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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-15

eagerly embraced by hundreds who
regard a funeral procession in the
light. of a gala parade. But the lying
in state, to be imposing, is a luxury,
particularly with the im~pecunious
consequently as a corpse is an object
of curiosity inspected by admiring
friends, the beauty Of the exhibition
can be secured at a smaller expense
through the hire of a casket than
through its purchase outright.
In an undertaker's window can be
seen superahundance of silver orna-
lined with rich satin, and
otherwise adorned munifcently. A
fac-simile of this $500 casket can be
hired of its exhibitor, who supplies an
exquisite lining in accordance with
the rules of the trade, pink for bru-
nette, light blue for a blonde, and so
on, and into the loaned receptacle
the corpse until the hour of
arrives, when the inside frame
of the coffin is slipped out and the
deceased transferred to acheap stained
wood imitation of the outer casket,
and planted without the imposture
being detected, At present a hand
some external case demands rental at
s. a day, and as the body is generally
. laid out for three days, this, with
incidentals, constitutes a good source
of revenue.
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A Strnnge story.

New York Tribune.
The revelations now made in the
ease of Barron, the late bank treasurer
of Dexter, are certainly among the
most extraordinary in the recent an.
nails of crime. 1t is now proved.
almost beyond a doubt, that this man,
who was found bound, gagged and
dying in the vault of his bank, where
he was supposed to have been thrust
by robbers in revenge for his refusal
to disclose the secret of the combina-
tion-who, died and was made known
to the whole world as a martyr to his
fidelity-who was eulogized in a thou
sand newspapers and many pulpits-
was, after all, a thief himself, that he
covered up his thefts by alterations in
his books, but no doubt seeing that
detection was inevitable, contrived a
method of suicide which should look
like a murder hat he studied up the
hideous details of his own death from
the description of a great bank rob
berry; and then, taking poison, went
through the masquerade which de-
ceiyed the whole community in which
he lived, and the whole country. 1t
is a strange story, and not the least
remarkable portion of it is that which
shows how, like many another crimi-
nal, he did not see the doors which he
had left wide open for his detection.
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An

OF Colonel Percy Wyndham, who
fought in III civil war, and who was
killed recently bya fall from a balloon
in India, the Albany Argus gives some
entertaining stories. At the close of
his military career, it says, some one
questioned his title in the New York
Herald. In a reply he showed that
Victor Emmanuel gave it to him for
gallantry at Solferino, and he left a
challenge for the writer of the Herald
letter. On being told that that would
lead the grand jury to indict him, he
expressed his willingness to challenge
the grand jury in detail, and could not
get it through his head that law had
any right to interfere with " the pri-
vate pursuits and differences of
gentlemen" His favorite mode of
treating refractory servants was
throwing them out the window, and
in a Justices court he made an able
defense Of the practice by showing
that he always rOomed on the ground
floor, and that his course of discipline
did not injure those who were sub
iects Of it. No officer below him could
complain of the respect and formality
he exacted. becausdhe wasiust as care.
full to conduct himself with p~unctilio
TO his official superiors. A brigadier
general, who sent an aid to him in
action, with a request for a " pinch Of
tobacco, was a person whom he al
ways regarded With suspicion and
establishment. He was a splendid
specimen Of manhood in appearance.
was six feet high, Of a commanding
mien, and could tie his mustaches in
double bow knot behind his ears.
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ROSE
The Wearing Of the Rose a Distinctive
Badge In Various Ages.

