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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-22
BY CABLE.

LONDON, December 22.-Advices
from Capetown state that Chief Seco-
coeni's stronghold was attacked from
four sides, and that the resistance was
less determined than expected.
Two hundred and eighty emigrants
left Trevisca and Udin, Italy, for
America.
Charles S. Parnell, addressing a
crowd at Queenstown yesterday, said
he hoped one of the results of his
visit to the United States would be to
show that the hearts of Americans
would beat warmly towards Ireland.
He said, "If Michael Dante was put
on trial, or if reprieve measures we're
INTRODUCED in the house of commons
before the first Of March next, when
he intended to return, he would re-
turn Immediately"
A dispatch from Candahar says that
the news from Cabul excites neither
surprise nor apprehension. Tribesmen
hitherto occupied in preparing their
lands for spring crops are now free
from labor for three months, and thus
long excitement may be expected to
last. No attempt ought to be made
before spring than hold our position.
General Stewards command, on the
whole line from Dadur to Candabar
consists of 9,075 effective men. The
tribes along the line are quiet.
CALCUTTA, December 22.-Ex-
Ameer Kakeob Khan has arrived at
the Merut. He is confined under
military and police guards, but it is
doubtful whether he will be kept
there long as the proximity of Merut
to Delhi and other centres of Mussul.
man tradition renders it an inexpe.
dent place for the safe custody O.
Mohammedan State prisoners.
BERLIN, December 22.-In a letteI
from Prof Nordenskjold, Artic ex
plorer to the Russian Biographies
Society, he advocates the establish
ment of a regular navigation line t,
the mouth of the river Jenisei, il
Siberia. He even believes that tn
mouth Of the river Lena may be regu
larly reached from Russia and Ameri
ca. With a view to this end he pro
poses the establishment of lifeboa
and hospital stations on the Siberian
shore.
PARIS, December 22.-Gent Mem
Der of the Republican Union) ha
been elected member of the Cham
ber Of Deputies from the Orange de
partment of Vanchuse, receiviu
6,O69 votes against 4,O93 for Humber
(Communist) and Maze (Moderat
Republican, has been elected fro1
Versailles, receiving 4,48O vote
against !, ,264 for Bufeuoir (Radical
Gablet (member of the Republican
Union in the Chamber of Deputies
will probably succeed LeRoyer /
Minister of Justice.
The net profits of the Fete of tt
18th inst, organized by the Pari
journalists, for the relief of the SUI
ierers by the food in Spain are abou
100000 francs.
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THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Our gas men, which is meant to
mean those who own bonds or stock
in gas companies, who work for the
same, or who may be otherwise inter
ested in coal gas, are vouchsafed an
other breathing spell. A few days
ago it went over the wires from one
end Of the land to the other that Edi-
son would illuminate Menlo Park,
where he lives, in most brilliant style
on Christmas eve. The world at large,
and gas people in particular, were in
vited to be on hand, that Edison
might edify and illuminate their un-
derstandings. Now he publishes for
the fortieth time that he never au-
thorized such an announcement, and
that he will not be ready to give his
electrical exhibition for some time to
come. In fact, the show is postponed
on account of the weather, and for
other reasons. There seems to be
more gas about Edison, or his hangers
on, as far as the electric light problem
is concerned, than is to be found at
this time in our gas burners.
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Nom YorI. NIonev NInrlrel.

New YORK, December 22.-Money
easy at 5@6; sterling firm Sll@S3i,
Silver at London 527-16. Govern.
ments quiet and generally steady.
Railroad bonds inactive. State Sc
curities dull. Stocks have been gen.
orally firm in comparatively narrow
fluctuations.
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New York, December 22.-The
Tribune says of the latest electric
lamp that there is no new principle
involved in Edison's light and the
notifications he has made in the
Sawyer manlight are buta poor return
for fifteen months labor. The new
Sawyer man Edison lamp is not very
likely to be regarded as complete and
satisfactory solution of the great
problem which has so long been alb
sorbing the attention Of electricians.
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Administrators saIO.

