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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04
DIED.

BRUCH- September Sd, 1850, Mrs. MATILDA
BRucH, aged thirty years.
Funeral from her lato residence. No. "a
Tennessee street, between Pontotoe and
Vance. THIs EVENING at 2;3O o'clock.
Friends of the family are invited to attend.
HAWKINS-Friaay, September 3d., 1880,
THoNAs HAWKINS, aged "A years and months,
at his residence, 407 Main street, Memphis.
lst Louis and Chicago papers please copy.
DAVIs-At Coyington, Tenn, September
Sd, 1880, GEORGE WHITE DAVIS, aged months
and Y days, son Of A. II. and NJ. A. Davis.
Funeral win take place from residence, No.
264 Vance street. THIS Saturday AFTER
NOON at 5 o'clock. Friends of the family
ave invited to attend.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04

Bothefuhr, near Claytona settlement, op
poslte Mosquito Inlet. The bodies of two
steerage passengers have also been found,
at least that is their classification by sur
viyors. The bodies of three females were
recovered from the waves along the
shore, and those of fSur other men, prob
ably sailors. Like the others, they have
been duly buried.
A telegram to the board of under
writers, from Jacksonville, announcing
the loss of the steamer City of Vera Cruz,
says the survivors of the crew are there
in distress, awaiting assistance from the
owners.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04

estate of the late Pat Oonnell, and as
far as heard uninsured, was wholly
destroyed. A small one story frame
frame house owned by Mr.. Pender-
grast, next door, caught fire and was
injured to the extent of hundred or
two hundred dollars before the flames
were quenched. The loss on the
the latter was covered by a policy Of
800 in the Equitable company of
Nashville.
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Louisiana State Lottery Company.

BIZ the Legislature of the State for Educational
and Oharitable nnrpOsss In 1873, for the
term OF tWenty.f Years, to which con-
tract the inviolable faith Of the State is
pledged, which pledge has been renewed by
an overwhelming popular vote, securing its
franchise in tho new constitution, adopted
naoamber 2, A. d. 1873, with capital Of
Il .eOO. .OO. 20 ,shich it has since added re.
','o sa,Vvo'yeyv1 49, of ovor 80 40 nnn lis Grand
single Number Distribution will take
place monthly on the second Tuesday; 1t
never scales or pOstponpg. h9ok at tho tollAW-
20 N'1 CAPITAL PRIZE. $4,000.
IOO, 900 Tick cts, at Two Dollars Each,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04
CAPTTAL PRIZE. $4,000.
-OOO Ttptx els. NJ Two Dollars Each
LIST OF PRIZES.


9 Approximation Prizes Of s9OO......s 2,70O
9 Approximation Prizes Of 200...... 1900
Approximation Prizes Of l00-.o 800
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04
yellow FoTer in Cnhn.

HAVANA, September 4.-Yellow
fever has assumed an epidemic char
acter in the village Of San Diego, at
tacking even Creoles, and causing the
death of forty persons within a few
days. A sick soldier from Sagua
passing through the village impaired
the fever. There were twenty-eighI
deaths from fever in Havana during
the past week.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04
I S nov open aud prepared to fill all orders
l. for the purchase or sale Of
Cotton, Grain and Provisions
TAKE NOTICE!

This is the only Lottery ever voted on by the
people Of State, and under late decision OF
the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington is the
only Legal Lottery now in the United States,
all other charters having beon repealed or
having no existence.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
n WIN A F0RTUNEI
NINTH GRAND DISTRIBUTION. CLASS
1, at New Urleals, Tuesday, geptembor
18th, 1880, lAth Monthly Drawing.
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River Teleprnms.

PITrsRURa, September 4.-River
l foot 10 inches, and falling, Weather
cloudy and warm,
CAIRO, September 4.-Departed
JAS. Kinney, Vicksburg, 8 pm; City
Of Alton, New Orleans, 10 pm; Chas
Means, St. Louis.
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BACK CAME THE BENNER.
She Sails Into Port With a Clean
Bill Of Health.

