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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-11
'RIDAY EVENING. JANUARY II, 1875

neither sex appears to believe, that
women have souls" With the most
precious gift that father can be-
stow Burr lowered his daughter.
Courage and fortitude, the royal
virtues, grasped the little child by
the hand and never deserted her in
maturer years Every step of her
education was superintended with
almost the patience, and more than
the wisdom Of Chesterfield. Greek
and Latin yielded their mental
phosphates, and when she was thir-
teen, her father could truthfully
say: "You are maturing,for solid
friendship. The friends you gain
you will never lose, and no one, !
think, will dare insult your under
standing by such compliments as
are most graciously received by too
many Of your seY." Later he writes
" There is a selection, an energy,
an aptitude in your expressions
which, to use the vulgar male slang,
is not feminine" All the world
knows that Theodosia Burr became
the best educated woman of her
time that she loved her father
with the strength and tenderness of
De Stael; does the world see log
ical relation between these facts /?
There are women who prize such a
royalty as Burr bestowed upon his
daughter above all possible gifts.
They recognize it as the outcome
of the truest affection; they prefer
their birthright to golden pottage.
Theodosia Burr was one Of these.
Heart and intellect was mighty
when united, and they suffered no
divorcement in this case. Aaron
Burr's experiment was a success.
1t resulted in a daughter whose
faith in him was absolute, whose
love for him was a passion, whose
career promised to realize his ideal.
Her sudden death at the age of
twenty-nine left the world blank
to Burr. 81 feel severed" he wrote,
g from the human race"
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Uurious,f.True

According to the London Sani-
tary Record, "Dr. Sschamer, Of
Gratz, has discovered that fungus
grows upon the skins of apples and
oranges precisely similar to the
fungus which forms the peculiar
germs of infection in whooping-
cough. He writes that on oranges
and apples which have been kept
some time may be found dark brown
and black Specks, which, when
scraped of, appears as damp pow
der. Under the microscope this
powder is seen to consist of the
spores Of fungus identical with
those of the whooping-cough fun
gus. Taking two of these specks
from the skin of an orange, DR..
Tschamer introduced them by a
strong inhalation into his lungs.
The next day tickling of the throat
began, which gradually increased
until at the eighth day a thoroughly
developed whooping.cough set in.
Should the discovery be confirmed
there is an additional reason to see
that children abstain from eating
apples with the skin on, and from
chewing orange peel, which many
are so fond of doing.
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Aaron Burr ana his Daughter.

In the first century of the repub-
lie, when, as Mrs. Adams states,the
education of girls in the best fami-
lies vent no further than writing
and arithmetic, in some rare in
stances including music and dane
ing, Aaron Burr tried a bold expert
ment, and gave to his daughter the
same education he would have
given to a son. of | could fore
see,' he writes Mrs, Burr in the
child's tenth year, sthat Theo wopld
become a mere fashionable woman,
with all the attendant frivolty and
vanity Of mind, adorned with what
ever grace and allurements, | Wopld
earnestly pray God to take her
forthwith hence. Butt yet hope,
by her, to convince the world what
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-11
sSl,Ou17s SO
DISTURBED IN 1870.
To Policy Holders...".... .....-..s6 .ols, 1853 So
sSl.osll7s 60
DIsRURSEO II

TNHIS Company Is purely mutual, not hav-
i ing dollar Of stock. Its policy holders
ara the only members Of the Corporation. II
Is therefore in effect. simple partnership Of
persons for insuring each Others lives. There
being no stock, there can be- no sale Of the
Company from one eet 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 direc-
tors each year, This board meets weekly,
and directly supervises all the business Of the
Company.
he Company issues whole life policies with
either annual premiums for life, which IL pre-
ters and recommends, or with q limi ed num-
Der Of premiums; it will also issue lonE-term
endOwmehts. Experience has shown that
these are the most advantageous forms of D. l.
icies, both to the individual and to the CO n
pany We sha i, therefore, restrict ourselves
TO them. 4.rs
The surplus earned in any year is returned
20 the following year, only by reduction Of
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 a single
feature in its history, has paid to the repre-
sentatives of seven thousand FIVE hundred and
sixty members who have died, the vast sum of
twenty-five millions one hundred and twenty
nine thousand FIVE hundred and thirty-six
dollars-S25,l2 ,l29, $3.50 00--as follows:
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RAILROADS.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

