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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
FLIPPER'S TRIAL.
Testimony as to How he Kept Pub
lie Funds.
Two Thousand Dollars in a Pair
or Saddle-Bags.

GALVESTON, November SIN the
Flipper case yesterday the defense
eudeavored to show the treatment of
Lieutenant Flipper wilhelm the guard
house cell, and under the close
confinement Of the guardhouse. Col.
Shafter was prompted by spirit not
warranted by the customs Of the
army. The court objected to this
mode of examination, on the ground
that it had nothing to do with the
offence, if any had been committed,
and it was not within the province of
the court to mitigate the punishment.
The objection was withdrawn.
Finally Colonel Shafter stated that
before relieving Flipper from the
cOmmissary department he had con-
sidered him perfectly honest and of
good habits, and that if money was
stolen it had been done by others. He
further stated that previous to the
investigation Flipper's administration
had given entire satisfaction. On the
10th of August Flipper was seen in
town with a horse and saddle-bags
possibly preparatory to journey. He
was ordered back Immediately to
turn over his funds on hand. Within
two or three minutes after entering
his quarters some two thousand dol.
lars were found on his desk ready for
delivery, but they could not say
whether it was in his saddle. bags when
last seen or nof. 1t has since been
learned that he generally kept the
public money in his quarters instead
Of the Office safe. He had always ex.
lmined his accounts weekly, unless he
was absent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
QUINCY, ILL.
Damages by Rise of the River
Estimated 81, ,0S0, 0,OOO.

ST. LOUIS, November ga special
from Quincy, Ills, says; The water
recedes here very slowly, and it will
be several days before the branches Of
business that have been interrupted
can get back into their natural grooves
again. All the open country lying
between the north end of the Sny
Levee and the south Of Quincy is to
be levied as soon as the work can be
done, and the damaged levees are to
be repaired. Many estimates have
been made as to the amount of damage
done by the food, but these are the most
accurate. The entire losses in the
Warsaw drainage district are 5000, 900,
in Indian Grave district s750,O0O, in
Sny Island district $l,OOO,OOO, on
Quincy Bay and in the city, $4,000
in and about Alexanderville, Missouri,
$3.50, 900; to the Keokuk g. st. Louis
railroad, 100000; to all other rail-
roads 100000; to open lands north of
Sny levec and just south of this city,
$4,000, making the total S2,98O,OOO.
The full extent of the loss can only
be gauged when the river has returned
to it's banks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
River TeIegFnInE.

EVANSVILLE, November 8.-River
rising, with 4 Ito feet on the gauge.
The Gaff is adding literally here. The
Will Kyle struck an obstruction at
Slim Island last night and sunk 8 feet
at the bow and IL feet at the stern.
No further particulars. 1t has been
raining here since nine O'Clock this
m orning.
CAIRO, September 8.-Arrived
Fannie Tatum, St. Louis, II pm
Departed: Fannie Tatum, this morn
ing; Grand Tower, st. Louis. 8 am
Cloudy and warm.
LOUISVILLE, November S.-River
falling, with 6 feet 8 inches in the
canal and 4 feet s inches in the chute
on the falls. Weather clear and pleas.
ant.
PITTsBURG, November 8.-River Il
inches and about stationary. Clear
and pleasant.
CINCINNATI, November 8.-Rivel
0 feet 6 inches and falling, with faii
and warm weather.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

BoTH sides claim that they will
carry the election in Virginia to-day.
The canvass has been thorough, able
and brilliant, and has attracted the
attention Of the whole country. The
debt question, the Independent atti-
tude of Malone, and the part played
by the Republican party in indorsing
what it would call reputation in Ten
nessee, are anomalous features in the
politics Of the State. The Democrats
are divided in that State, as in this,
on a debt question. The Republicans
take advantage Of this and unite with
the readjusters, and thereby indorse
low tax ideas merely to defeat and
break up the Democratic party. They
surrendered professed principles for
paltry political gain. There will be con
siderable scratching and changing off
on both sides. That is, some Repub-
licans will not vote the Democratic
Roadjuster ticket and some Democrats
will go with the Malone party. The
negroes as body have had their poll
taxes paid for them, and have been
advised by leading Republicans to
vote the Readjuster ticket. Hence
the majority Of them will go that way.
AT the last Presidential election
the regular Democratic electoral
ticket received about $4,000 votes; the
Readjuster electoral ticket, 81, 900;
and the Republican ticket, $4,000. IT.
is plain to see if there is anything like
fusion between the Readjusters and
Republicans they will carry the State.
The failure of the Republicans to
place a ticket in the field and tho out
side pressure brought to bear has had |
tendency to unite the two wings of the
Democratic party. All in all it is
puzzling situation to one at a distance. |
Tomorrow we will have an idea of |
the result and be better able to Judge
OF its effect on national politics.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
BY CABLE.
Gigantic Strike Pending in
England.
Important Tribes Agree to Submit
to the French.
Havoc by Yellow Fever In West
ern Africa.

