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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
NO CHANGE.
The President Remains as He
was Yesterday.
Retains NOurishment, but Has
Slight Rise of Fever.
First Dispatch.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
WASHINGTON, d. @.

ExEoUTIvE MANSION, J
WASHINGTON, ID. @.
August "a, $50 am.
The President passed a very good
night, awakening at longer intervals
than during several nights past. He
continues to AXE liquid food by the
mouth with more relish and in such
quantities that the enemata will be
suspended for the present. No change
has yet been observed in the parotid
swelling, The other symptoms are
quite as favorable as yesterday; pulse
100, temperature 98.5, respiration II.
Second Dispatch. Unofficial 1920
Attendants of the President report
this morning that the latter had a
very quiet, comfortable night, sleep.
ing longer at time than heretofore,
and showing less restlesseess. Befsre
the morning examination he expressed
desire for food, and DIR. Bliss
warmed slightly and gave him about
four ounces of beef extract, which he
swallowed with apparent satisfaction.
In brief efinterview with q reporter
alter the morning bulletin appeared,
DR.. Bliss said the President had a very
good night, and was doing we'll.
The glandular swelling had not, he
said, perceptibly changed in appear
ance since yesterday, but he thought it
seemed a very little softer to the
touch. The wound continued tC
present a healthy and in every way q
satisfactory appearance, Generally
speaking, the patients condition this
forenoon is about the same as last
evening. The slight improvement
which was then noted is fully main
tained, and there has been littlt
additional gain in the capacity fol
nourishment. tHt
Third Dispatch. ---O hictal-.-l2;Sc
The President continues to TAX
liquid food by the mouth, as reported
in the last bulletin. His temperatur,
has risen slightly since that time. Il
other respects bis condition is abou
the same. Pulse l04, temperatur
99.2, respiration II.
Fourth Dispatch-.-l:sO.
The following was sent this after
noon to Minister Lowell, at London
According to the opinion Of the ply
sicians, there is no marked change il
the Presidents condition since the las
dispatch. At this hour (half past one
clock there is some indication of a
increase of fever, which they say is i
part caused by the increased heat Q
the day. He continues to take liqui
food and does not seem to be trouble
by nausea or indigestion.
BLAINE, Secretary"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

New York, August "a, 1929
p.m.-Ootton dull. Ordinary S 9.l6c;
good ordinary, l0Bc; low middling, II
7-16e; middling, l2lei good middling,
l2sc; middling fair i3sc fair, llsO.
Futures are steady, at 7 to II points
above last evening closing prices.
LIVERPOOL, August "a, 4 pm
Cotton opened dull and easier, now
1-16d lower. Uplands, 6 15.l6d; Or
leans, 6 10 l6d. Sales to-day, 5000
bales. Receipts, 500 bales; Ameri-
can, 600. Futures are dull and
eatier,
New ORLEANS, August "a, 1880 a.
m.-Cotton Quiet. Middling, llic.
Sales to-day, 100 bales. Receipts, 800
bgles,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
A Journayistic. "ScoOp.v

Alton Democrat
The recent scoop" Of the Globe
Democrat by the Republican on the
Louderman murder case calls to mind
one of greater dimensions, which oc-
Cured some years ago, and which
passed into history as one OF the most
brilliant strokes ever made in Amer
ican Journalism. 1t was the year Of
the big split in the Republican party
of Missouri, when they had two con
ventions running at different halls in
Jefferson City. Mr.. Hyde, the man
,ging editor Of the Republican, had
fore seen this result, and made his ar
rangem suts accordingly, He had two
separate corps of reporters on the
grouud. one for each convention, and
q force of messenger boys constantly
running from the State House and the
Western Union telegraph office. He
captured all the wires leading to st.
Louis by sending chapters of Pol.
lard's History of the Rebellion,
chapters of Genesis, the New Testa.
ment, the constitution Of the United
States-anything to hold the wires
When the Democrat representatives
came in they could not find wire
empty. They swege and protested but
| ia vain. They telegraphea up to Kan
sac City, aud from there down TO st.
| Louis, demanding Of the telegraphie
authorities tho fright Of way" for
their dispatches. The answer came
hack that SO long as the Republican
Kent the wires full there was no chance
for ANYBODY else. And the Republi-
can kept them full. They sent down
everything about the convention, and
whenever the news got slack theg
would heave in few of King David's
ssalms, Just to keep theIoperators busy
and give the thing little musical
variety. H tEa
At last in the saSil hours the Dem.
oetet sent special arouES by the
Wsy OF Kansas City, informing theil
paDor that there had been a bolt and 9
break. That vas sll it had. The. Re
publican next morRipg eSntalned
| iull short hand report Of the e9Hgep
ton, occupying nearly two pages,
No other crops now attracts *
mueh attention among the progressive
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

