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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14

ABUFrALo minister has been preach
ing sermon about 1.-THE Truly Beau
tifll' Woman" II might be better,
all things considered. for the clergy to
let ssThe Truly Beautiful Woman"
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OFF for Europe.

New York July 13-Delegates num-
bering fifty, from the United States to
the Worlds Conference Young Mems
Christian Association, in Geneva on the
18th Of August, sailed this afternoon
in the steamer Ethiopian.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14

THE Potter investigation committee
held short session on Saturday, and
tried to get Kellogg to tell what he
knew about presidential matters in
Louisiana in 1876. The warm weather
Is having its effect upon the committee.
Dull sessions are now in order.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14

J ASSOCIATE JUSTICE MILLER, of the
supreme court Of the United States, is
lying critically i'll in Washington, from
the effects Of surgical operation per-
formed few days since. After the OPP
Grafton was successfully performed, the
Judge progressed well for two days,
when relapse occurred. His friends,
however, are not without hope.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14
NEW YORK.
Stakes, 5000.

Watertown, July 13.-Courtney to-day
met Hanlon's representatives at Cape
Vincent, and match was arranged be-
tween these famous scullers. Stakes
$1,000; distance five miles; place and
time not vet fixed.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14
MISSOURI.


St. Louis. July 13.-The fact that a
robbery Of $4,000 in Government
bonds has been committed here yester-
day, leaked out this afternoon. Moth
ing more Is known Of the matter.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14
MASSACHUSETTS.


Boston, July 13.-John w. Bawker,
cashier freight department of the East
ern railroad, abandoned his office recent
ly, and already the investigation shows
he is a defaulter to the amount of $780,
600.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14

THE MormoDs refuse to die out, but
keep on rolling up their lists of new ac-
cessions at the rate of fifty souls a week.
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Bias.ing Hot

81. Louis, July 1s.-Ten new cases
q sunstroke were reported this fore
noon, and four deaths. The weather
- istill blazing hot, and the mercury,
standing in the business part of the
city, y from 90 to 100, according to To-
cation.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-14
HENRY WARD BEEcHER'sl church
win be closed till October for repairs.

FATHER HyAcrNTHE is lecturing in
Paris on the ,.'Har@ony Of Christianity
and Civilization
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GoID closed in New York yesterday

BISHOP A,lEs Is still in critical
condition at Baltimore.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
Nothing Needed at Canton.

The Howard Association of Canton
has enG a telegram to the public that
that city is no longer in need of pro
visions or money. They say:
Some weeks since orr beautiful little
city was visited by that dreadful enemy
to our Southern c~lime-yellow fever
without money or provisions. We
formed, among the few we had left, a
Howard Association, and at once ap>
pealed to the public for aid.
The clicking of the Geographic ma>
chinery in our office here had scarcely
ceased to vibrate from the sending OF
our dispatches, before a thousand gen
erous hearts responded to our cry;
from the North, the East. the West
and the South money and provisions
flowed in, and from this bountlfui sup.
ply we are enabled to say to you ali
that our every want is supplied. To
our brethren of the North, East and
West the city of Canton to-day extends
to you the hand of friendship and
brotherly love; she will never be able
to repay You, but she can pray AL
mighty God to shield you from the
pangs that we have suffered; she eau
say to The man who will hereafter speak
aught against you that he has no sym
patty here; the And of affection has
Taught us your trne worth aud noble
character. To our Southern brethren
we say, unite with us in praying that
God, in his infinite mercy. will protect
us from this most terrible of plaques.
The fever is abating ane we have but
few new cases to. day to report. We
hope for a favorable change.
G. W. THoMAJ,
President Howard Association.
S. c. DEvIR, Chairman Reli.f Com.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
No Cont In wilkinson.

