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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
AN ASSIGNEE'S DISCOVERY.
Why a st. Louis Savings Bank
Fell Into His Hands.
The Cashier That Secretly Loaned Out
100000.

ST.. LOUIS, May 26.-Mr. Dierber
ger, assignee of the Broadway Savings
Bank, has discovered in a private
drawer of j. P. Krieger, ir., cashier
of that institution, papers in the form
of checks, drafts, etc, which show
that Kreiger and Meyer A. Gold
soil have been privately connected in
the use of the funds of the bank, and
that Goldsoll is indebted to the bank
about 100000, the recovery of which
is very doubtful.
Similar papers were found in Krie-
gers room at his fathers residence,
where he lived. To what particular use
Krieger and Goldsoll put the money
obtained from the bank, or whether
Krieger derived any benefit from it,
does not appear, but that Krieger was
in collision with Goldsoll and fur
nished him with money with proper Sc
c~uritytherc can be no question. These
transactions have extended over a
period of nearly three years, and most
of them have been s~tudiously kept
from the knowledge Of the directors
L. p. Krieger, jr., for whom a war
rant was issued Saturday, gave himself
up this morning, and was put in jail
pending the procurement Of a bond
He spent Saturday night with hi,
mistress in town, and ON Sunday wen
to the country, where he spent thu
day and last night with a friend-on,
of his bondsmen, who persuaded hin
to surrender to the authorities. The
meeting of depositors this morning
resulted in nothing definite, excep
the appointment Of a committee t.
look after their interests and emplo,
q lawyer, etc.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
The Saratoga Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly.

SARATOGA, May 26.-The commit
tee on theological seminaries made a
report showing the number of semi
naries at thirteen, number of students
last year FIVE hundred and thirty-four
number of professors ifty-three,
graduated students one hundred and
sixty-one, amount Of property held
$l,4l5,l77, The report recommends
%seminaries for colored men to the
large liherality of the church,
The German seminaries were spoken
Of for the present as necessary to be
merged in the older institutions as
soon as possible. Great pleasure wac
expressed in the raising Of the stan
dard of scholarship in the seminarie'
to the exclusion of the lazy, dull and
worldly-minded, which was recon-.
mended. LApplause].
The death Of three professors wa.
Noticed. The report was unanimously
adopted. The committee on the pol.
ity Of the church reported several
o%vertures seut up from presbytories
generally Of local interest, aud the
suggestions of tho committee were
generally adopted.
On an overture of the presbytery O.
New York in regard to the reconstrue,
tion of synods it was ordered that Q
special committee be retired to report
the exuot assembly,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
Impressions of the SOuth.

St. Louis Republican,
Rev. w. w. Boyd of the Second
Baptist Church preached yesterday
morning at the Temple of the Gates
of Truth, Seventeenth and Pine, taking
for his theme thoughts suggested by
his recent trip to the Atlanta conven-
ton. The preacher announced his
text from Mathew xiii, s: Zone is
your master, even Christ and all We
are brethren"
After aptly illustrating the instruct
i've and pleasant lessons nature ever
has in store for the Christian he said :
1t is indeed the Sunny South to
which | have been. If Gods creative
smile is on a land. it is on this. From
Nashville to Atlanta we rode through
a perfect garden of beauty.
All traces of the sad, bitter war are
obliterated, except to the experienced
eve of Onc actually in the battles.
Union and Confederate dead rest side
by side in common graves, here and
there marked by simple monumental
stones, and send up the silent prayer
that we may all be one in the memory
that whichever side won the day on
separate battlefield it was an Ameri-
can victory, for the same red blood of
a common ancestry pulsed with the
came rhythm in the veins of all. And
this prayer for uuityis being answered.
My visit gave me favorable oppor-
tunities to converse with many col
Ored men concerning their present
condition in the South. | cannot
speak Of the Gulf States, but for Ten
nessee, Georgia and the States imme-
niately joined to these. The testi-
mony of an intelligent colored man in
Nashville is the testimony of scores of
others with whom | have talked. He
said that when his people we're set free
by the war great numbers Of them
tlockea to the cities and great centers.
Here they found but little to do. and
although willing to work, could not
find but scanty employment. They
must live, and this led to theft and
other crimes.
This fact, he thought, accounted for
the large number of criminals from
the eolored population.
Moreover, they had no true idea Of
what freedom means, and boosted a
good deal of what they could do. As
for himself he had voted the Repub-
lean ticket from the time he was
freed without molestation. Some
times his employer would say that it
would be for his interest to vote with
him, but
NO FORCE OR THEAT
had been used. There were cases re-
ported of a different nature. but he
thought that any one who minded his
own business could vote as he chose.
In Atlanta the colored population
seemed well-to-do. They were well
clad and seemed tidy and neat.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
A NEW LEADvILLE
Arkansas the Richest State Ia the
Union.

