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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-03

LOUISVILLE, KY, November g.
The river is falling slowly here,
with 3 feet in the canal, foot on the
falls and 2 feet 5 inches on the Port
land bar. Business is dull. The wea-
ther is cloudy and cold, and made ice
east last night; wind northwest. Ar
rivals and departures es--Granite State
from Cincinnati and to Cincinnati !;
C. w. Anderson for Henderson Jno.
S. Bransford from Henderson; Shields
from Concordia and to Concordia.
CAIRO, November 3.-Arrived-
Colorado, st. Louis, 8 pm; C. N.
Davis, Evansville, 6 am; Josie Har-
ry, Memphis, 8 am. Departed
Golden City and A. J. Baker, New
Orleans, 9 pm; Colorado, Memphis,
midnight; Davis, Evansville, 9 am
Josie Harry, St. Louis, 10. Clear
and cold; heavy freeze last night.
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WASHINGTON.
Eads' Earnings. Sending in Notes for
Redemption.
Special to tho Courior-Journal.l

Special to the Courier-JournaLl
WASHINGTON, October 3l.-The
question Of paying Captain Eads HIS
first quarters pay of the 100000 a
year for maintaining twenty-six foot
channel came up in the cabinet to-day.
The depth Of twenty six feet was OBJ
tanned in July, and as the 100000 is
to be paid quarterly, the first quar-
ter's payment has become due. The
army engineer at the works reports
that for thirty days during the three
months of July, August and Septem-
Der, the required depth was not to be
found. Secretary McCrary is said to
be of the opinion that, failing to make
the channel intact, the claim is for
fei;ed. The matter has, however,
been referred to the Attorney-General
for his opinion.
Since Secretary Sherman issued his
order requiring persons sending notes
IN for redemption to pay the express
charges in advance, the amount re-
ceiyed has fallen off three-fourths.
Formerly the express charges were
placed against the bank whose circula-
tion was sent in. The falling off has
been SO heavy that half the force OF
the redemption division has been dis
charged. This also partly accounts
for the great amount Of ragged and
iirty notes in circulation, as persons
holding them will not pay the express
charges to send them in and have
new notes returned. For September,
1873, $12.478,65O were sent in, while
for last September the amount was
only $377, ,125.
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CENSUS DAY.

Census day will be June !, 1880.
On that day about twenty thousand
enumerators will commence their la
bors-those III the cities being re-
quired to complete their work in two
weeks, while others will be allowed
the whole month OF june Persons
alive on the 1st Of June. but dying
before the enumeratorreaches them,
will be counted in the census births
subsequent to the list Of June will not
be counted Special agents will be
employed to collect statistics relating
TO education, mining, manufacturing,
agricultural and various other depart
ments Of trade and industry.
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Evidences of Returning Pros
perity.

Private Dalzell has stopped writing
letters. No non-explosive lamp has
been patented this month. George
Francis Train has resolved in the fu-
ture to restrict his walk and CONVEX
sation to people uader the age Of
twelve. DR.. Mary Walker is missing
under circumstances that warrant the
country in hoping for the worst, The
Massachusetts, newspapers have
stopped punning on Mr.. Longs name.
Mr.. Taper has concluded that he will
not come to this country this winter
and give readings from his own works.
Robert Browning has been writing
a poem that can be partially under
stood on the seventeeth reading. The
fashionable walking dress doesn't touch
the ground.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
News Received from Gordon
Pasah---Matters Sat
isfactOry.
A Severe Storm Damages Prince
Edwards Island $4,000.
Two Large Land Meetings Held in
County Galway, ireland.
Meeting Of BOnapartist Leaders
Under the Presidency of
ROuhwo
Professor ROhlfs African Expedl-
ton Plundered and Com
PEELED to Return.
Bills for Abolition of Slavery in Cuba
and Reform of Tariffs and
Commercial Relations.
Municipal Elections in England
The Liberals Mostly
Successful.

