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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

The bill passed by the legislature
reopeuing Hatchie river to navigation
gives great satisfaction to the people
along the banks of that stream from
its mouth to Bolivar. Hon. Casey
Young will endcavor to have the river
surveyed at once, and when congress
meets at the next regular session to
obtain an appropriation for the i'm
provement of the river. This could
have been done probably at the last
session if the bill had been passed
earlier by the legislature. He has
written to Mr.. Jerome Hill as follows
appreciate the Importance to Mem
phis, and the surrounding country, OF
having Hatchie river opened to naviga-
tion, aud | will spare no effort to have il
done as soon as possible. / will endeavQr
to get the secretary of war to have a sur
vey made Of the Hatchie river and the
cost of its improvement estimated during
the coming summer, so that / can bring
tho matter before the next regular session
Of congress, IN December.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

The suicide OF ex-Congressman
Riddle at Lebanon on the 29th ult.
gives a cotemporary an opportunity to
head an article on the subject " Life'S
Riddle Solved, which can be consid-
erably varied by transposing the words.
This opens a fine field for expanding
genius.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

THE section of the code imposing a
privilege tax on express wagons, carts
and transfer wagons, has been amend
ed recently so as to read: For
wagons, drays and all other vehicles
drawn by one horse, 81 two horses,
S2, and 81 for each additional horse
used except for those used as farm
wagons and by the original vendor or
producer of the products of the soil or
dairy, raised or produced by himself -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

persons charged with violations of
this law, and they may be presented
without a prosecutor. 1t provides,
however, that the act shall not be en-
forced against any persons now being
licensed to sell such articles until the
expiration of such present license.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

The frittering away of wealth is of
minor account compared to the ex-
penditure of vital force by delay in
treating a cough or cold. Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup saves time and strength
in its effect upon coughs and colds.
Twenty-Five cents bottle.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

New YORK, April 4, 1852 pm
Cotton closed yesterday unsettled !;
opened this morning with nothing do
ing, and held generally lc higher /;
advanced to the figures indicated at
noon; now nominal as follows :.
Ordinary, 8 9-l6c; good ordinary,
l07-l6c; low middling, 10 15-l6c: mid
ding, ll4c; good middling, 1lsc; mid
ding fair, l24c; fair, l34c. Futures
closed last evening firm at 16 to "A
points above the evening before ;
opened this morning irregular and 8 to
ID points higher; now very weak at
from | to points above last evening
on same months, as follows Deliv-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
Cincinnati Produce Market

CINCINNATI, April 3.-Flour quiet
A60@5.5O. Wheat higher and firm
at Sl.03@l.0S. Corn steady, 36! @38c
Oats firm, 28@32c. Rye quiet, SEC
Pork firm, $1,000 asked. Lard firm
6,30c bid. Bulk meats firm and in
active demand at $500. Bacon firm.
Il, 5.35@555c. Whisky nominal at
$l02. Hogs steady at g 9O@4 10;
receipts, 1,790 head,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

The report that the doors Of the
Wittenbnrg church upon which
Luther nailed his theses are still pre-
served, is declared to be erroneous.
These were burnt during the Prus-
sian bombardment of the city in 100.
The present doors are a gift of Fred
erick William ", in 1853. They
are of bronze, and have in bas-relief
the Latin text of the reformers
theological essay.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

~ pant for glory-I pant for fame, -
said an incipient attorney who had
just been sworn aud admitted TO the
honorable profession Of the law.
Why then you have a pair of pants
all your own" said the Judge, who
was fond Of a joke, and this is more
than can be said Of the most Of us op
our advent 10 the bar"
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, April 4.-For Ten,
nessee and Ohio valley warmer, clear
or partly cloudy weather, northwest
erly winds, becoming variable ant
shifting to southeast in the west por
tions, and lower pressure.
The Ohio river will fall.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
CARD.

