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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
WaII Street.

New YORK, December 15.-It is
intimated that the final settlement of
the Trunk line difficulties may be on
the basis of equal rates on ocean
freights and differential rates on grain
for local distribution.
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore &
Western Company has received all
but 100000 of sl,2OO,OOO bonds
lately called in.
At special meeting of the direct
ors yesterday the actual earnings Of
the Hannibal & st. Joseph were re-
ported for tho first week in December
as having increased $4,000 instead of
having decreased $4,000. Two hun
dred cars have been ordered.
New York, December l5-11A A. NJ.
The market opened somewhat un-
settled, but in the main sa1c. higher
than yesterdays closing quotations
the latter for Richmond & Danyille.
After opening there was a falling off
sa3c in the general list. Richmond
d Dsnville, however, rose 3, and
Memphis & Charleston 2, per cent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
BY CABLE.

LONDON, December ia dispatcl
from Berne says it is stated il
diplomatic circles that the British
government has expressed to the Min
lister of Foreign Affairs its displeasurt
at the statement to be made in the
Italian Parliament that England
viewed the action of the French in
Tunis with Indifference.
In consequence Of the Vienna dis.
aster, the Lord Chamberlain has re-
quested the managers of theaters to
separate the system of lighting the
auditorium from that Of the stage.
VIENNA, December l5.-The man
ager Of the i'll fated Ring theater was
for several hours yesterday subjected
to an examination regarding the ca
lamity.
LONDON, December l5.-Mr. Ash
ley, in speaking to his constituency,
at Ventner, last evening, hoped that
the present powers of government in
Ireland would be sufficient, but if,
when Parliament assembled, it found
it necessary to ask for further power,
he believed in the great Liberal con
Stituencies and he was willing to sec
ond them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
THE GUITEAU FARCE.
The Clown in Caps and Bells
Playing His Part.
still HeetOring Over the Court
and Witnesses.

WASHINGTON, December 15.-As
soon as the Court was called to order
Guiteau addressed the Court and said.
u want to make little speech. II
will be a great misfortune if anything
should happen to this jury. They are
very honest, intelligen. men, and l
want the best care taken of them.
There are some Of them who are not
accustomed to good, wholesome food,
and consequently they are liable to
have indigestion. | want the Court
to order them out every morning for a
walk Of four or Eve miles before
breakfast. | have two or three more
little speeches to make, but this will
do for the present"
Judge COx-"The Court will attend
to the wants of the jury"
Collier was recalled. Witness never
detected any signs of insanity in the
prisoner. ScoVille began to cross ex-
anime the witness, when Giteau, in a
great rage, shouted: II never saw
this man but once in my life, and that
was in '73. never saw him but five
minutes. What does he know about
me2 This shows how little sense you
have got, Corkhill, to put up this man
as an expert ITO Mr.. Scoville) And
you haven't got the common horse
sense not to waste the time of the
court examinging his character. He
was only clerk in a lawyers office
any way"
Re.examined by Colonel Corkhill:
Witness-"In my opinion at the
time | knew him he was perfectly
competent to distinguish between
right and wrong"
Excepted to by Scoville.
Mr.. Scoville asked What is your
opinion of the prisoners ability to
distinguish between right and wrong
at the present timer
Another exception noted by Scoville
J. M. Justice, lawyer, Logansport,
Ind, met prisoner in 1878; he was
selling the Life of Moody"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
a TRAMP's PHILOSOPHY.
1he Hnxims That Were Found in
Memorandum Book.

In the hip pocket of an old vagrant
pulled in by the police yesterday was
memorandum book full of his own
writing with pencil, and some of his
philosophy is good enough to be pre-
served, His fFst paragraph reads:
Drinking bad whisky because it is
offered free is like getting in the way
Of bullets purchased by an enemy"
The second reads.
Honesty is the best policy, but
some folks are satisfied with second
best. 1t is hard to be honest on an
empty stomach. "
A third reads:
"a dry plank under rain-proof
shed is better than feather bed in
Jail, and one isn't annoyed by the
jailer bringing in square breakfast. !"
A fourth says;
PAY as you go. If you haven't
anything to pay with, don't 60. If you
are forced to 60, record every indebt-
edness and let your heirs settle the
bills"
The fIth explains:
I'VE should have charity for all.
When the winter winds blow cold anil
drear we vags should pity the poor
fellows in India who are having red
hot weather"
A sixth is recorded:
"Politeness costs nothing, but it is
not expected that you will wake a
man up at midnight to ask permission
to go through his hen-house. 1t is
more courteous to let him enjoy his
needed repose."
The seventh and last was noted
down as follows:
When you pick up an apple core
do not find fault because it is not the
apple itself, but be satisfied with the
grade Of descent. Do not be ashamed
Of your occupation. We cannot all be
lords, nor can we all be Vagrants. As
| cannot be lord / should not lament
at being a vagrant. Be truthful and
outspoken-thst is, tell 'em you are q
Chicsgo FIRE sufferer. Keep season
able hours, or some other vags will
get your plank first. Be hopeful, cheer.
full and good-natured. Growing won'i
cure a sore heel. "
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
THE BURIED CITIES.
General ThurstOn's Account Of
His Visit 10 HercnIaneum and
POmpeii.

