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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-11-28
FUNERAL NOTICE.

The friends and aequalntances of the late JAMES
T. LEAT5I, invited to attend his funeral from his
late residence, No. 2O4 Third street, on 10 morrow
(FRIDAYO morning, at eleven O'Clock.
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WAR DEPT, OFFICE ca. STG. OFFICER.
WASHING ON, November %. am I
For Tennessee and TIE Ohio rdiiey partly
cloudy lceqthe,', 10Th frequent light rain o.
snoir, Hsril'sssteylB iciHds, stationary cr
I0'oe'' temperature, higher pressure. IN tie
rivers ia me southern States triH rise.
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ADMINISTRATORS Notice.

HAVING qualified as the Administrator of the
Il estate of DR.. Sam L. Raines, all persons In
debted to said estate are hereby notified to pay the
same to me or my agent, s. Frank Powell All per-
sons having claims against said estate to file the
same with me, duly probated, and within the time
prescribed by law or they will be barred.
SAM powell, Administrator.
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Administrators Notice.

T HAVE qualified as Administrator Of Gus. Reder.
i deceased Debtors Of his estate will please set
tie at once and creditors will file their claims, pro-
bated, with me or my attorney.
JOHN TENT, Administrator.
L. B. MFarland, Attorney, % Madison street.
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Administrat0r's Notice.

T HAVE qualified as Administrator Of John d.
J. Robinson deceased. Debtors to his estate Will
please settle at once, and creditors will file their
claims, rotated. with me oI1my attorney; Ea&
JOHN B. ROBINSON, Administrator.
l. B MFarland. Atty. % Madison street.
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AdministratOr's Notice.

T HAVE qualified as Administrator of j. W. Heath,
l. deceased. Debtors to his estate will please set
tie at once and creditors will file their claims, pro-
bated with me or my attorney.
W. p. DAVY, Administrator.
L. z AIEarland Attorney. % Madison street.
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IN DRESS GOODS!

JUST OPENED
Camel's Hair, Plaids, ECorduroys, all the elegant
combinations; Striped Satins, st iped Vel
vets, Watered Silks, Tinsel Pushes,
and all the Novelties for
Trimming Dresses.
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just Opened.

10000 new Hats in the following styles and shapes:
TULIPS, HAMILTONS, HASTINGS, SARA
TOGA, BEEF-EATERS, CELTICS,
AND MATINEES.
These hats in the real felt, camel's hair and cash
mere quality.
Great Reduction
OF all hats. Beautiful Hats at 25c Soc 75e and 81
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OUR CEOSENG-SALE
At the
BEGINNING of the SEASON.

Crepe Hats worth So for SIS and St.
Crepe Hats worth 50, for "a and So.
Crepe Hats for So, Sd so, 81.
Crepe Wells for 50.
Crepe Wells for 81 so.
Crepe Wells for So, 81, 81.
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JUST OPENED,
Cashmere Feathers, Cashmere Bands,
GOld-Tip Feathers, Novelties IN Wings,
EXTRAORDINARY CHEAP.
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Is now in New York, enabled on account
of the lateness of the season, to buy extra
GREAT BARGAINS.
We mean to sell them
EXTRAORDINARY CHEAP
Now, while the people want them.
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This morning, Deputy Marsha! Shllwell, of
the northern Illinois district arrived here with
certified copy OF the indictment recently found by
the United states district court OF Chicago charging
Hill, supervising architect OF the treasury and Mills
the contractor. and Others with conspiracy to de-
fraud the government He bad also warrants for
the arrest Of HUI and Mills aud presenting them
TO Chisl7ustice Cartier b5nch warrants Issued
and were served by Deputy Marshal Williams, who
accused the parties In court at two o'clock. The
ball fixed in Chicago five thousand dollars each
and the same amount was liked here for their ap-
peaTaEce to answer December 18th, which was given
Robert Hewitt and Sam Cease went on Mllls's bond,
and Lester and Bartlett became security for the
chitect.
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WASHINGTON.
The Secretary Of the Treasury Calls for
Certain Bonds Secretary Sehurz's
Animal Report of Indian 4 fairs
"A Lengthy Review
Or Abuses by Agents, and Suggestions
for Their COrrection-SupervIsing-
Architect Hill Arrested and Re
qaired to Give BOnds-Etc.

