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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

Galveston News.l
A gentleman in our midst is the
possessor of some rare gems in the
province of art. To those who asso.
eiate with the name of Texas nougbt
beyond the crude comforts of frontier
lite 1t may be interesting to learn that
Galveston contains small but choice
collection of such works of art as no
private gentleman living within the
Union may boast of. The gem of the
collection is a corregio, representing
Psyche and Cupid, and in an almost
perfect state of preservation. A head
Of Christ, by the same master, who
lived from l494 to 1884, has been less
fortunate in escaping the ravages of
time. Christ crowned with thorns"
is a torcible picture and triumph in
anatomy. A debauched Cupid, by
GuidO-1575-l6l2; a portrait of a
mistress to Francis !, by Leonardo da
vinci, painted during the time of
l5l7-l5l9; Virgin and Child. by an
unknown master; a beautiful head of
81. John, and a picture imputed to
Murillo = l6ls-'82 - Rubbing the
Mother of her Offspring" as well as
two panels of naiades sporting in the
liquid elements, are all in a perfect
state of preservation. These pictures
would form fine nucleus to the Gal
weston institute Of art of a future day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
THE COMING CENSUS.
How Increased Accuracy will be Gained.

The superintendent of the census
bureau has issued circular in rela-
tion to the Office of enumerator under
the census law. Under the old law
subdivisions were limited to 10000
inhabitants, while by the present law
they are limited to 1000, and will be
generally confined to a single town
where the number may be even less.
BY the old law from June to No
vember | was allowed for the enumer-
alton, while under the present statute
it is required to be made in June. and
in cities of more than 10000 inhabi-
tants in two weeks from the first
Monday in June.
The total amount of compensation
to an enumerator cannot exceed $780,
as but one months time is allowed and
the pay is not to exceed 81 per day
1t is expected that enumerators will
work in their own immediate locality.
knowing and known to most of those
they enumerate without incurring
travelling expenses in a majority Of
cases, and that in many instances the
work can be done without materially
interfering with their other yocations.
so that a more competent class of
enumerators may be secured Town
ship assessors and other local officers,
postmasters at small offices, etc. are
suggested as men likely to perform the
work faithfully and intelligently
County physicians within the circuit
OF their usual practice would, it is
thought, often make excellent emu
merators. Their knowledge of vital
conditions, their appreciation of the
Importance of trustworthy statistics,
together with their knowledge of the
history OF families, would combine to
make returns alike of deaths and of
the living population from officers of
this class especially valuable. There
would also be the practical considera-
ton that men of this profession are as
a rule already mounted, and their ser
vice in the capacity Of enumerators
would involve no expense whatever
for outfit. Schoolmasters have largely
been found in England among the best
qualified enumerators. Accustomed
to keep lists and make reports almost
uniformly accuratein accounts, trained
in punctuality and precision, and ac
customed te enforce them upon Others.
the teacher within his school district
would generally do his work rapidly,
neatly and accurately.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
A WEIGHTY BURpEN.

"A W GA0AA oOA9GNs
Realty owners have a hard time
ahead of them if the signs indicated
by the recent meeting of our refugee
citizens at st. Louis are worth any
thing as a forecast of what is to come.
A large number of Memphis merch-
ants and property owners attended the
meeting and the proceedings were
decidedly entertaining as we'll as in
teresting, A number favored an
assessment of seven per cent. on every
piece of property in the city, to be
used for sewerage purposes. All
agreed that less than four per cent.
would not be of any use, and that
prompt and vigorous action is neces-
sary to the preservation of the city.
A special session of the legislature OF
Tennessee was recommended to
authorize the governor to appoint
three sewerage commissioners with
power to borrow 100000 to carry out
the work Of building sewers and to
expend any money in their hands not
used for sewers, in repairing Bayou
Gayoso; also to petition the legisla-
ture to cede to the city all lands and
improvements along the bayou for
feited to the State by payment of
taxes, the same to be used for repair
ing the bayou. The present general
tax is also recommended to be raised
to $3.50 on the 500 for street paving
and other sanitary purposes. A plan
devised by Charles Harmony to drain
Bayou GayOso and sewer the city was
recommended for adoption subject to
such revision as competent engineers
may decide. Committees we're ap-
pointed to carry out the proposed
objects. Among others signing the
report are Cotton Greene, H. NJ.
Nicely, John NJ. Lea, NJ. L. Meacham,
N. Hill, NJ. Burke and 0. H. p.
Piper. If the suggestions of the
meeting are carried out, there will be
a rushing time among the mechanics
and laboring classes, and many of
those now owning property will be
Oyerburdened with the weight of tax
alton.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
INSTRUCTIONS
TO BE OBSERVED BY
PiCkGtS and Patrols
At their Posts on Duty Around
Memphis.

