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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
NOTHING NEW.

From the dawn Of Spring till the year grows
Nothing ing Is Is new that is done or said;
The leaves are telling the same old story
Budding bursting dying dead. II
And ever and always the birds chorus
Is: Coming building -Aying-hed N5
Never the round Earth roams or ranges
Out OF her circuit, so old, SO old;
And the smiles o. the Sun knows but these
changes:
Beaming burning tender-cold,
AS Springtime softens or Winter estranges
The mighty heart Of this orb of gold.
From our great sire's birth to the last morn's
breaking,
There were tempest and sunshine, fruit and
frost:
And the sea was calm, or the sea was shaking
Its mighty name Ikea lion crossed;
And ever this cry the heart was making:
Longing -losing-lost."
Forever the wild wind wanders, crying.
Southerly-Ea sterly-North and West;
And one worn song the fields are signing:
Sowing growing-harvest-r
And the tired thought of the World, replying
Like an echo to what is last and best,
Mnrmurs-"Re stW = Ella WheeLe.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
AT THE GATE.

And where were you just now, Mabel?
Where have you been so long?
The moon is up, and all the birds
Have sung their evening song;
saw you lettering down the path,
So lonely and so late, ...
Beyond the we'll and the lilac bush,
And hanging by the gate.
love to hear the birds, mother,
And see the rising moon;
And, oh! the summer air is sweet
Beneath the sky of June.
My COW is MIXED, my hens are cooped,
And washed are cup and plate,
And so | wandered out while,
To hang upon the gate.
The gate is by the road, Mabel,
And idle folks so by,
Nor should II maiden brook the glance
OF every stranger eye.
Besides, thought saw cap
Pm sure you dad mate;
SO tell me who was with you, child,
Just hanging ut the gate.
Now you know just as well, mother,
Twas only Harry Gray.
He spoke such words to me tonight,
knew not what to say;
And, mother, oh! for your dear sake,
only babe him wait;
And mayn't run and tell him now?
He's hanging at the gate.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06

has made an ill-assorted match. It can
not be remedied, and she greets him hap
PLY, and determines not to ruin his peace
BY the knowledge Of what is inevitable.
The mother, as she leans over the crib Of
her dying infant, wears the mask Of hope
until death rudely snatches it from her
features; the father wears the mask Of
deceit as he tearfully strives to defend
his erring child. So it goes on through
every grade, untik we reach the tomb,
that marble mask which shall cling to us
until the last trumpet rends it asunder.-
Baltimore Euery SATURDAY..
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
"Go, go!' she cried; sAyv' and the

$50, go!n she cried; ''ay!'' and the
door banged.
Madly ran, never stopping till I near
ly knocked policeman down as I turn
ed into a wide well-lighted street. 1t
was some minutes before could tell him
my tale coherently. He sprung his rat
tie; Two other policemen quickly joined
us. We went back to what l thought
was the street of my adventure, but no
such place as l described could we find.
At last, in despair, we gave up the search,
and I returned, wiser if not better
man, to my rooms in Gray's Inn Road.
A moral, specially applicable to pcdes-
TRANS, may be CLEANED from this tale.
First carry as little money as possible af-
ter nightfall in the streets Of London;
and second, when doubtful of your way,
ask policeman, uot a stranger.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06

Handsome silk embroidery on tulle, in
colors and all white, is q novelty.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
South Africa.

