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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1878-01-04
NO UNDERCLoTHES.
Cleveland Herald.

Cleveland Herald.
A lady recently received a dress
from Worth. She could not get in
it,. She teIegradhed the autoctat to
that effect. He answered: Per
haps you attempted to put it on
over clio hing. THIS cannot be per.
mitted. | will send by steamer
buckskin tights which is the only
garment worn with dresses made
a according to the dictates of fashion
Alas this is what we have come
to. Tights and a piece of muslin
basted in the train of the dress.
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NO RAsCAL1TY-No RIOT.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
The secretary of war says that il
one thousand soldiers had been in
Pittsburg the day of the riot, all
would have been well. Ii John
Sherman had not engineered ras'
cally financial laws there never
would have been any riot. 1t is a
great pity that we cannot have q
big standing army to serve lot OF
snobs. ....
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Dear young readers: In a short
time you shall hear from us again
probably Grandfather's Dream or
Lispa's Mother, both l assure you
are sad but good. t...+se a
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CouRr DinnCToHv.

CIRCUIT co URr--SEyENTH DISTRICT.
JAMES S HAMM Judge.
IHos. s. FoRp, District Attorney.
County Of auderdale-second Mon-
day ri February and August, continue-
ing Is days. !.
Kemper--frst Monday of March end
September, continuing l2 days.
CIarke--third Monday of March and
September, continuing II days.
Wayne--first Monday of April and
October, continuing 6 days.
Green second Monday Of April and
October, continuing 6 days.
Jackson--third Monday Of April and
October, continuing g days.
Harrison---fourth Monday OF April
and October, continuing 6 days. /.
Hancock k--first Monday of May and
November, continuing days.
Pearl---second Monday OF May and
November, continuing 6 days.
Msrion--third Monday in May and
November, continuing days.
Perry--fourth Monday of May and
November, continuing days.
CHANCERY COURl-SEVb bNlu Dio -
Gro. WooD, Chancellor. &
County OF Jackson first Monday OF
March and September. continuing 8 days
Harrison second Monday OF March
and September, continuing 6idays.
Hancock third Monday OF March
and September, continuing 6 days.
Pearl--iourth Monday OF March and
September, contipuing6 days. M !,
Marion-first Monday after the fourth
Monlay OF March, continuing 6 days.
Perry Monday after the
fourth Monday of March and septem-
ber, continuing 6 Gays. y,
Green- third Monday after the fourth
Monday OF March and september, con-
tinuing 6 days.
Wayne-fourth Monday after the
fourth Monday of March and Septem-
Der, continuing days. ,
CIarke-first Monday in May and
November, continuing days.
| Lauderdale--second Monday OF May
and November, continuing II days
Kemper-fourth Monday OF May and
November, continuing six days. IN
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THE SILVER BILL.

vicksburg Herald a..
Senator Voorhees, is in Washing
ton preparing an elaborate speech
in favor of the silver bill. As soon
as congress meets the senator will
deliver his speech, and the friends
of the bill will force its passage.
Senator Jones thinks there is 20
doubt that it will easily pass.
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FIXING THE DATE

Cincinnati Commercial. s
There is another revolution in San
Domingo. The fourth, We believe,
since Babcock wanted to break @.
Summers nose for opposing the treaty
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PAscAGoULA JACKSON COUNTY, MISS FRIDAY JANUARY 1878

they told the truth. Lispa was
kissed by all and made owner Of
Rob.
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REspECTABILITY OF CRIME

St. Louis Dispatch. .... ...
Kellogg, the latest republican ac.
ouisition in the senate, is threatened
with criminal Indictments in the
State he halls from. AS Rande
saws "the respectability of crime is
n,1e of the features OF the age"
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DOES NOT RyERY VOTER
The Press.
what some of Our Exchanges Say on
Various Topics and Things.

A POINT OF AGREEMEET.
Augusta Chronicle.
Beecher and Bob Ingersoll have
a common point of agreement-a
disbelief in hell.
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LOU N I, M. ID.
J.. @. HEIDELBERG,
ttoruey and Counselor at Law,

II AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCEkf,
las. pascngoni", Sach1'" csan,''.''AA
4 win rive special attention to Collectiona.
ma Cbsucery business rt,, i,
n osce up, stairs over ."Pos'oiiice N&ohanSe
&r,,os,At.-The law card of G. Heidel-
lhSt Wv annears in our columns this morn-
3ers' H'gt' We have known him for twenty
us, "a spccessfully engaged in the practice
sI,s, sh;1 "1 mrofessou, and can honestly and do
nee,3u,y as mead him to al in need OF the
asnioes sv,% of safe attorney. 1 Meridian Mer-
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take prompt and courageous action.
Silence is crime; acquiescence and
inaction are political death. Can
the republican party OF high
achievement be bound to an admin
istration which is not a free agent,
but is bound by a bargain with
General Gordon, L. @. G. Lamar,
Wade Hampton and Southern dem
ocrats now in high Office only
through blood of murdered repub-
licans?
DOES NOT RvERY VOTER
in the land know that Hayes and
Packard were elected simultaneously
and held by the same title, and that
when Hayes abandoned and tram
pied down Packard he put an i'm
movable stain upon his own title?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-29

dangerously cut. Dufer escaped and
has not yet been arrested.
It's now definitely arranged that the
excursion lately given by the ladies
and gentlemen Of St. Patrick's Church
will be repeated on the night of the 18th
Of August.
One of the Central Point bricks has
been exhibited at the Appeal office. This
is a knoek'down argument against Col
onel R Dudley Frayser's card denying
ing that any bricks were thrown.
The event of the season will be the
concert at Estival Park Friday night for
the benefit of the Memphis Light Guard.
The occasion will be unusually attrac-
tive and the source Of much enjoyment.
This morning Recorder Quigley lined
N. S, Sinclair (colored) s. for d~isorderly
conduct. Sinclair is a resident of Chel
sea, and ore Of the negroes who created
a disturbance ct the Democratic meeting
on Beal street Saturday night.
Louis Moraldo, a well.known barber
died suddenly with heart disease yester
day morning at his residence on Union
street. Mr.. Morsldo, though occupying
an humble position in life, had many
warm friends, for he was q man Of many
excellent traits Of character.
John Kilkenny, general freight agent o.
the Louisville Short LiuO railroad, anC
r. W. Thompson, general passenger
agent Of the Texas Pacific railroad, ar,
IN the city on a flying trip, and as usua
are receiving a hearty welcome at thu
hands Of their numerous friends.
At the Democratic meeting Saturda.
night, on Jackeon street, IN. the Tent
Ward, was a colored speaker, Georg
Woods. He made a strong Democrat
speech, and urged bis colored friends I
vote the Democratic ticket. His speec
was listened to with profound attention
and made a deep impression because
the good sense and logic be displayed.
A colored excursion will be given t
morrow to Atoka on the Paducah an
Memphis railroad. There will be a
Immense gait ering of people at Atakl
and speakers will be present from Men
phis and Covington. Trains leave tt
. depot at the foot of Market street at tie
/ o'clock in the morning and al four
afternoon. SFare for the round trip fro
Memphis, 81. There will be lots Of fr
and Amusement for all who attend. tt
Pole Bearers brass band will furnii
music for the occasion.
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Colors I'm the Rible

To tho Editor of the Ledger:
! have just seen a communication in
a paper, an assertion by o savant NJ.
Gelger, in an article "Acnient and
Modern Eyesight," from Galignani'c
Messenger, that he has proved that
neither in the poems of the Rig. Veda,
o the Arasta, the bible, the verses OF
Homer, the Koran Of the ancient litera.
ture Of Finland or Scandinavia, is any
mention OF blue to be found. Now
know nothing OF any of the books nam ed
except the bible, and if any one will taxe
the trouble to read the chapters in Exc.
dus, from the 25th to the 18th inclusive,
viz the directions of God to Moses in
regard to the Ark Of the Covenant,
priestly robeS, etc he will find plenty OF
blue. The Vail of the Separation of the
Holy from the Holy of Holes was made
OF blue, purple, scarlet and fine twined
linen"
Under the same heading it is asserted
that there was no green, aud in all, only
two or three %colors. Gen. 81: 3, Jacob
made Joseph a coat of many colors, and
by turning 10 the following chapters AID
verses in the bible we will find eight col
ors, and there are more than that | pre-.
sumo, but that will suffice to show thai
the ancients must have had as good per
ceptive faculties as we have: Gen, 30,
81, browa; Gen 40: l6, white; Gen. A.
81, gray; Exodus, %: 4. blue, purple ant
scarlet, Exodus, %: red; Psalms, %: 2
green. He maketh me to lie down il
green pastures; he leadeth me beside the
still waters"
The color blue is mentioned in Exodus
three timea; in Numbers once; in Chrou.
icles once; in Esther twice; and in
Ezekiel once. In Proverbs the blue.
ness" of a wound is mentioned. The
words green" "greenish," ~"greenness,'
green tree" are found in more than
forty places; sometimes meaning fresh
or young or new, but also referring tC
color, rs in Esther, where white, green
aud blue ~hanglngs are mentioned
STUDENT.
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Rose Eytinge's debut at the Olympic
Theater, London, is described as success.
ful, but the play, a new version OF Oliver
Twist, was frequently Missed on account
Of the realiem OF the situations. When
BILL Sykes was wiping the blood from
his boots after the murder he was greeted
with cries of Come, that will do "
This is too horrible" Cut it short"
etc. London audiences are quick to
take olIense at this sort OF thing and Ia
show it Enthusiastically. Miss Eytinge,
who was warmly received, is expected to
appear o AS Rose Michel" and ia
other roles IN which her fame is eslab
lished,
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Marrow Escape Of Mario Roae.

Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune,l
RICHFIEID SPRINGS, N. Y, July 23.-
Marie r re had a most miraculous es-
cape to-day. She was riding on horse.
back with a large party of ladies' and
gentlemen, aud, while at foil gsllop, the
girth broke, and she was thrown violent
ly to the ground with the saddle. Carl
ton, who was riding behind her, and un-
able to get out Of the way, caused his
horse to jump over her PROSTATE body,
and so, by a miracle, Marie Roze escaped
the hoofs Of two horses. All the com,
pany we're almost parAly2ed with fright,
but Marie Roze, Notwithstanding that
her arm was cut and her body badly
bruised, insisted on riding four miles to
the hotel.
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Hawkeye shots.

Two heads are better than on%e"-in
q pork barrel.
To Pr-that lie, General Grant" Stay
East, old man, stay East"
1t is very depressing to a summer con-
gregation TO see the minister, in the most
eloquent aud impassioned passage Of his
sermon, gesture with one hand and fight
flies with the other.
VIVA is the national air Of this coun-
try2' asked a foreigner in Washington.
That is the national lair replied a
native, pointing to the capitol, but the
animals are all out in the jungle just
now, chasing voters"
A Kentucky audience was dreadlully
shocked last Sunday night. Just as a
local temperance leader was about 10
begin his address, he leaned too closely
over the candle and his breath caught
fire. He afterward explained, however,
that he had been using camphor for the
toothache. The amendment was &C.
cepted and the talk went on.
While Adam and Eve were yet in
Eden, when our fair young grandmother
knew there WASH another living soul in
all the wide, wide world, but herself and
her snoring husband, we don't suppose
she ever went to sleep without first look
ing under the couch OF moss and leaves
Tor a man, and rousing Adam IRON his
first sweet nap to ask him if he was sure
he bad locked the front door?
The Praeger Landwirthsehatli chs
Woehenblatt says the sting Of a bee is a
remedy for rheumatism. But the read
ers Of the Hawkeye who may have the
rheumatism should remember that a
paper with such a name as hat is liable
to say most anything. A healthy bee,
when he gives his mind right to it, can
cure the worst case OF rheumatism that
ever called for crutches for about five
minutes. But we doubt very much il
the cure will be permanent.
One day last week a Peoria firm. Cul.
ter Il Proctor, sent US a circular descrip.
tive and illustrative of the Peoria" a
famous wood heater they manufacture
The Thermometer vas ranging at III de-.
grees and trying to get higher. The
iron statue of Mercury, on Greenbaum
Shredder d Company's, was suustruck.
You could light q match on the upper
side Of the RATS down at the levee. The
rails in the Chicago, Burlington aut
: Quincy yards we're blistering Yor
could sit down and warm your feet at
, block Of ice. Cellar floors were warpin.
: up like arches. You had to let your ice
cream cool before you could eat it. |
was even too hot to play base ball. Anc
, these people send US a picture of a heat
q ing stove. We see, they wanted to xii
] US and get eur money.
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mr.. KOrtreeht ana CoIored school
Teachers.
MEMPHIS. July %. 1878

