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The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-10-01

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL. AT VICTORIA
Persons visiting Victoria should not
fail to stop at the Occidental Hotel. 1t
is the first hotel from the steamboat
landing; is fire. proof has good accom-.
r,odatiou for families. and as good
meals as any house in the city. At only
81 90 per day.
WM JENSEN
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
TIE CUTLERY TRADE.
An Effcrt to Compete with Sheffield In
the Manufacture of Cutlery.

New York Herald.l
Three hundred and twenty-seven
immigrants were landed at Castle Gar
den yesterday. The State of Indiana,
from Glasgow, brought 105, and the
Algeria, from Liverpool, 222. Among
the passengers by the last mentioned
vessel were l02 natives of Sheffield,
England, consisting of twenty two
families Of eighty.two persons and
twenty single men. The males of the
party are all Sheffield cutters. and
have, so to say, been born and brought
up in the business. Their passage
was paid here by the Frary Cutlery
Company, Of Bridgeport, Conn, and
Colonel Frary intends to give them
employment in his mandatory at
that place. The men and women are
very intelligent and we'll dressed
Colonel Frary's object in bringing
them here is to make an effort to
compete with Sheffield in the manu-
tacture of fine cutlery, such as pocket
knives, razors, etc. Our manufacto-
rles have been able to produce as good
table cutlery as the English manufac-
tories, but they found it impossible to
compete with Europe in the matter Of
fine cutlery.
Several of the party we're questioned
as to their antecedents and as to the
prospects for their trade in the old
country, and they all maintained that
ever since they were able to do any
thing they had not known what it was
to want a days work. They said that
they and their fathers before them
were employed by one of the Oldest
manufacturers in Sheffield, Mr.. Benz.
j. Eyre, and one man vouchsafed the
information that his father had worked
for this gentleman forty years. and
that he had been in the same employ
more than twenty-one years. They
stated that Mr.. Eyre died some time
ago and the business fell into the
hands of Colonel Fray, one of his
customers, under whose protection
they now are. They claimed to be
most proficient in the manufacture of
razors, and asserted that they could
make them here so that, with the tariff
off, they would be sold at a much more
reasonable price than at present. In
reply to question as to what their
government thought of their action in
coming to this country. the eutlers
said that it was much regretted. and
that the newspapers of Sheffield pre-
dicted that they, would get tired of
living under Brother Jonathan !"
The whole business of their manufac.
tory has been transferred to the United
States, and the new arrivals claim that
many more of their kind will visit our
shores if the first batch should be
successful in their undertaking.
The whole party left yesterday af-
ternoo1 for Bridgeport on the tug
William Fletcher, furnished by the
commissioners of emigration.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

The search then took a northerly di-
rection, and, on the third day of the
search, Sunday, traces of blood, mass
of tangled hair, and the child's apron
were found about twenty PAGES from
the horse-pond, body of water about
two miles from Strickland's farm. A
dark object was seen floating in the
water near where the apron was found,
and with which two alligators were
found playing. The suspicion of two
of the party, Messrs. Lewis Strickland
and Thomas, were aroused, and they
swan out to it, but what was their
horror to find it to be a part of the
body of the lost child. On arriving at
the bank an examination showed that
the head, arms, shoulders and legs
were gone. One leg appeared to have
been torn from the socket, while the
other was bitten off at the thigh. The
parents are perfectly frantic with
grief, and have the deepest sympathy
of the whole country"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
Personal and poIitinnI.

