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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24
ADDITIONAL COTTON.

New ORLEANS, December "a, 1l:3O
am-Cotton quiet. Middline, 1lgc.
Sales TO day, 400 bales. Receipts
l0,7S7 bales. Steck, 1920 bales.
New YORK, December "a, 12:l4a.m.
Cotton dull. Ordinary, 9 5-16c;
good ordinary, 10 11-16c; low
middling, II 9-l6c; middling, 12c;
good middling, 12sc; middling
fair, 135c; fair, 1870. Futures dull,
at very little change from last even
ing's closing figures.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24

The Irish don't make good Mill
lists. When they arrange to blow up
somebody Or something, they cast the
powder and firearms around, properly
labeled, for the guidance of the police,
l. is also announced that III cases Of
rifles were shipped last Thursday fre N
Boston to Liverpool on the steamer
Iowa, marked hardware, which will be
properly attended to when they ar.
riye.-IPittsburg Post.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24

Thurlow Weed says the late Geo.
Law could - have passed the exam
lnation for night watchman at the
Custom House.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24
W0RKINGMETs
Building and Loan Association.
ANNUAL MEETING

ANNUAL MEETING.
'NHE annual meeting Of the Wo-kingmen's e
Buildln. and Loan AtsOci ,tion for the
election Of OH ers for he ensuing year will
% held on tuesday, EVENI @ next. Dec.
Z!th, at ~ o'clock, at the efice OF the Assa
citation, No Al NJ d on street, Planters In
surance. bnildinR (ba ement).
Shareholder. are ca n-sty requested to at
tend and vote in person.
c NV SpEERs, Jr, Pres't.
CHAs I. PATERSON, seo'y. 90 100
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24
DIED.

,WALDEN-This morning, December 2th,
WwaIIIE waIdnE 9nly child Of 4: 2. and NJ. 4.
Friends and acquaintAneeeS are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral. from residence
No. 2 Front street, tomorrow SUNDAY
afternoon at O'Clock.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24

PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office
and book bindery, 10 Madison.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24

New HAVEN, December 24-The
Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon died this
morning Of heart disease.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24
Louisiana State Lottery COMPANY

incorporated in 1865 for 25 years By the Log.
islature for Educational and Charitable pur.
poses--with a capital Of s ,000,0 ,0u0- to whiohs
added. ~ss-
w an overwhelming popular vote its fran.
chise was male a part Of the present State
Constitution adopted December "a, A, d, 1879
It's Srand Single Number Draw,
iDgs will take place monthly. II neye,
distfibuEoni
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24

LEDGER job printing Office, 13 Mad
ison street
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24
Particular Notice.

HNHOWINE NUNICbs
All the drawings will hereafter be under the
exc usive supervision and control ofGENk-
RAILS g. 7. BEAUREGARD and JUBAL A,
EARLY.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY To
"A WIN A FORTUNEI
FIRST GRAND DISTRIBUTION. CLASS A,
at New Orleans, Tuesday, January no,
lSS2-l40th Menthly Drawing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24
CAPITAL PRIZE. $4,000.

1857 Prizes. amounting to.... SlIo aoo
hesPonsible corresponding agents wantsd
at ~ points, to whom liberal componsstion
For further information, write clearly. viv-
iSg iuli address, Send orders by expreus NJ
hSslstersd Letter, or Money erder 81 mai.
N. A. DAUPHIH,
or N. A. Dauphin, At A@''
No. 2le Broadway, New York
Or No West Court street, Momnbis. Tsen
The particular attention Of the public /.
called TO the fact that tho entire number n
the Iteketsior each Monthly Dr. wing is sod.
s.l ssIu oohseq9entiy OIL the prizes in eaeh draw.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-24

ON December 9th the Memphis & Charles.
~ ton Railroad will sell round trip tickets
to Atlanta, good for ten days, at fohoWil z
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11
NEWS ITEMS.

