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WILMINGTON, N. O.. Feb. 28. 8.-sr1n1Ts TuarEs
T1xE-Fitm At aG!fc.
, 1879-03-01

CHICAGO ALTON d ST. LOUIE AND CHICAGO
KAhBAS GITY h DENVER BH0RT LINES,
Union }op0t 1rett Side. ncnr Btasonst b1tdRp ant
TwCnsy. .th!rd.st. Ticket Uf1Ge, IA Nandoiph.st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
Learning 10 Swim.


London Truth. ..a
Probably not one in twenty of the
Londoners out on a holiday who
indulge in boating on Saturday after
moons, can swim and yet, nothing is
more easy When the air is out of a
body, its owner sinks; when the air is
in the body its owner floats. Let any
one slowly draw in his breath as he
draws back his legs and pushes for.
ward his arms, retain it while he is
preparing for the stroke which is to
propel him, and slowly allow it to go
through his lips as his arms are passed
back from before his head to his
sides and his legs are stretched out.
The action Of the stroke should not be
horizontal, but should be made on a
slight incline downward. The reason
why people take weeks to learn how
to swim is because swimming profes
sors do not know or do not choose to
teach the philosophy of breathing, so
as to render the body buoyant.
would engage to make any one a toler-
able swimmer in an hour unless he be
a congeuital idiot.
In order to acquire confidence, the
learner should first try to float. Let
him lie on his back, hold his head well
back, stretch out his arms, and draw
in his breath So long as he retains
it he will feat like cork. AS he ex-
pels it from his body he will find him
self gradually sinking unless he
keeping his arms well in the water
makes slow downward stroke. This
will bring home TO him the principle
on which swimmer, generally with.
out knowing it, acts
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
The American HoteI.

London Globe.l
To the Americans belong the credit
Of first bringing the hotel system Of
our day to approximate perfection.
While we were hardly out of the
shadow of our old inns and the historic
atmosphere of the coffee houses, they
were building and planning palaces for
the accommodation of the public on
scale so gigantic as almost to seem
incredible. They have kept true to
the traditions; and, if you will ask
your man of the world, your tourists
who skins about at pleasure, who
knows London, Paris, Berlin, Flor
ence, Milan, New York, San Francis
co, and dozen other representative
capitals, where the best hotels are
found. he will tell you in the States.
Astor was among the first who
became identified with the char
acteristic enterprise that has since
been developed by men who have
kept American hotels foremost.
We remember the delight of Dickens
at the marvellous management of
transatlantic hotels. If one has not
seen them, he can have little idea of
their extraordinary character. A
"frst-class" hotel that was not well
supplied with lifts, baths, FIRE alarms,
gas, electric bells and appliances,
would be considered musty relic OF
the past on the other side of the At
lantic. Mr.. Albert Smith, discours-
ing of English hotelries few years
ago, called them the hotel nuisance.
An American traveler-and as to that
matter the Americans are all travellers
told us some years ago of his dis
gust on arriving in Liverpool after
five years absence-''f FIVE years Of the
nineteenth century, equal to the whole
of an old fashioned century, five
years of steam, of railways and OF
teIegraphs, during which travel has
increased fvefold ito find that he
was to awake in the same musty bed
in an i'll arranged hotel that was con
sidered the best in the city, and
everything in exactly the same posi-.
ton as if he had gone to sleep there
| five hours instead of FIVE years before
In that time the Metropolitans, the
| st. Nicholases, and the Grand Louvre,
had sprung up, were English, hac
even dotted the stormy waves Of two
oceans; but one of the first CONNER
cial cities of the world offered he
guests the same Rip Van Winkle
hotel
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
An ItaIian,s Lucky Drink.

