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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

The plurality of worlds discussion
receives impetus from the opinions re-
Gently expressed by Professor Lock
yer concerning human life on the
planet Mars. Professor Lockyer be-
lievos that life on that plant may be
very much like human life on the
earth, Although the light cannot be
so bright, the organs of sight of the
inhabitants may be 50 much more sus-
ceptible as to make their vision quite
as good as ours. Probably the heat of
Mars is. less than on the earth, but it
is by no means less in proportion to
the lessencd powers of the solar rays.
Several remarkable seas are now de-
Enable in the Southern hemisphere Of
Mars. One of them is like the Baltic
in outline. Another sea near the
equator is 1000 miles in length and
about 100 in breadth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

CINCINNATI, January %. - River
falling. Clearing and pleasant.
CAIRO, ILL, January 25.-Arrived
Charles Morgan, Cincinnati, 9p.m.
Departed-Vint Shinkle, Memphis, s
pm; Charles Morgan, New Orleans,
10; John Porter, Ohio, 6 am. There
is some heavy ice still running. Clear
and pleasant.
PITTsBURG, January 25.-Riyer Z
feet II inches and Stationary. Wealth
er clear and very pleasant.
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Bank Statement.

New YORK, January 15,-Loans
increase, S1,2l7 800; specie increase,
SS7 100; legal tender increase, S3,.
633, 800; deposits increase, $3,39O,600
circulation decrease, $4,000 reserve
increase, S2,873,25O banks now hold
Sl7 ,2S6,OOO in excess of legal require
mentS.
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Origin of billiards.

1t may be interesting to billiard
players to know something of the ori-
gin Of the game. In the latter part OF
the sixteenth century London pawn
broker, William Kerr, was in the
habit of amusing himself, in wet
weather when there were no custo-
mers, with pushing about three balls
on the counter with a yard measure.
This suggested board with side
pockets. An old manuscript says
" Master William Kerr did make one
board whereby game is played with
three balls and all the young men
were greatly recreated thereat, chiefly
the young clergymcn from st. Paul'S
hence one of yo strokes was named
canon, having been by one Of We
clergymen invented. The game is
now known by the name of 'bill-yard,
because William or Bill Kerr did
first play with the yard measure. The
stick is now called kew, or kue.
The old bill-yard is modernized into
billiard and kew " into cue. II may
be added that many "bilker plays
billiards now.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

WRITE me down an ass That was
the injunction of the ancient Dogberry
His request may well be echoed by any
man of the present day, who, when suf
fering from the intolerable complaint,
fever an ague, fails SO seek relief in Reeds
Gilt Edge Tonic II never fails in mala-
rial or bilious disorders and it is pleasant,
safe and efficient. 1t is gentle and pleas
ing inyigorant for delicate females and all
who have been weakened by sickness.
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EnnbezzIer Arrested.

CINCINNATI, January 25.-G. NJ
Nelson, who has held the Office o.
county treasurer of Fayette county
Ind, two terms, enjoying the respect
and confidence of all, has been arrest.
ed, charged with embezzling $4,000 Of
the county's funds. The trial will
take place in Wayne county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

NEVADA stands with California in
regard to the Chinese question. San
Francisco newspapers of the 11th
report the action in the senate of the
former State ON the preceding day,
directing the senator's and requesting
the representatives to vote for the bill
proposed in congress by the house
committee on education and labor to
restrict Chinese immigration. A res
.olution to that effect was adopted
unanimously, one member only ex-
cepted. Perhaps there will be glim-
mering consciousness in certain Fast
ern journals presently that there is
somebody besides the Dennis Kearneys
interested in checking the Mongolian
tide and that something more than
mere prejudice is involved in the
question. The fact is, so far as we
can learn, there is nobody of influence
or standing on the Pacific coast but
opposes Chinese immigration; except
the few whose money interests are on
the side of cheap and degraded labor
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Reslore,I 10 thc NIinistr,.

