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conference.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, April :. The
New England Methodist Conference at
West6eld has adopted a resolution de-
claring it 1.-THE duty of citizens, and espec.
tally Christians, to prevent the elevation
of bad men to civil offices; deploriug the
corruption in society, and the prevalence
of communist, inidsl sentiments, and
declaring the course Of the government
toward the African, Indian and Chinese,
to be full of injustice, bad faith and cru.
city. The conference also adopted a
resolution approving Of fraterual rela-
tons with the NJ. E. Church, South, but
maintaining the claim Of its own demon.
inatiOn to be the original Wesleyan
Church.
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cHLrrEL

The New York Tribune Of the
9th Gays that an examination Of
the chattel mortgages on file in the
registers Office shows that corpora
tons resort largely to this expedi-
ent to raise money for various pur-
poses. The list includes churches,
religious societies, railway, steam
boat and other corporations, hotels,
restaurants, gaslight companies,
telegraph companies, and publish
ing houses, as well as individuals.
The rapid increase in the number
of house-furnishing establishments.
where goods are sold on the install.
ment plan, has extended this branch
Of the registers business, and Oh
the chattel mortgage books thu
names of piano, organ, sewing
machine and furniture dealer.
largely predominant. The old Gus
tom Of compelling hotel proprie
tors to give a blanket mortgage OF
the entire furniture and fittings t,
secure the payment of rent, is no
now observed, the New York Hote
being the only one thus recorded il
the registers office. Instances ar
frequent of church societies resort
ing to chattel mortgages on organ
and church furniture to secur
temporary loans. Several larg
steamboat lines, and other corpora
tions, also secure their bonded del
in part by a general mortgage o
chattels.
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Russians Hold the Dam
ube from its Mouth
to the ServiRn
Frontier.
Feeling Gains Ground in st. Peters.
burg that the Obstacles to the
Assembly Of Congress viii
bs Removed.
Fresh Purchase Of Arms Being Made
by the Turkish War ONCE.

LoSDoS, April ga member Of the
Berlin clearinghouse of Mendelsobn,
was in Paris yesterday, seeking the co.
operation Of a Paris house concerned in
last years Russian loan to place about
500, 600, 900 francs more, but was uusuc.
eessful.
ST. Petersburg kilograms say that the
feeling gains ground that some formula
will be invented which will rsmove all
distractions to an assembly of congress.
The drift Of the news from CONSTANT
nople is again strongly pro.English. New
objections have been taken by the Turks
against Russian military movements.
The Russian garrison have relieved the
Roumauians at Widdin, Nikopolis aud
Rahova, and the Russians now hold the
Danube from its mouth to the Servian
froatier.
CoNsrANTINoPLE, April 9.-The Rus.
SLAMS are completing the Notifications
begun by the Turks st Schekmedja aud
Serkos.
Fresh purchases Of arms are being
made by the Turkish war office.
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The POPS AND TIE egRMAE BISHOP.

Leo XIII, says the New York
Herald, evidently means to be pope
in fact as well as in name. The re-
organization Of his household, the
composition of his own state and
religious papers and addresses, the
slow but steady manner in which
he is removing the trammels left
him by his predecessor, all go to
show that a new departure has been
taken at the Vatican, and that if
the Catholic world is not now nov
ing solely at the command of Its
one supreme head it will very soon
be in that position. Plus IL, for
several years prior to his death, was
so feeble that be was practically IN
able to exercise a firm control over
its thousands Of JEALOUS workers in
the different countries Of Europe.
This was notsbly the case in Ger
many, where the ultra-montane
bishops, by their extreme policy,
almost brought the church into
armed conflict with the government.
These gentlemen have Just been
served with a polite notice from the
new pope that the best way to
help C~atholieity in that country
is TO attend TO their business Of say
ing souls and let politics alone.
They must, be SAYS, do nothing to
prejudice the negotiations for re-
establishing the relations between
Berlin and the Vatican. This COM
mand Of his holiness VIII, Of course,
be Obsyed BY the ''blsck dragons
Of the church as submissively as an
army would obey its general, ana
the pope VIII Be at liberty to make
his own terms with Prince Bis
marek without the interference Of.
the snborsiDates who have caused
al The trouble and difficulty that
exist In q worldly point Of view
this action Of the pope Is the most
important be has thus far taken.
II forEhadoEs the end Of The semi
hostile attitude Of the church 10
ward most Of The European gov
ernments, its probable divorce from
politics and = concentration Of its
great ability, zeal and resources in
the purely religious field.
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The CuiuvauOn Of musbrooms.

