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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
The nrnuning.s Wooing.

London Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Browning's marriage was very 70.
mantle. Mrs. Browning. better known
and more widely read than hor hus-
band, was three years his elder, a con
frmed invalid, aud one of the last
women he would have been suspected
of loving. She paid him a handsome
compliment in her " Lady Geraldine's
Courtship'-they had never m%et-and
he called on her TO express his ac-
acknowledgements. He was admitted to
her presence by the mistake Of O SER
want, and an acquaintance began that
eliminated In marriage. See TO what
doleful results the mistake Of a ser
want may lead
He seemed to benefit her. She i'm
proved very much after her union ;
but she never ceased being an invalid.
They went to Florence, where they
stayed for fifteen years, with occasion.
al visits home and to France. She
died in Florence. She has been dead
eighteen years, and her husband 4
reported to mourn her sincerely still
lie has at least remained a widower
which is q rayQ thing to do in these
wife forgetting days. Their only child.
2 son, IS now thirty, and a painter .
but he does not seem, though born of
two geniqses, tq amount "a anything
" particular. Since his wife's death
Browning has never hecn in Italy,
because, as he gays, the associations
would be too painful.
The poet Of the obscure, as he may
Justly be named, is sixty seven now.
lie continues in vigorous health. and
has fresh appearance, although his
abundant hair is very whita. lie is
well Figured and has good features.
but his expression is often unpleasant
because it denotes such entire salts.
faction. He has many warm friends.
but he is not generally liked. He
takes no pains to please, but can be
very agreeable when he chooses. Re
ing in Independent circumstances, he
has a town and country house, and
entortains handsomely like his poetry.
lie feels sure Of his lasting fame, but
his odious form will be pretty apt to
hurt him sOrely.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
The Ohio senators.,ip.

New York Interview with Governor elect
Charles Foster.l
"Gove1gor, who will be United States
senator from Ohio?'
Garfield. | think. | don't believe
anybody can beat him"
is Sherman in the racer
"He is. He will write a letter in a
few days declining to make the race
for senator. lie repeated that prom
Use to me since he has been here. [
had a talk with him at the outset Of
my campaign, and said Sherman,
We can't allow the contest for senator
to enter into the fght. ] must not
run for senator, and | don't think you
ought to- He said | was right. and
that he would not be a candidate. At
that time we thought the contest for
governor would be much closer than
it turned out
Has Garfield been assured that
you and Sherman won't oppose him r.
Yes, he knows il, Sherman took
him out riding in Washington and
told him 60, and he also wrote two
letters to Ohi0-one for Taft to see
and one to be shown to Stanley
Mathews saying in both that lie
would not be a candidate for EQUATOR.
WHO. then, will run against Gar
field will it be Mathews"
Il don't believe" said Foster.
that Stanley Mathews expects it.
TAFT has hopes, as usual. Denison
will make a pretty good push for the
place, but think you may say it vii.
be a Walkover for Garfield.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
The Florida Orange.

w. G.. Benedict writes as follows
from Florida to the New York Her
aid
| would like to set the people of
the United States right on the Flor
ida orange question and also expose
the deception p%ractised by street fruit
dealers land perhaps also larger deal
ers) in palming off on the community
at different seasons Of the year or
anges from every quarter Of the globe
as Florida oranges" Ten days ago
| was in New York and saw on fruit
stands piles Of pale yellow, insipid
looking fruit, labelled and sold as
" Florida oranges The fact is, that
here in Florida If you were to offer
500 for a dozen ripe oranges, this
years crop, they could not be had in
the whole State. because our crop,
even the earliest varieties. does not
ripen before the middle Of December.
True there are many oranges picked
in a partially ripened condition dur
ing November by parties who are com
PEELED 10 sell their crops as soon as
possible to meet emergencies, and
these 90 out of the State and are sold
for Florida oranges" So they are,
they are as imperfect as it would be
to market a winter apple in August at
the North. Our oranges are con-
ceded to be the finest in the world.
but to perfect them they must hang on
the trees until the suns rays mature
and fully ripen them, giving them
the luscious favor for which they are
so justly celebrated. After the 18th
of December you may look for Flor
ida oranges 10 perfection. There
should be a State law prohibiting the
marketing Of this fruit in a green
state under the brand Of - Florida Or
ances." No doubt our fruit growers
will ere long develop some earlier va
r%iesies, but now the perfect fruit is in
market from the last of December un-
til May. must say in addition. how
ever, that during this time through
out the United States not one in TWEEN
ty Of the oranges sold as Florida or
antes ever saw this State, and We
doa't want the credit Of raising so
much Of the poor, insipid trash that
is picked green in foreign countries,
and only changes color in transit
without maturing. In time the SUI
perior quality Of our fruit, with the
low price at which it can be bought
and then be the best paying crop
that can be raised), will drive foreign
| oranges entirely out Of our markets.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