Gardeners Magazine.l
In the neighborhood Of Jerusalem
is a pleasant valley which still bears
the name of Solomon's Rose Garden.
and where, accordingto a Mohamme-
dan myth, a compact was made be-
tween the wise man and the geni of
the Morning Land, which was write,
not in blood, like the bond between
Faust and Mephistopheles, nor in gall
like our modern treaties, but with SAT-
from and rose-water upon the petals
of white roses. In Paris, in the six
teenth century, an ediot was issued
requiring all Jews to wear a rose on
their breast, as a distinguishing mark.
In the Catholic Tyrol, in the present
day, betrothed swains are expected to
carry a rose during the period of their
betrothal, as a warning to young maid
ems of their engaged states. Roses
have played, and still play, an
important part in popular usages
In many other parts of the
world. In Germany young girls deck
Their hair with white roses for their
confirmation, their entrance into the
world, and when, at the end of life's
career, the aged grandmother departs
to her eternal rest, a last gift, in the
shape of a rose garland, is laid upon
her bier. Julius Caesar, it is recorded
was fain to hide his badness at the
age of thirty with the produce of the
Roman rose gardens, as Anacreon hid
the SHOWS of eighty under a wreath
OF roses, At mid Lent the pope sends
a golden rose to particular churches
or crowned heads whom he designs as
especially to honor. Martin Luther
wore a rose in his girdle. In these
instances the rose serves as a symbol
Of ecclesiastical wisdom. A rose was
figured On the headman's axe of the
Vochmgericht. Many orders, frater-
mites and societies have taken the
rose as their badge. The "Rosi-
crucians may be instanced. The
Society of the Rose of Hamburg.
an association of learned ladies Of
the seventeenth century, is a less
known example. 1t was divided into
four sections, the Roses, the Lilies.
the Violets and the Pinks. The holy
Medardus instituted in France the
custom of La Rosierre,' by which.
in certain localities, a moneygift and
a crown of roses are bestowed on the
devoutest and mostindustrious maiden
in the commune. The infamous
Duke de Charities established an
Order of the Rose" with a diamet-
really opposite intention, the avowed
object being the undermining of fe-
male virtue. At Treviso a curious
rose feast is or was held annually. A
castle was erected with tapestry and
silken hangings, and defended by the
best born maidens in the city as
against the attacks of the young
bachelors, almonds, nutmegs, roses
and squirts filled with rose-water be-
ing the ammunition freely used on
both sides.
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council are large stock r~aisers. and as
a self-protective measure have legisla-
ted against American beef, and we're
not at all influenced by anything tend
ing to the benefit of their eountrymen
at large. Our exporters contend that
the assertion is false, that our beaves
are diseased when they arrive in Eng
land. For the present our cattle will
be sent to other markets.
Madame La Chappelle, the great
walkist, is still on the track. There
can scarcely be a doubt but that she
will accomplish the 200 quarter miles
in the same number of consecutive
quarter hours. But she will be terri
bly, used up when she reaches the end.
The June meeting of the Chicago
Jockey and Trotting Club will be one
of the grandest ever witnessed. AL
ready nearly 400 horses have been en-
tered for the various purses.
The Illinois legislature is getting
after the fire insurance companies. 1t
is proposed to pass a law making any
loss by fire a " total loss" That is, if
[ have property insured for a stated
amount, and a FIRE occurs, and only a
part of the property is destroyed or
damaged, the damage shall be consid-
cred a total loss, and the company
have to pay the full insurance. 1t is
considered hat such a law would
initiate against property owners, be-
cause the premium would be doubled
on risks.
The number of picked up dead,
" ished out" and lOaters," for the
past three days, in the city limits,
amount to six. The burglaries, rob
berries, sluggings and attempts upon
life are countless. In this one respect
Chicago is a hard place.
80 you won'ttakethis pistol, northis
bible, nor my word for a drink? Well,
if you decline this, barkeeper, and
disbelieve me, and refuse the word of.
God for a little fluid Of an i~nvigorating
nature, then all | can say is that your
chances for a hot place in the neal
future is certain Then Charles
Winters, a lawyer of former promi-
hence, walked slowly and sadly out of
the saloon, down to the river, and was
soon lying at the bottom of Chicago's
st-king river. Now he is recorded as
one of the fshed-out stiffs." Such
is life.
Miss Ada Cavendish is, in theatrical
circles, the present attraction.
As write it is showing and very
cold. NAYR.
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ner. He resumed his place the third
day, and walked about till evening,
when, giving it up as hopeless, he de-
termined to leave London and return
home. At this moment a stranger
came up to him and said: have
seen you for the last three DAYS walk
ing up and down this bridge may l
ask If YOU are waiting for any one?'
The answer was MOI Then what
is your object in staying here2' The
cobbler then frankly told his reason
for being there aud the dream that had
visited him three successive nights.
The stranger then advised him
to go home again to his work and
no more pay any attention to
dreams. I myself he said. had,
about six months ago, a dream. /
dreamed three nights together that, if
| would go into Somersetshire, in an
orchard, under an apple-tree, | should
find a pot Of gold; but | paid no atten-
ton to my dream, and have remained
quietly at my business 1t immedi-
ately occurred to the cObbler that the
stranger described his own orchard
and his own apple-tree. He immedi-
ately returned home, dug under the
apple-tree, and found a pot of gold.
After this increase of fortune he was
enabled to send his son to school,
where the boy learned Latin. When
he ZANE home for the holidays. he one
day examined the pot which had con-
tanned the gold, on which was some
writing. He said, Father, / can show
you that what | have learned at school
is of some use. He then translated
the Latin inscription on the pot thus
Look under and you will find better.
They did look under, and a larger
quantity of gold was found" As the
story is a good one, it would be pleas
ant to fancy it could possibly be true.
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= fter the preraphaelite manner of Mr..
Rossettl's many Beatrices; in fact, if
she is the spoiled child of clever &c
c%entricity, she a do just as she
pleases. Her lord, unluckily, cannot
well so to the ordinary dinner party in
the becoming attire Of the age of Ed
ward Nv or in the Kilt of a member
of the Albanian League. Thus fancy
balls are found by men to be a social
necessity, and when once they have
determined to dress themselves up,
they, of course, do not know. how to
see about It. ssNa --
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The Pod cod.