Nevada City Cali Transcript
Four years ago two young Italians
left Naples for California, hoping to
better their fortunes. They arrived
within the Golden Gate with just
enough money to convey them to the
mines in the interior. They were ad-
vised to go to Downieyille and seek
work in the Sierra Butts mine, where
large force was wanted. On their
journey one fell sick by the wayside
and was taken in by a kind,hearted
farmer. The other pushed ahead, and
finally reached the end of his journey
in safety. He failed to obtain EN-.
ployment on the ground that he neither
understood mining or the English
language. After receiving numerous
rebuffs he started to return to the
lower country again. At a point be.
tween Logauville and Downieville
and ten miles from the latter place, ht
became so weary, footsore, and dis
heartened that he began to wish him.
self back in shiny Italy once more
among the vines and olives. He grew
feverish thinking over his trials ant
tribulations, and stopped at a spring
to lave his head and moisten hi,
parched throat. Cattle had beer
that way short time before, anC
with their feet stirring up the limpiC
water until it became thick with mud
The Italian scooped out the basir
in one side of the shallow spring ant
waited util the debris should settle t,
the bottom, that he might slake hi,
thirst and bathe his brow. BY and by
the water became as clear as crystal
and he stopped over to quaf of it
AS he did so an astonishing sight burs
ON his vision. The bottom of tn,
spring was strewn with bright yellow
particles that glittered in their water,
bed. With all his ignorance of min
ing he knew he had found gold. II,
scraped up a handful of dirt and tool
from it 81 or s. worth of coarse anc
fine pieces of gold. With them ht
rushed excitedly to camp where
lived some Of his countrymen, anC
offered to give them an interest in hi,
find. He told the story Of his dis
oovery, but they were incredu
lous, saying that some mincl
had stopped at the spring L
drink and lost what was found from
his purse. One of them, however, wht
was moro kind-hearted, sympathizec
with the stranger and volunteered &
help prospect the claim, although h,
had no confidence in developing /
permanent or profitable one. The frs
! dsV panned out 500. Since then the!
have worked it constantly and on al
extensive scale. 1t has paid hand
somely from the FIRST. Last year the!
took out $4,000, and sold Q one.quar
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
Texas Tragedies.

GALVESTON, July l7.-In the court
yesteaday at Marlintopula Sheriff
FeatherstOne quarreled with ThOs.
Gather and shot him, making neces-
sary the amputation of his legs
FeatherstOne fed, and was pursued by
posse.
At McKanitt, while Constable
Cisco was taking Andrew Burns ia
Jail, Burns broke away. Cisco com
manded him to stop, when he turned
barred his bosom, and dared Cisco tC
shoot. The constable did shoot three
times with fatal effect.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
Second Edition.
4 O'CLOCK, P. n.
THE LATEST
Regarding the Fever Situa-
ti0n.

Nothing new has developed since
the gloomy announcement in our first
edition that five fresh yellow fever
cases have appeared. A thousand
rumors are current, but none that
have been followed up were veri-
fed. Persons who live in the
vicinity of the Hester residence
state that they are the only real yellow
fever sufererers in the city, and they
repudiate all others as bogus. Gen
eral Smith, who is a neighbor, is
among this class, and says the Hesters
are the only people who have the
actual thing. The Hester house is
very close, and nearly opposite to
where Theodore Dern, a carpenter,
died about ten days ago. The Hesters
are both carpenters, and their families
are said to have fraternized.
Since the first edition Of this jour
nal this afternoon the railway ticket
Offices have been literally patronized
and people able to leave are preparins
to do so quietly. 1t is expected
that a week or so hence few, except
the cant-get-aways, will remain.
The announcement that other cases
of fever have broken out is damper
upon business of all kinds, at least
for the present. Many merchants will
seek more congenial summer quarters
and we will not see them more until
the cold fall weather sets in.
The steamer Vint Shinkle arrived
from the Ohio river near 4 O'Clock
this afternoon. She returns to-mor
row. The steamer Nowland, to leave
for the Ohio this evening, will be full
of passengers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
Railroad Decision.

DENVER, July 1.-THE suit of
Charles S. Greeley against the Denver
Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Com
pany, and a cross bill by Governor
Evans and others against Greeley and
the railroad company came up for a
decision in the United States Court
to-day. The court discharged the re.
ceiver and ordered that the road be
turned over to the trustees of the
bondholders, Governor Evans and
Anthony j. Dulman.
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BOSTON.
Severe Storm-DestructiOn Of Prop
erty and Loss of Life.

