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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-27

The mahouts reused it up with their
pixies, while it,was forced to turn from
the ship by means of a rope attached
to boat The poor animal turned
twice to the ship as if seeking for its
companions from which it had been so
suddenly separated. At last, after
some effort, they succeeded in getting
it away from the ship; the sight of the
shore seemed to put life into it. 1t
Immediately began to swim toward
the coast with raised trunk, and
leaving behind it broad wake. 1t
rapidly covered the 800 yards, and on
reaching terra frma began to run
about joyously, to the great astonish-
ment Of the natives, who watched the
first tame elephant tread the soil of
Zanzibar. The others were disem-
barked the next day, the ship in the
meantime having beenable to approach
to within about 100 yards of the coast.
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FOREIGN NEWS.


Lord Duferin, now English minis
ter to Russia, it is said, will succeed
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton as yiceroy
of India.
Lord Chelmsford has been honored
with the Grand Cross of the order oil
Ruth.
Edward Stratheam Lord Gordon
one of the judges of English appeal
has died at Brussels.
On Friday last there was demon
stration of 1000 unemployed laborers
at Glasgow, and 1000 chairmakers
have struck at Stambridge.
The cost of producing animal food
in this country and the amount it can
spare for the English market during
the next four years is a subject Of
much inquiry in England, and Messrs.
Reed and Bell are about to journey
hither to find out.
Cotton mills on the Breakwater, at
Darwin, have suspended on account OF
high water. The overflow of the
rivers in the northeast part of Ian
cashire has greatly injured the crops.
In fact the damage to the crops in
many districts of England is irrepara
BILE.
The Home Rule League in Dublin
made an ugly demonstration on the
night of the 2lst inst. Resolutions
were passed in favor of the obstruc
tive policy in the house of commons
and expressive of the necessity of
purging the party of persons showing
lukewarmness. Several fights occur
red at the gathering and dissentients
after receiving rough usage were
thrust out of the hall to encounter
another mob on the outside. The
proceedings throughout were riotous
and remarkable for hostility toward
made home rule members of parlia-
ment.
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TENNESSEE
BOARD OF HEALTH
Nashville, Tenn, August IS, 1879.
RULES
For the Government of Memphis
and Other Infected Districts.

RULE l. No person shall be permitted to
enter a town or 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.
RULE2. 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 disinfee-
tion of fhousos, privies, collars, 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 disnfect
RULE 3. Local Boards of Health are ex-
peeted to have charge of, and to enforce gen
eral sanitation within the limits of their re-
speetiye 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. house infected with yellow fe-
yer shall be designated by a Yellow Flag.
Rule 5. No opersOn shall be permitted Ia
enter house infected with yellow fever ex.
eept physicians, elergymen, and such nurses
and attendants as are necessary to the car,
of the sick.
RULE 6. No persons, except physician,
and cleFeymen, shall be permitted to leave
an infected house without the permission. in
writing, of the Superintendent of Quarantine
they having first complied with such method,
of disinfeetion as may be prescribed by him.
RULE7. Physicians and clergymen NAV
come and retire from the apartments of the
sick of yellow fever at all hours; proyided.
however, that they shall not enter non.
infected house, carriage, car or other public
place of resort until their persons and an
palel have been thoroughly disinfected.
RULES. Public assemblies of all kinds arc
prohibited in any place dangerously in.
iected with yellow fevor and the Superip.
tendent of Quarantine is charged with tbe
rigid enforcement of this rule.
RULES. From the hours Of ep.m. IN tho
hour of 4 am. each day, a, persons MOI
engaged in the care OF the sick. or IN
the execution of their duties as Of.
heers Of the'laW, shall remain at their
homes or on their respective premises. unless
they be granted permission to leave them bv
the Superintendent of Quarantine.
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THEY are lighting up Niagara Falls
now at night with the electric light
aud the effect is said to be beautiful.
Red lenses are frequently used on the
lights at the base of the falls and the
effect is to make the water of the great
cataract look like blood. The red
light. permeates the mass of water
flowing over the brow of the preci-
pice to a wonderful degree. 1t is all
one intense red. The electric lights
are also used to create another phe
nomena of nature, namely, a lunar
rainbow above the falls. l}y arrang-
iNg the lights in a peculiar manner
the spray that ever hovers above the
falls is so Illuminated that a rainbow
appears with many of the colors COM
mon to rainbow.
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Personal and Political

