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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
A CURE FOR ASTHMA.

Prof. German See has recently read a
paper before the Paris Academy of Medi-
cine, in which he expresses himself very
enthusiastically concerning the efficacy
of iodide of potassium and iodide of
ethyl in the treatment of asthma. He
dissolves 10 grammes of lodide of potas-
SUM in 200 of wine or water, and gives
before each meal, twice day, dessert
spoonful e or 8 grammes), 80 that the
patient takes daily 16 or Is grammes of
the solution, or Is grammes of the
icdide. After some days this quantity
is gradually doubled. The same doses
may be taken in sirup of orange peel.
If the patient become dis yusted with the
taste he may take the iodide in waters.
There is no definite time for the du-
ration of the treatment, but gener-
ally at the end of two or three
weeks, when the attacks are miti-
gated or abolished, the dose may be
diminished to a gramme and a half
per diem. From time to time the treat
ment may be interrupted for day, but
longer interruption may be followed
by relapse. In one case patient who
had been cured for year, having given
up the iodide for four days, was again
attscked. Any accompanying cough
may be relieved by the addition of a
little extract of opium or sirup of pop
pies; where, when there is not much
cough or catarrh, two or three grammes
of chloral given i'll the evening assist in
diminishing the dyspnea. The general
result is that cure takes place in al
most all cases, even when the patients
are placed amid atmospheric conditions
which are habitually injurious. No
precaution has to be taken as regards
hygiene and regimen, and the use of
coffee and tobacco has not seemed to be
injurious.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
CURE FOR IVY POISONING.

Many persons are poisoned by contact
with the wild ivy and sumac, and in
some cases the poisoning is very severe.
To such 1t may be of interest to know
that DIR. Brown, OF the United States
navy, claims to have discovered certain
remedy for such poisoning. 1t is bro
mine dissolved in olive oil, cosmoline or
glycerine. He used twenty drops of
bromine to an ounce of oil, rubbing ii
on the affected part three or four times a
day, and washing it off occasionally with
CASTLE soap.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

THE cent has never become accli.
mated in Louisville, but leading retail
dealers are following the example of st,
Louis and other cities in helping to In
troduce it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

The Refornser and Je,Oish Times
thinks that the example of emigration
to America set by the Russian Mennon-
its might be proftably followed by the
Russian and Eastern Jews, and proposes
a new Judea in the far West.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

ton to disappoint too credulous and
confding community. The world is
studded with Joice Heths, with differ
ence and unending variety of names.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
THE HOME DOCTOR.
CABBAGE FOR HEADACHE.

Last evening you were drinking deep,
So now your head aches. Go to sleep;
Take some boiled cabbage when you wake,
And there's an end to your headache.
Dr DieIgpicE
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

WHEN married men complain of being
in hot water at home, it turns out that
half the time it's scold.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
WIT AND HUM0R.

--New York Graphic.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17

The Paris Intelligencer, which may
be classed as a high-tax paper, thus
refers to the last proposition of the
bondholders
The sum and substance of the prop
osition to be submitted by the bond
holders, is either to take their old
sixty cents proposed at six per cent. in
terest, coupons receivable for taxes, OF
TO take the face value of their bonds
at four per cent. interest. Now the
sixty cents proposition was rejected Sc
emphatically by the last legislature as
to leave no hope of its ever being ac-
cepted by the present one, which is
thought to be still lower in their esti-
mates of a compromise. We think
that we state the truth, when we say
that the minds of the Tennessee
masses are already made up never tC
pay a higher rate than fifty cents OF
the dollar, and at a low rate of inter.
est. The bondholders are only max
ing their case worse by not offerin,
better terms than those already re.
jected, especially as they well know
that there is a strong Reputation
element in the State, and the best wal
to foster and strengthen that element
is to appear either stubborn, or to offe.
terms no more or less liberal thai
heretofore.
Evidently the bondholders will hav,
to come down a peg before anything
like a compromise can be arrived at
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
CAMERON VS.. HAMPTON.
The Truth About the Death Of the Ex-
Senator's Brother James.