The ~Japane9e raise mushrooms on de
cayed roots, stumps or logs. Certain
varieties Of the oak tree. when cat down.
furnish the most acceptable mushrooms
lncisions are cot through the outer bark
OF the logs, which are made By splitting
q trunk into quarters. The logs are LEFT
IN the forest TO rot, for about three years.
"nen mushrooms grom upon them If the
rotten portion Of the wood be scraped
away. After the first crop is removed,
the logs are put into water in the morn.
ing ana IN the afternoon are beaten with
q malleii they are then ranged on cad.
slanting, 10 the forest, aud the mush.
rooms grow agar upon them. This pro.
cess is continuously repeated, and II h
found that the larget mushrooms grow
upon LOGS that are beaten harlest An.
other method Of culture consists Ia bury.
ing the logo. The japanese drv tboi,
mushrooms by artificial heat, slogly and
carefully applied. The industry Ia oI
solne magnitude and a considerable
portion OF the dried product IL exported.
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) SIDE OF WAR.
n0B English TsFs NJ Russian Sol.
dirrs EBjOy Themselves.

8AHNe AhItg A~MtHlhEJbebs
The officers Of Hornby's feet near
ConsiEniinople are about the j%olliest Get
Of sea dogs sfssk. Al Bssika bay they
have had fox hunting, with Ill the regu.
lation features Of horses, houuds, stables,
and kennels. TIE county on the Asistic
tide oi the D~arda1slles IS very favorable
70 sport Of this kind. During the long
evenings private theatricsls have been
given on board The Alexandra and other
iro0-clads, a. which amateur players did
their beat. Even a. Tuzls, where they
have to keep q sharp lockout for Russian
torpscoes, the officers manage to enjoy
stolen trips 10 Pers, 10 tAedespstch boat.
What effect al this has on the discipline
Of the Hee, the correspondent neglec,s
70 state.
Nor have the Russians gu their side
been without the enjoyments that are
needed after 3 long campaign. At San
S.eiano and Tchet- Ida they have en-.
seonced themselves 10 the houses oil
the wealihiest refidents, and are supplied
from the COD%stontinople markets. Ac
cordiTg TO o authority, the railwa7
groaBs under hampers Of game, pastry.
and s%weetmeats, while g very river 0,
champagne, whose source Is 10 the CAM.
tai, debouches beyond the neutral zone.
The bathing aud quail shooting at Sar
Steiano are excellent and the conquer
ors show no desire to leave such pleasant
quarters. The glittering paredes Of tbe
Imperial Guard and the splendid music
Of the bands draw such crowds Of visitor,
from Constantinople that extra train,
are ran on the railway and extra steamers
on the waterways.
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WASHINGTON, April For Tennessee,
Ohio valley aud the lower lake region,
cloudy and rainy weather, warm and in
creasing southeasterly winds, falling
barometer, followed in the western por.
tons by rising barometer and colder
northwest winds.
For the lower Missouri valley, cloudy
weather with rain or snow, possibly fol
lowed by clearing weather, colder north.
west winds and rising barometer.
The lower Mississippi river will fall.
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IF you want to keep your boy at
home, MAKE it p~leasanter for him than
toe street" Certaioly. Chalk a hop
scotch in the hall, put a hogshead Of mo.
lasses on tap in the kitchen, have a dog.
Sight in the backyard, make a +" bully
slide on the cellar door, have a hand.
organ and monkey in the reception
room, and 9 German band on the stairs
Let the boy chalk callers backs on the
lst Of April, throw bis base ball through
the windows. ran away and plug" the
cook with fsh-balls Sunday morning;
but even theo you will have to engage a
circus or great moral show" to drive
through the premises two or three times
IN the season to make it pleasanler
than the streets"
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San Francisco Alts.l