WASHINGTON, November 27.-The seere-
taFycOf the treasury has called the following 800
bonds OF 1855. Interest to cease February 9th
SIS, No. 14,2o0 to 1900. Inclusive; SO o. No
- 0o1 TO No. $500 900, Inclusive; $500, No. 92-
0OOO0O eeisfered bonds, Iedeemable al pleasure
OF United states amer the first OF july, 1870: $780,
No. 1929 10 so. 1920, both inclusive; $500.
No. I,2S0 70 ii $50, inclusITe $1,000, NO. B0O0l
o q300s l7alusiYe; 5000, 30. 12,30f 70 Il. eco,
inelus.yei total registered, S5,0OU0 600; aggregate
So 100000.
The treasury to day purchases between 3,0O0, 900
and 100000 ounces OF silver at fraction below
the London quotation.
Supervising Architect Hill, of the
Treasury.
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CHE APER
THAN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE
UNITED STATES.

All French QmpoItedl pattern Hats at cost.
Hats costing $50, $40 and S35. for S12 and SI5.
Lovely Hats worth $50. for $40 and SD
Beautiful Hats worth SIS, al IS and $40.
Very handsome Hats for So, ST and 81.
WE COMMENCE
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Buy horses at FARES.


VIII I. Robinson has returned from a
trip to his old home, near H~arrodsburg,
Kentucky.
John S. Toof, secretary of the cotton
exchange, has left for Alabama, but will
return in a few days. During his alb.
sence Mr.. Warfeld Semmes, assistant
secretary, will discharge the exchange
duties of Mr.. Toof.
Mr.. Vim. Buxbaum, one of the at
tachees Of the Famous Clothing House,
left yesterday for the East on q search
for cool weather as we'll as for pleasure
and recuperation. We hope he will have
a good time generally.
W. B Dunnell, assistant architect Of
our custom.house, received on Saturday
by telegraph news of his fathers renom-
%ination by reclamation for congress in
the First Minnesota district. Hon. Mr.
Dunnell has the reputation of being a
fair and honest Republican, and his re-
nomination by his party is an evidence
Of the appreciation and confidence Of
his constituency.
1t is with great delight that we note
the recovery Of that estimable young
man, Lewis Donelson, who Tor some
weeks has been confined with dangerous
illness. We hear that his physician, DR.
Heber Jones, has confidence in the
complete restoration OF Mr.. Donel-
son to health. Thanks to tender nurs
ing and this physician intelligence and
skill, Mr.. Donelson has recovered from
a very dangerous illness. No young
man in Memphis has more or warmer
friends than Mr.. Donelson.
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Fanny Davopnort nnd OIIvia

A late London paper saws: The Olivia
people have not treated Fanny Daven.
port with the courtesy and consideration
which her compliment to them should
have elected. She paid them $4,000 for the
American rights Of their piece, besides a
percentage on receipts; she has come to
London to see it, and they made her pay
for her box. When she suggested to
Wills that this was hardly what she ex.
pected, he said that if a box was too
expensive she had better have a stall;
be would book it for her and she could
pay him again. This is not a Joke. 1t
is serious. When she called on Wills he
gave her luncheon at a railway depot,
and sat all the time with his hat on.
The eccentrieity Of genius this, / sup.
pose. Lord Byron often dined at a
chop house in London because he liked
to eat with his hat on. But the fair
Fanny is not accustomed to this kind Of
treatment. She enjoyed herself better.
[ expect, on Wednesday at a coaching
and garden party to which she was in
vited through the medium Of Mr.. Palmer
VI NbW lOIhs nOIu AOuutoDOTOuRt
was the host, and among his guests wer,
Lord Dunraveu, Mr.. L. A. Sothern, Sil
George Womwell, Mr.. Labouchere, Mrs
John Wood, Miss Fanny Davenport
Miss Henrietta Hodson and Marian
Terry. Miss Genevieve Ward was ex
pected, but one of the papers says sh,
called for the United States on Wednes
day. Miss Davenport goes to Paris a
the end of the week. She is having al
the costumes made in London, and sh,
is very sanguine OF a great success al
Union Square in the fall. 1t is quite
possible that you will like her imperson
alton of Goldsmith's heroine better thar
you would Miss Terry's. Anyhow, th,
play is an interesting picture of Ok
World manners, and, though the finish i
inartistic and the story not strikingly
dramatic, the play appeals to ordioar,
emotions, and has a kind of fascination
for the most mixed audience 1t gain.
much by the popularity Of Goldsmith
familiar story.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15
Il CITY SCHOOLS.
Appeal 60 the Memberso 4 The Boa
of EdueRItOu-W hat Will be non