ON the I'd day Of January. 1880, I will pro-
~ ceed to sell with the consent of the eTec-
utrix Of j. p. Vanordstrand, deed. the per-
senal property OF the late firm Of Waters &
Nanordstrand, consisting of house moving
implements rollers blocks, timbers, jack
screws, capstans, ropes, wagons. oiiee
etc, to satisfy claims against
the said firm Of Waters 4 Vanordstrand. at
the yard, on Poplar street, east Of thomarket
house, Sale 70 commence at 10 o'clock, a, m.
THOMAS MOFfEIr, adm r Of estate of John
WATERS deco Memphis, December 20, 1879.
Q6 f0T
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Our Water supply.

Wolf river water, by analysis. is
shown to be impure LEDGER.
You omit to mention that Prof.
Sharp said in his report "but when
run through a good charcoal filter it is
exceedingly pure" Prof. Sharp an
alyzed about five weeks ago, when
Wolf river water was very muddy,
the same water run through a filter
sold by me to the Peabody Hotel
which he pronounced as pure as
water can be-" The Professor would
not believe it was the same Wolf river
water which he had found to be very
impure until he convinced himself of
the fact. / have tested all filters made
in this country and Europe, and find
the one l am selling now the only
filter capable of making the muddiest
water, not only clear, but as pure as
water can be made.
CHARLES N. ERICH,
32l Main Street.
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visitors at the Cotton Exchange

To. day include j. R. Davidson, Liv-
erpool; I. 7. La Prade & Mr.. Fletcher
Star Landing; W. A, Collier, Arkan-
sas; c. Chaie, jr., New Orleans Dan
Matthews, 0seeola; j. /. Matthews,
Collieryillo and ChaS, Fenner, New
Orleans,
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NOn-Resldont Notice.

No. Sll-In the Cbancery Court Of sbslbv
county, Tenn.-Ada Ewing vs.. George w.
Ewing.
/ I appearing from affidavit in this cause that
resident Of the State Of Tennesree. Il 4.
therefore ordered that he make his an
pearance9 herein, u the court-house Of Shelly
county, IN Memphis, Tenn, on or before ihe
first Monday in January, 1850, and pload, M.
swer or demur 90 oomplainant's bill, OF tbe
and set for hearing x-parte, and thaf eo,, niia
this order be published atiae wcek ~ ~ ~
suggestive weeks n the Public Ledger.
Fhs lst day Of December, 1879.
copy-Attest:
X u BLACK, Clerk and Master.
i " Elmondsou, sol. for comppt.
10 S5NN
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, December 22.-For
Tennessee, and Ohio valley and Lake
regions, followed by rising barometer
Southerly winds, yeering to cooler
northwest winds. Rain or snow, fol-
lowed by clearing weather,
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THIS YEARS COTTON CROP

The total crop of cotton for the
present year is estimated by the agri-
cultural department at Washington at
5,O2O,3S7 bales, a decrease of per
cent from the last monthly statement,
so says a dispatch to the cotton ex-
change, received last Saturday.
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What Present will t-IeNse Papa?
What present win please my sonl
What present will please any fellow?

Think yell before you buy. Not trin-
kets that catch the eye, will please such
folks say. But you win certainly mover
miss if you choose neat stylish hal
which, az Cohcn's, 2l9 Main, you can
purchase vi the lowest price,
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AS Others See It.

One fine evening of last week the
telegraph news man at Nashville sent
word, and the word was printed here,
that the new play "a Million" as first
presented at that place by the Flor
ences was an ungratifed success.
The way it looked however, to the
Banner man he tells in the following,
taken from long review of the play {:
"There is no particular merit in the
piece. Florence is a good representa-
tive of the cultivated German, and
Mrs. Florence has the opportunity Of
displaying her fine wardrobe, while the
remainder make the best they can out
of poor characters. Our advice to the
Florences is, to stick to the Mighty
Dollar" until something better turns
up. There's millions in that piece.
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The sunken steamer PlOw Boy

The steamer Plow Boy, owned in
part by persons in this city, and which
sunk last week in Arkansas river, has
been raised and is under way for this
port. The news was received here on
Saturday last. In the Independent
Arkansian Of Friday last, published at
Dardanelle, is the following account of
the accident: "Tho steamer Plow Boy
showed out from our wharf about four
o'clock Wednesday evening with four
hundred bales cotton on board.
When about one mile below town
she struck 9 snag and knocked a
hole in her side about eight feet long.
The pilot made for the bar and sue
cceded in getting her out Of the chan
mel. The boat sunk TO tho bottom in
three feet of water. On yesterday
the carpenters were building a bulk
head around the leak and pumping her
out, aud hoped to raise her aud go on
by this morning"
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Canadian Call for Cash for their
COrnered COuntrymen.

