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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-06


Special to the Ledger.l
DUyALL's BLUFF, ARK, May 5 The
Hard Cash passed here on time for Mem
phis with an excellent trip. Will arrive
Tuesday morning and return to White
river Wednesday evening, going through
to J%acksonport.
E. q. PosTAL, Master.
CAIRO, May 6.-Arrived-Cons Mil.
lar, Cincinnati, 8 p m Golden City,
New Orleans, 10; John Dippold, St.
Louis, l am Belle Shreveport, St.
Louis, 81 Fred Wilson aud Ironsides,
P%ittsburg, 6; Greyhound, Memphis, noon.
Departed-City Of Vicksburg, Vicks.
burg, ppm; Cons Millar, Memphis, 8;
Arkansas Belle, Evansville, TO- Golden
City, Cincinnati, midnight; Sam Roberts,
New Orleans, midnight; Church and
Fred Wilson, New Orleans, G am.
Weather clear and warm.
CINCINNATI, May 6-River falling.
Weather fair and pleasant.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-06
Clerks Bulld'g h SAVINGS A~ssOciatioD
INSURANCE.
]. A. SIMMONS,
No. 20 Madison st.,
MEMPHIS /: TENNESSEE

Represents Following Insurance
COmpRn1eBs
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Phoenix, Of Hartford, assets........ 2'lO7. ISL %
Insurance Company of North
America, Phila dolphin, assets. 6.60l. 883 o.
Royal Insurance Company, Liv-
erpool, assets....... Is 600 O0 10
Mercantile Mutual (Marine) Insu-
rance Company, Of New York,
S6.t
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15

OUR good humored friend of the
San Diego Ne,os, commenting upon
our suggestion that an Insane Asy-
lum and Penitentiary are needed
In Los Angeles, says that it would
be easier to move the editor of the
HERALD up to the Napa Asylum
than to erect such a building in
Los Angeles. That is true, but it
would not dispose of all the diff
Guilty. There is something more
Important than immuring sane
man in an Asylum. In advocating
the location of lunatic asylum so
near San Diego We had in our
minds eye an easy refuge for those
persons who arc insane enough to
believe that the present Congress
will pass the Scott guarantee. The
institution could be filled from this
class alone; and it would be only
humane to remove them from the
scene which superinduced their
hallucination.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15

THE Judges Of the Supreme
Court have caused it to be inti-
mated here that they will need ten
rooms for their approaching session
of that Court, which begins in
April. OF course, for the present,
we shall have to make the best
shift we can and provide leased
rooms. But we suggest that the
Legislature, before it's adjournment,
should make provision for State
building in Los Angeles, and that,
in this building, accom- modations
should be provided for the Supreme
Court. 1t would be novelty to
make anything like n substantial
concession to Southern California,
but the rest of the State would sur
vive the shock. 1t would gracefully
supplement the granting of ths
Court itself.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15
European Cable News.

Coneessioa to American Commerce.
MADRID, March I4th.-A royal
ordinance has been promul-
gated to the effect that the tom
mage indicated in the papers of
vessels from the United States
shall be accepted as correct in
Spain and the Spanish colonies.
Recruits Ordered TO Constant.
nopie.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 4th.-
been ordered to send here promptly
both old and newly enlisted re-
cruts.
serviRn Matters.
BELGRADE, March IA great
part of the Servian army of Timok
has been abandoned. The reported
proposal that the forty thousand
Turks to be released from captivity
in Russia shall be sent to Bosnia,
is causing great excitement here.
Gsc Ca,no.tc church. im Poland.
ROME, March l4th.-The Pope
has charged three Prelates to eX-
anime the affairs of the Church in
Poland and propose 81 solution of
the pending questions.
Proceedings Of Parliament.
LONDON, March 14th.-In the
House of Lords, tonight, the Ter
ritorial Waters War Jurisdiction
bill passed to third reading.
In the House of Commons Burke
replied TO inquiry, that the Govern
msnt still thought, in view of the
cause of the breaking off of diplo-
matte relations with Mexico, the in
itiative for their renewal could not
come from England.
Grant s-II. fr0ra Greece.
ATHENS, March 1.-THE King
visited and took luncheon with
General Grant at The American
Legation Today. The General
sailed this evening for Naples.
Russian Affairs.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 14.-The
Agencs Russe, commenting on a
Berlin dispatch intimating that
secret arrangements have been
made between Russia and Turkey,
says that Russia is not 80 confiding
as to conclude secret clauses with
Turkey, when she knows that the
slightest transactions are communi-
Gated to Minister Layard. In re-
gard to England's claim of right
to examine the whole treaty at the
Congress and Withdraw from the
meeting in certain contingencies,
the Agence points out that every
power will enter the Congress with
full liberty as to the attitude it
may assume relative to the claims
brought forward and the decisions
arrived at. Subscriptions for a
new issue of fifty millions OF rou-
bles in treasury bonds were opened
heie Wednesday,. 1t is officially
stated that the whole amount was
Immediately subscribed.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15
Col. Bmish's Attitude OR the Rail,
way Question.