Boston, July 17.-The storm yes.
terday was very severe at all points.
The loss of life is greater than at first
supposed and mainly caused by the
capsizing of boats. Thoms Dundon
and wife, his two sisters and niece and
a boy named Arthur Ream were
caught by the squall aud all drowned
except Mr.. Dundon. A yacht was
capsized off Nantucket beach and four
persons drowned. One man, two wo-
men and two children were lost off
Governor Island. These bodies have
been picked up on the beach. The
rainfall was very heavy in various
places, and some of the hailstones
measured seven inches in circumfer-
ence Lightning caused the loss of
FIVE lives.
Two boats capsized off Sictuate and
three persons were drowned. Near
Montreal Mrs. Peter Robinson was
killed by lightning. Refund about
Kington and Sangerties, New York
State, crops were ruined, barns, fences
and outhouses were blown down. Hail
stones fell resembling large chunks
of ice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
About sunstrOke.


The following hints from DR.. James,
of the New York board Of health. will
be found very seasonable just now:
Sunstroke is caused BY excessive
heat and especially if the weather is
''muegy." 1t is more apt to occur on
the second, third or fourth day OF a
heated term than on the first Loss
OF sleep, worry, excitement, close
sleeping-rooms, debility, abuse of
stimulants, predispose to it. 1t is
more apt to attack those working in
the sun, and especially between the
hours Of eleven o'clock in the morn
ing and four o'clock in the afternoon.
On hot days wear thin clothing. Have
as cool sleeping rooms as possible.
Avoid loss of sleep and all unneces-
sary fatigue. If working in doors and
where there is artificial heat-laun-
dries, etc.-see that the room is well
ventilated. If working in the sun
wear light hat (not black, as it alb
serbs heat, straw, etc., and put inside
OF it on the head a wet cloth or a
large green leaf; frequently lift the
hat from the head and see that the
cloth is wet. Do not check perspira-
tion, but drink what water you need,
to keep it up, as perspiration pre-
vents the body from being overheated.
Have, whenever possible, an ad-
ditional shade, as thin umbrella,
when walking, a canvas or board
cover when working in the sun.
When much fatigued do not 90 to
work, but be excused from work, es-
pecially after eleven o'clock in the
morning on very hot days, if the work
is in the sun. If feeling Of fatigue,
dizziness, headache, or exhaustion oc-
ours, cease work Immediately, lie
down in shady and cool place ap-
ply cold cloths to and pour cold water
over head and neck. If any one is
overcome by the heat, send imme-
diately for the nearest good physician.
While waiting for the physician, give
the person cool drinks Of water or
cold black tea or cold coffee if able Ia
swallow. If the skin is hot and dry
sponge with or pour cold water over
the body and limbs, and apply to the
head pounded ice, wrapped in towel
or other cloth. If there is no ice at
hand, keepa cold cloth on the head
and pour cold water on it, as we'll as
on the body. If the person is pale
very faint and pulse feeble, let him
inhale ammonia for few seconds, or
give him teaspoonful of aromatic
spirits of ammonia in two tablespoon
fuls of water with little sugar.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
First Edition.
Indications.
2 O'CLOCK. p. N.

WASHINGTON, July 17.-For lower
lake region, northwest to northeast
winds, cooler and partly cloudy
weather, and rising barometer during
the night.
For Tennessee and Ohio valley
decidedly warm and partly cloudy
weather, followed tonight by cooler
weather, northeast to southeast winds,
stationary or slowly rising barometer.
For upper lake region northerly
winds, shifting to easterly and south
easterly, and partly cloudy weather,
slight changes in temperature and
falling barometer by Friday morning.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17

Oll City DerrlckI
Joe Skinner was once the greatest
joker in Oil City, and one Of his tricks
came near bringing ON riot one day.
Joe was walking along Seneca street
when he suddenly stopped and began
poking in. the mud with his cane, at
the same time allowing his other hand
to Slide over his shirt bosom as If in
quest of something which was there.
His movements quickly attracted a
bootblack, who ran up and asked.
Lost suthin, mister?" and began
looking about.
Then came merchant and two
clerks out of the store and began look
ing up and down the walk. A team
ster jumped off his wagon and Joined
in. A barber remarked, WAS it your
diamond pin, Joe and this was
caught up and echoed among the crowd
which had gathered, until the story
grew that a diamond pin worth $4,000
had been lost. The crowd extended
until it had filled both sides Of the
street, and all manner of suggestions
were made. One man proposed to
shovel up the dirt and mud and have
it carefully looked over. Another
said the sidewalk ought to be torn up.
A man crowded into place and trod
on the toes of another man, who gave
him a push. A blow followed and a
fight took place, and in two minutes
the police were hauling a man off to
the lookup, while Joe got outside
of the crowd and laughed at his
hoax until the tears ran down his
cheeks. The search continued for
two hours.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17