COHEDULE ON AND AFTER SEPT. 10,
- 1877:
Leaves. Arrives
Mail and Express, daily..ll Is pm 5.45 pm
Somerville accem' dat'n
daily lex. Sundayl...". 500 pm S.lS am
Tlmo Twenty Minutes Faster than
City Time.
SOmervIlle trRtn Will stop Rf reg
ular and flag stations.
The II. 80 p, I'M. Tratn makes the quick
eat uime ever made TO Chattanooga, Knox
Vile. Lynchburg, Washington, and the East,
and will stop at all Regular StatioRF, and Ut
Flag Stations when tagged, except Flag Sta
tions between Collierville and Memphis.
Ticket sffice 27S Maiu street. and Depot
Memphis and Charleston railroad.
JOHN A GRANT,
Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
7. S. DAVANI,
lSt Assistant General Passenger Agent
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Express.., 70 IN
Mail 10 ~. IN
pullman Palace Cars on eithe. train to Louis
willie, and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or reformation, apply at Ticket
Once, 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
street o,,v,,,,,
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
20 4
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-11
TON MARSHALL.
"Reminiscences or His COurtships
and Marriage.

and Marriage.
Mr.. Dan NJ. Bowman, of Ver-
sailles, has been lecturing upon
Thomas f. Marshall. He has this
interesting account of Mr.. Mar
shalEs marriage;
Z" AT the age of 6fty Captain
Marshall was married to Miss Bet
tie Yost, which event was the eli
max Of a very romantic episode in
his life. In his young manhood he
had courted one of his cousins, a
lady of wealth, refinement and high
social standing, but was discarded.
He met the same fate at the hands
of one of LouisYille's bellies. /
imagine the cause of defeat in both
cases was not so much his eccentric
habits or poverty as an utter want
of mental congeniality between
himself and the ladies he addressed.
Small talk and flattery were as i'm
possible to him as pigeon , English,
and it is no wonder that when he
would launch into serious discus
sions Of the mighty problems which
crowded his restless brain that the
ladies yawned behind their fans,
and finally concluded that life
time spent in that sort of converse
tion would be rather monotonous.
Charles Lamb divided the world
into two great classes, borrowers
and lenders; but one of our Ken
tucky wits said that a better classi-
fcation would be takers and listen
ers. Marshall was a great talker,
and was especially fond of good,
appreciative listener. Ladies' soci.
ETY. possessed no attraction for him,
unless the ladies were willing to
converse upon subj congenial to
him, He therefore very early be-
came disguised with society peo-
pie so-called, and was never what
he termed derisively a 'parlor
man." eft1
Among the best, although hum
blest, people of the little village of
Versailles, was the family of Mrs.
Yost, and at their home, at the age
of thirty or thereaboutS, Marshall
was a frequent visitor. Bette, who
subsequently became his wife, was
then a child of five or six, of some
precocity, and remarkable childish
beauty. As she grew up, she was
known as MarshalIs pet and pro-
tege, and never wearied of his
longest conversations, nor failed to
offer him the homage which from
the young and beautiful is so CRATE.
full to noble minds.
So it came about that she loved
him, and would marry no one else,
aud that the disappointed man, who
might at one time have married
wealth and fashion, led to the altar
the humble girl whose life was
bound up in his own. He was
most faithful and devoted to her,
exhibiting at all times the utmost
tenderness of affection, and, al
though they we're sometimes sepa-
rated by the ekigenoes of their lot,
be never failed to como back, nor to
care for her when absent, and died
in her arms at last, happy that
heaven had spared to him IN that
hour one constant and unselfsh
friend. tr,r
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Louisville and Great Southern R.R

