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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27

insisting upon his deposition. But as
there Is another ministerial crisis at
Constantinople, the sultan will not be
listened to with much respect. In
deed, should England stand aside for
a little while the sultan would be
forced to get out of his capital him
self. Osman Pasha, who is in com
mand Of the military resources of the
empire, has been credited with a de-
sign to seize upon the government and
attempt a constitutional monarchy.
The sultan, under such circumstances,
can only give his moral support to the
khedive, who having uneeremoniously
kicked the English aud French repre-
sentatiyes out of his cabinet, must
now submit as gracefully as possible to
a like process.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
Friday EVENING, june e. 1873

The subscription price of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per mum and
SOC per month fortress than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per mum
postage free.
Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at soc per
mouth in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postOfice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
Tuerdny Nlght's STORM.

DIES MolNEs, June 26. Reports
coming in from central and westerl
Iowa and eastern Nebraska show thai
great damage was done by the storm Of
tuesday night to bridges, farm build.
ings and grain. II. NJ. Masters wife
aud two daughters were browne
near Stuart, Ia, by the overflow o.
Deer creek,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27

Well, my little girl, what progress
do you make in your music p"
Oh, I'm getting along splendidlv
You know, last month, when ] PLAYED
a duet with my teacher, | was ALWAYS
two measures behind her, and now
I'm always three measures ahead ~
French Paper.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
Fan RiYer Trouhles Adiusted.

FALL RIVER, MASS, June 20
With the exception of Flint, all the
mills started this morning. Flint has
no filling on hand, but is making ar
engagements to start on Monday. The
streets are very quiet, with groups Of
spinners standing around. Some Of
the back boys, =" second hand etc.
are doing duty in place of the spinners.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
Execution POSTPONED.

LOUISVILLE, june 26.-The execu-
ton of Pinson and Webster will not
take place tomorrow.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
A Bloody and Fatal RencsaMter

81, LOUIS, june 2G,--A Lexington
MO dispatch says that II. S. Taylor
and Nohert Taylor, brothers, and b
y Wren, all farmers, between whom
an old feNd existed, met at Aullville,
Lafayette county, yesterday, and re.
newed the quarrel. The Taylors fired
four balls into Wren's body, m~ortally
wounding him, aud Wren killed. II. s.
Taylor instantly, aud fatally wounded
Bob.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
A Ntrike -ComnromIso1l.

PROVIDENCE Juno S6.-The strik
i've sPippeys and weavers Of the West.
erlY wooden mills resumed work to. day
under a compromise,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
FntnI mailman ColIisIon.

WATERLOO, QUEBEc, June 26.-
The passenger train for Acton on the
Southern railroad came III collision
with the construction trian. John
DAILY, engineer, and MIR. MaisonOrrcais,
of the latter train, were killed, and
Fred Cutler, ir., and two other named
Taylor and Petrealt were seriously in
jured. Most of the passengers were
bruised.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
Murdered and B b

0swEGo, N. Y, June 26. -Elbridge
Ruey, a farmer Of Tiago county, was
murdered and robbed by Dan Searles.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
Chicago's Walking Match.

CHIcAGo, June 26.-At | o'clock
Grassland was twelve miles ahead of
'0'Leary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27

Archery is taking the place of Gro
quet in the favor Of the young ladies
a bow,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27
The Khcdive VIII Abdtcatc.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, June 26.-The
khedive has signifed his compliance
with the demand for his abdication.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27

NJ Ferdinand de Lesseps will come
oyer 70 look dheF The interests Of that
canal some time next winter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27

Mark Twain's brother, Rev. Orion
Clemens, expelled from an Iowa
church for heresy, was formerly an
editor,
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ADVERTISING AGENTS.
GEO. p.
ROWEIL
& 90.

Newspaper Advertising Bureau.
For Ten Cents; One hundred page
Pamphlet with Lists of News
papers and Advertising Rates.
For Ten Dollars; Four lines
inserted one week in Three
Hundred and Fifty Newspapers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-27

land known as the Lost Cove property,
IN Garter county, near Roam mountain,
and will embark at once in stock rails.
lug, After travelling over nearly every
State and territory in the Union, aud
keeping his eyes open as TO the adyan-
tages OF each, he has come 70 tho
conclusion tH4E the s9ll aud climate "
PIE Wglntaln region OF East Tennes-
see and Western North Carolina is rs
good, il not better, than any section
he has visited.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19
The Antiquity of the Plague.