RICHMOND, VA, January 25.-The
East Hanover Prosbytery, by vote Of
fifteen to six, has restored to the min
istry DR.. E. I. Baird, suspended last
year for alleged irregularities with the
funds of the Presbyterian Board of
Publication, of which body he was
secretary The grounds for restora-
ton are that the Presbytery find that
DR.. Baird has made distinct and peni-
tent acknowledgment of moral wrong
by him and expresses penitent sorrow
for the great injury to the cause Of
Christ and the church resulting there.
from
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Musicians TnI.e Notice.

CINCINNATI, January 25.-The Gin.
cinnati Musical Festival Association
announce to-day that they will give a
prize of one thousand dollars for an
original composition for orchestra and
chorus, to be performed in the festival
next year. The competition is limited
to native Americans.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

CALVIN T. Fillmore, brother of the
late President Fillmore, has just died
at the age Of sixty-ninc Mr.. Fillmore
was a plain, woll-to-do farmer, who
lived for many years near Ann Arbor,
Mich, whele his death occurred. He
bore striking likeness to his more
distinguished kinsman, by whom he
was regularly visited several times a
year before the cx-Prcsidont's death.
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Mines ON Fire.

PoTTsvILLE, PA, January25.- The
Locust Gap mines, between Mt. Car
mel and Shamokin, operated by Gros.
ber q Sleeps, are on fire three hun
dred feet below the surface, 1t is
thought they will have to be flooded
to prevent the flames from spreading
to other mines.
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CHICAGO, January 25.-Thursday
night a well-to-do farmer named o.
P. Hull, residing near the village Of
Wassonyille, Iowa, rose in the night
and with an ak split open the head of
his daughter Emma, aged eighteen,
and Immediately thereafter shot him
self with a pistol with fatal effect. No
cause is known, as he was unusually
fond of his family.
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A NnaIi BIazc.

CHICAGO, January 25.-One section
Of Armour & Co.. s warehouse, at the
Union stockyards, was burned carly
this morning. No provisions were de,
stroyed, and the loss, which is con,
fined to the one building, will proba,
bly, not exceed $4,000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

OF the result of the Connecticut
senatorial contest the Springfield Re
publican says: "The nomination Of
Mr.. Platt is simply running through
the woods and taking up with the
poorest timber. Mr.. Platt is a shrewd
country lawyer and smart managing
politician. Compared with Hawley,
Harrison or Jewell, he will carry into
the senate very meagre political ac-
complishments and no personal inAu-
ence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

Mr.. GARRIsON's latest letter on the
bloody shirt as the only,,available party
standard in 1880 inspires the Boston
Advertiser (Rep.) to remark that il
that is true the party is likely tC
lose the election, for it is "impOssi.
ble to rally the North by that cry,
and if it were possible it would still be
undesirable.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

THE proposed reapportionment of
Indiana will give the Democrats nine
congressional districts, six secure and
the Others having Democratic MAORI
ties of 446, 81 and 29S, and the Re
plblicans four, with majorities rang
ing from ,284 up to 6249.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

The Springfield Republican (Ind.
Rep thinks it rather a joke, after
all the talk about Southern claims,
that the William and Mary College
bill, "a bill which was fathcred by so
stout Republican as George F. Hoar,
should fail in body controlled by the
party which was going to assume the
rebel debt, pay for the slaves and dc
sundry other little things of that
sort
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

TIE Princess Victoria of Baden, al
her recent confirmation, was required
TO write q short autobiography and
proposed plan of life. Among other
statements the young princess ad'
vSnced the following Fepublican the
DRY. That princes must not conceive
1hat they are placed in their high po-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

GOVERNOR MCCLELLAN's message
is warmly eulogized by the Republican
Sta te Gazette, which says "We have
a MIN of brains for governor of New
Jersey read every word of his mes,
sage'--"an admirable document =
the best message for years marks
out a correct line of policy Sc
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

THE late Dean Richmond once
askedawOuld-b be deadhead hegrounds
of his application for a free pass.
Simply because | don't want to pay.
The testy old railroad king at once
handed him a pass, and said Sir, l
respect you. You're the first dead
head that ever told the truth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

