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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-30

Special to Cincinnati COmmercial.l
CAMBRIDGE, o., August 26.-The
great national reunion of the blue and
gray, for which magnificent prepara-
tions had been made, was formally
opened this afternoon in Taylor S
Grove, north Of town. The signal
that the hour had come was given by
a round of artillery. Music followed
by the Concord Band, after which
Major j. K. Brown, president, called
the assembly to order. Prayer was
offered by Chaplain Mcfarland. Prof.
Sarchet led large company of chosen
vocalists in singing America" with
instrumental accompaniment.
General Garfield having failed to
arrive, the opening speech was made
by Colonel John Ferguson. and he
was followed by Colonel j. D. Taylor,
Chaplain Mcfarland and s. S. Flem-
ing.
President Brown announced a list
of prominent men who will positively
be present tomorrow, including Gov.
Bishop and staff, Gov. Matthews Of
West Virginia, Foster, Ewing, Hick-
enlooper, Rice, and number Of prom
inent generals from both armies.
General Garfield came tonight, and
made magnificent address of vel
come to great crowd at the Court
house Square.
There will be an immense crowd to
morrow to witness the grand parade.
The town is beautifully decorated.
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About Yazoo civ.

r. Abbey in a letter to the Nash
vile American says
am among the Oldest citizens OF
Yazoo City, pretty well acquainted
with the drift of public matters in
this county. take no part in party
politics; have not attended a political
meeting nor written a political para
graph for thirty years or more. And
have now this much to say to you.
There is not now, nor has there
been since some time in 1875, any
political strife or opposition between
parties more than the usual scramble
for Office in a good natured way, seen
everywhere pending elections; no bit
ter feeling, nothing belligerent. The
colored people of the county are con.
tented, and at work more pro6tably
than usual.
The recent troubles here were not
between political parties, but of Q
personal and private nature. In some
very important respects these were
different from anything | have me
with or heard of before in this place
or elsewhere. | am not at all sur
prised that these have been greatly
misunderstood by persons at a dis
! tance.
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singular Fatality.


LNduefltlo NOuTier.l
Mrs. Eastin. of our county. has lost
FIVE children, all of them boys, by
violent deaths, and but two of them
dying at home. Mrs. Eastin has
been married twice, her first husband
being Mr.. Mat McLain, by whom she
had four children, three boys and one
girl. Two are now living. The first
one that came to violent death was
one of the McLain children, who got
hold of some biscuit with rat poison
on 1t, from the effects Of which he
died: The next was George, who was
crushed to death in a horse mill near
the mouth of Green river. Then CAPT.
James McLain, who was drowned
while crossing the river when Morgan
made his famous raid through Indi-
ana and Ohio. Then two years ago,
shortly after the death of her second
husband, II. S. Eastin, her fourth son
by Mr.. Eastin, Madison, was killed
while attempting to board train Of
cars near Somerset, Ohio. and last
week her third son by Mr.. Eastin,
Richard, was killed on the Illinois
Central railroad while helping to load
cattle on train He was standing on
the platform used for that purpose,
when the train suddenly started
throwing him under the car-wheels
killing him instantly. He leaves
wife and child. The others are mi
nors, except Captain McLain, who
was some twenty-five or thirty year,
of age when he lost his life in hi,
country's cause. Mrs. Eastin is
remarkably well preserved woman
Notwithstanding her terrible trials
and bears up under them with tha
C1rist;a an fortitude for which the mer
and women of the past generation arr
noted.
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The True Lady.

The lady does not lose caste because
she makes her owa clothes, and is
obliged to economise.
A lady " is woman who clearly
understands and consistently prac.
tees, the refnements of a highly
civilized existence; and the most real
distinction between 2 lady and a
Eoman who is not a lady, is tb2t one
is more civilized than the other, and
more determiped to preserve the
habits of high civilization, both in
her own person and in all those over
WHOM che has authority.
These habits are not simply habits
of expense it Is cheaper to remain
sober than to get tipsy, and yet it
is more ladylike to be sober.
1t does not cost more money to
speak good English than bad, or to be
gentle than rude yet a lady always,
from preference, speaks correctly and
has gentle manners.
1t so happens by the force of cir
cumstances that there are more ladies
in the upper classes than in the lower,
and that thege ia a severer public
opinion in the HppoT glasses about
most things which, taken together,
constitute civilization, because it Is a
fault in rich people (who have great
faculties) not to be clean, and cult
yated, and polite, wlep it may only be
a mlsfortune in poor ones.
There is, theu, really such thing
as ladyhood, and it is one Of the
strongest Of ciyilizing influences.
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TENNESSEE
! LIN N 16O1A
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Nashville, Tenn, August IS, 1879.
RULES
For the Government Of Memphis
and Other Infected Districts.