l. Persons will be allowed to come in only
between the hours Of am. and I2 noon, and
no person will be permitted to pass out
through the Dickets after o'clock pm.
2. No citizen or resident of Memphis will
be permitted to pass the picket line without
special permit from the superintendent Of
quarantine.
8 Persons in camps around the city will not
be permitted to enter the city; and if found
in the city will be arrested and punished for
violating the quarantine rules and regulations
T. No baggage, bedding or household effects
OF any kind will be permitted to pass the
picket lines either way without permit.
5. Provisions and supplies of all kinds will
be permitted to pass Except in cloth sacks).
6. Neither lint cotton nor cotton seed will
be allowed to enter Memphis during the cpl
demic, w.
7. Rules and 9 Of the State board of health
las below win be strictly enforced by the
piekets and patrols;
Rule s. Public assemblies of all kinds ora
prohibited in any place dangerously in.
tected with yellow fever; and the Superin-
tendent Of Quarantine is charged with the
rigid enforcement of this rule.
"iRule9. From the hour of sp.m. to the
hour Of I am. each day, all persons not
engaged I'm the care Of the sick, or I'm
the execution of their duties as of.
licers OF the law, shall remain at their
homes or on their respective promises, unless
they be granted permission to leave them BY
the Superintendent of Quarantine.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
Serious Damage 10 the Tobacco
CrOD.

Rockport Und.) Special Cincinnati Gazette
In a trip through the southern
counties of lndiana-Spenoer, War
rick, Vanderburg, Posey, Knox, Pike
and Dubois-that grow more tobacco
than all the balance of the State of
Indiana, the Gazette's correspondent
learns from producers and dealers that
the rains of the past three weeks have
damaged the tobacco crop of these
counties from 20 to 20 per cent, and
in some localities even to a greater
extent, nearly entire fields being ruin
ed. He also learns that an almost
equal loss has fallen upon the crop
from the same cause in the counties Of
Henderson, Daviess, Hancock. Breek-
nridge and Meade in Kentucky
Tobacco is the chief crop in many of
these counties, and consequently the
ioss will fall heavily upon the farmers.
A great deal Of damage has also been
lone in many localities to the growing
corn crop, the heavy rains and ac
companying winds of the first part of
this month and the latter part Of
August laying the stalks fiat upon the
ground, where they are rotting. In
all these counties, and, indeed
throughout all Southern Indiana. a
greater acreage is being sown to wheat
than ever before,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
NOTICE TO ABSENTEES.
MEMPHIS, September %. 1879

MEMPHIS september %, 1879.
EREQUENT applications being made To
IL the Board Of Health and Superintendent
Of Quarantine by absentees from here to re-
turn, we deem it best to make this public an
nouneement, that, though the number of new
cases Of yellow fever and deaths are small
and perceptibly on the decline. it would not
be safe for those who have not had the dis
ease to return yet.
The comparatively small number of new
cases and deaths is due to the fact that there
are so few unacclimated people here.
Those who have had the fever and wish to
return will be permitted to do so, and will
be furnished certificate to that effect on ap-
plication to the Superintendent of Quaran-
tine. None others will be permitted to enter
Memphis before it is officially announced by
the Board Of Health that it is thought there
is no longer danger from the infection, which
will be done at the earliest possible day.
G. B. THORNTON, MD,
President Board Of Health,
JOHN JOHNSON,
Superintendent of Quarantine.
Appeal and Avalanche copy week.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
The Assassination OF Judge
Bryce.
Special to Cincinnati ENQUIRER

Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.l
COLUMBIA, S. c., September 90
Information from Walhalla, where
occurred the assassination of Alexan-
der Bryce, jr., prominent Republican
politician, which was reported in this
paper fortnight ago, states that the
trial Of Lessiah Robb, Robert Cobb,
Henry Long and Robert Dunlay. who
were arrested several days after the
murder of Bryce, charged with being
his assassins, commenced before the
Supreme Court of Andersen to day.
The accused were represented by
Major 5. p. Dendy, of Walhalla, who.
by some hundreds of pages of afida
Wits, showed that they were peaceable.
harmless, industrious and pious men.
none Of whom had ever had a fight,
sworn an oath, or been drunk: and
that, In consequence of being some
where else on the night of the murder
OF Alexander Bryce, they could not,
by any physical possibility, have done
the deed.
Inc Judge then asked for the eYi-
dence on which they were arrested.
The solicitor had nothing except the
testimony which was taken before the
coroner, which did not implicate these
parties in the slightest degree. AS
the evidence on which they we're com
mitted could not be produced, he
remanded the prisoners to jail until
ne could examine both sides. 1t is
probable, however, that they will be
released upon small bail, as they are
clearly the wrong men. The Moore
brothers, who were near neighbors of
the murdered man, have been arrested
for the crime, and the circumstantial
evidence connecting them with the
assassination Of Bryce is quite strong.
The trial is attracting great deal
OF attention. Bryce's friends speak
OF employing eminent counsel from
abroad to assist in the prosecution.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
Marrying Chinamen.

New YORK Herald.
The absence Of Chinese women in
the East has compelled the males to
intermarry with the whites. There
are in New York at the present time
nearly three hundred Cinnamon who
have white wives. They are mainly
Spanish and Irish women, the Mon.
golians preterring the latter on account
OF their skill in domestic labor. Few
Of them allow their wives to work.
This is due to a spirit of gallantry
which is visible even in the West
This intermarriage of races com
menced about six years ago. Conse-
quently young Chino-Celtic genera
ton is springing up, the oldest of
whom is about FIVE years of age. AS
these children are becoming very
numerous, they may become an impor-
tant factor in strengthening the kind
ly relations between our citizens and
Chinese immigrants. In a year or
two some Of them will be old enough
to enter school, Not only have the
Chinese married Spanish and Irish
women, but at No, 45 Mott street
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

Fremont, ONO, September 20
The reception given President Hayes
and General Sherman at General
Buckland's residence to-day was at
tended by over eleven hundred school
children. Both the President and
General Sherman made brief remarks.
rhe affair was very enjoyable to both
the children and the President. In
the evening the citizens attended the
reception. The Presidential party
leave for Kansas Monday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

Philadelphia Ledger,l
1t it were a little better understood
what necessity there is for contribu.
tons Of money and supplies to Mem
phis and whose hands the money is to
be disbursed through, there would be
a reader response. But to hear an
appeal for money one day and de-
nunciation of the appeal the next day
as a fraud, is rather confusing and
discouraging to charitably disposed
people; AS compared with the terri
ole calamity from the yellow fever
scogrge at Memphis in 1875, this year s
visitation is light, and there would
seem to be but little occasion for an
peals to distant places, and the more
especially as the rest of the Mississippi
valley is exempt from the disease and
its accompanying distress. Still. it is
possible there may be need for help /;
but in this case the notice to the pub
lie should come from some responsible
public official of the city or State.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
Howard Association
PHYSICIANS NOTICE.

DISTRICT No. lie. Milos Willet, MD,
~ in charge. bounded on the west by the
riyer bounded on the south by Poplar;
bounded east and north by limits Of sickness.
Hook at Hessen's drug store, corner Poplar
and Bull Run.
District No. 2.-F. L. Sim, MD, in charge.
Bounded on the west by river; bounded on
the north by Poplar street; bounded ON the
south by Union; bounded on the east by lin
its Of sickness. Hook at Robinson & Co.'S.
drug store, corner Madison and Second.
District No. S.-S. J. Quinby in charge;
bounded on west by river; bounded on north
by Union street; bounded on east by Rayburn
avenue, st. Martin and fernando street.
Hook at Safford's and Fahlen & Kleinschmidt.
District No. 4, Heber Jones, MD, in
charge. Bounded on west by st. Martin
street, bounded on north by Union street;
bounded on east and south by limits of sick
ness. Hook at corner Lauderdale and Vance.
Prescriptions will be filled at same drug stores
as heretofore.
In every case druggists will refuse to FIJI
prescriptions unaocompanied with the state.
ment that said prescriptions are for yellow
fever patients.
W. ]. SMITH,
@S AcT. PREs'T Howard ASSOCIATION.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS

No case of yellow fever was known
to exist at New Orleans on Sunday
last The only death during the pre-
vious week was person in the out
skirts of Algiers, on the opposite side
of the river. The mortuary report
for the week ending Friday last was
fifty-four, of which Eve were from
various forms of fever. The sanitary
inspector system has been adopted
between New Orleans and Morgan
City, and trains do not come through,
a transfer having been established
within four miles of Morgan City
This, it is expected, will prevent the
transmission of yellow fever sporads
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

SUBSCRIBERS who wish TO re-
new will do us a favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list Is 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, 1879-09-23

" | bought me new pair of shoes
to-day put them on and they didn't
hurt me. l walked about in the store
with them and they didn't hurt me-
| walked clean out to the base ball
park and they didn't hurt me, and
they don't hurt me now. ! puzzled
myself to know the reason of this
phenomenon. 1t has just occurred 60
me. What is it?" asked the milk
man. They were made for another
fellow"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
Two Years in the PenitCntinry
for Rape.
Special to Cincinnati EnquirorJ

BLooMINGToN, IND, September 20.
Horny Fry, who was tried yesterday
for rape on the person Of Rachel
Beightel, adeformed idiot, was found
guilty by the jury, and his punishment
assessed at two years hard labor in
the State prison. The case was one of
the most disgusting and revolving
imaginable, and the general opinion is
that, il guilty, the punishment in
tlicted is too light.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

THE moment John Kelly announced
that he did not mean to succeed, he
threw away his case and should have
thrown down his batonof leadership
He forfeited all claim to be Demo.
crat when he boasted he meant to do
all he could for the Republican can.
didate, and he cannot lead any consid-
erable number into the enemy's camp
lie may be a very good man in private
life, but he is certainly poor political
manager.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
SOC 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 tbs privilege Of
changing pOstOfiOs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

THREE weeks from to-day State Off
GERS and Legislative members will be
elected in Ohio, and in Iowa the same,
with one congressman to fill avacancy.
No worry about elections in this State
during the present fall or winter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
BY CABLE.
Russian Papers Bitter Against
Germany and England.
The Situation in St. Petersburg Be-
coming Interesting and
Alarming.
Negotiations Between Germany
and the Vatican Broken Off

LONDON, September 20.-It is now
believed that the massacres at Cabul
and the murders at Herat were not
only nearly simultaneous, but the
result Of an organized conspiracy, with
headquarters at Herat. Abdurahman
Kahn, Russia's pensioner, is said to be
at the bottom of the rebellion. Rus
sian papers declare that England's
purpose in the whole Afghanistan
campaign was the seizure of Herat,
the key of India. The Russian papers
are vehement in their invectives
against Germany and England.
The death Of Mr.. Levy, the pro-
prietOr of the Daily Telegraph, is
reported. He was one of the most
successful editors in London. Had
he lived three months longer he would
have received a title at the recon-
mendation of the Beaconsfeld cabi-
net.
NJ. Louis Blanc has arrived in Mar
seilles, where he was met by large
number of persons. He was enthusi-
astically received. The horses were
taken from his carriage, and he was
drawn through the streets by his ad-
mirers, who had attached ropes to the
conveyance.
A dispatch from Paris says loan of
9OO,OOO,OO0 francs by the Credit Fon-
cier has been authorized by the French
government, and it will be issued on
October 7th, upon the same conditions
as before.
The India Office confirms the report
of an outbreak at Herat on the 9th
instant. Special dispatches state that
troops Of the garrison plundered and
burned the governors house and mur-
dered the commanding general, who
was friend and supporter of the
ameer. The affair throws suspicion
upon the loyalty of Ayoob Khan,
brother of the ameer.
A special dispatch from Lahore says:
Afghan tribes occupying Guudamuk
threaten Dukka. Cabul rebels are
levying forced loans on merchants.
Much apprehension is felt about the
safety of the British residency at Man
dalay, Burmah.
CALCUTTA, September 2O-The
viceroy of India has received a letter
from the ameer of Afghanistan,
dated September 10th, inelosing
report frem his brother, Ayoob
Khan, about the outbreak at Herat.
Three regiments participated in the
mutiny. They matinied because they
had been ordered to march to Kohis-
tan, where disturbances had occurred
Ayoob Khan asks to be allowed to
resign his command. The ameer hopes
shortly to regain control Of affairs,
when he will exhaust his resources
and energies in maintaining faith with
the British.
ST. PETERSBURG, September 20
1t is said here that England is pre-
pairing to seize Herat. The guards
have been ordered under arms. Diplo-
matte agents have been sent in haste
to Turkistan. The situation is alarm
ing.
BERLIN, September 2O.-The sensa
tion in Berlin is the rumor of the close
of the negotiations between Prince
Bismarck and the vatican. 1t is said
that they have ended so abruptly that
the May Falk laws will remain in force.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

