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The daily gazette., 1878-06-19
The Asbury Chapel

The Trustees of Asbury M. E. Church
held meeting last evening, and appoint
ed subcommittee to investigate the cost
and other arrangements for the erection
OF the proposed chapel on the Third st.
end of the church lot.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-19
Indications for To-day.

Pr the Middle Atlantic States sta
Vary Or higher pressure and temperature,
!, rmiabie wbulS, mostly tram the north
t or purity cloudy Wedther.
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FALL STREET YEsTERDAv.-The
\ market was fairly active and fever
Gold opened at 1909 and advanced
lVo;' Government bonds were
ps' State dull and railroads weak.
pey on call was easy at 2 a3 per cent.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-19
Butter a. Cheese.

Good new dairy cheese 3lbs for 25
cents at R. Messick's stslls Nos. 40 azd
As Second street Market. Fresh butter
Is cents per pound.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-19
Personal

Mr.. James Elliott, theatrical agent of
New Yor k, who has been visiting this
city for several days, returned home this
morning.
The daily gazette., 1878-06-19
Removal.

Ponder 81 Townsend have moved their
Ielephone Office to No. GIG Market
The daily gazette., 1878-06-19
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NJ OTICE.-The Liquor Dealers Union of
IN this city, will meet tomorrow after
noon, at 2:50 O'Clock, at S@nger Hall BY
order OF the President. lt&
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-06
How to Cure a Cold.

The Burlington Hawkeye nan
writes: This is the time Of year to
travel and talk with a cold. My cold
is very obstinate, but / am holding it
in check, | think, or rather my friends
are holding it in check for me. | paid
but little attention to it at first, but as
the cough increased in severity and
the h~oarseness became worse, Mrs.
Clements, who is a homeopathic,
gave me bryonia and phosphorus; the
day following | went to Middleton,
and good Mrs. Brown gave me boneset
syrup; then, on the advice of a travel
ing friend, | took to hoarhound and
licorioe, but on reaching here Mr..
Thornton changed my treatment and
prescribed chloride of potash lozenges.
| next sent for a regularly ordained
physician, who gave me q bottle of
pills and o hex Of tablets and a recipe,
for two dollars. That evening old Mrs.
Bryan sent me q bottle of carbOlic
acid in solution, and Mr.. Gregory sent
me a carbolic tube. | inhaled the bot
tie and swallowed the tube, and expe-
rienced great relief then resolved
to refuse any further treatment, but
Mrs. Dawson persuaded me with a
very harmless and rather pleasant
preparation of ~glycerine and sugar,
and at night | still further submitted
to a cold water compress. The next
day a woman gave me q dose of medi.
cine in q street car, and | munched
Browns bronchial troches all the rest
of the day, and declared | Eaald try
no more pgQs0gipuons. That very
night / was tucked into bed by friend.
ly hands and filled to the chin witt
hot lemonade. To-day | am wearing
a liver pad around my neck n NOR
row-but alas, WIZ eau tell what to
morrow Will bring forthl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-06