TORONTO, December 22.-The May
or has called a public meeting for
Tuesday night to consider the distress
prevalent in Ireland, aud for devising
means for practical and immediate
roEaP
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order. The suit was continued
from year to year, and Thompson had
again appealed to the Supreme Court
when he died. He had actually been
driven to his grave by near thirty
years of law. than which nothing can
be more worrying, wearing and crush
ing. He is known by sight to all fIe-
quenters of the San Francisco courts.
and attorneys had long regarded him,
though they did not say so, as man
steadily going to his doom. Poor
fellow; he was a sort of Miss Elite.
He is said to have grown paler and
paler, thinner and thinner, poorer and
poorer, more and more despondent
and wretched, month after month,
year after year. just before he
breathed his last, he is reported to
have said: Il have no idea of the
future; but l do hope l am going
where law and lawyers are unknown" "
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A vicious william.

For cutting Richard Brown through
the arm and seyering the flesh and
muscles to the hone with a pocket
knife, VIM. johnson was sent to Jail
this forenoon by Esquire Quigley to
await trial before the criminal court.
1t was case of brutality rarely known
for down meanness and was entirely
unprovoked. The vicious rascal de-
serves condign punishment for his
condHct. The trouble occurred
in saloon on Beale street,
where Brown was a looker-on at
a game of cards. The slasher strolled
in, pushed johnson away from where
he stood, several times, could not pro-
woke him enough to suit, so went to
carving his flesh without further de-
lay. The wounded mans hurts were
dressed by a surgeon and are of a
severe and perhaps dangerous charac-
ter The bloodthirsty rascal acted as
if he was going to a picnic as he start
ed for the JAIL and said he had got
clear of worse scrapes than the one he
is In now.
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CHOICE GAME FOR HOLIDAYS.

Clements game store, 50 Beal st., is well
filed with choice game of all kinds, veni-
son roasts and steaks, fish, oysters, celery,
as well MS dressed turkeys, etc.
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The Noutlern Boom.

Clarksyillo Tobaceo-Leaf,
Col. VIM. Moore, of Woodard &
Moore, Nashville, made a stop in our
city this week, on his return from an
extensive business trip South. His
description of the revival of business
in the cotton States was really inter
esting-eyerything booming. The
planters have a third more cotton than
they expected, and were favored with
a good season for picking. The quality
is excellent, and the price a third
more than was calculated on last
spring. All, both white and black,
have plenty of money to buy every
thing they want, and to pay up old
debts and mortgages, and are happy;
merchants who were regarded as brok
en- on account of too liberal advances
heretofore are now getting their money
and are rich. The farmers are paying
higher prices for mules and horses,
and making preparations for another
big crop. Customers who had been
asking long credit on their goods now
come up and ask for cash bills.
The vigor of youth for the aged and
infrm in Hop Bitters.
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UNION AND PLANTERS BANK
OF MEMPHIS.

MEMPHs, TENN., December 13, 1879.
STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that
- an election will be held at this bank on
Monday. January ~. 1850, for the pur-
pose of choosing fifteen directors TO serve for
the ensuing year. S.P. READ, Cashier.
90 lis
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IMPORTS.

LIVERPOOL, December22, 1915 pm.
Cotton opened with moderate in
quiry freely supplied. Uplands,. 6 49,
l6; Orleans, 15-16. Sales to-day
5000; receipts 100. American ii.
300. Futures opened to-day l-32d
cheaper, as follows: Deliveries for
Dec, and Dec and Jan. 6 %. .32d; Jan.
and Feb. 6 25-32d; Feb. and March.
6 q .32d; March and April, 6 629-32d;
April and May, 615 16d; May and
June, Id June and July, 71-16d.
New ORLEANS, December y, 1l:3O
a. motion quiet. Middling l13c.
Sales to-day 1000 bales. Receipts
2O,O99 bales. Sales Saturday, 5000
bales. Stock 290,720 bales
New YORK, December %, 12.4Op.m.
Cotton opened this morning weak.
but unchanged in price. Ordinary
10 l5-16c; good ordinary II ll-16c;
low midling 13 Bloc; midling 12lc:
good midling 123c; middling fair l3ic;
fair 14ic. Futures opened dull and
easier, now steady at about the same
as on Saturday evening, as follows /:
Deliveries for
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Solid sher1nnn sneeches.