Nashville American. H..
The State Historical Society met
last night, at the residence of Mr.
John Ruhm, on Monroe street. There
were present Judge Johu NJ. Lea,
Hon. Il, B. Eaton, Secretary Anson
Nelson. Judge P. G. Wright, General
Z. Z. Thurston, J A. Cartwright, r,
/, Quarles, Joseph s. Carels, j. B.
Lillard, Professor w. r. Garrett, T.
N Schleier, Frank P. Hume and John
Ruhm.
Professor Frank Goodman and John
Ii. Eakin were elected active mem.
bers, and Richard A. Wheeler and w
A. Starr, Of Connecticut, correspond.
ing members.
Mr. Carols nominated Hon. Samuel
l.. Tilley, Of Ottawa, Canada, for hon.
orary membership.
Mr.. Quarles stated that the Govern
or had turned over to him, by request,
various war papers found in the base
ment of the capitol
General Thrus,on was then called
upon tor lecture upon his recent
European tip, and gave an interesting
account of his trip to Naples and visits
to the scenes Of the excavations of
uerculaneum and Pompeii. lie said
these were the only places where we
could see how people lived 1900 years
ago. He was permitted to select sew
eral rooms and have their excavation
conducted under his eyes. lie found
a wall, in the plaster Of which the an
clent Pompeian red was preserved.
Many fine pictures have been cut out
from the walls and carried to the
museum in Naples. In his youth
when he saw a picture of Caesar he
wondered how it was known how
Caesar looked. Bnt he had now seen
a thousand heads of Caesar lin statues.
One Of the rooms into which he went
was a grocery store, in which the
amphor@ which had con-
tanned oil, wine, etc., were
ranged along the wall. Water
and wine had been found fresh and
pure. The most beautiful specimens
OF glass bottles, surgical instruments,
dice (some Of them ''loaded"), mu-
sical instruments, locks and keys of
iron, etc., were found in the ruins. He
saw a sign Julia Felix has sixty
houses to let" In tavern was found
a placard "Discede, morator," depart,
loafer. The loavos Of bread found in
ovens had the bakers name stamped
on them. The flesh of tho victims of
the destruction had OF course, wasted
away, leaving the skeletons only. But
the lava around had assumed the shape
OF the person, and casts were obtained
by drilling small holes through the
lava and pouring in plaster.
General Thruston exhibited the cast
of a deed made in the time of Asshur;
two penates, or household gods, wor.
SHIPPED by the Romans; a coin of the
time Of Darius and Daniel and penny
with the head of Tiberius Caesar. He
also exhibited q number of photo
graphs Of the ruins.
The society will meet again on the
second Tuesday Of January at the res
idence Of Mrs. A. w. Southworth,
Edge6eld.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
FORNEY's LAST EDITORIAL
In Reply TO a Republican Corr
respondent.
From the Prosross.l