John Russell Young, in Harper's.l
Stanley gave nine months to the ex-
ploration Of the Lualaba, or rather to
the Livingstone, as he called it, and as
it must be called for all time. Before
he went out on his mission we knew
there were two rivers-the Congo and
the Lualaba. We knew that the Con-
go ran into the Atlantic Ocean, but its
source was lost in ~cataraets. The Por-
tuguese were content to scatter a few
settlements about its mouth and trade
for gum and ivory along its banks.
But it was an unknown river beyond
the cataracts.
We knew there was a river in the
middle of Africa called the Lualaba
We knew it had a swift current, that
it was a river of large volume. But
beyond that we knew nothing. Some
had one theory, others had another.
Livingstone was convinced hat it ran
into the Nile, was really the source of
the Nile; and who would question even
the theory of so great a master
What Stanley did was to show that the
Congo and Lualaba were one and the
same; hat the Congo, instead oflosing
itself among the rapids, was to force
itself into the very heart of the con
t%inent; that the Lualaba, instead of
going north and submitting to the
usurping waters of the Nile, was to
turn to the west and force its way
to the sea; that these two rivers were
to disappear from the map and be
known al, one river-the Livingstone :
that this river was to be 1900 miles in
length that for nearly ten degrees of
longitude it was to be continuously
navigable; that its volume was 1,800,-
600 cubic feet a second; that the en-
tire area it drains is 100000 square
miles-in other words, that there was
an immense waterway 300 miles into
the center of Africa, navigable, with
the exception of two breaks, which
engineering science can easily sur
mount-a waterway into a tropical
empire, rich in woods and metals and
gracious soil, in fruits and grains, the
sure home of a civilized empire in the
years to come. As Petermann, the
eminent German g%eographer, puts it,
Stanleys work was to unite the frag-
ments of African exploration-the
achievements of Livingstone, Burton,
Spoke, Du Chaillu, Baker, Cameron,
of all the heroic men who had gone
before him-into one consecutive
whole, just as Bismark united the
fragments of the German people, lying
about under various princes and dukes,
into one grand and harmonious empire,
Even as Bismarck had created impe-
rial Germany, so Stanley created geo.
graphical Africa.
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Ing in horrible torment, with the old
woman kneeling on his chest and bury.
ing her long nails in his throat.
At the appearance Of the servants
she released the victim, and drawing a
bottle from her pocket, shook its con-
tents into the negroes faces.
The juice of the deadly berry-for
the bottle contained the supply of
poison she had collected that afternoon
-rained over the servants like a
shower of vitriol, and they drew back
uttering e~xecrations and howls of pain.
Then the bag made a rush for the
door, but one of the men, who had
luckily escaped the painful experience
of his comrades, tripped her up, and
in a minute more she was a prisoner,
bound hand and foot.
By the time this was brought about
her victim had uttered a final shrek,
aud, bounding out of bed, had fallen
face down on the floor, a torrent of
black blood pouring from his mouth.
He was dead.
Next day the murderess was hanged,
naked and alive, in a cage Of iron
hoops, which fitted closely to her body,
and left to the mercy of the elements.
She lived four days, blistered to
madness by the fierce sun and the
noxiOus night damps, and finally per-
ished in agony equal to that of her
victim, eaten alive by ants, mosquitoes
and sand-fes.
This discovery of her fate by the
authorities led to the abolition Of the
hanging cage, which, incredible as it
may seem, had been frequently used
in the punishment of slaves of Porto
Rico up to the time of which we write.
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Windsor, whore there are not only
wedding couples but weddings also,
this sight is not infrequent,
And their appetitos7 Do they eat
heartily
We'll, not as a rule; at least some
of the brides don't. They have a no.
ton it isn't delicate at that interesting
season to show too much partially for
the table. I've known them, however,
to order hearty lunches in their room
after quitting the dining room without
taking enough for a canary bird. The
husbands generally have good appe-
tites and don't seem to mind it,
do they 60 out much-to church,
theatre, and that sort of thing2'
Bless you, no. | don't think one
couple in six go out-of the house, ex-
cept for a drive in the Park or some
thing of that kind, while they're here.
They're terribly devoted to each other,
especially the younger ones. To see
them wrap each other in shawls and
~overcoats and all that, saying all the
time, Are you quite warm, love?' Are
you sure you're wrapped up darling?
it's enough to make a man feel soft
himself, you know. There romantic
enough while it lasts. Everybody
likes them and sympathizes with them,
I've seen the tears come into an old
bachelors eyes looking at them"
And how long does ii last?'
well, it's different with different
persons. Some go away after a week,
and some stay six. They usually take
a run down to Philadelphia or Wash
ington or Niagara, and let the old folks
think they've been at those places all
the time.n
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-06

The annual report of Surgeon General
Barnes, United States Army, has been
submitted to the Secretary of War, and
some facts embraced therein given to the
press. The monthly reports Of sick and
wounded represent an average mean
strength Of the army of 20,794 White and
1895 colored troops. The total number of
deaths reported from all causes was 256.
Of these, 121 died of diseases, and 1876 of
wounds, accidents and injuries. The pro-
portion of deaths from all causes TO cases
treated was one TO l07. The removal of
garrisons from threatened points, although
in some instances deferred later than
prudence would dictate, has saved the
army from any serious losses during the
prevalence of the dreadful epidemic of
yellow fever which has proved so fatal
this year among the citizens of the South
ern States. The only cases reported in the
army up to September /, occurred in a
small detachment left at jackson barracks,
New Orleans, when the garrison was re-
moved. There were five cases and two
deaths in this detachment. The number
of military expeditions in the field during
the year was 81. These expeditions re.
quired the services of So medical officers
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THE OPIUM HABIT.


