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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
THE SCHOOL BOARD.
The Old Set Retire, the New Set Step
In
Advent Of Edward Shaw, cOIorsd, as a
Visitor.
Business Transacted, ETC., etc.

The monthly meeting of the board
of school visitors met last night al
their rooms, in the city hall, u mem
berS being present at roll call. The
superintendent report for December.
1923 white and $50 colored pupils al
the new roll. The attendance during
December was 81 per cent. Of whites
and 50 of colored pupils, the average
being 9O1 per cent. and the total at
tendance 24SS, including white and
colOred. The attendance is now esti-
mated at 5000.
During December $50 was collected
from pay scholars. Superintendent
Foute asks the board to allow him to
spend $40 as subscription to school
periodicals. In regard to substituting
Appleton's for Holmes readers, he
says he sent a circular letter Of in
structions to the principals, giving
the price, by exchange and otherwise.
The financial report shows cash on
hand of $522.5O; Indebtedness Sc, 713,-
81, of which 1927 go is an amount Of
the December pay roll. The prospect
for finances is good as the school fund
is likely to be rapidly augmented by
the promptness of taxpayers.
1t was agreed to pay q. T. Harris
Sl82.82 for taking the scholastic GEN.
sus, and he also received the thanks Of
the board. The number of school
children returned by him foot up
9,14l, of which 1850 are white males
and 1915 black males; also 2,86S
white females and 2,O97 black females.
The feminines are 789 majority.
The new board organized by the in
PRODUCTION and swearing in of the
visitors elected on the first instant,
their names being f J Barmore, LIST
ward James Degnan, I'd ward T R
Boyle, Sd ward W c Griswold, 4th
ward Edward Shaw, 9th ward Jno.
Linkhauer and A S Livermore, 9th
ward R D Jordan, 18th ward JP
Carey, 9Th ward; Jas Ralston, 9th ward:
B. Morrison, 10th ward. The old
holding oyer are Messrs. j.
Walsh, j. E. Randle, T. M. S. Rhett,
w. 7. Arlington, G. V. Rambaut, T.
B. Edgington, i. Lawhorn and w. G.
On the fourth ballot Mr.. W. G..
was chosen president Of the
he receiving II votes to l for
Mr.. Randle. Mr.. T. B. Edgington
was elected vice-president. Major w.
Mcclure was elected secretary by
10 votes to 5 for j. G. Wilkerson;
per month, and bonds $4,000.
Mr.. s. P. Read was elected treasurer;
s. per annum, bond $4,000.
The bids for printing the annual
statement was referred to Messrs.
Dent and Ralston, with power
70 act, but they are not to expend
more than s85 for printing 500 copies
Of the report.
An effort to amend the rules gov
the election Of teachers is to be
made at a future meeting. A com
mittee was appointed to secure legal
counsel to attend to the business of
the board by the year.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
PERSONAL.
TEN CENTS Pc WE E X.
THE CITY.
LEDGER

X. X. K.
Clear skies to-day.
Masked ball Monday night.
Tax payers are paying lively.
Cotton is irmer and tends up
ward.
Brown & Jones, coal, Office 80
Main street.
-Three-quarters of an inch of rain
fell yesterday.
Election day among the banks.
Very few changes are expected.
j. B. Saint & Co. clean vaults
promptly. Leave orders at 2S6 Main.
The winds are veering to the
Southeast, and warmer weather is in
Dictated.
Frosty was the tinge Of the air at
sunrise, the mercury recording 36' at
that hour.
The river is swellingand has not
a dozen feet to climb to reach high
water mark.
Mrs. Carrie Bell and Christopher
Young were licensed to get married
this forenoon.
Blank books of all kinds made at
the LEDGER office book bindery, 13
Madison street.
Tickets for the Murphy enter
tainment may be purchased at Hol-
lenberg's to-d2y.
-BSsiness men will fad it to their
i1terest to have all their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER Office.
Receipts of cotton here are now
49, bales in excess Of last year al
this date and 2617 bales ahead of the
year before.
The United States Court is not il
session here this week, Judge Ham.
mond being absent and holding court
at Paducah, KY.
The Commonwealth Distribution
Co., Of Louisville, holds its usuaI
drawing on January 3lst. Tickets can
be had at the usual place.
The Southern Express Company
continue to favor this Office with late
New York papers, a complimenthighly
appreciated and very useful.
The Mardi Gras jewellers con.
tinue to exhibit activity. A pleasant
day is all they ask to make it pleasant
20 themselves and everybody.
: The LEDGER Job Printing ofic,
and Book Bindery, 10 Madison, exc
t cutes everything in their line as nea
and cheap as any house ia this city.
Many a church goor caught
j. ducking on last Sabbath evening
The 6evout portion of the throng di,
not however allow their religion
9 ardor to be dampened thereby.
&C. w. Nall, wholesale and retail
carpet merchant, 952 and 354 Mai
street, received a telegram from Nc,
York on Saturday. stating that a ca
I load of carpets was skipped to hir
2 that day.
On account of the indisposition {
some Of the singers the concert for Ii
benefit Of the franciscan brother
will be postponed until the first %,
ofnext mouth.
Z Several thousand tons Office hay
/ been secured for this market, to SUI
ply next summers demand. Tb
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
FRESH Shell Oysters received
daily at SlafTer's, 22O Main. 9l1
starvation Row.