landed on our shores, have made ospe-
cial efforts to gather information con-
corning the districts offering most adj
vantage to settlers. The commission
ers have this year helped about 10000
immigrants to go West, directing them
where 70 go. 1t is said none of those
sent to the Western States had re-
turned. Recently there has been more
activity among the immigration com
missioners and societies of Baltimore,
New Orleans aud other Southern cit
les, with a view to attract a portion
of the influx their way, but their sue
cess has hardly been in proportion.
One among several reasons why COM
paratively few immigrants go South is
that the railroads of that section
charge twice as much for %transporta-
ton as those Of the West.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

picked pork. bacon, hams. etc, on Inv,
cattle, salt and fresh beet. and llv,
sheep and mutton. These We may in
a year increase. especially hogs and
sheep, largely. But beef will come
more slowly. Horses will be in greaI
demand, and will come TO useful az,
much more slowly than cattle.
Now, on the probability OF a great
war in Europe and in Asia. our farm
mers should husband tho cattle and
horses Of the country. There is No
sufficient supply of horses in France.
Italy, Germany and England. If the
war be general, these powers will have
fall three million infantry in tho field,
and one million cavalry. Russia has
prohibited the export of horses
to Germany and Austria, aud
Germany the export of them to
France. If there be a war on the
scale that everything indicates, the
demand on America for horses and
mules will be tenfold Of her power to
supply, and both, fitted for war pur-
poses, will command a price never be-
fore known. Let our farmers avail
themselves of this opportunity.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
A sky.aiuh Lift of the Quarantine.
Little Rock Gazette, lst.l

Little Rock Gazette, lst.l
The yellow fever season is indeed
over. The action of the State board
of health was the keynote to the
raise but the action of the city
board Of health Yesterday removed
every obstacle. After swimming n
dangerous stream, the traveller stands
and surveys the waters with a sigh OF
relief. The stream we swan was, in
deed, dangerous. Our escape from
yellow fever was wonderful.
The following was enacted by the
city board at a meeting held yoster-
day
Ordered, That all quarantine re-
strictions heretofore existing exclud-
ing passengers, baggage and freight
coming to Little Rock from infected
districts is hereby revoked.
1.-THE board takes this occasion to
warn the merchants and citizens OF
Little Rock of the danger of bringing
to this city goods and merchandise
that have remained over in Memphis
during the epidemic"
Memphis and Little Rock arc sister
cities, Memphis being the big sis
1t may seem hard that we closed
down on her so-well, relentIessly-.
but the factis Miss Memphis, we we're
afraid that our people would take the
fever. This would have been as de.
structive to us as your affection was
to you. Many a time, when you we're
a little girl, your mother refused to
let you play with your aunt's children
in the next yard because there was
whoOping-cough in the family.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
CAN A A BE SUED!
An Interesting Case from Alabama Ar
gued ia the United States
Supreme Court.