Fanny Davenport has purchased for
$40, 600 a piece Of property at Canton,
Pa, which will hereafter be her sum-
mer home.
Mrs Chisholm has gone 10 Kemper
county, Miss, to attend the trial of
the slayer of her husband, General
Stewart l.. Woodford goes along as
escort.
Sir William Jenner, the distin
guished English physician, has the
whooping- cough. He is sixty-four
years old. The London Lancet
says that he has left that city c. in or
der that he may not spread the dis
ease,
An old Dominion monk was walk
ing in the street at Santa Maria, Italy,
when stranger cried out, 1t is time
killed somebody" and stabbed him
fatally. The murder was absolutely
wanton, no possible motive being dis
coverable.
Gambetta, who is in a fair way to
become president of the French re-
public, is about to visit England as the
guest of Sir Charles Dixie, Bart, who
is thought to have it in his mind that
he may one day be president of the
British republic.
Lawyer l.. N. Dembitz was arguing
point in the Louisville Chancery
Court few days ago when a terrific
clap and long-lipgering roll of thun-
der interrupted the proceedings. Mr..
Dembitz waited patiently until the
noise was over, and said in all earnest.
ness Gentlemen please excuse this
interruption
A convention of eolored men at
Terre Haute, Ind, last week adopted
a resolution demanding the repeal of
the Indiana law forbidding the inter
marriage of blacks and whites. as
inconsistent with the constitutional
amendment of the United States
which gives US full rights as citizens,
without regard to race or color"
A story is told at the expense of a
Jamaica Plains Mass sexton, who
buys the communion wine for his
church. When he made his last
purchase be also bought some whisky
for himself. The two demijohns got
mixed, and on the following Sunday
the communicants received whisky
instead of wine, and some of the
ladies were badly choko5 BY tie
strong liquid, '
Martha Rogers, who died a few
days ago at Middletown, Conn, for
fifty years possessed fortune; but
she was constantly dreading poverty,
and regularly spent part Of her time
gathering rags and other discarded
things in the streets A room in her
house was filed with such rubbish.
Yet she gave money literally for char
table and religious purposes while
she lived, and by her will left $25, 900
10 various institutions.
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new lork Sun.
There has been much talk. lately
with reference to the utilization Of
the Indian elephant in Africa, and as
an experiment, the king of the Bel.
glans went to the expense of getting
two males and two females brought
from the government of Bombay
These, with six mahouts and a SER
geant, reached the African coast at
Massanl Bay on May 20. The nearest
favorable point of the coast to which
the vessel could approach was 500
yards OH, and it was resolved to
attempt to make the elephant swim
this distance. The first elephant to
be disembarked was surrounded with
ropes, to which clung two mahouts
At the moment of immersion the two
mahouts, clinging to the back of the
animal, cut the ropes around the ele-
phant, which thus found itself at
liberty 10 the water. The operation
now became particularly interesting.
Almost torpid by months soiourn at
the bottom of the hold, and surprised
at tnding itself suddenly plunged into
the water, tho poor elephant, quite
confused, did not understand the or,
ders Of the mahout, aud not knowing
where to turn, remained motionless.
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THE Sunday question continues to
agitate Baltimore. The latest devel-
Opment is o proposition to enforce the
law in the case of the newspapers,
and their propietors have been no
titled that hereafter their employees
will not be permitted to labor on
Sunday afternoon and night IN the
preparation of their Monday morning
issues. The Gazette accepts the stu
alton, and announces that it will
hereafter keep its Office closed from
Saturday night at Y o'clock until the
same hour on Sunday night. II OK
poets, by doing some extra work on
Saturday evening and putting a strong
torce at work aa soon as Sunday has
expired, to be able to produce as good
a paper as usual on Monday morning,
The other morning papers will haFe
to follow suit, but the Sunday papers
will suffer good deal if the law is
impartially enforced.
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SEVERE WINTER EXPECTED.