OAlRO, november 0.-NeWS mas
been received from Gordon Pasha
that matters are satisfactory, but
rains have delayed his journey to the
kings residence.
HALIFAX, November 3.-The storm
which visited the eastern part of the
province last week, damaged Prince
Edwards Island 100000.
LONDON, November 3,-Two large
land meetings were held in the county
of Galway, Ireland, Saturday, at which
were present Charles S. Parnell and
Mitchell Henry, home-rule mem
bers of parliament, house Of commons,
for Meath and Galway respectively.
The German admiralty has extend
ed to the end of the year the contract
time for raising the iron-clad Groser
Kurforst, sunk by collision with the
KONG Wilhelm, off Sandwich, May
81, 1873. The leak being completely
stopped, the contractors will attempt
to raise her by the middle of Noyem-
Der.
The disturbance at Midleburg in
Transvaal among the boers, mentioned
in Capetown dispatches of October
10Th, arose on the occasion Of the trial
Of a boer for assaulting a native.
After the adjournment of court a
party Of armed beers forcibly took a
quantity Of ammunition from a store,
leaving the value of the ammunition
on the counter. This was in violation
of the order of Sir Garnet Wolsley,
forbidding beers to purchase ammuni-
tion until they had paid their taxes.
A later dispatch says that the offend
ers are known and will be prosecuted.
The presence of Colonel Laneyon
with a detachment of the first dra-
goon guards, will be sufficient to pre-
serve order.
Karl Schwartz, proprietor of the
cotton spinning mills at Erlangen, Ba-
varia, has suspended. Liabilities es-
timated at el03,0OO
At the municipal elections through
out England, wherever political con
siderations were involved, the Liberals
were mostly successful. In one or two
important borougbs the balance of the
power was completely reversed in
Liberals. In Liverpool where the town
counsils stood AZ Conservatives and p
Liberals it now stands "a Conserva-
tives and 30 Liberals.
PARIS, November 3,-At the Bona
partist meeting at Riom, the depart
ment Of Puy de Dome. under the
presidency Of Rouhr, all leaders Of
the Bonapartlsts IN that department
} were in attendance.
BRaATN, November 3.-Professor
Nachagall, the African traveller re-
siding here, has received telegram
| from Malta stating that Processes
Gerhard Rohlfs' expedition, sent out
by the German African Society, having
explored Kufqra oasis was there set
? upon and plundered. Professor Ro-
! lefs was consequently compelled to
return to lerghqisi, though he hoped
to receive help and compensation from
the Turkish provincial government
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ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL.

MEPHIs. November 9.
New YORK, November 3, 1885 pm.
Cotton quiet middling, II 5-16d.
Futures opened at decline of Z to S
points; now frmer. Deliveries for
November, 11.O6@ll.O8; December,
l1O2@11,O4; January, l1,13911.14;
February, 11.3O@l132; March, 11.47
.@1448; April, 11.63@1165; Nay, 11.78
.@11.8O; June, 1l.95@l497; July,
12.O1@l2.O7.
LIVERPOOL, November 8, 1870 pm,
Cotton opened with more doing
now easier and fractionally cheaper.
Uplands, 6 13-16d; Orleans, 6 61516d.
Sales, 10000 bales. Receipts, $4,000
bales; American, 1890 bales. Flu
lures opened 132d better; Now 1-16d
cheaper. Deliveries for November
6 13-32d; November and December
Gid; December and January, 671-6d
New ORLEANS, November 3, 1l:3(
a.m.-Cotton steady; middling, 1Osc
Estimated sales, 1900 bales. Receipts
to-day, 1907 bales. Sales Saturday
5000 bales. Stock 1869 bales
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, D. c., November 3.
For Upper Mississippi and Lower
Missouri valleys cold, northerly winds
shifting to slightly warmer east to
south winds; clear or partly cloudy
weather and slowly falling barometer.
For Tennessee and Ohio valley
north to west winds, with clear or fair
weather and slight changes in tenn
perature, and in eastern and southern
portions slowly rising barometer.
Rivers will remain stationary.
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Mnmnccs IseonYered.

CINCINNATI, o., November 3.-At
Pomeroy, o., VIM. Tucker sued the
board Of education and recovered
$4,000 damages for depriving his
daughter of the privileges of the pub
lie schools The board had decided
that all the pupils should study draw
ing. Tucker notified the teacher that
bis daughter must not study that
branch, aud the board expelled her in
consequence. If this decision stands,
the studies arranged by the board will
not be compulsory upon pupils.
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RUSSIAN Hn1T1I1TY TO ENGLAND.