We give up considerable por-
tion of our space to-day to Colonel
Smiths forcible and earnest effort
70 bring the California Senate to a
just attitude on the railway ques-
tion. A certain portion of our Los
Angeles community-or at least a
portion of the press of this city
have indulged in what we cannot
but believe is Intentional misrepre-
sentation Of Col. Smith, as we'll as
Of our other representatives. No
sensible Angelefio can expect
the slender delegation from this
county-a delegation which is only
half that to which our numbers
entitle us-to mould the legislation
Of q State which has always been
contemptuously disregardful of its
southern portion. But it is some-
thing to know that our own men,
bsrs have been staunohly faithful
to our own interests and unfisg-
ging in their advocacy of measures
to which their own party, as well
A. the other political parties, have
been pledged. A party can afford
to encounter disaster when it has
been faithful to the professions by
which it has obtained power. Dis
aster following violated trusts is
almost irreparable. It is much to
know that, whatever the failure Of
duty, on the railway question, in
other sections of the State, our
own representatives have given no
cause for complaint. Col. George
H. Smith has made a gallant fight
against great odds. The fact that
victory has not perched upon his
banner is a misfortune for which
he is in no wise responsible. We
reproduce the debate in full on Col.
Smiths resolutions, to show how
fully and devotedly our Senator
has stood by the pledges made by
him to the people of Los Angeles
county.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15

THAT. our local legislators are
honestly anxious to defer to the
wishes of our people with regard to
Wilmington Harbor is plain from
the text of Col. Smiths bill, intro
duced in the State Senate, and pub
lished in the HERALD yesterday,
and from the following dispatch adj
dressed to the Messrs. MacDougall,
Hannon and Prayer, by our legis-
Iative delegation collectively:
SACRAMENTO, March IA. 1878.
To f. n. MacDougaU, j. c. Hdnnon,
Chas. Prayer:
Have meeting of the Council
and the Board of Supervisors at
once, to give us their views about
Wilmington Harbor bill as pub
lished in HERALD. Session draws
to close. See Glassell.
GEO. III. SMITH,
ASA ELLIS,
j. b. HOLLOWAY.
In our local columns, In the re-
port of the Council proceedings yes
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15

rupt. The creditors represent $197,-
600 of Indebtedness and the claim
is set up that the debtors made a
fraudulent assignment of a large
amount of property to Arthur M.
Stark. The Company has been
greatly embarrassed by the recent
failure of J. d. Easter & Co., of
Chicago, with which firm it had
intimate business relations.
VIII Not Inierfere.
CHICAGO, March 14.-The Jour-
naPs Washington special says: P.
B. N. Pinchback, in private let
ter received here to-day, says that
Governor Nichols has determined
to take no action in Anderson's
case until the Courts dispose of it,.
The inference is drawn that Ander-
son will be pardoned.
Arr.vai Of neinyed Trn:ns-acci.
dent.
OMAHA, March 14th.-Three
through Union Pacific trains from
the West, the first since last Fri
day, arrived here to-day. Another
will get in tomorrow morning.
The westward train which left here
yesterday, was ditched six miles
west of North Platte about two
O'Clock last night, owing to a
broken rail. Nobody hurt. Slight
damage only. The train was got on
the track again this afternoon and
started west.
Death Of COn,nodore Pinckney.
BALTIMORE, Nd, March 14th.-
Commodore Robert +. Pinckney
died this morning in his sixty.sev.
enth year. AT the outbreak of the
civil war the deceased was Cap
tain in the United States navy
which position he resigned and en-
tered the Confederate service.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15

of little children.n A warrant was
also issued for Kearney, which
will be served on him on his re-
turn.
Belcher levies an assessment of
one dollar, delinquent in the Board
April 14th and in the Office two
days later.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15

