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memphis Avalanche.


Memphis is an island. Oeans, seas
aad rivers Of quarantine surround the
ill-fated city on every side. There Is
no health in Us. So say the outside
world. Providence is not The author
of our woes. 1t is all our own fault
So say the outside world. AID the
world IS doubtless right ia is judg-
meut. While thus enveloped in q
night Of woe, girded with relentless
Gordon of official quarantine, ard 10
dead to bury to speak ct, we have lei'
sure to ruminate on our sinsof omIs
sion For it must be said that our
shortcomings are none other thGu omit
ting to perform those acts OF cleanliness
that are necessary to be performed. II
cur people desire to live in health
city, free from epidemics. The pres
ent citizen fully understands the con
dillon of Affairs H.. lr------ r1s'-ssssei- ,
that the death dealing vaults upon
which Memphis stands are the Cause
Of all our woes. He does not ask br a
scientific diagnosis. 1t is one Of those
self-evident propositions that no one
can dispute. The power to remedy
these evils does not now exist. When
the city is reinhabited with her now
absent population they will be able. ii
they give along pull and strong pull,
all together, to radically regenerate
this city and make it 10 the future
in reality, what it is now to
the eye alone, one of the fairest cities
that the sun ever shone on
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PLAIN FACTS,

sas-a---l a---~----,-S Ssszzss-s Audftcr Pup-
fishes card announcing that there is
no money in tho State Treasury, and
that this condition Of affairs is brought
about by tho % per cent. reduction OF
taxes, shrinkage of values, the reduc-
ton of taxes on railroads, failure of
sheriffs, &c. We believed it is true that
the expenses of our State government
have, for some years past, exceeded
the receipts from the revenue proper.
but no legislature has had the audacity
to raise the taxes, or lop off expenses
sufficient 10 let us live within our iu.
come. We never elect other than the
best material to represent US CD and
they are always pledged Gas candi
dates) to economy and the reduction
OF expenses. And SGT affairs have
been SO managed that year by year We
We are coming out behind, and have to
borrow from one part Of the State
funds to keep the other going. By
and by, at this rate, our surplus will be
exhausted, and the tax will fall with
double force upon the people. When
the Auditor gets in his settlement with
the tariy sherifs, &c. be may pay
dollar for dollar, but the chances are
that the next Legislature viii have to
make up the deficit by borrowing from
the Sinking Fund. as come of its pre-
decessors have done. There's : screw
loose somewhere. Either our previous
members Of the Legislature, whom We
are accustomed to applauding as "well
dono good and faithful servant" have
been eztravagant, loose, bad managers;
OF our sheritfs, collectors and disburs-
ing officers are ut fault. Any indi-
viiual or business firm who, in the
run Of affairs, annually paid out more
than the receipts, aud had TO borrow 10
balance accounts, would be declared
in o bad condition. The State of
Kentucky is in this fix, if we are
are rightly informed.
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Had .surIes

A correspondent of the Meade Coun-
ty Record complains bittsrIv Of the
failure of the juries to convict, and
says il accounts for our Gov state Of
civilization" Here is one of his meth
DDS Of remedying the evil.
It may be asked, chow can such an
evil be remedied ?" and the savans of
the law tell US there is no remedy.
That we cant force the iprv TO say
guilty" if they don't want 70 say it
Now l do not pretend to any great
amount OF wisdom, but l never vet saw
an evil that did not see remedy for.
see remedy for the evil of clearing
the guilty in the hope of fee or reward.
May give it here? There are over
LOO convicts now 10 our State prison.
Is there one of all that number who il
there because he took the oath of a
iuryman, aud while that oath was still
quivering on his lips cleared the guilty?
Nay, verify; not one Put a few jury
men 10 the penitentiary Tor swearing
lies, and I'll venture the assertion that
it will be years before another guilty
man goes free Bat am told that we
could never get jury that would con
vict a jurymau for false swearing. 1t
may be so, but | shall never believe il
until | see it thoroughly tried. may
be mistaken, however, and then what
Why that we are simply as6fAe mercy
and discretion of mobs TO - the
laws of the land
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Tho Grangers EamIt:

The Frankfort YEoMvN has this to
say in regard to Kentuckys now emp
ty treasury:
The fact that the Auditor of Public
Accounts has given notice that for the
present claims against the State can
not be paid, has led to no little COM
ment. But it ought to excite no sup'
rise when the cause is considered
We predicted this result when it was
proposed to reduce the rate of taxa
ton, and argued against 1t. But a
Granger Legislature, forgetting that
change is not always reform, and that
the only way to defray the expenses OF
government is by levying an adequate
tax upon the property of its people, re-
dueed the rate of taxation from forty
FIVE cents to one hundred dollars to
forty cents, in the face of assurances
from the Auditor, the Committee OF
Ways aud Mems, and every one who
knew anything of the subject at all
The real reduction will not be realized
until we know how our taxes are APP
piled Prior to the act in question.
the rate Of taxation was four aud a
halt La les per centum, or for'y>h e
cents on The hundred dollars OF .bis,
twenty five cents OF tho Huuurad doi
lars was applied 20 cQmmoa ohooI
purposes, leaving only ua1ty eeat-
for revenue proper-fof lhe p-ynlat
of all the expenses of the state t'oY'
ernment, exclusive of schools When,
Therefore, the reduction waS made, the
Legislature, having no right to dimin-
ish the school fund, the whole reduc
ton was taken from the revenue prop
er. The consequence was that it was
a reduction Of twenty five per cent.
or one fourth Of the revenue.
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TIE ssEsSESSKPPE AND THE
GOVERNORS

The circular letter of Eugene Under
wood, OF this city, relative TO the duties
Of the Board of Commissioners represent
ing the States interested in the improve
ment of the Mississippi river and tributa-
Iies, has been favorably received and
commented on by leading journals. This
board is 10 act as an aid to the Mississip-
pi River Improvement Commission, as the
CourieT-Journal recently showed, and the
Governors of the United States are gradu-
ally making up, by appointment, the list
Of Commissioners. Mr.. Underwood hav-
ing received recently many additional
names. 1t is proposed to organize the
Commission on October Ii, at Mammoth
Cave, in this STATE, but we do not see why
Louisville could not be made the place of
meeting, as IL is q most accessible point,
and hotel accommodations are unsurpass-
ed Tho States of Minnesota, Missouri,
Illinois, Arkansas and Louisiana are not
yet represented on the Valley States
Commission, but we presume they soon
will be. The Wheeling Intolligencer, af-
Ter stating the suggestions of Mr.. Under
wood, says: ave have given consdera-
bic space to Commissioner Underwood
suggestions, believing them 10 be both
practical and valuable. The movement
is one in which the people of this section
are largely interested, and we hope to
friends of this auxiliary board should
lose 10 time in securing a full represen-
taticn Of the States at the October meet
ing Courier Journal.
Our people, the people Immediately
on the Mississippi, river have grown
accustomed to looking upon this great
enterprise as so far off in the future
and of such immsnse magnitude, that
they are lacking in active interest or
hope, aud many regard it as au impos
siala s. G8RpthahFpegSfBte TED qhhfss- Bsce
from the river, somehow don't feel
themselves directly interested. We
say this is strange, for in the success
OF this great work, is locked untold
wealth aud prosperity for this whole
valley.
There is no doubt but that the Mis-
sissiPPi Valley will DO redeemed some
day, anu it is only question Of the
activity aud interest Of the people
whether it will be done 10 our day-in
the near future--or DO postponed to
another generation. Our people and
leaders take a wonderful interest in the
discussion Of abstract political ques-
tons, and are paraicular to have their
CoDsIessmen and public men commits
ted upon such proposition, but won
derlulIy strange that upon this quos.
ton affecting more directly material
welfare aud interests than all others
combined, VIC never hear a word, ex.
cept from the public men away down
the river or away up the rivor.
Why is this? Our section can new
er have any great or progressive pros
pcrity without this Improvement.
Since tue war the great Mississippi
Valley, that ought to DO tho richest
portion of the earth, has been going
dowo, down, while other less favored
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nov,y,ou OF the constitution

