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warning made its appearance, and with
deafening roar the now swollen waters
of the Tees rushed over the fall, depth
of seventy-two feet. The tourists, be-
coming aware of their dangerous posi-
tion, made frantic signals for assistance,
and at length they were observed by a
man who was staying near the falls. He
speedily procured assistance: and
party Of men proceeded with ropes to
the top of the Force. A rope was
thrown to one of the tourists, who was
dragged through the seething waters
for o distance of about ten yards with
great difficulty, and landed in q gasping
condition. Afterward the rope was
flung to the remaining man, but unfor
tunately it was broke as he Was being
dragged through the water, and his
companion who had been already saved,
together with those who had been in
strumental in the rescue, saw the body
carried over the rapids by the strong
current of water which was at the
time rushing over the rocks. I-.
A German physician has started
pleasing theory with regard to insanity.
1t is, he thinks, q mistake to look upon
it as an unmitigsted evil. 1t is in many
cases boon rather than the reverse to
the person Immediately affected. The
loss of reason lands the sufferer from a
sea of trouble into one Of comparative
calm-often into one of decided happi-
ness; and attempts to restore such q
person to sanity would be cruel rather
than kind. Moreover, he insists that
without certain amount Of insanity
success in life, in the ordinary accepta-
tion of tue term. is quite impossible.
All eminent men, he contends, are de.
cidedly more or less mad. Many OF
of them are dangerous monomaniacs
whom it would be desirable on public
grounds to shut up, but who neverthe-
less achieve grand careers and are cred
tied with doing vast amount Of good.
This false notion he attributes to the.
tact that the greater mass of mankind
are also insane, and quite unable TO dis
tinguish between good and evil. Whole
nations are, be says, occasionally seized.
.ike-individual persons, with attacks Of
madness, and led by eminent tnadmen
either destroy Themselves or their neigh
bors. These paroxysms are, ne admits,
undoubtedly dangerous, but when mad
ness is blended with just sufficient self.
control to keep it within bounds, and
prevent it from betraying itself, it dis
plays itself in nervous energy and ena-
bles the lunatic to exercise immense
influence over his fellow creatures.
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Lost and Found.
I lost the brook as it wound its way
J!;ta q tbroad of a;lve,, bua.

/ lost the brook as it wound its way
Like thread Of silver hue;
Through greenwood and valley, thro' meadows
gay
Twas hidden away from view;
But found it again, noble river,
Sparkling, and broad and tree,
Wider and tairer growing ever,
Till il reaches the boundless sea.
lost the tiny seed that sowed
With many sigh and tear,
And vainly waited thro' sunshine and cold
For the young green to appear.
But surely after many long days
The blossom and fruit will come
And the reapers on high ,he sheaves will raise
For joyful harvest home.
I lost the lie that grew by my own
For short sweet summer day,
And then it left me to wander alone
And silently passed away;
But know I shall find it further on,
Though not as it left me here,
For the shadows and mists will have passed
and gone
shall see it fair and clear.
lost the notes OF the heavenly chime
That once came floating by.
have listened and waited many time
For the echo, though distantly;
But know in The halls OF glory it thrills
Ever by day and night,
I shall hear it complete when the harmony
nils
My soul with great delight.
! lost the love that made my life,
A love that was all TOR me;
Oh, vainly sought it amid the strife
OF the stormy, raging sea.
But deeper and purer know it waits
Beyond my wisttul eyes,
shall find it again within the gates
OF the garden of paradise.
shall lose this lie, it will disappear
With its wonderful mystery;
Some day it will move no longer here
But will vanish silently;
But know shall fnd it again once more
In beauty no song hath told;
1t will meet me at the golden door
And around me forever fold.
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A yacht, two miles at sea, was thrown
out Of the water and capsized by the ex-
plosion of q mine near Ancona, Italy.
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Great CONSERVATION was manifested
through Teesdale, England, Oh the fact
becoming generally known that tour
ist had been swept over High Force, the
we'll known waterfall at the head of the
dale. 1t appears that the two gentle
men, who had ascended the summit Of
the Force on recent occasion, were
seated on the rocks in the center, which,
when the river is low, are usually dry.
A roll of water, consequent on the
recent heavy rains suddenly and without
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Several correspondents have asked
the New York Graphic to state what is
the law governing promotions in the
United States army, and whether, in
case of General Hancock resigning, the
vacancy would be filled by seniority or
selection. The Graphic replies that
"there is no law nor custom governing
promotions to tie higher grades Of the
army. 1t is matter of selection on the
part of the President or through a
special act of Congress. General Crook,
for instance, was made a brigadier-geu-
eral by Executive selection from the
rank of lieutenant-colonel, being pro-
noted over all the colonies in the army.
General Sheridan was promoted so
rapidly over senior officers that in few
months from a captain to q major-gen-
eral. Officers, especially in times of
peace, are inclined to look for promo
ton as rule according to seniority, but
they have no assurance that they will
get it, and in fact usually do not, it ap-
pears, among the two or three highest
grades. If General Hancock should re-
sign, President Hayes might appoint
any one he chose to the position. taking
perhaps none of the brigadiers."
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some fallen carnations; he stopped and
helped me, saving all the while | knUH

