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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
NATIONAL QUARANTINE.
Some Spirited Remarks by a
Southern Journal.
yicSsburs Commercial, l8th.I

Vicksburg Commercial, 1Sth.l
The deliberations of the American
health association" and the "quaran
tine convention, both of which were
in session in New Orleans last week,
have already been productive of great
good. The New Orleans Times. and
the New Orleans Democrat, both rep
reseutative journals, each surrendered
at discretion yesterday morning, and
hauled down the flag Of local quaran
tine. These journals gracefully recog-
nlze and accept the inevitable, and
that is, that a quarantine to be effect
i've in protec' ing This great valley from
the ravages Of yellow fever, must be
under the control of national board
ofhealth, armed with all the power Of
the government necessary to the en-
forcement Of its DEGREES.
A local board Of health, for purely
local sanitary measures in the city OF
New Orleans, is all well enough, and
none will object to it; but the ocean
gateway to the great valley of the Mis-
sissippi, must be confded to stronger
hands, stouter hearts and clearer
heads, than are to be found in the
state board of health of Louisiana
The maundering old gentlemen who
have been running that machine are
clever enough, doubtless, in their
way, but the general public is rather
disgusted in their way, and are aux-
ious to be rid of them.
The hands fthe national board Of
health should be strengthened, that
organization. should be armed with ad-
ditional power, and a few feet war
steamers should be placed off our
southern coast, to enforce the edict Of
the board for the maintenance of q
thorough quarantine. If this is done
and the personnelle Of the board i'm
proved by fresh infusion of brains
and energy into its councils, we shall
never again have yellow fever cpl
demic in the south. We hold, how
ever, that two changes are indispensi-
BILE. That Incompatible dunderhead
DT. Turner, the silly secretary of the
national board, should be retired. and
that impudent aud irrepressible tramp
DR.. REILLY, river Inspector" should
be dismissed. These changes will add
immensely to the respectability and
efficiency of the national board Of
health, and give security to the coun-
try.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

SENATOR Lamar passed through
Chattanooga last Friday night, on his
way to Washington, aud was inter
viewed by a representative Of the
Times. lie said:
Ny health at present is very good.
During the campaign | had an attact
of vertigo while speaking in Missis-
sippi, which gave rise to the mis-
apprehension about my general health,
which is as good as it has been for
many years. The health of Mrs.
Lamar has forbid my leaving for
Washington sooner. She is now bet
ter. ] am en- route to Washington,
and will take my seat at once in the
senate.
As to the appointment of Judge
WOODS, he said.
| consider the appointment a good
one he is an able jurist and an hon
est man. | do not regard his appoint
ment in the light Of an appointment
of a southern man, nor do think it
was so designed. 1t was not Intended
TO 5e an appointment from or for the
south. Tie south should have a
supreme judge, but ] don't expect
ANYTHING OF that kind from a republi-
can administration. l presume ne
will be confirmed knoS Of no oppo-
sition to him. However, have no
information on that subject, nor w6Iid
/ be authorized to give it if | had.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
THE TENNESSEE SENATOR
SHIP.
What Hen, HORACE Harrison
Says About IL.
Corro,pondenoo oourior.Journnl.l |