The declarations of the Russian
press that life-and-death war with
England is merely question of time,
show that Russia can have no real
fear Of an immediate rupture with
Germany, as any overt hostility on the
part of her powerful neighbor would
reader all serious action in Central
Asia impossible. The menacing at
1itude Of Burmah, and the discomfort
excited in Northern Ipdia by the
frightful details that continue to pour
10 from the scene Of the Cashmere
famine, seem likely to complicate the
situation on the English side; and
the trustworthiness of the hill-tribes,
swearing eternal friendship to Eng
land one day, and cutting off her
scouting parties the next, is very
transparent indeed. Should the
Russians reach Herat first, or should
an early winter surprise the invaders
ON the march, the second act Of the
Eastern drama will be a striking one.
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vynte7' 5Ins I'm New OrIeans,

New Orleans has a new gas com
pany, which will manufacture water
gas. The Picayune says: +" Il is
claimed for the new invention that it
is more brilliant than the coal gas by
about fifty per cent; it is denser, aud
therefore gives more heat, and for
cooking it has great heat without
smoke. The cost Of manufacturing
It is said to be SO low that it costs far
less than coal gas for eliminating, and
is cheaper than ordinary fuel for cook
ing. The system has been tried in
other Northern cities besides New
York, and preparations are being
made to introduce it in the West and
South. The atock of the New York
company is said to have remained
above bar since il was first quoted,
The company which intends 10 locate
in New Orleans will have capital OF
about 81, ,00G000. =
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Calieoraaa's New Constitution.

San Francisco Alta, October 2O.l
The effect of the new constitution
is showing itself in financial affairs in
many ways. During the FIRST half Of
the year there was decrease Of So,
zoo, 900 in the deposits of the savings
banks. On the 1st inst. the Bank of
California reduced its capital stock
from S5,OO0,O00 to $3,000,0OO. On the
18th inst. the GraDgers Bank reduced
its capital stock IRON @5,000,000
Though only 100000 had been paid
up) to 81 l00D, 600. Another large re-
duction in the same business is ex-
pected soon. The real estate business
has not been so dull in any previous
year siace 1863, when San Francisco
had less than 100000 inhabitants, as
now with 100000 On every hand We
are threatened with litigation to grow
out of the changes made incopsider-
ately by the ignorant majority in the
constitutional convention The titles
and terms of many of the county
Offices are left in doubt, and must be
settled by the courts, most of which
viii be paralyzed until the legislature
can graht relief, and the action, nee
essarily taken Ia haste, will be sub
ject TO the errors that are almost un-
iayoidable without long duration.
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In giving in his experience the 9th
or night an old California forty-niuer
frankly admitted that his life had been
a failure. Said he. when | left In.
danny to come to Californy my whole
ambition was to dig enough gold SO
that | could come hack home and buy
a thuWblin shaft threshin' machine,
and SO about the country every fall
doin' custom work, and liyin' on roast
chickens. Now, here l am, and nary
threshin machine yet, and even if I
had the machine, my appetite for
chicken Is gone ! tell you, boys my
liie's been a failur,"
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THl SPECULATIVE ERA AND STOCK
EXCHANGE,

A membership in the New York
STOCK exchange has been a good thing
for those wIo have held them for two
years past, In the fall of 1877 seat
/. in the exchange sold for $500. Two
weeks ago they sold for S15,575 and
were scarce at that steep figure The
exchange pays life insurance endow-
ment fund of $4,000 to the family of
eacbdeceasod member, hence, men,
berhip is really worth over S25, 1000,
pro-ided the holder should manage to
die before the value fuctuates TOO
mich. AT the present time the ten
d,ncy Of prices is upward and onward,
Ike stock values, including railway
Jonds, shares, and everything that
represents any character Of worth. A
general rise has been steadily progress
ing since last spring, and even wild
cat, or fimsy securities, have changed
hands in the markets Of the East with
surprising celerity and a gradual up
ward tendency. AS an illustration of
the rapid shifting of prices, it may be
stated that early in the present year
Louisville and Nashville railroad
stock went begging for buyers at S35 a
share. Now the price is strong at over
S77. St. Louis and Iron Mountain
railroad stock, at the same date, was
fat at $l3 per share. Now it sells
readily at $46 per share. So with
many others, and those referred to are
merely illustrations of the whole.
The speculative feeling seems to have
become universal throughout the
country, and where or when the ram
page will cease is at present uncer-
tain. In view of the immense increase
in this class of business and the heavy
volume likely to rule in the future, an
open board of stock brokers has been
formed in New York city, the same
opened last Saturday. 1t looks
to the admittance of persons of mod
crate means, who are not able to own
seat in the exchange, The new
board is to be open from 9 to 5 O'Clock
each day. There will be four calls
daily, and commissions are to be 1-l6th
of oHe per cent. on all marginal trans
actions; 1-32d per cent. on govern
ments, and 80 per 100 shares between
members of the board. The boarC
has every prospect of success, as the
mania for speculation cannot bt
checked, much less suppressed Thil
is shown by the colossal transaction
in cotton futures last year in the New
York cotton exchange. The recorC
shows that over %, 900, 900 bales of cot
ton changed hands, on paper; more thar
ave times the total annual growth o
America, and double the entire annua
production of the world. Nine year
ago, when the cotton exchange wa
first opened, the total sales for tn
year were 3,OO0,095 bales. The spiri
of speculation is surely rampant in tn
minds Gf the people in our great land
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wrestling Match.