The estimated losses on cattle on the
great western ranges during the cold spell is
800, 900 head.
1t is estimated that 800, 900 people did
honor to Victor Hugo on Sunday, the ami
versary OF his birth.
The Catholic Orphan Asylum at Hyde
Park, Pa, was burned Feb. 27th seven
teen children perished in the building.
"A young man living near Bloomington,
ILL.,, was cleaning his revolver Sunday eve
ming, aud, supposing ii was empty, playfully
pointed it at his sister and shot her dead.
Princess Louise will return TO Canada in
May, accompanied by large party Of Eng
lish visitors, who intend to spend the summer
months in q fishing tour on the lower st.
Lawrence and visit Manitoba in the autumn.
A conAagration in Toxic Japan, on the
26.h of january, destroyed IL, 900 houses,
and rendered 80, 600 people homeless
About fifty clergymen met in Brooklyn
recently, and set apart Wednesday, March 8,
as a day of fasting and prayer for the pur-
pose of starting revival
Rev. John F. W. Ware prominent min
lister of the Unitarian denomination, died at
his home in Milton Mass, on Saturday even
ing, Feb 26th.
Carl Sohurz has accepted an invitation to
attend public dinner in his honor given by
prominent citizens Of Boston on the 22d inst.
Two unknown tramps went to sleep on a
pile of hot Stag near the Patterson, N. j.,
rolling mill, and were found on Sunday, one
roasted TO death and the other dying
The Gold Medal Sewing Machine Co.
of Orange, Mass, produced over $4,000 ma
chimes during 1880 and stand third in amount
of production of the companies in the world.
This year the amount win be largely increas-
ed.
The recent storm at Newfoundland was
the severest known in 60 years. A schooner
with nine men was lost brigantine and her
crew are supposed to have shared the same
fate, and every boat in the harbor of st..
Johns was destroyed.
"A couple of serious railway accidents
happened Tuesday morning, 1st near Ma
con, Mo. A passenger train from Chicago
was wrecked, and while a special train was
running to the relief of the injured passen-
gers it broke through bridge and added sew
eral TO the list Of killed and wounded. In all
five persons were killed and one fatally hurt.
The Minnesota capitol building at st.
Paul took fire March 1st, while the Legis-
lature was in session, singeing some of the
members before the fremen took them out
with ladders. The building was burned
down at a loss of over 800, 900, and the his
torical and supreme court library, which can
not be restored The records were all saved,
however.
Edison has removed from Menlo Park TO
New York with his family and entire STAFF,
with the exception of an assistant, who il
left at the old stand, and has leased q house
on lower Fifth avenue for q long term oi
years. Mr.. Edison states that he now con
siders his invention of the electric light com
plete, and will devote his attention to intro
ducing it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

The wife of the twentieth President OF the
United States is daughter of a Maryland
farmer, Zebulon Rudolph, whose uncle, ira
dition says, fought in the Revolution, and,
going to France, espoused the cause Of Ma
poleon and became Marshal Of France, the
gallant and unfortunate Ney. She was fell
low student with young Garfield at Hiram
college, became engaged to him, and when
he went to Williams college to extend his
studies, taught in the public schools of Cleve-
land. She was married to him in 1858, when
he became the head Of Hiram college, and be-
gan life with him in little cottage which he
purchased, fronting the college grounds She
is a woman Of unusual learning, and has her
self nearly fitted her two sons for college, car
rying them through their Latin and other
studies in which women are rarely convers-
ant. She is fond OF reading, and in substan-
tial literature and knowledge Of the affairs
Of the day she is better versed than the wife
of any President we have had since Mrs.
Polk. She is a lady somewhat under the me-
dium size, well mado and well proportioned,
belonging on the whole to the order of little
women. She has face well composed Of
expressive and harmonious features, with q
fair and bright complexion, black hair and
eyes. Her manner is n little shy, yet piquant,
and she has marked and cheerful laugh, a
sense Of the humorous and Of her own digni-
ty, and cheerful, happy nature. She is
fond Of housekeeping, afIectionate, yet de-
cided in her rules of household government,
and withal a well-balanced, sensible and in
teresting woman. She enters the White
House with the good wishes Of the whole
country, and there is no reason TO doubt that
she will make the Executive Mansion a home
as well as a palace, and inculcate in it the
private as well as the public virtues which
should adorn il.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11
The Oneida Community a. H. H.