Missionaries and other good people
have written volumes concerning the
misery that the introduction of opium
into the Chinese Empire has caused
among the natives; but, from what |
learn from educated and unprejudiced
foreigners, not sanity, who have lived
in this country for many years and
have no axe to grind, it has been great
ly ~Overrated it is a common, but very
erroneous idea at home, that the great
bulk of the population Of this country
are opium smokers; it would be just
as absurd for a Chinaman, from his OBJ
seryation of the antics Of a few drunk
en- sailors, to conclude hal all Amer
leans we're drunkards.
1t is true that the debasing habit
counts its victims by thousands. |
have been unable to obtain any statis-
tics showing what proportion of the
population uses the drug. The amount
passed through the custom house is no
evidence as to the number of opium
smokers any more than Motifs punch
is of the number of tipplers in Vir-
ginia. Yet certain it is that opium
smoking here is not as widespread nor
ruinous as dram-drinking in England
or our W country. | visited opium
lens lately, while on a previous visit
to China, and even essayed to smoke
the bitter narcotic, with no better re-
salt than to make myself deathly sick;
it is not smoked in an ordinary pipe as
many suppose, but one specially pre-
pared for the purpose, generally con-
sisting of a metal bowl with o top per-
forated, not unlike the small holes in
a nutmeg crater. The smoker lies
stretched upon mats, his head slightly
raised, and in hal position, with the
point of a small piece of wire, he
twists up aquantity of the preparation
varying in size according to the habit
of the victim, which he places in the
fame Of a convenient lamp until it is
ablaze. Then applying it to the small
apertures on the top surface of his
pipe, he inhales the deadly fumes
This is repeated until his dearly pur-
chased bliss is obtained and his be-
sotted soul wanders off to a land
" Where the nights are filled with music,
And cares that infest the day
Fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away"
Drinking is a habit almost unknown
among the Chinese. don't think ]
ever saw a Chinaman under The
weather when they do venture on ,
little time, "alle same Mclean man,
it is some special occasion, such as The
New Year, Feast of Lanterns, a mar.
riage, or something of the kind, ant
even then, if they are in for a high ole
time and want to make Rome howl
they play their incomprehensible cards
and the loser, instead of treating the
Others, is compelled to drink. TIL,
consequence is, that the least skillfu
soon reach the tuneful condition o
our own festive youths when they wan
it distinctly understood that the,
won-gor-um till morning.
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wednesdoy EVENING, Nov. 8, ISIS
GENEROUS AND RECIPROCAL.

At a meeting of the Southern Relief
Committee. of the chamber of COM
merce, held in New York on the first
instant, the following letter, charac-
t~eristic of Southern feeling toward our
Northern friends, was read:
ArHESs, ALA, October %, 1878.
To the Secretary Of the Southern Relief Com
mittee of the Chamber Of Commerce;
We have noticed with great salts
faction your generous donation for the
founding of a fund which shall guar
antee a support to the widow and or
phans Of Lieutenant Benner. Now,
while we cannot at present cOmmandthe
money to duplicate this generosity we
have an offer to make that we hope
may prove beneficial to some member
of the family. We have charge of
one of the most fourishing female
colleges in the South, and we open its
doors to the daughter or daughters of
Lieutenant Benner, free of charge, in
all its departments for the entire
course. / am also authorized to say
that one of our most reliable citizens
offers board to one daughter for any
length of time she wishes to remain
in school, and if there are more than
one they can easily be provided for in
our noble little town. The daughter
of the late Butler p. Anderson, the
Grenada hero, is to spend three years
with us under the same conditions.
We would be glad to hear from you
soon upon the subject. Very respect
fully. Mrs. LOUISE e. SMITH.
Secretary of Athens Female College.
There is a sentiment of gratitude
and a propriety in this reciprocal Of
fer of aid and sympathy to the chill
dren of a Northern man who fell in
the effort to relieve cur distressed
people which comes gracefully from
the good people of the Athens Female
College.
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How the Honor Of One Of the
First Families Of A1ghanistan
was Saved.