some fallen carnations; he stopped and
helped me, saying all the while know
not what, only that it seemed to me the
most beautiful language l ever heard.
Then we walked up and down the long
peach welk until ! heard the rattle of
fathers wagon.
AFTER this we became quietly, al
most secretly as far as DR.. Orman was
concerned very great friends. Moth r
so thoroughly pitied Alfred that she not
only pretended oblivion of our friend
ship, but even promoted it in many
ways and in the course of time DR..
Orman began to recognize its value. I
was requested to walk past MI. Comp.
tons windows and say Good-morning,
or offer him a flower or some ri pc
peaches, and finally to accompany the
gentlemen in their short rambles in the
neighborhood.
&c 1 need not tell you how all this re-
stricted intercourse ended. We were
soon deeply in love with each other, land
love ever finds out the way to maze
himself be understood. We had many
five minutes meeting no one knew of,
and when this was impossible a rose
bush near his window hid for me the
tenderest little love-letters. In fact,
Julia, I found him irresistible; he was
so handsome and gentle, and though he
must have been tEirty-fve years old. yet,
to my thinking, he looked handsomer
than any young man could have done.
Gas the weeks passed on, the doctor
seem to have more confidence in us, or
else his patient was completely under
control. They had much fewer quar-
rels, and Alfred and I walked in the
garden, and even little way up the
hill, without opposition or remark. I
do not know how I received the idea,
but l certainly did believe that DR.. Or
man was keeping Alfred sick for some
purpose of his own, and 1 determined
to take the first opportunity of arousing
Altred's suspicious. So one evening,
when we were walking alone, I asked
him if he did not wish to see his rela-
tives.
" BE trembled violently, and seemed
in the greatest distress, and only by the
tenderest words could soothe him, as
half sobbing. he declared that they
were his bitterest enemies, and that DR..
Orman was the only friend he had in
L. L \ i
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Future OF 1he RennhIic.