The Benner, quarantine boat, ar
rived from Vicksburg this morning,
carrying certificate that she is clean,
healthy and free from malarial sap,
the health card being handed to her
captain at the quarantine on Presi-
dents Island after inspection. The
Benner made successful voyage, but
failed to fnd anything assimilating
yellow jack.
The much abused towboat Raven,
not Poe's, by a large majority,with her
tow Of empty barges also arrived atthe
upper landing during the forenoon.
The boat and her barges are in splen-
did hygyenic order, having been fresh
ly dOcked, painted an thoroughly
cleaned before starting from st. Louis
on her recent voyage. As there is no
cargo in the barges now and
none was taken out of un-
healthy ships from the gold
en- South Americas. While the Ra-
ven, not Poes, was in New Orleans
there could have been no chance to
catch any West Indiana or Scotch
American infection. On the way up
the river, however, several of her
crew, including the cook, we're taken
slightly i'll. The men had been hang
ing around New Orleans sorter loose
for some time before, and several are
said to have been on protracted
sprees, eating watermelons and Louis
lana fruit and vegetables quite freely.
Reaching Natchez, the captain had
physician called and his sick deck
hands, including the cook, were pre-
scribed for. The doctor said the sick
ness was of a mild and unimportant
charactey, merely a slight attack Of
swamp or malarial sickness common
to the low county and river valleys at
this season and nothing to be alarmed
at, "Only that, and nothing more.
At Vicksburg, however, different
song was sung. The national Quaran-
tine station there had been
limited and wonld shortly
be abolished The sick crew
were hustled out to the quarantine
hospital, and the boat came on up the
river against the protest Of the health
officer. CONSERVATION pervaded the
minds of men throughout the broad
land regarding the mOnstrous matter
spread alarmingly forth through the
medium of the telegraph.
Watch for the Raven, and send
full particulars" came over the wires
to this city from numerous newspapers
up the country. The details next day
made many news-vendors sick By their
fiat state and prodtless tone.
The Raven, (not Poe's) and barges
arrived at the Presidents Island
quarantine station yesterday, and was
held until this morning. A barrel o.
so of coperas was dissolved in her low
er hold to purify any bilge
stink there, sulphur was burn,
ed in other parts Of the yes
sci, and all hands are supposed tc
have taken several nipsl whether OF
not from the quarantine store, will
perhaps be known, never more"
The Raven is clean, her captain
and crey are sober and polite, but
startled at the noise tbey have crea'
ted, aud 90 on up the river innocent
but we'll advertised, Captain i
Wehrman, superintendent Of the line
who came here yesterday to see about
all Of tho trouble, will return to St
Louis this evening, happy that tn,
) case is no worse, and hoping his prop
, erty may be free from sensations ever
j. more.
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Fire Last NIgIlt,

A fire broke out near dark last
evening in the kitchen of a two-story
house on South street, near Rayburn
avenue, caused by some carelessness
or oversight on the part Of the cook.
The building, which belonged to the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-04

1857 Prizes. amounting gto.................Sll04 40C
Responsible corresponding agents wanted
at all points, to whom liberal compensation
will be- paid.
Write, clearly stating full address, for fur
ther information, OF send orders By express OF
In Registered Letter or Money Order by
mail, addressed only to
VI. A. DAUPHN,
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ReIiaioas Column.
A cHRIsrIAN 5 PRorEsrIN So.