MEMPHIs. July %. 1878
To the Editor of the Ledger.
The following is a copy Of the minutes
of the Memphis city school board Of their
meeting on July 5, 1875, page GAG:
Mr.. kortrecht nominated Mr.. Bar
mum for reelection. Mr.. Trtzevant
nominated Mr.. B X Sampson as prin-
cipal Of the colored schools. Alter some
discussion respecting the ACCESSIBILITY of
re-electing Mr.. Barnum, the vote was
taken on electing Mr.. Sampson as prin-
cipal. The following is the vote: Ayes
-Keelv, Duffy, Mallon, Martin, Wig.
gins, Fontaine, Churchill, Hill, Ram.
baut, Trezevant, Franklin, Speers. Glis.
son, Townsend and Folkes. Noes
Smith, Kortrecht and Vernon"
By consulting the members Of the
hoard as above you will see that Mr..
Barnum had addressed a note to the
board stating that he was not an appli-
cant for the position Of principal of the
oolored schools. Notwithstanding this
Mr.. Kortrecht nominates him. Mr..
Trezevant Ia Democrat) nominated Mr..
Sampson, q colored man; the vote
is taken, and there are fifteen Demo.
Gratis vote for Mr. Sampson as principal
and then vote against him, all of whom
are Republicans; this, too, when Mr..
Barnum was not a candidate and Mr..
Sampson was the only man before the
board.
You will recollect further, Mr. Editor,
that Mr.. Bsrnum was the appointee oil
Mr.. Aaron Pickett, superintendent Of the
schools. Mr. Pickett is o brother.in.law
of Judge James o Pierce, and was i'm
ported here by him, and was supported
by Judge Pierce and Mr.. Kortrecht du
ring his superintendency of the schools
At the time the vote above was taken
Judge Pierce was not in the board, be
having been defeated by the colored votel
Of the Tenth ward at the election in Jan
uary.
Let the colored people remember the
troubles in the Clay street coloreC
schools, snd vote for Messrs. Kortrsch
and Pierce il they think they ought
Mr.. Sampson is still principal OF tn,
colored schools, and colored teachers il
} charge Of them, and this, too, under
Democratic administration.
Will the colored people remembe
these things2
! Respectfully, ETC., VERITAs.
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THE CITY
MEMPHIS:
Monday Evening, July rs, 1873
LEDGER LINES.


1t ia hot to-day.
Thursday will settle things.
The warm weather continues.
There we're 80 deaths last week.
The Chancery Court has adjourned.
Look out for the solar eclipse this az
ternoon.
TIE Democratic ticket is gaining
strength daily.
There was a light rain yesterday and
Saturday afternoon.
The churches, like theaters, do not
draw we'll in hot weather.
The Democrats will hold a meeting at
White Haven tomorrow.
The streets yesterday morning we're
not deserted by politicians.
Original Lexington (Ky,) mustard
pure-at Oliver, Finnie & Co.'s.
The Memphis Light Guard will give a
concert at EstiVal Park Friday night.
The forgery base of VIM. Bagby (col.
will be heard tomorrow by Recorder
Quigley,
The Democrats Of the Fourteenth
civil district will hold a meeting to night
at Estival Park.
A number Of negroes tried to break ny
the Democratic meeting at the Poplar
street market Saturday night.
Owing to the hot weather the matri
monial market is remarkably dull, The
cool weather will revive the market.
The friends of Hon. Casey Young arr
confident CT bis denomination by the
Democratic congressional convention.
The Southern Express Company thi
morning delivered several kegs of silve.
at the First National Bank. The amour
was $40, 900.
The towboat Port Eads passed up yes
terday morning. The John Porter hav
ing been abandoned by her crew is lait
up near Arkansas City.
Citizens are leaving on every train 70
the springs. This is due TO the dul
business season and a desire TO enjo,
life ere the autumn begins.
The city council, at its meeting Satur
day afternoon, complimented Dr., Mitch
ell by refusing 10 accept his resignation
as president of the board of health.
Tonight tho Democrats hold a meet
ing at Jerry Woods store on the RaleigI
road. Major George W.. Winchester
George Dent and james NJ. Greer wi
2 spe4k.
Yesterday afternoon two young met
John DaTer aud Elias, had a game
card0 IN a grocery store on the oil
} r leigh road. The game ended with
row, in which Elias was severely an
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-29

What was called "a genuine British
bar establishment" was started in Paris
when the Exhibition opened, and a num-
Der OF British bar maids were taken over
to attend it. The proprietors used every
means 10 guard them from the tempta.
tons of the gay city, not allowing them
to 20 out in the evening, and driving
them in carriages to their work every
morning, and back to their boarding
house every evening, But the young
English maidens we're not content to be
surrounded with gayety without enjoy,
ing it, Some Of them packed their
trunks and went home, aud the preprie-
tors were glad to keep the rest by letting
them do as they pleased, and spend their
Sundays in the parks.
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W. Must gave mp The Rird.
LaCros 10 wis., Democrat.