Washington Post, October mth.l
The case of the South and North
Alabama Railroad Company against
the State of Alabama, and from the
Supreme Court of that State on writ
Of error, was argued yesterday, by
Messrs. Thomas q, Jones and Samuel
+. Rice for the plaintiff, and sub
mitted on the brief of Senator j.. I.
Morgan for the State. When Ala
bama was admitted into the Union, in
1919, five per cent. of the proceeds OF
sales of public lands were reserved for
building railroads under the direction
of the legislature of the State. The
State received over $4,000 of this
fund and loaned it to certain railroads,
The plaintiff built a road from Deca-
tur to Montevallo, Ala, in considera-
ton of a promise of the State to give
it a certain amount of this fund. At
the time the act of the State legisla-
ture appropriating the fund was passed,
a citizen or domestic corporation had
the right to sue in its own courts.
The railroad company brought suit,
and afterwards the legislature re-
pealed the statute authorizing such
suits, and the Alabama Supreme
Court sustained the dismissal of
the suit on the ground that the
repeating act took away the jurisdic-
ton Of the courts to further entertain
the suit. The plaintiff cOntended that
this was a violation Of the contract,
and hat this court had jurisdiction to
compel the State court to carry out
the State laws existing when the 0
tract was made. If the plaintiff is
sustained, the decision will affect all
debtor States whose laws, at any time,
gave a right of suit or other means Of
obtaining payment. Senator Morgan,
in his brief for the State, claimed,
first: That the State chancery court
had no jurisdiction to hear and deter
mine a suit against the State after the
passage Of the act of December IS,
1874; that the State courts having
passed on no Federal questions nor
denied any right secured to the plain
tiff by the laws or constitution Of the
United States, this court has no juris-
diction on the appeal; that the State,
Being a sovereign power, the United
States has no right to extend over it
the jurisdiction of its courts. The
eleventh amendment to the constitu-
ton is stated to be an express abridge-
ment Of the judicial power of the
United States, and designed to leave it
to the States to determine for them
selves in what cases they would con-
sent to be sued in their own courts,
and to deny the right Of any person TO
sue a State without such consent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
a Vow ElenIth CLrenlnr.

The national board Of health has
prepared a circular on the treatment
of infected localities at tho end Of an
epidemic. 1t recommends that per-
sons who have been away from places
infected with the fever, should, before
occupation, have their houses thor
oughly cleaned, ventilated, fumigated
and CHILLED that the doors and win
dows should be opened. and the entire
interior exposed as mach vs. possible
in the coolest weather. No Sres
should be kindled until just before oc-
eapaDey. Every part AID parcel OF
the furniture and house should be SO
eleansed and chilled. All beddinr
and other material capable of pro.
tecting the fever germs FROM air or
cold should be disiniected by heat.
Persons returning to places that have
been infected should be careial about
ready-mado clothing or bedding, With
out full assurance that they have been
carefully disinlected.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
.Etsae.


M0hlie hcgtster.i
This plant. which has been ~creatinf
quite a sensation in the Southern
States of late, yields a coarse fiber
employed for the manufacture of gun
ny bags, and a large porpotion Of the
b%agging with which we wrap our cot
ton bales. 1t is mostly raised in
India, from which country we import
hundreds of tons every year. Tests
have shown that it succeeds very we'll
as q crop in all the lower States of the
South, and many are of the opinion
that its culture could be made more
profitable than that Of cotton. 1t is a
plant with decidedly pretty foliage.
growing to the hight Of from FIVE to
ten feet.
To such Of our readers as would
like to experiment a little with jute We
will state that We have Just received a
small invoice Of seed which we shall
take pleasure in sending in small
packages to such as order it and in
close a stamp with which to pay re.
turn postage. The seed will be mailed
from Chronicle, Ala, our place of
country residence, and hence it would
be well to mail all orders to us at that
place, as we have parties there who
will attend to the matter promptly in
our absence. Nay be planted any
time during June.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

81. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has
refused Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood. of
Washington, the privilege of practio.
ing law in that State. Whether this
is right or wrong, it leads US to remark
that women have not been successful
as lawyers. Many Of them have been
admitted to the bar in various States
and Territories, and Mrs. Lockwood
and perhaps a few others, have heen
admitted to practiceb efore She SIN,
preme Court Of tho United States
Most Of these women have been Of n
SUPERIOR order intellectually, and time
enough has been given them to make
the trial a iair one. lf a single one Of
the fair sex ever became distinguished
as a lawyer, We have failed 10 hear az
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
A remarkable Rineman in Cali,
f0rnia.
an FranFisco Record. J