Correspondence 0ourier-Journal.l
ATLANTA, December 16.-Your
Nashville correspondence on the sub
ject of the Tennessee senatorial situa
ton, caused yeur correspondent to
again chat General Harrison on that
subject. lie bore opt the idea fore
shadowed by your Nashville cor
respondent, and said.
8 The democratic candidates are
legion. Senator Bailey and General
Rgte are the most promiG iatS; hut the
ield ia inll " dark horses, fully capar-
isoned for the race. The trouble in
the democratic situation is the dit
Gculty they will have in uniting their
full strength on one man. They have
only fifty-one votes, and it requires
that fifty of them should stand to
gr;her to elect their man"
Who are the republican candi-
dates2"
Several names are suggested, but
no one as yet can be claimed to have
the support of the party entire"
How 9bOpt Postmaster Genera
Maynard2'
"He is mentioned and is prominent
but the republican minority is com
pacs, and will support the man who
can present the best prospects Of Sc
curing an election"
Hoy about Governor-elect Haw
kinsl"
HE is urged, also. 1t is said to be
a part of the plan of the low-tax men
to elect one of their number speaker
Of the senate and then send Hawkin.
to the United States senate, which
would leave their man the governor o.
the state.
WHO is the man they are seeking
to make speaker2p
Prank Matthews, Of Pulaski,
think, is the man. He was elected q
an independent, and thinks he hold
the key to the situation. 1t was IN
derstood that when elected he woulC
vote with the republicans in the sena
torial election, but he is FIRST 70
Matthews in all things
"Do you think there is chance 70
thai plan Of compromise to succeed?
Z" ! do not, | feel sure the repub
licans, with their record on ihe stat
debt question, will not for a senator
| ship consent to Matthews bein
speaker Of the state senate, appointln
all the committees, and then transfer
ring himself to the goyernor'p chair.
How about your own prospectsf
II can not say how matters Will ial
od: between now al1a election. lti
possible that when the time coli,,sess
may be fognd the strongest man upo
our side-the one most likely
win tho election
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
BY CABLE.
Terrorism in IreIand---S Sway Of
the League.
More Positive Measures Pro-
posed.
A Great Crisis at Hand.

! LONDON, December 2O.-The Times,
in an editorial, says: "The law.abid-
ing citizens have to submit to terror.
ism which not only defes, but sup
plants the law; and after looking long
and anxiously for help from the gov
ernment, they have begun to resign
all hope, and no longer venture to re-
sist the action Of the land league. The
cases in which the police are able to
commit seem to become daily rarer,
and, even when trial is secured, wit
nesses fear to spe.k and jurors are
afraid to convict. It is TO deliver the
peasautry themselves, as we'll aq the
upper and middle classes, that vindi-
cation Of the law has become impera.
tive"
Boyd, of Middleburgh, ropeals his
offer to row Hanlan, of Toronto, over
the Tyne course for $500 side, ten
weeks after signing the articles of
agreement.
David X. Plunket, a member of the
house # commons for Dublin univer-
siIy peaking At conservative meet
log at Chest rfeid yesterday, said that
the govern ent was bound to fall
While deploring the outrages in Ire
land, he asked his hearers to take into
account the influences which are
brought to bear by his countrymen by
agitators, seeking to serve their own
purposes.
James stansfeld, a radical member
Of the house Of commons for HALIFAX,
said that as a member of the comis-
sion Of agriculture, he had spent some
time in Ireland studying the Irish
question. They had now, he said, to
face a great crisis, and he believed a
remedy for the present state of things
would be found.
A correspondent at Dublin sayr;
The country is drifting nearer to tn,
rocks, and nothing is done to save hel.
The wave of agitation sweeps with
greater force through the provinces, i,
aud, although it has met with checI,
in Ulster, nobody can tell how lon.y
the barriers which loyal feeling in
Ulster has imposed will he able To-
Withstand the repeated shocks at Par
nell's hands. Parnell has triumpled,
while the government shrinks from
any attempt to counteract it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

NEW ORLEANS, December 20, 1880
a m.--Uort6l steady. Mlddlipg, llsc
sales to-day, 1900 bales; receipts, l6f47
bales; stock, 265,474.
New YORK, December 20, ll.40 a.
m-Exchanee firm. Bankers 3 days,
482@4S2i 50 days, 479@479i; com
mercial go days, 477l@4773.
LIVERPOOL, Dec, 20, 4 p. n
Cotton shade easier. Uplands, SD.
Orleans, Ga. SSai5s to. Jay, 1866
bales, Receipts, 1900, all American,
Futures opened dull and easier, loT
a shade betteras follows Deliveries for
December and December and January
6 % 32d; January ahd February,
s % sd; February and March, 6ld;
March and April, 6l3 -l6d April and
May, 6 l3-l6d; May and Juhc, Gid,
Liverpool exchange will close from
2lth to 2Sth inst.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

Hon. Johu Eaton, commissioner Of
education for the United States, has
beenin the city a day or two, the guest
of his brother. Colonel L. B. Eaton,
member elect Of the next general as
sembly. He has held his high
and influential position at Wash
ington for many years and
enjoys the respect of all who know
him, irrespective of politics, through
out the Union, including the leading
educators and public men of the day.
He is always heartily welcomed in
Memphis, where he lived a few years
Immediately after The war.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
rHF onTT0n nuTLo0K.