:" George Eliot says: If the hu-
man race has bad reputation, |
perceive that | cannot escape being
compromised"
Commissioner lie Due, of the Agri-
cultural Bureau, afhrms that it is
criminal prodigality to eat butter on
watermelons.
The late Prince Imperial said, on
the eve of his departure for Zuzuland :
:" Patience and good cheer ought
now TO be our motto"
Major Stokley, of PHILADELPHIA,
boasts that twelve Grant delegates
will go from Philadelphia to the next
Republican National Convention.
Arrangements have been perfected
for disinfecting the mails from yellow
fever districts by subjecting them to
heat, and no further delays in their
Transmission are anticipated.
Mr.. w, Il, Gladstone says; For
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
ONLY TO LAucu AT

We have a local board of health
which number of doctors refuse tc
obey or recognize. We have a State
board of health whose chiet business
appears to be to quarrel among them
selves and worry people and pay a lot
Of folks ten dollars daily, throwing in
all Of their expenses as extras, and
then we have the National board Of
health with its half million of cash
on hand, which ever so many people
in various localities appear anxious to
finger, in part at least. The tripartite
system works SO beautifully that the
people of the country are making
laughing stock of it, The several
boards have accomplished nothing to
speak of as far as heard, but its mem
bers are said to draw their pay with
nnfailing regularity.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
IS IT PosslBLEl

Hon. John johnson, ex-mayor Of
Memphis, an active member of the
Howard Association and general phil
anthropist, yesterday sent a decisive
and an incisiye dispatch to the State
board of health at Nashville, whicl,
stated that his resignation would 60
forward by the next mail. Mr.. or DR..
Plunkett, the president of the board,
telegraphed in reply that he would
not accept the resignation. Upon the
heels of this the news arrives that Drs,
Cabell and Turner, president and Sec
retary of the National board at Wash
lngton, will resign next Tuesday. Can
1t be that letters and dispatches which
have passed between the various health
officials within the past few days are
of so acrimonious a nature that the
several persons feel themselves hurt,
and their ruffled tempers cannot be
smoothed? There is something of q
mystery about the business, but, in the
language of Sir Lucius O'Trigger,
when arranging his triangular duel,
1T is a pretty quarrel as it stands"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
Nations Laws.
Special to the Courior-Journnl.l

Special to the COurier-J0urnal.l
NEW YORK, August 6.-America is
likely to be poorly represented at the
London conference of the association
for the reform and codi6oation of the
laws Of nations, which begins in Lon
don on Monday next. The delegates
appointed are David Dudley Field,
John Welsh, United States minister
to England, Joseph p. Thompson. Il.
A. ?. Barnard, Charles A. Peabody.
s. j. Prime, Theodore w. Dwight, *.
?, Sprague, james Emmott, Il. C.
Benedict, John +. Dillon, Amasa ].
Parker, johnson 7. Platt, j. A. Full.
ton, Howard p. Wilds, Il. A. Wash
burne, Archibald Alexander and Fish
er A. Baker. OF these, Messrs. Welsh
and Thompson are in London, but the
family Affections of the former and the
illness of the latter will prevent their
attendance. There are numerous i'm
portant subjects proposed for discus
sion by the American delegates, among
them the Protection and Neutrality Of
the Projected Canal Across the 18th
mus of Darien, Protection of Interna-
tional Telegraphs, Consular Jurisdic-
ton in Oriental Countries, Collisions
at Sea, International Regulations for
Lighthouses, Sea Signals and Quaran.
tine. Extradition of Criminals, and
Uniform Weights, Measures and
Coinage.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

we'll connected, quarreled over
game of cards and 40 cents, in Pine
Bluff (Ark.) gambling house on the
2lst of February last. The fuss
ended in the other party, Mr.. H.
Davis, being killed by shot through
the heart. Derry got off but has re-
Gently been captured in Leadville,
COL, and tits thought that he cannot
escape conviction of unqualified mur-
der.
A few days since the steamer Trader
landed two barrels of whisky and a
box of cigars a mile below Des Arc on
White river. About midnight Mr..
Fisher smuggled the goods into town.
j. W. Burney, the official of health,
closed the house, fumigated it with
tar and sulphur, painted the whisky
barrels heavily, and thus saved the
place from yellow fever infection.
The steamer turned and went down
the river to run between Clarendon
and Terrene, Miss.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
General Foreirn Nntes-

Promitsina, a town in Russia, has
been destroyed by fire.
The Russian government is strictly
enforcing its passport regulations.
Three thousand miners of Silver.
dale, North Staffordshire, have struck
against an increase of hours or reduc-
ton OF ten per cent. in wages.
A dispatch from Calcutta reports
that the cholera is still raging among
troops and natives in Candahar, and is
spreading toward Herat.
A Vienna correspondent telegrapbs
that another fire occurred at Mini
Novgorod on the 9th inst, during a
fair, causing great damage,
A Paris dispatch reports that warm
weather has considerably improved
the harvest prospects in France
French producers are frightened at
the decline in prices of French wheat
caused by heavy imports from Amer
lea.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
Child Eaten by an Alligator.