RULE 1. No person shall be permitted to
enter a town OF place which is dangerously
infected with yellow fever. unless such per
son has already had the yellow fever, and
then only after obtaining permission of the
Superintendent of Quarantine.
RULE 2. The Superintendent Of Quaran-
tine at each place dangerously infected
shall have charge and control, with the eoun.
sci and advise Ofthis Board, of the disinfec-
tion Of ofhouses, privies, cellars, clothing, bed
ding, and all other textile fabrics, baggage,
mails, cars, depots, sewers, drains, public
and private yards, and such other places and
things as it may be at any time considered
necessary to disinfeet.
RULE 8. Local Boards of Health are ex-
pected to have charge Of, and to enforce gen.
eral sanitation within the limits of their re-
spectiye jurisdictions, and to give aid aud
support to Superintendents of Quarantine
during the epidemics in the carrying out Of
such rules and regulations as the State Board
have adopted, and may from time to time
adopt
RULE 4. A house infected with yellow fe.
yer shall be designated by Yellow Flag.
Rule 5. No operson shall be permitted tC
enter house infected with yellow fever e1.
cept physicians, clergymen, and such nurses
and attendants as arc necessary TO the car,
of the sick.
RULE 8. No persons, except physicians
and elergymen, shall be permitted to leav,
an infected house without the permission, in
writing, of the Superintedent of Quarantine
they having first complied with such methods
of disinfection as may be prescribed.by him
RULE7. Physicians and clergymen MAY
come and retire from the apartments Of th,
sick of yellow fever at all hours; provided
however, that they shall not enter a non.
infected house, carriage, car or other public
place of resort until their persons and ap.
patel have been thoroughly disinfected.
RULES. Public assemblies of all kinds arc
prohibited in any place dangerously in.
fected " with yellow fevor; and the Superin-
tendent of Quarantine is charged with the
rigid enforcement of this rule.
RULE9. From the hours of ap.m. 10 the
hour Of am. each day, al persons not
engaged i'm the care of the sick, or in
the execution of their duties as of.
ficers Of the law, shall remain at their
homes or on their respective premises, unless
they be granted permission to leave them by
the Superintendent of Quarantine.
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PARIS, August 26.-The Figaro
publishes an interview with Prince
Jerome Napoleon, in which the prince
defines his political opinions with
regard to Catholicism, Bonapartism
etc. The prince merely expresses his
well known views.
LONDON, August 26.-Special dis.
patches from Paris state that Prince
jerome NapoleOn's alleged manifesto
is probably compiled from his conyer.
sations with friends. It contains a
statement that he il personally opposed
to anything approaching a coup d 'etat
and that he firmly believes in the
eventual restoration of the empire by
a reaction of public opinion caused BY
violence Of radicals, but that he would
not prepare or hasten its restoration
by any plot against the lawful govern.
ment.
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AGE for Iegai NTnrrlages.


There is considerable variation in
the different European States in the
age at which a legal marriage can be
contracted.
In Austria the age of discretion is
fourteen years. In Hungary each re.
ligious sect makes its own regulations
marriages being regarded as entirely
ecclesiastical affairs.
Russians can contract marriage at
the age of eighteen in cases of females.
The Italian law fixes the age at
eighteen and fifteen respectively. In
Turkey there is no general law The
French and Belgian codes allow mar
rlages OF young men at eighteen and
girls at fifteen years, but the powers
of dispensation in special cases are
reserved. In Greece, Spain and Por-
tugal parties of fourteen and twelve
can contract a binding marriage, but
in the latter country the consent OF
the parents is necessary.
According to the amended para
graph Of the civil marriage bill, the
state Of wedlock cannot be entered
up m under twenty and sixteen years
respectively, though the existing laws
Of Prussia and Saxony permitted mar
riages at earlier periods.
There is much dissimilarity in thu
Swiss laws, every canton having ;
regulation of its own. In some o
them the consent of the parents il
necessary up to twenty-five years.
The influence Of climate upon tht
temperament and constitution is al
lowed in the southern nations, wher,
maturity is reached at much earlier
period than among the northern ma.
tions.
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Personal and PoIilionI.