The following piece of informa.
of the San Francisco Hotel Ga
zette::
Ell. Baldwin will start n l0O-cow dairy
At Santa Barbara TO supply the Baldwin
Hotel and his Santa Anita ranch with
butter.
Good enough Now, Brother
Munchausen, of the Herald, blow
some more about the productive.
ness of Los Angeles county, won't
Dyou? "The only place fit to live
in," indeed. Santa Barbara furn-
ishing San Francisco with butter,
and your Los Angeles ranches, too.
Good enough! We barbarous saints
place our thumbs in the places
where our vest sleeves ought to be,
tilt our sombreros forward to an
angle of forty-five degrees over the
weather eye, turn ponderously and
proudly on our pastoral pivots, and
say once more, and say it emphati-
cally-G-o-o-d Enough Santa
Barbara Press.
The idea of anything being raised
in Santa Barbara seems to throw
our neighbor into ecstacies of de.
light. We suggest that our con-
temporary, in common with the
whole people ofthat devoted burg,
would do well to apply itself to
trying to raise that wharf which
now lies at the bottom of old ocean,
That once done, he can come down
to Los Angeles county without hav
ing to break his shins getting or
the steamer from o row boat, and he
will have q chance of examining
Baldwin's superb Santa Anita
farm, which lies in the heart of the
San Gabriel valley. The inspec-
tion would be an improving one,
even il it did generate envy in the
breast of our brother quill.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15
SPECIAL NOTICES.
:r0m Distinguished Jurist.

81 have tired the PERUVIAN SYRUP. and
the result fully sustains your prediction.
1t has made new man ofme, infuse d in
to my system new vigor and energy. l
am no longer tremulous and debilitated
as when you last saw me, but stronger,
heartier, and with larger capacity for
labor-mental and physical-than at any
time during the last five years. Sold by
all druggists.
Every farmer who owns good stock OF
horses, cattle and sheep, and intends to
keep them through the winter should at
once get good stock of Sheridan's Cav
worth will save at least q half a ton of
hay.
Do II at cnce!
Persons vino have become thoroughly
chilled from any cause, may have their
circulation at once restored by taking in
to the stomach a teaspoonful of Johnson's
AnodyDe Liniment, mixed in little cold
water. we'll sweetened.
A Remarkable Cure.
WEST TOWNSEND, VT, May II, 1860.
MEssRs. s. w, FowLE & SONS.
Gen:lemen-Severaly years since took
a severe cold. which settled on my lungs
where it remained without relaxation. !
was then in Massachusetts, and growing
worse and becoming unable to attend TO
my business, returned home and COM
| menced searching in earnest for some
medicine which wonld restore my lost
| health. l consulted physicians and
tried many remedies. but obtained no
help and daily grew worse. / had a ter
rible cough and raised good deal OF
blood. had profuse night sweats and
| severe pain in my side. l continued in
this state for months.and became so weak
that 1t was with great difficulty could
walk, when / was advised to tryWIS FAIRS
my great JOY l soon found that this rem.
edy had arrested the Disease. l contin-
ued to use the Balsam to the extent offive
bottles and have, since then experienced
no difficulty of the lungs. i believe the
Balsam saved mylife and shall ever hold
IL in high estimation.
Yours truly,
LEWIS PHELPS,
LYONS KATHAIRoN makes beautiful
luxIriant, glossy hair; prevents its tall
ing out or turning gray. IL has stood the
test of 40 years Is charmingly perfumed
and has no rival.
Henry X. Bond, Of Jefferson, Maine was
cured ofspitting blood, soreness and weak
ness OF the stomach, by the use of John
sons Anodyne Liniment internally.
A WIDE AWAKE YOUTHS PAPER.-
For judicious editing, select and popular
contributors, and sprighly, entertaining
reading the Youths Companion, OF Boston
has no superior among the youths publi-
cations
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15
Herald Steam Printing House.

rhe Herald steam Printing House is
.not surpassed by any Job Printing Office
bu the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran
risco. In facilities for doing job work
ILow prices, good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this office.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15
NEW TODAY.
NOTICE..

All dealers of every kind, everywhere,
are hereby Dotified ahd forbidden giving
any credit on my account to any person
other than myself or on my written Or
der. l shall pay no other debts hereafter
incurred. A. II. PUTNEY.
Los Angeles, March IA, 1878. mrl5 lot
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15

terday afternoon, will be found the
views of that body. We presume
that immediate measures will also
be taken to get at the views of the
Board of Supervisors, through a
special session.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15
The Savings Hank Etil.