Could a shotgun quarantine of any
character, if established generally
throughout the country, be any worse
than the abominable system inaugu-
rated by those now in authority? The
general opinion of the populaee says,
emphatically, MOI
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
Acts of Tennessee, 1879, Page
100, Chapter Gil.

Section j. Belt further enacted, That any
person or persons who shall willfuUly disre-
gard or eyade such quarantine as the board of
health may declare, or violate any rule or
regulation they shall make in attempting 10
prevent the spread of any epidemic disease
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upop
conviction shall be fined not less than 6ftv
dollars nor more than five hundred or impris-
oned in the county Jail for period of three
months, one or both, at the discretion of the
court" {"
Approved March 26, 1870.
BY order Of the State Board of Health, of the
State of Tennessee.
JOHN JOHNSON,
Superintendent of Quarantine.
Memphis, Tenn, September 5, 1879. 6s
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

There is Grant coming from round
OF honors in the old world Conkling's
renewal Of his old grip on the Repub-
llean party in New York, and Jim
Blaines plume waving from the pine
tree knobs Of Maine They are after
you, Mr.. Shermanl-[ Cincinnati En-
auirer
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
CARD.

10 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 discoy-
cred by missionary in South America. Send
a aself-addre;sod envelope to REy. JOSEPH T i
INM4N, Station D, New York City.
eod-2-xxx-1tw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

there lives a Chinaman who married a
colored woman. The pair have three
fine looking caildren. q.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
TEUT0NlA RELIEF ASSOCIA'N
WARD COMMITTEES.

WARD COMMITTEES.
First Ward7John L. Eiebberg.
Second Ward-Aug Huber, John Drennor
Third .Wari-Henry SchiIling' '"ioI'
Fourth Ward-Jac. Reisser.
Fifth Mard-Jacob Brown,
Sixth Ward-J. L. MoSlIer.
Seventh Ward=Charles banner
Eighth Ward -Caspar Seheily.
Ninth Mard-A. Goldschmid
Tenth Ward-W. Wesche,
COMMITTEE AT LARGE.
John Schiebler, Jos. Uhl, Cbas. Knav Jo.
speeht' Charles Merz, Joe Achtmann 'O''
All Germans in need Of assistance will an
ply 70 tneir respective ward committee, or If
mittee at large, A. C36InsGu sWHS Wfn COM
roo on PRESIDENT and Assistant Cashier.
JUS SPEQHT, Vice President ''''ii'I'
omo. %; JoHN /. EICHBERG, Secretary.
80 Se0ouu s'reet. 1918
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

There are more cures made with
Hop Bitters than all other medicines
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23

Superintendent of Quarantine.
Memphis, Tenn, September 5, 1879. Ga
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-09-23
IN THE SOUTH

IT ia enterprisinE, fearless, reliable and
newsy' and the peer of any weekly newspa-
per published in West Tennessee, containing
ALL LOCAL EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
in the city of Memphis and Shelby county.
No labor or expense will be spared to mani
tain it in every department at the highes
possible standard. and to commend it in
respects to the confidence and approval of tn
best classes in the surrounding country, being