1850 pm. Night Expression Saturday
this train runs only to Milan Connects at
Milan for st. Louis and Chicago; at Nc
KenEie for Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta
and the Southeast at Guthrie for Hopkins
Vile, Henderson ard Evansville; at Louis
vile for all points North and East.
ltL1O am. Day ExpTess-oOnnects for St.
ouis and Chicago, at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4:4o ,.m. Brownsville Accommodation
Daily except Sunday.
arrival Of Trains.
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Even it we are not smart, we know
what to do when troubled with cough
or cold No doctor bills for us. We
take a 25c note, 60 to the nearest drug
store and buy a bottle of Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup. One dose relieves US and
one bottle cures us entirely.
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MEMPHIS q LITTLE ROCK R.R.
ShrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TIME CARD


Leaves Arrives
Mail train, daily..........,.5.SO pm. u.90 pm.
Freight train daily lex.
Passenger going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville, Nash
willie and Great SoutherR railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argenta for
points on the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkangas and Texas.
trains
For tickets ana information apply at Ticket
Offices 27s and 2B7 Main street, and at depot
foot of WashinktOa street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Soathern railroad depot,
OF to the undersigned.
X. A. WILLIAMS, Pass. Aglt, Memphis.
M. s. JAY. a. y, AID I. Ag't. Little Rock.
w. Il. SMITH, Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
I23-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-11

The two ladies' among the wives OF
senators to whom is awarded the su
premacy in beauty are Mrs Conover, of
Florida, and Mrs Dorsey. of Arkansas
Mrs. Dorsey is native OF Ohio, and
Mrs. COnover Of New Jersey.
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Five Thousand Copies
Are read by at least
Twenty Thousand People

We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adver-
tisingi for many good people seeing an ad-
vortisemont in paper, especially their
church paper. take it as guarantee of re-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not to
abused when it can be helped. We waut.
therefore,
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PUBLICATION.
Western Methodist

IN
IHE 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 Nj n
emphis is the commercial an gsoEraphi.
cal center Of the section over viii this pape,
circulates. An average of
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MISS SSlPPl s. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
aCHEDUT,H.

ON aud after Wednesday. November Il,
" 1877, trains will run as follows:
Leave. Arrive.
Main Train daily.....,.... 300 pm. l:C5 pm
Sardis Accommodation
daily lex. Sundays. ....ll:50 am. 9:l5 a. IN
Freight Train daily tex.
Sundaysl ........ ............ 6:Ona.p. 400 ,. m
64-t M. BURKE. Sup't.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-12-20

a PROMINENT banker and re-
publican of New York writes a
letter to Boston politician in
which he urges the nomination
and election of Grant as a mat
ter of dire necessity. He puts
it thus:
Whatever our opinion may
be of General Grant as a man,
we know that should he again
be elected he would be subject
to our control so far as our in
terests are concerned. / need
not speak of what would inevi-
tably ensue should the Democ-
racy come into full control Of
the treasury and other depart
ments in Washington. The
people already know too much.
Truly a nice condition of af-
fairs. THE people already
know too much" An acknowl-
edgement on the part of the re-
publicans that their acts, will
not bear public scrutiny,
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FORTUNATELY for Texas, just
as the Legislature is about to
convene, the press of the State,
with significant unanimity, advo-
Gates the enactment of a code
which may compel the payment
of all taxes due as a condition
precedent to the exercise of the
right of suffrage. One-third of
the voters of Texas, having no
property besides their polls,
pay no taxes whatever. Their
polls can no longer be sold for
taxes or otherwise, as the State
protects and serves and yet de-
rives no compensation from this
multitude of tramps and idlers.
And yet these non-taxpaying
people often vote twice each,
and oftener, in each election.
These papers earnestly advo-
cate the enactment of a law
which the Statesman sought to
have fastened on the Constitu-
ton itself, and in which it met
the opposition of demagogues,
which was then strengthened by
a general timidity. Now such
law can only be secured by
submitting a constitutional
amendment to the people, and
the politicians have found out
the people want such a law they
will be ready to provide for its
enactment.-Anstin Statesman
ISM.
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Hanging.