The Benedictine Brothers. near
Latrobe, Pa, have just completed the
largest barn in Westmoreland county,
1t is 227x6y feet.
Alexander Ii. Stephens helped fftv.
three young men 10 get an education
and they all repaid him as soon as
they we're able.
Hawthorne's daughter, Rosa, who
IS now Mrs. Lathrop, writes for her
husbands paper, the Boston Courier.
ING lady Is also a very fine painter.
Mrs. Lander, the actress, is deyotipq
herself to the education of two adopt.
ed sons at Swampscott, Mass. which
IS only half hours ride from Boston,
Sarah Bernhardt, during six
weeks visit to London, Is Tsported to
have realized $4,000 by private per
lormances and upward Of SlOQO6 by
her paintings, '''''' =
Va a recent Sunday evening 1900
persons in st. Johns Roman Catholic
church, Rochester, Mimi, stood up
and repeated, after Father Turner, a
solemn pledge of abstinence from ali
intoxicating drinks for one year.
According to the report of the
American consul there are 1000 work
lngmen out of employment at Quebec.
and there is much distress, The new
proteetiye tariff, 1t Is claimed, has
failed to give the relief for which it
was intended,
During the examination of Mr..
Vanderbilt before the railroad inves-
tlgating committee he stated that he
was a farmer aud that he worked on
his farm just like any other laboying
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Foreign Items.

Ludwig Vogel, the celebrated Swiss
historical painter, is dead.
General Gordon, governor general oil
Soudan, has arrived at Cairo.
1t is said a special French represen-
tatiye will he sent to greet the Empe-
ror William of Germany on his an
preaching visit to Metz.
The London Times Berlin dispateb
reports that the Prussians will use
steam traction engines on the Steppes
without rails, in the TgrcQman expe.
The Cologne Gazette's Moscow cor.
respondent says nothing is known
there in regard to the reported sur.
render of Kudja to China for fiye
million rubles.
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A Sensible Doctor.

Vicksburg Commercial, Tth.I
From the following it will be seen
that DR.. Mitchell has resigned his po-
sition on the city board Of health
VIcKsBURG, August 27.-TO the
Hon. Board Of Mayor and Aldermen
Gentlemen: With all due respect, |
hereby resign my position as member
of the city board of health. As long
as the exertions of the board were
directed to the improvement of the
sanitary condition Of Vicksburg, it
was of real utility, and effected a de-
gree Of cleanliness which | have never
before seen here.
The subject Of quarantine, | think,
is hardly worth discussing, for two
reasons: In the first place, New Or
leans is now heather in all respects
than it has been for forty years, and
were it necessary to quarantine, 1t is
utterly impracticable. This can be
easily proven. 1t is easy to have an
annoying quarantine, but impossible
to have an effectual one. Were
allowed to advise, it would be to make
the strictest paper quarantine possible
for the panic makers, but place no re-
strictionson travel and commerce. Re.
spectfully, Q. j. MITCHELL.
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Decatur. Ala,
Letter to Nashville Americana


botNoi " NdbhNiilo AmtTlcdn.l
The quarantine regulations were SO
modified a few days ago as to permit
all trains on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad to stop here and
transact their regular business. De-
catur and Grand junction were the
last places on the entire line to yield
to the entreaties of the road officials,
and now trains stop all depots from
Moscow to Chattanooga. At this place,
under the quarantine regime, the
road was put to a vast deal OF incon-
venience, and at the same time the
restrictions which necessitated it
brought the town no indemnity from
liability 10 the infection that the
trains and travelling are supposed to
communicate.
Only one family of those who moved
out of town when the fever broke out
in Memphis has returned to stay; tie
others are still at their mountain
homes, and occasionally come in and
return the next day. In the absence
of fever they will not move back be-
fore frost. Business in all depart
ments has been well nigh suspended
for six weeks.
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Egypt's Finances.