To all who are suffering fromthe errors and
indiscretions Of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc will
send recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was dlscog-
cred by missionary in South America Send
a self addressed envelope to REV. JOSEPH 7.
IMAM, Station D, Bible House, New York
City. od-2-xXx-1kw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

The Hartford apologists Of the young
lady who has recently made herself
exceedingly conspicuous in the eyes Of
her neighbors BY marrying her father s
coachman, have this 10 say: Gov.
ornor Hubbard himself, when boy,
was Opprentieed to farmer and took
care Of horses,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

WHILE the bill was pending in the
legislature to submit the question Of
fifty centsand four percent. to the peo-
pie, the New York bOndholders sent
dispatch after dispatch to Nashville,
saying they had no concessions to
make Some of these dispatches we're
suppressed by parties who favored the
bill. One of them was telegraphed as
special to other papers in the State,
but did not appear in the Nashville
papers. The high State credit men
hold meeting at Nashville to day to
advise the bondholders to accept the
proposition, or rather, we suppose to
ask the bondholders to agree that
they will accept fifty cents and
four per cent. if the people vote in
favor of the proposition. After hav-
ing telegraphed, pending legislation,
that they would not come down, the
bondholders of New York would find
themselves in a rather awkward posi-
tion to make the concession at once.
1t would be equivalent to an admis-
sion that they had only been playing a
bluff game to force the legislature up
to their figures. A number of prom
inent men have indicated that they
will take the field against the fifty
cents and four per cent. proposition,
if submitted to the people, and in that
event it is not at all certain that it
would carry at the ballot-box.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
Dehulting Cashier Discharged

BosToN, April 4.-Conant, the dc
faulting cashier of the Eliot National
Bank, was discharged to-day on a
motion to quash the indictment, and
was Immediately rearrested and held
in $4,000 bail.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
naring DevlItrN i'm Terns.

GALVESTON, April "A special to
the News from Fort Griffin says "On
the night of the Goth ult., nine dis
guised and well-armed men took pos.
session of Hamburgs store, on Tepee
creek, near Staked Plains, covering
the clerks and others with pistols until
they robbed the store of all the money,
arms and ammunition. They then
attacked a camp party en- route to
Leadville, taking them by surprise
and shooting Mr.. Anderson, who at
tempted resistance They took about
$500 and all tho live stock of the party.
After leaving the vicinity they went
to Blane's canon, and robbed the store
of Conrad g. Roth of $500 worth of
provisions, arms, etc. They are be-
lieved to be the notorious Reeves
gang, from Lincoln county, New Mex
leo. The Rangers will pursue them. !"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
death OF en Ex.Congressman.

BALTIMORE, April 4.--Judge Jas.
R. Seward, member Of the S5th and
Both congress, died yesterday, aged II
years,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04

FENNER-In Louisville, Ky, Friday
morning, April 9Th, at O'clock, DR.. G. s.
EESNRR, AGED 5f years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
MEETING.
MOlIoe 70 stOckhoIdors.
pArK or conNrnnr.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 8, 1879, 7
THE annual meeting Of the stockholders Of
l. this Bank will he held at their banking.
he9se on TUESDAY, the sth day d April,
at which time an election will be held Tor 1--WE
By order Of tho board '''''
E-S2 X. A. PARKER. Cs,h,sr
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
The Brownsville States of this
| Week saYS

The effort to get a bill through the leg
lslature authorizing the citizens Of
Brownsville to compromise the debt of
the old corporation failed on account Of
being made too late. We are out in the
woods IN more respects than one. No
legislation in our behalf can. now be se-
cured under two years. What will be
done in the meantime is hard TO tell.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-04
ROOFING.
IRON ROOFING AND SIDING

For Security and Eeooomy.
}; g. BATTELLE, Navy Yard.
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RATHs FOR TnE PEOPLE.

1t is with pleasure we see our city SANTA
rians turning their attel ion to the subject of
bathing. As means of cleanliness bathing
stands in the first rank. In vain we disinfect
vaults, purify cutters, and cleanse cellars 1t
the persons occupying the purified premises
are not themselves personally clearly. Such
persons carry with them the evil that leads to
epidemic wherever they go. Let these per-
sons battle two or three tunes a week, and
their whole sanitary standing would be
changed. For pullution there would be
wholesomeness, and wholesomeness imparts
q vitality that repeIs disease and invigorates
the system. The habitual bather contracts a
love Of cleanliness and will have clearly hab-
lbs about. him. 1t should be one of our most
anxious thoughts how we can construct per-
manent baths, where both sexes can obtain
ready access TO pure water and plenty of it,.
A robust and vigorous Get of boys and girls
growing up into hardy, enduring, energetic
population, would be rich return for the en-
terprise. II baths are constructed We hope
they will be Of sufficient magnitude to allow
Of both sexes learning to swim. We live on
the banks of the Mississippi, and most of our
people, sometime during their lives, travel
upon the water, how many an accident that
now proves fatal, would be comparatively
trivial If men and women could swim as well
as walk. ANY why should not theyP Modern
stity fegisiation prohibits bathing almost en-
tirely, and those who covertly indulge in 1t
in the neighboring streams, are in danger OF
ane mr. in1rriaonuent IL IL time all that
should be changed, and while provisions for
public decency are maintained, every facility
should be afforded for bathing in baths pro-
yided by the city in its care for the public
haalth
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY,. :: JUNE %, 1879.
noNAPARTIsIT DEAD.