LONDON, August 4.-Correspond-
ents in South Africa agree that the
capture of Cetywayo is all-important,
because as long as he is free he will
remain the center of conspiracy and
mischief. General WOlseley, however,
has no intention of pursuing him with
British troops, as the nature of the
country renders such a course imprac-
ticable. His policy, rather, is to stir
up the neighboring tribes against the
king. Agents have been sent to Swa-
zies and Amatongas with this object
in view, and 5000 cattle have been
offered Cham if he will capture his
brother. One telegram says a price
has been set upon Cetywayo's head.
General Wolseley, in an address to a
number of chiefs on July 18th, in
formed them he had no desire to take
any of their territory, but that Getty
wayo was a fugitive, and could never
more be a king. General Wolseley
had summoned all native chiefs to
meet him at Emangwene, about nine
miles north of Umlatoosi river, July
18th, to hear his final words of settle
ment. The chiefs, at a meeting July
18th, declared the Zulu nation had
now no head. They wished to have
no more black kings, and said they
would prefer John Dunn for king
They promised to bring all the chiefs
from the coast districts to the Emang-
wene meeting. These tribes, however,
do not constitute the most warlike
part of the nation. A flying column
started for Emangwene July 14th to
prepare for the meeting. General
Wolseley and staff will follow. 1t is
reported from Luneburg that Getty
wayo, with 1000 followers, is endeav-
oring to escape across the northern
border to join Secocoeni. The author
tiles are keeping a good lookout for
him. John Dunn and other we'll in
formed parties think there is a great
probability Cetywayo will be killed by
his followers if he continues to make
trouble. All of the Zulus wounded
at the battle of Ulundi were killed by
the native contingent in the employ of
the British.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

cago to 25.0OO, and will come from the
ranks Of toll and honesty.
DR.. p. w. PEBBLES, of Grenada,
Miss. is here at the Palmer. The
doctor is credited with scouting
the =" germ " theory of yellow fever.
He seems to be alone in this belief,
and, although | am not over yersed as
to the origin of Bronze john" still
| incline to the belief of the majority
Of the fraternity that living germ
does the terrible work, and this germ
is either inhaled into the stomach OF
absorbed by the anus into the system
Washington Warren, the founder Of
the Washington Home, of Chicago, i:
no more. The Home will be lasting
monument to the memory of a goot
man. The Home is an institution fol
the reformation of slaves to alcohol
If you can afford it you pay for treat
ment, if not, you are attended
gratuitOusly. 1t is grand institution
and has done much good.
A company of Chicagoans want {
city charter for an underground
pneumatic process of sending pack
ages, messages, etc.
Nights cool enough for blankets.
NAYR.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
A FIFTH WHEEL.

AS far as it has gone the National
board Of health has done no percep.
bible good to the country except to
keep twenty or thirty doctors run
ning about from place to place at ten
dollars a day each, with their ex-
penses thrown in. 1t has already
become an open question at Washing
ton whether III not a perfectly use
less institution. So far it seems like
l a fifth wheel to a wagon, neither use
ful or ornamental. 1t has not pro
mulgated any new method for fighting
yellow fever, nor has single case
been cured or prevented. Not one
good result has as yet been
reached, and the half million Of
money it will annually expend
under the vain delusion that synod
ofdoctors, located at Washington City
can deal with the fever better than car
those where it prevails, it is generally
conceded, will be that much of the
public money totally wasted. The
same may apply to our own and Other
IState boards of health. The whole
arrangement is first class humbug, tC
be paid for by the people in round
sums, and the enly persons likely tc
enjoy it are those who draw salaries
and present bills of expense None
lnow better how valueless they are
than do those who have observed and
noted the perfunctory character Of
their workings, and when congress anc
legislatures find them out they doubt
less will abolish the whole business, a,
they ought to do.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
THE COMpROMTsE

lThe vote here yesterday on the
State debt compromise question was
meager, only 1249 ballots being cast.
Of these 967 were for and 282 against
the proposed measure. The belief at
Nashville this morning was that not
half an average vote had been cast
throughout the State, and the chances
are that the compromise has been de-
feated. Knoxville voted 900 majority
for acceptance, while Davidson coun-
ty, with Nashille included, gave 14OO
majority for it. The total majority in
favor of the proposal in Knoxville,
Memphis and Nashville combined
footS up less than 1000 Scattering
returns from twenty-five counties in
Middle and West Tennessee show a
majority against the debt settlement
of about 25O0 votes, and unless East
Tennessee has given large vote in
its favor the proposition has been
voted down. This was the news as
made up at Nashville at / clock and
published in this mornings papers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
Personal and Political.

