, from
the parapet?"
"Grand view? Is there anything
exceptionally grand about it?"
Yes, sir, it is the grandest view
in America, for you can See-los
dos mares-the two oceans at the
same time ! only charge you one
real IL cents) extra"
Who has never seen two oceans
at the same time will very likly
invest a real. The view is grand,
indeed. You stand on the back,
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A Pretty Romance.

The Boston Post has this little
story about how a Cincinnati mer-
chant found wife in Maine: GA
girl in Biddeford, Mains, has got a
husband by means of her graduation
essay. It was published in one of
the papers of that city, and an ex-
tract from it, in which the young
lady declared her intention Of earn
ing her own living, was widely
copied and met the eye of a Cincin-
natl merchant, who was so much
taken with it that he sought the
authors name and address. A cor
respondence ensued, and the young
lady was persuaded to abandon the
determination announced in her
essay"
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RAILROADS,
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

CCHEDULE ON AND AFTER SEPT. Ie,
- 1877:
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail and Express. daily-l1 Is pm 6.45 pm
Somerville accem 'dat'n
daily lex. Sundayl...... 5.00p.m 8.1Sa.m
Time Twenty Minutes Faster thO1
City TfnAF.
SOmervilIe train will stop at reg
ular and flag stations.
The II. so pm. Train makes the quick
eat I1me ever made to Chattanooga, Knox
Vile. Lynchburg, Washington, and the East,
and will stop at all Regular Stations, and at
Nlag Stations whom tagged, except Flag Sta
tiSns between Collieryille and Memphis.
Ticket efice 27S Main street and Depot
Mem phis and Charleston railroad.
JOHN A. GRANT,
Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
7. S. DAVANT,
ISt Assistant General Passenger Agent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
Can this be True?- Hiding a mis-
Ahapen Son from Birth Until he IL
Twenty seven.

Can this be True?- Hiding q Mis-
Ahapen Son from Birth Until he IL
Twen ~ seven.
Cincinnati Commercial.l
One of the most remarkable in
stances on record Of parental devo-
ton and Of success in keeping secret
a family afliiction may be found in
the family of a citizen who is keep
ing a drinking saloon in the western
part of the city. Tventy-seven
years ago he kept a house on Wes-
tern row. About that time a num-
Der of houses in the vicinity were
destroyed by fire in the night, in.
Guiding his residence. His wife in
delicate condition, suffered much
fright, and subsequently gave birth
to a monstrosity-an offspring with
out any of the better senses of d
living creature, except that Of sight
without toes or fingers, deaf,
speechless, without the least spark
Of intellect or instinct. Twenty.
seven years have passed, and the
family have kept this creature in
the household, secreted in a room.
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/ s5l,Osl. .l7s 6s
DISGUISED IN 1879.
To Policy Holders"....... ........s .0lS, 1853 So

THIS Company is purely mutual, not hav-
i ing dollar Of stock. Its policy. holders
are the only members of the Corporation; lt
10 therefore in effect, a simple partnership OF
persons for insuring each others lives. There
being no stock, there can be no sale OF the
Company from one set Of owners and man
ayers TO another but its affairs remain per-
petually in the entire control Of the members
themselves. to elect board Of twelve direo-
tors each year, This board meets weekly,
and directly supervisea all the business Of the
Company. "
The Company issues whole life policies with
either annual premiums for life, which II pre-
fers and recommends, or with limited num-
Der Of premiums; it will also issue long-term
eAd0Wments. Experience has shown that
these are the most advantageous forms Of p l.
icieH, both 10 the individual and to the Gem
pany We shall, therefore, restrict ourselves
| to them.
The surplus earned in any year is returned
20 the following year, only by reduction oi
premium, thus limiting the payments TO the
! actual current cost Of the insurance.
In thirty years, this association OF men
united in interests and purposes, as single
feature in its history, has paid to the repre-
sentatives of seven thousand hve hundred and
sixty members Who have died, the vast sum o.
twenty-five millions one hundred and twenty
nine thousand Eve hundred and thirty sil
dollars S25, ,129 $3.50. 00-as follows:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
MEMPHIS g. LITTLE ROCK R.R.
WA,Ot Line to Arkansas and Texas,


Leaves. Arrives.
Ms;l train. daily. 80 pm. n.3O pm.
FREIGHT train daily lex. m
PsssSnsers going on this road will take
trains at the depot OF. the Louisville, Nash,
1;IIa and Great SouthorR railroad. Mail
tIa;Ds ;v soSke close connection at Argenta for
no;nts SiJ on the / title Rock and Fort Smith
rs;Iroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
pullman slaco Sleeping Cars en- all night
Var tiokets and information apply at Ticket
ofices g7s and 2ST Main street. and at. depot
foof Of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
or TO the understand
r. A. WILLIAMS, Pass Ag,t' M!om,phis.
W. B. SMITH, sup't, Memphis Tenn.
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1857 Prizes, amounting 400
Responsible corresponding agents wanted at
all prominent points. 10 whom liberal COM
pensation will be paid.
Application for rates to clubs should only be
made to the Home Office in New Orleans.
Write for further information or send orders
10 NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
p. O. Box 692, New Orleans, La.
Or No. West Court street, Memphis. Tenn.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are
under the supervision and mans cement Of
Generals g. 7. BEAUREGARD and JUBAL
A. EARLY.
The next drawing occurs Tuesday, March
18th. llb l9S-skw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
LOTTERY.