My FatherI ever present, ever wise and ever
kind,
The Life that pulses at my heart, the Light
within my mind,
My Maker. Guardian. Guide and God, my
neyer-falling Friend,
Who hitherto hast blessed me, and Wilt bless
me to the end:
How should not acknowledge Thee in all my
words and ways,
And bring nv doubts to Thee in prayer, the
prayer that turns to praise2
How can cease TO trust Thee, who hast guld-
And been from earliest childhood to old age
my strength and song!
My Fatherl Great Triunityi For Thou art One
in Three,
The mystery of mysteries, threefold joy
TO me.
What deep delight to dwell upon the philo-
Of Thy divine self-sacrifce in God becoming
man,
And taking on Thyself in Christ the sins and
woes of ali
Redeemed to higher glory from the ruin of
As humbled and enlightened and enlivened
BY the pure Spirit of sweet peace, the heart
indwelfing Dove!
My Father, Abba Fatherl ForThou callest me
Thy child,
As in Thy holy Jesus and Good Spirit recon-
ciled,
oh Father, in this evil day when Atheism is
found
Dropping its poison seeds about in all our fal-
how ground,
Shall keep coward silence and ungenerously
forget
The Friend that hitherto hath helped me-and
shall help nre yet?
Shall mbelief, all unabashed, proclaim that
God is not
Nor faith with honest zeal be quick this hide
Gus lie to blot?
Ho! Christian soldier-to the 'front.' and boldly
The dear old truths denied by youter Saddu-
cean crowd
That every inch and every instant we are
guided well
By Him who made and loved and loves us
more than tongue can tell;
That, though there be dread mysteries of cru
city and crime
And marvellous long-sufering patience with
these wrongs of time,
Still, wait a little longer, and we soon shall
For every seeming error in the Rulers right
eOus laws!
4 little longer, and our faith and hope and
works OF love
Shall reap nnnifieent reward in those blest
Where He who being God Of old became our
brother here
Shall welcome US and speed us on from gIori-
Gus sphere TO sphere,
Until before His Fathers throne the spirit
with the Son
Shall give to every Christian then the crown
his Lord hath won;
And through the ages in all worlds our won
drOus ranSOmed race
Shall bless the universal King OF PrOVldence
and Grace.
-lIdrtin FdTqtdiGr Topper, in ~ 7. EucnIa9
Post.
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II we do not ourselves recognize the
fact that. though we really Grethe mean
est of Gods creations. we were never
theless made for purpose, and have
duties to perform no. less essential IN
Gods sight than those of Savonarola,
or John Wesley, or Bishop Paterson
how can we ask other people to rec
ognize in US any more than we recog'
nize in ourselves? How, indeed, can
we ask God to believe that our lack OF
courage and of decent self-respect is
in any way worthy OF Him to whom we
owe all?
The apologetic spirit, then, is to be
watched and ruled as zealously as the
contrary spirit of pride and self-glori-
fication; for the truest and best spiritual
nature neither destroys itself on the one
rock nor on the other. The man whose
life is really worthless bears the cause
of failure in his own heart, and not
until that cause is taken away can
harmful and destructive self-condem-,
nation be transmitted into that genu'ns
spirit of humility which is ready to s's.-
render itself wholly to Gods wills
S. Times.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

OF common sunbunnit. Isold the other
chickens for coffee and sugar. ="
She did wear the calico sunbonnet
the next Sunday, but before the end of
the week, the story of her chickens
leaked out. She herself was scrupu-
lousy silent on the subject, but Aunt
Rebecca was not so reticent.
Quite an active but mysterious move
ment was set on foot among the teachers
of Swamptown Sunday-school. with
whom Lilah was a great favorite, and
the result was that a new bandbox was
conveyed to the Winters domicile, with
these words written on the top OF it;
ITO Delilah, with the love and APP
prevail of her friends in the Swamptown
Sabbath-school."
Lilah uttered a scream of delight as
she raised hat from The box. Not the
red and yellow monstrosity she had de-
sired, but pretty, tasteful hat, trimmed
with her favorite red, certainly, but
softened by lace and pretty flowers. 1t
was really becoming to her; but any
thing would have been becoming to the
bright, happy face which looked its
gratitude to the kind givers of the new
hat.
To old Granny. who still lives, she is
a ministering angel. and in her eyes
that black face is the loveliest of the
lovely. Youths Companion.
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Wise Sayings.