The coming winter is expected to be
one Of the seyerest experienced in
England for some years past. The
Manchester (England) Guardian, il
reviewing the cotton trade, says the
position of the cotton operatives will
be considerably aggravated if they
have to suffer another reduction. Some
of the manufacturers state that their
only alternative against closing the
factories will beanother reduction Of
ten per cent. in wages. The calico
weavers of Oldham stood reduction
of five per cent. last week, and the
fustian manufacturers in the same
place agreed to reduce 81 per cent.
Other reductions are pending.
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WE get an idea of the French libel
law which seems to have a good deal
Of common sense. Don Carlos re-
Gently brought suit in Paris against
two newspapers for libel in connection
with pamphlet published by the
Spanish pretender's aide -de-camp,
General Boet 1t appeared that the
prince had made hot statement of
his own against General Boet in print,
and the judge summed up for an
acquittal on the ground that the pre-
tender to the throne of Spain had
himself broken down the boundaries
between his public and private life. -
In this country it often happens that
pretenders (not for Spanish crowns,
however, noisily push themselves for
ward, breaking down "the boundaries
between public and private life" and
when their pretensions are criticised
rush to the courts with a libel suit
against some unhappy newspaper.
The French judge gives hint of legal
construction which we commend to
our American judges.
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SECRETARY SHERMAN recently
caused to be published in the news
papers a statement that he was in no
way using his Office to promote his
candidacy for the Presidency. Iu
the face of that the anti-Sherman
Republicans assert that several States
are being flooded with copies of Sher-
mans financial speech in Maine, and
that they are inclosed in the official
envelopes of the treasury department.
This is to avoid the payment of post
age, and is in direct violation of law.
These official envelopes have printed
on them the following: ANY person
using this envelope to avoid the pay
ments of postage on private matter of
any kind will be subject to a fine of
three hundred dollars" !"
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I. o. M. A.
Disbanded at lts Recent Session Ia Gin
cinnatl.

At the recent session of the Su-
prems Lodge Of the Independent
Order of Mutual Aid, at Cincinnati,
it was decided to abandon the order
entirely. There were eight lodges of
the society in Louisville, and about
800 members at the time the order
dissolved. The membership was
much larger sometime ago. Upon
the ruins of the old order an effort is
being made to build up new organi-
zation, to be called the knights of
the Golden Rule" of which DR.. H.
&. Lloyd, of Louisville, has been
chosen supreme commander. He
says the principal cause was the large
number of assessments coming closely
after each other when the yellow
fever broke cut in the South last year.
The society was a young and strug-
Cling order, only five years ago, with
some $500 members, and was not pre-.
pared to meet any sudden demand for
funds. When the fever broke out in
Memphis 70 members died within
little more than month. The heavy
assessments thus produced frightened
great many of the members, and in
the fall of 1878 we found ourselves
with l04 assessments, representing a
debt of $2OS,000 and only 2500 mem
bers to meet the demand. The mat
ter constantly became worse, and
when the Supreme Lodge met this
summer we were $l95, 900 in debt, and
had only four or five hundred mem
bers in anything like good standing.
In reality, though, no one was in good
standing, for all the lodges had been
suspended by the Supreme Lodge.
Under these circumstances all we
could do was to disband.
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my DARLING's BLIND"
Touching Scene in a Utica Street Car
Utica Tribune.]