LaCros 10 wis., Democrat.
George W. Peck, in bis Fourth Of July
GRAFTON at Lacrosse, said: 1t may have
been noticed that thus far | have made
no a~llusion to the American eagle, the
national trade mark, patent applied for,
but it is not that | do not appreciate the
position that species of poulty occupies
on these occasions. The poet alluding
to the eagle, says:
Bird Of the broad and heeting wing,
Thy home is high in heaven.
This is too true. He is a high old
bird, and the committee that selected the
eagle es a national emblem should have
been arrested for disorderly conduct. 0
great birdl You live on mice. You
soar sloit on pinions airy, until you see
a poor little mouse with one leg broke,
and then you swoop down like a ward
constable aud run him in. You are n
nice old bird for a trademark, for a ma.
ton OF heroes, you old coward, You
sit on a rock aud watch a pleasant wo.
man hanging out clothes, aud when abe
goes in the house to turn the clothes
wringer you, great bird, emblem of free
dom, you representative of the land of
the free and the home Of the brave, you
swoop down on the plantation and crush
your talons in the quivering flesh of her
little baby, take him to your home high
in heaven, and pick his innocent little
eyes out. The bird that should have
been selected as the emblem of our
country, the bird OF patience, forbear.
anee, perseverance, and the bird OF terror
when aroused, is the mule. There is no
bird that combines more virtue to the
square foot than the mule. With the
mule embIazoned on our banners, wa
should be q terror to the foe, We are a
nation OF accomplishing hard.workers
We mean to do the fair thing by every
body. We plod along doing as We wopld
be done by. So does the mule. We as
a nation are slow to anger. SO is the
mule. As q nation we occasionally stick
our ears forward and fan the flies Of our
forehead. So does the mule. We allow
parties to get on and ride as long as they
behave themselves. So does the mule.
But when any nation sticks spurs into
our Hanks and tickles our heels with a
straw we come down stiff legged in trout.
our ears lock beautiful beyond, our voice
is cut loose, and is still for war, aud our
subsequent end plays the snare drum on
anything that gets in reach oil us, and
strikes terror to the hearts OF all tyrants.
So does the mule.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-07-29
The Pfonorlioa preservea.

Virginia lNsV.l Chronicle
When the governor of Oregon tele-
graphed to the secretary of war, at the
beginning OF the Indian outbreak, that a
temporary issue of arms was necessary
to enable him to protect the settlers, he
received an answer as follows:
You have more than your quota Of
arms"
The governor, however, was equal to
the situation. He telegraphed in reply:
I'VE have more than our quota Of Iu.'
diaps."
The required arms were thereupon at
once issued.
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The Problem Of instantaneous
Death.

DR.. Piuel, the Partisan enthusiast,
who is always in attendance whenever
there is an execution, endeavoring to
solve the problem whether death by
guillotining is painless and i%nstarta.
neous, had the good fortune to be passing
by the Arc de Triomphe when the last
suicide hurled himself from its summit,
and instantly examined the victim; Both
arms and legs we're broken, as were the
ribs, breast. bone and spinal column, and
the skull was smashed. The face had an
appearance of stupor, the eye was fixed,
the pupil dilated, the oornea very trans.
parent, aud the look was "astonished and
uneasy, indicating the last vestiges of an
intelligence about to be extinguished. "
There can be no lo,s of consciousness in
the passage through the air, the doctor
concludes, and though the body may be
frightfully mutilated in many parts by
the shock, the brain retains knowledge
and horror of the agony Of death. "The
more We study with care the latest mo.
ments Of life,' says the excellent doctor,
the more difficult does the solution Of
the problem of instantaneous death be
come. The Arc de Triomphe. is not sat
isiactory."
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WARRIRo.
To h lublic !

OFF1CR MEMPHIS WATER Co., June l, 1873.
IN order to more completely pro ,ect the
l. patrons of this Company, as well as to
,hield ourselves, we here publish a list Of
plumbers who have fled bonds in our oflc as
n guarantee that they do work properly in
connection with our mains. We will decline
10 allow others than licensed plumbers to
tamper in any way with fixtures connected to
'"' "p' W. L. CAMERON. Scc'y.
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SIN They Gene.

S~pangler still keeps ahead. Three
new and beautiful novels in the large
type edition of the S%easide-tbe "Sun
Maid" by Miss Grant; "Groendoline's
Harvest" by James Payne; and "Cleve
den,'' a novel, by Stephen York. Call
and get a copy at 1856 Main street.