Appeal 70 the MembeFsrf The Board
Of EdueRtiOn-W has Will be none.
There will be an adjourned meeting OF
the board of education tonight for the
purpose of considering a proposition by
the finance committee to DO away with
the high school altogether, aud to make
a reduction Of % per cent. from the al
ready meager salaries Of our school
teachers, the want Of funds being the
reason assigned for this proposition. AS
to the high school, we say let it go; it
ought to have been abolished long ago,
or some legislation had to justify its con
tinuance. But 10 the name Of Justice,
gentlemen of the board, spare the schools
of the little oses-don't render them in
efficient by this measure Of false econo.
my. The session has already been
shortened to eight months. which is a
long stride backward. This will reduce
the salaries to All amount barely suiii
cient to furnish the teachers with the
simple necessaries of life. And now to
make a further scale Of twenty-five per
cent. will be Offering them less money
than they can live on in this city. Ii
this measure is insisted upon, the result
will be hal all the best teachers will be
compelled to seek employment elsewhere,
and our schools will 90 down.
II the tax levied for school purposes il
too small. or if the law for the collection
Of these taxes is so defective as to leave
a large proportion Of it uncollected each
year, let the board of education get thil
matter properly before the legislature al
its mex session and have it corrected.
We are aware hat these are very strin
gent times, and that no amount of logic
will supply the deficiency in the incom,
Of our schools for the ensuing year; bu
the remedy lies in the legislature, an,
we are assured hat an appeal, settin.
forth our embarrassment and the immi
nent danger threatening the people
colleges will not be nnheeded.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15
no MERCHANTS Ar BARGAINS.

before in an equal period. in the history
OF the country have business misfortunes
been so numerous, or aggregating an
amount of loss by bad debts so great.
But, before accepting these statistics as
a true test Of the present condition Of
business, the circular before us urges
some consideration in mitigation of the
uniavorable conclusion which would
otherwise be inevitable. These conside.
rations are briefly synopsised as consist.
ing Of an unusually open winter, retard
ing sales, deliveries of produce, and
collections; the discussions in and out
of congress Of financial measures, and
the necessary condition of uncertainty
that resulted; the possibility Of impor.
tant changes in the tariff; the postpone
ment Of the date of the repeal Of the
bankrupt Lev, and finally, the steady de.
cline 10 prices Of merchandise, and the
general shrinkage OF values, which it il
said, have been more apparent in the
past six months than ever before, espe
cially whenever it became necessary Il
realize.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15
THE CITY.
MEMPHIS:
Monday Evening, July 10, 1873
LEDGER LINES.

1t is very hot.
The heat is immense.
Congestion prevails in this city.
Attend tue Kerrville picnic to.mor-
row.
Found-pair of gold spoctacles. Ap
ply at this Office
Owing to the hot weather slreet.car
travel yesterday was light.
Original Lexington Ky } mustard
pure-at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
The health officer can now have no ex.
cuse for refusing to cleanse the streets.
A horse had a fatal suustroke on De
Soto street, south of Beal, yesterday Of
ternoon.
Even the churches failed to draw well
yesterday, aud all this because of the
hot weather.
Trains for the Kerrvi!le picnic and po-
litical gathering leave the Paducah rail
road depot at ten and one o'clock to-
morrow.
Citizens who know Of nuisances aud
streets being in dangerous condition are
earnestly requested to report the same to
the LEDGER.
All who have good mules, strong and
fast, l44 hands high, to enter for the $50
purse Tor the orphans, Thursday week,
should report to General Tracy at once
In New York it was necessary to in.
dict the board of health and haul up the
city council in order to have %nuisances
abated and disease.breeding holes filed,
A society for the prevention Of cruelty
to animals, bipeds as well as quadrupeds,
would do a big business and win benevo,
lent triumphs during the present hot
weather.
} Yesterday an old colored man named
Dave Goodrich was drowned in Wolf
B river near the Jones bridge. The old
man was bathing when he met with the
fatal accident.
The roads leading into the city are
. generally in a bad condition, rendering
! travel difficult and at some places dan
, gerous. Let every negligent overseer be
/ indicted and fined.
The crops around the city are excel
. lent. The cotton and corn look better
: than for years past, and the fruit trees
are laden with lucious fruit. The farm
ers at least should be happy.
2 Last week there were only 30 death.
i in Memphis. OF this number only II
we're white and but 20 colored persons
OF this number Of white persons, only {
died with congestion. Look out for
season Of malarial ierooity.
The picnic, barbecue and politioa
gathering at Kerrville tomorrow, will b
! one of the grandest attractions Of th
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ON THE HALF SHELL.
Business Outlook and statistics fOl
the first Half of 1875.