AS the APPEAL stated when the news OF
the death of Prince Louis Napoleon first
reached us, Bonapartism Is dead. 1t is no
longer factor in the politics of France. The
Prince Napoleon, who by the will of the late
emperor was next in succession, has again
declared himself Republican, and that he
viii not play the role of pretender. He is
sensible, and proves himself to be quite
up to the spirit of the age. A sagacious
man, gifted with common sense, Prince Ma
poleon, who dared to declare against his
cousin, the emperor, now that the empty
konors of succession are within his grasp,
does not hesitate to reject it and to
speak for the only form Of govern
ment worthy OF being permitted to hive. He
is a republican. He Is for the republic. He
is for the people and against those dynsstic
shsns that have so long threatened the peace
and repose Of his country. He is for gov
eminent Of consent, and will not lend him
self to the old plan of farming out peoples
and territories by presumptious royal vaga-
bonds or,conscienceless soldiers of fortune,
who like Grant believe in artillery, or like
Hayes believe in the army as the basis OF or
der. Prince Napoleon is statesman, and in
honor and honesty out-ranks all the rest OF
his Face who have had anything to do with
French affa;ra
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and soul, to the house of Savoy. There Is
not man among them who would not rather
suffer thousand deaths than that hair Of
the head of its chief should be touched. The
queen grows prettier every day, and dresses
with great taste. She prefers white to colors,
and wears IT on all possible occasions. On
the day of the review she was dressed in
blush white. She is also very fond o. white
tulle mantillas, which she wears in prefer
ence to hats or bonnets, especially in sum-
mer time; and these tclle mantillas are so
pretty, with rose in the hair and another
on the shoulder, that the wonder is that ev-
cry other lady does not follow the queens
example and wear white mantillas instead Of
hats a PAn0laiss, which are adopted by the
the generality of Italian ladies, who prefer
to initiate the English in this rather than the
PdrisienneS.
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A strange Romance.

London Globe: ga very curious bit of TO-
nance comes to US 10 a Gossiping letter from
an ancient city in the west of England. 1t
appears that an old tradesman of that place,
who had for some time been suffering from
the effects of paralytic stroke, came to Lon
don few months ago for the benefit OF his
health, and in few weeks married the land
lady of the house in which he lodged. He
made marriage settlement and a will In
favor of his new wife, altogether ignoring his
children by former marriage. In a few
weeks the old man died, and there the mat
ter would have ended but for some very ex-
traordinary after circumstances. One of the
executors of the villa legal gentleman liv-
ing in London-went down to the city for
the purpose of attending to the trusts under
the will, and in looking over the papers of
the deceased, discovered that several years
ago the latter would have inherited property
of the now estimated value Of about eighty
thousand pounds, if there had not been a
missing link'-the marriage certificate Of his
grandfather and grandmother-in his pedi-
gree. No proof whatever of this marriage
could be found, and 80 all expectation of ever
acquiring the property had vanished from the
mind of the deceased. The executor, having
leisure on his hands and being interested in
the affair, set about making inquiries and
searches in the matter, the result being that
last week the proofs of the marriage were
discovered at village church some few miles
distant. The question now remains to be set
tied whether the property goes to the widow
the old mans sole heir-or to the heir at
law-his Oldest son. Whether the widows
claim is barred by the statute of limitations
or not is question that will have to be set
tied by the judges at Westminster. It would
be fitting climax to the story if this large
property, by single stroke of the pen by an
old and feeble man, should be diverted from
his children and his family into the hands of
one who was total stranger to him six
months before his death"
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POLITICAL LIFE.
Remarkable Prophecles.

Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, the authoress and
antI-slavery agitstor, Is now seventy seven
years old, and lives at her old home In Way
land, Massachusetts. In the course of a re-
cent conversation with writer in the Boston
Herald, she spoke of Garrison as firm be-
never In Spiritualism, and adds: Whittier
admits that there is something very mysterl-
GUS and unexplained in it. He told me that
there was an old Quaker. whom he saw when
ne was lad, who was renowned for his
prophecies. He very often spoke under the
influence of the spirit. Whittier sent me a
coSy Of a prophecy made by the old man in
1903. 1t began by foretelling great split
in the church. which would commence with
the Presbyterians, and it would include the
Friends. We have since seen the Pres6yte-
rians divide, and the Hicksite trouble among
the Quakers. Then the old prophet said he
saw a great trouble about the slavery ques-
ton, which would end in war and emanci-
patton. He foresaw, finally, grand gather
ing of the churches into an established church,
and ruled by it. And he saw the Society of
Friends paying tribute to the church. And
he saw also military despotism of the coun-
try, though this would only be for while.
Now, this was remarkable prophecy, and
all but the last two statements has been full
6lled ~
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STATISTICS
Showing the Financial Condition or the
Towns, Counties and Cities Of the
UnIted 5tates-The Cities Loom
mp Ahead Of the Counties
and Towns with start
Hing Records.

CHICAGO, June 23.-The forthcoming num-
Der of the Princeton Reviss0 will publish some
important and interesting figures, compiled
by Robert Z. Porter, journalist of this city,
regarding the financial condition of the towns,
counties and cities of the United States. In
a former article he gave the financial condi-
ton of one hundred and thirty of the prln-
cipal cities down to 1876, and the present in
vestigation is brought down to the close of
the year 1873, and includes counties, cities
and towns of the entire country. The mu-
nicipal debt of one hundred and thirty cities
663, and In 1866, 1921, 312, 009; the assessed
value of the property of same IN 1875, &c.
5,082, 158; IN 1866, $3,451, 6l9 .381; an
nual taxation of same in 1876, S1l2, I'll, 275;
in 1866, 1914, 060, 9I4; population of the same
in 1876, IS, 576, 249; in 1856, s., 9l9, ga. The
percentage of increase is-debt 200 per cent,
taxation SO per cent, valuation rs per cent,
nicipal debt alone of the one hundred and
thirty cities representing population OF only
1876, 249, exceeded in 1876 by over $l28,-
000,00 the county, town and city indebt-
edness of the entire country in 1870. In six
years the indebtedness Of these cities had ex-
ceededk 10y overk $316, 900, 900, the bonded
and floating indebtedness of all the towns
and cities in the United States which in 1870,
according to the census, amounted to $5l9, :
$4,000. From eleven States complete re-
turns have been obtained. These States are:
New York. Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri,
Connecticut, Georgia and Rhode Island. In
these the total aggregate local debt In 1873
was $546, 285, 528, and in 1870 it was 1885,
179,066. The assessed valuation of property
in these States was $7,172, las, 179 in 1870,
and SO, 333, 500, SIS in 1873. Although bad
enough, the second investigation shows a
better condition of affairs than did the first,
the chief danger lies in the cities and not in
the county and town increase. In the cities
it was at the rate of two hundred per cent,
and by adding in the county and town debts
the increase is less than one hundred per cent.
The returns from the rest of the States are
incomplete, but are SIS complete and correct
as it Is possible to obtain them until after the
census of 1880 Is taken. The total local debt
Of the country at the close of the year 1873
was 81 ,051. LOG, 112, exclusive of State debts.
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The Big Green Eye.

New York Sun: San unusual number of
instances have recently been recorded of MUIR
der and of attempted murder, prompted by
jealousy. Alanson Stevens killed his wife at
Hunters Creek, Michigan, on Friday last,
seriously wounded John House, whom he
suspected, and then killed himself. In
frankfort, a suburb of Philadelphia, on
Wednesday, James +. Dougherty shot his
wife, and then discharged three bullets into
his own body. Beth husband and wife will
probably die. At Thorold, Canada, on Thurs
day last, VIM. Alexander shot Charles Gar
rett, who had been paying attention to a
damsel with whom Alexander was acquainted;
and in the Kentucky town of Paris, on Sat-
urday, Alexander M'Chntock fatally shot
Dick Gatewood for flirting with M'Clintoch's
wife. In Providence, Rhode Island, George
II. Brown is on trial for killing a man who
had led Browns wife astray."
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TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
For the Tenth Congressional District
To be Held at Bolivar. beginning
To-Day "wednesday - Fro
Eramme or work for the
Thrse Days.