London Telegraph, May 1911
When, in 1776, the thirteen North
American colonies put forth that
Declaration of independence which
preluded the birth of a nation, the
combined white population inhabiting
them did not exceed two and a half
million souls. Yet they had the
courage to throw down the battle
gauge to a power with which" in
Daniel Webster's words, "for pur.
poses of foreign conquest and subiu-
cation, Rome, in the height of her
glory, was not to be compared; a
power which has dotted over the sur
face of the whole globe with her pos
sessions and military posts, whose
morning drum beats, following the
sun and keeping company with the
hours, circles the earth with one
continuous and unbroken strain
of martial air of England"
Fourteen years later came, in 1890,
the first census of population taken in
the United states, and it was found
that within the borders of the young
nation there were not quite four mil
lion souls. At the expiration of ten
years it appeared, upon taking the
second census, that the population was
a little more than five and a quarter
millions, having increased between
1890 and 1910 at the rate of thirty
five per cent. In the tenth census Of
what has long been a mighty people
will be taken, and we risk little in
saying that, in Joseph Hume's phrase,
the tottle of the whole" will show a
population of at least fifty millions,
especially if the immigrants who are
now pouring into the United States in
vast numbers are not omitted from
the calculation. In other words,
the population of the great republic
in 1880 will be their population in
l776 multiplied by twenty, and were
it likely that the same Sratio of the
increase could be maintained for an
other century, the mind of men would
sink before the effort of imagining
what it is possible for the monster
republic to be in 1880. However
boundless the resources Of the North
American continent may be, it can
hardly be expected that the second
century of the United States will be
celebrated by a thousand million
human beings, and yet such would be
the result Of multiplying fifty millions
by twenty. Anyhow it is certain that
a century hence no such assemblage Of
men speaking the same language and
amenable 10 tho same general tradi-
tions Of feeling, habit, and education,
will ever have been gathered together
upon earth as will then probably
occupy the great western continent
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largely forwarded and but little will
remain unsold. The total sales here
this eason approximate $4,000 bales,
valued at over so, ZOO, 900 all of which
has been distributed among the plant
ers. the laborers and the merchants
Iof this vicinity. That yet to be sold
will swell the total to near $4,000
900, a handsome amount realized by
the cotton growers trading with this
market. In abiding to the recent
rapid decline of prices abroad Watts
& Co.'s Liverpool cotton circular, OF
May 18th, says that an improvement
in the Manchester spinner market is
indispensable to any strength at Liv-
erpool. The dull season in India is
approaching and a revival of activity
is doubtful. The operators strike at
Blackburn stopped from $4,000 to
10000 looms, and threw into idleness
from 5000 to 10000 operatives. The
Oldham spinners were thrown into a
state OF alarm at so important a mar
ket for their yarns, and their stocks
being likely to accumulate, they were
discussing the %propriety of reducing
production. The circular further
says: IF we look, however, at the
question of available supplies, we see
little to encourage operators for an
advance. The quantity of cotton in
and aAoat for this port shows an ex-
cess, including the quantity aaoat
from Brazil and Egypt of 1851 DOC
bales, as compared with this date last
year. Then besides the probability
of a further increase in the shipments
from Bombay, there was still a large
excess Of stocks in the American ports
and interior towns, say 343, 900 bales.
at end of last week. OF this excess
we may expect to get a large share
Ihere is a good deal of cotton in New
York, but more particularly in New
Orleans and other southern ports. o.
the lower grades, and neither Ameri.
can nor continental buyers will want
these, SO such cotton must come tC
Liverpool"
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STRONG efforts are in progress
among the merchants Of the eastern
end Of this country to secure the pas
sage through congress of a uniform
bankrupt law. 1t is claimed by many
that much mischief will result to
commercial interests if action is de-
layed on this matter. Senator Conk-
ling, now at Chicago, is under a prom
Use to endeavor to have a bill intro
duced into the senate on the Sd Of
April last, called up and put upon its
passage. Members of the lower house
are also pledged to do the same. The
bill referred to is said to have been
prepared by Judge Lowell, who rep
resented numerous mercantile a%ssocia-
lions in the east, among them the
Boston board OF trade. Various OBJ
jections are offered to this bill, one
being that 1t is more Of an improved
insOlvent law han a bankrupt
act, and that it lets off fraudulent
debtors too easily. A debtor, under
its provisions, may have made a fraud.
ulent partnership, and for years con.
Quoted a reckless business without
responsibility to the public, provided
he takes care to keep within the re.
quirements of the act for three
months prior to his adjudication as {
bankrupt. 1t is claimed that thii
feature should be revised 50 that NJ
discharge Of a debtor be allowed
until past transactions be examined
and dishonesty punished or discour
aged. Despite the defects alluded to
however, many commercial peopl
favor the passage of the measure as a
present framed, rather than have n
law on the subject, trusting to tn
future for amendments to improve il
after experience may determine VIVA
changes are most desirable.
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THERE has been a slight revival in
value and considerable activity in our
cotton market during the past three
days. After so long a season of de-
preston and decline, the change was
a welcome one, and our factors took
advantage of it to meet the increased
demand thereby reducing their unsold
stocks to the extent of over 1000 bales
We still hold a stock of over 10000
bales unsold, which a few days of Vi
tally would materially reduce. 1t is
unusual to see so much cotton thii
late in the season as is now here, and
the declining state Of the market is
the %:cause attributed for it. By the
close Of the present month it is ex'
peCted that the present stock, provided
confidence is restored, will have been
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Monday Evening june :, IssO