The plague is one Of the oldest things
under the sun. According Petavlus,
it ravaged the whole known world in
767 B. G. In 534 b. G. it made ter
rible havoc in Carthage, and the peo-
pie, deploriog the anger .of the gods,
offered up their children as sacrifices.
Thucydides has left graphic descrip-
ton of the plague which ragged in
Athens in 430 B. c., and which ex-
tended over Egypt and Ethiopia. [n
the eighteenth year of the Christian
era Rome Was depopulated at the rate
of lO, 900 daily. Three centuries and a
half later the plague appeared in
Britain, where the living were not able
to bury the dead. There is little rea-
son to doubt the statement that 200
persons pershed daily in London dur
ing an epidemic which ragged 10 1348
and which prevailed throughout Eu-
rope. 10 l478 more persons persisted
in England Of pest lence than nad died
in fifteen years Of continued war. AT
various periods of its history London
has suffered terribly from plague. More
than 10000 persons perished in 1903
4, and more than $4,000 in 1925. But
it was not until 1865 that the city
learned what scourge the plague
might become. A moderate estimate
says that 6S,5O6 persons perished while
Otner authorities state the number at
100000. Since that period England
has been tolerably free from the plague
but it has carried off $4,000 persons in
Persia, 100000 in Egypt, and $4,000
at MarseiIles at one visitation.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19
Reecher and Tilden-FrOm last Sun
days Plymouth Church Discourse.

The great question to-day is whether
certain Returning Boards counted out
or did not count out certain n ildates:
when the fact is, that there Is no man
but knows that before the election
there were frauds perpetrated by ter-
rorism and violence; cItlzens we're
robbed Of their rights aud suffrage
was made mockery. Applause.
About that the newspapers forgot; bui
they awoke when the odor Of personal
corrupt on arose. Does anybody doubt
that If Louisiana had been let alone to
exercise her owo will she would have
swept the whole question into the sea,
where it never would have been heard
of gain? But wlen it became diff
ferent matter, when the little board got
together and began its peculiar work,
when the question of two and two
make five [laughter] came up then the
conscience of arithmetic Was aroused;
but as for the conscience for humanity
there was no demand for any Of that.
Mr.. Beecher paused tor about half
a minute, advanced to the right of the
desk, and, lifting his right hand with a
trem ulous and feeble motion, contln-
ued:
If there be az old, crafty paralytic;
if there be any leader who is repre-
sentative of an extingushed fame;
any man who represents the dying out
of glorious enthusiasm for the faith
of our fathers, or, if any man who is
the representative Of calculating cum
nlng and craft, hold him up and say to
this nation: This is the symbol aud
the representative of what you will
become if you have not conscience
about national morality"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19

A GREAT DEN OF SNAKES. In
the extension of the Central Branch
road from Beloit to Cawker City, Kan.
the line passes through the town of
Glen Elder. A shoft distance from
Glen Elder, on the Solomon river, is
steep snd rocky bluff: about fifty five
feet high, a large portion of which
was blasted away to make room for the
road-bed. A few days ago blast of
nitro glycerine caps and giant powder
tore of a large part of the bluff, aud
down the decivity came writhing and
rolling bunch of snakes almost as
large as barrel. They were of differ
ent varieties, rattlesnakes, predominant
ing, with racers, adders, garters, etc.
When first routed from their warm
bed they we're active and dangerous,
but the severe cold soon made them
mparatively harmless, and they we're
killed by the men without much trou-
BILE, or covered up in the dump by
earth and stone. Every blast since the
first batch appeared has brought huge
bundle. of reptiles. Every hour NOV
ing, wreathiug lump comes rolling
down the hills, only to separate at the
foot, aud those that escape the laborer's
pick and shovel crawl off to get cover
ed up in the dump. Thousands of
snakes have been unearthed and kill
ed. Not one case of snake bite has
yet occurred, Notwithstanding that it
is many times almost impossible to
avoid stepping on the serpents. Most
of the snakes are as large round as a
mans wrist, and about three and half
feet long. Farmers say tha: this is
the regular winter den Of these venom
Gus creatures, and that during the
autumn snakes are seen headed in the
direction of the bluffs, and the ouiy
way they can be turned from their
course is to kill them. .-Atchison Kan.
Patriot.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19
The Democracy in 1880.