The entire transformation of the Oneida
community, the details of which are filling
the papers of that region, has far OUTCOME the
utmost expectations Of those who labored
simply for its moral reformation. It has in
fact ceased to be a community in any true
sonse Of the word il has become q joint
stock company, with definite capital (S600,-
000,) and the shares, at a valuation Of S25
apiece have been allotted to the individual
members, according 10 some principle recog-
nized as equitable, but completely at variance
with The idea of having ''all things in COM
mon" on which the institution was founded,
and which is inseparable from the very idea
of q community. All the theoretical and phil
osophical and professedly scriptural principles
which the founder NoyeB embodied in his
original plan, have been thrown TO the winds.
Forty families are recognized as comprised in
the new organization the old consisted Of
but one, if that nondescript could be called a
family. There is no longer a common table,
but an eating-house, with fixed prices for
every dish, takes its place. Strongly marked
division lines have been drawn between the
different departments Of labor, and each has
been specifically committed TO a competent
and experienced manager. A strenuous bust
ness spirit has driven out the unclean reveries
and the half-idle life of the past third Of a
century. The click of 40 newly. purchased
sewing machines resounds through the once
too quiet apartments Of the women. The
children are to be trained in school, or ap-
prenticed to some one of the trades carried
on by the corporation. The most significant
fact in the whole re arrangement is the ab-
sence Of the founder Noyes, and the non-ap-
pearance Of his name on the list Of directors
and officers. j. II. Noyes is still fugitive
on British soil, and is accompanied by few
members OF the former community, who
adhere TO him and to the opinions which
have made him so notorious. He is guilty of
crimes which come under the scope of the eX-
tradition treaty, and he is aware that his pres
ent location is a very slight security il those
whom he has personally and foully wronged
choose to carry out the purpose OF prosecu-
ton, the mere intimRtion of which made him
a fugitive one night in the early fall of 1879.
-Neo York EDdHgelist.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

WHOLESALE PARDosISo IN KENTUCKY
Gov. Blackburn of kentucky has just per-
formed the unparalleled feat of pardoning
800 persons in two days. The governor
wrote a letter to Judge James E. Stewart last
summer, in which he stated that he would
pardon all the lawless people of Carter and
Lawrence counties, or regulators, as they
termed themselves, whom Judge Stewart
would recommend, provided they would de-
liver themselves up to justice and make oath
that they would never again disturb the
themselves into the hands of the authorities,
out of which number Judge Stewart has rec
commended that 800 receive the executive
clemency. As the movement of the troops to
these counties would have cost a considera-
BILE sum before order could have been re-
stored, the governor thinks he has done the
commonwealth a good work.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

The METHODIST CONFERENCE TRoUBLE.
The trouble caused by the action of the
last general convention of the Methodists in
detaching portion of the Methodist church
es of the state from the Troy and adding
them to the Vermont conference, eliminated
lately in meeting of the disafected
churches at Rutland. A letter to the bishops
was prepared, refusing to be bound by their
acts and declaring that unless the rights of
the churches were conceded, they would Sc
oede aud become independent. Measures
have been taken by some of the churches
whereby their property can be taken from the
jurisdiction of the bishops, and from the
spirit manifested by the Rutland convention
It is evident that, unless their request is con-
ceded, they will carry their threats into exc
cution
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

-Haydens execution was the sixteenth in
the history of this state. There are now in
the Windsor prison, awaiting execution, Roy
al S. Carr, sentenced to be hung the last Fri
day in April, 1881, and Almon Meeker in
1888 The case Of Eliza Meeker, Almon's
mother, has not been decided. She is now
confined in the workhouse at Rutland.
Mortified sets an example worthy of inn
itation by every town in the state, in the
shape of village improvement society, the
objects of which are TO advertise the business
needs of the town, TO improve, light aud or
nament the streets and parks TO attend TO the
opening of new roads, to establish and main
tain Libraries, and to aid in extending aud en-
larging the financial, manufacturing and gen.
eral business interests of the town.
VIM. Solsine's large two-story house in
the centre of the village of Windsor, former
ly occupied as a private boarding-sohool for
boys, was burned Monday. While one of the
engines was going rapidly to the IRE, Frank
Buckley of Lebanon, N. H., an apprentice at
Harlow q Kelsey's foundry, was run over and
killed
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11


TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT CHINA, ME.-On
Saturday, the 10th ult., Charles Merrill, g
young man residing in China Village, Maine,
about twelve miles from Augusta, deliberate
ly murdered his mother without provocation,
cut up her body, burned portions Of II, and
hid the remainder in the forest. The excit-
ing cause of the deed was disagreement be
tween the young man and his mother last fall
respecting political matters. The son Charles
has a bad reputation, and has been arrested
several times for stealing. Last fall he voted
the Greenback ticket, and his mother, who
was an ardent Republican, turned him out Of
doors and told him in the future he must earn
his own living. He left town In quest Of em-
ployment, but did not succeed very well In
hnding work Finally, after his father went
into the woods his mother told him he
might come home and remain through the
winter The 1st OF February he returned.
The sting of being turned out Of doors In the
fall still ranked in his heart, and he nursed
his vengeance, and the result was the murder
of his mother by striking her on the head
with hammer.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11
AsH-ToNlC

A Perfected Purifier OF the System
ToxIc.-"T Increasing The strength, o5ridtino he
e9ecis u debility and restoring healthy functions"
WEBSTER.
For Indigestion, and Dyspepsia,
the many forms of Liver COM
-:,aint, Impure and ImpoverisheI
Blood, and Functional Derange-
ments attendant upon Debility, and
for Building UP the weak, Ash
Tonic is doubtless the most prompt
and certain remedy yet devised. In
1-2 lib. bottles, 10 cents; Six bottles,
s.. Accredited Physicians and
Clergymen, who may desire to test
the Tonic, will be supplied with not
exceeding six bottles, at One-half
the retail price, money to accom-
pany the order. Sold by Druggists,
and by d. B. Dewey & Co., 20 Dey
ST., N. Y.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11
(aStOria

N35 cents. A Mothers
remedy for sleepless and irritable
hildren. The Recipe of Old d..
Pitcher, Free from Morphine, and
not Narcotic. Formula published
with each bottle. For Flatulency,
assimilating the food, Sour Stomach,
Feverishness, Worms, and Disor-
dered Bowels, CastOria has the larg-
est sale of any article dispensed by
Druggists.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11
COMBINATION
CLOTHING STORE! F.!
We shall close the balance OF our
To make room for Spring stock.

just received new line of SACK, FRocK and
CUTAwAY SUITS, which are selling very cheap,
We have full assortment OF Nos. and HATHA-
WAY SHIRTS. Also, hne llue of the celebrated
MONARCH DRESS SHIRTS. CROWN COLLARS
and CUFFS in all the latest styles Furnishing goods
of all kinds. Two special bargains in Heavy Under
wear, at soc. aud 65c each. Everything at bottom
prices at the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

DIR. ToURJEE's annual excursion advertise
ment is out again. Every year these exeur-
sions become more appreciated, SO that an
announcement that the list is being made up
is all that is required
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11
INFLAMMATION MARBLE WORKS

Il OFFER the whole stock at cost, and less than
II cost to close up the business; consisting Of
seVenty-hve finished monuments and headstonen, and
large lot OF unfinished stock. This 10 not lot OF
refuse but is stock Of modern style.
Parties In want Of anything In this line can save from
25 to so per cent by calling at the old stand
J. Il. BUELL..
Wilmington. VI. Jan. I, Is6l. ssl2
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

Iiniin1ent.

The most Powerful,
Penetrating and Pain-relieving
remedy ever devised by man. 1t
soothes Pain, it allays inflammation,
it heals Wounds, and it cures
RHEUMATISM,
Sciatica, LumbagO, ScaIds,
Burns, Stiff Joints, Cuts, SWELL
ings, Frost bites, Quinsey, Salt
Rheum, Itch, Sprains, Calls, and
Lameness from any cause. Suf-
ferers from
PAIN IN THE BACK,
Fever Sores, EruptiOns, Broken
Breasts, contracted Cords, Neu-
ralgia, Palsy or dislocated limbs;
and owners of horses, planters, me-
.chanics, merchants and professional
men everywhere, unite in saying, that
CENTAUR IMMINENT
brings relief when all other Lini-
ments, Oils, Extracts and Embroca.
tons have failed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

TINO RENT. Two good offices in the new
II Bank Block, one Of them with use Of book
VAnlt. Apply At Pe0plsS National Bank. IN
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-03-11

d. L. MANSFIELD, Sup't.
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-04-09
"CHERRY BELLE"
The oddities and Attractions OF a
wOman's Hermitage.
san Francisco Chronicle.