A hPLERDID OPPORTUNITY 70
"A WIH A ORTUNEi-Secon Grano
Distribution, 1878, at New Orleans. tuesday,
February 18th.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY co.
This institution was regularly incorporated
By the Legislature Of the state for Educa-
tional agd Charitable purposes in 1858, with a
O1pital Of SlOe e So.C which 1bS III l. has since
SINGLE NUMBER DISTRIBUTIONS will
take place monthly on the seceni Tuesday.
1T NEVER SCALES OR POsTPONRs. Lock at the
following Distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE, e3O, 200.
100 900 Tickets at Dollars Each.
Half Tickets One Dollar.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
THE /" WHITE -

Sewing Machine is the easiest selling and best
satisfying in tho market. II has very large
shuttle makes the lock stitch is simple in
construction; very light running, and almost
noiseless. 1t is almost impossible fer other
machines 10 sell in direct competition with
the WHITE. Agents Wanted Apply for
terms to WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO.,
CtavoIond Ohfo
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28

Suicide is not more sinful than neg.
lecting a cough. For only 25c you can
buy bottle of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup
aud be saved from death.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28

JAMES GOODWIN, President.
JACOB L. GREENE, Secretary.
JOHN NJ. TAYLOR, Asst Sec'y.
D. II. WELLS, 9d Asst Secretary.
E. d. DOUGLASS, Sup't Of Agencies.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
Louisville and Great S0ltAGllRR

1850 pm. Night Expression Saturday
this train rIns only to Milan Connects at
Milan for ST. Louis and Chicago; at Nc
KenEie fer Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta
and the Southeast; atGuthrie for Hopkins
Vile, Henderson and Evansville; at Louis
yilie for all points North and East
1fAIO am. Day Express for St.
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4:4o p.m. Brownsville Accommodation
Daily except Sunday.
Arrival Of Trains.
Evnress IN
Mail 10 a. IN
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
Vile. and on Night train TO Nashville.
For tickets or inform nation, apply at Ticket
once, 2s7 Main, Northwest corner Madison
las. MONTGOMERY, sup't Memphis Div,
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
RO.f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
MISS PI& TENNESSEE
AILROAD
CHEDULE.

CH ED y LII:
nN and ter Wednesday. November H.
4 isTT.tr, lswill run as follews:
~ 4'''"' Leave. Arrive.
Main Train daily......... 800 pm. 1:C5 pm
.Sardis Accommodation
daily lex. sundays .~~1l;5O ana. 9:l5 am
SnSndsvsi 6:0Nam. 400 pm
s4-f M. BURKE, Sup't.
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a GREAT OFFER FOR HOLIDAYS

We will during these HARD TIMES and the
/ HOLIDAYS dispose Of 100 NEW PIANOS and
| ORGANS, Of first class makers at lower prices
for cash, 9T installwepts; than eve, before
are the BEST MADE, warranted for FIVE
years. III Catalogue mailed. Great induce
nents to the trade. PIANOS, 7-ootave, $40;
~ s-octave, $50; ORGANS. 2 stops slS; 4
stops, s5S; stops, s65; stops. $40; 10 stops,
SS5; l2 stops, 500; in perfect order, not used a
year. Sheet music at half price. HORACE
WATERS & SONS, Manufacturers and Deal
ers, 40 East Fourteenth street, New York.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28

December 81, 1876.
Facts and figures like these commend them
selves to the intelligence and Judgment Of all
men. They carry conviction upon bare pre-
sentatiOn. and need no argument or illustra-
tioA to demonstrate their significance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28

DiN s4-pags picture book-iree. My plan
OtU beats all TO make money. Is easy,
honest, aod pays you $40 a day. DAVID 9.
COOK, Chicago.
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WORM FOR ALL

W ~ &@Ah y 0A0 G1AAA
In their own localities, canyassing for the
FIREsIDE YIsIToR tenlarged), weekly and
monthly, Largest paper in the world, with
mammoth ohromos free. Big commissions 10
agents. Terms and outfit free. Address 7. .
y. VlCkEhf, Augusta, Maine.
Az Extra Fine Mixed Cards, with name, l9c
~ post paid. l.. JONES 4 Co., Nassau. ny
PIANOS ES'S P olsa REs' Ss. sCS only sO sS SSy PS5 &
Paper free. Daniel f. Beatty, Washing
ton, N. j.
com PER MONTH made selling the
OSVU Gyresoopo or Planetary Top. Buck
eye Stationery Package Magic Pen (no ink
iequired(, Catalogue of agents goods free.
BUCKEYE NOVELTY co, Cincinnati, y.
ll7-l4O-d&w
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/ CURE FITSl