"A Soldier Boy" in tho Boston Post.l
The Washington reports contain a
statement to the effect that, Mr.. Simon
Cameron publicly accused General
Wade Hampton of shooting his
brother, Colonel James Cameron,
while a prisoner, with his own hand.
1t is difficult to believe that Mr.. Cam
erOn made so absurd a charge in the
face of well-known facts. The cir
eumstances of Colonel Cameron's
death at the first Bull Run fight were
fully brought out in an investigation
made by the committee on the conduct
Of the wal regarding alleged rebel
barbarities." Colonel Cameron's or
derby, who was near him at the time,
testified that, the regiment being I'M
der FIRE, the colonel, while giving an
order to one Of his company officers,
was hK by a musket ball and instant
ly killed, and never spoke after he
fell. His body was at once conveyed
to the rear by eight soldiers, four of
whom were shot while doing so, show
ing the severity of the fire. Ii was
then placed in an ambulance, which,
in the ensing rOut, was captured by
the enemy. There was some testimo-
ny, that Of Cameron himself among
the rest, that the remains ofhis broth.
er we're afterwards treated with some
indignity, but that was all. 1t il
worthy Of remark that Captain Rick.
etts, commanding a regular battery
who was wounded and taken prisoner
at the same battle, while denouncinl
several Confederate officers by namt
for their treatment of him in tn,
strongest terms, said: WADE Hamp
ton treated me like a kind and gener
GUS enemy, giving me two bottles o
ale, which he rode some miles t
bring" Either Cameron or Hamp
ton are grossly slandered in thi
Washington report. Which is it?
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
officers Appointed by the Gov


For the information of the general
public, as well as the many applicants
for appointments at the disposal of the
governor elect, a list of officers to be
made by him, together with the salary
Of each, is published as follows:
Commissioner of agriculture, stats
tics, mines and immigration; salary
$1,000.
Superintendent of public instrue-
ton; salary $1,000.
Superintendent of prisons; salary
$500.
The above appointments are made
by and with the consent of the senate.
The other appointments are:
Warden of the penitentiary; salary
$1,000 and house furnished.
Deputy warden of the penitentiary
salary $500.
Physician to the p~enitentiary salary
$1,000.
Chaplain to the penitentiary; salary
$500.
Adjutant general and private secre,
tary to the governor; salary $1,000.
The oil inspectors for the different
counties are also appointed by the gov.
ernor. They have no salary, but re
ceive a fee of twenty-five cents pei
barrel for all oil inspected by them
The inspectorships of Nashville and
Memphis are worth about $1,000 pei
annum.
All the appointments are made fol
two years.
Besides these there is the position
of superintendent of the capital, will
a salary OF $l500 a year.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
Dean stanley.

In the sermon which Dean Stanley
preached at Westminster Abbey soon
after his return from this country he
made some illusions to America. He
said We (the English) could not
throw Of the responsibilities which
the past as well as the present had
thrown upon VS., Our %Er-reaching
lines Of ancestry, and our widespread
ing dominions were around us like the
mountains standing around Jerusa-
lem. 1t was said that even the roar
of Niagara had not the force which its
volume of waters would give TO it, be-
cause there was no elevated country to
catch and reflect the waves Of It's
sound. But it was an additional re-
sponsibility Of England that she does
possess these reyerberatory barriers.
Any note struck for mere party watch
words, any foolish ecclesiastical bick-
ering, might injure our brethren on
the other side Of the Atlantic. ANY
public spirit Of ours, any movement
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17