San kfaneise0 Alts.l
She is coming, the belle and heiress,
Misc Jenny Latrelle, the handsomesi
girl 10 the Notwithstanding the finest
figure, The smallest foot, the sweetest
voice, the bloDdsst kair and vslyiliast
brown eyes ever done up in one package
is coming to oakland to spend a few
months with her relatives. She is said
TO be a most charming singer and anna
teur actress. aud manages a horse like q
Di Vernon; and, moreover, is a lonely
orphan with 81, 800, 1000 in her own right
- real BONANZA. Such q distinguished
visit has not been made since the Queen
Of Sheba visited King Solomon.
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It may be stated. on authority which
is conclusive, that Theodore Tilton and
his wife will never be reunited. The
gulf between them is one over which
Mrs. Tilton can never cross on any
bridge that can be thrown over it by her
husband. 1t is understood that Mr.. Til.
ton is about to make another trip to
Europe-that he has even engaged his
passage-and that he will remain abroad
in the society OF his daughters, now
studying in Germany, until the eve OF
the next Lecture season. -[Graphic.
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From CUBA.

HAVANA, April 9,-The Official Gazette
has published a decree by the captain
general, directing that in conformity with
the proclamation of the 18th Of March
the restoration to its owners Of all pro.
perry enlarged for political ofenses
shall begin immediately.
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Tnton,n Prullless visit to his wifi,


Some few weeks ago, for what reason
no one seems to know, Mrs. Morse yield.
ed to Tilton's desire to an extent. and
brought about a meeting between her
daughter and her son in-law without tho
consent, connivance or knowledge Of the
former. The fact of a meeting is all that
is known, save that then and there Mrs.
TiIton told Mr., Tilton distinctly that she
would never live with him again. There
was no lawyers, no friends, no children
made parties to the consultation, aud all
the reported going and coming of this,
that and the other child is simple fabri.
cation. When the parties separated it
was distinctly understood that the chill.
dren were-all of them-common pro.
perty and subject to a common discipline,
free to be called by Que or the other, rs
seemed best for them. And such has
been the constant habit.
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wasAlnslon oor. Chicaro rims,.I

washington Cor. Chicago Times.
The President sits in an upper back
room at the White House during bust.
ness hours from 10 a IN. 10 ann. he
seems during ordinary calls to be con.
cerned about q particular spot in the
yellow and green Brussels carpet. He
appears TO be impatienily waiting until
you leave, in order to get down on his
hands and knees and see what il the
matter with that floor, anyhow" When
be is not being interviewed in his Office
on business or curiosity, be is stand
Jog by Mrs. Hayes in the re-
eeption room. SILENT aud quite over.
Swallowed by bis sprightlv spouse. He
has during this year Of official life never
pulled s cigar in a lady's face, nor ever
driven a fOHr.in.hand down the avenue
nor kissed any female save his lawful
partner, MOI lounged, half tight, With
General sherman or any other man ia a
private box at the thealer. he does not
realize the advantages Of his position,
nor avail himself Of the privileges Of a
great man; be was never known to have
soEn a single wild oal; be is especially
fitted to jog along slowly in tie dones.
tic harness, and, head down, draw care
fully AID soberly the respectable, clumsy
old ehaise OF state.
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CAIRo, April 9,-Arrived-Mary Mil.
Ter, St, Louis, II p M; Cons Millar, Mem
phis, 8 am; j. B. Maude, Vicksburg, 6.
Departed Golddust New Orleans, mid
night, Mary Miller, Cincinnati, midnight;
Cons Millar, Cincinnati, 6 am; J. B
Maude, St. Louis, 9; II. c. Yaeger, New
Orleans, IL. Cloudy and warm.
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a gnow.wbite robin Is in a store in
New York. ltisa real Albino, and It's
dark eyes are surrounded by a narrow
rim Of pink. Last summer a German,
while walking ia Whitestone, L. | saw
a robins nest 10 an apple.tree; on look.
ing into It he saw four young birds near
y hedged, one Of which was white. He
took them home aud reared them AT.
Three differ in no respect from ordin,y
robbingi the fourth differs only in color.
Bird.fsnciers say that Albino robins are
very rare more 50 than white black.
irds-LCleyeland Herald,
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CINCINNATI, April "a telegram has
been received from the proprietor of the
Lick Bouse, San Francisco, addressed to
Mrs. Vance, stating that her husband,
x-Congressman j. L. Vance, who mys.
~teriously disappeared from this city a
short time since, was there and wal in.
sane.
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For Criminal Court Judge-