Business Outlook and statistics for
the First HAIR of 1875.
We are indebted to Major h. c Mich.
olson, the excellent manager and popu
lar g~entlemaR, for a copy Of the semi
annual circular Of r G. Dan 4 Co.'S
mercantile agency:
The public mind has in some measure
become prepared for this revelation by
the frequency with which these misior-
tunes have been chronicled by the press,
but it remains for the agency to pat into
shape the final results of the period un.
der review, aud to draw from the compi-
lations such inferences as appear to be
warranted by the facts presented. This
has been done in the usual exhaustive
manner, and we condense the following
from the elaborate document before US.
For the purposes Of comparison we
group together the following statement,
which will illustrate 1T a glance the sig
~nifcance of the figures for the past SIX
months:
First six months in 1876, number o.
failures, 1868; liabilities, $76, 844, 266
First six months in 1876, numbered fail
ures, 1900; liabilities, $l08, AIS, 1929. FRS
six months in 1877, number Of failures
4749; liabilities, 500. Goo, Ill. First ST,
months in 1878, number Of failures, 1925
liabilities, $l3O.8S2, 766.
The failures for the half year JUS
closed are thus shown to be 10 numbe
over twenty-five per cent greater than il
1877, while the liabilities indicate a per
centage Of increase still greater.
These figures are Of very grave import
{ taken as an indication OF the state o
trade, fer, according to the Ag%ency,ueve
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15
Hnrrnra nr RihnrIn

A Russian convict never knows
until he reaches Siberia what sort
of life is in store for him for in
pronounoing sentence of hard labor
the Judge makes no mention of
mines. If the convict has money
or influential friends, he had better
use the time between his sentence
and transportation in buying a war
rant which consigns him to the
lighter kinds of labor above ground;
otherwise, he will inevitably be sent
under earth, and never again see
the sky until he is hauled up to die
in an inirmary. The convicts are
forwarded to Siberia in conveys,
which start at the commencement
Of spring, just after the SHOWS have
melted and left the ground dry.
They perform the whole journey on
foot, escorted by mounted Cossacks.
who are armed with pistols, lances
and long whips; and behind them
jolts a long string of springless
tumbrils, to carry those who fall
lame or ill on the way. The start
is always made in the night, and
care is taken that the conveys shall
pass through the towns on their
road only after dark. Each mar is
dressed in a gray HAITIAN, having a
brass numbered plate fastened to
the breast, knee-boots, and a sheep
skin bonnet. lie carries a rug
strapped to his back, a mess-tin, and
a wooden spoon at his girdle. The
women have black cloaks, with
hoods, and march in gangs by
themselves, with an escort of sol
dierS, like the men, and two or
three female warders, who travel in
carts. In leaving large cities, like
st. Petersburg, all the prisoners
were chained with their hands be-
hind their backs, but their letters
are removed outside the city, ex-
cept in the ease of men who have
been marked dangerous. These
have to wear leg-chains of four
pounds weight all the way, and
some of the more desperate ones
are yoked threes to a beam Of wood,
which rests on their shoulders, and
is fastened to their necks by iron
collars. Nobody may approach the
men to inspect them. The Oossacks
crack their whips loudly to warn
persons off, and scamper up and
down the line with lanterns tied TO
their lanoe-points, which they lower
to the ground at every moment 10
see if letters have been dropped.
Murderers, thieves, Nihilist conspi-
rators, ielon, clergYmen, mutinous
soldiers and patriotic Poles all trump
together as fast rs they can 90 and
perfectly silent. Then come the
women, shiyering, sobbing, but moi
daring TO cry out, because Of thos,
awful whips,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

An audacious miss at a boarding
school being habituslly late at her reel.
%tationS, was given "laziness" as the sub
jet of her next " composition" and inn
proved that occasion by writing an ex-
%cellent essay on l~aziness as a v%irtuel
This vas an unexpected turning of the
tables, and i was a demonstrative proof
that every subject has two sides, but if
the intense heat of the PAST two weeks
continues, the virtue of l%aziness will be
80 magniled that no other side will be
APPARENT.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