Cincinnsti Commercials

Cincinnsd Commercial.
There is a growing interest in favor
of Tennessee as a place of emigration
for those who cannot we'll endure the
colder climates of the North. To
such. all things considered, it is one of
the most. if not the most favorable
States in the Union. The Nashville
American recently stated that the
State commissioner of agriculture had
received a letter from a gentleman in
Ohio, in which the writer said that he,
in company with a number of others,
intended to emigrate to Tennessee this
fall. The commissioner is of the
opinion that later in the winter there
will be considerable emigration to that
State from Northern States.
The State possesses many advan-
tages as a home for the emigrant above
others Of the South. The name of
farming and the habits of the people
are, in most particulars, like those of
the North, and the crops are much
the same. Consequently, the farmer
emigrant has very little to learn-an
item of considerable Importance to a
man in a strange land. AS a result of
the war, land Of superior quality and
location can be- purchased at a price
much below its real value.
Commissioner Killebrew says hat
traders and professional men are in
number equal to the demand. They
want produce of every class. They
have room for 100000 farmers, and the
same number of skilled laborers and
artisans. Personal property to the
value Of one thousand dollars is ex-
empt from taxation. Persons owning
less than this pay only poll-tax. Per-
sons desiring any information can Sc
cure it by addressing letters to the
Bureau of immigration, Nashville
Tenn. Governor Porter assure every
industrious emigrant a cordial vel
come. There is not now and has new.
er been any interference in TENNESSEE
with the freedom of elections.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
Attachment Notice.

Before j.. 7. Elliott, justice Of the peace for
Shelby county, Tenn. Masonic Savings
Bank va Gebhard 4 Co.
| this cause an attachment having been
i sued out, under Section 1856 Of the code Of
Tennessee, and returned levied by the
proper officer upon the property Of the do
PENDANTS and affidavit having been made
that the defendants are justly indebted to
plaintiffs in the sum Of 800. rs, duo by un-
ants are non-residents Of the State of Ten
nessee, eto.s II is therefore ordered that the
said doitadants make their appearance
before me on Saturday the 4th day OF January,
lslgi at 10 O'Clock, Am, At my Office, No.
fend said attachment suit within the time
prescribed by law, or the same will be pro-
ceedcd with ex-parte; and that a copy Of this
order be published for thirty days in the Pub
lie Ledger.
This 9th day Of November. 1878.
D-S2-ss-94 j. It. ELLIOTT, J. p.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
ChanCery Sale Of Real Estate.

No. 2~D2-Chaneery Court of Shelby eounty.
james A. Shane Of al. VS.. Zach. Briggs, Jr.,
OF al.
RY virtue Of mn i%nterlocutory decrss Tor
u sale, entered in the above eRpsA On the
2Ith day Of juno, 1878, I will soil, At public
auction, TO the kighest bidder, In front bf tho
Clerk aud Mas,ers ohce, courthouse, Main
street, Memphis, Tenn.t on
Saturday, December IS, 1878,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated In Shelby county, Tenn:
to-wit: =
Lying on the north side Of Jefferson street
extended, In the city Of Memphis, being a
part Of tho Arsenal ar0unds, Designated
upon the plan or subdivision Of Cherry, Cald-
well a Co., made on the 18th day of January,
1861 by M. A. Kerr, as lot No. Is, 'front.'
ing rs feet on Jefferson street extended, and
running back between parallel lines al right
angles with said street 1lSh feet 10 an alley.
Terms Of sale; On a credit Of seven months,
purchaser TO execute note with approved Sc
curity, Lion retained on land 70 further 70.
cure purchase money. Equity Of redemRsses
This November q, 1873,
m n ! BLkQk, Clerk and Master.
By =. II. MohFERND d. o. and M.
]. A. Taylor and Estes a Eiiett, Solicitors
for complainant. .B-l9
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
Trustees Sale.

ON SATURDAY, the Dist day of Decem-
" Der, 1873, in front Of my office, % Madison
street,, Memphis, Tenn, l will sell for cash
the following property:
Beginning at a point on the west aide Of
Rayburn avenue, which is the southeast cor
ner Of q hve-acro lot originally conveyed by
J, G. McLemore 10 W. p. Gilbert ct al, Book
n, page lOI, 10 which reference is made; run
burn avenue 200 feet TO a stake; thence wet
parallel with the south line Of said hye-acre
tract $50 foet 10 a stake; thence north 200 feet
70 a stake in the south line Of said f~ye-aere
tract; thence east $50 feet TO the beginning,
with improvements thereon, being a neat cot
tage and out houses.
| sol as trustee under deed madetD me BY
Mrs. Nancy Gilbert, December II 1877, re-
corded in Book l2l, page $50, She y county,
to which reference is made.
| 6I-M IA. R. McEARLAEO. Trnalan.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17
The Proper CIoLhing ror Winner.


