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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-23
Second Edition.
= O'CLOCK, p. NJ.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate Amendments to the Ap-
preparation Bill Concurred
In by the House.
The Senate on the Contagious Dis
eases Bill.

WASHINGTON, May 23.-HoUsE.-
Mr.. Atkins from the committee on ap.
preparations reported back to the SEN
ate the amendments to the legislative
appropriation bill, and stated that he
was instructed to move concurrence
in all of them, 1t was hardly neces-
sary, he said, to give a reason for
that instruction. There were some of
the amendments in which the COM
mittee would not, under other circum-
stances, concur, for instance increase
Of salaries of senate officials from
twenty to one hundred per cent. more
than the salaries of some of the cor
responding employees of the house.
This increase amouRted to over $45,-
900, He stated, in reply to Mr.. Con-
ger, that the senate made no amend
ments in the political features of the
bill. The amendments were concurred
in. The speaker called on the COM
mittee for reports of a private nature,
AT the expiration of the morning
hour the house resumed consideration
Of the Warner silver bill.
SENATE-The senate took up the
bill making subsidiary coins ex-
changeable for the lawful money OF
the United States, and to make
such coins a legal tender in sums
up to $50, The committee amend
ment to substitute ten for twenty was
discussed. The bill was supported by
Messrs. Bayard, Booth, Ferry and
Herman, ana opposed by Messrs. Ed
munds and Thurman. The morning
hour having expired the bill went
over without action, and the senate
took up the contagious disease bill.
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WASHINGTON.
Subscriptions to the Four Per
Cents.
Encouraging Reports to the Depart
ment Of Agriculture,

WASHINGTON, May 23.-SubScrip-
tiOns to the four per cent. refunding
certificates since yesterdays report
amount to 81, 1893, ,72O. 1t has become
apparent that the remainder of the
certificates unsold will not last more
than six days. Applications for Uni
ted States depository designation here
after received will be declined by the
department. H..a
The general tone of the correspond
Snce to the department of agriculture
is hopeful of a revival of industry, and
the surplus of unemployed labor is
growing less. Good labor can general
ly find employment at fair prices
Many are idle because they will not
accept the reduced wages offered.
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First Edition.
2 O'CLOCK, p. n.
BY CABLE.
Germany and France on
the Greek Question.
Russia Adding Cruisers to Her
Fleet.
Famous 0arsmen Still in Training
No Match Yet Arrnged. r
A Novelty In Athletic Sports. six
u Days Swimming Match. 1

LONDON, May 23.-A correspondent
at Berlin reports that Germany and
France are cooperating heartily on
the Greek question: aR2
I Russia is about to add number of
swift cruisers to her feet,
A match between Plaisted and
Nicholson has not yet been arranged,
because the latters backer is tempo
rarily absent.
The Times says the recent specula-
ton in silver has partially If not
wholly ceased, and the market has be-
come comparatively quiet. oa 5e
The latest novelty in athletic con-
tests is six days swimming match at
Lambeth Baths Gymnasium, which
began last Monday at II clock. Last
night the scores stood as follows
Capt. Webb (who swan across the
English ehannel), 81 miles q. Fearn,
of Wardsworth, who made such a
close contest for the lords and COM
mons, five miles, last summer, 49
miles w. Beckwith, 81 miles, and j.
M. Taylor (who won the amateur
championship at New Castle), q miles.
NEW CASTLE, May 23.-Both
Elliott and Hanlon are out twice daily.
Plaisted accompanies Hanlon. Thurs
day Hanlon traversed the course, do
ing the greater part at "a strokes a
minute. In the afternoon, on the re-
turn journey from Elswick to Scotts-
wood, he did 80 TO "a strokes against
the stream. He was about 100 yards
ahead of Plaisted when sighted. di
ROME, May %. The senate adopted
a supplementary resolution in regard
to the St Gothard railway. $40
AT a meeting of the Royal Agricul.
tural Society yesterday the council
was recommended to instruct the quail
fled commissioners to obtain and pub.
lishia Seperate and reliable report as
to corn and meat raising capabilities
in the United States, Canada, Russia,
India aud Australia, with regard to
the probable food supply intended for
the English market. "
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JUDGE CARurHERs AcOuIrrrn.