The old homestead of Abraham
Lincoln at SangamOn, ILL.,, is out of
repair and is used as a refuge by
tramps.
Justice Clifford, of the United
States Supreme Court, is now over
seventy years old, and he is summer
ing in New Hampshire.
The British lord chamberlain has
refused to license a play which pur-
ported to represent the lives of several
noted London actresses.
A new terryboat at San Francisco is
424 feet long and l16 wide, has four
rudders at each end and eight boilers,
and will carry twenty-four railroad
cars at a time.
General Joseph Johnston, since his
return to his home in Virginia, says
that one years experience in the
house of representatives has thor
oughly disgusted him with politics,
and that when his term expires he
intends to retire to private life.
The virtue of patience is illustrated
by the fact that Costa Rica has re-
Gently paid to Peru loan of Sl5O,0O0
obtained during the days of Walker.
the Nicaraguan filibuster. The incl
dent recalls some of the most stirring
events that antedate our own civil
war
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
A North Carolina Fratrlcide,

Special to Cincinnati Enquirer
AsHEvILLE, N. G., August A
difficulty occurred near here to-day
which resulted in the shooting and
killing of John Henry Wild by his
brother Joseph Wild. 1t seems that
John Henry and his wife we're making
a violent, if not deadly, assault upon
the mother of Wild, using a shovel
and ak. A little girl, daughter of old
Mrs. Wild, seeing her mother so
cruelty attacked, ran about a quarter
Of mile to her brother Joseph, and
notified him of what was going on.
He at once repaired to his brother s
house, carrying his gun. Upon ar
irving at the place he discovered that
his mother had been knocked down,
and John Henry had the AK drawn
over her. Upon seeing Joseph ap.
proach John Henry Immediately made
at him with the ak. Joseph retreated
short distance, notifying John not
to approach him further, and, the lat
ter still pursuing; was fred upon and
instantly killed. He surrendered him.
self.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
The Memphis Negroes.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
The Memphis negroes who refuse ia
60 into camp outside the city, and in
sist on being fed at government ex-
pense inside the city, should be taught
that beggars cannot be choosers. 1t
is evidently great point in favor Of
the diminution fthe disease to reduce
the city's population as low as posi-
bic. If the negroes are allowed to
stay in the city they will be so much
additional food for the fever. OF
course, those who are able to take
care Of themselves cannot be com-
PEELED to remove, but the government
can certainly order removal as one of
the conditions of receiving its food
and shelter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

THERE are not many things among
the political methods of Hayti that
Americans would care to have intro
duced to this country; but there are
some Pennsylyanians who will breathe
a sigh of regret when they learn that
the Haytien legislature, instead of
concluding its labors by presentations
of gold watches and silver plate to its
officers, wound up the session with a
Tree fight in the chamber, during
which forty of the members were
killed. Semi civilization has its ad-
vantages, after all.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
Stoughton.s Good Thing.

Now lork Express,
Minister Stoughton is reveling in
the delights and honors of his posi-
ton in the diplomatic service Of the
country. He is the alleged minister
to Russia, but as he did not agree with
the climate of the country, nor the
language and customs of the people,
and was of no sort of consequence at
st. Petersburg, and had no influence
when he happened to be there, he has
come home to spend his money and
the summer. This model reform civil
service Republican administration evi-
IDENTIFY has a corner in ministers and
Consuls and such things.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
Foreign Notes.

A dispatch from Cape Town says
Thomas Mclean, late Astronomer
Royal, is dead.
Five persons were killed and eleven
seriously and forty slightly injured by
a railroad accident between Nancy
and Vezelise.
The American Consul at Tanglers
writes that the Sultan of Morocco
subdued the Berber tribes. Thirty
four heads of the rebels were exposed
on the walls of the city.
The Wesleyan Conference of Bir-
mingham has adopted report in fa-
vor Of an Ecumenical Conference
proposed by American Wesleyans,
and appointed a committee to make
arrangements.
A dispatch from Rome says Carl
baldi recommends scheme for di-
yerting the course of the river Pc.
He would have the river communi-
cate in a straight line with Milan,
thence by a northerly bend with
Turin, and by deepening its bed would
secure direct communication with the
gpa
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