san franFisc0 Record.l
At Agricultural Park yesterday DR..
John k4fh, OF Oakland. gave an exhi.
bition Of his skil as q rife shot, and
achieved q decided success, astonish-
ing even his friends. During the en-
tertainment he shot cigars from Tie
mouth Of his assistant, who was stand
iRg about twenty feet distant, and not
only did 80 while having the gun-a
twenty-five eaiibqs Ballard -against
bis shoulder IN the usual banner. but
with II turned sideways or upside
down, with the stock resting upon bis
head. He also shot apples from a
stick two or three inches long held b
his assistants mouth, the gun beinQ
fred from various different positions.
including sighting over his shoulder
with a small mirror, and also shot
glass balls from his assistant's head,
making many shots that were difficult
and seemed perilous. The audience
we're at a loss which to admire most,
the nerve Of the shooter or Of the
youth who held the target"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

A sight horrible enough to satisfy a
Frenchman was witnessed a fortnight
ago in Front Of the Hotel Dieu, Paris.
One Of the patients at the hospital
went mad. aud leaping out Of a win
dow overlooking the street, perched
ON the cornice. lie addressed the
crowd below ia incohereat language,
and threatened to throw himself down
when any ono approached the win-
dow. Mattresses aud rugs were
spread on the pavement, and the IRE
men were Immediately sent for. One
Of the latter let himself down by a
cope affixed to the root, aud, securing
the mailman under the arms, man
aged 70 thrust him into the open vim
dow, where he was taken charge Of
by the attennthts.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
The Coming European War.

Kentucky Live Stock Journal
There is every indication of a great
war in Europe, aud that not far dis
tant. II is to be between the German
ompiro and Austria against Russia, II
it arises. AT the present time, if we
judge by the attitude of every govern
ment in Europe but Spain and Swift
zerland, a war is inevitable by the
spring of 1880. Navies are increased,
ornaments increased, and armies en-
largod by great levies of men. What
interest America may have Ia this war,
If IL cqncs, Will be apparent to every
ono. IL means a great demand for
wheat, all the products Of the hog,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
\ EiEdea Boom in Sorsh C.ro1,,,

= AaAuNat bUOlu ia NHfln carolina
Lqmbcrton IN. C.l Special to the Globe.
Democrat
Fanny Baker, an old negro woman
OF sixty-hye, was arrested in Baden
county the other day, charged with
some triaing criminal oiIense, when il
transplred that she was at the head of
a band of forty or fifty Of the most
respectable oolored men in the county.
who believe that she is possessed of
supernatural powers, and who would
not, under any circumstances, dare to
disobey or displease her. The old
negress claims to have the keysfo hell
and heaven, and when any of her band
commits any act to displease her, she
threatens them with eternal destruo-.
ton. They fully believe in her power
to do what she threatens, and in this
way she exerts a powerful influence
over her followers. They worship
twice a week, and on Fridays are for
hidden to speak to any ono. She.
made every one of her band vote for
Ieb. Vance, the Democratic candidate
for governor, three years ago, and now
declares that they should all support
Tilden for President if he is a candi-
date.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

New York Letter to Philadelphia LEDGER.
The foreign immigration continues
70 show a large increase, the arrivals
az Castle Garden this morning mum.
bering 1923; total for the week. 1891.
Ia view Of the great increase aud tho
fact that the immigration for next
year promises to be even larger than
that OF tho present, the emigration
commissioners and the officers of tbT
various societies which look AZ.
Ter the welfare Of those Just
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
D0o1med a.