On Saturday last Smith Jack
son and Burrell Jones, negroes
were hanged at Bastrop. The
execution was public and as is
usual in such cases attracted a
large crowd, it being estimated
that 5000 persons were
present. When upon the gal
lows each made lengthy, but in
coherent speeches, closing with
the request that everybody
meet them. in heaven, whittier
they were going. In Novem-
Der 1876 negro boy nine years
old was met in the road by
Williamson county cattle drov-
er and taken to his home. The
relatives of the boy applied to
a colored. voodooist to ascer-
tain what had became of the
boy: the voodooist said that a
negro named Black, living in
neighborhood, had drowned the
boy in a creek. A number of
negroes, among them the men
who were hanged took Black
out and hanged him several
times in a vain endeaver to
make him confess that he had
drowned the boy, failing in this
they hung Black for good.
Voodooism is thus responsible
for the hanging of three men,
two legally and one. illegally.
A third nehro goes to the peni-
Tertiary for life, his sentence
having been committed by the
governor
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CHEMISTRY has already ac-
Icomplished wonders; now dis
coveries are being made every
day. Mr.. Norman Lockyer, a
London chemist, has, it is said,
by means of the voltaic current
and hydrochloric acid con-
verted copper into calcium,
nickel into cobalt, and calcium
into stoontium. If these chan
ges can be made there is no tel
ling where the process of re-
duction will stop. This being
the csae gold may be formed
from the baser metals and in
course of time this pecious me-
tai would lose ifs value. So far
it has not been accomplished;
gold retains its value as med
ium of exchange.
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The Houston papers might as
well make up their minds that
the Kamkatka and North Pole
railroad will be built BREN-
HAM BANNER.
As to that it can be continued
on to a warment climate and
carry its builders along with it
SO far as the people of Houston
are concerned.-7elegyaw.
Exactly what the BANNER has
contended all along. But the
Migrants gracious permission
to the builders is uncalled for.
"The prayers of the wicked,
ETC."
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ONE of the most remarkable
instances of the growth ola city
is that of Kansas City, Mo. Ten
years ago she was an insignif-
cient border town of some 5000
inhabitants, to-day she is city
of $4,000 and is growing rapid
ly. The state of Kansas to the
west is rapidly settling up and
as her territory IS contigu-
Gus to Kansas City that place is
growing as fast as the country.
1t IS predicted that in five years
more Kansas City will boast of
apopulation of 100000. All of
this has been brought about by
railroads.
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COTTON MILLS.