NJ. Bs6rinet, Of the French Institute.
gave the test for distinguishing colorless
gems from diamonds: If a person looks
through a transparent stone at any small
object, such as the point Of a needle or a
little hole in a card, and sees two small
points or two small holes, the stone is
not a diamond All white colorlsss
gems, with the exception Of the diamond,
he held, made the object examined ap.
pear double. Ia other words, double re-
traction, whenever exhibited by a stone,
is proof conclusive hat it is not a dia-
mond,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

Five ceLts' worth of char
coal per day will run n char.
coal furnace ms well as Mrs. M.
j. McCullOugh's SeIi.cOndens-
ing Steam and Hot Air Cook
or, cooking four different
kinds Of fOOd over one hole of
the furnace nj the same time.
f. J.
lat Sole Ag'l, 23a Main ct.
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4 good imported Cigar, Zoe,
ll7t
"UnIcum.'' ManilIa," SC.
Ice Cold Beer.

Joe Emmerich, No. 34l Adams street,
keeps his kegs of beer in a patent ice
cold box, so as to have the beer in prop.
er condition before It is put on draught.
The glasses u4ed are kept in large tubs
Of water with ice floating in it SO as to
make them ice cold also. The result OF
these preparations are that his foaming
glasses Office cold lager are a beverage
equal 10 toe nectar Of the gods. Call on
Joe and sample the beer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15
An Aching Ynin.

She got q letter at the postofice yes.
terday. 1t had a bulky, financial look,
aud she didn't wait to reach home before
breaking the envelope. Rushing to one
of the windows she tore one end of the
envelope off, hunted through the four
page letter for greenbacks, and her
c%ountenance fell exactly eight inches by
the government gauge as she didn't find
any, She seemed about to tear the let.
tex into shreds, but female curiosity
never defeats itself that way. Turning
to the letter she read:
MY darling, this is my fifth letter to
you within a week. l %inclose -"
Here she looked the letter over, peered
into the envelope, and then carefully
searched the floor, but she didn't find it.
Turning TO the letter she read:
II inclose-my love-my undying az
fections."
1t was all she could do to restrain her
desireto tear the letter from the big "I'
at the upper leftrhand corner down to the
werd darling" at the lower right.hand
corner, but she suddenly saw something
that made her almost smile. 1t vas a
paragraph beginning;
Next time | write | will send some
thing more substantial. / will send you
fifty"
She stopped here to smile a real genu
inc smile, ard then fnished:-
fifty beautiful pictures to paste
on your fruit %jSrsl"
One of the carriers was looking at heI
from behind the glass screen, and say:
that she jumped eighteen inches higl
and came down on her heels with {
grinding motion that gave him a pain il
his ribs for more than an hour.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

The silent senator" of Pennsylvania
the Hon. Daniel Sturgeon-died last
week. He earned the title during the
twelve years he served in the United
States senate, after his election in 1910.
He talked little, but accomplished prac.
teal work.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

The Catholics have gained another
seat in the house of lords, the late Earl
Of Ashburnham being succeeded by his
son, Lord st. Asaph, a convert of four
or five years standiag.
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Postponement.

The reunion of the Ladies' Christian
Association, at the residence of Colonel
l. S. Knowlton, tomorrow Tuesday
afternoon, is unavoidably postponed.
MRS. AGNES CAMPBELL, Cor. Sec'y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

In a recent speech is bis own county,
Colonel Dill, Democratic candidate for
governor Of Pennsylvania, said that he
had been reared in all parts of Penn
sylyaniai he was n Methodist preachers
son, and as such was raised in spots"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

A large cartoon in a French paper
represents a pyramid of skulls sur.
mounted by a table at which are seated
the members O.. the Berlin congress.
The Growing OF the Edifce" it is
called.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

Senator Withers and Judge Critcher,
OF Virginia, have left for a tour through
the North, where they will make speeches
in favor Of emigration to Virginia, in the
interest Of the Virginia Immigration So.
cietv.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-15

The Journal of Chemistry says that
hot elum water is the best insect destroy,
er known. Put the alum into hot water
and let it boil till all the alum is dis.
solved; then apply it hot with q brush to
all cracks, closets, bedsteads and other
places where any insects are found.
Ants, bed bugs, c~ockroaches and creep.
ing things are killed by it, while it has no
danger of poisoning the family or injur.
ing property.