-Endeavor to be what you would
appear to be.
We shall be pure as the angels the
more we give ourselves up to the minis
tering angels work.
The habit of being always en-
ployed is a great safeguard through
life, as well as essential to the culture
of every virtue.
We are hanging up pictures every
day about the chamber walls OF our
hearts that we shall have to look at
when we sit in the shadows.
The Christian life is a long and
continual tendency of our hearts to-
ward that eternal goodness which we
desire on earth. All our happiness con-
sists in thirsting for it. Now, this
thirst is PRAYER. Ever desire to APP
proach your Creator. and you will never
cease to pray. Do not think it is
necessary to pronounce many words
F'enetO71. L '-A
Society springs from God, and lives
by His pervading will. Deny the ex-
istence of God, and nine thousand af-
firmations Tin Parliament or court of
iustice) are no more than nineteen or
ninety thousand words. Without God,
there is no lawgiver above the human
will, and, therefore, no law, for no will
by human authority can bind another.
All authority of parents, husbands,
masters, rulers, is of God. This is not
all. If there be no God. there is. no
eternal distinction of right and wrong;
and if not, then no morals; truth, pu-
rity, chastity, justice, temperance, are
names, conventions and impostures.-
Cardinal Manning.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Harvard College is 242 years old,
and has had twenty-five Presidents
Bishop Bowman, in the course of his
episcopal duties, has dedicated l,0O0
churches.
California will shortly have school
apportionment of S2S5, 296. The num-
Der of children entitled to the benefit of
this sum is 215,97S
The Cornell University people are
calling on President White, Minister to
Berlin, to return or resign his position
as President of the institution, hoping
he will return. Affairs at the UNIVERSE
ty are said to be badly managed.
The famous old Christ's hospital, or
Blue Coat school of London, is to be re-
moved to suitable site in the country,
where buildings will be provided for
1000 boys as boarders. Accommoda-
tions will also be provided for 400 girls
in an upper and lower school.
The American Bible College for
your g ladies, Binghamton, N. T., has
come into the possession of the famous
translation of the Bible, by Mrs. Julia
Smith Parker of Glastonbury, Conn.
She wrote it over five times at the age
of eighty-twice from the Hebrew,
twice from the Greek and once from
the Latin vulgates.
The Treasurer of the Wesleyan
Methodist Thanksgiving Fund, which it
was intended at first to make 81 ,22j,-
900, reported at the Conference that
promises had been received to the
amount of II ,445, 900, and $4,000 had
been paid in. The committee has de-
termined to increase the fund to 81 ,575,-
900. 1t is to be applied to various
benevolent, educational and missionary
enterprises in the church.
The Baptist General Association, of
Texas, represents one hundred and
forty-one churches and over twenty
associations. 1t supplied twenty mis-
sionary stations last year, and organized
twelve new churches and thirty-four
Sunday schools. The Methodists at
Ennis lent the association their church
to meet in, and the association in turn
raised money to have the church put in
order after it adjourned.
An earnest and final attempt is now
made by the Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church to save the MetropOL-
itan Church in Washington from being
lost to the denomination. The build
ing is a large and snowy one, erected
at cost of 1925, 900, in the hope that
the Methodists of the United States who
visited Washington would see the i'm
portance of paying for it. There is no
great amount of wealth among the resi-
dent members, yet they have con-
tributed literally. The present trouble
is the pressing need of about $4,000 to
pay q. bonded debt of $4,000 and a
floating one of $4,000 The Bishops
have issued a circular in which they
call upon the whole Methodist Episco-
pal Church to take collections on or be-
fore the second Sunday in October, and
to send in the cash with all possible
speed.
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The Test OF Loyalty.

The daily life Of every one of US
teens with occasions which will try the
temper of our courage as searchinglY,
though not as terribly, as battlefield or
fire or wreck For we are born into a
state of war; with falsehood and dis
ease and wrong and misery, in thou
sand forms, lying all around US, and the
voice within calling on us to take our
stand as men in the eternal battle
against these. And in this lifelong
fight, to be waged by every one of us.
single-handed against a host of foes,
the last requisite for a good fight, the
last test and proof of our courage and
manfulness, must be loyalty to truth
the most difficult and rare of all human
qualities. For such loyalty, as 1t grows
in perfection, asks ever more and more
of Us. and sets before US standard OF
manliness always rising higher and
higher. And this great lesson we learn
from Christ's life, the more earnestly
and faithfully we study it.-HugheS
ManIiness of Christ.
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Some Mistakes of Christians.