Speaking on the subject Of winter
clothing, the Medical Examiner says
With regard to the use of clothes,
many erroneous opinions are enter
tanned, and even among the better
educated classes the mode by which
clothes act in protecting us from cold
is little if at all understood. A very
common idea is that they keep us
warm by preventing air from reaching
our bodies, whereas the fact is that
just those materials which are most
permeable to air keep us warmest.
Their action is simple enough, and
consists in rendering the air still
around us, and in regulating its tenn.
perature by the heat which leaves our
bodies. Extreme degrees of cold can,
il is well known, be better borne when
the air is still than when, with the
same degree Of cold, the air is in mo.
motion. Everyone knows from ex.
perience how much warmer Woolcr
gloves are, even when loosely knitted
than the t~ight-6tting kid; yet, if the
prevention Of air reaching the surface
Of the body were the source of warmth
kid should be warmer than Yooler
gloves. The eorollary from the fore
going remarks is therefore at once eyi
dent. Our clothes should be worl
loose, 50 as to allow a stratum of warn
air between them and our bedies
They should not be Of too close a tex
ture, for it is found that cotton WOO
loses its power Of protecting us iron
cold by. being compressed. The.
should also be light, to permit Of act
i've exercise in the open air yithou
producing exhaustion by their weight
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17

IT is snterprisins, fearless, reliable and
newsy, and the peer of any weekly newspa-
per published in West Tennessee, containing
ALL LOCAL EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
in the city of Memphis and Shelby county.
No labor or expense will be spared to mani
tain it in every department at the highest
possible standard, and to commend it in all
respects to the confidence and approval of the
best Glasses in the surrounding country, being
strictly
Democratic and Conservative
but will not be u~njustly partisan, aiming to
be fair and just, as well as pronounced in its
political convictions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17

for the relief of humanity, and any
effort to be truthful and honest, tend
ed to advance those distant settle
ments where others are watching us.
They were looking to us for examples
of energy and elevation such as once
came from us to them. Far more to
them than any fattery or censure
would be the examples Of honest trade,
of pure craftsmanship, and Of pure re-
ligious life and teaching, for they look
with respect and regard upon these
shores from which they took their re.
luctant departure and which they still
so dearly love- r4tt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17

each other. We have an abiding faith,
however, in the good sense and the
justice of the masses, North and
South, and believe that the time is
coming when this will be one great
country, with no political North or
South.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17

HAVING duly qualified as administrator
III of l.. A. Rhodes, deceased, all persons
having, claims against his estate are hereby
within the time prescribed by law and per
sons indebted to said estate are requested To
come forward and make payment or prompt
steps will be taken TO enforce collections.
o. M. ALSUP, Administrator
December 7, 1878. S5-9l-9T-lS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-17

Future Happiness. All those
who have the future happiness Of
children at stake should know that
DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup contains moth
ing Injurious.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-18
What the Farmers Charge Against the
Burlington University.