GOVERNOR ROBERTS, of Texas, will
not order an election to fill the va
cancy in the Forty-ffth congress
caused by the death of Gustav
Schleicher. He thinks that the ses-
sion is now too short.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

In 1869 the United States imported
paper to the amount of S527 ,465, and
exported none worth mentioning. The
last yearly statistics give only Sl35, ,487
worth of imports, against 81 ,lO3,3l8 Of
exported paper.
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sition because they have greater rights
than other human beings, but that
they may maintain an elevated stand
ard of Obligation and set an example
Of fidelity to the whole society of
which they are members.
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, January 25,-For
Tennessee and the Ohio valley partly
cloudy weather and north to west
winds, rising barometer and during
the night lower temperature.
The lower Mississippi and upper
Ohio rivers will rise slowly.
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Linuor House Closed.

CINCINNATI, January %. - The
house of Williams & Lawson, whole
sale liquor dealers, on Walnut street,
was closed by the sheriff last night
under an attachment against the stock
by number of creditors. Assets Of
the firm are stated to be from thirty
to forty thousand dollars, The debts
are about the same amount.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

THE Nationals and Democrats in
the Maine house have cut down the
salaries of all State officials one-third
and abolished the junketing commit
tees appointed to visit State institu-
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DIED.

B0TT0-At Canton, Miss, on September 6,
1873, Louis ID. BorTo, aged S5 years.
His romans will arrive on tho Mississippi
and Tennessee railroad to morrow SUNDAY
at half-past twelve o'clock, and will be in
TERED at Calvary Cemetery. Friends and ac-
quaintancec are invited to attend the funeral.
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Fire.

WARWICK, N. Y, January 25.-
Eager's block and five houses opposite
burned this morning. Total loss,
$4,000,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

The senate committee on commerce
have got the steamboat bill, which
passed the house last session, ready to
renort.
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mated per wagons and other sources


NEW YORK, january 25, 1855 pm.
Cotton opened this morning weak
and lower to sell; now quiet and
steady at prices unchanged from yes
terday. Ordinary, Z 9-16c good ordi-
nary, SIC; low middling, 9 1-16c; mid
ding, 7-l6c; good middling, 8 13-16c;
middling fair, 1Ojc. Futures closed
last evening los points above the
morning figures; opened lower; now
barely steady as follows: Deliveries for
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

Spring brings the blossoms, Au.
tumn brings the fruit, aud also serious
colds, etc, for which nothing superior
to Dr. Bull s Cough Syrup has ever
been offered to the public. II always
cures.
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PanaiOn RiIl.

WASHINGTON, January 25,-The
President has signed the arrears Of
the pension bill,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

COLONEL FITzHUGH, the bigger
man than old Grant" has been elected
doorkeeper of the Texas senate.
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Cincinnati Produce Market.

CINCINNATI, January 25.-Flour
and grain quiet and unchanged.
Whisky firm at So. Pork quiet at Ga
Ole. Lard firmly held at Sc O5 per
cwt.; Sc bid. Bnlk meats quiet and
firm at %, 4l@4ic Bacon scarce and
firm at 4, 4s@5c.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-25

GALVESTON, January 25.-Cotton
strog. Middling, Sc. Sales, 1926
bales receipts, 3257 bales; stock,
9O,963 bales.
New ORLEANS, January %, 11:3O
a.m.-Cotton steady. Middling 9ic.
Sales, 1000 bales. Receipts to-day,
1908 bales; stock, 3il,84l bales ;
sales yesterday, IL, 1852 bales, the mar
ket closing strong.
LIVERPOOL. January $3.50 pm.
Cotton opened with moderate in
quiry fully supplied. Quotations for
uplands, 8 5-16d; Orleans, 59-16d.
Estimated sales 5000 bales forexport,
1000. Receipts, $3.50 bales; American,
100; stock, 3S7, 600; American, 2T3,
900. Futures opened this morning
with sellers at 1-32d decline; now dull
but steady Deliveries for January
February and March, 5 5-lGd; March
and April, 81; April and May, 5 13-32d
May and June, 57-l6d June anC
July. AID
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INSURANCE,
WARNING.

