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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
The Destruction of Trichin@.

Lancot.l
1t is commonly believed that ordi-
nary cooking will destroy trichin@ and
render infected meat innoxious. With
out doubt, as has been stated in the
daily press, "the encapsuled parasites
cannot survive certain elevation of
temperature, and death renders them
harmless" Is it, however, correct to
say that a complete means of protec
tion is furnished by the heat incidental
to cookery" Considerable doubt is
thrown on the statement by Vacher, of
Paris, whose authority is of conside-
rable weight, He afirms that the
protection given by cooking is quite
illusory, aud that in the thorough
cooking Of an ordinary joint of meat
the temperature in the center is not
sufficient to insure the destruction of
the parasite. He took leg of pork
Of moderate size and boiled it
thoroughly. A thermometer placed
within it at a depth of two inches and
a halt registered after an hours boil
ing 86 degrees Fahrenheit, after an
hour l1S degrees, after an hour and
a half l49 degrees, and after two hours
and half, when the joint was thor
oughly cooked, 165 degrees. This
temperature, M. Vacher maintains, is
insufficient, and we must remember
that at the center, which is still fur
ther from the surface than the bulb of
tho thermometer was placed, the tenn
perature would not be so high.
"Trichin@ would escape almost en-
tirely the action Of boiling water in
cooking. NJ. Vacher's note was COM
municated t1 the chamber of depu-
ties, and no doubt has Influenced the
decision of the French government to
prohibit entirely the importation of
American pork.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14

TIE estimated consumption Of cot
ton for March is figured by Ellison at
$4,000 bales week for Great Britain
and $4,000 bales for the continent,
both of 400 pounds per bale, and the
same amount for February. The stock
at English mills is given as 134, 900
bales, against $4,000 bales last year,
and at the continental mills 100000
bales, against $4,000 last year at the
same time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
The Couutesg orCaIthnevs.

The Countess Of Caithness, wife Of
the nobleman who died at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, is living between Nice
and Cannes in very sumptuous style.
Her diamonds are of immense value.
She married the late earl for his title,
and he married her for her wealth.
They have lived separate, and she re,
Gently sued for a divorce, presenting a
bill Of offenses which created much
gossip and scandal in London. The
case did not come to trial. Public
opinion was entirely on the earl's
side.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
CETTN.A A.
DINNER SETS,
tS5 places, f0r,$2O.
ePECIALTIEss
Bar Fixtures. Mirrors, etc.
ouadrupIe-plAted Knives. CAstOrs sts.
Hotel and Steamboat Ware.
G. N. ERICH,
sal MAVE STREET, Menphis, Tenn.

THE Hartsville Sentinel thus indi-
Gates the fate of the tax coupon:
A fight will be made against the
measure from the beginning, and all
party lines in Tennessee will be des-
troyed.
You are correct. This will be the
ruling political issue in the next state
canvass. The democrats and repub-
liCans will alike be lost sight of.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
The Power Of a SnOwdriit.

Appleton PoSt,l
The Northwestern railway company
has lost over 100000 in the fight
against snow since October last. Thir-
to-four immense snow plows have had
plenty of work, and these have been
backed up tremendously by from two
to six locomotives each. The might
of these plows and the great power of
a snowdriit may be estimated from the
fact that one plow, weighing $1,000
pounds, ballasted by $4,000 pounds
of railway iron and driven by six
locomotives, attacked snow checked
cutting but was defeated. The drift was
fifty-two feet high. When the work.
men, after the tremendous charge,
caught a glimpse of the immense
plough, they found that it, with all its
$4,000 pounds, had been repelled as
IL it were feather, and that it had
rolled diseonsolately over the drift and
had lodged against some trees, where
it proposes to remain until summer.
From one cut $4,000 cubic yards of
snow were taken, but in eight hours
the wind had piled it up full again
Nine thousand men have been EN-.
ployed from time to time during the
winter as shovelers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
Congressional.

WASHINGTON, April 14.-SENATE.
The vice-president laid before the
senate the unfinished business, it being
the resolution for the election of
officers.
A motion to so into executive ses-
sion was lost-yeas, 20; nays, 2l.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
Liverpool Market.

LIVERPOOL, April II. = Bacon
Cumberland clear steady, at Ais. Cd. /;
short ribs steady, at AS. 3D.; long
clear dull, at 43s.; clear ribs firm, at
AS. Sd. Lard-Prime western frmer,
at 56s. Sd. Turpentine spirits, in
London, is dull, at 3ls.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14

The LEDGER Office book bindery,
13 Madison street, is in the same
building as the newspaper and job
printing establishment; is owned by
the same proprietor, embraces all
machines and material used in a first
GLASS book bindery, and is conducted
by competent workmen capable Of
executing work in as good and sub
stantial q ! as can be done any
where.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
ReelEoot Lake Perch,

1000 perch and rock bass fish at
Clements, SO Beale, tomorrow morn
ing. Also red snappers and fresh
oysters. 40
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
sales to-day. $500 bales.