THIs is the day the Greenbackers
Of Mississippi meet in convention at
jackson. Our special correspondent
describes the situation. Colonel Ben.
King, Of Copiah, seems to be the com
ing man to be nominated for Gov
ernor. A fusion between the Green
hackers and Republicans would make
it lively for the regular Democrats
and would doubtless have the effec;
TO close up the ranks Of the latter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

A SLIGHT improvement In the con-
dition of the President is reported by
the doctors in charge. They have
had him improving so long that the
public is not inspired with much hope
by reports of this kind. If all the bull
letins they have ever issued were an
alyEed and the good aud bad placed in
two columns, the favorable reports
would be about forty to one to the
unfavorabIe. Yet the factis. known that
he is greatly emaciated, is dreadtglly
weak and has been in very critical,
If not in n sinking condition, nearly
all the time. What god purpose is
to be accomplished by this studied
deception is beyond the cOmprehen-
sion Of ordinary mortals. Perhaps
DR. Bliss can explain. So long as
there is life, there is ground for hope
and nearly fifty millions of people in
this country are yet hoping and pray.
ing that the President may take
turn for the better. The most thai
can be said to-day. is that he is NJ
worse than he was yesterday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

HENRY NJ. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, according TO private advices in
Paris, which are specially communi-
Gated to the New York Herald by
cable, is SO dangerously i'll at a point
between Stanley Pool and the mouth
Of the Congo that slight hopes are
entertained of his recovery. He has
so little faith in his own recovery
that he has made his will.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

VIcKsBURG Herald: Col. j. j.
Williams has reconsidered, and de-
termined to acCede 10 the demand of
the people of Grenada county, and be
candidate for the Legislature. The
people of Grenada cannot elect bet
ter or more useful man. His election
is assured.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
BY CABLE.
A Land League DemOnstra-
ton at Dublin.
Damage by Heavy Rains
Short Crops.
Proper Acknowled
of British Sympathy.
The Body of a Lost ErOnaut
Found.
The Emperor William not in
Good Health.

. Ns-N -~'
League meeting at Dublin INDUCED
in liberal denunciation Of Harcourt.
He was panther, because of his
spring upon and bite of Davitt; he
was an insOlent blackguard, because
Of his references to Davitt ard Seaton.
Abiding to Gavin Dufy's letter ap-
proving the Land Bill, they said
man out of ireland for SO many years
was unfit to be critic upon Ireland
as it is now contemplated All ar
rangements have been completed in
time for the Land Court to start early
in October
Reports from various parts of the
provinces state that heavy rains have
done immense damage to the crops
Some cut crops have already begun to
sprout Great apprehension is felt
for the harvest in ireland, owing to
continuous rains throughout the coun-
try. Corn is much damaged, and
potatoes are showing some signs of ex-
tensive disease.
The Times financial says: We.a
informed that the rise in French cx-
change is likely to be followed by an
advance in the Bank of France rate
discounts. The bank apparently de-
cided against the renewal Of the policy
Of relaxation adopted last year. A
good deal will depend upon the
amount of gold withdrawn for ship
ment to America to-day. Although
gold is not coming to London from
the continent, it is still being pur-
chased there by the Italian syndicate
Of American operators.
HAvRE, August 24.-The steamer
Allemania, from Hamburg, sailed
hence with one million france ofspecie
for New York,
United States Minister Lowell
writes to the Times that he has re-
ceived a dispatch from Secretary
Blaine, acknowledging the arrival at
Washington Of numerous addresses
of sympathy, forwarded by Minister
| Lowell, from various public bodies
and from other sources in Great
Britain in regard to President Gar
field. He says there is no
way of conveying 10 corpora
tions and private persons
who sent the addresses. a recognition
Of their courtesy by his government
Mr.. Lowell therefore asks the Times
to publish an extract of Secretary
Blaine's dispatch, stating that the nu-
merous addresses in regard to Mr..
Garfield cannot but strengthen the
affection for the mother country al
ready existing in the hearts Of the
American people.
!, A Paris correspondent says the
body of the aronaut, Armentieres, who
made an ascension from Montpelier
on the 14th inst, and who was lost,
has been found, frightfully mutilated,
near Leipignette lighthouse,
A Berlin dispatch says that the
health Of Emperor William during
the last few days has not boen at all
, satisfactory. The Emperor is suffer
ing from cold, and it is feared he
may possibly be unable to attend the
autumn military maneuyers.
MADRID, August 24.-The latest
returns Of elections for members OF
CoFtes give the Ministerialists 36l
J seats; Conservatives, 46; Democrats,
e 81; Independents, 5; and Ultramon-
tsnes, 6. Nothing is known Of sim
gle Carlist success in the elections.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