the town of Covington, Iowa, is
literally a doomed city, Situated on
the bend Of the Missouri river. the
banks are gradually being eaten away.
and the ground on which the court
house stood a year ago is now covered
by many feet Of fast flowing water.
The cutting away is done by fits and
starts. Recently the current set in
shore and took. off a strip of land
thirty feet wide in a few hours. No
lnvasions we're made for another week.
when another slice was cut OF. Then
about half a dozen buildings were
moved back some thirty feet, and the
next day the land on which they had
stood was all gone. The citizens have
tried to moor trees and logs to the
bank IN the hope Of forming q barrier
for the food, but the current is so
swift and the water so deem that these
attempts have failed. 10 give an idea
Of what the town Of Coyington has
suffered in the past five years, the
case OF the ferry house and principal
hotel may be instanced. Two years
ago there were six hundred feet of
land between the buildings and the
river bank now you can toss a stone
out Of the hotel window into the
river, and tho buildings are now being
put on rollers for removal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
The Ilara laney Innnnonisln.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch.i
1t is estimated hal the advance Ia
stocks during the past six months has
alone added two hundred millions OF
dollars to the wealth Of this country.
by and by the decline in stocks win
come, aud will subtract about two
hundred million dollars from the
wealth Of this country.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
UHpleasan;1ess in the q. g. su-
preEne Court.

Washington star
A few days ago, 10 the United States
supreme Court, Justice Field, in de-
IiyerlDg a dissenting opinion as to the
eonsututionality Of tho Thurman
Pacific Railroad funding act. inti-
mated, in rather broad terms. that
the views in the opinion submit.
ted, had a tendency to Capitalization.
and tisl gent into an argument adj
vancing rather p0iniedIy the doctrine
Of State rights. The majority OF the
members Of The court have, in view OF
what they deem Judge Fields breach
OF decorum, a proposition under adj
ylsement to adopt as a rule Of the
cop,t that, hereafter, all dissenting
opinions shall iFSt besubmitted to the
court IN It's private consultation room.
q member Of the court told a practi-
TONER before il on the day that Judge
Field delivered his opinion, tbat the
court would certainly not have sub
mitted to such a lecture from an at
torney making argument before it, and
that 1t ought to excuse the right to
prevent a member in the minority in
q case from o%btruding views which re.
hect upon the other justices Of the
court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per snnum and
500 per month f~Orless than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per nnun-
postage free.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

To restore nerve and brain waste.
nothing equals Hop Bitters. Believe il.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04

it. Miss phrbs Cousins, Of this city,
was admitted 70 practice in the st.
Louis Circuit Court. several years ago.
but she seems to have found featuring
more pleasant, il not more profitable.
Women will never be successful as
lawyers, nor will they ever be success
full as voters. The same causes oper-
ate in both eases.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-04
LITTLE ROCK.

Tuesday evening, November 4, 1879
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-09
1mpious Infdelity.

The last weekly Courier Journa.
gives its readers a sermon from Mr..
ralmage of Brooklyn, and a full re-
port of an impious infdel lecture by
Bob Ingersoll. TIE lecture was de-
iivered IN Louisville, to a densely
packed house, and was immensely
cheered. The lecturer not only rid
iculed the Bible, but even hurled
anathemas at God. Can thought
rul people wonder that crime stalks
abroad in the land when God is
thus openly defied and the impious
man who defies Him is oheered by
large audiencesY There is no ques
ton but that as a people we are
drifting as rapidly as time can carry
us into a state of ouen and avowed
which there is TO be
no God-no right and wrong-and
consequently no respect for civil
law. We may intensity our crImi
nal codes u1til gibbets shall stare
us in the face st every cross road,
and we may build prisoa houses
until every county shall have its
penitentiary and every neighbor-
hood its Jail. an yetif God be not
recognized in the land, murder and
arson and robbery will hold high
carnival. We use strong terms be-
cause the danger that lies before us
is most imminent. This question
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-09
Sell Your Cotton.

Macon Telegraph The vail from
every manufacturing center in old
England. Scotland and Ireland is
really terrible and heart rending
Thousands in the cities of Sheffield,
Stokeon- Trent, Burslem. Edinburg,
Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester,
Bristol, Woiverhampton, and, in
deed, almost every manufacturing
town and village in the kingdom
are reported to be in the most pitia-
BILE condition, the distress border
ing npon- Starvation. Failure after
failure follow each other in rapid
succession, and there seems to he
no let up in the situation. OF
course, the pfostration 70 all
branches of businesss is almost
without parallel, and the stagnation
in trade has redaced prices and the
wages OF labor to the very lowest
figures. AS necessary couse-
quence cotton goods are cheaper
than ever known before, and the
price of the staple must rule accor-
dinely: Snpersdded % this sszss