ToRoNTo, November 3.--In the
wrestling match for five hundred dol
lars a side between Thomas Lynch Of
New York and D, G. Ross, Of Balt-
more, the latter was victor,
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Wishes 10 Restore us.

Nashville American.
Tennessee owes it to herself and to
Memphis to do all that is in her pow
er to restore to that city the con
ditions Of prosperous South. The
entire State is interested in that re-
suit. If we were disposed to take the
narrow view which has been foolishly
charged by q few Memphiaps on
Nashville and the State board of
health, we could easily show that
Nashville would suffer more indirect
ly than she could possibly gain direct
ly by the misiortunes of Memphis.
The commercial prosperity of Mem
phis is, in the main, drawn from sur
rounding States, from a business
which would otherwise 20 to other
cities outside the State. It's that
much clear gain to Tennessee and
without driving away from or inter-
feriDg 70 any serious extent with the
growth and prosperity Of other Ten
nessee cities. On the narrowest
ground Nashville would gain more
from the influence of great COM
mercial city on the growth of West
Tennessee than she could gain by the
trade which might come from the de-
struction of Memphis by peshlence
which not only retards the growth of
thot city, but paralyzes the whole of
the Western district. Therefore the
rehabilitation of Memphis is q matter Of
concern to the entire State. Proper
measures to that end will have our
hearty support. The duty Of framing
a policy which shall accomplish that
end devolves upon the gentleman
whom the people Of Tennessee have
PLACED to watch and guard their inter
ests.
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CARD.

To all who are suffering fronthe errors and
indiscretons of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss of manhood, etc., will
send recipe that viii cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was diseov-
cred by missionary in South America. Send
a self-addressed envelope to REv. JoszFH 7.
INMAN, Station D, New York City.
ood2-XKx-l6w
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The novel engineering feat of build
ing a bridge on shore and then shov-
ing it across the river has been accom-
plished at Dinard, France. The
structure is 3l4 feet long, weighs over
200 tons, and was projected into Its
place with twelve strong windlasses.
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Steamship Arrivals.

BOSTON, November 3.-Arriyed
steamers Parthiq and Victoria from
Liverpool, and Hindoo from Hull,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-03

To restore nerve and brain waste.
nothing equals Hop Bitters. Believe it
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COTTON GINS.
Carver Gin and Machine Co.

4 I their works, corner Shelby aud Mccall
n streets, have good supply of their cele-
brated Improved Carver Gins and also Of the
renowned Eclipse Hulling Gin and Feeders
and Condensers. Gin repairing done prompt
ly. Go and SEQ the gins and most complete
gin works in the Southwest. 81 n
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|. 0. 0. F.
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3. AND L. ASSOCIATIONS.
SHELBY COUNTY
IRISH-AMERICAN

Building and Loan Association.
THE payment Of dues to the Association
/ will not be resumed until December, after
which date the business of the Association
will proceed as usual. Due notice will be
given stockholders.
JOHN GUNN, President.
W. j. MCDERMoTT, Secretary. IS 80
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-04-16
General News.