"a cobbler in Somersetshire
dreamed that a person told him if he
would go to London Bridge he would
meet with something to his advantage.
He dreamed the same thing the next
and again the night after. BE
then determined to 90 to London
Bridge, and walked thither accord
ingly. When he arrived there he
walked about the whole Of the FIRST
day without anything occurring; the
next day was passed In = similar man
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Collins 10 Ront.

San francisco Lotter.l
The poor people Of this city have
an unaccountable mania for funeral
pomps and ceremonies consequently
when a member Of a family dies, avail
able funds are expended in laying the
body in state, and in an impressive
cortego. The matter Of carriages is
not vexatious TO the purse Of the
mournefs, as their occupants are ex-
pected to contribute their quota to
the expense Of conveyance, . privilege
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LOTTERY.
SPLENDTn OppORTTN7TI,

A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
"A WIN A F0RTUNE-Third Grand Dis
tribution, Glass G, at New Orleans, Tuesday.
March II, lS79-lO6th Monthly Drawing.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY
This Institution was regularly ineorporated
by the legislature Of the State for Educational
and charitable purposes, in 1868, for the
term OF Twenty-Five Years, to which
contract the inviolable faith of the State 4
pledged with q capital Of 81, 200, 700, to which
y mas since added a reserve fund Of $4,000.
take place monthly on tho second Tuesday
IT MEYER SCALES OR P%osTPONzs. Look at the
following distribution
CAPITAL pRE1r cooo
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CAPITAL PRIZE. 100000.
100000 Tickets at 90 each. HALF.
Tickets, 81.

Responsible corresponding agents wnnted n
all prominent points, to whom a liberal com
pensation will be paid. 0om
Application for rates to clubs should onIv ho
made to the home Office in New Orleans
write clearly stating full address, for fur
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
P. 0. Box e92, New Orleans. Ia
Or to d. L. GILLESPIE.
No.b West Court street, Memphis, Tenn.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings ara
Generals G. I. BEAURGERAD snaJT' i
GAnL H2-wks D .
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-15

Some conscience-stricken person in
Boston has contributed $50 to the con-
science fund of the treasury depart
ment at Washington.
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An unpleasant passenger in a street
car is a crying baby. In such cases
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrupshould be given
to the little sufferer to ease its troubles.
Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-28
European Cable News.
Communists sentenced.