SACRAMENTO, March 14th.-The
Senate Committee on Corporations
met at 2:30 P. NJ, Hilborn in the
chair. The Savings Bank Commits
sioners bill was further discussed.
1t was decided that the present law
provided for sufficient publication
of bank accounts and the clause in
the bill referring to publication was
stricken out. The bill will be re-
ported back with q reeommenda-
tion for passage Monday.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-15


NEW YORK, March 14.-The fail
ure is reported of Baldwin g.
Flaggs, probably the most extern
sive manufacturers of hats in the
country. Liabilities $450,000, of
which 100000 is on real estate and
the balance in merchandise in
debtedness.
The direct liabilities of Jehial
Reed & Co are now stated at S204, =
900. In addition there are contin-
gent liabilities of 100000. 1t is ex-
pected that a settlement will be
effected at so cents on the dollar.
Decree Of Bank ruptcy Asked.
CHICAGO, March 14.-A number
Of the creditors of the Marsh Har-
vester Company, OF Sycamore and
Chicago, have filed petition ask
ing that 1t be adjudicated a bank
, 1878-05-11
Mormon Governors.

The Salt Lake Tribune says:
"Axtell, Brayman and Emery
are the Governors of New Mex
leo, Idaho and Utah respective
ly, and singular to say, the law
abiding, liberty-loving citizens
Of each Of these Territories are
all fighting their Governors and
demanding their removal. Ak
tell, the Mormon Bishop, is open
ly charged with completely in a
most foul murder, committed
some two years ago in New
Mexico; Brayman is turning
con 7icts loose upon the people
of Idaho, and accusing the clti-
zens of that Territory Of all
sorts Of crimes; Emery has sold
out to the Mormon priesthood,
and is now owned, body, soul
and breeches. by as soulless a
set of scamps as ever went un-
hung"
If we may believe the most
reliable expression of public
sentiment in the three Terrific
ries above named, there is too
much truth in what the Tribune
says. Axtell is undoubtedly in
full sympathy with the Nor
mons. Brayman, when at Salt
Lake, was an honoreJ guest of
the Mormon dignitaries, and
Emery is entirely satisfactory
as Governor to the Mormon ru-
lers. 1t would be we'll for our
reform Administration to in
quire what malign influence is
at work to Mormonize those
contiguous territories.
, 1878-05-11
EgotiSm.

The Oregonian gives us neat
and perfectly legitimate hit for
indulging in a slight display of
egotism in quoting words COM
plimentary to ourself. We own
to full share of that amiable
weakness common to most pub
lie men, especially old editors,
Of being gratified at public COM
mcndation, and we pity that
man who is not, as one lacking
in human sympathy. The end
and aim of all honorable ambi-
ton, all proper endeavor, Is to
win the respect and admiration
of our fellow men. He who does
not respect himself is not re-
spected by others. 1t is arrant
hypocricy in any man Of ordi-
nary sensibility to pretend to
deprecate sentiments of esteem
expressed for himself to which
he knows he is entitled. We al
ways admired the frank and
manly egotism of Col. Benton,
who, when asked by a friend If
he had seen a very flattering no.
tice of one Of his speeches
which had appeared in a news
, 1878-05-11
A Melancholy Case.

Solomon said: "It is better to
meet a bear deprived of her
whelps than a fool in his folly
or words to that effect. The
imbecile OF idiot is not alluded
to in this quotation, but the man
who is wise in his own coneeit.
A man not heretofore distin-
guished for learning or profound
thought, but who was generally
respected and trusted in the
common walks of life," became
suddenly seized with a mania
for writing for the newspapers,
under the insane idea that with
very limited education and no
opportunities for study, he could
controvert the conclusions ofthe
most profound philosophers and
writer's upon the science of po-
litical economy, who have made
that study the speciality of a life
time. The multiplication of his
contributions had become irk-
some to publishers and a matter
of general protest on the part of
their subscribers, not one in ten
Of whom could see any object
in them. Out of the most friend
ly personal regard for the wri-
ter, and only with the view of
saving him from becoming a fur
ther butt of public ridicule, we
made some jocular remarks up
on his idiosyncracy, at the same
time giving him full credit for
all the practical merits which
can be Of any use to him in OBJ
tanning a livelihood. At this he
becomes as "mad as a March
hare" and accuses US through
another paper of a "mean and
scurrilous personal attack on
, 1878-05-11