After receiving the following letter,
| Judge Chrisman decided not to hold
the fall term of the Wilkinson county
Circuit Court:
WooDv1LLE, Mss, Sept. Is, 1878.
| U0n. i. II. Ch,ismdn, Judge. etc:
DEAR SIR: Messrs. Barbee, j. D. Gill
court and myself, the only members Of
the bor remaining in town, after confer
ence find it will be utterly impracticable
to have our fall term of Court. Some OF
our doctors say the yellow fever is now
epidemic ID Woodville. Others say there
are no cases here. At any rate, there is
some sickness; have been two deaths
and about one half of u citizens have
fed to the county. Should it turn out
we have no yellow fever, the demoraliza-
ton is such that at any rate we cannot
have Court. Besides it may break out
here any moment and it will not be
proper for our people to assemble in
town until after cold weather; nor shall
we have any need of a special term
Our Jail is empty and / know of no in
fraction of law of any moments since
last term. Your friend,
H. S. VANEAroN,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
C,rd From Col. Power.

Jackson, MISS, Sept. 23.-To the
Freemasous and Odd Fellows of the
United States: In behalf OF our athlct-
ed brethren and their families in our
f-ver-stricken community. and IN be-
half of hundreds OF others who have
been relieved by your timely and gen
erous beneficence, I return you pro-
found thanks for the noble response
that you have sent to our appeals FOR
help.
have hereby been able to answer
promptly every call from ten places IN
the State where fever is prevailing, and
with the finds on hand and now com
ing, will, doubtless, be able to meet
every demand until the close OF the ep>
idemic. Should there be any surplus,
it will be distributed as j~ndiciously as
possible for the benefit of the hun
dreds of orphans bequeathed by the
plague to impoverished communities.
In their behalf, I would still enlist
generous sympathy. The relief re
ceived through me has been dispensed,
as fan as practicable, through the com.
mittees of both orders, without regard
to race, color or creed; such has beer
the expressed wish of nearly every
lodge and brother contributing. l am
now obtaining lists of families having
special claims upon u care, SO that
none may be overlooked in the dlstrl
button. 1 have received to date nearly
fifty thousand dollars. nearly all from
Masons and Odd Fellows.
In due time a full report of this good
work which it has been my privilege to
conduct will be given to the generous
contributors and to the public. 1t will
be a testimony to the goodness and
gratitude of the human heart.
- J. u. POWER,
Grand Secretary of Masons and Grand
T~leasOrer of Odd fellows.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
Letter from xDr. Walden.


EDITORS OF THE CLARION: Permit
me to suggest to you and the inhabi-
tants of all towns infected or likely to
be infected with yellow fever, the free
and abundant use OF wood fires in open
streets. especially at night. There is
no disinfectant half equal to fire. Ours
ing the great plague of London in the
10Th century, when the city was being
depopulated, q fire broke ont aud con-
sumed half the city, and with it the
germs of the disease. Recently the
fever vas developed in a refugee from
Grenada to Winona. and about the
time two large stores were burned, and
since then not another case OF fever has
occurred. Whether the efficacy attribu
ted to the fire at WIuona is correct or
not, the remedy suggest will assist IN
warding off the disease, and if OIL hand
it will purify the air to IN extent that
will destroy the malignity of the dis
ease. One thousand cords of wood cut
eight to ten feet long would not cost NOR
than So, 900 delivered; and if so dire a
calamity can be avarted make the ex>
pertinent at once, and advise Canton,
Holly Springs and all towns where
wood is accessible. to adopt the sn9>
gestion. 1 believe it is universally
agreed the germ of the disease lnrKs 10
the air, and is transmitted with more
deadly effect at night than day, there
fore, I suggest night time as more pre-
ferable. l admit there is danger IN a
thickly settled city, but 10 most of our
towns there wonld be no danger of con
hagration with proper vigilance.
1t may be that fires q few hundred
yards apart would destroyt'e poisonous
air zeal the earth to be purified by the
vacuum thus created with air from above.
Build fires in your rooms.
Walden is burning fires at my sug-
gestiot. and her people never healthier.
Yonrs truly.
G. NJ. Walden,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
M n rriagc of Miss Bennett.