On the corner of Fourth and Pop
lar, near Starvation Row, sometimes
known as Hungry Bend, there was a
lively ward rVmpgs between Kate
Lincoln (white) and Laura Graham
(coloredl. 1t happened yesterday
morning, and last evening Laura had
Kate arrested for using filthy Ian
guage. On trial this morning nearly
two dozen witnesses, of all shades,
%colors, and social status, testified so
severely that DR.. Porter fined each s..
Both paid and went away satisfied,
but slightly of tampeN
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
FRESH OYSTERS
Received by Express,
III. SEESSEL, Sax, & son,
Cor. Jefferson and Second Streets
Carpets.

Just arrived. Fresh and elegant goods,
newest designs, lowest prices, at Ames,
Beattie IL Co.'S, wholesale and retail furni-
ture, carpets. etc, 1853 and S65 Main.
116d
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
Fritz a. Georges

Saloon, at Is Court street, is crowded
daily on account of the great demand for
Lemp's beer. 1O4t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
FRESH OYSTERS AND CELERY
Received Daily by Express.
VICTOR ID. FUCHS
30 and AIeFerEOn Street. 5St
A Mule Beater.

A poor mule while struggling along
Main street with FIVE heavy bales, Z
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
For HOWE SCALES 90 20
l9s Main Street.

I4empis
Beer % tho beet. Everybody calls for II
Fritz Pfemfert & Co, 10 Court street., ar'
the general agents. i0it
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
FRENCH MILLINERY.

Bargair5 n rabais, abatement. Every
body hP 2Te TO come and examine our woll
g"Y M " before purchasing elsewhere.
g. YSIT " connection with Paris and
z jertv 70 are enabled to furnish eyery
= Ace I'M first hands and at the lowest
2. mary 20tgelties introduced as soon as re-
sai "a r plSis,he city don'i hil to visit the store
4 Oyertons seGNE. ~l09xxxl06
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
FGR sALE OR %EKCNAMNE.

NOR sale " exchange-0ne extra fine fami-
IL ~ and roekawav horse, can be drove with
safety By any child ten years old. viii sell
or exchange for two good farm mules.
llS IFS D. o. Slapgtter, Tax Col Office.
mo exchange Is or 30 acres 81 we'll improved
land with good dwellings apG outhouses,
6 miles northeast Of the city, for house aud
lot. Apply at 1873 Main street. iI3 10
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
a CARD

To all who are suffering from the errc
indlscretions of youth, nervous We. anu
early decay, loss of manhood, etc, ] VII le g !
q reeipe that will cure you, FRPFFt se nT
E SIH This great remedy W as discovered Vd
self-addressed envelope to he BaN oen'4a
lnman, Station D, New YC.f Civ '0'oph l.
lis XXI 114ao5.w
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
j. WALSH.
Felix Jones Livery, Boarding and
sale Stables

Nos. 229, 2Sl and 2SS Third street, neal
corner Of Jefferson. A good line of Liv.
cry always on hand. Horses for sale
Boarding horses a speciality. IO9t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13

Best Pittsburg, 6Oc,
Delivered 10 any part of city.
Orders Promptly filled at ESQ
Second.
S5t j. WALSH.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
NOTICE.

administrators of the
Of v. W. Guy, deceased, will, on
y Of january, 1880, at No. 264 Ala
I, IN the city Of Memphis, sell NJ
,ry, to the highest bidder for cssA,'
ng personal property. belonging 10.
B, to.wit.; One buggy and the
and kitchen furniture, subject ~
.tiOn. SUSAN M, GUY,
nj. Administrator.
PATTERSON AttY's. Ill 40
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13
WANTED.
FOR Rent.