New YORK, December 22-Secre-
tary Sherman and General Sherman
are in the city. Each speak tonight
at the New England society's dinner
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OH.


nIAM0ND Lodge, No. 5S3, X. of H. will
II meet this Monday evening at O'clock
sharp. Officers and members requested to be
present. Election Of officers and other inn
pOrtant business. By order of
JAMES B. COOK, Acting Dictator.
HENRY A. TATUM, Reporter.
HAVING been duly appointed and ouaT-
II ned as administrator of Margaret G. Ir-
present their claims, and parties indebted
will make rayment to me.
JOHN IRVING, Administrator.
j. w. Hampton, atty. 97 los l09 liz
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-NNONOAS
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-02
yirgtnia's Whipping Post.

austin MITCHELL, fasten the pris-
Oner," said the officer to colored in
mate of the Jail; and Jones wrists were
made secure in iron fastenings on the
post. Now all was ready.
William Jones was tall. we'll built
man of about thirty years, and would
weigh 160 or ITO pounds. His face was
clean shaved, save his upper lip, which
wore short brown mustache, and he
should be called rather s good look king.
man. He was once 9 respectable citi-
zen, being well connected and having
been well raised, but yielding to tempta-
ton several years ago he got caught
and has served term in the Peniten-
tiary. Afterward he served 9 term in
the Jail, which was only few weeks
ago. He then received thirty-nine
lashes, and upon being turned loose he
cribbed pair Of shoes valued at $1.20,
for which he was sentenced to receive
sthirty-nine lashes again and to work in
the chain-gang for six months. And
yet after being catalogued with the
:. old offenders Jones looked as though
he would ike to reform and regain his
whilom seH-respect. !. Oh. for the hal
zcyon daysr he sighed Is he stood fast
ened s. the post. He had felt the whip
before and knew what to expect. lt
was worse than having . tooth pulled
Worse than any punish ment that he
could conceive. The officer. WhoWas
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-02
Singular Paradox.

A CURIOUS essay has recently been
written for the purpose of showing that
the steady improvement in the range
and efficiency of warlike weapons has
been followed, not, us would naturally
be supposed, by an increased number
of killed and wounded in battle, but by
diminution SO complete, that an in
verse ratio may be said to exist between
the two, 80 that an addition to the abil-
ity to kill is, paradoxically, followed
by proportionately smaller number
of killed. 1T is beyond dispute that the
Old-time hand-to-hand encounters were
sanguinary in the extreme. and it was
no uncommon thing for the warriors
of those days to fight on until more
than half Of their number had fallen.
With the first introduction of firearms
. sensible falling off in the number of
killed and wounded took place, and the
contraction continued as the rifle and
then the breech- loader successfully
took the place of the smooth-bore, until
now the experience in the Franco-G Ger
man and the Turco- Russian Wars
proves that only about 10 per cent. of
those engaged are placed hors dc combat
even in the severest encounters. The
reason given for this surprising change
is one not wholly creditable to the hui
man race, and that is, that soldiers
nowadays have more tender regard
for their personal safety than they once
had. Each side knows that the other
possesses facilities which can be en-
ployed with lnurderous effect. if alta
vorable opportunity for their use is
given, and this conviction has tend
ency to make both officers and men
very reluctant to permit of the slight
est exposure. The modern system of
advancing upon all enemy's line in
loose and open order, so that each man
can take advantage of the stumps, trees
and hillocks which chance throws in his
way, is an admission that the lives of
the soldiers are not to be uselessly sac
riiced, which the soldiers themselves
are not slow to perceive; and hence
each one limits the risks to which he
puts his individual life with the utmost
care. 1t would, perhaps, be straining
at conclusion to say that this double
progress will eventually land us in a
condition in which wars will be prac-
tically impossible, but it certainly
points that way, and, more than this, it
seems to be generally admitted that
the improvements in naval armor,
guns, rams and torpedoes have made it
doubtful whether we shall ever again
have tirst-class naval encounter.
Defeat does not mean surrender, but
almost certain death to the crew of the
unlucky vessel.-N. Y Times.
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Greenland.