ANOTHER Ohio man has been pro-
NOTED. A special from Philadelphia,
O., dated August %, says: Mrs. o. G.
Bailey, of this place, aged fifty. eight
years, and Rev Baldwin, of Gilmore,
aged seventy, were married yesterday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

CoURIER-JoURNAL In the death oi
General Leslie Combs Kentucky leses
the rarest landmark between her pres
ent and her past. A friend and col
League Of Clay and Crittenden, rem
naut OF generation and of great
political party that passed of the stage
a quarter of century ago, he still re-
manned to the day of his death an
active particle o. the living present,
imbued with marvellous memory OF
the things gone and a clear conviction
Of things to come. He was the finest
example of the old-time Kentucky
gentleman that the State ever pro
duced-impulsive, brave, hospitable
and kind. AS raconteur, deriving
his material from his own long and
var. ed experience, and lighting it up
with the kindly glow of his humor and
the flashes of his wit-where, indeed,
shall we find his equal? He was truly
a man of Infinite jest and most excel
lent fancy, one upon the like of whom
we shall probably never look again.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
New Orleans People Started

New Orleans etatesj 23.l
Major Bepyaurd gives o local paper
the startling information that the Mis-
sissippi is rapidly cutting itselfa chan
mel into the Atchafalaya and expresses
the belief that the latter stream
will shortly become the main bed OF
the former leaving New Orleans
stranded on a yery shalloy stream.
Major Benyaurd is reported by the pa
per referred to as having said in sub
stance, that little less than a year ago
when the gauge read nineteen feet, he
had made soundings at the mouth Of
Red riyer, and found bar, and on his
Visit there few days ago, he again
made soundings, apd with the guage
reading eight and q half feet, he found
sixteen feet of water where the bat
bad been, and various depths, but
none less than sixteen feet 10 the
channel Of Red river clear to the At
chafalaya, between seven aad eight
miles from the mouth OF the Red. ~
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

Sara Bernbardt, the actress, has
signed an engagement for a series Of
thirty-6ve performances, to be given
in the principal French towns between
August q and October 4. She will
commence a tour through Europe on
October 10.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

No. 4l4-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tenn.-Woodtord Herndon VS.. Liz.
zie Herndon.
I T appearing from affidavit in this cause
nonresident OF the State Of Tennessee
it is therefore ordered that she make her
appearance herein, at the courthouse OF
Shelby county, in Memphis, Tennessee, on OF
before the first Monday in October, 1881, and
plead, answer or demur to complainant
bill, or the same will be taken for confess
cd as to her and set for hearing ex-parte and
that copy of this order bo published once
week for four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This 23d day Of August, 1881.
A Copy-Attest:
R J. BLACK, Clerk and master.
By + 3 McHENeY, D. c. I'M.
I + Cassells, sol'r for commit. 15l 157bII
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
A BRUTE kuLED.
Fatally Shot for Assembling q
Woman.
.oocia, to the Americana

Special to the Americana
CHATTANOOGA, August 22.-W. G.
Jones, proninent citizen of McMinn
county, Tennessee, shot and instantly
kiIled John Langley, last Sunday, who
assaulted his wife with the intent to
Tayish her. Langley was bad char,
geter. Jones surrendered himself to
fhe authorities, but was immediately
released.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
Fourth DIspatcIl..I:aO.