On the 10Th inst, Miss Jennette
Bennett, sister Of James Gorgon Ben.
nett, was married to Isaac Bell, of New.
port, r. 1. 1t was a private affair. but
was one of the most brilliant weddings
ever celebrated in Newport. Amagnif.
icent wedding breakfast followed the
ceremony; after which there was dane
ing, an orchestra being brought from
New York especially for the occasion
All OF the principal no oms were deco.
rated with flowers and plants of every
description, the whole mansion present.
ing a very enchanting appearance. The
presents are az many as they are elab.
crate, and it is estimated that those tc
be seen at Fair Lawn were worth &
hundred thousand dollars. The honey.
will be passed in Europe. Il
Jim would now follow the example Sc,
by his sister, the public would breatl
freer.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
Death OF K,nlocn ,rnIconer.

m}GxSlAI VA MAhhhuVCuH n stuVbkaCGs
"We have scattered flowers over the
grave of Kinloch Falconer." is the sad
announcement made in a telegram from
Holly Springs of the 23d inst. A more
choice expression could not have been
used to announce tho death of the no.
BILE Falconcr.
Col. Falcouer had an extensive and
enviable reputation. He had occnpied
several prominent positions in the
and always did his duty like the
man and Christian he was. At Que
time he was editor of the Holly Springs
Reporter; afterwards run for Lieuten-
ant Governor with Gen. B. G.. Hum.
phreys, and ut the last Democratic
State Convention was nominated Sec
rotary of State and elected the following
November. Since his installation he has
filled his ofics with entire satisfaction
to the people.
When the fever appeared in Holly
Springs he visited that city to nurse
his father aud brother. They both
died and the sod was not dry on theil
graves before the noble, brave, gener,
ous, chivalric son and brother was call
ed to join them in their march to the
land lover there"
We pause to drop q tear over the
grave of the hero who laid down his
life FOR his fellow man.
The noblest death that man can die
Is when he dies for man"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
ASK FOR TICKETS VIA
Louisville & Cincinnati Short Line
No OTHER LINE CAN EQUAL 1T.
S. S. PARKER,
p: & T. AGENT.
SAesif's Sale.

I. Bloom & Co. Judgment on at.
VS.. tachment in Circuit
w. B. Brewer. court OF Lihcoih
county for$5S5.00 and cost.
By virtue of a writ of vendetioni eX-
ronas TO me directed from the Circuit
court of Lincoln county in the above
ST ated case, l will on 81
Monday, the sereath day Of October, one thousand
eight hund, ed aud serenity eight.
at the court house door, IN the town oil
Brookhaven, proceed to sell to the
highest bidder for cash. the following
lands which have been ! WED on by yir.
tue OF an attachment in this case, to wit
ten acres in Sc or NV Or n thirty
acres In NV or NV Or sec. one,t 8 D
e: n h of ne or Of ne or sec. W and
8 h Sc or sec. eleven, and lots one, two
and six and e b lot five north tracs, sec
four, 8 8 9 or so much thereof. as
may be sufficient to satisfy the judg-
ment and cost in the case.
A. o. COX, Sheriff.
sept. 5-4-t
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
B~EAUREaARD NEWS.
Fine rain Friday night.
Health of town never better.

Health OF town never better. Y
Considering he yellow fever panic.
business is looking up pretty sharply.
Since 1st inst, two hundied bales Of
cotton have been bought by our mer-
c~hants-iifty> four in one day-1Sth,
inst.
Last Sunday, as q Mr.. Conally. of
Wesson, was passing along q sort Of Il
blind road, about one and one half
miles north of town, he noticed some
buzzards in q very thick and out of the
way place, and upon going to sec what
they were after, found a dead man. He
at once reported to Mayor Ray. who
empannelled a jury TO investigate the
matter. The body was in such an adj
vanced stage of decomposition as co be
unrecognizable except from clothing
shoes. etc. These were recognized as
that of an old gentleman from Wesson,
a Mr.. Davis, who had been missing
from home since the 18th inst. All the
surroundings very clearly indicated that
the old man had been most foully muir
dered, and as he was a quiet, peacefully
man no other motive can be given for
the foul deed than that OF ROBBIE y. rs he
was known to have had some IS 90 or
$40 90 with him when he left home.
When last seen, Mr.. Davis was rot very
far from where he was murdered. aud
in company with a young man
named Joe Watson; and as
Watson has disappeared since tho dis
coyery, it is the general opinion that he
by some means induced the old man to
90 into the thicket and there cut his
throat for his little money. After Mr..
Davis was killed, the murderer drag
ged the body some thirty or forty feet
in order to get it into a very thick place
in the bushes. This terrible affair has
caused considerable excitement, and
every effort is being made to ferret the
matter out.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
THE FEARFUL sC0JRGE.
The Ravages Of Death at Holly
Springs, Water Valley, Etc.
Death of Klnloch Falconer, Secre-
tarv of State.