How the Honor OF One Of the
First Families of Afghanistan
was Saved.
The person who tells the tale was
called Khan Gul, and he was one of
the actors in it. The whole Of his
family had at a former period become
a band of robbers, which occupation
they practieed, seemingly, on the sly,
and their neighbors were kept in the
dark about their dOings. They had
determined on robbing a house at some
distance, and, going there during the
night, they made a hole through the
mud wall. Khan Guls brother, like
Oliver Twist, was passed In. and he
began to hand out whatever was with
in his reach. The people Of the house
CHANGED to wake up, upon which the
brother tried to make his escape; but
while in the act Of returning through
the hole in the wall, those on the in
side caught him by the feet. Now be-
gan a tug like the tug Of war fierce
ly they pulled to get him out Of the
hole, but it wa useless those within
had n or two holding on to each leg.
and the burglar was held as in a vice
The fear that they would be recognized
and detected became at last the domi.
nant feeling, and as they could MOI
possibly pull him out, they determined
on an extreme measure, and one *
very extreme that it is hard to believe
that it could have occurred to any
others than these k~nife-eating AT
ghans. The only plan left 20 proven
Identification was TO cut off the head
carrying it away and leave the body
and the very striking part Of this tai
lies in the fact that it was done at tn
suggestion Of the man himself, and q
he expressed it at the instant, 50 tina
'the honor of the family might be pre-
served undefled." This was done
they fed with the head only, leayin
all the spoil which had been throw
out, and as Kahn Gul ended the stOF,
he thanked God that the honor of b.
house had by these means been PR
served.
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AIfonso's Mourning.

A Madrid correspondent of the
Paris Monitour writes as follows about
Alfonso's way of life since the death
of Mercedes: 1T is well known how
deep and painful has been the grief of
the young sovereign, but what is less
known is the fact that, for several sue
cessive weeks, he spent every moment
at the Escurial, when he was not nee
essarily occupied with affairs of State.
There he passed his time in solitude,
refusing to receive any one, and en-
tirely abandoning himself to the mem
DRY of his dear departed c%onsOrt; he
walked about in the vast halls of the
palace of Charles ", and passed many
long hours in the vaults, which con
tain the mortal remains of the Kings
of Spain. At the hours of repast he
ordered two covers to be laid, one for
himself and the other opposite to him
for the Queen; and then he would re-
main absorbed contemplating the
empty seat, hardlytouching any Of the
viands laid before him. His minis
tiers, relations, and faithful friends be-
came alarmed at this state of things,
not only on account of the Kings
health, but equally so on account of
the interest of the dynasty, The
Spaniards require 10 have a King
who shows himself who mounts on
horseback, and passes reviews. His
Majesty has, consequently, been per-
suaded to leave the Esourial, and
to resume his ordinary life. He
made no resistance to the entreaties
addressed TO him to this effect; and
since his return to Madrid, within the
last few days, he has given rather nu-
merous audiences, both to Spaniards
and strangers. During these visits he
reverts with a certain preference to
the memory Of the Queen. He likes
to dwell upon the fact that when he
was pursuing his studies al Vienna he
thought Of his cousin, and that, see
ing around him certain dethroned
Princes who had taken into exile with
them, as it were, like a burden, the
consortswhom they had espoused when
seated on their thrones, solely from po-
litipal motives, he had determined
never to marry any woman unless he
could give her his whole heart, and
whom he could love and cherish in
days Of good as well as in days of OWL
fortune. 1t was for that reason that
he had married his cousin, He often
exclaims all the world was against
us the Government, the Chambers
and our relatives But We two sur
mounted all obstacles Around him
every mode Of diversion is being re.
sorted to, He has already been per
suaded to be present at the military
maneuvers, The necessity foR andint
another companion F0g the King is be.
ing seriously considered. 1t is highly
desirable that a Queen should shart
tho throne of Spain"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-06