LONDON, Feb. 27.-Imbert, for
merly q Communist Engineer, con-
demned for contumacy, and who,
on the accession Of Grevy to the
Presidency, announced In the pa
pers that he was residing in Paris
and had amnestied himself, has
been sentenced by Court Martial to
five years imprisonment.
EnKlish supplementary credit.
LONDON, Feb. 27.-In the House
Of Commons, Northcote, in submit
ting a supplementary credit for
6 500, 200, which he proposed to
obtain by Exchequer bonds, said he
anticipated an excess of expendi-
ture over the revenue of three mill
lion pounds sterling, two millions
of which are provided. A portion
of the credit is to be used for the
Transvaal war and the balance fol
the Zulu war. The credit was
adopted by the House without di.
vision.
Not pIesne striclx eu.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 27.-The
footman, who was yesterday sup.
posed to have been attacked with
the plague and who, with forty
eight Of his associates, was isolated
in consequence, proves to be afflict-
ed with a very ordinary disease.
Nephew of the GEAR Dead.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 27.-The
Grand Duke Walchiestav, youngest
child of the Grand Duke Constan.
tine and nephew of the Gear, il
dead, aged II.
UH for the War
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 27th.-The
ex.Empress Eugenie accompanied
her son, the Prince Louis Nape-
leon, to this city and witnessed his
departure to-day for the seat of war
in South Africa.
Died OF Hts wounds.
CHARKoFF, Feb. 27th.-Prince
Krapotkine, Governor of Gharkoff,
Russia, who was shot by an un.
known assassin, has died of his
wounds.
Spaia's IntsraatiOnal Exposition u
MADRID. Feb. 27th.-Work has
been commenced on the buildings
for the International Exhibition Ot
1880.
Captain Cooks ststue Unveiled
SYDNEY, N. s. W., Feb. 27th.-
The statue of Captain Cook was
unveiled yesterday in the presence
of 10000 persons.
| Omcie, apology.
CAIRO, Feb. 27.-The Khedive's
son, Prince Assam, commander -o
the army, has publicly apologizeC
to the English Consuls for insult,
to Rivers Wilson, Minister of FL
nance, and Wilson has expressed
his satisfaction with the apology.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-28

recently passed by the Chamber of
Commerce and telegraphed to the
President. The resolutions were
a adopted with great enthusiasm.
The following gentlemen then
addressed the meeting: Irving M.
Scott, of the firm of Prescott. Scott
& Co.; Hon. Phillip A. Roach; A.
P. Williams, of the firm of Living.
eton & Co.; Lieutenant Governor
James A. johnson; Col. w. H. L.
Barnes; VIM. II. Colemen; Rev. DIR.
Cox, of the Methodist Church, and
Hon. Geo. G. Perkins, President of
the Chamber of Commerce. The
speeches were all of fine and fore.
ible nature, dwelling upon the i'm
portance to the interests of Califor-
MIA of the anti.Chinese bill becom-
ing law; depicting the evils
attendant upon the presence of the
unassimilative, servile race, and
the effort made by the people of
California to obtain peaceful solu-
tion of the question. 1t was strongly
urged that whatever the action of
the President might be, the agita-
tion would be kept up to influence
Congress, If possible, to pass the
bill over his veto,o failing in that,
to arouse the people of the whole
country to an appreciation OF the
importance of the issue that will
eventually result in obtaining the
desired relief. The greatest enthu-
siasm prevailed and not an incident
occurred to mar the unanimity of
of the expression, except that, on
one occasion, few men in a knot
near the rear of the hall, INDUCED
IN groans at the mention of the
name of Mayor Bryant. They
were sharply rebuked by the Pre-.
siding Officer, and the disturbance
was not repeated.
Governor Irwin in adjourning
the meeting, said it was called for
one purpose and that purpose had
been accomplished, to let the Presi-
dent know the true feeling of the
people on the subject under con-
sideration. Time alone would tell
what its effect might be. It could
only be hoped that when the Presi-
dent learned that all classes of the
people were unanimous on the
question he would put his signature
to the bill.
Suicide Of "a Musician.
VALLEJO, Feb. 27th-A man
named Jones, musician in the
Eighteenth Infantry band at
Benicia barracks, suiclded Tuesday
while laboring under depression
superinduced by excessive drink
ing. He placed q rife against
the corner Of the floor and the
wall of the mess room and pushed
the trigger with a cane. The ball
passed through his body, killing
him instantly.
Fatal shouting ARray.
BoDIE, Feb. 27th.-A desperate
shooting affray occurred this even
ing between George Taft. engineer
of the South Bulwer, and Henry
Heath, a miner. They had some
difficulty last night and meeting
this evening, near the Postof1ice,
Immediately commenced firing.
Taft was instantly killed. Heath
was shot through the wrist, and
Con Sullivan, a bystander, was
shot through the stomach, sup
posed to be fatal.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-28