LIVERPOOL, April IA, 1:3O p M
Cotton in moderate inquiry freely sup
piled. Uplands, Cd; Orleans, 6 1-l6d
Sales to day, 5000 bales Receipts, 5000
bales; American, 5000. Futures opened
dull; now as follows: Deliv-
cries for April and April and May,
. 31-32d; May and June 1-32d;
June and July, 6 3-32d; july and
August, 6 5-32d; November and De-
cember, 5 15-l6d.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14

cess over last year same time, 6l4,55O
bales. In 1879 total receipts for same
period were 4,232, l60 bales. The
stocks at present are 708,l07 bales,
against 1884 bales last year and
436,526 the year before. Shipments
to Europe this season have been 3, ,6l9,-
678 bales against 1891 $3.50 last year
and 1908, ,2l4 bales the year before.
nnrrnR arIrnnnra
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
O0TrOH sxOHAEeB QUOTATIONS.
STANDARD International Olnaaihnnlinr

Stains.Qrdinary, sc; good ordinary, ne;
low middling, SIC; middling, &c.
The total receipts of cotton at all
United States ports since September
lst last has been $780, ,595 bales; ex-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
JACKSON
Tennessee Supreme Court Pro-
ceediDGs.

Special to the LEDGERl
JACKSON, Tenn, April 14.-Case
No. 563 will be the first called TO-
morrow morning. G. i. X.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14

The Weekly PUBLIC LEDGER is
only one dollar per year. 1t is the
equal of any weekly newspaper pub
lished in the south.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14

Our market is steady to-day, with a
maderate demand. Sales yesterday
were 200 bales, all to exporters, clos
ing unchanged, as fellows;
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14

The LEDGER book bindery, 19 Mad
ison, manufactures blank books of
every description in first class style.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
MASONIC NOTICE.

fTNHE stated assembly of Eureka Coun- O
/ oil No. 6, Royal aud Select Masters, Wy
will bo held to night (TH URSDAY), the/WN
l4th inst, at o'clock, fer dispatch Of impor-
tant business. Election ofoficers comforting
degrees, etc.. etc. Visiting companions fra.
ternally invited. By order Of
BUNF.. PRICE, TIE.
D. @. TRADER, Recorder.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
German-American building end

THE monthly loan meeting of this associa-
l. tion will be held this (THURSDAYl even
Ing, at "a o'clock, PIN. Parties desiring 10
make loans can do so by subscribing TO the
nth series, now open. Stockholders arc re-
quested TO pay their dues promptly, otherwise
bnes will be strictly enforced
JOHN SCHEIBLER, President.
ii. BRNsDORF, Secretary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-14
MONUMEN IS

I have A VERY LARGE STOCK OF THE
L finest monuments Of all kinds, also hne
ngure Jobs and very fine rustic mOnu.
ments, tablets, scrolls and headstOnos
Of all sizes and designs, which l will sell at
aetaal cost of material and labor ON
anem. You can save money by calling on
me and see my prices before purchasing else
where.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01

syndicate spinging Directly out of
the Standard Oil company, II of the
most formidable monopolies in Amer
lea, has just been formed under the
NAM Of Standard Coal andIron compa-
ny. This corporation proposes to buyup
all the coal and iron interests in the
Hooking valley region that can be
bought.
The Standard Coal company starts
out with all the interest of the Ohio
Central company, including about
two thousand acres of coal and iron
lands, and much more from private
owners. 1t has nearly all the blast
furnaces in the valley and other valu-
able interests, and is said to have OPP
tons on the Hayden Il Longstrath
coal interests, the former of which
is estimated at $500, 900.
1t is proposed, as soon as the or
%ganlzation is ready for business, to
get 10000 ears specially for the trade
of the Standard company. The pro-
%jectors are represented as disclaiming
any purpose to create an oppressive
monopoly. The very fact of such a
concentration Of interests and
property implies a monopoly, and all
monopolies are oppressive to a greater
or less degree.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01
PREPARE FOR THE FAIR

The near approach of the time when
the state fair will be opened makes it
important for our citizens to realize
that there is yet much to be done be-
fore Omaha will be ready for the in
fux of visitors to the coming exhibit
ton. The number of strangers in the
city is likely to be double..that of last
year and it will take the full capacity
of Omaha to entertain them properly.
Last year a committee on accommoda,
tions did excellent service in providing
for the wants of those desiring
rooms and board. There should at
once be n reorganization Of the COM
mittee on n larger scale and all.of our
people who can make it convenient to
accommodate guests should send their
names to the committee. In hun.
dreds of homes which last year did not
feel the necessity of doing anything
towards making Omaha's part in the
state fair n success, one or two board.
ers would cause little Inconvenience,
but would assist the management OF
the fair greatly in their endeavors
to accommodate all who come.
Omaha's reputation for hospitality and
enterprise is at stake in tins matter
and should not be permitted to suffer;
certainly not at the hands of her own
citizens.
The accommodations at the hotels
should also be increased. Last year
they proved sadly insufficient. Cots
by the hundred can be procured, and
if the halls and corridors of the hotels
prove insufficient vacant rooms can
easily be procured for the week where
they can be placed for the accommo.
ton of those who cannot obtain lodg-
ing elsewhere.
There is n movement looking to-
ward the sprinkling of Sixteenth street
to the fair grounds which it is sincerely
to be hoped will prove successful,
Our city authorities should see to it
that the streets and crossings on the
principal t~horoughfares are in good
condition and cleared of rubbish.
Omaha will be reviewed through the
eyes of thousands of visitors who will
gain their principal impressions of the
metropolis as seen from a walk through
our streets. Theman-traps should be
filled up; bumps smoothed down and
the streets rendered as passable and
attractive as it is possible to make
them with a reasonable amount of ex-
penditure.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01
THE BEE again repeats that Omaha's