Holly SPRINGS, MISS, Sept. %
We have scattered the roses over the
grave of Co. kinIoch Falconer, Secre,
tary of the State Ct Mississippi. His
reputation is too we'll known to need
euloRy from one who has been with him
in this terrible trial. There were tears
among all classes when it WIS known
that this good and trne man had gone
to rest.
The fever is on the increase, and
those who stand here to aid the suffer
ers, see hourly the pest and truest
stricken down by this fearful plague.
1t is hard to count on a man who may
be we'll n moment and a patient the
next. There are f~ortv-one new cases
to-day and five deaths. Yesterday there
were thirty new cases and nine deaths.
Avart Walter followed his father yes,
terday.
Many co~nvalescents are on tie street
to-day. among whom we're Doctors Mo
Kee and Daniel, L.. Roesfeld, Willie
Branon. Willie and Sam Lake. d. J.
OLIVER, r G. Perkins, of the Southern
Express Company. Henry Fort. Judge
~ htu iluEf OhtItIS, WI'PH thc'E
tell us they have passed through a ter
rble ordeal. The doctors here have
organized themselves into a board of
health, with DR.. Courier. of New Or
leans. rs President. and DR.. Bailey, of
New Orleans, as Secretary.
Ont of thirteen Sisters of Charity of
Bethlehem of this place. only one is
left in health. Thess good people
have done so much to alleviate the suf
ferings Of n people. we mourn to see
them fall. No matter what dutv they
we're called upon to fill they have per
formed it with cheerful smiles and
without complaint. The Rev. Ben
Block. colnred having fallen Yesterday.
leaves us with onlv one minister. Father
Lamav. of New Orleans, tO visit the
sick. We love the Catholics. becanse
they fear no danger and do theil whole
dntv.
CANTON. Sent % New cases in the last
twenty fonr heurs. twenty three; deaths.
one DAT. Semmes'is mp Roht Moshv
is doing we'll. Weather clondv with
some rain. No abatement in fever so
far az new cases are concerned. Ahont
HWo>NIiiTuS oI Tie Whites lave Hau Tue
fever, hut there are a great many n e
grons vet who have not had it..
WATER VALLEY. MIes.. Sept % -
The fever is an epidemic here. Twenty
five cases have occurred. and seyan
death since Thursday last. Supplies
needed.
PORT gibson. MSS. Sept. %
Ahont six hundred cases to dnte:
deaths. one hundred aHd four. The
fever is in several parts of the county,
and some deaths have occurred.
GRAND JUNCTION. Tenn Sept. %
T. E. Jones, President of the Hownrds,
taken down. Only three white men on
their feet. Three cases and three
deaths Yesterday. Forty eases on hand
A doctor was captured on the dow"
train. In need of blankets and the
necessa les of life.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
CHNncery Notice.

Lawrence county Chancery Clerk. Be
fore the Clerk at Rules, August 18th, 1873.
Mary A. Whitaker
No. 553I vs.. Divorce.
Stephen D. Whitaker
Upon opening and reading Complaints
Bill of Complaint, this day filed, and it
appearing from the allegations Of said
bill and The affidavit thereto attacked, that
the defendant, Stephen d. Whitaker, il
absent. and that his place of residence is
unknown, so that process cannot be served
on him. 1t is therefore ordered that pub
~llcation be made in the Brookhaven
LEDGER, a public newspaper published at
~Brookhaven, in Lincoln county, Miss, for
four consecutive weeks, citing said defend
ant to be before the Chancery Court, Law.
renee county, Miss, to be holden in the
tow of Monticello, on the fourth Monday
in March, A. D. 1879, to plead answer or
demur to said bill of complaint, on fill In
this cause against him.
Ordered and adiudged and decreed at
Rules this 10Th day of August, A. d. 1873.
A. II. LONGING,
Sep. 1874 Clerk.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26