London Standard
NJ. Zola makes his Paris ouvrier
lapse from the paths Of sobriety and
finally perish in agonies on the stage,
in order that he may impress upon his
audience that where there is constitu-
tional weakness there can be no safety
nor strength but in total abstinence.
1t is impossible to quarrel with such a
motive. But what is to be said Of the
manner in which the dramatist sets to
work to accomplish this end a? Let us
suppose an analogous case. Among
those men of the working classes who
drink habitually to excess, wife beat
ing is a not uncommon crime What
would be thought of play written
with the object of deterring husbands
from that cowardly and brutal crime,
but the mostimpressive scenes ofwhich
consisted of the spectacle of a man dia-
bolically belaboring woman? Itwould
certainly be denounced as offensive to
public decency and scandalous to pub.
lie morals. 1t is on those grounds
that we condemn Drink" 1t is per-
fectly legitimate for the dramatic
moralist, who is persuaded that
drunkenness is the cause of all evil,
to point out the lesson that he has at
heart in a play. But that need not
involve minute delineation of an
abominable process, A pathological
study is one thing and an ethical
homily another. To analyze the stages
of demoraliling habits, to trace their
physical development, to depict their
growing horrors, may imply knowledge,
may even have its use when the
work is done, in a becoming way, but
the stage of theater is not the place
for these exhibitions. As it is bad
art, so it is worse morality. 1t is an
adaptation to the stage Of the most
mischievous of the Puritan traditions
which were once illustrated in the
pulpit. Few thoughtful people now
believe that the best way to impress
pure religion upon the minds of a
congregation is to resort to the coarse
devices of a sensational reyivalism, and
to describe in words of awful terror
the torments of the lost Nor can any
responsible writer be honestly of opin-
ion that the most efficient or desirable
way of impressing upon mixed audi
ence the superiority Of temperance
over drunkenness, is to present it with
CHASTITY imitation of the successive
manifestations of delirium tremens.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
Old EirIlls.


New York Tines
Europeans are frequently struck, on
first visiting this country, by the ideas
entertained here of what constitutes
age. They read with amused surprise
the signs on doors and windows Of
shops, informing the public that these
were established in 1855 or 1860, or
perhaps in 1866. What is the use,
they think, of advertising newness in
that way? And then they remember
to have heard that in the republic
novelty always has charm, and that
the people tire of everything old be-
cause it is old. 1t takes time for them
to understand that twenty-five or
twenty, or even fifteen years in the du-
ration of business is considered remark
able here, In Europe a house is
seldom reckoned old until it has lasted
at least half a century, But, in the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
General Grant.

Washington Special to indianapolis Jouraqbl
Private letters from General Grant
state explicitly that while he is graft,
fed at the tone Of Republican and
independent Journals in various parts
of the United States relative to his
supposed candidacy for the Presidency,
he is unwilling to be placed in the
position in which the drift Of clrcum-
stances seems to be forcing him IN
effect, he repudiates the superservioe9
able zeal of certain so-callcd friends
who are trying to connect their for
tunes with his own, aud declares bis
positive intention of remaining out OF
t1e country until the Presidential
nonination is practically settled. lie
will visit Australia, and probably re,
turn by way of the west coast o.
south America and Mexico, Thi'
nuts an end to the proposed San Fran
cisco reception.
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LittIo Iohnny,s FnhIe.

San francisco Argonaut.l
There was a dog and there was a cat,
and there was an OK. The dog sed to
the OK, the dog did:
NThat's a nifty long tail you got
these, mister, with nice tossel to the
end, but you can't waggle it wen you
meet your master
Then the cat said to the OK, too:
No, indeed, and you cant blow it
up like a bloom wen you git mad y
Then the lamb sed
/" You amt able for to twinkle it,
either, wen you think of something
funny"
The OK he thot awhile, and bime by
he spoke up and sed his ownself:
/ plade hooky wen | was a little
boy so much that / didn't learn them
vain accomplishments, that's a fack,
but | got a tolaby good bisness edeca-
shun, and | guess mebbe you fellers
wud have to come to me for to hellop
you out if you had to I'll a order for
OK tail soup.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17

Waterloo Observer The young wO-
man who desires to have herself pub
lished in the newspapers as "fascinat-
ing, beautiful and accomplished" will
please pack her clothes in a dirty
towel, crawl out of the back upstairs
window some dark, rainy night, and
elope with the man who curries and
feeds her dads horses. 1t is a big
price to pay for compliments, but it
will bring them just as certain as a
dirty rain water barrel will beget mos
auitOs in july"
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hThntI Dollar.