Augusta (Ga.) News.l
The following is an extract from a
letter written from Tampa, Fla. to A
gentleman Of this city, and received
this morning.
Last Friday morning, having eaten
breakfast, Mr.. Aaron Strickland. n
well-to-do young farmer, who lives
about five miles from Tampa, started
out to do some work in the woods
His little child, a boy of eighteen
months old, started after him, but was
driven back and began to play about
the door. No more attention was paid
to 1t for the space of half an hour.
when 1t was missed by its mother. who
searched and called in vain. With a
beating heart, and fearing she knew
not what, she started out to inform her
husband of the fact, which she did.
lie at once reused the whole neigh
borhood, and secured the woods in
every direction for his lost darling
The news OF the child's disappearance
flew like wild6re, and people fiocked
from Tampa and for miles from the
surrounding country to join in the
search. A false clew, found on the
morning Of the second day, caused the
search to take the wrong direction.
Several small footprints were found
near a field a mile from Mr.. Strick-
lands place, but proved to be those of
a little negro child who had accompa.
MED its mother in the search. Many
were Of the opinion that the child had
fallen into the pond near by, but it was
discovered, as before stated, that the
tracks were not those of the lost baby.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
SENATOR WALLACE.
The Real Issues of the Day In National
Politics.

A New York Herald reporter inter
viewed Senator Wallace recently in,
New York. In answer to a question
as to the real issues, he said:
Home rule and finance. Local
government is our aim, and it is really
the only living issue at present before
the people. A government of the
people by the people is what we want
and must have. Electors in their
several districts and localities must
be free to vote as they like and must
be relieved OF the presence and force
of Federal influence and dictation.
Finance will take care of itself. The
country is now prosperous. In an
other year it will be more So And
by that time commerce will have SO
regulated the money question that it
will have completely disappeared.
That is, all the apparent difficulties in
the way will have settled down into a
natural channel. Our time resembles
in great measure that Of Jefferson
and Hamilton. In 1900 and 1901 the
public mind was filed with similar
questions as to those now demanding
solution at our hands. If we remain
true and steadfast to that principle of
the nation for itself we must win. but
we cannot in any other way. A man
must be at liberty to vote the way he
wishes and must be free to talk aloud
to his friend on election day on what
he considers his rights and privileges
without being afraid that a marshal or
other Federal officer will put his hand
upon his shoulder and move him off.
Local government, or, as it is some-
times called, home rule is what the
country wants and what we will give
it. The people have grown impatient
at the incessant thrusting of the Fed
eral arm into their local matters, and
are determined to destroy this advanc-
ing system of Capitalization. They
look with jealous eye on the increas
ing influence of massed capital, and
are getting restive at the influence OF
huge mOnopolies.
Then you think the application Of
the home rule system will satisfacto.
rily arrange all these difficu!ties?"
Il do. The people will then fee
and see they are governing themselves
and not being governed by privileged
classes. They will understand theil
own needs in every section and quar-.
ter Of the country and apply the
proper remedy. Let any man go bach
to Jefferson and Hamilton and reat
the arguments put forward then b,
both and he will see and understand b,
what Jefferson said what is now tn,
substantial issue"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
MARYLAND POLITICS.
Senator Whyte's Successor.
spoolaI to tho Cou.ier-Journall