If the plan marked out by the Oou
s,itutiou is adhered to, another vote
cannot be taken for four years; and
then if that vote should be IN the ala
drmatiye, two years later (siz years
from this date another vote must be
taken; and if that should be IN the
affirmative, tho Legislature at the ses-
sion following (seveu years from mex
January will order an election OF
delegates. So that if everything works
favorably-of which there Is scarcely
a probability-we may have a revision
of the Constitution in about eight
wears,
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sEoyv Deeply Does the Earth
4unkP.

The recent earthquake at Virginia
City was not noticed at ali in the min
ing depths, but only by people on the
surface Their famous earthquake of
some time ago, which shook down
chimneys and 6re>walls, cracked brick
buildings aud did other damage, was
merely noticed by some of the miners
working in the upper levels, but it did
no damage, not even shaking down
loose stones and earth. The station.
men in the various shafts felt 10 the
strongest, and the deepest point where
it was noticed was by the station ten
der at the 900 foot level of the lmper>
ial Empire shaft-900 feet below the
surface He said it felt like Sudden
faint throb or pulsation of the air, as
though a blast had been let OF at a
distaace above, below, or in some indie
finite direction. In some Of the mines
the shock was not noticed atall, even by
station men Commenting Oh this pc
culiar fact at the time, the Gold Hill
News remarked that the earthquake
seemed to be an electrical disturbance,
proceeding from the atmosphere and
not from the depths of the GARTH
Sacramento, Cal, Uuion.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-08-15

The quarrel over the late Brigham
Young's property has been further
complicated by the bringing of suit
on the part of the trustees of the Nor
mon Church against the heirs, legatees
and executors of the estate, to recover
over 81 100000 worth of property from
them The plaintiffs ask that the al
legged heirs be enjoined from taking
possession of the property. The affair
creates great excitement in Mormon
dom, and the people seem to sympa-
thize with the Church, believing that
the organization is 10 dagger of being
swindled out Of its rights 10 Brigham 5
estate.
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no ssoneylnIne sIate97ffeasury

FRANKFoRr KY August S--The
A uditor of the State TO day Issued the
following circular:
DEAR SIR-In conseqaerce OF the
depletion of the Treasury oecasloned
by a reduction of twenty five per cent
Of the taxes imposed on the taxable
property of the State the shrinkage
of values, the reduction OF taxes on
RAILROADS, the failure of sherIts and
other collecting officers to pay the
public dues into the Treasury, and con
tinued increase Of the expenses OF the
State, am compelled to cease audi
ting claims for the present, and until
the Treasury is replenished.
Hence your claims are lereln re-
turned TO you. As soon as il Is posi-
BILE to do SO the payment Of claims
will be resumed, Of which notice viii
be given through the public press and
otherwise.
Very respectfully
D. Howard SMITH, auditor.
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On last Saturday morning q Weak
ley county, Tenn, near the Henry
county line, and about 18 niles East
of this place, man was found dead in
an clubhouse, on the premises of Mrs.
Hendrix. He was found hanging to a
Jolst with his shirt. 1t appears that at
hrst he attempted to hang himself with
dusier, but it not being stout
enough, he took new shirt, tied the
body of it to joist, and the sleeves
around his neck, and when found was
in the condition described. His name
Is unknown, being an entire stranger
IN the neighborhood. He was a mid
de aged man, decently attired and of
good appearance. There were no pa
pers OF anything on his person giving
any clue to bis indentity.
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The project of cutting canal across
the upper portion the State of F orida.
and thereby saving the time and
avoiding the dangers of navigation
around the Bahama Islands ana the
Florida reefs, although not new one,
Is IN fair way of being ACCOMPLISHED
The government at one time made the
preliminary surveys, but the outbreak
OF the civil war put an end to the work.
A year or two ago the enterprise was
discussed and movement made by
English capitalists to push the work
along, but the prevalence of .veIlow fe-
yer put an end to the enterprise from
that quarter. Since then the eoterprise
has been revived by narty of
French capitalists in Paris,
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A Man among a million,