THE annual meeting of the New
York cotton exchange, held one day
last week, shows that during the past
twelve months the Unprecedented
number of 36, 92S, 200 bales of imagiu-
airy cotton were sold for future d0liv-
cry. The number of actual bales sold
were 34O,448, of which 1884 we're
for export; 1902 to spinners; and
1852 to spectators. The gross mum
Der of bales handled was 680,248. The
exchange has 1856 members against
366 last year. The receipts of the
exchange during the year were 49,
1881, and the expenses $46,678.75.
Three members died during the year;
four we're sold out, and twenty-one
elected. One fraudulent cotton
sampler had been convicted; and
also one junk dealer, and eighteen
samplers await trial for fraud. The
difficulty of prosecuting the latter to
conviction in Kings county, where
the Brooklyn warehouses are situated,
renders it a question of serious consid-
Grafton whether the interests of the
cotton trade do not demand that no
licenses for the storage of cotton be
issued, after the current season, to
store cotton in Brooklyn warehouses.
The rapid increase of the sales of
futures in the New York market,
during the past ten years, is Illustrated
by the following table:
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Nonresident Nniinn-

Circuit Court of Shelby county, Tennessee
TO, Ellis, complainant, VS.. S. r, Ellis.
defendant. Nh"'
III appearing from affidavit, filed in this
1 cause, that the defendant, s. r. Ellis, is a
therefore ordered, that she make her apnesro
ance herein at the courthouse, in the Taxinp
District Of Shelby county, Tenn, on or before
the third Monday in September next,I and
plead, answer or demur to plaintiffs Bill for
elYoree, or the same will be taken for con-
ex;;parte,, aud that a. copy of this order be
published once a week, for four suocessiys
weeks, in the Evening Ledger.
A e0py-attest:
n. JOSEPH UHL, Clerk.
GEO; ). CAMPBELL. Deputy Clerk.
OrYille Yerger, attorney for plaintiff.
70 76 % 20
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yellow Fever.

The national board of health report
this to be blood poisoning. The best
medicine in existence for clearing the
blood Of unhealthy matter is that
named as Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure, used in connection with
Warmers Safe Pills. AS a preventive
to yellow fever and all malarial fever.
these remedies are a success.
Sold wholesale by S. Mansfield &
On
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A Chieftain Still Unchosen.
Grants State Not Yet Broken.
Still Discussing the Credentials
Committee Report.
No BaIIOtting Likely To- Night.
Motion to Nominate Candidates
Rejected.
Grants State Not Yet Broken.
No BalIOtting Likely Tonight,

Mr.. Bateman, of Ohio, appeared at
the request of the contestants.
He held that the tactics of Tammany
hall should not be put upon the Re-
publican party, and he would not vote
to allow it.
The roll was called and resulted as
follows: yeas, 476; nays, 1874. So the
majority report is sustained, and four
Of the sitting members from Kansas
give place to the four contestants
Grant men. New York cast only p
votes, and they were aye votes. Kan
sas cast 5 votes nay.
The next question was on that por-
ton of the report of the committee on
credentials which related to West
Virginia.
Mr.. COnger explained that's majority
favored the retention of the sitting
members in West Virginia.
Mr.. Conger offered a resolution to
substitute the minority for the major
ity report.
Mr.. Raum, speaking on the ques-
ton, said he understood that the
West Virginia case stood on the same
footing as the adjudicated Illinois,
Kansas and Alabama cases.
Mr.. Goldman, of Massachusetts,,
made an argument in favor of the
contestants.
Mr.. Hagans, Of West Virginia, held
that the sitting members were elected
in the most regular manner, and held
credentials to this convection that were
as correct and convincing on their
face as we're those Of any other
delegate here. He could scarce
ly comprehend the contest was
made at all. Being asked what was
the actual complexion as to his choice
for president in the contested district,
Hagans said he had no personal
knowledge on the subject, as he lived
one hundred and fifty miles from the
district.
His interrogation answered that he
lived SO far away that he was not q
a competent witness.
Butterworth Intercepted Hagans
as to whether there was not an agree.
ment between the parties in this con.
test that the newspaper statement
should be taken as the record before
the state convention.
Mr.. Raymond, of California, made
a speech in favor of sitting members
as being the real representative
of the districts.
On motion OIL Mr.. Conger the de
bate was then closed, and the roll wa.
called on the question of substituting
the minority for the majority report
which resulted as follow: yeas, All
nays, 800. No contestants from Yves
Virginia are admitted. This resul
| reduces the Blaine vote two, and add
5 one to Sherman and one to Grant
The principle of district represents
ton was involved in this case, as i
5 others, but there was a change of sid
$ to some extent, as compared with tn
! votes in the Illinois and Alabam
5 cases. The amended report was the
adopted.
The Utah cas- was taken up, an
l debate was limited to fifteen minute
q on each side, after a short discu.
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The LEDGER office book bindery,
ID Madison street, is in the same
building as the newspaper and job
printing establishment is owned by
the same proprietor, embraces all
machines and material used in a first
class book bindery, and is conducted
by competent workmen capable Of
executing work in as good and sub
stantial a style as can be done any
where.
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Nonresident NOtIcO.