dents ears and that he instantly
and peremptorily put stop to 1t.
It is pleasing to see that though
Republican chicane has robbed Mr..
Tilden of the Presidency, it has
been powerless to filch from him
his good name. His integrity
comes out of the fiery furnace like
thrice refined gold. Every man of
sense knows that the Republicans
had to buy nineteen votes to de-
clare Hayes elected, while Mr.. Til
den had only to buy one. They
knew that he had the means and
the right as we'll. Madison Wells,
or any of the other Returning
Board rogues, could have sold out
to Mr.. Tilden with perfect impun-
ity, because he would simply have
been declaring the voice Of the peo-
pie of his State. That Mr.. Tilden
did not buy any of these wretches,
In view of his own large means
and the unlimited pecuniary re-
sources of his friends, is proof con-
elusive that the idea was met by
them with loathing and contempt.
The fact that every brick in the
fabric of Presidential fraud is now
mortared into some lucrative office
at home or abroad is unanswerable
circumstantial evidence that what
Mr.. Tilden disdained to do the
friends of Mr.. Hayes consummated.
The most dramatic episode of the
whole inquiry is the discovery OF
the fact that one of the two men
who st tole the trunk full of cipher dis
patches sent by Chandler,and other
Republican manipulators of the
fraud, from the Committee room of
the Senate, is Second-Assistant
Postmaster General of the United
States and the other is United
States Consul at Cologne. How
discriminating and painstaking
has been the effort to reward every
minion in this dirty political work?
The reaction of disgust and indig-
nation at the Insult added to in-
jury which has been heaped upon
the head of Mr.. Tilden is sweeping
resistlessly over the whole United
States. Should he prove to be In
fair health when the next Demo
cratic National Convention meets
he will be strong man indeed
who can hope to cope with him fol
the sufirages of Democrats; and,
bolder still, must be the man whG
shall venture to come forth, as tn
champion of fraud, to challenge th
defrauded elect Of the people.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-28
The True Way to Invigorate.

The true way to invigoratc feeble
system is to infuse activity into the op-
erations of the stomach. that wondrous
alembic in which the food is transmitted
into the constituents of blood, the chief
element of our vitality. Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, because 1t accomplishes
this end, is greatly to be preferred to
many so.called tonics, useful, indeed. as
appetizers, but inoperasive as aids to dl-
gestion and assimilation. This sterling
cordial, while 1t invigorates the stom-
ach, healthfully stimulates the liver,
bowels and kidneys, ensuring the escape
through the regular channels of effete
and useless matter thrown off by the
system, which is thus purified as we'll as
invigorated by it. Its tonic influence is
soon made manifest by an increase of
vital energy and more active and regu-
lar discharge of every physical function,
and IL has the further effect of rendering
the system unassailable by malarial ep-
idemics.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-02-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
City and County Real Estate
For Sale.
r. e. ROWAN,
Real Eetate and Commits.
sion Agent,

oE'E'1CHs " OowEey 6locR.
$12OOO-10 acres corner of Main and
Pico streets; bearing orchard; good
house, barn, stable, windmill. etc.;
terms easy.
$2OOO-4O acres adjoining race tra,k,
$46OO-House and lot 6Sxi5O, on Main
street, between Sixth and Seventh;
house containing IL rooms, with all
modern improvements.
with good picket fence; q large va
riety Of bearing fruit trees, all in good
$4OOO-62 acres near Compton, with
flowing we'll, house, cOrn-crib and
small orchard; will Yell 70 to 100
bushels corn per acre.
$26OO-l0O acres in Ell Monte, with
corn-crib and small house.
$i000-TwO-stOry house and lot 40x165 IT. !;
house contains IL rooms; on Fort St.,
between franklin and First streets.
$3200-6l acres near Compton; will yield
80 bushels corn per acre; house, corn
crib, stables, corrals and storehouse.
$2lC0-l00 acres level land adjoining the
Laguna Ranch and line OF city, or
will exchange for improved city prop
erty.
$5OO-A small cottage and lot in WASH
ington Garden Tract, second lot from
Main street.
$40, O,OO0-3l62 acres undivided in Rancho
Palos Verdes; half down, balance in
one and two years; 10 per cent.
| sl1, ,5OO-575 acres in La Puente Ranch
fronting on road; water plenty.
$3500-4H acres on Washington street, be.
tween Main and Figueroa; good
house and barn; orange grove to bear
next year and 1900 orange trees six
years old in nursery.
s375-2O acres under cultivation near
Compton.
Also. a fine body of land In the San Pc
dro Ranch, under cultivation, at t2O
per acre.
75 lots in the Downey tract, adj joining the
Woolen Mills, at $25 each.
80 lots in East Los Angeles, from $50 to
$3.50 each; terms easy.
p@HOUSES, FARMS, ETC, RENTED
AND RENTS COLLECTED. fel3