LONDON, November SIN Cortes,
Madrid, a debate or address in reply
to speech from the throne concluded
that the government was deCisiyely
victorious.
HANLEY, November SIN various
towns of fStaffordshirc the potteries
are on the eve Of a gigantic strike, all
men connected with the Operatives
Association having resolved to cease
work. On Thursday, unless the ad.
vance is granted, the strike will effect
fifty thousand employees. Alta meet
ing yesterday the employers pledged
themselves to refuse the advance.
According to advices from Bonny,
Western Africa, yellow fever has
caused terrible havoc in Senegal.
A Berlin dispatch says: In the
second ballot for members to the
Reichstag DR.. Falk was victorious at
Worms by sweeping majority. Most
of the second elections up to the pres
ent time have resulted in favor of the
Liberals.
A dispatch from Tunis says import
ant tribes in the Tebeurseuk district
have agreed to submit to the French.
BoNNY, AFRICA, November s.
Reports from New Calabar indicate
that another war is iminent here be
tween King Alakeree and Will Braid.
Several sanguinary contests have al
ready occurred between the followers
of both parties. The powerful chiefs
Oko, Jumbo and Jaja intend to join
in the hostilities, the former siding
with Will Braid and the latter with
King Alakeree.
LONDON, November 8.-The Mar
quis of Salisbury, acknowledging the
receipt of an expression of confidence
from the Conservative Club, censures
with severity the past and present
tactics of the government in its treat
ment of the, Irish question and declares
its policy dangerous to the property
and prosperity Of the country.
James Twite, formerly secretary Of
the Mullingan branch of the Land
League, who was discharged from
Kilmainham Jail Friday last, was re.
arrested to-day, supposed because of
violent speeches, which caused much
excitement.
MAIDSTONE, November 8. - The
trial of Arthur Lefroy for the murder
of Gold came to a close to-day. The
court room was densely crowded. A
remarkable number of women were
present. Lord Chief Justice Cool
eridge's summing up for the prosecu
ton was strongly against the prisoner,
and tended to throw discredit on the
point on which the defense relied;
that Lefroy had not pawned his
pistol, and showed entire disbelief in
the prisoners assertion, that a third
person was present in the railway car
at the time of the murder. The pris.
oner was found guilty and sentenced
to be hanged. After the sentence had
been passed Lefroy protested his in
nocence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
NashHiIIe,s Prosperity.

World, IL
Nashville works up no real estate in
flations, and so escapes the disastrous
reactions that have been realized in
other cities. 1t boasts of no "booms'
or bonanzas, but it keeps growing
steadily and healthfully. What it
gains it keeps. The improve
ments now going on in every
part of the city are Of such
a substantial character as to show
that there is capital here, and that it
has confidence in the future of Nash
vile. There is good reason for this
The foundations Of its business pros
perity are as firm as the solid lime
stone on which rests its factories,
warehouses, stores, churches, man.
sions, cottages and shops. 1t is a good
place to live in, and it is a good place
in which to make money and invest it
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
Steamer Sunk

The steamer Will Kyle, Captain
Lew Gates, sunk below Evansville
last night, while on her way up the
Ohio, from New Orleans. The Kyle
passed here last Thursday afternoon,
on her sixth day out from New Or
leans, with a cargo of 800 tons, having
added 300 bales Of cotton at Arkansaw
City, and $40 bbls of oil at Helena.
The Kyle had been plying in the
Anchor Line between st. Louis and
New Orleans for some time past, aud
this was her first trip to the Ohio
since the business season closed last
spring.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
How to Secure Health.