The Union League club of New York has
Just taken in Ill new members.
Dr. Hepworth, formerly of Boston,
preached his farewell sermon to the Church
of the Disciples in New York last Sunday.
A Texas jury arose after the evidence was
all in and requested that the case go to them
without ''any lawyers speeches" and it did.
Women of Austria perform the duties OF
bricklayers and laborers, and many may be
seen carrying hods of mortar and baskets OF
bricks up high ladders.
1t is not altogether certain that Gen. Rock
well will retire from the position of President
of the Eastern Railroad. His resignation has
not been accepted. TrareHer.
Major General Sir John Woodford, X. C.
b.. who was the Oldest of the surviving Wa
tcrloo officers, died on the 22d ult Sir John
was born Feb. 2s, 1855. At Waterloo, a.
captain, he was present during the whole day
The Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Rail
road will construct some two hundred miles
of new road in Kansas this year This will
furnish work for the ablc-bodied colored men
who are fiocking to the State from the South
A Delaware county, n. j., lawyer, recent
ly employed by lady to collect bill, wrote
to the debtor and secured the amount. But
he made no report, and when a demand was
made upon him, replied that the whole
amount was SIS less than his usual charge in
such cases, but as his client was woman he
would call it square.
"Patrick," said the priest, ''the widow Mo
lony tells me you have stolen one of her tines
pigs. Is that so z" "Yes, yer honor. y
"What have you done with it ? "Killed il
and ate it your honor" "Oh, Patrick, when
you are brought face to face with the widow
and her pig on Judgment Day, what account
will you be able to give of yourself when the
widow accuses you of the theft" ''Did you
say the pig would be there, yer riverence?
''To be sure did" ''Well, then, your rev
erence, I'll say, Mrs. Molony, there's your
pig"
The Indian out upon the plain
INDUCES in his war-whoops
And we. they say, may again
The time when women wore hoops.
For as the troublesome Indian man
Round settlements with whoops skirts,
So may the troublesome crinoline
Once more go round in hoop-skirts.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-04-16
Political.

The Cincinnati Gazette has a report in
correspondence from Carlisle Ky, of the or
ganization of a secret democratic society in
that State looking to the assassination of Gen
cral Grant, in the event of his nomination for
the Presidency.
A Washington special says that the
hard money democrats regard the make up
of the Bank and Currency Committee as a
complete surrender To the greenback element.
1t does look as though Mr.. Randall had pur-
chased the fourteen greenback votes in the
House at very high price.
The republican party has refunded over a
thousand millions of the national debt, and
reduced the cost of carrying it s2O, 900, 900,
or almost 10 per cent. of the entire cost OF
the administration of the Government; and
ye, every act by means Of which this magnii-
icent triumph Of financierng has been ac-
eomplished has been passed against the votes
Of the democratic party.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-04-16
HalloWell Local News.

The Baptist pulpit in this city, was supplied
student in Colby University. The sermon
was one of practical interest, and
on q practical subject; the importance
of securing the aid of Gods Spirit
in all our plans and purposes of life. Almost
favorable impression was made by the young
and earnest speaker, both afternoon and eve
ming. We learn that Mr.. Parsley, a young
man from the same institution, who has ON
previous Sabbaths preached in this house To
large and interesting audiences, will otficiato
ON Sabbath next.
We are informed that the meeting on Fast
Day will be held in the Methodist church in
this CITY. at the usual hour, which will be in
dicated by the ringing of the bell. The SER
mon will probably he by the pastor of the VI.
f. church, Rev. Mr.. Grovenor.
We learn that the temperance meeting at
the Unversalist vestrv in this city on Sabbath
last. was well attended, and as usual interest
ing and profitable to all. In the evening a
Sabbath school concert was held in the
church
Interesting Easter services were held at
several of our churches on Sabbath last.
The day was fine, and the floral and musical
attractions unsurpassed.
improvements in the line of painting and
brushing up generally are to be noticed in
various parts of our city at the present time
Early peas may now be planted in favored
locations, whore the snow and frost hav,
disappeared. The season is several weeks
later than last year. though there is plenty OF
time to do all the work required for securing
an average start in farming and gardening
enterprises.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-04-16

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of simple
vegetable remedy, for the 81 eedy and per-
manent cure of consumption, bronchitis, ca
tarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung affec-
tions, also positive and radical cure for
nervous debility and all nervous complaints,
after having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his
duty to make il known to his suffering fel-
lows. Actuated by this motive, and desire
to relieve human suffering, will send, free
of charge, to all who desire it, this recipe,
with full directions for preparing and using,
in German, French, or English. Sent BY
mail by addressing with stamp, naming this
paper. w. w. Sherar, l49 Powers Block
Rochester, New York. mar2st&w4w