Little Rock Gazette, 2il
Times train, on which the day OF
our prosperity is a passenger, is swiftly
coming. Our mineral resources are
in advance of any yet discovered, as
the following from a correspondent OF
the HotSprings Telegraph will prove;
"The most interesting and encour-
aging discovery in the history of the
mines has Just been made. On the
famous Diamond Joe lode, purchased
by r. Alexander, a vein of quartz has
been struck, carrying chlOrides assay
ing from $500 to $1,000 per ton.
The whole country is wild with
excitement, and parties holding claims
in the remotest part of the district
from the new bonanza will not sell at
any price. Fifteen thousand dollars
has been offered by two different par
ties for a mine some distance from the
new lode just struck, but the owners,
Messrs. Demby a. Baldwin, will not
listen to it.
IF any additional discovery is
made in the next few days, tits your
correspondence belief the people will
go crazy, as they are perfectly wild
now. Machinery has been photographed
for to work the above mine, and will
arrive in a few days. A Aume is in
course of erection on the Walnut
and work will Immediately commence
on that mine. Messrs. Dunn, Groves
aud Sheridan, owners of the consoli-
dated Glendale mines, are piling up
paying ore in large quantities, and
work has commenced upon all the
mines throughout the district and
many are giving great satisfaction to
the prospectOrs. A shaft has been
sunk in the Silver City lode by Joe
Molen & Co., and the results are much
better than anticipated. This lode is
considered one of the richest in the
district. Several new buildings have
been erected and an eighteen-room
hotel is now in course of construction.
From the present outlook the pros
poets are that Silver City will be the
bonanza of the world.
Mr.. Walsh, the secretary and re-
corder of Mount Ida Mining Associa-
ton, is in Hot Springs, having the
constitution and bylaws of the asso-
citation printed. Everything is con-
Quoted in the most b~usihess-like
manner, and Silver City is rapidly
advancing in everything that goes
toward making it a place of vast i'm
portanoe, not only to the State of
Arkansas, but the entire country.
The stage line is carrying a great
many people, and numbers are visiting
the place on horseback. | have every
reason to believe that Silver City.
would be one of the best places in the
country to start a daily newspaper, as
new discoveries are made every day
that would interest everybody.
Hardly a day passes but some new
developments and rich finds come
to light that would %startle the country,
and cause a greater rush to this place
than was ever experienced at Lead
vile, if the facts were only known.
just as soon as the car load of ore is
shipped to st. Louis we expect to see
hundreds upon hundreds hocking to
Silver City"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27