The acquittal of Judge Robert l..
Caruthers by the session of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church at Leb-
anon gives great satisfaction to his
friends throughout the State and
wherever he is known. This was
remarkable trial, growing out of inside
church and village affairs not easily
understood at distance. There
seems to have been much bitterness in
it, SO much 50 that Lebanon seemed
TO be too small place for both the
accuser, Rev. Mr.. Darnell, and
the accused. Public sympathy
was naturally with the latter
Every one knowing Judge Caruthers
as one who had grown old in honors
aud in the esteem Of the bar and the
peoI oIHle Of Tennessee, naturally asked,
what crime can he have committed
that would justify such a prosecution? {?
And who is his accuser? A good
many people have heard of Mr.. Oar.
nell for the first and perhaps the last
time in connection with this unfortu-
nate trial, and it cannot be said
that he has gained anything by
the notoriety. The charges were
not of criminal nature it is true, but
the censure of high church court
would have been a severe blow to one
of Judge Caruthers' standing and past
life. TO him it would have sent a
keener pang than the verdict Of a civil
tribunal. Fair-minded people every
where will rejoice to know that his
character is unassailable, and that he
has come out of this ordeal unscathed.
Mr. Darnell has not been raised in
public estimation abroad by this affair.
We should think that he could find
elsewhere than in Lebanon field OF
usefulness that would suit him and
the people better.
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the dismissal of the complaint.
The case has been pending in differ
ent ecclesiastical courts for FIVE years.
To. day the assembly was occupied in
another case, that of L. L. Baker,
who appeals from the decision of the
synod of Missouri. Mr.. Baker was
first arraigned before the session and
suspended from communion for giving
reporter of the St. Joseph Herald
some items of meeting. HaaH
The case was taken to the presby-
terry and reversed. The session car
ried it to the synod, which reversed
the presbytery. Mr.. Baker now APP
peals to the general assembly, and the
case is still pending.
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River TeIegrauS.

WHEELING, May 23.-River G feet
| inch and stationary.
CAIRO, May 23.--Arriyed- Belle
Memphis, st. Louis, 9p.m. Departed
Anderson, Nashville, 8 pm; Ellen
Mccoy, Cincinnati, II; Colorado,
Vicksburg, Ill Belle Memphis, Mem
phis, midnight; Paris Brown, New
Orleans, l am. Weather clear and
pleasant,
EVANSVILLE, May D. River G feet
5 inches. Weather clear mercury 750
PrTrsBURG, May 23.-River 3 feet
I inches, Weather clear and pleas.
ant,
LOUISVILLE, May 23.-River ris-
ing slowly, with 5 feet 6 inches in the
canal, and 3 feet 2 inches in the chute
on the falls. L ..
CINCINNATI, May 3--Riyer rising;
l2 feet z inches. Weather clear and
COOL @ H
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ORGANIZED SANITATION

The meeting at the thoater yester.
day afternoon was in every sense salts
factory and will have good results at
home and abroad. The building was
we'll filed with earnest, intelligent
men who have the welfare of Mem
phis at heart and went there for a
purpose. An organization was effect
ed which gives the people to under
stand that something is to be done.
The selection of Colonel w.
). Prestidge, as president of
the Memphis auxiliary sanitary
association we regard as particularly
fortunate. He has lived in New
Orleans for years, and is familiar with
the most improved ideas and methods
of sanitation. During the yellow fever
here last year he was an active member
Of the citizens relief committee, and
so quiet was his manner that he did
not receive half the credit that might
properly nave been bestowed. We
speak of him especially now as he is
comparatively a stranger among us.
The public may rest assured that he
will do his whole duty under any
and all circumstances, in a
thorough and business-like manner.
The e-presidents and other officers
and committeeman are all first-class
citizens, who will bring great expert
ence, fine intelligence and executive
abilities and sound Judgment to bear
in the work they have undertaken.
This movement gives confidence to
our people and assurance to the world
that we have made up the issue and
are determined to fight off the posi-
bility of future epidemics. Such an
organization can accomplish wonders
If properly sustained by united
people. The real work now be-
gins. Subcommittee, we presume,
will be appointed in all the wards,
and by means of that every part Of the
city will come under the suryeil-
lance of the central organization, and
the board Of health will become a
power to enforce cleanliness, decency
and health, The people of New Or
leans are entitled to the credit of
leading off in such movement, and
it works there admirably, We are
satisfied that the association here will
make the very best use of the means
available, and will accomplish great
good. Let every citizen come forward
now and do his part cheerfuIly and
promptly, Every man can put his own
premises in good order and keep them
so, and those who fail should, and
doubtless will, be promptly reported
to the authorities.
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Personal.