M two story brick residence near corner
M Of Mil and SeyenthS good ~cisterns, sta
bleG, etc. viii rent cheap 20 q good paying
tenant that will take good care OK the prem.
Uses. Apply to D, G. Slaughter, Taz Collec-
tor Office. J. A SLAUGHTER. ll3t
AFFIGR9 for rent, centrally located, over
" Wilder's boot. shoe and hat store, suita-
bic for lawyer. or physicians, 22 Main. ll6
COTTAGE Frame 103 Mill street; apply at
" Al Fifth, Chelsea. lO8l l9
CUBUR1AK cottage; also garden lands. j.
- W. Jefferson Il Co., 272 Front st. 107t
HNHE Coe house, No. 279 Linden stseet. APP
Il ply TO Q. b. Clarke. $40 Front II. 72f
FOR SALE.
CTOCK, fixtures and good wall Of the
- family grocery at the curve, fernando
read. Good reason for selling. Inquire NJ
Bingham Bros 245 Main 81. 1l6 ll9
,nUEAp House. 5 rooms-kitchen Outside
lin good repair. Lot 5lx167 feet.
Fine %cistern, Fruit trees. srapes, etc. In
healthy locality. Title perfect must be sold
BY Feb. ], Address BtstSgss. is Court, III
ONE double desk at Wilder's shoe store 2si
" Main. ITO Us
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25

We are preparing for the Presiden.
tial contest, and as preliminary should
get as close together as is possible upon
Federal issues. Those appertaining to
State politics we can very safely leave as
they stand, for there is nothing to be
done, in which they enter, for long
time. Let the Readjuster say that the
State is too poor to pay, and let the
Debt-payer maintain that all she needs
is the will to do SO. Thus divided on
this one question, which is a question
OF the future, let them maintain their
respective sides, as they see fit; but let
them also realize that this division of
opinion has nothing under the sun to
do With the burning questions which
are now before the whole country,
namely: who shall be our President,
and what manner of treatment the
South to expect? These questions ex-
press the real issues to be tried in this
campaign and settled in November, and
the more this truth is impressed upon
US all the better.-NorfolE Landmarks.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25

How TO SPOIL GIRLs.-A girl that.is
never allowed to sew, all of whose cloth
es are made for her and put on her until
she is ten, fifteen or eighteen years of
age, is spoiled. The mother has spoiled
her by doing everything for her. The
true idea of self-restraint is to let the
child venture. A child's mistakes are
often better than its no mistakes-be.
cause when child makes mistakes and
he has to correct them, it is then ON the
way Of knowing something. A child
that is walked up every morning, and
never wakes itself up; and is dressed
and never makes mistakes in dressing
itself and is washed, and never makes
mistakes about being clean and is fed,
and never has anything to do with its
food and is watched and never watches
itself; and is cared for, kept all day from
doing wrong-such child may as we'll
be out of existence.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25
ID For the SPECTATOR,
If SHE WEEE DEAD TONIGHT!
BY VIRGINIA.

II she were dead tonight, what would they say ?
10 whom would the morrow's s1nlit day
seem to cast shadow, because the mountain
Is heaped upon another heart-at last with
God?
would any pause amid the worlds turmoil,
And rest little while from strife and TOLL
To ask question from love and grief7
Or give q sigh of sorrow or relief?
Perhaps both-soon the day would beam
As bright as ever:-like fieeting dream
Would seem the memory of the useless past.
Forgotten like the shadow which the morning
cast.
Was it all useless and unmeaning Past?
Did she deserve no memory that would always
last?
Did shelive for self, the world and pride?
To heap up wealth, and thus to cast aside
All thought Of others, like hers eli, in life,
Left to battle with the worlds hard strife!
No, q suffering creature always found,
A little Oil to pour upon his wound.
A helpless child. could not cry in vain,
And she not pause to note its childish pain.
Though no lofty column rears its head,
TO mark the spot where she lies dead;
No lover and no friend will shed tear,
And say my hearts best joy lies buried here;
Yet He who saw the widows only mite,
And said, the cup of water in His sight
was not forgotten, will surely welcome home,
me tired heart that can no longer roam.
Pond Gap, May 11th, 1880.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25
Too Thin.