IT is melancholy to think that if the
British admiral who fed with his
feet from Hong Kong, from Shang-
hai and from Yokohama, as General
Grant approached those places, be-
cause he could not make up his mind
whether or no Grant was entitled to a
salute of twenty-one guns, might have
saved himself the trouble by asking
Grants views upon the subject. There
is possibility that Grant did not care
a copper whether the admiral saluted
him with twenty-one guns or a solitary
iire-crackcr.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
NOTES FROM OTHER POINTS

Huntsville, Ala, claims 1000 Mem
phis refugees.
DR.. Chopin, of the New Orleans
board of health, has been granted a
leave Of absence. 1t should be ex-
tended indefinitely.
Three cases among refugees from
Memphis are reported at Bayou Reef
near the Louisiana line, and the people
of Houston, Texas, are excited over it.
The New York quarantine officials
have dismissed two yellow fever pa
tients cured a remarkable result, in
deed. But one case has boen admit
ted to the hospital during the past
two days.
The first comptroller of the United
States treasury has decided that State
and national health officers are not
United States officers. At most they
are only agents of the National board
Of health in his opinion.
A number of Memphis refugees
have found comfortable quarters and
a warm welcome at Waverly, on the
railroad between Mckenzie and
Nashville.
The St. Louis board of health
pounds away like an old engine.
They now exclude all steamers from
their landing that may have stopped
at Memphis since the first of August.
All of the expenses of our quaran-
tine are to be paid out of the Ma
tional board of health fund. This is
cheering to the State board Of health.
DR.. r. W. Mitchell has made an esti-
mate of the expense.
Thirty vessels are detained at the
New York quarantine. Merchants in
the West India trade are seriously
embarrassed, and one says the addi-
tional expense is $500 per day. The
quarantine season continues to No
vember 1st.
No yellow fever prevails at New
Orleans or anywhere around that city,
and the local board of health wants
quarantine raised. If there is a more
egregious humbug in the nation than
the New Orleans quarantine a number
familiar with its workings would like
to be Informed what it is and where ii
may be found.
The New Orleans board of health
is determined to. arrest by the strict
est and most unremitting vigilance
the grave danger to be apprehended
by the introduction of foreign yellow
fever. The lunatics are not afraid Of
the kind they have had, no matter
how scared of it the outside world
may be. 1t is a home production,
therefore they take it.
The quarantine officials at St. Louis
want their fingers in the national
treasury like others and have asked
through their health officer, who was
indicted by the grand jury few days
since, to have their quota of the Fed
eral fund allowed. Mrs. Philmot, Of
Memphis, is at the St. Louis quaran-
tine improving -Four other patients
are at the same place, but they do not
call it yellow fever
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08


THE Mormons at Salt Lake City
are preparing to make martyr out Of
Reynolds, the convicted bigamist, and
to prevent this the Gentiles are re-
ported as asking the President to
pardon Reynolds if the punishment
cannot be made adequate. Reynolds
is to be sumptuously 4" set up" in jail
and escorted home at the end of his
term in carriage drawn by six milk
white steeds. If he could be CON-
PEELED to wear striped clothing and
work in shoe factory the situation
would be more promising from a
standpoint of orthodoxy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

THE members ofthe Orleans family
are about to hold meeting at Geneva
in order to ascertain if there has been
any improvement of their chances Of
regaining the throne of France by the
removal of the Bonaparte pretender
If they comprehend the feeling of the
French people as clearly as it is un.
derstood by other persons, they will
be likely to reach the conclusion that
France has had enough Of them, and
is far mare likely to take up any odd
Bonaparte who may happen to be lying
around loose than to put an Orleans
on the throne.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

How awful it is for nearly all our
population to be in serious dread for
nearly the entire year. Did we not
have cases of this fever terminating in
death during all of last November,
and did not some transpire in Decem-
Der?
How can we be a prosperous and
happy people under such circumstan-
ces? How can it be otherwise if this
state of things is perpetuated; shall We
not dwindle into nonentity?
1t will most assuredly come. We
shall be ruined. Respectfully,
III w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
AOAN As
Pablisher and Proprietor.