Mrs. Z. A. Meriwether, after several
months sojourn in St. Louis with her
sons, has returned to home Memphis.
On her way she stopped, by invitation
at Hickman, KY, where she lectured
to an immense audience in one of the
principal churches of the place, and
was afterward serenaded at her hotel
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ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL.

.v< .a4N MEMPHIS, May %.
Sales of cotton in this market to-
day 45O bales, all to spinners. The
market closed nOminally unchanged,
but lower to sell and unsettled. Liv-
erpool futures closed fat. New York
3 pm. kilograms reported spot cotton
quiet sales 76l bales. Middling l3sc,
Futures at 3;02 pm. were barely
steady at 10 to "A points below last
nights prices. Sales 223,OOO bales.
New Orleans at2 pm. was dull and
entirely nominal middling, 1870;
sales 250 bales. u
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Edltorlal Shooiing Scrnne.

BALTIMORE, May 23.-A special
from Culpepper, Va, says: In a
difficulty here to-day between D. NJ.
Ream, editor of the Culpepper Times,
Philip NJ. Jones and G. w. Jamison
Mr.. Ream was shot in the abdomen,
and it is thought, fatally. Mr. Jones
received a ball in the shoulder"
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The Taxing District Case.

The United States Court took recess
to-day, and it is understood the judge
will not be on the bench again until to-
morrow morning at 10 O'Clock. At
that hour it is expected that the attor-
neys interested will have agreed upon
all points at issue, when the Taxing
District case will be at once put in
shape for immediate transmission to
the Supreme Court at Washington
City.
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LOUISVILLE.
Several Old But Interesting Church
Trials.

LOUISVILLE May 23.-Late last
night the case of J, W. CanAeld, who
appealed from the decision Of the
synod, which refused to look into the
charges presented by Mr.. Garfield
against Rev. Stuart Robinson, was de-
cided by the assembly, the result being
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-23

New YORK, May q, 1:O7 pm
Cotton opened weak and lower to sell;
now fe lower Ordinary, II H. l6c ;
good ordinary ~ 7-l6c low mid
ding, y l3.16c; middling, 13Ic; good
middling, 1916; middling fair, 14lc;
fair, l5s. Futures closed last evening
weak and 16 to 26 points lower than
the day before; opened this morning
heavy and % to 81 points lower now
steady at II to 19 points further de-
cline, as follows: Deliveries for
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-23

James Magill, the letter carrier Of
st. Louis who saved Babcock by tes-
9fyjng at the whisky trials that he
took the letters containing $1,000 and
addressed to Rabcock and Avery out
Of the box in which Everest had
placed them and returned them to
Joyce, has been dismissed by Post
master Hays, who says be could have
no confidence in him after bis cAnnec,
tion with the case,
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Sales, l37,2OO bales,

NEW ORLEANS, May %, 1l:30a.m.-
Cotton nominal. Middling, l3bc. Re.
oeipts, 23O bales. Sales, 100 bales.
Stock, SO, ,l12 bales.
GALVESTON, May 23.-Cetton is
nominal middling, 1910. Sales, ll0
bales Receipts, 59l bales. Stock
5564 bales. .
LIVERPOOL COTTON STATEMENT
For the week ending May %, as
eabled to the Memphis cotton ex-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-23

LIVERPOOL, May q, zoo PM
Cotton opened duh and easier now
I'd lower, Uplands. Z Lied Orleans,
Z 1-l6d. Estimated sales, 1000 bales /;
for export, 1000 bales. Receipts, $500
bales; American, 5000 bales. Futures
opened 332d lower; now further off,
as follows: Deliveries for May and
June, Z 1-32@7d; June and July,
z lie, Z 1897; July and August,
Z 3-32@7 l-l6; August and September,
z 3-1697 5,32d. IN
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, May 23.--For Ten
nessee and Ohio valley rising followed
by falling barometer, northeast veer-
ing dtp generally warmer southeast
winds and clear or partly cloudy
weather.
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A Big Drop In FreIghIs from St.
nOuis. HU

ST. Louis, May % -Freights to the
sea board dropped this morning to
eight cents per barrel on -four to New
York, fifteen cents to Boston, and
fifteen cents per hundred on grain to
New York. 'iIia l1, onHn NldN.
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California hayinA got through with
her new constitution, aght is turning
hor attention TO the congressional bat
tie field. F0ur membS's 4Te 70 be
elected in September. Tue RQFlna-
tious will probably be made Ilext
month.
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CINCINNATI.