coat thrown over his shoulders and
cap on bis head. Being requested to
remove his caph he did so, and then
| stared, first on one side, then on the
other, at the persons present without
attending to the order Of the presi-
dent to turn toward the court. Then,
crying out What does this mean?'
he tried to jump over the bar which
separated him from the court, and
partially succeeded. He then COM
menced roaring and bowling, trying to
release himself from the soldiers who
held him. In consequence he was
ordered to be removed, and was taken
away, continuing to halloo all the
time. Thereupon the president sus-
pended the sitting Of the court for
five minutes, and, re-entering in
formed the court that the prisoner
had been examined during the pre-
liminary proceedings by two physi-
clans, when doubts were entertained
as to his sanity, but that these ply
sicians having given their opinion
that he was not insane, the court had
decided to continue the trial in his
absence, considering his conduct as
violent opposition to the tribunal.
As he assembled The scaffold the
drums were beat and the bugles
sounded, and this continued until his
death. He retained his presence of
mind, showing great hardihood. His
last words were, | am informed, as
follows. When the officiating priest
came to him at the foot of the scaffold
according to the usual custom, and
asked him, Have you made your
peace with God?' he replied, Go to
the -, all you liarsl' Then they
commenced in usual form to read the
judgment and sentence of the court,
when he interrupted by saying: Go
to the - with your verdict" And
when he had mounted the scaffold he
cried, "Vive rInternationalel'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
PANAMA.
A Protest Against the Destruction of
Defenseless Places.
Vessel Lost with an English Vice Consul
on Board.

PANAMA, May 1.-THE diplomatic
corps in Lima have addressed a strong
remonstrance to the CHILEAN admiral
protesting againt the destruction of
%unfortifed and defenseless places and
neutral property. There is no Other
war news Of interest.
A letter from Punta Arenas men
tions the loss of a vessel, on board Of
which were the English vice consul
MIR. Dunsmure, two other foreigners,
a CHILEAN trader and five of the crew.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27

By the way, l met Mr.. Nelson, Of
the American Express Company,
when | went up the river. He is a
capital travelling companion, and a
brother-in-law of Captain McKell, of
Burlington. On one of his trips up
the river, there were a lot of raftmen
among his fellow. passengers. One of
these useful. but unostentatious, men
sat next to Nelson at the supper table.
The lumber navigator took a large
baked potato, broke it in two, gouged
a hole in one half with his knife, filled
the hole with butter, which imme-
diately began to sizzle and boil, and
then he thrust the seething, blistering
mass in his mouth. He didn't hold it
there very long, however, He Just
shut his mouth down on it once, and
then with a wild, startled expression
on his countenance, he turned his
head over his shoulder and fercely
spat the offending potato out on the
floor. Then he looked de6antly up
and down the cabin and listened for
comment, but hearing none, he turned
to Nelson, and in firm, self-approving
tones, with the air of a man who had
met the emergency and was equal to
it, remarked, Many a blamed fool
would have swallowed that arl'-
Lhawkeye.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
An Ancient Rover.
Titusyillo Herald.

Iitusyille Herald.
There is a poor man in Titusville
that has been out to the Black Hills
three times and back. After staying
a while at home he gets uneasy ana
sallies out for the last new town talked
of. Last February, with $50. he set
out for Leadville his funds gave out
when he got as far as Trinidad, and he
looted it the rest of the journey, 300
miles. In Leadville he got a place as
cook for $50 a month and board. but
could not stand the heat of the
weather, threw up his place in a week.
and, at last advices, with g in his
pocket and 800 miles beyond Chicago.
ae was turning his face homeward
again to this city. He has good habits
but an lncurable rowing disposition,
while his boys are just the oppo-
site. Four of them are grown
men and none of them have
scarcely set their foot out Of town but
once since they came to this city 10
1--we IN 1860. When the old gentle
man leaves he always says This is
the last tine. I'm never coming back.
| am gong to make something and
send for YOU all" But it Is ALWAYS
the same old story. In due time come.
letter. bad luck! Can't stand +
Dead broke. Boys send me some
money or | shall starye." A family
council is held. The boys have =
little laid up against a rainy day
little deposit in the bank. They poo
together. They go to the bank anG
then to the postofice and start 4
money order and bring the wandere,
home. lie gets home at last. Tn,
family all have a good laugh and or,
when he gets back. They ask him /
he is cured he says cured for life.
But they know he isn't. Some morn
Ing he will disappear again. He mus
have gypsy blood" in his veins.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
Prince Albert aud a Faithful
SerVnuf.
B~laekwood's Magaziao.I

biackWood's Magaziue.l
The same appreciation of good ser.
wee which the prince consort showed
Tor the public officers of the crown
was also observable in his regard for
the domestics who had been attached
to HIM from his earlier days. While
The queen aud prince we're at Dusscl
dorf on their way 10 visit the princess
royal at Berlin, they received the news
OF the death Of an old domestic. The
extract from the queens diary, which
describes this incident, is one Of the
prettiest passages in the present vol.
ume' While | was dressing, Albert
came in, quite pale, with a telegram
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
WASHINGTON.
Holders of Called Bonds Requested
to Send Them to the Depart
ment for Payment.
WASHINGTON, May26,- The follow
ing was issued this evening;
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE SERETARY;
WASHINGTON, May %.