ALEXANDRIA, August 26. - The
French consuls general have informed
the khedive that France and England
have definitely chosen Barring and De
Blignieres as controllers and demand
ed that the khedive should promul-
gate a decree nominating them. The
khedive consented to their demand
but protested against the appointment
of De Blignieres.
1t is stated that England and
France are celebrating upon plan
for rsorganizing the finances in Tur-
key after the solution of the Greek
question.
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Business in New Work.

A letter to the Philadelphia Ledger
from New York on the 25th inst.
says After next week very decided
increase in trade is anticipated, and
the anticipation will probably not be
disappointed. Country buyers in large
numbers are here, as the hotel regis
ters witness, and it but needs the
return of cool weather to bring them
into the markets for their fall and
winter supplies. Business with the
dry goods commission houses and
importers to-day was called fair, and
moderately active with jobbers. Cot
ton goods are steady in first hands.
Prints are in good demand, ginghams
and dress goods are doing well, mems
wear Wooiens are quiet and fairly
steady Foreign goods rather more
active.
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Russia and Germany.

BERLIN, August 26.-General Won
Manteufel will go to Warsaw on the
occasion Of the approaching imperial
review there, to salute the czar on be-
half of the emperor of Germany. II
any misunderstanding has arisen be-
tween Bismarck and Gortschakoff, it
is highly probable General Won Man
teufel's mission is intended to remove
it; Some assert the general is sent to
Warsaw to settle the misunderstood
ing.
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noneslic InfeIicilY.
Special to Cincinnati Commercial.l ]

ppeclal 70 Nluclnhtil JuumtIcldl'l
PORTSMOUTH, o., August 26.--
Quite a domestic rumpus occurred
this evening in that part of our city
known as the Treatville portion OIL
Shutdown. Jim Treat returned home
after his days work and found his
house locked up. lie knocked at the
door but could hear no one within
,ecoming impatient he kicked down
the door and saw to his surprise a
man by the name Of Ben Ball, jr., in
BED with his wife. Without making
any apology for his sudden intrusion
he picked up club and hammered
Rs head into a jelly and then threw
at Of the house. At last ac-
..ats Ball was in critical condition
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MosauitO Land.

A letter to the New York Sun tells
of the pestiferOus mosquitoes in Della
ware, as follows:
At Rehoboth Station, on the juno
tion and Breakwater railway. the
mosquitoes were more numerous than
in Lewes. The negroes in the peach
orchards had their heads covered with
old sheets, with holes cut through for
their eyes. The men around the
depot and the passengers in waiting
had their heads covered with mosquito
nets like wells. 1t was impossible to
purchase a piece Of mosquito netting
in the neighborhood. While the
stages were waiting man was sta
toned at the head of each horse to
hold the nearly frantic animals. AT
Rehoboth Beach the mosquitoes were
thicker than at the station. There
were at the beginning of the week
over 400 guests at the Bright House,
and on Friday not twenty-five re-
mained. They had been driven away
by the mosquitoes. Persons walking
in the streets were nearly obscured by
clouds of mosquitoes around them. BY
bringing the hands together handful
of mosquitoes could be caught at a
single sweep. The ladies' light dresses
were almost black, so thickly were
they covered The hotel proprietor;
were SO pestered by the insects that
they seemed to not care whether theil
guests remained or not. Double nets
on the windows and darkened room;
gave partial relief, but the mo,squitos
made their way everywhere. 1t was
only by having negro over each per
son at the tables that guests could
partake of their meals.
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Adviees from Japan under date of
July 10Th say An epidemic is raging
in Southern ports which a majority Of
physicians pronounce Asiatic cholera
though one or two regard IL different
ly. OF its fatal effects none doubt
Quarantine, which has been imposed
at Yokohama, is fully respected only
by the United States envoy. The
British envoy overrules it, and substi-
tutes a process of his own invention
Notwithstanding the remonstrance
and protest Of the Japanese govern
meut. The German envoy utterly
disregards it, bringing iD German YES
sells protected by man .of-war boat
and cargo BY means of boats Of the
same description. s''7 = Wy
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Church and Statc.