}. NJ. GREER announces himself a candi-
dat, for the office Of Criminal Court Judge Of
shelby county. subject to the action OF the
Democraho-Conservative Convention. 27te
am q candidate for Judge Of the Criminal
Court Of Shelby county.
l9te p n
LELAND LEATHERMAN is a candidate
Tor Judge Of the Criminal Court of Shelby
cyunty. Election next August. Iblte
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The French ambassador at Berlin has
. delicate, and probably fruitless, task
before him. His government has given
him orders to use all possible efforts aud
means to induce the emperor of Germa.
ny apd Prince Bismarck to visit Paris
during the exposition, He has so far
been foiled in all his attempts to obey his
instructions. and will have to renewh his
efforts in the face Of plain indifference.
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THE British ship Algoms lel;
Galveston, Texas, March 81, with q
cargo Of 1899 bales of cotton, each
bale containing an average weight
Of 5021 pounds, the whole number
of pounds being ., 40, 297. As the
Algoma is a vessel of 1854 tons
measurement, she takes accordingly
2O36 pounds to the registered ton.
This is reported to be the greatest
amount Of cotton to the ton ever
taken from the United States In any
vessel. The Galveston (Texas)
News says hat owing to the i'm
proved presses now in use, the last
year has been the most remark.
able ever known for compact pres
sing"
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A story is told in the Revue Medicale
de rE5t Of a patient who lost bis life by
deceiyiDg his doctor. The man was snf-
fering from lead poisoning. The pbysi.
clan, oddly named Professor Forget,
prescribed strychnia pills which pro.
daced no effect. The dose was increased
sncessiyely 10 two, three. FIVE and six
pills, without any result. Finally the
doctor ordered the patient TO take FIVE
pills in bis presence. The man did 80,
and died within two hours. After Bio
death all the pills previously prescribed
we're found secreted behind bis bed.
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Some Eoglishmen have just found out
that the late Professor Wheatstone in.
vented the telephone more than q quar-.
Ter Of a century ago, aud that be des
cribed and exhibited the instrument. 1t
does not appear, however, that he trans
mitted speech BY it. or claimed that it
had such q capacity. Probably the
British public is FESTIVE under the high
prices charged for telephones by their
inventor and patentee. At a recent
meeting Of the French academy Of
sciences, N. Charles eros claimed that
be bad described the phonograph in a
sealed document, filed April 30, 1877,
and opened at a public meeting on De
cember 81 He says that his phoDo-
graph gave the same results and en-
ployed the same mesrs as the instrument
NJ. Edison claims to have invented
Such statements are oninous Of lawsuits
il he future.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
A GARD.

To all who aro.suHering fromIthe errors an(
indisoretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc.. / will
send n receipt that will sure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy Was discovered
By a missionary in South America. Send a
self-addressed envelope to the Rev. JOSEPH
T. ISMAS, Station d, Bible House, Neto Yorl
CHI. xxvii-S5 eod&w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-09

LAKE. CHARLES, April Carlos chief
deputy, Postlethwaite, arrested Saturday
under an indictment Of the grand jury
found last week, for trespass and OBJ.
structinz navigable streams, has given
bond.
General Sewell arrived Sunday, He
is very reticent and waits for special
commissioner Adams.
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Aman saw a ghost while walking along
a lonely highway at midnight. The
ghost stood exactly in the middle Of the
road, and the ~wayfarer, deciding to iu-
vestigate, poked at it with bis umbrella.
The next instant he was Knocked twenty
feet into a mud hole. Moral-poke an
umbrella at a large white mule when its
hack ia turned.
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GALVESTON, April ga FIRE at three
o'clock this morning destroyed thirteen
frame buildings, on both sides of Market
street, between Tweuty-eighth and
Twenty.ninth streets. Only one building
on the block was saved. Loss, $780, 900;
insurance, $50, 900.
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Nrnde P%eIroIenm.

NV YoRS, April 9.-The petroleum
board Of the produce exchange has
adopted an amendment to the rules hat
crude petroleum in barrels should be
sold by weight at the rate Of six and a
half pounds to:the gallon
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From the Austin New Roveils.l
An electrician of this city has invented
en- Improvement upon the telephone,
which he calls the kissograph." 1t
works on a principal Of magnetic Attrac.
ton, and by its means an absent hus.
band can kiss his wife at a distance Of a
thousand miles, To make use of it for
kissing 'another mans wife disarranges
the instrument and creates a current
which sets the steam whistles to blowing
and the fire bellies to ringing.
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For AttOrney-General of Criminal
Nnnua

G. w. GORDON is a candidate for the office
Of Attorney. General of tho Criminal Court Of
Shelby county at Memphis, subject to the
nomination Of the Democratic and COnserv-
alive convention. l5te
-. A. ANDERSON announces himself a can
Court. subject to the Democratic and Conserv-
alive convention. ilSte
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PUBLIC LEDGER
oyVICE-Ne. Is MIDrsoS sTRHEr.
M
Tuesday Evening, April o, 1878.