1t seems strange that any one will
suffer from arrangements brought on
by impure blood, when Scovills' Sar-
saparilla and Stillingia, orBlood and
Liver Syrup, will restore health. 1t
is the best blood purifier ever discov-
cred, effectually. curing scrofula, syph-
ilitic disorders, weakness of the kid.
neys, erysipelas, malaria; all nervous
disorders and debility, bilious com
plants, diseases of the blood, liver,
kidneys, stomach, skin, etc 1t cor
iects indigestion. A single bottle will
prove to you its merits as a health
ienewer, for it acts like a charm.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
A Canal Boat Propelled by Air.

A novelty in canal boats lies in
Charles river, which is calculated to
attract considerable attention. 1t is
called pneumatic canal boat. and
was built at Wiscasset, Me. as devised
by the owner, Mr.. r. H. Tucker, of
Boston, who claims to hold patents
for its design in England and the
United States. The specimen shown
on Charles river, which is designed to
be used on canals without injuring the
banks, is simple structure, measuring
81 feet long and 20 feet wide. 1t is
driven entirely by air, Roots Blower,
No. 4, being used, the latter by an
eight horse power engine. The air is
forced down a central shaft to the
bottom, where it is detected, and
being confined between keels, passes
backward and upward, escaping at the
stern through an ori6ce of nineteen
feet wide, so as to form a sort of air
wedge between the boat and the sur
face of the water. The force with
which the air strikes the water is
what propels it. The boat has a speed
of four miles an hour, but requires a
thirty five horse power engine to de-
velop its full capabilities. The
patentee claims a great advantage in
doing away with the heavy machinery
of screws and sidewheels, and be-
lieves that the contrivance gives full
results in proportion to the power en-
ployed. 1t is also contrived for back
ing and steering by air propulsion.
Owing to the slight disturbance which
it causes to the water it is thought to
be very we'll adapted for work on
canals, without injury to the sides.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
TO-day's weather,

WASHINGTON, November 8.-FOr
Tennessee and the Ohio valley, local
rains and cooler and partly cloudy
weather. Variable winds, mostly
from south to west and in eastern pOr-
tion falling barometer.
For lower Missouri valley, areas Of
rain followed by colder clearing wea-
ther, northwest winds and rising ba-
rometer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

SPRING LICK, KY, November g.
A store house at Gifts Crossing, in
this county, and all the goods therein,
has been consumed by fire. The house
was discovered on FIRE few minutes
after the passenger train going west
had passed, and it is believed that the
fire was caused by sparks from the
engine. The house belonged to j. W.
Bradshaw, and the goods to H. Clay
Field. Fields loss is estimated at six
hundred dollars, and BraGshaw's at
the same.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
Henry's CarbOlic saIve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, tet-
ter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all kinds of skin eruptions, freck-
les and pimples. Be sure you get
Henry's carbolic salve, as all others
are but limitations and counterfeits.
Price Is cents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

The PUBLIC LEDGER book bindery
13 Madison street, is in the same build
ing as the newspaper and job printing
establishment; is owned by the same
proprietor; embraces all machines and
material used in a frst-class book
bindery, and is conducted by compe-
tent workmen, capable Of executing
work in as good and substantial a
style as can be done anywhere. !
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
ADDITIONAL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, November 8, 1:30 pm.
Cotton firm, Uplands, 6 7-l6d; Or.
lcans, 6 9-l6d. Sales to-day 1900
bales. Receipts, 28.5OO bales, all
American 2l 900. Futures opened
steadier, with a fraction below yes
terday's prices.
NEW ORLEANS, November Z, 11:3O
a.m.-Cotton quiet. Middling, 1lBc;
Sales to-day, 400 bales. Sales yes
terday 1000 bales. Receipts to-day
10,5O7 bales. Stock 204, 1897 bales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
FROM Ell PASO.
The Southern Pacific and the
Texas Pacific 10 Meet on the
goth.
Special Telegram.

Special Telegram.
Ell PAso, November 4. - The
Southern Pacific has reached the
ninetieth mile post east Of here, and
thirty miles from the terminus of the
Texas Pacific. They will meet by the
10th of the month. The Mexican
Central is complete eight miles from
the city into Mexico.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

The PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office constantly receives new type Of
the latest styles, and the Office gener-
ally is kept up to the highest standard
of excellence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
Pittsburg Election and weather.