From the PrOgross.l
Twenty years Of power, of plunder
and abundant opportunities; twenty
years Of civil war, Democratic mistake
and Republican money; twenty years
of possession Of ell the resources of
national administration; twenty years
Of the active and unceasing organizing
efforts Of at least a million Office
holders and their dependents have
left Wharf.-The harvest of an election
procured by the open and unblushiug
purchase of the sovereign State of In
diana. This spoliation does not de-
pend upon Democratic evidence; it is
based first upon Republican brutal
boast, and afterward upon a universal
Republican confession. Even as |
write the architects of that dark and
damnable fraud arein conflict whether
it is their duty to hang Guiteau
for the murder of Garfield or to pun
ish Dorsey for the defeat of Hancock.
Who doubts that the unexpected
Democratic victory in Maine in Sep
tember would have proved national
Democratic victory in November if
Mr.. Jehn Welsh and his confidential
confreres had not rushed with their
money bags and their volumes of un-
cut greenbacks into the State of In
diana to swing the majority AGAINST
the Democratic candidate for Presi.
dent? | speak not OF the transactions
of 1866. ! read from the open book
Of yesterdays forgotten history. It'll
is Of such material as this letter from
California that Republican literature
is composed and the Republican Or
ganizaiion is perfected. Here is fraud
almost as naked and as patent as mur. |
der in broad daylight, and with this
fact in mind my correspondent talks |
OF his hostility to sectional hate as he |
welcomes the rebel repudiator Ma
hone as the last Republican rein
forcementl Hatred of the South is
the last refuge of the Republican
party, and now to that hatred they
'uperadd reputation. So branded |
hey prepare for the future as the fu.
.ure prepares for them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
STr. BIaine's south American
Diplomats and Diplomacy.
NJ VI. MI


New York Heraldl
Mr.. Blaine, it is understood, will
leave the State Department this week.
His successor will be Mr.. Freling-
huysen. The change will be approved
by the whole country; for if there is
any position in the government which,
owing to his temperament. training
and peculiar characteristics, Mr..
Blaine is not fitted to fll, it is the one
he holds. His career in the State De-
partment has been siugularly unfortu-
nate for himself personally, and it has
been little short Of humiliating for the
country. This impression will not be
removed by perusal of the text Of his
instructions to Generals Hurlbut and
Fitzpatrick in the Chill Peruvian diff
Guilty, which are given on another
page. Mr.. Blaine, it is evident, meant
well enough in his dispatches to these
two gentlemen; but at the same time
his instructions are in a measure sus-
ceptible Of the Interpretation
which his Hoosier Diplomat at
Peru put upon them. If this
curious person had not been Mr..
Blaine's own appointment there might
be some excuse or apology for the
Secretary Of State; but Mr.. Hurlbut
was chosen by Mr.. Blaine for this
very place, which the Secretary Of
State says himself demanded the
greatest diplomatic delicacy and skill
General Fitzpatrick is dead, and we do
not care to harshly criticise him. IT,,
however, it had been the design of
Mr.. Blaine to select two men most
likely to misnanage the business in
trusted to them, and to bring about
the lamentable results that have taken
place, he could not have made better
choice Again, Mr.. Blaine's dispatch
to General Fitzpatrick, which be left
to the discretion Of that gentleman to
read to the Chilean Foreign Minister,
is in its tone hardly diplomatic,
although it does not justify the extra.
ordinary conduct Of Mr.. Hurlbut
We may be thankful, however, that
this Hoosier diplomacy has not in
volved US in greater trouble, and it is
a cause for cOngratulation that we
shall so soon have an end of it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
THE POSTM GENERAL
SHIP.
HatiOn Hankers for IL, and So
Does Chauncey /. Finley.

Special to the Courier-Journal.l
WASHINGTON, December 13.-First
Assistant Postmaster General Hatton
has an ambition to be made Postmaster
General when James goes out on the
lst OF January. Hatton rejoiees in
the sobriquet of the "Young Iowa
Stalwart. He has at his back GER
tain set Of the ultra Stalwarts, who
are doing all they can to secure his
preferment. They express themselves
as being confident, but the weather
cock seems to point to Chauncey l.
Filley as the next Postmaster General.
Mr.. Hatton's enthusiasts say that
Filley will be made First Assistant
Postmaster General if their man gets
in, but Filley's men say he would ac-
cept no such arrangement, and that
their boss practically has the place
pre-. empted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
DIED.

0ESCIER-HRSRY, youngest son Of Sig.
mund and Fanny Roescher. aged one year
and three months.
Funeral will take place this (THURsD AO
afternoon at o'clock from family residence,
No. II Linden street Friends and aoQuaint.
Ances respectfully invited to attend.
s1l,ATESIThursday morning, December IS,
1871, a. 8 o'clonk, ELIzABgrH YATES. aged SS
years, wife Of Meredith Yates.
Funeral will take place from St. Mary's
Episcopal Church. tomorrow FRIDAY af.
ternoOn at O'Clock. Friends and acquaint
anees are invited to attend.
,MALL0RYzDied at the residence of Jane,
" Colemsn' Esq this morning, December
=, at O'Clock, Mrs. AMELIA, wife of George
Mallory.
Funeral services from the residence, at
Raleigh, at IL o'clock TOMORROW.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
The WentI,er.