General Malone seems now to dlspalr
of any open coalition with the Repub-
lican party, and, within the last few
days, has avowed himself a Democrat,
graciously consenting to allow his white
followers of the Democratic persuasion
to vote the National Democratic ticket
for President and Vice President. A
few weeks ago this same General Ma
hone was in close communion with the
high priests of the Republican party,
hob-nobbing with Don Cameron and
Roscoe Conkling, and trying to boss the
Republican Convention at Staunton {;
and only few days ago his organ, the
Richmond Wing, was engaged in coarse
abuse of such National Democrats as
General Gordon, Gov. Vance, Senators
Voorhees, and Pendleton. But the drift
of Democratic sentiment in the State has
been too much for the ''little General"
and he is now driven apparently to
abandon an open alliance with his dar.
ling negroes and other Republicans, and
to resort to other means to accomplish
his nefarious schemes. Hence, says
General Malone, II am Democrat, but
never will / vote with Democratic
funders for the nominee of the Cincin-
natl Convention. It is all right for Re-
publican funders and Republican read
iusters to vote solidly for the nominee of
the Chicago Convention, but for Demo-
Gratis calling themselves Readjusters to
unite with.the Democrats calling them
selves Funders, and to cast the electoral
vote of the State for the National Demo
Gratis, is too bad" And thus this so
called Democratic Senator from the
State of Virginia would seek to divide
the Democratic vote, and thereby carry
the State over to the list of Republican
States. The schemes is too thin. and
smacks too much of Republican pater-
nifty and sympathy, to fool any body. The
little General" has marked timen too
long if in crisis like this it has taken
him two or three months to determine
he is Democrat or Republican,
surely Democrats are excusable, if they
think that the General may after all be |
mistaken in his Democracy especially |
when they see him avowing himself q |
Democrat and at the same time coming |
forward with a proposition to run an !
electoral ticket in Virginia !
On his own account, device so marvel
loqsly like Republican trick, that it |
must have originated with some one
to see the State go Republican.
Too thin! Too thipj-05a Common
'geggE}hi,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25

Two of the young lady amateurs who
were so severely burned in the opera
house at Atlanta on Thursday night,
while preparing to personate angels in
a series of grand tableaux, have died,
and others are still suffering great tor.
lures. The gauzy wings of one of them
caught fire from a gas Jet, carelessly left
and the flames were rapidly
communicated to others, causing fear
full panic on the stage, in the midst of
which some half dozen of the first
young ladies of Atlanta were enveloped
in flames, and the escape of any of them,
and of the building and audience from
the horrors ofageneral confagration, was
almost miraculous. This should serve
as another warning to persons amid the
combustible materials of theatrical
stage, and wearing inflammable dresses,
to be constantly on their guard against
the ever-present danger from fire.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25
Ill
POET r. Y.
BETTER THOUGHTS.
BY N. p. WILLIS.

My mothers voice! How often creeps
Its cadence on my lonely hours!
Like healing sent on wings Of sleep,
Or dew upon the unconscious flowers.
II might forget her melting prayer
While pleasures pulses madly fly,
But in the still, unbroken air,
Her gentle tones come stealing by,
And years of sin and manhood flee
And leave me at my mothers knee.
The book of Nature, and the print
Ofbeauty on the whispering sea,
Give still to me some lineament
Ofwhat have been taught to be.
Ny heart is harder, and perhaps
My manliness has drunk up tears,
And there's mildew in the lapse
Of few miserable year
But Natures book is even yet
With all my mothers lessons writ.
have been out at seven-tide
Beneath q moonlit sky of Spring.
When earth was garnished like bride,
And night had on her silver wing
When bursting buds and growing grass
And waters leaping to the light,
And all that makes the pulses pass
With wilder fieetness, throng'd the night;
When all was beauty then have I,
With friends on whom my love is flung
Like myrrh on winds of Araby,
Gazed up where evenings lamp is hung.
And when the beauteous spirit there
Flung over its golden chain,
My mothers voice came on the air
Like the light dropping of the rain.
And resting on some silver star
The spirit Of q bended knee,
I've poured deep and fervent prayer
That our eternity might be
To rise in heaven like the stars of night,
And tread living path of light. .ss
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25
COMPOUND SYRUP OR
WORM SEED.
A Perfect Vermifuge, Represe uting the
Old Fashioned Worm Tea,