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
l5of per month fOrless than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.
Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege of
changing postoffioe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

OhlcagO Iimes.I
The exemplary Mr.. Butterworth,
member of congress for Cincinnati,
has been stretched out on the rack of
congressional inquisition with refer
ence to the means whereby he secured
his election last fall. He admits the
employment of little arts, mean and
mercenary, to which nine candidates
out of ten, defeated or elected, Dem
ocratic or Republican, would have to
plead guilty. If he stopped there he
would appear no better, no worse than
the average seeker for congressional
hOnors. But he is forced to confess
the use of money to secure the SER
vices in his behalf of the notorious
ballOt-box stufer and general manip-
ulator, Eph Holland. 1t is entirely
safe to thus characterize this Holland,
for he was convicted in United States
court of illegal work at elections, and
sentenced to Jail. Whether the par
don he received from President Hayes
was conditioned or not upon his
reforming so far as to transfer his
valuable services from the Democratic
to the Republican camp does not
appear. The President might have
thought that an Ohio man oughtn't to
be kept in Jail for doing what in q
Louisiana man was rewarded with
Office. But Butterworth thought his
services worth $3.50, and paid him the
amount. Not, of course, to do any
crooked work for him-Holland had
reformed-but to see that there was
fair olection-the phrase meaning to
see that the man whose money he was
handling was counted in. If congress
were the virtuous body that, by the
very appointment of this committee
of inquiry, it sets up to be, it would
exp0l Butterworth for the employment
of Holland but, as rule, congress
men are like the jurors in the cele-
brated hog case-they acquit because
they've had piece of that pork.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

ment The notorious fact, however,
is pointedly made that since the DEM
ocrats obtained the mastery of the
house, the lobby has utterly disap-
peared from Washington, which is an
argument every farmer and mechanic
in Ohio can understand. 1t means
that huge and wasteful leaks in the
treasury have been stopped
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

To all who are suffering fromthe errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc., l will
send recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discov-
cred by missionary in South America Send
self-addressed envelope to REV. JOSEPH T.
INNAN, Station D. New York City.
eod-2-xxx-l&w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
Indian Robbers on the War Path.

GALVESTON, August "A special
to the News from San Antonio says
The Mexican consulate here has ad
vices from Colonel Valdez, at Chupe-
deras de Layneva, Mexico, that he
has pursued three bands of Neglaleva
and Lipan Indians which have been
raiding that country They carried
Oft two hundred and fifty horses, killed
fifteen persons within a week in Mex
leo and crossed the Rio Grande into
Texas"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

SUBSCRIBERS who wish 10 re-
new will d" us a favor by SEND
ANG MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list is very
Barge, and our force TO do the
york small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
Notice.

OWING to the prevalence of fever at pres
inform those who are desirous Of eommuniea.
ting with us that all letters addressed to Rice.
Stix x Co., 4l0 and 4l2 North Fifth street
y. Louis, Mo-, win receive prompt atten,
ton. - 80
Our patrons and friends are fully assured
that our facilities will be ample for filling
any and all orders entrusted to our care.
Our house at Memphis will remain omen AZ
usual, and those of our customers residing
along the line of roads not quarantined We
would respectfully solicit their patronage.
lSi-l4S RICE, STIX. IL co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

In is stated that General Ewing, in
his Democratic canvass for governor
Of Ohio, is making strong point on
.ahe fact that his party, since having
tic majority in the house Of represen-
Httives, has effected great economies
3 the administration Of the govern
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08
Buffers Chance.


Brooklyn Eagle.l
lfGeneral Butler wants to earn the
everlasting gratitude of Massachusetts,,
let him arm his yacht and 60 and clean
out the Kanucks who dare to dispute
the right of the Yankees to catch fish
In Canadian waters. The hero of Fort
Fisher ought to be able to settle the
fishery question.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

a GENTLEMAN from Mississippi
ays that Jefferson Davis will make a
hint of money out Of his book, which
to be published this fall by the Ap-
letons. The general expectation is
bat it will have a tremendous sale,
md bring the author a handsome in
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-08

France will import sl0O,OOO,0O0
worth of grain this year on account of
a failure Of the crops. When her
crops are good she usually exports
large quantities.