Detroit Free Press.
A stranger who was yesterday hav.
ing his boots blacked by one Of the
postoffice brigade, asked tile lad what
he would do if some one would give
him a dollar. af ri. T.F
I'D give half of it to the heather
and spend the rest for the Fourth,
was thereby. -oA
That's right you're a good boy,
continued the man. II like to give
money to such a boy as you.h ils
When his boots were finished ht
handed the boy nickel and walked
off, never referring to the dollar, which
the boy had been almost certain of
He had gone about half block wher
the lad overlook kim and asked
Did You intendto give me a dollar?'
sSOh, no, no, no. | simply wanted
to see what you would do with it.P 4.
"Well, I've been thinking it al
over" said the black, g aud I'll tel
ye what I'd do. I'd take it and hirl
some one to pare down my feet so
could get on No. 'levens withou
springing my iints out of line p
The stranger looked from his feet t,
the boy and back, then across th
street at a policeman, aud as he turnet
20 90 he muttered
We'll, I've found out what he'd d,
with it, but ! don't know as | feel an,
the better for It'll"
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The BuTOrd Murder Trial.

0wENToN, KY, July l7.-Mrs, G.
W. Meriwether, of Louisville, testi-
fed that she believed Buford insane.
DR.. w. s. Chipley, as an expert, tes-
tilted, that from the testimony pre-
sented, he did not believe BufOrd
insane at the time of the killing. The
defense is less confident to-day
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-17
AniurnnnfnhIe Row.

CHICAGO, July 17.-About three
o'clock this morning row occurred
on boat devoted to the yilest pur-
poses, aud owned by Bill Murray, who
keeps it anchored about a mile from
the shore, and entertains in it the
lowest classes of the city. The result
of the row was five men were shot
none fatally, and the arrest by the
police Of about a dozen persons inn
plicated, including three women.
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United States, twenty or twenty-five
years ago appears like antiquity, and
It is such, comparatively, where people
live so fast and so few things are
permanent. Each decade or so the
nation undergoes revolution busi-
ness changes hands firms rise and
fall; hardly anything is as it has been
the whole land seems to be in state
Of flux. How very few firms, when
we come to reflect, last even quarter
Of a century, And one can count on
ones fingers the houses established
fifty or sixty years since. The con-
tinual changes may afford Opportuni
ties that are wanted and expected in
the New York World, but they dispel
any notion Of fxedness.
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River TeIegrnnls.

CAIRO, July 17,-Arrived- Desmet
Paducah, 3 am; John 0verton, Mem
phis, TO- Departed-Cooke, Evans
vile, 8 pm; Desmet, st. Louis, 4 am
John 0yerton, Ohio river, 10 am
Weather cloudy and cool.
PITTsBURG, July l7.-River 2 feet
and falling. Weather clear and warm
LOUISVILLE, July 17.-River sta
tionery, 3 feet 4 inches in the canal.
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Damaged by Fire.

CLEVELAND, o., July II. = The
store of L. jenkins, at Delaware, was
damaged by fire to the amount of $1O,.
600 this msrning. Insured for Sl6,.
600, as follows: Knox Mutual and
Richland Mutual, $4,000 each Western
and Columbia. $4,000 each
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ter interest for $50, 900 more. It's not
yet fully developed. They work by
the hydraulic and drifting processes.
This story reads like a romance; still
there never was a truer one, as every
body around Downieville who has
taken the trouble to inquire into it
knows
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COTTON.seED.
Cotton-Seed. .

VHE yellow fever excitement having sub
i sided, we are now prepared TO receive
shipments of c0tton-seod, We request our
friends who have sacks belonging to us 10
ship thcm filled with seed to us as soon rs
possible, so we can arrange for next season u
business. Sacks will DO furnished 70 shippers
who desire TO ship US seed duEing July and
August. JOHN B. GALLAWAY,
Sec'y and lr. Memphis Cotton-Seed Assn.
July n, ltg. liG-ln