A Washington paper, The Sunday
ReputHc, contained yesterday an inter
view with Senator Davis, of West Vir-
ginia It was all about the next Presl-
Dental campaign, and more particular
ly the Democratic candidate. He
thinks the choice lies between Thur
man, Tllden and Bayard The former
Is his choice. and the choice of his
State.
To the question, "Does Mr.. Tilden
really think of being candidate in
lSSO?" he replied, with an emphatic
yes, adding, "He is working up his
chances vigorously" T.den's noml-
nation would mean hard-money
campaign But the main significance
of the Senator remarks lies in their
confirmation OF the general impression
that Tilden is an unblushing corrup-
zionist, trckester and intriguer. We
refer to the following questions and
answers:
"Do you think Senator Bayard stands
uluCu Vi Il ClduGt lOT Tue
"Bayard is probably the strongest man
we have, but be lives too near to Tilden
for his Own good. TIlden necessarily
weakens Bayard chances, both represent
ing the hard money idea. The fight in the
convention Will be between the hards and
the softs, and it looks rs it the hards will
be induced to cast their united influences
for Mr.. Tlldcn. At all events he will leave
20 stone uuturned to accomplish that end.'
"Is the Delaware Senator working for the
nomination."
mot at all; he is not that kind Of a man.
Neither he or Mr.. Thurman will condescend
to tricks. With Mr.. Tilden it is different.
He will sit up all night figuring to get this
man or that this Influence or the other,
and will 90 into any calculations with his
friends as 20 the best way of accomplish.
ing his pu pose. When he has determined
how to do Thing, he goes and does it aud
no matter what it costs, Neither Bayard
nor Thurman would listen to you if you
were TO go to them with such talk"
This is the exact truth, At least it
is the general belief that Bayard and
Thurman are both to honorable TO
stoop to the Tilden tactics. Senator
Davis says he expects Thurman to win
IN the convention. but he evidently
fears that the "barl" will be too much
for him. He has reason to fear it,
even though the cipher exposure is
damning Tilden's reputation. He
could not possibl, be elected, but the
hope of getting a grab at his money
bags would have irresistible attraction
for the average Democratic politician
Chicago Journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19
The Zulus Surprise.

The British forces in South Africa
are meeting with determined resist
ance from the Zulus, whose subjuga-
ton they counted upon efectiug so
easily. The blacks came down upon
column left to guard a campon January
22nd. and gave it bitter taste of their
fighting qualities. The details are
gwen in the official report of Lord
Chelmsford as follows:
regret to have to report very disas-
trous engagement On the 22d, of January
between The Zulusl and portion of No. 3
column. which was left to guard a camp
about ten miles in front of Rorke's drift.
The Zulus came down in overwhelming
numbers, and in spite of gallant resist
ance by five companies, First battalion of
the Oath regiment, one company, Second
battalion, of the oath regiment, two guns.
two rocket tubes, one hundred and sixty
four mounted men and about eight hun.
dred natives, they whelmed them. The
camp, containing all surplus ammun ition
and ira nsports of No. column, was taken
and but few OF its defenders escaped Our
loss, fear, must be set down at thirty off
GERS and about five hundred non commits
stoned officers, rank and file, imperial troops
and seventy non commissioned officers, rank
aud file, colonial troops. It would seem
that the troops were enticed away from
their camp, as The action took place about
mile and quarter outside of it. The re-
maInder of Col. Glyn's column reoccupied
the camp after dark the same night, hav-
ing been with me, twelve miles away, all
day. On the following morning we arrived
at Rorke's drift post which for twelve hours
had been attacked by from 600 to 1000
Zulus. Its deteuse ny some eighty men of
the l4th regiment was most gellant. Three
hundred and seventy bodies lay close around
the post. { compute the Zulu loss at one
thousand here alone. AT the camp where
the disaster occurred the loss of the enemy
is computed at over two thousand. Col.
Pearson, commanding No. l column. has
been attacked, but he repulsed the Zulus.
This defeat is regarded in England
as particularly unfortunate, tending, as
it must, to encourage the natives, and
rendering it necessary to Immediately
send strong reinforcements to the aid
Of the decimated and discouraged impe-
rial forces in that remote corner of
the globe Vessels are already under
weigh with troops and munitions of
war for the assistance of the threaten
ed coionists and their defenders. The
mistake of undertaking the strength
aod pluck of their dusky adversaries
will prove costly one to the British
before they succeed in compelling them
to submission.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19