A low, one-storicd shauty, with half
effaced chalk mark on the door denoting
! that it should be numbered 81 Twenty
third Steeet. In the narrow front yard
appears an abortive attempt at garden
ing, and q few green things lend feeble,
Pickering existence in their shadowy
quarters. The house il more like di-
minutiye shop than human dwelling.
The Chronicle reporter, who assembled
the steps aud raped upon the rickety
door. could see no signs of habitation,
but quick, light step answered the
summons, and woman, whose light
brown curls were sprinkled with white
threads, which cOntrasted strangely with
the rounded features and fresh natural
complexion. appeared qucstioningly mt
the door. The mention of a name hon
Ored in literary circles of California, and
at whose suggestion the visitor had call
ed, gained the intruder o cordial well
come. In the sunny. low walled back
roonf a sewing machine stood, covered
with sections Of mems garments. des-
tined for government use, and cut of
coarse unbreached drilling. A plump
black and white cat purred on u leaf of
the machine top. high-bred mouse-col-
ored greyhound lay curled up in cor
ner, and sweet voiced canary sent forth
trills of melody from q shabbye age. The
room was "a strange medley. On shelf,
high up on one side, a large pair of rose
color and white Venitian bottles of rare
beauty and style of years gone by, were
TESTED side by side with the most COM
mon kitchen utensils: there were numer-
Gus crayOn and pencil sketches upon the
wall, dish after dish of beautiful shells
and mosses, and Natures curiosity ofev-
cry description; upon small bracket u
common Irish potato, halvcd. followed
and filled with water, was covering the
walk with its fresh vine; suspended from
/ hook in the ceiling fat golden carrot,
arranged in a similar fashion, sent outat
the bottom, delicate, curling, fern-like
( foliage of emerald green. Many such lit
tie evidences went to prove the occupant
to be a person ofpoetical taste and past
prosperity. but the carpet was old and
! tattered and the dress of the hostess as
we'll as her surroundings were indicative
of extreme poverty. t.
oCEANA's HISTORY.
Il have come to learn your history
Oceana."
Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-04-09
THE NEW FrBER-BEAR aRAss

A few days since, at the store Of
one of our principal merchants, we
were shown some rude specimens Of
mating and bagging, made from the
fiber of what is commonly known as
the bear grass, which grows in the
greatest abundance through almost
every portion of the country. Mil
lions upon millions are annually ship
ped away to purchase bagging for our
cotton. Why not save this ANIMAL
expenditure if the material can BE-
manufactured here9 People are prone,
generally, to look upon a man, whose
mind and hands are continually work
ing up something new, as dreamer
Yet all the wonderful discoveries have
been made and utilized in the face OF
incredulity.
We will not say that there are mil
lions in Mr.. Stoner's proposition, but
we do assert THAT it deserves to be
closely considered.
EDITOR BATON ROUGE CApITOIIAN:
Il have submitted below, according to
your request, such information AZ
think will be interesting and useful to
your readers on the great Yucca ques.
ton.
LIST, We will give the names Of the
thirteen species Of the Yucca family
Yucca Filamentosa or bear grass; AL.
oefola or Spanish dagger, Flaccida,
Gloriosa, Vasiagetta Nos. one two and
three, Augnstitola, Anquitafolia, Brew.
folia, Puberula, Glancescus, Baccata
all of this family is fibre bearing.
2nd Its wonderful characteristics
lit grows more than one hundred
years without replanting.
I 2.-Losesl less than oDe-tenth in clean
ing.
3:-Strongest coarse fibre in The
world.
Has no enemies.
{, 5:-Requires no fencing after TIT
third year.
( 6:-Will grow spontaneously any
where south OF forty degrees.
7;-Will produce two crops per yea
south of thirty-one degrees after th'
third year. as farm product.
/ s:--Will not shrink when it gets we
/ in rope.
9:--Will yield from twenty-five hun
dred to fifty hundred pounds per acr
each year in good soil.
| l0:-Reguires no cultivation after tn
third year.
Ills worth from ten to ffteel
cents r.pound when cleaned.