Special to the Cou~ier-Journall
WASHINGTON, August IA great
deal of interest is being quietly taken
in the contest among Democrats in
Maryland to secure the senatorial
election which names the successor for
Pinkney Whyte. The latter has been
a useful senator both to the State and
to the Democratic party, and his
party friends in the senate would be
glad to see him returned. But there
is a man in Maryland politics who is
what Kelley is to New York politics.
This is A. ?. German, manager of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and
It may almost be said manager of the
Democratic party of Maryland. 1t
was he who defeated Dennis for re-
election, and sent Groome to the
senate, and now he is trying to replace
Whyte by electing himself. Last
year Whyte saw what was coming and
wrote letter announcing that he
would, at the conclusion of his pres
ent term, retire from politics. But
this was quietly understood at the
time to be careful move to prevent
being forced out if defeated. Since
then his friends have been earnestly
at work to secure his reelection. and
a few days since a call was made upon
him to re-enter politics. He will
answer this call after the legislature
is elected this fall which chooses his
successor. The contest will be a
very close one, both sides claiming
strength enough to elect its members
to the legislature. In short, German
or anti-Gorman is the issue upon
which the campaign is being made all
over the State. Whyte is a constitu-
tional lawyer, good debater, and a
man above all petty political tricks.
German is thorough politician, and
a man who uses politics as part of
his business.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
GUARDING STEWARDS BODY.
The Remains Of the Dead Millionaire
Safe In the Crypt.

New York star.l
Every morning at nine o'clock.
when Mr. VIM. Libbey, of the firm of
A. L. Stewart & Co., reaches his pri-
vate office, a small leather box is
placed In his hands, which is locked
by key in the possession of Mr.. Lib
bey. At four o'clock in the afternoon,
the same box is carried away by the
confidential messenger of Mr.. Libbey,
to nobody knows where. A reporter
of the Star, having noticed this
strange proceeding, has unraveled the
mystery.
In the latter part of November or
early in December, four men who for
many years had been engaged as night
watchmen and porters by A. II. Stew
art IL Co., were found missing by the
other employees and new men installed
IN their places. The old watchmen
did not come near the store and it was
rumored among the employees that
they had been caught in some dere-
LECTION Of duty and summarily dis
charged.
About the time of the disappear.
ance Of these men, Mr.. Hinsdaie, the
manager of the Stewart property in
Garden City, was summoned to the
private residence of Mr.. Libbey,
Judge Hilton's residence being at that
time under the surveillance of the
reporters, and was told that the crypt
intended as receptacle for the re-
mains of Mr.. Stewart and his wife
must be made ready by a specified
time, and that no money should be
spared to attain that object,
Accordingly Mr.. Hinsdale engaged
large force of artisans, and on the
plea that the crypt should be ready
before the severe weather of January
sets in, the work was hurried up, and
the crypt was under roof even before
the time set. Mr.. Hinsdale reported
that the crypt was ready, and he was
told to remain at home on the second
night following the interview, and
have the boss mason and several stone
masons on hand.
On that night, about nine o'clock, a
coach drove up to Mr.. Hinsdale's S
house. -Four men alighted. They
carried a heavy box between them
One Of the men gave letter to Mr.
Hinsdale informing him that the box
contained the body Of the late A. Il.
Stewart, that it must be put in the
crypt at once and that the crypt must
be sealed with heavy stone slab.
which must be fastened with cement
and sealed with lead This order was
carried out to the very letter.
The four men then introduced
themselves as the guardians of the
crypt, and, taking letters from their
pockets, showed their written instruc-
tiOns. Two of the men have to re-
main constantly on duty. They are
provided with two sets of tell-tale
watches, and have to account for every
moment of their tour on duty. Every
morning four watches are sent to Mr..
Libbey, who examines them person
ally and returns them the same day
by a messenger. The good people Of
Garden City believe the four strangers
to be simple watchmen in the new
cathedral, but they are in reality
guarding all that remains of the great
merchant prince.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

myself | am convinced that the great
preparatory agent in cooperation with
the Roman Church is the war now so
actively waged against belief"
The Philadelphia board of trade
has determined to extend reception
to Hon. John Welsh, ex-minister to
England, who is expected to arrive in
that city about the first of September.
Mrs. Barney Williams will play
during the coming season, but has
declined several advantageous offers
that would take her away for pro-
traeted period from her beautiful villa
at Bath L. |.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
McOrary's Medicine.