JUNCTION CRY. KANSAS, Aug =
w. b. Clarke, banker OF this city
who made an assignment few months
ago, compromised with his creditors
for twenty i've cents on the dollar, aud
subsequently paid them 10 per cent
additional, announced to-day that be
is ready to pay his obligations in full
with interest to date.
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"Fair WarnIng.';

A Ii PARTIES INDEBTED TO THE
IN estate of j. Amberg, deceased, will
please call at the Store of j Amberg' s
Sons, and settle their Indebtedness at
once Or will be forced to place their
claims in the hands of attorneys for col
lection. l will be forced to settle the es-
tate within few monts; and am compell-
ed to collect all claims due same. All
parties holding claims against said estate
are requested to file the same for settle
ment.
JANE B. AMBERG, Admrx.
July 4th 1870. At
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On Monday evening Of last week
London, Laurel county, was surround
Ell by a baud of robbers who fred the
town in several places, but the citizens
guarded their property well and the
effort to sack the town failed -Colum-
bia Spectater.
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TWE NOCK.
Male School.

The undersigned will open a school for
boys in the building formerly known
as SIiller's Garden, and recently reftted
for school purposes, on
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Is, 1879,
continuing nine months.
Primary pupils, per mon h,......,.....S 3d. 90
Intermediate pupils, per month, ....... 400
Advanced pupils, per month, ............ 500
The course of study will include Ger
man, Bookkeeping, Commercial Arith-
metic and Penmanship, besides the usual
common school studies.
Wills B. C. CALDWELL.
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MILLIN e r Y!
Addie Jones,
INVITES ATTENTION OF THE LADIES
4 to her new and fashionable stock of
a Good .yOkc.

parishioner stopping with his pastor
was mortified to see him visit closet af-
ter each meal and quietly take q drink
from q suspicious looking bottle. His
duty compelled him 10 demonstrate with
the good man on this deplorable practice,
but his modification was increased when
he was shown that L vas a bottle of DR..
A. Q. simmons Liver Medicine that was
used, and he was assured that TO that ex-
cellent remedy the people were largely
indebted for sermons free from dyspeptic
symptoms, with which they had been
afflicted until he was cured by this relia-
bic remedy.
This medicine is for sale by BUCK &
CowGILL, who also have some trial pack
ages to be given away to applicants.
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He RETURNED SECRETLY

to the house and occupied his private
room unbeknowu to the inmates of the
house, save one servant. Next morn
ing he quietly went down town, and
in the afternoon, returning to the house,
found Coukling quietly sitting on the
piazza with Nrs. Sprague. I'm give
you just twenty minutes to get off these
premises" said Spraeue to Conkling
'are you armed" Conkling replied
that be was not. "Then, if you are not,
get away
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THE SPRAGUE SCANDAL.
why Ex Senator. -G0yeTBO
EN-GeReras SpTague Arm ed
Himself xvith "a Shotgun.
The Injured Husband Said TO Have
Surprised GOnISIing and Mrs.
SPrREue-
Especial to the Courier-Journal.I

New YoRK, AUG. 11-Further de-
tailed accounts ofthe Coukling Sprague
quarrel at NarTagausett Pier, show
that the affair was much more serious
than at hrss described and q a differ
ent nature. Specials say Una. Conk
ling went sc the SPrasue mansion on
Wednesday cprague had gone away,
saying he was going GO Maine. On
Hhnrsda ~ nic-LL
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alfiv advertisements.