New York Tribune: The British
troubles in South Africa are of long
ia. dug and war with the Zulus has
been expected for some time. Zulu
land lies on the east cost of Africa
hundreds of miles from Cape Colony
1t is just north of the British settle
ment of Natal, which it separates from
the Postuguese settlement of DeIegoa
Bay. 1t is inhabited by distinct race
of natives. who have as little to do with
the frontier Kaffirs (who were subdued
last July after prolonged border war
fare) as Prussians have with Austrans.
Last summer, after the end of the sup
preston of the Galeka rising on the
frontier, the British forces were trans
ierred to Natal and the Transvaal,
where Cetywayo, the ZGlu king, had
tor some time been threatening hos
tilities, aud where one Of his vassal~
was actually defying the British rule
in arms Lord Chelmsford found that
reintorcemeDts would be needed, and
bis call upon the home Government
was responded to late in the year. In
November the British ultimatum was
sent to Cetywayo demanding the i'm
mediate dlsbandment and disarmament
of the Zulu Army. the cession of ST.
Lucia Bay (long known to have been
one of the inlets tor arms and ammuni-
tion), and the stationing of British
Resident in Zululand The demands
were refused by Cetywayo, who at once
mbled 5000 men on the border
10 resist the British He was given
until Jan. | to make full aud un-
conditional submission, but he still re-
fused the demands, and the British
forces began to advance. There has
been considerable doubt for long time
whether the British troops were strong
enough to control the savages, and the
news this morning shows that the
doubts were only too we'll founded.
Cetywayo is described as savage OF
rather unique sort While actuated
By desires OF the most savage nature,
he is capable of expressing feeling
which would do credit to persons pro-
Tossing greater civilization. Last sum
mer, during one of his "murdering
fits" he bad 800 persons of the tribe
OF Mapita put to death because they had
on account of the death Of Mapisa's sou
absented themselves from the Feast
of First Fruits, and neglected to pay
their respects to the King.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19

A warrant has been issued for the
arrest Of the late Treasurer of Browa
county.
The imported colly shepherd dogs
killed number Of merino sheep for a
farmer near Madison.
tits said that Mr. Henry, of Neenah,
has been offered So 900 for his young
tro'ter, Brown Billy.
The acting Mayor of Milwaukee,
Hon. Fl. G Hobart, has ordered the
police to prosecute all saloon-keepers
who sell liquor to minors.
In the case of W. II. Lamphear, de-
faulting County Treasurer of Outage
me county, the committee fixes the de-
falcation at about 81 500.
The Oshkosh ship-builders are pre-
testing against the employment by the
Government ship-yard there of any
workmen who do not live there.
John Vogel, young man, aged "a.
of Kossuth, became intoxicated and al
empted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart, but at last reports
was still living.
An interesting case being tried by
jury at Rlpon before j. W. Hall, IS
a a'tractlng considerable attention In
the month of October Mrs. M. G. NJ
Patty, then Miss NJ. Matteson, OF
Rosendale. ordered wedding suit
made in this city by Mrs. Craig The
job Was done and gave satisfaction, but
the bill, amounting to $S5, was not
paid. Alter the marriage the lady
claimed that the bill Was too high a
suit to recover was brought by Mrs
Craig. and has occupied the attention
Of the court ten days already, and Is
far from being finished at the present
writing. The court room has been
filed, quite number of the spectators
being ladies,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19

RUNNING RACEs,-CHARLEsToN.
Feb Ii. The South Carolina jockey
Club, closed It's meeting TO day First
race. i miles handicap, all ages, was
won by Pioneer, Gov. Hampton Sc
cond, Leroy. the favorite, third. Time
2:434. Mile beats, 3 year olds. won
easily by Bergamot, the favorite, in
two straight heats, Jim Bell second,
EdgeGeld third. Time, both heats,
l:48 One mile dash, year olds won
by Ben Hill, Mary Walton aud Gabriel
a close second and third, Alpha fourth,
Linchpin fifth. Time l:46f. Con-
ISOLATION purse mile dash, all ages, won
by Hattie E., Pioneer. the favorite, se-
cond, Omega third Time :48. Vir-
ginian, Rapahannock and Bill Dillon
Withdrawn, owing to the delay caused
by bad weather.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19