CINCINNATI, May 22.-Flour firm.
Grain firm. Wheat. $1.07@l.l1. Corn
39@40c. Oats, 33a36c. Whisky firm
and nominally $l.0l. Pork nominal.
Lard firm; held 6.10c@6sc. Bulk
meats in fair demand, shoulders, 8lo
short ribs held at 4,6Oc; short clear,
4S0c. Bacon unchanged.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-23

QucSn Victoria is said 70 objeqt seri
ously to the feminine fashion Of wear
pg the hair banged" The fashion,
by the way, was set by her grand
children, the children of the Prince Of
Wales.
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JACKSON.
Tennessee Supreme Court Proceedings.

Special to the LEDGER
Jackson, Tenn, May %. = The
Supreme Court heard Farabee VS..
Justice, No. 319, this morning. The
commission adjourned until next
Wednesday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-23

Mrs, Hill, the sister Of Mr.. w, w,
Corcoran, who has just died, was in
her youth known as one Of The
Three Graees," Of Georgetown. The
other two we're a daughter of Commo-
'gprc Jones and a daughter of General
Platter,
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NEW yoRK

New YORK, May 23.-Money easy
at BOA. Governments are generally
firm and lc higher for new 4s and AS
Bar silver l10l. Subsidiary coin la
II discount. State bonds are dull.
Exchange quiet. Stocks irregular in
early dealings, but toward noon be-
came steadier, with a fractional ad.
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For Sale.

A STEAM Gre engine In good order, GO.
~, ~ inah saw, Mandral frame aud track, saw
iron shutter, sash doors, mautels, CRATES
store doors and two houses pow oceupied NJ
ticket office and baggago-rooms at Louisville
depot. The boVses win be- sold N 4 BARGAIN
ns they must DO removed to mike way for the
new passenger depot. Apply 10
@Gl JOHN REID, Builder, sos Second st.
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SEALED BIDS.
PriYiIeaes.

GEALED bids for the privileges knights
- Of InnisfaiI Picnic, June 3, 1879,
can be addressed TO the undersigned up to s
O'Clock PM, May 81, 1879.
Those interested are invited to attend a
meeting of the Committee Of ARRANGEMENTS
same evening at hall of X. Of l., 225 Second
street, and see their bids opened. The com
mittee reserves the right TO reject anv or all
bids. JOHN S. SULLIVAN,
Chm. Com. Arrangements, 2S2 Front st.
79-75
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-22

Opiophagy, otherwise called opium eating, has grown to formidable proportions in the United States. In 1867, when our population was thirty seven millions, the amount of opi- um imported was 136,000 pounds; in 1876, with an increase of but seven millions in the population, the importation had risen to 340,- 900 pounds. Thus, during these ten years, while the population had increased only about twenty per cent, the importation of opium had considerably more than doubled. Much of it is used for medical purposes, but investigation has shown that the larger proportion of it is consumed by opium eaters. It is hardly cred ible, though it is given on doctors authority, that in the city of Indianapolis there are near
 ly 800 ofthese, who made way with nine hun dred pounds of the drug last year. In the state of Michigon statistics on the subject have been furnished by ninety physicians they re- ported 1,313 habitual users of opium, or an average of 13 cases within the observation of each of these physicians. Every evil is traced to the hard times, and so is the increase in the use of opium, which is drug that makes peo. pie temporarily negligent of the hardness or the times. @
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-22

HE can nuke money faster at work for us than at anything else. Capital not required we will start you. $12 per day at home made by the in- %Y dust ous Men, women, boys and wanted everywhere to work for us, Now is the time Costly outfit and terms free. Addree TRUE Co.,, Augusta. Maine 4 '-'9 s 2 48-1y
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-22