BERLIN, August 26.-The German
Gazette publishes the electoral mani
iesto of the new Conservative party.
declaring that the State and Catholic
church should meet each other half
way The inalienable rights Of the
State should be guaranteed, especially
as regards election, but religious in
strqotion should be left to religious
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Disorders in Chill.

RIO JANEIRo, August ga dis
patch from Santiago, the capital of
Chill, July 81, says: Serious riots
have occurred in that city in conse-
quepce of popular discomfort at the
conduct Of the war. The populacs
erected a baricade and shouted Death
to the traitor ministry" Two persons
were killed in a conflict with the
troops and several wounded. 1t is
reported that the Chihan president
has fled.
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Mr.. II. /. STEWART, agent for a
rich and philanthropic Northern lady
to establish a colony in Georgia, is in
Atlanta, and, the Albany Advertiser
is informed, is negotiating with par
ties in that city who represent the
owners of thirty-two thousand acres
in Worth county, and that in all
probability this would be the place
selected for the location of the colony.
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The representatives of VIM. H.
Vanderbilt repeat with emphasis that
the international contest for the Ast-
ley belt will not take place in Madison
Square Garden in September, and
that the present lessees might as well
make up their minds TO Il. If they
go on and try to begin the match,
Vanderbilt will stop them by means
of the law.
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COunterfeIters Held for Trial.

MILWAUKEE, August 26.-The pre-
liminary examination of the alleged
counterfeiters, Mr.. and Mrs. Earle
and Mrs. Henderson, was concluded
to-day, after which the prisoners were
turned over for trial. In the case of
Mrs. Earle, bail was fixed at $500, and
that of the other two at $25OO.
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The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
SOC per month fOrless 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.
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DOu Carlos.

MADRID. August Cit is expected
that on the occasion of the kings
marriage an arrangement will be made
with Don Carlos, on whom it is pro
posed to confer the title of infante,
with q large allowance, upon condition
that he renounces all claim to the
throne of Spain.
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Mrs. DE YOUNG, mother of the
editors and proprietors of the San
Francisco Chronicle, is Jewish lady,
and after her husbands death was a
milliner in Cincinnati for some time,
and her character was unblemished,
Her sons think so much of her peace
Of mind and guard her so tenderly
that they have never allowed her to
know that she was lied about.
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THERE is great organized move
ment among English mechanics for
emigration to this country. The
skilled artisans especially are inter
ested. This is subject that SHOULD
claim the attention of the eight-hour
debating societies of this country
also of the Socialists and Others, who
are of the opinion that we are all in a
miserable and down trodden state.
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Speciol to the Clneappati Commercial.
DAYToN, O., August ga spo-
dic case of yellow fever, resulting
..be death of the victim, Mrs. Isaac
of Dayton. occurred last even
The case was kept from publ
Jon at first, ia order to ascertain il
was really fever The fact is now
bsred beyond dispnte, though
ing has been ascertained to trace
" definite cause Of its presence,
d lrs. Davis was the wife Of Isaac
Wis, coal merchant Of this city,
u Of good family. She has been
ing at home, and has had no com
ltaication with any person from the
a, ed district. She was taken
m, with the disease on Saturday
shit ant, died Monday night, after
or.lour hours sickness. HeE
'' physician, DR.. Reeve, called in
Ah'.lltation DR.. Conklin, DR.. Neal,
dent Of the bsagd of health, and
,.,Pilate, for many yearg a physician
the South. All pronounced its
ymptoms genuine, and of an extreme
haracter.
The house was at once placed
ader sanitary control, and the body
Eas buried this morning, and all the
slOthing and bedding burned. II Is
opposed the case resulted from con-
gion spread by refugees that have
jme to Che city There were three
.ases in the city last summer during
the prevalence Of the disease in the
S4pth. One Of these proved fatal,
cut no fear is entertained by tho
physicians of a spread of the epidemic
IN this latitude at this season.