We have received in this market
since the opening Of the present season
256,5S7 bales Of cotton, Of which about
10000 bales is unsold. With a CON
tinuance Of receipts equal to the aver
age Of past seasons, we will get 100000
bales between this and the end Of the
commercial year, totat approxima-
ting 456C0O bales, worth over S25, ,O0O,-
OM1 The receipts here are now over
a0.0O,'N bales in excess Of last year, and
more I'll, IN that ahead Of either of the
nroy,ous Ten years. In fact, Of the
past seven years, our receipts at this
date have been exceeded but once, and
then only a few THOUSAND bales. As
the local cotton movSment Is asabJec'
of much interest among cotton men at
this time, the following comparative
figures are given to show the receipts
to date. for the whole season and iron
L. A. Il ..1 &c tbo s.esar.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

a larger share Of the growth has been
marketed. In the Mississippi valley
country bad weather has not only
checked the shipping movement, but
has destroyed much of the ungathered
cotton in the fields. Despite the fact
that laborers have pushed their efforts
during the recent half a dozen days of
favorable weather, even to the mid
night hour, working by the light of
the moon in their earnestness, yet a
large quantity is yet in the fields.
Visitors recently from the Talla-
hatchie and Yazoo valleys report the
fields white with unpicked cotton, and
yesterdays snow storm, having ex-
tended down this valley, will weight
down with its soggy flakes, the feecy
locks causing many to fall to the
muddy earth beneath and become
worthless. The opinion of cotton
statisticians of Europe has recently
undergone considerable change in
consequence Of the succession of un-
favorable accounts which have gone
abroad from this country during the
past seven weeks. The favor
ite estimates recently made,
give a probable total of from
five and half to five and three quar-
ter million bales, and iii settled that
the quality this year will be the worst
handled for a series of seasons, and
increased strength has been felt for
the better grades of American, the
same as has been experienced on this
side of the ocean. 1t is apprehended,
both at home and abroad, that the
clean, white classes are to become ex-
tremely scarce, and the better grades
may command fancy prices, though no
fears are entertained that there will
be short supply of other qualities.
The demand of eastern spinners has
for some time past been quite urgent,
and this has stimulated values, forcing
them up at this and other points be-
yond prices quoted in New York
Sales here to spinners so far this sea-
son have been 50,775 bales, against
81, l25 bales sold to this date last year,
36,375 bales the year before and 81 ,575
bales to this date in 1877. Sales to
exporters have this season reached
12S,7OO bales, against 81 ,325 bales same
time last, $4,000 bales the year before
and 1925 bales in 1877. Spectators
have this year taken ATS bales,
against 5425 bales last year, $50 bales
the year before and $500 bales in 1877.
The total sales here so far this year
have been l84, ,250 bales, worth nearly
81, 100000, against 1885 bales same
time last year, l38,250 the year before
and 10000 bales in 1877 to this date.
Aswill be seen by reference to the
kilograms elsewhere the markets to-
day are stiffeniDg up, doubtless in
fuenced by the snow storm, which has
extended over more than half of the
cotton belt, and sent rain over the
other half.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
LOUISVILLE.
Railroad Itcms-A Two Hundred
Thousand Dollar Canard.