PITTsBURG, November 8.-The
election is passing of quietly and a
very light vote is being polled. The
weather is bright AMI warm.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

Hand bills of all sizes, from the
smallest to a three.sheet poster, done
with neatness and dispatch, at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
CRITTENDEN COUNTY, ARK.
James Barton Appointed Sheriff
Until Special Election.
Special to the Ledger.

Special to the Ledger.
LITTLE Rock, November S.-The
Governor appointed James Barton
Sheriff of Crittenden county until the
special election, ordered December
'9th.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

Music books, magazines, illustrated
papers, ETC., bound at the PUBLIC
LEDGER bindery, l3 Madison street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
DIR. Green's Oxygenated Bitters

is the best remedy for dyspepsia, bill
BUSINESS, malaria, Indigestion, all dis
orders of the stomach, and diseases Of
the blood, kidneys, liver, skin, etc.
Durno's catarrh snuff cures all af-
lections of the mucous membrane Of
the head and throat.
DR.. Motifs liver pills are the best
cathartic. W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
DIED.

.OUNNINGHAM-NoVember 7th, at the res
idence Of James e. Fox, Miss SUSIE CUNNING
HAM.
Funeral to take place TOMORROW, at 10
a m from 80 Orleans street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

DR.. Rogers Vegetable Worm Syrup
instantly destroys worms and removes
all secretions IN
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
A Black Eye for WOman's Sui-
frnRe.

SAN FRANCISCO, November SIN
Washington Territory the Legislative
Council killed the woman's suffrage
bill by vote of Eve ayes toseven nays.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08

Bakers Pain Panacea cures pain in
man and beast. Use externally and
internally and find relief.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
THE Confession ANp PROOF

of the identity Of the so called Sicilian
brigand, Esposito Randazzo, do not by
any means vindicate or justify the
wrong and outrage of the mode of his
capture and deportation from this
city.
Indeed, the more aagrant his crimes
the more essential to the maintenance
of the dignity and impartial justice
and vigor of the law, that all its pro-
cesses and requirements should be
pursued to secure his conviction. Very
certainly the State OF Louisiana is
under an obligation of II e most sacred
character to extend to every person
within its jurisdiction every process
provided by its laws for the proper
investigation of charges and the de-
tense of their person and liberty.
This obligation was not regarded in
the mode of arrest and detention Of
Esposito, and if, as has been coutended
by certain lawyers and journals there
is any act Of Congress or treaty au-
thorizing such proceeding, it was an
invasion of the sovereignty of the
State, and was unconstitutional and
void.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-11-08
A BRIGAND'S BOTHER.
Esposito Rsndazzo Comes Into Court
Like an Honest Man,
And Sues for Alleged Moneys De-
posted In a Friends
Hands.

New Orleans States, III
The former brigand, Giuseppe Es-
positO Randazzo, whose kidnapping
last summer is freshly remembered,
has promulgated tale Of woe through
the agency Of the courts. On Satur-
day afternoon he filed suit against
Angelo Cusinano, a well known
Italian merchant of this city, claiming
that the latter has $4,000 belonging
to him.
Esposito alleges that on reaching
New Orleans in March, 1880, bearing
letters of introduction to Cusimauo,
he was induced to deposit $4,000 in
his keeping. The brigand goes on to
say that he embarked in the fruit
business and received much moral aid
from. .Cusimano, and was succeeding in
his business, when he was forcibly
kidnapped by the detectives.
After being taken to New York,
Esposito says Cusimano collected
lot of bills due him (Esposito) amount
ing to over $4,000, and then induced
the brigand's wife to surrender all her
husbands property to him, for the
purpose of destroying all evidence of
the Indebtedness of Cusimano to Es
posito. The brigand claims that by
this move he has been deprived Of all
his means, and nothing left to secure
his freedom from the charges pending
against him, while his wife and child
are entirely destitute.
He therefore demands full restitu-
tion ofall the moneys referred to. The
brigand also sues Cusimano and his
father n-law, Giuseppe Grande for
the recovery of lugger, which he al
leges he bought and entered at the
Customhouse in Grande's name, as he
was not a citizen OF the United States,
and which was sold by Grande and
Cusimano after his seizure.
He values the lugger at $500. At
the present time Esposito is languish.
ing in Jail at Palermo, Italy, and his
identity as the Bligand has been
clearly shown, even If his own con
fessiou were not enough to establish
that fact.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-18