PURE old Apple Vinegar, made in Full
/ ton county, at
| ju27-tf MCCUTCHEN' S.
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= CaHdsd ConteSsi,n

Very respectfully
D. HOWARD SMITH, Auditor.
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GREATEST DIsAPPoINTMENr

failed. an1 since tsd domestic troub-
les have ensae9 94fween the ex Cover
nor and his wife. ii the reports about
Mr.. Conkling's attentions to Mrs.
Sprague are true, it is no wonder that
Mr. Spraguo should feel insenced, aud
il is a wonder that he has not put
stop to such attentions long since!
, 1879-05-17

that two acttve waulucn, having say SLID be-
,woen theIn. sls,D togethur a,li l'nf q sns'1 H.,
s s' q q qsap, 5 pss"FE VIII a'n s nD'n fsns"s Go s
tl.oy build . log ahanty, buy cuoklrE.ftove,
and lay III A. wInter's slpply Of pruyttons
THEN. with their two axes ainl cross-cu, saw.
sllcY bcgn their assault upon tho aiant lords of
will cut in day they ktiow better than VIC,
for NC llnyG not ilc honUr Of their ucrsonaf
acquaintance: but It Is nnfo 50 say that thelr
logs will not cost them. nut iuto rails III sllu
neassst st!enn,, more than as per tso,,sa'.h toet
lnwn 70 tho ,learest eav.mill; md tl,cro they
will sell t1cmt-thc oak antl ttlle wftltcwoo1 for
81 or 81 aud tho black-w1!nit for sci
per tnousarl. The probabilities aro tl,at on
fur blact-wain.,ts that Win every ono "sut up "
a.6W feet or more; but, II tero s,ro 1,ot,-if tue
Whole woods are onk or whiterood,-tll wood
men will lave rcalszcd profit Of At least s. per
nn' tract o' loo acres, Ii r. eaty 10 estimate Tic
profit the two Industrious fellows will haya madc
Upon their original purchase.
Nor, II VIC banr ii mind that this soil, like nil
soils on which oaks md llack-Walnuts grow, +
when cleared rnuru tllnn all lint tho ttmbar
uron II would have yielded, wo shall be able to
1orm some idea Of tho advantages whrf, ato
offered BY West vsrginfa to the worl,iHgman
who aonllcs to its snr!acc decimal fraction Of
tllg energy llo nor cxpc1Uls In Ealnitlg q mcaVer
lire1lhoot In SUMO less inynscd .nca1tty.
In n recent prolonged visit to West Virginta,
the writer fn1nn careful atndy Of It's timber
uN farming resources. SoMu uf his otserva-
ii0ns he las sci down IN Tits nld previous ar
tir's in TuB Tninusr. Ills statements arc
necessarily hricf; but any one wanting fuller tn-
formation tt1ay addre.a him freely, at tho oilce
Of lliE CHICAGO TnlbtjNK, mud he will cleGr-
fully communicate all within his knowledge.
Tic true why tn bring tho Eurth aud tie South
togcthcr Is to ftao .llem Into one BY itnmlGra.
lion; und, though he has no personal 1ntercat
In the mnttcr, tllc writer would be glad to do
what he can to bring about sucl q result.
, 1879-05-17