GREENLAND is a remarkable proof OF
the rapidity with which great physical
changes in the earth's surface may &C.
cur. In the year 986 Eric the Red
founded the colonies on both the east
and west coasts, which were long -four
ishing. The interior of the country
was then icy, but the coasts afforded
excellent pasturage. In the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries the black death
so weakened the colonies that they
were unable to resist the invasions OF
the natives. The coasts began also to
subside for a distance OF 600 miles, and
are still sinking. Structures raised
within the last century are even now
under water, while more recent settle
mcnts have been submerged Huge
glaciers block access to large part of
the eastern coast, and on the west side
the layers of ice leave only narrow
habitable space between the mountains
and the sea. A recent expedition from
the west coast, under the direction of
Danish officials, after clambering over
glaciers, wading through snow-drifts,
and narrowly ESQ aping many deep Gre
vases, reached in a fortnight's time
mountain forty-tive miles inward.
From a height of 1900 feet above the
sea level they obtained wide view. AS
far as the eye could reach to the east
ward nothing but glaciers and sheets
of ice could be seen. Greenland is a
literal iceland. Within the historical
era it has never been wholly free from
its cold covering, hut the transforms
tons to which we have already referred
are so extensive that, according to
many geological theorists, the lapse of
$4,000 years, instead of few hundred,
would be required to account for them.
Cincinnati Gazette.
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Sores, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pain in
the Bones, Side and Head, Female
Weakness, Sterility, Leucorrhea, arising
from internal liberation, and Uterine
disease, Syphilitic and Mercurial dis
eases, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Emaciation,
General Debility, and for Purifying the
Blood.
This Sarsaparillais combination Of
vegetable Alternatives Stillingia, Man
drake, Yellow Dock with the iodide.
of Potassium and Iron, and is the most
ef6cacious medicine yet known for
the diseases it is intended to cure.
Its ingredients are so skilfully COM
bined, that the full Alternative eject Of
each is assured, and while it is 40 mild
as to be harmless even to children. Il =
still so effectual as to purge out from the
system those impurities and, corrnnt;ons
which develop into loathsome disease.
The reputation it enjoys is derived
from Its cures, and the confidence which
prominent physicians all over the conn
try repose in it, prove their exper;enee
Of its usefulness. .-ss0
Certificates attesting its virtues have
accumulated, and are constantly he;ns
received, and as many Of these ca.es 49,. IS
publicly known, they furnish conv;nc;ns,
evidence of the superiority Of this s..
saparilla over eyery other aHe,.t;.s
msa.clne. 50 generally Is its superb
olaty Q any other medicine known. that
" neea 90 no more than to assure the
public that the best qualities Il IA ev g,
Possessed are strictly maintained.
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A Ms:;eru Retreat-Dumb Ladies'.

A LONDON correspondent writes that
the district around Lloyd's Square. in
West London, is very much mystifed.
A number of ladies have suddenly APP
peared in the lodging houses there who
assume the womanly virtue of dumb.
ness. They rise early, long before the
sun, and 60 into the dark, cold street,
saying no word to any mortal soul.
They return Immediately after nine at
night; do not even ask for candle,
but expect it to be given to them, and
then pass, without so much as ..thank
you," but with sad smile and dig.
nified bow to their rOon.s. They ere
devout Protestants doing retreat
at the Home of Nazareth, occupied by
the Sisters of Bethany. Most Of them,
it is given out, are ladies of wealth and
position, some of them ladies of title.
Early in the morning precisely at the
hour of six, they meet to do their de-
votions under the direction Of the holy
Ritualist Fathers who have been ap-
pointed for the service Every mo-
ment of the day has its devotional oc-
#cupation. The food is Of the plainest.=
Talking is hardly tolerated. For near
u fifteen hours they are at prayers or
at meditations. They should, properly
speaking, not leave the home. But
the Sisters Of Bethany cannot put them
all up. So these ladies in retreat set
forth every evening in mysterious ST.
lence tothe neighbo boring lodging houses,
holding no commu alton with man or
woman neither asking nor answerin0
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Farmers Attention!

The undersigned offers for sale, seed
corn. the most PRoLIFIC EVER GROWN.
100 bu. per acre can be grown with or.
binary care. Why will farmers grow
oats at the rate Of 1900 lbs. per acre
when they can grow over 5000 lbs. Of
corn! Ripens in 90 days. Makes choice.
meal for bread. IS cents per package.
g packages Zoe. Discount for clubs. q
Address 3. d. PEAKE. Jamestown.
Gran ! Co, Wi s.