Charles Mcdonald Brown, son of
Senator Joseph Il. Brown, Of Georgia,
aged twenty-cne years, died Saturday
night. He was young man Of great
personal worth and highly esteemed
by a large circle of friends. He has
been an invalid for several years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

MEMPHIS and Charleston railroad
stock at noon to-day quoted in New
York at 752.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
nenth Of a Nofed Rnnkcr.

WASHINGTON, July George W.
Riggs, a banker Of this city, died this
morning.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
Cotton.

The market is quiet to day, and
without notable variation. Sales yes
terday were 700 bales, all to spinners,
closing steady at unchanged prices.
Low ordinary, &c; ordinary, 7lc; good
ordinary, 80; low middling, 1Osc;
middling 1llc; good middling, 12c.
COTTON STATEMENT,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
E. M. AVERY. J.T. BERLIN.
AVERY & BERLIN,
Real Estate and Rental Agents,
No. 30 MADISON STREET,

HHE annual period for renting stores and
i dwellings is just upon us, aud we desire
to say to our patrons that we are now, and
shall continue to be, prepared to meet their
Wishes, either in renting their property 10
prompt and desirable tenants, or TO supply
cottages, large dwellings and stores to those
who apply for them. A great variety of city
and suburban property, and farms at bargains
for sale at all times. l42 so
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24

No other crops now attracts so
mueh attention among the progressive
farmers of Pennsylvania as tobacco.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-24
Notice to DeIinquents.

INTERESTED parties will please take no
i tice that on aud after September 10Th, 1851,
bill. will be fled in the Chancsry Court 10 en-
force the lien or State and County Taxes
against all property not redeemed before that
date. Q. rHEkF0RD,
1889 Agent and Back Tax Collector.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-20
Buried in the snow.

= BERRYyILLE, VA, nuary "a
resident of the village of Paris, situ-
ate on the side of the BIae Ridge
Mountaine, Roger S. Cooper, has just
arrived, and brings intelligence of a
most terrible calamity which has over
taken his neighbOrs in their village
homes. The entire town, with it's
population of 500 souls, is buried in
snow drifts, and the only avenues of
communication with the outside is
by means OF tunnels of varying lengt hs
some of which extend distance of Is
to 20 feet. The snow began falling
December 20, and continued until
Christmas, and the atmosphere con-
stantly grew colder, having reached
Is deg. below zero. The food and flu.
ell became exhausted, and the most
terrible suffering and destitution en-
sued. Five persons have already been
frozen TO death, and unless succor is
afforded from the outside, there can
not fail to be great many lives sac
rIfieed. The affairs of the town are
under the government of q commit
tee appointed by the citizens at pub
lie meeting, and it is hoped that by
ri orous measures and the careful en-
yIoyment Of means at hand, they will
be able to sustain life until assistance
/, received.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-20
The Pool Law.

A well known Cincinnati turfman
says: This law will either kill racing
in ohio for 1881 or give us the best
series of trottiDg meetings we have
ever had. 1t will break up the purse
system which has had much to do with
fixing races. Instead OF giving purses
to one good horse and three poor ones,
we will have sweepstake races and the
money will go to the best horses, be-
cause associations being deprived of a
share in the pool boxes can not offer so
much money and the great inducement
to dishonesty will be taken away and
every rascal on the turf will steer clear
of Ohio, or if he comes here he will
come to let his horse go. The sup
preston of pool selling will not prevent
betting, but the better will handle his
own money and not have to pay money
to a middle man."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-20

The bill prohibiting pool selling has
passed both Houses of the Legislature
and become law. It provides that it
is an offeuse to keep any room or
building, or any portion of any room
or building, or to occupy any place on
public or private grounds anywhere
within the State of Ohio with appara-
tus, books or other device for the pur-
pose of registering bets or wagers, or
to sell pools upon the result of any
trial or contest of speed, skill or power
of endurance of man or beast" The
owner, lessee, or occupant ofany prem
ises who knowingly permits any of
the property to be used for such pur-
pose is also declared TO be AN offender
against the law, as is the person who
becomes the custodian for hire or re-
ward, of the money, property or other
thing of value "staked, wagered or
pledged" upon such results. All per-
sons concerned, in either of the ways
recited, are to be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and will be subject TO a
fine ranging from 50 to $500; or to inn
prisonment in the county Jail for ten
days to six months, or both fine and
Imprisonment, at the discretion Of the
Court.
1t is thought this law will put an
end to horse racing and the noble
American game of base bali, but gam
bling in stocks and grain will continue
to flourish in the future AZ in the past.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-20
CoIored Men at Mentor.