OPHELA.-According to our opinion Ophe- Ii0 has always been too slight and small creature to have much hold upon such spirit, and his perpetual gibes and f1outs at POIO7stus, especially on the subject of his daughter, would be cruel, had he not an idea that some plot or other in respect to his daughter was brewing in the old courtier's mind but when the deep est musings of his sadness are disturbed by the entrance of that last and cruelest spy upon him, Hamlet does not seem at first to cOntem- plate the possibility that OphetG, too, might be in the plot against him. Her evidently concerted appearance at that moment, cal culated chance to secure the Princes atten- tion, rouses him from thoughts so different that he perceives her with passing impa- tience And it is hard to believe that even OpheEiG is conscious of the full meaning of the snare which she is made to set. Something of simplicity, something of stupidity, is the de- yice-which is probably all her own, and un- suggested by the other conspirators-ot brlng- ing Hamalets love-tokens to restore to him at such moment and under such circumstances. Though she thinks he is mad of love for her self, and though she knows that her father and the Kiag are lying in watch to listen, she tempts her craZed lover, as she imagines, to betray his most secret feelings, by those soft reproaches, which at another place and time would have been so affecting-appeals to his tenderest recollections and pathetic protest against his abandonment of her. A woman | forsaken could not do more in a supreme ef- fort to reclaim the heart that has strayed from her. Her faltering reference to the ''words of so sweet breath composed as made the things more rich, the faint and plaintive lndigna- tion of her conclusion, ''rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind, would be exquis- itely touching did we not know of those spies behind the arras They are exquisitely touch ing, we believe, to the great part of the pub
 lie, who, hearted to the soft OphelG, for get that this whole meeting is plot, that she has centrived, in her simplicity, still more delicate refinement of the snare, by thus throw ing upon him the sudden shadow of the past. -BLgckacO0dS MGqdzine
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-22
WHOLE NO. 2763

THE NEW THEORY OF METEoRITEs.-There is one planet of the solar system which has a special claim to consideration. On that plan ct it is true that 8 volcano would be required which was capable of giving an initial veloci- ty of at least six miles per second but every pro-
 jectile launched from that volcano into space would, after accomplishing an elliptic orbit round the sun, dash through the track of the earth, and again pass through the same point at every subsequent revolution. It is not here a case of one solitary projectile out of 5000 crossing the earth's track, but every one of the 50, GOO possesses the same property. The plan ct of which we are speaking is, of course, the earth itself If in ancient times there were colossal volcanoes on the surface of the earth which had sufficient explosive energy to drive missiles upward with velocity suthcent to carry them away from the earths surface, af- ter making allowance for the resistance of the the air, these missileswould then continue to move in orbits round the sun, crossing at each revolution the point of the earth's track from which they were originally discharged. It | this were the case, then, doubtless, there are ! myriads of these prOjectiles moving through l the solar system, the only common feature of ! their orbits being that they all intersect the l earth's track. It will of course, now and then happen that the earth and the projectile meet at the point of crossing, and then we have the phenomenon of the descent of meteorlte.
 This theory, that the meteorItes have origina- l ted in the earth, was, so far as l know, first put forward by Dr. Phipson. MT. J. Law renee Smbh, in letter received from him some months ago, inclines to the same view as at all events one of the probable sources. It is we'll to note here the great difference be- tween the lunar theory of meteorites and the terrestrial theory. For the lunar theory to be | true it would probably be necessary that the lunar volcanoes should still be active. In the terrestrial theory it is only necessary to SUD- pose that the volcanoes on the earth once pos sessed sufficient explosive energy. No one | supposes that the volcanoes on the earth at
 present eject the fragments which will consti-
 tute future meteorites, but it seems probable
 that the earth may be now slowly gathering
 back in these quiet times the fragments she
 ejected in an early stage of her history. As
 suming therefore, that the meteorites have
 had quasi-volcanic origin on some considera
 ble celetial body, I am led toagree with those
 who believe that most probably that body is
 the earth.-Ro5ert s. BGU-NGtotre..
Litchfield enquirer., 1879-05-22

The disuse of Manx, the Celtic language of the Isle of Man, has become rapid since the beginning of the present century, and the only parish church in which Manx sermon can be heard is that of Kirk Arbory. Occasionally, however, the Wesleyans use ManX Tn thelr chanels Tn 1871 out of 54, O42 inhabitants, 19O spoke Manx alone, and 13, 500 both ton pleS