Superintendent Trousdale has issued the
following programme for the institute of
school teachers of the tenth congressional
district, to be held at Bolivar, beginning on
Wednesday Tomorrow, and continuing for
three days. 1t is earnestly hoped that all the
friends of pubic education will strain point
to attend this institute, and by their presence,
advice and counsel uphold the hands of the
teachers who have the direction and control
of the rising generation The following is
the programme:
First Day-Wednesday CTO-DayA
MORNING SESSION.
/. Prayer. 2. Organization. 8. Address
of welcome, by George Harden, Somerville.
4. Response. 5. Music.
l. Moral Science in Schools, Rev. R. W.
Newson, Grand Junction. 2. Discussion.
3. Music.
AFTERNOON.
/. Music. 2. Brain co. Muscle in the
School-room, R. o. Prewltt, New Castle. 8.
Discussion. 4. Music.
1. Address, Rev. II. G. Rosamon, Center
vile. 2. Discussion. 3. Music.
EVENING.
1. Music. 2. Educational Ascendency, G.
S. Douglass, HeHdersonVille, Sumner county.
2. Discussion. 8. Music.
/. Graded Schools, G. R. niece, Trenton.
2. Discussion. s. Music.
Second Day-Thursday, June Goth.
MORNING SESSION.
/. Music. 2. English Grammar, E. F.
Friedel, jackson. 8. Discussion. 4. Music.
l. Address, T. A. Futrall. Toon's. 2. Dis
cussion. 8. Music. 4. Reports of COM
mittees.
AFTERNOON.
1. Music. g Poetry-Its influence and
effects on the human mind, Mrs. Nora Cam
non, Somerville. 8. Discussion. 4. Music.
1. Address. Rev. John 8. Park. 2. Dis
cussion. s. Music.
EVENING.
1. Music. 2. Science ia Schools-How il
can be taught, DR.. w. Leroy Brown, Van
derbilt university. 2. Discussion. 8. Music.
l. Necessity of Public Schools, ]. E. Scho-
hey, Murfreesboro female college. 2. Dis
cusslon. 3. Music.
Third Day-FrIday. June &7th.
MORNING SESSION.
l. Music. 2. Essay, Miss Addie Purnell,
Somerville. 8. Discussion. 4. Music.
/. American History in Schools, G. II.
Steir, county superintendent Shelby county.
2. Discussion. 3. Music. 4. Report of COM
mittees.
AFTERNOON.
l. Music. 2. Is there Competition Between
Public and Private Schools2 w. R. Hall,
county superintendent of Hardeman county.
8. Discussion. 4. Music.
l. Good Teaching vital to Public Schools.
2. Discussion. 8. Music.
EVENING.
l. Music. 2. Methods in Algebra, Rev. F.
A. Shoup, Nashville. 8. Discussion. 4.
Music.
l. The Ancient Languages, w. II. Foute,
superintendent city schools. Memphis. 2.
Discussion g. Music f. Benedlctlon.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
An Important Transfer of Hymn Boob


An Important Transfer of Hymn Book
Interests.
Messrs. Scribner & Co, having, under the
business management of Mr.. Roswell Smith,
brought the publishing of magazines from
doubtful experiment to an unparalleled sue
cess, have now entered new field with char
acteristic energy in the publication of hymn
and tune books for churches. Their recent
issue of Spiritual Songs, by Or. Charles 5.
Robinson, aud CALGARY Selection Of Spiritual
Songs flor Baptist churches). by DIR. Robin
son and Rev. Robert S. Macarthur, in beau
tifuI style, at very moderate prices, met with
universal commendation from the critics.
And now comes the announcement that the
plates and copyrights of Songs for the Sane
tHayy, and all DR.. Robinson's other works,
have been purchased by this house from A.
S, Barnes & Co. By this transfer the works
of the most successful compiler of hymn and
tune books are consolidated In the hands of
firm which has ample facilities for bringing
them out in the very best form at the lowest
possible prices