Eleven persons claiming to be the
representatives of the colored people of
the South visited Garfield at Mentor
on Friday last, and the Plain Dealer
says, "through one r. B. Elliott,
who is called General Elliott, present.
ed lengthy address to General Gar
field in which he rehearsed the stale
political arguments of Republican
speakers about the negro majority be-
ing oppressed by the white minority
and in which a plain demand was
made for offices. General Garfield, as
before, snubbed the visitors, telling
them in smooth phrases that if tho
majority is really defeated by the mi
nority it is because the majority is not
intelligent enough and advising them
to acquire knowledge. Garfield told
them a pretty story about how little
credit isgiven the mon who sink Golfer
dams and build foundations for bridges
while all the admiration is bestowed
upon the superstructure, and then in
ferentially told his callers he hoped
they would be content to be builders
of the foundations of the future edu-
cational bridge of the colored race for
for the Republican party to travel over.
After having taken this cruel, the
colored men put forward Bishop Hood
who presented a congratulatory ad-
dress from the board of bishops of the
African NJ. E. Zion church, for which
General Garfield suavely returned
thanks and answered that after what
he had already said it was unnecessary
for him to say more. The colored men
then came back to Cleveland to go
home"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-20

The new law of South Carolina re-
lating to the carrying of concealed
weapons, adds one 10 the usual list OF
such Instruments. Section is as fol-
lows:
Be 1T enacted. ETC., That any person
carrying pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-
shot, metal knucklea, rdzoTS, or other
similar deadly WeapOn usually used
for the infiction Of personal injury.
concealed about his person, shall be
guilty of a misdem eanor, and upon
onviction thereof before Court of
competent jurisdiction, shall forfeit to
the county the weapon 80 carried con-
cealed, and be fined in a sum not more
than 5000, or imprisoned for not more
than twelve months, Oh both, in the
discretion Of the Court.
The Charleston News says: "The
razor is a favorite weapon with the
negroes, and more unpleasant instra-
ment to encounter in hostile hands
than q shotgun or revolver"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-01-20
A Winter when Fowls Fell Frozen
From Th cir Roosts.

lust one hundred and one years ago
the winter began like the srcsent. and
our old residents whose fathers and
mothers told them numerous tales OF
that terrible winter, are wondering
whether the present will te like that.
1t was the coll winter OF I779-SO.
The cold then set in the mldoie Of
November. and continued until the
middle of February. During this long
period there was not wkrIHth enough
in the sums rays TO melt tho euow
upon the ground, nor the icy fetters
OF the ponds, creeks and rivers. Con-
tinued SHOWS accumulated so deep
upon the ground that it was difficult
to get from place to place, and the ice
upon the rivers was so thick that men.
animate, wagons, and everything
passed over them like roads. The
cold winds were 80 piercing that wild
turkeys and other fowls fell fiozan
from their roosis, and the deer aud
buffalo sought tho cabins of the set
tiers at night to shelter themselves
from the blasts. All kinds of wild
animals perished in the forests for
want Of food, which they could not
get from beneath the snow, and from
the Intensity of the cold and the fierce
wolf aud panther, which had only
skulked about the settlement by night
came near in broad day light 10 get tho
bones and offal which had been thrown
from the cabins No rain fell and the
pioneers had to obtain water for
drinking, cooking and washing by the
melting OF ice and snow. The Ohio
and all the rivers in the State were
frozen over with ice thick enough to
be used a. highways, and even as low
down - Nashville the Cumberland
was frozen over with lee thick enough
for the safe passage Of emigrant trains.
The Delaware at Philadelphia, had ice
three feet In thickness, and Chesapeake
Bay and Long Island Sound were
frozen over.-[ Pittsburgh Post.