From a study of the various letters.
speeches, discussions and newspaper ar
ticles that have appeared from time to
time during the last two years, we are
able, we think, to offer our readers a
satisfactory sketch of the grounds of
opposition which leading farmers have
taken to the way in which the trustees
and faculty of Burlington University
have administered the affairs of the
state agricultural college since it was
entrusted to their care.
First, it is alledged that from the be-
ginning the friends of the University
fought the establishment of an indie
pendent industrial school upon the
basis of the grant made by the general
government, and when they found it
impossible to prevent the issuing of the
charter, they secured amendments cal
culated and intended to prevent prac-
tlcal realization of the scheme. The
principal change thus effected was a
provision to the effect that the college
should be located only in some town
which would subscribe or appropriate
SlOO,OOO toward the purchase of a farm
and the erection of buildings for the use
of the institution. This was energeti-
cally opposed by prominent farmers.
but the lobby influence of the Univer-
sity controlled enough votes to secure
IFS adoption, which was regarded by
those interested as death blow to the
institution. AS matter of fact, no eff
fort was made to secure location un-
der this preposterous requirement..
Then when the matter came ND be-
fore the next legislature, the anticipat-
ed failure of any town to accept the
offer was urged as reason for uniting
the colleges. This was accomplished
and the lion lay down with the lamb,
but as usual the lamb was inside of the
lion, and nothing has been seen of II
since. The union was fought strongly
by several prominent farmers in the
legislature, notably in an able speech bv
Henry Lane of Cornwall, who propbe.
sled that if the union was carried ont
no one would ever know that Vermont
had an agricultural college, and that
the whole income of. the fund would be
used for the ordinary purposes of the
University as literary and professional
institution. Judge Lynde of Williams
town was another who took this view
OF the question, but again the powerful
ioooy maintained about the State House
by University succeeded in per-
suadlng sufficient number of the mem
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-18

the skull of ST. Ursula and one or two
of her sainted companions. At the
Cathedral the visitor is shown the skulls
of the Three Wise Men of the East who
came to adore the infant Saviour. Of
course these "showsn are made the
medium of transferring much coin of
the realm to the Golfers of the church.
From Cologne we journeyed by rail to
Brussels, a ride of five hours and three
quarters, and in the Belgian capital
tarried couple of days inspecting the
museums of paintings, the palaces, the
the Cathedral and the many other in
teresting objects of this miniature Paris.
At the time of our visit, the city was
all astir in anticipation of an approach
ing celebration in honor of the silver
wedding of the King and Queen. Brus-
sells contains several interesting collec-
tions of paintings, but none can be
compared with the one at Antwerp
which next commanded our attention.
The distance from Brussels to Ant
werp is only sc 1-2 miles, the route
leading through the old town of Malines,
or Mechlin, or rather by it, for the
magistrates refused permission for the
railway to pass through the place.
Antwerp, like Brussels, was found to
be in tOment, but from different
hn olcI g Al,
placing of the image of the Virgin in
the cathedral was in progress, and the
whole town was decked in flags, ma
tional, municipal and Romish, while
the interior of the cathedral presented
il gorgeous Appearance. The image of
the Virgin was decked in costly robes
and jewels and there were imposing
ceremonies mt intervals through the
day. We barely had time to scan
Rubens's pictures which hang in the
church between the two principal SER
vices. We had already devoted some
time to the museum of paintings, which
also contains some of Rubens's works,
together with others by Van Dyck,
Ten-Titian, Quentin Massys and other
old masters. The celebrated Head of
Christ, painted by Leonards di Vinci,
is in the cathedral. Other of Rubens's
pictures are in the church of St. Jacques,
but these we did not see, as we had to
leave the city before the time for the
service to close. ATHENIAN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-10-18
Completing a Fish Story.

The Whitehall Times didn't half fin
ish that fish story about the trout in a
gentleman's trout pond saving the life of
little girl who was accustomed to feed
them, and who had accidentally fallen
into the pond, by forming themselves
into solid body and supporting her in
the water. We have later advices about
it. The trout not only raised her to the
surface, but they fioated her ashore,
after which they took her on their
shoulders and carried her up to the
house, over half mile, across lots, be-
ing compelled to take down several fen
ces in order to do it. When the father
of the little girl came to the door in an
swer to the bell (rung by one of the
trout) he discovered lot of the trout
rolling the child on an old salt barrel to
get the water out of her. When she
was finally resuscitated the trout united
in giving three cheers, and declining to
step into the house and take suthin',
they trotted back to the pond. Why
don't you finish a story when You begin
it 9-Cineinanti Saturday Night.