No. S97, R. D.-In the Probate Court If s., olhr
county, Tennessee-W. j. Allen and otbars
VS.. Anna l.. 0benchain and others, biII foS
partition. ""i iOr
IT appearing from the original bill in mi.
i cause, which is sworn to, that Defendants
Anna L. Obenchain, +. &. 0benchain, W. r.
GreenlaM and his wife, - Greenlaw. n. s
Brown, W. A. Brown and Joanna p RrO'
are nen -residents. of the State ofTennessee. x
Is ordered that they make their appearance
herein, at the courthouse of our said Probate
Court, in Memphis, Tom, on NJ beSfare
the first Monday in July, 1880. mn
Plead, answer 81, demur to compliments
PHI, or same will be taken for confessed as
to them and set for hearing ex-parte and
that a copy of this order be published once a
week for four successive weeks in the Public
This May 81, 1880.
A copy-Attest:
By HUGH B. CULLEN, D. g.
Scruggs and Ray, sells. for compPts.
70 0h OF OF
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-
Before ]. NJ. Coleman, j. p. for sho,h.
county Tenn.-ThOmas B. Sims vs 81
Louis Produce Company. '" W.
this cause an attachment having beep
\ sued out under section S455 of the Code OF
Tennessee, and returned, levied upon The
property of the defendant, and AFFIDAVIT bsvo
ing been made that the defendant Is inSebfed
to the plaintiff in the sum of slOO, due
that the claim is lust. and that the
DEFENDANT is q nonresident Of the State
Of. Tennessee; it is therefore ordered that
said defendant make his personal appearances
before, mo on the 10th day of July, 1SS0. M In
O'Clock am, at my Office, No. 29l Front street
Memphis, Tennessee, and defend said at
tachment suit within the time prescribed Nv
law or the, same will be proceeded with on,
parte; and that a copy of this order he
Public Ledger. 'no
This the I'd day Of June, 1880.
Q, q, oooa JIM. COLEMAN, up.
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Satdrday, juno I2th, ISSO.

within legal hours, the following descr;b0d
property, situated in Shelby cor. aty, Tenn
A certain lot or tract of landlyine in Sbolbv
county. Tenn, and described as ali Of tSs
range 8, west, tat lies in Shelby couptI T.
Tenn, ana Containing ITO acres, more or less
INC same oeing the land conveyed under -
certain trust deed by j. A. Anderson. "
apo, certain real estate conveyed in said
deed by Louisa M. Anderson, Containing as5
acres, Known as the homestead ofthe late ma
shanlel and Elizabeth Ragland, situated in
shelby county, Tenn, about I miles from
memphis in a enthusiastically direction and
BOUNDED thus; ON the north by the land Of
Eokles; on the east by the lands Of WendeIiI
and Hamilton, ]: T. Nash and T.. O. Binnis.
on the south by the lands of ID. S. Greer anJ
". :. Elan, and on the west by the lands nt
n. !; Southall and Dunlap, as laid down by1
tne humphrey and Sears & Greeley man If
Terms of salo-Cashi without equity of re-
This May 7th, 1880.
X. j. BLACK, Clerk and Masto,
uantt q Patterson, sol. for compI't; 5aa0