WASHINGTON, December 15.- For
the Tennessee and Ohio valley, fair
Weather, northwesterly winds, gener-
ally shifting to southeasterly, and
rising, followed by falling barometer.
For the upper Mississippi and lower
Missouri valleys, warmer fair weather,
followed by increasing cloudiness, and
in the northern portions by rain and
lower pressure.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
TRAIN ROBBERS
At Work on IA Rev Line.

LAS VEGAS, NJ NJ, December 49,
The west bound passenger train on the
Southern Pacific to FL Paso was stop
ped by train robbers. The thieves
entered the Wells & Fargo car and
after knocking down the express
messenger secured $4,000 in cash and
other valuables to the amount Of
$4,000. The robbers escaped.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
The Three Per Cent. Bill.

WASHINGTON, December 15:-The
Senate Committee on Finance have
unanimously agreed to recommend the
passage Of Sherman's 3 per cent. fund
ing bill, with amendments reducing
the aggregate amount of 3 per cent.
bonds to be issued to $780, 100000, and
providing that the amount of deposit
to be received shall not exceed at any
one time S25, 100000 The Committee
took this action after hearing Secretary
FOlger, who expressed himself in op-
position to the proposition, preferring
to retain for the government the privi-
lege OF calling in the 81 per cent. bonds
at any time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
M. &C. r. stock is quoted in New
York to-day at 76.

The Appeal clpIms that it is again
indOrscd in the fun that is poked at
our new Congressman. Perhaps that is
o,but We wish it had happened at the
November election of last year instead
OF now, SO that three of US might have
been indOrsed, including Casey
Young. If the Appeal finds much
comfort in this kind of endorsement
1t is easier pleased than the rest Of us.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
River kilograms.

LOUISVILLE, December 15.-Rivtr
rising fast, with s feet Z inches in the
canal, and G feet 5 inches in the chute
on the falls. Clear and cool.
EVANSVILLE, Dec. 15.-Arrived /.
Dora Cabler, from Cannelton, 4 am.
james D. Parker, from Memphis, Z O..
m. Dick Fulton and tow, from New
Orleans. Departed: Rainbow, for
Louisville, 4 a.. m. James D. Parker,
for Cincinnati, 8 am. Dick Fulton
and tow, for Louisville, lOa.m, Clear
and cold.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
For Warning Young Hen Against
Army Life.

St. Paul Pioneor-Press.l
Private Henry II. Franklin, Com
pany L., First Cavalry, acting assist.
ant hospital steward. third class, has
been tried at Fort Walla Wala, w.
T., by general court martial, for CON
duct preiudicial to good order and
military discipline, the allegation be-
ing that he wrote and sent to the edi
tor for publication in the New York
Witness of July % last letter advis-
ing all respectable young men to keep
out of the army, as it is a world Of
iniquity, spreading vice and crime all
around it; that the men are deep in
depravity. vice. degradation and
shame; that every precaution is taken
to hinder men from attending divine
service, the chaplains being worthless
men, and that the whole army was rot
ten to the core. He was found guilty,
and sentenced by the court to confne-
ment at hard labor in charge of the
guard for seven months, and forfeiture
of ten dollars per month for the same
period. General Miles, commanding
the Department Of Columbia approved
the sentence, and directed that it be
duly executed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

Some experiments were made last
week at Salem, Mass, 10 ascertain
the tractiye force requisit to move
street cars and vehicles on a macada-
mized road. The apparatus used
consisted Of an inclined plane, at the
upper end ofwhich was an iron wheel,
over which passed a rope. A loaded
box car, weighing, with its contents,
1880 pounds, was drawn up the
grade by a weight of $40 pounds, sus.
pended at the other end of the rope.
The empty car weighing 1920 pounds,
was drawn up the same grade by a
weight Of 2S3'pounds. A smaller box
car, weighing when empty 2730 pounds
was occupied by fourteen persons and
drawn up by 339 pounds. An ordina-
ry load OF sand on a macadamized
road was started by 5l4 pounds, and
an empty hack, weighing 1850 pounds,
by l96.5pounds. The same hack with
four passengers inside required 230
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
TEXAS.
A Remnant of ViciOrin's Band
CaPtured-The Usual Murder.