VNHIS is to notify the public that we are the
Il only persons now residing here who are
or ever have been duly authorized and
commissioned agents Of the WESTCHES.
TEX Fire Insurance Company of New York,
and WESTERN Fire Insurance Company Of
Toronto, and any person or persons repre-
senting anything to the contrary are Inn
posters and unworthy of credit.
MURPHY x MURPHY,
General Insurance Agents, No. s Madison
street. Memphis, Tenn. 12l-l59
The New York herald., 1879-01-07
General Grant i'm ireland.

The Irishmen of the north Of Ireland, it
will be seen from our special cable de-
spatches this morning, have amply atoned
by the warmth and enthusiasm Of their
welcome to General Grant for the dis
courtesy which was shown him by their
exceedingly silly and foolish brethren of
the chief city Of the southern por-
ton Of the island He. left Dublin
yesterday morning, and at all the stations
on his way to Londonderry he was met by
thousands of people, who cheered him
Justify, and when possible insisted upon
shaking hands with him. At the latter city
he was received by the Mayor and Council,
formally welcomed and escorted to the Town
Hall, where the honors of citizenship were
conferred upon him. These compliments
and marks OF consideration were acknowl-
edged in one of his characteristic speeches,
and in the evening he was entertained
at a banquet. All this is in striking
contrast with the bigoted and spiteful ac-
ton of the narrow-minded Town Coun-
cillors of the city Of Cork, and we are
certain that the great majority Of Irish born
citizens in this country will rejoice that the
people of the north Of Ireland have had the
good sense to rebuke the intolerance of that
portion of their countrymen who have
always so loudly clamored for toleration,
religious and political.
The New York herald., 1879-01-07
The Broadway Railroad.

For twenty years spectators in horse
railway projects endeavored to secure the
possession Of Broadway. In that street of
enormous trafic-for SO many years the
one great thoroughfare Of the city-they
saw bonanza on bonanza of five cent fares.
Fourth avenue lines Third avenue lines,
Second avenue lines and Sixth avenue lines
made money clearly o Broadway line
would make more money than any of these,
il not more than all together. There were
about seven lines Of omnibuses that used
various sections Of the part Of Broadway
below Fourteenth street, and tho horse
car schemer always saw his way to
an annihilation of the omnibus lines and
the capture Of all those fnres, as we'll as to
the capture Of large proportion Of the
traffic on the side lines, for the people used
these lines to get up town with little regard
to the precise locality of their homes, and
all such travellers would prefer Broadway
line. Year after year, with hungry persist
ency. these schemer came before the Legis-
lature, and 1t was not the virtue of that
body that prevented the passage of their
Dlll6. OuCo INC StIuCture Vi u DTOauWay
railroad was actually begun, and the rails
were laid between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets, and remained there years
after the conflict over them was forgotten.
Finally tho line that now uses the upper
part Of Broadway and Greene and Wooster
streets was accepted as compromise. and
the struggle ceased. All those endeavors
to put rails in the part Of Broadway be-
tween Fourteenth street and the Battery
were opposed and defeated by the property
owners. Were the property owners en-
tirely well informed in that particular
There Is room to doubt it. Perhaps the
larger number OF them have changed their
minds on the subject, and all have revised
their opinions on the subject of the mutual
relations of property owners and passenger
carriers. Broadway has lost its SUI
premacy as the seat of retail trade;
its glory has gone to less COM
modious and less satisfactory places,
and, though the want of a horse railroad
was not the cause of this, that want was not
without some relation to the result In
the growth of our city population went by
The New York herald., 1879-01-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Senator George F. Hoar and Mr.. George 8. Bout
WE'LL of Massachusetts ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Count LeYenhaupt. the Swedish Minister. arrived
at the Clarendon Hotel last evening from Washington.
An effort is being made to have the President and
faIuily attend temperance meeting Massac
next year.
The Epoca. OF Madrid. published last evening an
article suggesting the marriage Of King Alfonso
with Belgian princess.
In some Western towns you SEQ against green
grocers store sign Offering meats" for sale. the
meats" being canned oysters.
A member Of the English House of Commons says
that the sessions have become dull that he would
just as soon spend his time In church.
Ex-Governor Jewell OF Connecticut. will give Gov.
crnorelect Andrews dinner tho 9th inst and all
the ex-Governors Of tho State have been invited.
Colonel Robert =. Crockett. the only surviving son
of the famous Davy Crockett IL living in Texas old
feeble and poor. pension for him LIS spoken Of.
Princess Louise is very fond of tho paintings of the
eccentric Mr. Whistler. 1t is said that previous TO
leaving England she called to see another and emf
nent painter. but received from him mot at home
and on intimation that he not ut the beck and
call Of princesses.
Mr. Rnskin is very sulky the result OF his de-
fence against painter Whistler and his resignation of
the slade PROFESSIONALLY has not increased his popu
larty Whistler, on the contrary, sparkles over the
Sunday breakfasts that lie gives talks about the case
over hockheimer and Japanese shrmps and saws he
is going 10 write article AZ well as punish some
moro critics.
The New York herald., 1879-01-07
Distress In England.