Utica Tribune.l
A lady entered car on the Oak.
wood road one day the past week
leading little girl perhaps four years
old. The mother sat down and lifted
the little one to the seat beside her
The child was nibbling at bit Of cake
or sugar, now and then turning her
face, full of childish love, up to her
mother and murmuring some almost
unintellgible words of affection.
Opposite to mother and child sat
another younger lady, who often
smelled fresh rose which she held.
The innocent little one before her
attracted her attention, and the natu-
raj kindliness of the sympathetic
woman heart prompted her to at once
offer the fragrant flower to the little
budding lily opposite. So she leaned
a bit forward and spoke:
Baby want the pOsey2"
But the child seemed not to hear
Perhaps it was the noise Of the mov-
ing car that prevented. Then she
spoke a little louder, and held the
flower forward temptingly-
Baby may have the posey."
The mother heard, for she looked
toward the other lady and smiled
and oh such a look of heartfelt
gratitude, of motherly love, yet heav-
| lily saddened with such an expressive
tinge of sorrow as is seldom seen.
And still the lady of the rose pressed
upon the little one acceptance of the
flower.
Baby, take the rose" holding it
almost to the child's hands. And
now it seemed she was heard, for the
blue eyes turned upon her would be
patron, and then in a moment she
strongly drew back and turned her
eyes appealingly toward her mothers
face. The lady with the flower show
ed her bewilderment in her look,
while a panied expression fitted
across the face of the mother, who
leaned forward and whispered Just a
word
Z" Ny darling is blind /"
Then the whole sunless, darkenel
life Of the fair little being-fair as the
flower which had been offered to her
came up before the mind. All
beauty shut out from her forever |
For her no foliage-strewn, flower
studded scene to follow the bleakness
of winter. No looking with awe into
the mysterious depths of the night
sky, sparkling with glittering, twink
hing star germs, for over those blue
eyes the Creator, in the mystery of
Ills designs, had hung the impenetra-
bic vail. No expectant gaze toward
the mothers face for the gentlest smile
that ever soothes a childish trouble
only the blind passage of the little
hand over and over those features, for
one moments sight of which. that
growing little one will often and often
willingly offer years Of existence. For
her the birds will sing; the loveliness
of form and feather are not. For her,
while the babbling stream may make
mysterious music, its dimpled waves
and winding reaches and verdant
banks DO not exist.
How bitterly vivid all this as the
lady opened the little hand shut
within it the thornless stem Of the
rose, now bearing a tear on its petals !
And there were other swimming
eyes in the car.
NJ Lool,h s,;tb ;noot;,,. l;,,o. "a
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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.
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dollars at once. Hayes promptly fur
nished $500, and intimated it would
be a good thing if his officers would
voluntarily but promptly make up the
amount, to keep peace in the family.
Who supposed Hayes would give this
darky FIVE hundred dollars, simply
because he was poor and not in pos
session of important information
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HAYES is not celebrated for his
liberality, but he certainly behaved
handsomely to his colored friend
Casanave, who run gin mill in New
Orleans, and was selected as one of
the returning board for a considera-
ton, and under the pledge he would
do as he was ordered. The colored
youth finding his brother thieves get
ting well paid for their perjury, began
to squeal and threatened to tell
things unless he got several thousand
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M MEMPHIS, Tenn, August %. 1879.
=, Inc attention Of the citizens of Memphis IL
directed to tie above rules and regnIafions io y,
adopted by the State Board Of Health n
being my daty to see that they are eomnlied
with and inasmuch as they are intended for
our benefit, and to check, if possible, the far
ther spread Of tho disease, | invite the CO.
operation OF all good citizens in aiding me to
,-,,-o JOHN JOHNSON,
l5l l55 Superintendent of Quarantine.
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A GARD.

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 discoy-
cred by missionary in South America. Send
a self-addressed envelope to REX. JOSEPH I.
INMAS, Station D, New York City.
cod -2-xXx-lkw
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A young n an in Rochester wnU
was locked in his room by his room
mate, determined to get out. He tied
two bedsheets together, fastened the
end to the window and went down
from the third story hand under
hand. When he got to the lower end
he found that he had long distance
to jump. A crowd gathered on the
sidewalk and begged him to hold on
and not attempt to leap. He was
finally hauled into side window.
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K. OF n.
NOTICE TO PHYSICIANS
And Members Of the Order.
K. OF H..