paper, promptly answered: eyes.
sir; wrote it myself" No man
detested false pretences more, or
was more ready to defy public
censure in the defence Of an un-
popular cause which he believed
to be right. His egotism was no
more pronounced, but simply
more demonstrative, than that
of many public men who, before
the public, affect great self-ab-
negation. Every editor Of any
prominence in the country
"could a tale unfold" of frequent
secret exhibitions Of egotism by
men in high public positions, of
the most cowardly and disgust
ing character. 1t is very com
mon device Of members Of Con-
gress to send to their newspa-
per organs articles lauding
themselves in the most fulsOme
language, in their own hand
writing, or in that of Il confden-
tial secretary, to be published as
editorial notices. Hundreds Of
clerks are employed in Wash
ington, at the public expense,
chiefly for such service, and
many newspaper correspondents
derive their principal support
from writing puffs upon men in
public position, including Sena-
tors, members Of the President s
cabinet and foreign ministers.
We remember, when editing a
newspaper in Western State,
| finding upon our table one morn
ing the card Of a distinguished
United States Senator from an
other State, who had called du-
ring our absence and at oar ta-
ble written a personal notice of
himself, in more laudatory Ian
guage than we ever used to-
ward any man, setting forth his
claims to the Democratic nomi
nation for President, and re-
questing its publication as an
editorial. We did not publish
1t, and ever afterwards had the
personal hostility Of that dis
tinguishee c"""+"" Th"t n"o-
tism whic
and desi
of others,
accompan
for the rights of gthe1 yhat
selfish egotism which seeks It's
qualification by surreptltious and
hypocritical devices, to magnify
self to the detrimcnt of others,
is a most odious quality.
, 1878-05-11

surd to say that greenbacks
were ever a standard OF value
in the interchange of commodi-
ties. All property values main
tained a gold standard and fiuc-
tuated with the rise and decline
of greenbacks. Gold and silver
are the only money standards OF
value regulating our foreign
commerce, the grains of differ
ence in intrinsic values being
regulated by weight. Green
backs worth thirty-five cents on
the dollar by the gold standard
would only purchase thirty-fve
cents in goods. Greenbacks nor
any other paper currency ever
had any other value than that
given to it as a convertible me-
dunn, gold and silver being the
standard.
The idea Of the advocates Of
Initiation that the increase of the
circulating medium will add to
property values or materially
relieve the industrial classes is
fallacious. Fifty years ago, when
the renewal of the charter of
the United States Bank was un-
der discussion, it was estimated
that there was only S30,0O0,000
of coin in the United States, and
the paper currency did not ex-
ceed three times that amount.
There has never been a time
since when the wealth Of the
country was more equally dl-
vided or when the rewards of
labor were more equally dis
pensed. There were but two
men in the country then whose
estates were estimated at over a
million of dollars each, when
the millionaires are now num-
bered by thousands, and pinch
ing poverty was almost un-
known. With the increase of
the circulating medium inordi-
nate wealth and extreme penury
have advanced in about equal
proportions. Then the board OF
a laboring man was from 70
cents to s1.25 per week, and the
highest price in the best hotels
did not exceed So per week,
Prices of all the necessaries of
life have advanced just in pro
portion to the volume of money,
and those philosophers who ex
pect to relieve the necessities of
the people by increasing the vol
ume of money have paid no heed
to the logic of experimental
facts. An ounce of experience
is worth a pound OF theory In
all the practical affairs Of lite.
, 1878-05-11

Ifa man beats his wife in Ken
lucky hereafter he can be made
to work on the streets for sixty
days, and the usual wages for
such labor paid to his wife.
, 1878-05-11
a COMPLICATED CASE,

Gentlemen,-My case Is briefly as follows: 1hava
had Catarrh fo. ten years. each Year with increas:
ing severity For nine years bad not t. hrsathed s
ayery bad cough asthma 80 bad as to be Obliged td
take remedy for at night before being able to lie
head. NV head was OF times so full OF catarrha!
matter as to injure my sense of hearing and compel
me to get up several times in the night to clear il
and nv thI oat before could sleep. Every one OF
these distressing symptoms has Gisappeered under
RADICAL CURE. My hearing is fully restored. I
have no asthmatic symptoms, no cough, no drop.
pings in the throat no headache, and in every way
effects Of the CURE on my appetite on my kidneys.
and, in fact every part of my system What nss ,s
RADIcAL CURE. Very respectfully. ,,,,-o-
EtrCuBCRG, Oct, IA. q. II. LA w isEN Ct..
, 1878-05-11

Rev. and Mrs. T. A. Hvland
Of Astoria contemplate visiting the
eastern. states soon. Mrs. Hyland
will leave in a week or two on q visit
to her relatives in southern Oregon
before going east.
, 1878-05-11

Passengers from Portland and up-Sound ports
will take Puget Sound Mail steamer aad make
connection with "City of Panama" at Victoria
Steamer "Dakota" goes through to Olympia.
These steamers leave Victoria at noon on the
day advertised Tickets are good only on the
steamer for which they are purchased and are
not transferable. For freight or passage apply
on board. or to II. L. TIBBALS,
General agent for Puget Sound.
Port Townsend.