or all the abortions that ever was called q
fair, says the Carson Tribune. that Of Reno
is the worst, and the chances are that the
present will be the last. The idea Of hold
ing an agricultural fair in the month Of
October in the State Of Nevada Is in itself
ridiculous, and unless some new arrange
ments are made, the Reno State Fair will
be Of the past. In the first place the fair
grounds are a humbug; the track is q worse
one; half q dollar takes a passenger one
mile; q man sells in-lightning whisky,
and another the very worst class of Chinese
cigars. A cup of hog-wash. called coffee,
and q tough steak can be had for seventy
Eve cents and stale oysters for half . dollar
the half dozen. In fact, the whole thing
Is a lamentable fzzle, and the sooner it is
done away with the better for all concerned.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-18
Cross Veins.

The following construction has been put
upon Section 1886, United States Statutes,
"where two or more VEINS" etc., by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office:
The uniform construction placed upon
this section is, that the space Of intersec-
ton meant Is determined solely by the
width OF interesting veins, and not the
width OF the claims.
For instance, the party making the first
location is entitled to all surface ground
and the foil extent Of the vein included
within It's boundaries, including the space
Of intersection.
The second locator is entitled to the full
length OF bis location, exclusive of the
conflicting surface ground, and the space
of intersection Of veins.
II the intersecting veins are respectively
10 feet In width, the space Of intersection
would be 10 feet square, and the party To-
eating last would not be entitled under the
law to 10 feet OF lode included in the space
OF intersection.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-18

Are the Quakings Felt In the
Lower Levels of Mines7

are the 4uaktnks Felt In the
Lower Levels OF MInes7
1t has been frequently stated that earth
quake shocks are seldom felt at any great
depth beneath the surface, as in deep
mines. This reported fact. says the En-
terprise, has given much hold to the cleo
trio theory Of earthquakes, under which
the earth would not be supposed to be dis
turbed at any considerable depth. But q
late English paper says: ga severe shock
Of earthquake is reported to have been ex.
perienced in the mining district Of Tev-
ersal, in Nottinghamshire, about noon on
Friday last august. 1881. In one OF the
pits belonging to the Stanton Iron Works
Company the miners we're 80 alarmed at
the shock and the accompanying noise
that, thinking an explosion had occurred,
they rushed to the mouth Of the pit" The
depth Of this mine ia given at 1920 feet.
In n instance miners who were working
On the 1400 level Of the Bullion reported
having distinctly felt an earthquake shock
at the sam time that it was felt on The
surface. They said it appeared as if some
heavy thing had rushed through the
ground and crossed the drift in which
they were at work. The same year, that
in which the Owens River country re-
ceived such a shaking up, q thing occurred
which appeared to show that the shaking
was all near the surface. At a shaft 800
feet In depth down in the Owens River re-
gion the men at the ~windlass were nearly
shaken off their feet by an earthquake
shock, while those at the bottom OF the
shaft felt nothing Of 1t. Thus it would
appear that earthquakes sometimes skim
the surface and at others dive to consider
able DEPTHS,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-18
The Ladies, Tournnmcnt.

The Reno Gazette says the ladies flu
'shed their exhibition Of equestrianship
yesterday. They were all beautiful riders,
and II seemed almost impossible to Judge
the best. The judges, however. solved the
problem by awarding the premiums as
follows Mrs. Blume first. Mrs. Ferguson
second. Miss Grow third. Miss Painter
fourth. Mrs. Mooney ffth. Miss Smith
sixth, Miss Andrews seventh, Miss Brown
eighth, Mrs. Ganlt ninth. Mrs. Phillips
tenth and Mrs. Ayers eleventh. The prizes
consisted Of q beautiful silk dress pattern
LOT the first, a silver plate valued at $40
ior the second, a silver plate valued at $40
ior the third. silver plate valued at $50 for
me fourth, q $40 gold piece for the fifth,
sixth and seventh. a $40 piece each for the
eighth and ninth, q IS piece for the tenth
and a lady's hat valued at S. for the
eleventh and last prize. Col. Osbiston's
salary % judge went with the first prize.