Cotton factories is a subject
that it is being revived by the
Texas press. Some of the pa
pers recklessly assert that a bale
of cotton weighing 500 pounds
manufactured into calico is
worth $500. This calculation,
we think, great error-the es-
innate being too large by half.
There is no doubt, however, that
there would be large profit in
the manufacture of cotton goods
in Texas. The saving in the
freight on the raw material to
the eastern factories and on the
manufactured articles back
again is no inconsiderablc item.
The mild climate of Texas is
admirably adopted for factory
hands, and the ease and abun-
dance of the products of the
garden and fields renders living
particularly cheap. Such adj
vantages are possessed by no
other state in the Union.
At present we have no cotton
factory in the State worthy of
the name. At New Braunfels
the wooden mills have been in
successful operation for many
years, and has an established
reputation for the excellence of
its goods throughout the South
and West.
Waco is soon to have her cot
ton factory in operation and
should it be practically demon
strated that it is success, there
is but little that other cotton
mills will be erected in different
parts of the State. Whenever
capitalists are convinced that
money can be made in Texas
by the establishment of facto-
ries they will put money in them,
not before. Capital is proven
bially timid: men who have mon
ey never invest it unless they
have reasonable assurance that
it will pay. In this view of the
case the establishment of the
factory at Waco is a matter of
congratulation, not only to Wa
co, but to the State at large.
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The GOVERNOR, Secretary of
State and Attorney General
were engaged all day Monday
in counting the vote for State
officers. There is protest FL
ed against counting the vote of
Washington county for Con-
gress. The vote of this county
was counted for State officers.
Galveston, Anderson and Ira
Wis counties have sentno returns.
Exclusive of these counties the
vote stands: For Comptroller,
Darden, 1902; Spencer, AS
ia; Siemering, 22,Ioo; scatter
ing 1902.
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COMPETITION, it is said, is the
life of trade. This is doubtless
true to great extent, but tap
pears to US that trade must be
mighty dull" to induce the
Sunset and G., H. & II. railroad
to reduce the price of freight
on cotton from Richmond to
Galveston to fifty cents a bale.
"Our" road, the Santa Fe, is
carrying it at the same price,
but there is no money it-for
the railroads. This is the re-
suit of competition and the rates
will be kept down as the rail-
roads are at "outs." COMPETE
ton is a good thing for the far
mers and merchants and should
we succeed, as we doubtless
will in getting the Santa Fe
road through to Brennan and
beyond, many thousands of dol
lars will be saved to the produc-
ers in the way of freights.
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Worse than Mexico.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Demoerat.

Special Dispatch to the Giobe-Democrat.
BRENNAN, Ten, December Il.
Citizens are expecting an at
tack from armed robbers and
bandits, reported in the neigh
borhood. Two military COM
panies are held in readiness, and
every house has been furnished
with breech-loaders.
The above clipping from the
St. Louis GAo6e-DemOc1atis sent
to the BANNER by Gen. J. B.
Robertson, of this county, who
is now in that city. tits a spec
men of the lies that are con-
stantly being published in that
paper. The above dispatch was
manufactured to order at some
other point in the State. We
are prepared to state most posi-
lively that the St. Louis Globe
Democrat has no special cores
pondent in Brennan, and with
out making positive assersion,
we do not hesitate to say the
above dispatch was not sent
from Brennan.
A few days ago when excite
ment was running high about the
robberies at. Round Rock and
Circleville, the correspondent of
the Meaos at this place, who is
naturally of an exciteable dis
position, himself got excited
and sent a cock and bull story
about the people of Brennan
being excited, the. military COM
panies being in readiness and
everybody and his wife having
Winchesters cooked and prim-
ed. 1t is perhaps Unnecessary
to say that there was no excite
ment here any more than there
was at Houston or Galveston,
but nevertheless robbers would
meet with a warm reception
should they attempt the game
played at Round Rock.
1t is plain enough that the
Galveston Meas special dis
patch from BRENNAN was the
basis of the special in the Globe
Democrat and was distorted into
its hidious,shape by the Texas
correspondent of that lying
sheet. The correspondent is
supposed to have his headquar-
tiers in Houston from which
poiut special dispatches and
special correspondence" from
every place in Texas, is sent
doctored up to suit the taste of
the proprietors of the CD.
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The Austin Gaseae has a
good word to say for Galveston
and very truthfully remarks that
Galveston, by the expenditure
of sufficient money can be made
the queen city of the gull. 1t
urges upon Texas congressman
the necessity of getting appro-
priations large enough to i'm
prove the channel and harbor
SO that the largest sea-going.
vessels can enter. Appropria-
tons for Galveston harbor have
heretofore been Insignificant.
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Mr.. Carlton, president Of the
Democratic club of the county,
and Major Joe H. Stewart, Of
this city, as advised by attorneys
West and Basset, have fled
protest with the Governor
against the admission Of the
vote of Washington county. It
seems that the law declares that
there shall be but one voting
place in each civil district. In
Washington there were several
voting places in some of the
districts. Hence the Illegally
ofthevote Of Washing ton coun-
ty. II it be thrown out, Hans
cock, not Jones. is our congress-
man.-Austin Statesman.