One of these mistakes is in making
too much of profession of religion and
too little of the life. They have heard
so much about growth from the moral
list that they are afraid of the idea5
hence they do not recognize it as the =,
principle of religion. Processing reh- 9
gion, praying. reading the Bible. going
to meeting, is not religion These are
only the agencies to religious life.
To grow daily in the spirit, the knowl-
edge, the life of Christ, is being q
Christian. Another mistake is to sup
pose, as many seem to, that in confess
ing Christ as their Saviour, and uniting
with the Church, they are freed from
the old habits and appetites that sin has
made for them. No man is free from
any habit until he has changed his man
ner of life, and formed new and better
habits. This is the work of time, and
the result of persistent effort, not SIM
ply the protesting to be something
else. There are too many men who
appear very well in their Sunday and
prayer-meeting dress, who are entirely
different in their everyday life. An
other mistake is in not recognizing the
fact that those who differ with us may
have part of the truth, and perhaps
be as near right as we are. If a man
wishes an intolerant spirit and big
oted mind, let him conceive the idea
that he is right and all who differ
with him are wrong. If he wants
to circumscribe his influence, to
make himself an object of disgust
and the religion he processes an
idea rather than living fact, let him
proclaim the infallibility of his views of
the truth, and the heresy of all who dis
agree with him. Another mistake is in
not living in this world believing it to
be a good world, with so much to en-
JOY, love and use, and nothing but SIN
that is not natural and right 1t is
evil in man that wants to be got out of
them, and not evil in the world that is
to be got rid Of 1t is the abuse of
things, and not the use, that brings
evil If every man, woman and child
lived the sweet-tempered, pure hearted,
heavenly-spiIited life that Christ lived
on earth, we should not want any bet
ter world than this to live in forever.
Religion is power in any person to-
whom it is a daily reality. Religion is
blessing to any man when it helps
him to consider other peoples plans
and hopes in life, and not live entirely
unto himself Religion is an honor
when it makes a man more manly,
when it is an altar stair on which he
daily climbs to a better, purer and
larger life. 10 "'''
FINALLY, brethren, whatsoever things
are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are lust, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are OF good 81
report; if there be any virtue, and If
there be any praise, think on these
things. &c olde11 Rule. af Htut
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

The father of British army officer
writes the London Standard as follows:
. was walking with my son in the
main street of Halifax, Yorkshire, at
midday. He was in the uniform of his
regiment. We were confronted by an
operative. who addressed my son as fol-
lows: You get out O. my way, you
blooming lobster; 1 pays for yer, and
has better right to walk ere nor you
ave-" This, the writer adds, was sim
ply outrageous. and the Government
ought to protect is officers from such
insults
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30
A srNeULAR dietetic freakof the crow

A SINGULAR dietetic freakof the crow
is reported from Manchester, N. H. A
farmer saw five large crows descend
from tall pine tree in the woods and
alight upon a tree laden with ripe APP
pies. Each crow planted its oil firmly
into rosy specimen, and, detaehing it
from the stem, flew away with the prize
to the pine, where they all ate the fruit
with evident relish.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

The Roman Forum has now been
completely excavated, with the excep-
ton of a small portion at the entrance
near the Capitol. The shape proves ir-
regular, being broad on the Capitol
side and narrow toward the palace of
the Caesars.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

The American Humane Society of
fer prize of $4,000 for the best car for
carrying live stock. They will reach a
decision about October 1, and more than
three hundred models have already
been offered.
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The Parliament of Jersey, where
some of the French Jesuits have set
tied, is to be moved to expel them from
me Island. under an unrepealed statute
IF George III.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

"A Massachusetts boy about as high
as the counter recently came into a
book store and asked for ga book for
ten cents with murder in it."
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

-Spurgeon says that an Englishman,
before starting on foreign tour, orders
the most ridiculous suit of clothes that
it is possible for anybody to wear.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

If you would be wealthy get upon
mule. You win soon find that you are
better off.-BoStol Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-09-30

The caleche bonnet of our grand
MOTHERS and the small capote are the
ew fail STYLES.