lux was lnouCu bnlc CNChAhS
Treasury DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE SERErARY;. I
WASHINGTON, May % }
Holders of called bonds which ma
ture before the first day of July next
are requested to send them to the de-
partment for payment during the
month of June. In this way holders
of such bonds will receive payment
for them, with interest to maturity,
before the bonds mature. The large
payments of called bonds to be
made in July will occupy the
different Offices of the department
in that month, and preference in the
order of liquidation will be given to
maturing bonds rather than to bonds
past due, the holders of which have
failed to present them for payment.
All United States bonds should be
addressed to the LOAN Division,
S%ecretary's Office and all regis
tered bonds should be assigned to
I" the secretary of the treasury for
redemption" When parties desire
checks in payment for registered
bonds drawn to the order of any one
but the payee, they should assign them
to the secretary Of the treasury for
redemption on account Of the owner
or owners, giving name or names
thereof, as it is impossible to notify
directly the holders of such called
bonds. The press Of the country is
respectfully requested to give pub
LEFTY to this notice that there may be
no delay in the. payment of the bonds
and that an accumulation of money in
the treasury may be avoided.
[Signed] JOHN SHERMAN, Secy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
senator Allen G. Thurman.

Little Rock Gazetto.l
We publish in another column a
synopsis of the great speech of Senator
Thurman, which will be found most
interesting reading. Mr.. Thurman
has been in the United States senate
about ten years, and in all that time
he has been the leader of the Democ-
racy. He has never been found want
ing in the time of need, and he has al
ways been equal to the occasion. He is
undoubtedly one of the greatest men
who ever sat in the American senate.
He possesses the largest measure OF
abilities, his information is thorough
and inexhaustible, and always at HAND
OH occasion. He is a ready debatel
and quick at repartce. He is always
staunch and true has no vagaries anC
never flies off the handle. He cal
always be counted on at a crisis t
step in and save the day. His per.
sonal character is pure and irreproach
albeit is unstained with a single &C
unbecOming an honest man and a gen
tleman. Allen q. Thurman has bu
few equals and no superior.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
tuesday Evening, May "a, 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s. per annun and
500 per month for less than enc year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER is 81 per annum-
postage free.
Persons leaving the city for the sumner
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege of
changing pOstOfice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27

Nearly all the tragedies contain the
exclamation" Never" uttered in a high
key and with the = m%agniioently
rolled. Now the word makes an au-
dience giggle, and nudge each other
with hardly ever" 1t is the opinion
Of Lester Wallack that Pinafore has
cooked the goose Of tragedy for the
present, although Of course he never
used such language,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27

To reach the highest standard of
health nature demands the utmost
regularity Of the bowels a slight de-
Walton brings many inconvenience
and paves the way to more serious
dangers. We can recommend DR..
Bulls Baltimore Pills as the best
medicine for the needs of the digest
i've %apparatus.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
Ladies

DO you want a pure, bloom,
ing Complexion? II so, a
few applications Of Hagan's
MAGNOLIA BALM will graf
ify you to your hearts con-
tent. 1t does away with Sal
lOwnesS, Redness, Pimples,
blotches, and all diseases and
imperfectiOns of the skin. It
OvercOmes the flushed appear
ance of heat, fatigue and ex-
element. Itmakes a lady o.
THIRTY appear but TWEN.
TY; and so natural, gradual,
and perfect are its effects,
That il is impossible to detect
its application.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
Five in Washington.