DHYsICIANs attending on anv menhor =,
l. this order are requested. alter Nam
called IN, 10 at once report such attendanee ~
headquarters, otherwise their fees for ser,ieeS
VIII not be recognized by the relief board.
Members taken sick and not having same n,
once reported to headquarters, will be az.
barred trom all relief from this hoard w
NJ n JAMES B. COOK, Pres't.
W,B, GLssoN, Asst sec'y. 1901
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Publisher and Proprietor.

The subscription price of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS 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 pOstOfioe.
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ROSCOE, THE RETICENT.
The Good Effect Of the Shotgun Polio,
on the Knight Of 0nOndaga.


Special to the Couricr-Journal.l
New YORK, August %. There
has been a lingering hope here that
Roscoe Conkling would by this time
have had a statement ready for the
press, but newspaper correspondents
in Utica privately report that there is
no longer need of hoping, as Mr..
Uonkling intends to maintain an un-
broken silence. He has settled down
at home into first class husband,
and, as Linck may say, is seen now
and then in the entrance hall bare
headed and beaming with satisfaction
at beholding the sylvan beauty Of the
landscape about him, and watching
the children at play on the sward. I"
The knight Of Onondaga has never
been known to keep 80 much under
cover as in the past week. The fact
is believed to be that he knows that
he can't open his mouth without put
sing his foot in it, for what with the
story he FIRST told the Associated
Press agent, and then with the assur-
ances with which he piled the New
York editors, he can not speak In the
face of the facts already established
contrary to what he then professed to
be the truth; he cannot speak with
out danger Of qualification and still
further damaging his reputation for
truth and veracityi therefore the
scandal, like its Brooklyn sister, may
DOW be lulled to sleep. Mr.. Conkling
viii, IL is said, spend the rest of the
summer at bGme, as the sea coast
doesn't agree with bin. He will
HeDd his fences, improve his place
and devote himself to his ostimabie
lady.
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NIormonIsm as strong rs Ever.

st. Louis Times-JOurnal.
There were some people silly enough
to believe that when Brigham Young
died MormOnism would die too.
Mormonsm is at present further from
its grave than ever before. 1t has
fought and bled, and there is every
indication that it is preparing to fight
and bleed again.
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The Baltimore Gazette remarks that
the barbarous code" has sadly
dropped astern in this moving, bro.
crossing world of ours, Yes, indeed
and the sharks now get all the glory,
IN, Y Com, ADV. And YES. indeed
again, the world will ne'er do we'll
until it cease to duel. WV
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Mr.. John Kelly was greatly i'm
pressed with tho beauty and magnif-
cepce Of Niagara Falls. II should
like to go over them," he said, reaec-
lively; adding, after few moments
as he pressed his hand 10 his aching
brow and somehow | feel as if | had
been. II Buffalo Express,
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CAPITAL PRIZE. $4,000.

all prominent points, 10 whom n Iberai com
pensation will be paid.
Application for rates TO clubs should only be
maaqe 70 the home Office in New Orleans.
u, write clearly, stating full address, for fur
ther information, or send orders to
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
p. 0. Box 692, New Orleans. Ia
or same at No. $40 Broadway, New York
Or to ID, Il. GILLESPIE.
No. 6 West Court street, Memphis Tenn.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings arc
Generals g. T.rBEAUREGARD and JUBAL
A, EAhLl. AS-wks-1
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LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY

ms Institution was regaiarly incornorated
Oy i9s legislature OF tie State for Educational
anu charitable purposes, in IssS. for the
term OF Twenty-Five Years, to which
contract IddrS me inyioable faith Of the State is
has since added reserve 6,nS af y S2so M1sSp nOa
tts grand Single Number Distribution viii
Tlke ~ place monthly on the second Tuesday
I ~ rNEyGA SCALES OR POsTPoNEs. Look al t6e
following distribution: 0OOA a. '"e
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No health with inactive liver and
urinary organs without Hop Bitters,