fhlladelphia Times.
Secretary McCrary seems to have
arranged to put a plaster over the
mouth of the Burlington Hawkeye,
which has been making it as hot as
possible for him during the past few
months. Mr.. McCraTy has secured
the appointment of one of the Hawk
eye editors to the position OF fourth
auditor Of the treasury. This ought
to make Iowa solid.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

MINISTER WHITE, at Berlin, has
officially notified the State depart
ment that Germany will take part in
the next monetary conference, and if
Che ratio between gold and silver can
bc agreed on, will take part with this
country favorable to a restoration OF
silver. If Hayes veto of the silver
bin had prevailed, there would have
bden no action of this character in
Ebrope. AZ the next session CON
sless should pass the Warner bill
Without delay.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

THE supply of quicksilver exceeds
lhe demand, and the prices have fallen
% thirty-three cents a pound in San
Francisco, which is twenty per cent,
less than it was ever known before.
The Alta California states that the
managers of the mines have been too
anxious for the immediate results and
made more than the world is in the
habit of taking. They have also been
making improvements in the manner
Of extracting the metal, so that while
the ore has been decreasing the pro-
duct has been increasing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
A NEW DEPARTURE.

Commencing tomorrow morning
the health officers will adopt the he
roic order of treatment, it is stated,
by isolation and other devices to be
announced when they are ready to be-
gin operations. 1t will doubtless be
fun for the health officials, but death
10 many a poor sufferer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is So per annum and
Doc per month fOrlsss than one year The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.
Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at soc per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postofice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
A 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 discov-
cred by missionary in South America. Send
a self-addressed envelope to RRv. JOSEPH I.
ISNAS, Station D, New York City.
eod-2-xxx-l3w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

SUBSCRIBERS who wish TO re.
new will do us a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list IL very
large, and our force TO do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
STOP THE MELON TRADE.

1t would be we'll for the board of
health at its meeting this afternoon to
prohibit the sale of melons within the
limits of the city. The distribution
of these disease breeders should be
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
Retaliation.

Baltimore Gazette.l
Grant will probably withdraw his
son-in-law and daughter from England
at once. The snubbing which he has
received in Japan calls for retaliatory
measures.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

This Institution was regularly ineorporated
by the legislature Of the State for Educational
and Charitable purposes, in 1868, for the
term Of Twenty-Five Years, TO which
contract the inviolable faith of the State Is
pledged. with capital of s., ,OOO, 900, to which
Il has since added Q reserve fund Of $3.50 600
Its grand Single Number DistribntIon viii
take place monthly on the second tuesday.
1T NEVER SCALES OR PosTPoNEs. Look at the
following distribution;
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
A Grim Joke.

Albany ATgus.l
When Yellow Jack hears the word
:" sporadic" he puts his skeleton
finger alongside Of the vacancy which
should contain a nose, and works his
off eye socket solemnlY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14
OAPITAL PRIzE. saO. GOO.
100000 Tickets at 50 Each: Half
Tickets. 81. List of PRICES
APPROXIMATION PRIZES :

Responsible corresponding agents wanted at
all prominent points. to whom liberal com
pensation will be paid.
Application for rates to clubs should only be
made to the home office in New Orleans,
write clearly, stating full address, for fur
ther information, or send orders to
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
P;.0. Box 692, New Orleans, La.
or same at No. 3le Broadway, New York.
Or to D. l.. GILLESPIE,
No. West Court street, Memphis Tenn.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are
under the supervision and management of
Generals g. I. BEAUREGARD and JUBAL
A. EARLY. l4S-wSs-ll
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

Eaton Democrat,l
1t is cheeky for Republican paper
to talk about the " shotgun policy in
the South when their own candidate
for governor swore that it was all lie.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-14

HAsLUP-HARRIS-Mr. James A. Haslup
and Mrs. Annie G. Harris, on the l4th inst. !.
at the residence Of Rev. Eugene Daniel. No