The London letter which we print to-day
sets forth in striking colors the widespread
depression of British industries and the
terrible suffering which has fallen upon
multitudes of British laborers. There are
in Manchester alone thirty thousand oper-
atives out of employment, and they at one
time entertained purpose of proceeding in
O body to London to make o demonstra-
ton in the presence of the government.
That purpose seems to have been wisely
abandoned. The government could DO
nothing to help them. The severe depres-
sion and distress proceed from causes
more powerful than legislation. Eng
land is losing its markets, and can
not continue to manufacture goods
which it has no chance Of SELL
ing. The business of England has long
been in an unnatural condition. 1t is
wholly dependent on foreign markets, and
now that other countries, and particularly
the United States, have so improved their
manufactures that they can undersell the
British, or at least meet them on equal
terms of competition in the markets of the
world, it is not easy to see how England is
ever to recover her former prosperity.
The New York herald., 1879-01-07
The injunction Against. Tammany.

The most astounding surprise which ever
fell upon the Tammany Society was expert
enced in it's meeting last evening when an
injunction from the Supreme Court was
served restraining it from initiating the
one hundred and forty-seven new members
elected on the 31st of December The affi-
dayits on which the injunction was granted
allege that the election of those new men,
bers was clandestine and in violation
OF the meeting having been printed
only in an obscure paper called the
New York Mercantile Journal, which has
no circulation, and which members of the
society entitled to participate in the election
had no opportunity to see. The election is
therefore asserted to be illegal and in vio-
lation Of the rights of existing members.
The officers OF the society are required to
appear before Judge Barrett OH January 13
to shoY cause why this injunction should
not be perpetual When it was served, last
evening, Tammany appointed a committee
and adjourned, without initiating the new
members. The injunction fell like stroke
Va ASutAAuB Out VI CleuE
We will not attempt to trace the concealed
hand by which the machinery Of justice has
been set in motion against the Tammany
Society. We have been expecting, as
consequence Of the signal defeat OF Tam
many in the last election, that an attempt
would be made to take the control of the
organization out OF the hands of Mr.. Kelly
and his friends, but we did not suppose it
would come in this form. 1t seemed more
probable that the elements of dissatis-
faction known TO exist in the society
would be played upon to GUST the present
leaders by vote Of the members. The
Tammany chiefs evidently expected the
attack to come in that form. They Mt
tempted to ward it off by holding clandes-
tine election. But by violating the rules of
the society they unwittingly opened the
door for the legal proceedings which
overlook them just as they were on
the point of perfecting their strata
gem by initiating the new members,
who would have secured Mr.. Kellys ma
jority. If the injunction should be made
perpetual the clandestine election will be
annulled, and in new election with all
the members present there is chance that
Mr. Kellys supporters will be outvoted.
Unless there is some danger of this it is
not easy to account for the clandestine ac-
ton against which Judge Barrett's injunc-
ton has been issued. We are about to wit
ness the most virulent rumpus that has ever
taken place in that unquiet organization.