THE pIE-EArING CHAMPIONSHIP.
MIR. I. j. McNuIty, who claims to
be the champion pie-eater of America,
published challenge last week in the
New York Sun, to which there have
been several responses. Mr. John j.
Weeks, Of the United States Bung
Factory, who signs himself the
'Champion Sponge Cake Eater" ac-
cepts Mr.. McNulty's challenge to eat
pies for the championship of the United
States. Mr.. Alfred Waltzlnger,
Champion Plumpudding Eater, also
accepts, provided that the pies shall be
apple pies, of the prescribed size, the
prize to be the cham piouship and 5000.
The Champion Pie-Eater of New
Jersey, who fails to give his other
name, is anxious to enter the ring, as
is also Mr.. George o. Striker, Champ
ion Doughnut- Eater, who is mot over
II years old tall and lean He stipu-
lates that the pies shall be hot and
homemade. Mr. P. J. Maloney, who
SO Iar as nearQ from Is not champion
of anything, will wager from SIS to
$500 that he can win the pie-eating
pionship from Mr.. McNulty; and
Mr.. Richard Dumphy, Champion Sara
toga American Pie-Eater. will bet
from 500 to 81 900 that he can con-
sumo more pie in thirty minutes than
Mr.. McNuIty can. Last is Mr. Char
les McClennon, who accepts "with the
following proviso, viz: The pies shall
be Of your dimensions as to size,
material, etc., hut four pies must be
placed one on top of the other, each
bite to be through four pies" Mr..
McClennon is l6 years Of age
Courier-Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19


Concerning the ac,Ion Of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company in re-
spect Of the cipher dispatches, an i'm
portant point was made in speech by
President Green, at an uptown club,
on Saturday night. DR.. Green said
that the dispatches returned from Con-
gress were burned, after six months
had passed. Some one present then
asked if it was true, as had been charged
that discriminating Republican dispatch
es had been burned, while incriminat-
ing Democratic dispatches had been
preserved. DR.. Green said that this
was not true. All the returned dis
patches we're burned. If any of the
telegrams deliver up by the company
we're not returned, the company did
not and could not know it. There
were 20 900 of the cipher dispatches,
and some of them were not given back
to the telegraph csmpany. 1t is evil
dent from this frank explanation that
the officers or the Western Union
Telegraph Company gave up all the
telegrams when forced to do so; that
they subsequently destroyed, as they
supposed. all them, and that Mr.. Man
ton Marbles assertion that somebody
in the company's secrets preserved the
Democratic messages and destroyed the
Republican is unfounded and imperti-
nent. Il should be added that there is
every reason to believe that the des-
troyed Republican messages contained
nothing discriminating" and that the
Democratic Imagination has been uu-
duly stimulated in this regard. .-New
York ZaMes, February 10.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19
THE NEW SENATOR FOR LOUISIANA

The New SENATOR FOR LOUISIANA.
IL stands to-day the foremost Jew
in our country, and his coreligionists
can feel assured that not only will no
stain ever attach to him, but that
wherever are found purity of official
life, sterling integrity and spotless
private character, there will also be
found the name of Hon. B. +. Jonas.
Louisiana. AS a matter of interest
to the ladies, We might add that what
Mr.. Jonas will be 10 the council of the
nation, his beautiful wife will be in its
social circles. Endowed by nature
with superior intellect, she is as
charming in manner as she is love y
in form and feature. We congratulate
the Jewish people in the good fortune
of having two such worthy represen-
tatives at the seat of Government
Cincinnati lsraeltte.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-02-19

ORAhuE.--Dr. Prices Special Flavor
ing Extract for Orange is obtainel
from the finest fruit. To flavor cakes,
puddings or creams. it is found one of
the most delicious favors, and in all
respects equal to DR.. Prices Lemon
and Vanilla Extracts, which have be-
come so popular.