When l say cure do not mean merely 70
stop them fer time and then have them re-
turn again, mean aradical care. / am reg.
ular physician and have made the disease Of
Fits, Epilepsy or Falling Sickness
a life long study. warrant my remedy to
cure the worst cases. Because others have
failed is no reason for not now receiving a
cure from me. Send 10 me at once for q
TREATISE and a FREE BOTTLE Of my infallible
remedy. Give express and post office. 1t
costs you nothing for trial. and / will cure
you. Address DR.. Il. G.. ROOT. 1888 Pearl
street, New York.
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PUBLICATION.
Western Methodist
24th Year.

lHE WESTERN METHODIST Is Tbs
Official organ of Six Annual Conferences
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, viz:
Memphis. North Mississippi. Arkansas. Little
Rock. White River and Indian MI n.
emphis is the commercial an gsographi.
cal center Of the section over viii this paper
circulates. An average Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28
Five Thousand Copies
Are read by at least
Twenty Thousand People

Twenty Thousand People
old and young. every week. It is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class OF
community.
We desire our business men to make note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.
We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tiSing for many good people seeing an ad-
vertissment in a paper. especially their
church paper. take 1t as guarantee Of re-
sPOnsibility. Such confidence should not t.
abused when it can be helped. We want,
therefore,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-28

MEMPHIS AM ohAkl TON IL. r.
AEr.yrs Leaves.
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RAILROAD TINE TABLE.

AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
Hunapty DumptY,
arrested.

Two performances of ''Humpty Dumpty'
yesterday-one matinee-brought out hosts of
people who found that notwithstanding that q
carnival week of entertainments had but Just
concluded, they could not resist the attraction
of real genuine Christmas pantomine-one Of
the good old time-honored sort, and one of the
best of them too The fact of it's not being in the
holidays made no Observation-Disclosures
does not make the pantomine but the panto-
mine makes Christmas, and SO they went, all
malias, puellafamilias and all the familias
of the city who enjoy genuine finn.
and they were not disappointed in their expecs
tations, for a more jolly, rollicking, droll COM
lcal, hols.erous, sly,. rougish, ingenious old
hurnbug never made the roof of old Drury or
the Bowery ring with laughter with his hero
we are again than is Grimaldi. Little chill
dren lar ghed their spasmodic half-frightened
laugh that was almost cry; ladies laughed till
tears came, and gray-headed, grave men laughed
more than all, and for the time forgot the frosts
of years and were boys again. Grimaldi's
grimaces and facial distortions are vastly moro
than mere wry faces. Every movement of his
most mobile countenance speaks whole SEN
fences and speaks them so eloquently
that they go direct home to every
understanding. If there was nothing
else in Humpty Dumpty than Grimaldi
it would be well worth seeing, but Humpty
Dumpty has a host of other attractions, all of
which combine to form most varied and at
tractiye entertainment Humpty Dumpty is a
pantomime, a circus, variety show, and we'll
nigh everything beside, and all are unusually
good From ST. Paul Tony Denier takes his
large company to Eau Claire, where they per-
form on Monday; from thence they go to Maids
son. Wis.,, and McGregor, Iowa.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-15
McGiIlicuddy's RecIss.

Mary McGillicuddy worked for Kennard and
Albertson, laundrymen and she boarded with
Albertson's mother. She had formerly worked
for another son of Mrs. Albertson, in the East,
who owed her so. Kennard and Albertson did
not like Mary or her work, and discharged her.
At this time she owed for board So. Mary said
if Mrs. Albertson gave her SO she would cry
quits. Mrs. A. did not see it. and while Mary
was out her trunk was spirited away. Mary
was not to be fooled that way, and took out
search-Warrant for the trunk, but failed
to find it, Mrs. A. saying three of the rooms
which were locked belonged to lodgers, and the
officers could not go in. Later Kennard and
Albertson quarreled and the former told Mary
that the latter had taken away the trunk. With
this information Mary sped in all haste to
Frank Carlton. Esq, attorney-at-law, clerk of
the court, &C., and swore out a warrant for
Mrs Albertson's arrest for stealing her trunk,
worth $50. Alarmed ut this, and to keep even
with Mary. Mrs A. FASTENED to the accommo-
dating clerk and swore out warrant against
Mary for assaals. The two cases came before
Judge Flint yesterday morning, w. w. Erwin
appearing for Mrs. Albertson and Offering to
give the trunk into the charge of an officer of
the court, stating that it held for rent of
the lofty garnet occupied by McGillicrddy.
The case will be tried on the 18th, at PM.