The breakfast on the occasion ef the
Prince nf Wales visit "a the city of
London to unyeil the statue Of the
Prince Consort cost $4,000. The
thanksgiving for the recovery of the
Prince Of Wales, e13,000, That, too,
was the amount.spent in the reception
Of the Gar Of Russia, The Shah of
Persia's reception cost $4,000. The
Sultan's cost 100000. The flowers
alone at the reception Of the Prince Of
Wales, on his return from India, cost
e2,000. The banquet in his honor,
cost f2.676. Tho upholstery bill was
nearly e7, 900 more. The cost of the
menu cards at the dinner was e93
fl70 was expended on bands, f25 for
wands, e22 for gloves, e2S2 in graft.
tude, and Ct upon corkscFews, The
flowers at the Shah's reception cost
f527 and the gloves at the Cars e57.
There is now a big bill to pay for the
installation of Lords Beacons6eld and
Salisbury as freemen Of the city,
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Not long ago we recorded tAe OK
plot of Sam Simpson, ofNewark, who
hid himsolfin the boiler to escape the
quarantine officers so as to keep his
marriage engagement. The New York
Herald now records a sequel, Sam
was married in due time and went on
his bridal tour. The car was crowded
and Sam was standing in the aisle,
when a courteous Enslishman prof
fered him a seat and half of his Herald.
Presently the Englishman broke into
a laugh and declared IL Sthe best
thing he had read for some time"
"PQn my word" he said, I'D like to.
know that fellow Sam read the ac-
count of 'Sam in the boiler with
amazement. Gracious heavensl' he
exclaimed, chow did this get out?"
lie hurried over to the bride with the
paper, "You said you would like 10
know that fellow. he said to the Eng
hshman; well, | am the man. They
shook hands and smoked together, and
Sam secured not only a bride, but the
best of friends by being baked an hour
CT two in a boiler,
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"Ah, yes, my son." said Mr.. Smiley,
as he was strolling under the moonlit
heavens the other evening, "there are
a great many wonderful things in the
armament for instance, there is the
constellation Of the great bear which
is 50 beautifully mixed up with the
'dipper' that you always have to re-
member that the tail Of the dipper is
the handle of the bear, in order to tell
the other from which. "-[New Haven
Register.
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Death from Hair-Dye.

q "A few days since a Springfield, o.,
woman died from some mysterious dis
ease located in the head. The symp-
toms had long been manifested, but
no treatment seemed to have perma-
nent effect. After death there was an
examination made, resulting in the
unanimous decision that death was
caused, primarily, by the use, for a
long period, Of chemical compounds
for dyeing the hair, There Is said 10
have been a coating formed over the
brain, causing something like paralysis
of that organ.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-06

ia West Hill man painted a fero-
ciou3 looking sign, Look out for the
dog and put it up in his front yard
60 scare away tramps. The next morn
ing a tramp with a bad smile, Shout
ders like a load of hay, a club with
death smiling out of every knot Of it,
raped at the front door, demanded
some hot biscuit, meat, potatoes aud a
cup of coffee. and asked pleasantly,
"liow is the dog Hawkeye.
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FREE SHADE, MIDDLEsEx Co., VA.
Having used DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup in
my family with the greatest degree OF
satisfaction, l unhesitaiingly recommend
it as the best remedy that / know of for
children.
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y square, /.
Displayed advertisements will be charged
according 10 the sPAcR occupied, at above
r~stes-there being twelve lines Of solid type TO
the inch.
To regular advertisers we offer superior in
ducements, both as to rates Of charges ana
manner Of displaying their tavors.
Notices in local column inserted for twenty
cents per line for each insertion.
Notices of deaths and marriages, twenty
cents per line.
All bills for advertising arc due when con-
traeted and payable on demand.
All letters, whether upon business or other
wise, must be addressed 70
Il. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Pronrietor.
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