LOUISVILLE, December 90 Edgar
Hill, general freight agent of the
Shortline road, has resigned to accept
a position on the c., G. & l. road.
There is no truth in the kilograms
that Mrs. Embry, Of ElktOn, KY,
had left 100000 to tie Vanderbilt
university and sl5O,OOO to an old
steamboat captain in Nashville.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

THE January number Of Harpers
Monthly contains an able and ex.
haustiyo article on Life Insurance
that should set the people to thinking
and acting. 1t shows the millions
they are paying annually-one-ninth
of their accumulation Of wealth-to
insurance companies, and that only
one out of ten policies ceases by death
and exfiracy. The president of one
company admits that he receives a
salary of $37, 500, and one hundred
and seyent.cn companies in New
York can not say that they pay less
than $4,000 annually for luncheon;
and wine suppers." The article point:
out the remedy for this wholesale rob
berry, and the robbed should see that
the remedy is applied.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
POsTOFFICE ROBBERY.
A Young Married Man in Serious
Trouble.

CINCINNATI, December 2O.--A Pa.
ducah (Ky.) special says: There is
evidence that the party who did the
recent robbiug of the postoflice at
Princeton, Caldwell county, Kentucky
was VIM. G. Bradley, postmaster Of
that Office, and that he has confessed
to the government officers, who have
arrested him. The specill says his
accounts are $1,000 short, exclusive Of
1888, the amount reported stolen,
Bradley is young, well connected, just
married, and has enjoyed unspotted
reputation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

The liberal daily receipts at the
ports indicates that large percentage
is yet to be marketed, and the move
ment from this on is not likely to fall
behind previous years. In Texas and
the east Atlantic state regions the
Weld is undoubtedly in excess Of last
year. and more favorable weather than
we have known has enabled thegrowth
TO be saved almost without loss, while
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
Reckless slloOtiug.

New YORK, December 20.-In the
shooting gallery at 49 Chatham street,
early this morning, Charles Westheld,
Of l25 Monroe street, made a wager
that Ia could put bullet through the
hat Of the barkeeper, asleep at one end
Of the gallery. As Westfeld fred,
the barkeeper, named Waggang,
changed position aud the bullet struck
him in the head inaicting a probably
fatal wound.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

The total receipts OF cotton TINS
>'ear at all United States ports row
ron, hes 3,0i4,79l bales, and with an
average movement from now until the
season closes, the total port receipts
is likely to exceed 100000, to which
OF course must be G,ded the interior
or overland movement bct touching
the ports, and the southern NIL con-
sumption, to get an idea of what the
whole crop is likely to figure. The
receipts at United States ports after
this date for the past eleven years
have been as follows:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
River TeleGFayus,

LOUISVILLE, December 2cl-River
stationary; 6 feet 10 inches in canal,
and 4 feet 10 INCHES in chute on falls;
cold wind north. it has been showing
since 7 o'clock last night
PIrTsBUBG, December 2O.-River
5 feet stationary; cold, and showing
CAIRO, December 20, - Arrived
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

THE Courier Journal of the 18th
was issued in quarto form, with ten
columns Of finely printed, compact
matter to the page, or eighty columns
in all. This, reduced to book form,
after throwing out all the advertise
ments, would make quite a volume,
and cut a good figure in any library.
The number before us is an encyclo-
padia of the worlds thought and
doings for day, splendidly illustrat-
ing the progressive tendencies and en-
terprise of modern journalism.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

Mary Houston from Cincinnati, Sam;
B. S. Rhea from Nashville, 2; Paris
@. Brown from Cincinnati, Z; Gilmore
from St. Louis, 9. Departed: Centen-
nial for New Orleans, s pm; Shinkle
for Memphis, midnight; Houston for
New Orleans, 8 am; Rhea for Nash
vile, 9. Weather cloudy and cold.
CINCINNATI, December 20.-River
Is feet 5 5inches and swelling. Snow
fell all the forenoon.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
cOTTOE srATEXENT.
Stock, running account.
IkPORTB,


New YoRK, December 20, 1888
p.m.-Cotton quiet, Ordinary, 8 To-
l6c; good ordinary, 10 9-16c; low
middling, ll!c; middlinp, IL l5-16c;
good middlng, II 7>1eo; middling
fair, IL B. 3-l6c;fair, 13 13-l6c. Futures
opened steady; now the same, at 10
to II points higher than at the close
on Sturdy, as follows Deliveries
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

The pensions paid to the survivors
of the war Of 1872, and their widows,
now amounts to S3.3O0.OO0.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20

The census bureau officially reports
the population of West Virginia at
6lS,197. In 1870 it was 42,Ol4, show
ing gain in ten years Of 1888.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
SNOW Storm in VIrRinIa.