Old Fashioned Worm Tea,
FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF WORMS.
So Vegetable in.its Composition; Pleasant to
the Taste, and efectual in its purpose.
Childhood is most generally accompanied
wit the annoyance of Worms, but few chill
dren. are free from them at some period. and
adu is are very frequently affected in the same
way. Worms are not only cause of dis
ease n themselves, but by their irri tation. ag-
grava te other diseases; owing to their move
ments in the bowels they most generally Occa-
sion PANN and UNEASINESS of a very dis
sometimes natural, again deficient or excessive
The nae b is often swollen, breath fetid: the
tongue ftlrre d and with a diSagreeable taste,
NERVOUS AFFECTIONS and general de-
ranged ealtl, are also expert snced. FRET
FUINESS, N1AKEFULNESS with sudden
movements of t. he eyelids. CONCLUSIONS in
children are Ofte ascrlbed to these parasites
and febrile condi ton of the system. Obstinate
cough; pale or allow skin, sunken eyes, and
general enaciatiOi can be attributed TO their
presence in the bt t,dy-symptoms with which
almost every mother is familiar. To remove
these annoyances f0 md in almost every fami-
ly, THE WORM SI RUP is PREPARED. 1t
is pleasant and cert lin remedy. 1t is perfeo t.
Iy safe. and children viii not refuse TO take 1t.
the ordinary Vermifuge in use.
After taking the syrup as directed. young
children should Ike dose of Magnesia or Cas-
tor Oil. Many persons think that If discharge
of the worms does not Immediately follow the
use of the Syrup, that it has failed to destroy
them. This is a naistake-they are dissolved
in the mucus, and hus gotten rid of.
VI. Il. TYREE, Druggist,
mar16-tf StauntOn, Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25

THE RIsK.-A few days since we re-
ferred to the danger of turning Virginia
over to the Radical party. through the
device of Mahone's "unpledged ticket"
and called attention to the fact that the
Richmond Whig, which now endorses
this move, did valiant service in 1878 q,
gainst this coalition of the corrupt white
and ignorant blacks. The danger is to
be apprehended and the risk is to be i'm
CURED, because few demagogues and
bad men, in the State, have made the
settlement of the State debt-in O. par
sfesleQr Daode-their naode-a hobby to
ride into office upon. To succeed, they
have not scrupled to form an alliance
with what the Wing in 1S73-lea4 than
seven years ago-called the "Carpet. bag
and Negro Party,n Dy which alliance
Ignorance and rapacity" are to have
isYontrol" in this State"
Are the people it appealed to then,
ready for this? If so, they had as we'll
look out for ''irretrievable rr.nM-g1ve
up all idea of the kind CT governments
which their fathaSa fought for, establish
eS, s1d handed down to them.
No such peril ever impended over us
before, and there is real danger. The
electoral vote of the State must hs east
for the Democratic or Radical candidate
for President, and %hsy asiN s0ant a Bad
5cq! Co:syr rsss to do has bidding.
st is plain that the more respectable
white Republicans do not like the ALI.
ance. The people are asked to abandon
the Democratic party and faith, to de-
sert their race and heritage, upon the
issue, whether Virginia shall pay three
per cent on twenty millions of debt (the
Malone bill for adiustment,) or three
per cent fo- ten years on thirty two mill
lions, four per cent for twenty years,
and five per cent for ten years (the Nc
Cullough billy Let each tax payer make
the calculation for himself, and see for
how small sum per annum he is ex-
pected to sell his birthright to the Radi-
cal white and colored party in the State
and nation. The bribe is two small FOR
any sane man to accept, however dis
honest; it is an insult to any honest
man. And besides, as long as the courts
of the Commonwealth and the United
States exist, it cannot be paid by those
who offer it. The ambitious leaders may
get into offices, high or low, but the
rank and file can only be "hewers of
wood and drawers of waser,n without
pay, to these corrupt leaders.
The boldness with which the attempt
is made is astonishing, even in these
days ofcorruption and want of principle,
private and public. The reliance solezY
upon the gullibility of the people is Of
fensive to every man of common decency
and self respect, when he comes to con-
slider it Observation-Disclosures
AdUance.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25
Jersey Butter.

Jersey Butter is all the fashion, and
it has become so, mainly because the
makers have kept up uniform color
through the year, using artificial color
when necessary. Dairymen who wish
to be in the fashion must use the Per-
fected Butter Color made by Wells,
Richardson & Co., Burlington, vt
Hon. e. d. Mason, Pres. Dairy Assoc,
says: cit gives the brightest and most
perfect color to butter of any substance
have ever used. 1 know it to be, as
you say, as harmless as salt, and it adds
several cents per pound to the value of
butter"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-05-25

A little five-year-old was being in
structed in morals by his grand mother.
The old lady told him that all such
terms as "by golly," "by jingo," "by
thunder" &c., were only little oaths.
and but little better than other profani-
ties. In fact, she said, he could tell
profane oath by the profix "by." All
such were oaths. "Well, then, grand
mother" said the little hopeful, lis by
telegraph which I see in the newspa-
lady, "that's only lying"