The subscription price Of The PUB
Lie LEDGER is s. per aHnun for
fAs Daily, and 81 per GaHEm for The
Feeky-POstdge free.
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The condidition of the city
schools excites general interest
among the friends of popular edu-
cation. The County Court, at its
meeting tomorrow, will refuse
TO add five cents to the tax,
and this upon the principle, ire
spectiye of any question of policy,
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Ex.LegislatOr Under arrest.

W~ILKEsBARRE, April 9.-Bullard, the
ex-member Of the legislature from Della
ware county, who escaped from Sergeant.
alarms Goyner a few weeks ago, has
been arrested neal Meshsppen, Wyom-
ing county, visiting relatives.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-09

PHILADELPHIA, April Eek secretary
Of the navy Robson las been taken into
the Hunter murder case as associate
counsel for the prisoner.
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A Boston shopkeeper sued for dam
ages because his store was shortened
twenty feet by the widening Of q street,
and in the trial was asked whether be
had not thus obtained a better and a
stronger light. He answered that he
had. Then why do you claim dam
smages2' Because" was the reply,
I'm this locality the quality Of goods sold
requires the poorest light"
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what They shouId be TAurh.,

l wish young women could be taught
that it does not add a cubit to the stat
Ure Of the house to call it a residence"
tina. . church or even a meeting house is
as venerable as the sacred edi6ce;"
that it is no more genteel to say retire"
than to 20 tO bed; that the garment so
fondly, slowly covered WITH side plait-
ings, So coldly and quickly frayed out
along the paving stones, is really a gown
and not q promenade costume" that it
need not bring q blush to the cheek of
even Gr. PO1snap's young person to say
leg instead Of limb" when leg is meart;
that the supper at az evening party is
not the entertainment" aud that there
are well founded objections to the use
Of "nieeiyn as an adjective describing
the state Of ones health. 10 ciothe
Low creeping matter with fne language"
said old Fuller, rs not fine fancy, but
fiat toolery-" IL rather loads than raises
a wren to fAsien feathers OF an ostrich
to her Rings-Mrs. C. Runkle.
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ONE excellent feature Of the
Woman's Hotel, in New York, is
the opportunity it offers to ladies
travelling alone or visiting New
York on business to secure tran
sient accommodations, by writing
in advance to engage rooms, 1t is
not so many years since Mrs. Liver
more was compelled to sit IN all
night in the reception room of a
Western hotel, because she was
travelling alone and with no visible
means Of support in the shape Of a
Saratoga trunk, and although the
Centennial demonstrated hat wO-
men could and would be received
into hotels without other luggage
than a linen duster and a japanese
walking-stiek, they will have a sense
of being expected at the Stewart
Hotel that ought 10 make them
quite comfortable there on flying
visits to New York.
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Thursday, April IS, 1878.

represent Shelby county at the Convention to
be held at Nashville on Wednesday, May 20.
1878. to nominate candidates for positions Of
Judges of the Supreme Court Of Tennessee.
Resolved iurther. That the duties Of this
Committee cease with the meeting Of said
select a new Executive Committee for Shelby
county. JNO. DONOVAN. Chm'n.
j. MoBROoKs, See'y A-42
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NNoUNoEMENrs.
For Ohnnneno~

Z; BIN b tMIoOH is q candidate for Chancellor
ton, subject to nomination by the Denso etsS-
Conservative convention. "'0-
HEREBY announce myself a caDd;a...
for Chancellor Of the Chancery Court Of SIhanYIo
BY county, at the next August election. ~
2lte W.. p. WILSON
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The Vicksburg Herald, Of the
9TH, saws Of the Southern Pacific
railroad: The Memphis papers
are still agitating the terminus
question. Our congressman viii
please to vote against any bill that
does not give Vicksburg As fair a
show to be selected the eastern ter
minus as any other city" The
Memphis papers do not object to a
BIZ giving Yicksburg a fair Sow.