PETERsBuRo, Va, December 20
A very heavy snow storm is now pre-
yailing 10 this section.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
DIED.

LIGHrBURNE-0n Sunday morning, at G
o'clock. Lutte, beloved wife Of Il. W. Light
burne.
Funeral will take place from st. Peters
church tomorrow tIUEsDAYl morning at 10
o'clock.
RUTsCHMANN-At II o'clock l.st night.
GE0RGIs, son Of George and Friederieke
Rltschmann, aged yoers ard days.
Friends Of family arc invit 10 attend the
funeral from residence, l72 Poplar street, at 2
o'clock, pm. 10 morrow TE,DAY).
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-20
GREAT CLOAK SALE /!

we have just received very COmOiete stOcks
E0f SIX and Satin de Lyon D0lmans. six andI
ECloth Jackets, Diagonal and Plain CIOthH
sDolmans, Plaid Dolmans, Circulars, UIsters
sHaveIOCks, ChiIdren's CIoaks and Suits El,rsA
lot every description, which we are OffarinnH
lat VERY GREAT BARGAINS. Ladies' silk
gCaShmere and Fancy Costumes especially IOwE
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-04-02

are confident it is very sure. So much light
is breaking out from our agricultural journals,
our State and county fairs, and our farmers
conventions, that we cannot always grow
crops that run us in debt, because our fathers
grew them. We must inevitably get out of
the ruts. Nothing could show more clearly
than these statistics, the folly OF raising crops
that do not pay. Pork raising for the gen
eral market does not pay, and it has fallen of
POO per cent. in 80 years. Why, then, should
we undertake to raise any more pork than
will supply the family? The raising of
poultry does pay, for it has increased POO per
cent. Why should we not invest our capital
and labor in that which experience shows,
pays well. A farmer with good range, can
raise ton of turkeys at much less cost than
he can raise a ton of pork The ton of pork
would be worth in the village market this
year, about six cents pound, or $12Oa ton.
The turkeys eighteen cents, or $500. Why
not raise turkeysy And so of the other
things that are proved to be profitable. Let
us get out of the ruts, and raise those crops
that are promptly called for. Farmers should
keep a keen eye on the markets and see
which way the popular taste is tending, and
plant, SOW, breed, and in every way plan to
meet the demands of the times. American
Ag1icuiturist.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-04-02

SooT IN THE GARDEN Those who have
SCOT, either Of wood or bituminous coal,
should carefully save it for use in the garden
1t is valuable for the ammonia it contains,
and also for its power of reabsorbing ammo
mia. 1t is simply charcoal Carbon in an ex-
tremely divided state, but from the creosote
it contains, is useful in destroying insects,
and is at the same time valuable as fertili-
ger for all garden crops. 1t must not be mix
ed with lime, else its ammonia would be dis
sipated, but if the soil is dry and hungry
little salt may be used with it. SCOT stepped
in water and allowed to stand aud settle for
day or two is also a most excellent fertilizer
for house plants, possessing precisely the
same qualities that the parings of horses
hoofs do. For flowers out of doors it is es-
pecially valuable, since it may be easily ap-
piled and tends to increase the vividness of
the bloom, and mixed with salt it is most
excellent fertilizer for asparagus, onions, cab
bage, &C, in connection with compost, in the
proportion of one quart of salt to six quarts
of SCOT. For two bushels of compost this
quantity makes a heavy dressing for each
square rod to be worked in next the surface
of the soil.-Irdirie Farmer.