Iota' ..-....... s...............' 81. 4A}. 10
To accomplish, tl'is result, 10 tlat1 Invested,
besides what n above enumerated, amounts rs
tollo"ni For butltlinE housc. $40; IN cash pay-
nlcnt on farm, If00; forh two,horsa BnEon altl
liariiess, $l.i; far Two plows aud gear kt9;
fur llnos,. rakes utc.. s25l for two mules, s2tU;
tor milctl COW, $t&5; alnl fur duzcn layi,,,s
huns g. In otltrr wnr.1s, tits toLal tnvc sttilont
l,ud been about s7o); anil It ,,al yielded Whit,
ulIe year prnlft OF over 6l,1iU-t1tpro tlau llc
hnsl bctft abfe to accumulate, by t!Ie cloacst
eeo.on,y, dtrltg tic prprtous tlftecn years.
ana Ills rnse u 1Y no means IN exceptional unr.
lle WA Industrious, loukrd closely after oyery
dollar 0f expenditure, ind exercised ordinarily
good management, but .}>o had 10 ilorc thai,
An AYclngo crupi and my other l,artl-worklug
tnan, with few l,undf.af dollars to l,cgn Mtlll
might Ito rs well ns fe did I'll u1ly ono OF lnattY
tlou'and loeasions that are now 10 hu llad lor
little tuo:e thun 4 Song INVEST Virginia.
We llayn no Hpace In which to Bpeuk OF tic
mineral riehes.of this rich b,nto. Wc eau only
sny that the wl,tlc region between thu Ohio a,nl
lil. Sandy a'nl iho AIIcghancs Ia undcrlatsi
With the richest lcposits of roal and iron ID tlIu
Untnn. Amt these lniu,f1, ,-lan!s cnn bo bought
tor frotu $50 10 Sl0u pcr gcre,-ubout one e.tsi,th
of What similar land c'!nta tsis N PeuusylyanH.
Tho forrst wellth Of West V,rginia ID prnh-
Union. Fully tvo'thirds vi lts surface Is coyur.
gu Wttt All oriEna! Htnwtl OF oak, mnplc,
chestnut, plno, alnl llaek.wanut; lenser anll
ilnar tha" any other tinlber east of the Rocky
the State iAWN,0to actca Ut this tlmbur
slal!dlnE o0oo teot upon m acrc,-say, III, ,OOV,-
00, o9D feeti enuugh TO- keep uysry Fawmii
IN Michigan busy fo. eighty years, II tiley
cut an amount ysnrty equal ~ thu who'll ansltlal
production u tllat great lumber State, Win
alais's and Michigan nav n,Vre than hall 4le-
iiltea III Thur timber, Wll nut ho lnng bcfura
thus great fHrest wealth wdt he brought Iuto
.l'ar6rf; atid the' tl4is virgin State will no
lohEer "ais solitary III Tie, wlldcrncss,h but b9
lAas!e merry MI" We mNsic 81 tho ax-inuasc
sri 10 tho chorus nf Ynnkre D0o0lc. Scarcely
uie!,sr wealth Ut tnnc.r. Nol enough logs arc
now tut III lilo whole ssate to Keep running any
t~"b tile IatYcr saW-tnlla lorate4 TIL ths aael:
nl" lttyor. Wo kna1 Of but t,ne tlrtn that IL
enEaxcd in tt,c sysse!natic EEtttnS ous Ut timber,
MI! lEnnAbly nut ltW,uHO,NU lett u both ku.,H
, 1879-05-17

the Constitutional A,nonsmenta lnctto porsecl-
lion. nn.l their labor Is not rccOmpensc1.
u ycs1 Let lis have rycfy restriction removed: !:
let lis prevent intimidation by the military forces
Of illu United Sntcs; let oyery bar be- rcmnvr,l:
deprt1c tic President Of tho powcr Vt sMpcrvls-
Ion ~ protect the honest yotcr and rcstrsifn the
vengeance. With tita negroes t1tatran 'l,tsal in
the South. md reputable voters driven from the
polls In Now Ynrk md other large cttlcs+ We
should havc stale Ut kneicty thai would pitt 10
tho blush every American who lovet hfn cu,n-
try's lair fala better than l,e docs The SUCCESS
of party or faction. +. T. BuMwALr.
, 1879-05-17
FEVER AND AGUE.

FEVER AND k3uE enttl for nfty centa: Thsts Z
I'll hse aa Ii etee asras o s
TXphp!d, Yctow, and other Teyets (ade BY }aiTari
Plllb}. No quickly As NAUWAf6 READY RELlEI.
FIN cents uff hQttlcs