WASHINGTON, May 26.-Miller &
Gross, candy manufacturers, No. 3l3
Eighth street, northwest, burned to-
day. Loss on stock and building $780,
900; insurance $4,000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
Wealthy Catholics.
speeial 10 the Courier-Jou-nnIl

special to the Courier-Jou-nall
NEW YORK, May 23.-Archbishop
Purcell is to arrive here this evening
or tomorrow, at the request of Car
dinal McCloskey, to attend the dedica
ton ceremonies of st. Patrick's
Cathedral on Sunday. and his visit is
to be made the occasion of an attempt
10 raise a sum of money to pay his
debts. A number of wealthy Catho-
lies have expressed their willingness
to assist in the movement, and the
cardinal himself has subscribed $500
to the purpose. The opposition to
assisting the archbishop to pay his
debts has been quietly overcome, and
It is now believed that there will be a
large sum raised. A similar effort is
to be made in the Brooklyn diocese.
Associated Press dispatch.
CINCINNATI, May z3.-The assignee
Of Archbishop Purcell to-day filed a
schedule of the assets and liabilities
OF the archbishop and his brother,
Edward Purcell. The total amount
Of claims is $3,697, 6l.49; total assets,
81 ,l8l, 569,47, Of which amount Sil8,-
536.28 is classed as doubtful or worth
less.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27

1t must have been in the green
cherry season that Tennyson wrote
From waist places comes a cry
-Yonker's Gazette.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27
Oliver Wendell Holmes in sord;r

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in sending
a poem to the New York Tribune
says IN a postscript: Poems are raro-
y, printed correctly in newspapers.
MS u the reason so many poets die
young. Of course, after this infor-
nation very few newspapers will here
alter correctly print the verses Of
young poets. The poems will ALWAYS
be glyento the intelligent compost
tor. to put in type, and the proof.
reader will forget to read the proof
LNorristown Herald.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-27

revolutionist retired to Caprera, after
the struggle of Aspromonte, hisdaugh-
ter, Nine Canzio, accompanied him.
As she was on the eve of accouchment,
she took with her a nurse named
Francesca. This woman cared ten
derby for Garibalei in his sickness.
One morning he summoned his daugh-
ter and said to her, you must get
another nurse for your infant. From
this day forward Francesca will be one
of the family, and will cat with Vi"
A very short time later Francesca be-
came a mother. She has since had
two children. One of her children is
dead. The others-Mentio and Clelia
are now in Rome with Garibaldi
and Francesca. These two being lille
Ultimate, and the offspring of Annita
being illegitimate, the Italian journals
contemplate with interest the fact
that Garibaldi's only lawful child is
the daughter of the Marquis Bas-
mondi, with whom he never cohabited.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-19
My Lady.

A good deal has been said, and we'll
said, too, about men sp" aking of their
wives as their "ladies" It would
sound very ridiculous to hear lady
call her husband "my gentleman -
would it not? or, ask another lady
where cher gentleman was? when
inquiring concerning her husband.
One is just as bad as the other giving
up plain husband" and plain "wife,' -
and plain way Of calling people by
their right names.
We shouldn't be at all surprised, if
the class of society who hunt for round.
about ways to express their ideas,
might. in . little while, when inquiring
about ones sons and daughters, adopt
such modes of expression as these
" How is your eldest masculine off,
spring ?" or, How is your little fem
mime darling, who addresses you as
parent?"
We can imagine one of these high
flown, unnatural" individuals ad-
dressing q complaint to neighbor in
the following language:
My dear gentleman ; your speci-
men Of the canine species was, by your
youngest masculine offspring, set upon
my ladys feline pet, and had it not
been for your eldest feminine Ethio-
plan bond-woman, it would, by COM
pulsion. have been forced to depart this
life."
There is good deal of deserved satire
in this. There is nothing in reality
that is more vulgar" than an affecta-
ton of high-sounding language in cases
where the employment OF simple terms
would not only be more expressive, but
better. One often hears =" burst for
bust, forehead changed to forward"
and the like showing villainous bad
taste in the man who uses it. Let
it be reformed altogether.