Sr. LOUIS, December 15.-San An.
tonic special: News has been re.
ceived from Presedio Del Norte, on
the northern Rio Grande, that Chief
Abragatti and thirty of his tribe have
been captured by Mexican troops.
These are the main remnant of Vic
toria's desperate band.
Texas special: Otto Englehardt, a
German druggist, en- route to Calves
ton, was murdered near Lackhardt,
Caldwell county, by two Mexicans.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
The Road a Live New Paper Has
TO Travel.


Among the "exigencies Of Journal
ism" to use phrase that was new
when the Daily News first printed its
prospectus, is that which is supposed
to make an editor a general contractor
to please everybody. He must Just
think, act, write and talk to suit every
one of his twenty thousand constitu-
ents, and If he differ with any one of
them, the party aggrieved has pre-
scriptive right to call him "liar. ("
"horse-thief," murderer" or "yaoa-
bond, and finally Slug" him IL
a convenient dark alley furnish
the opportunity. These be
some of the snares that lie in the
pathway Of the editor. Ii none oI
them prove available, the offended
one will abuse reporter, smash the
nose OF carrier, or even 60 to the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

pounds to move it. On level road
the load Of sand was started by 240
pounds, while the large box car
yielded to 56 pounds. The expert
ments were made by horse railroad
company to prove that their work was
not unusually severe to the horses;
and the result appears TO have been
altogether satisfaetory.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
Scored NTeeting of NIiIIers.

INDIANAPOLIS. December l5.-An
important meeting was held here yes
terday by representatives of the Mill
ers' Association aud grain dealers Of
the State was for the object of secur-
ing stricter grading and greater care
in buying wheat at elevators and to
prevent loss by heaving their grades
Of wheat reduced when the reach
Chicago. The meeting was secret
but it is learned a combination was
formed to enforce greater uniformity
in the rules governing the purchase Of
wheat in all localities in the State and
establishing an undertaking system Of
grading for all points.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15

A NUMBER Of states have been
made up for the January election.
some Of them very fair in composition,
but none by any particular authority
or generally accepted method. Is it
not about time for the people who
pay their taxes, directly or indirectly,
to take hand? There is
good deal at stake, too much
indeed, to be entrusted to every lot of
scheming politicians or selfish men.
This is matter of business rather
than of politics and VIC are all stock.
holders in a common corporation.
The eight commissioners to be elected
should be the agents and servants Of
the people, to carry out certain ueces.
sary measures. AS a general rule
the man who seeks to
be placed on one of these
boards is unworthy Of the place and
incompetent. The people should be
cool toward such a man, for he will
serve himself rather than them. A
lot Of incompetents could in two
years do more harm than could be un-
done in five years. Let us drop all
personal lavCritism, and agree upon a
set OF men who have the ability and the
integrity to turn the wheels Of fortune
torwsrd instead OF backward, Apy
body can jump up behind and ride on
the down grade, but it takes men of
nerve, courage and a fixed purpose to
push car up long, steep grade. And
we have that kind of grade right be.
fore US. The position of coed pusher
is an honorable one, but it is not envi-
able, for he will be forgotten as soon
as his work is none.
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GOULD.
News From Dallas Regarding
His Railroad Business.
Special to the Little Rock Gazette ]

Special to the Little Rock Gazette
DALLAS, TEX, December ia
A. Talmage, General Manager; B. B.
Peck, Superintendent of bridges and
buildings; j. NJ. Eddy, General
Superintendent; G. V. Lewis, Divis-
ion General Freight Agent of the Mis-.
souri, Pacific railroad, and ex Governor
j. @. Brown, Attorney General OF the
Gould Southwestern system, arrived
this evening via the Dallas & Wichita
branch Of the Missouri Pacific railroad,
and departed for Waco via Fort Worth.
They return to Dallas tomorrow
evening to hold conference on Mis-
souri, Pacific matters in this State. 1t
is understood that Dallas, after
December 18th, is to be the head
quarters for the Gould system in
Texas. 1t is understood that f. H.
Newman is to be the chief of the
Texas agents. On the night of De-
cember 10Th the first through Pull
man car from Dallas to St. Louis
leaves this city via the Wichita divi-
sion Of the Missouri Pacific. Also,
an express train is to run into Waco
on that day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-15
liverpool Market.

LIVERPOOL, December 15.-Shoul-
ders dull at 37s Beef, India mess,
SIS. Turpentine spirits dull at 4Os
Cd. Rosin, common, steady at 6s I'd;
common London, steady at Is Cd.