THE Indianapolis Sentinel says since
the death of Morton the Radical party
in Indiana has been terribly ratified. 1t
has been all mouth and tail. 1t has
had neither head nor brains. 1t has
blubbered like a water plug, snorted
like a horse with the glanders, brayed
like IN ass with n thorn bush hitched
to it's tail, kicked like a mule
with a sore back and played the
fool equal to an army of idiots. 1t has
nominated Orth with his Venezuelan
scabs and Grose with a ten year old in.
dictment hanging to him.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
Grccn back pinff0rm:

The Leading planks in the Greenback
platform may be summed mp as follows:
1. That the National banks be sup
pressed, and that no corporation be al
loweu to issue or coin money except the
Government itself, and that ali such
money be made a legal tender for all
debts.
2. That the coinage of silver be put
upon the same footing rs that of gold.
3. That Congress shall issue money
sufficient to the wants of business and
labor.
4. Taxation of Government bonda
and an income tax.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26

A New ORLEANS dispatch says: me
fever recalls a curious prophecy OF Q
negro vaudal sorcerer lest New Years
that the plague would come upon the
city, equally fatal to whites and blacks
and increase until the number OF deaths
equalled the degrees Of the thermome>
ter when it would decline. Coincidence
in the death rate has existed for the
past three days. The negroes are re-
|joicing, believing that the climax has
been reached.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
Notice.

l have a very desirable plantation three
milesaof Brookhaven, for sale. Foul
hundred and ifty-iye acres; one hundred
and twenty-five cleared and under good
fence; good dwelling, kitchen n barn
the best stock farm in the State; cane ufn
ciert for fifty head Of cattle and tinei,
numbered; right or Boguechitto and timely
watered. Terms, half cash, and the otheI
in two payments.
sepi8-2m j. r.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26

+, SENATOR BUTLER, of Sonth Carolina,
who was travelling with the Presidential
party, unconsciously perpetrated a good
joke during his visit to Minnesota. On
one occasion a person asked him;
tAresyou the man who killed so many
people in South Carolina?" MI. But
Ter. without %betraying annoyance, pleas,
antly replied: II presume you have
killed more men than l have" He was
unaware that he had got ahead of his
ques!ioner, until a hearty laugh from
the bystanders suggested an enquiry as
to the cause, when he was Informed
that tn man was a doctor.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26

The Nashville American is RESPONSE.
BILE for the following: ga day or two
ago DR.. Baxter, medical purveyor OF
the United States army, was sitting in
his office, husily engaged in porting
over his papers, when his chief clerk
said, doctor. here is a communication
from New Orleans; what shall 1 dc
with it?" Without raising his eyes
from the work upon which he was en-
gagged, the Doctor said. HAS it been
fumigated?" The clerk replied hat il
had NOT, whereupon the Doctor rather
tartly directed that it should be fumi-
gated and then brought to him. This
was accordingly done, and it was hand
ed the Doctor, when his surprise can
be imagined to find that it was a tele-
gram"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26

The Aberdeen Examiner says in res.
ponse to the numerous appeals to the
Executive to call the Legislature to.
gether for the purpose of enactjng
measures for the relief of the plague
stricken towns of u State, Governor
Stone replies, we understand, that ow.
ing to the fever, it would be impossible
to obtain a quorum. We think the
Governor is mistaken in this, and thai
a quorum in both Houses could be-
readily obtained. If the Governor hal
shown any disposition to obtain reliet
for fever suffers through the Legisla.
ture, the fact has not been published
The people should remember him.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26

PAPERS that receive their patent outs
sides from Memphis are suffering as
the quarantine cuts off their supply
Speaking of q case the Pamela Star says
..there is one we'll developed case OF
yellow fever at Batesville-the Blade
newspaper. Cause too much patent
outside and too little paper to print on.
The patient promises to be up and
about after frost"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
Deserved Compliment.

Never did a State pay a higher com
pliment to it's delegation in Congress
than Mississippi has recently paid hers
All of the present members have beer
renominated - and, by reclamation
This was simply rewarding merit ane
competency; for Mississippi feels promo
of her Singleton. her Hooker. her Mon
ey. her Chalmers, her Manning and he
Muldrow.-Wdlthdl Pioneer.