THE BEE again repeats hat Omaha's
future lies in the hands of her enter
prising citizens. Exaggerated re
ports of her and condition,
padded out statistics of her commerce
and falsitied statements of her wealth
and industries will certainly react
upon the makers. Our city is making
wonderful strides, but other towns are
doing the same. If the work of en-
%couraging new industries, suggesting
municipal improvements and keeping
a general leak out for new Of
trade is lifted from OFT the shoulders
of ten or a dozen men and distributed
among our capitalists generally
Omaha's advance in the next foul
years will discount that of the last
decade. More work and less wind il
one of the crying wants of our city.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01
The Railway Problem in England.

The select committee on railway
rates of the English house of com.
mons have submitted a brief report
embracing some very important con-
clusions. They recommend that a
permanent special tribunal he estab-
lished to which shall he referred
questions arising as to the rights and
duties of railway companies in their
relations to the trade and traffic of
the country; that this tribunal have
jurisdiction to enforce the provisions
of all railway laws, including their
acts OF incorporation, and also to give
redress in cases of alleged illegal
charges; that a locus standi before it
be given to chambers of commerce
and similar associations; that terminal
charges If any should be separated
and distinguished from conveyance
charges in all cases; and that railway
companies should be bound to make
no increase in any rate or rates with
out at least one months public notice
in the locality.
These recommendations are the re-
suit in part--for the committee have
not concluded their labors-of a pro-
tracted and painstaking inquiry.
They are really conservative in spirit,
although the proposed tribunal will,
if the recommendation is adopted by
parliament, introduce a new feature
into the modes of procedure in an i'm
portant class of civil actions. Some
tentative steps in this direction have
been taken by legislatures in our
western states, such as making the
states attorneys the prosecuting
officers in cases where private parties
complain of illegal exactions on the
part of railway companies, and en-
towering railway commissioners to
bring actions in the name of the state
at the instance of private complain
ants. These remedies have generally
proved to be valueless by reason of
the delay attending the proceedings,
no preference being given to such
cases on the court dockets, and none
being admissible without injustice to
private s%uitors. A special tribunal
with nothing to do but to examine
such cases, and having exclusive juris-
diction of them, and vested with au-
thority to enforce it's DEGREES, is the
only rational mode of doing the thing
after it is once decided that the thing
ought to be done. This decision has
been reached, as stated, after years
of discussion III parliament and the
press, and there can be little doubt
that it will be concurred in by the
legislative power. Nor can there be
any doubt that it's influence will be
strongly felt in other English-speak-
ing countries. 1t is worthy OF re-
mark that the plan proposed is within
the lines of recommendations made by
leading experts in this country-that
is, by the few men who have made
the railway problem" their princi-
pal study without the bias of owner
ship of railway property.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01

The discussion of the possibility of
Vice-president Arthur becoming pres
ident leads the New York Herald to
make the following remarks upon his
future policy:
eff Mr.. Arthur becomes president
he will think first of himself and his
own fame and success He will not
sacrifice himself for aver 80 intimate
a friend as MIR. Conkling. He will aim
to harmonize his party, and not to
divide it and rend it to pieces. 1t is
our belief that he will be much more
apt to ignore old friends than to at
tract opposition and wrath toward
himself by favoritism. We repeat
that We believe Mr.. Conkling too wise
and too shrewd to accept any place
under Mr.. Arthur, but we also think
MIR. Arthur too shrewd and too ambi-
tious IA nan to call into his cabinet a
man like Mr.. Conkling, whom the
public would at once regard as the
real president, with Arthur acting rs
dummy, or figure head
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01
STATE JOTTINGS.
Lincoln has 1870 telephones.

Lincoln has 100 telephones.
Wahoo's Methodist church cost 50, 800.
Bennet's camp meeting was a grand
success.
Another addition is to be laid out to
Wymore.
Dawson county will be represented at
the state fair.
Plum Creeks new Catholic church will
be 40x65 feet.
Lowell is having a building and a big
business ''boom."
Work is being rushed on North Plates
new postotfice building.
Artesian wells are talked of in Bloom
ington for irrigation purposes.
A number of young men from Hubbel
started for Wyoming last week.
Teams now ford the Platte near Column
bus with perfect ease and safety.
Riverton has one of the best public
schools in southwestern Nebraska.
The main line of the b. NJ. will reach
Pawnee City inside of sixty days.
There is nothing new in regard to the
sale of the Otoe Indian reservation.
Cedar City was elected county seat of
Wheeler county by a majority of IA.
Republican City's bridge will be COM
pleted rapidly as it is possible to do the
work.
There are e~ighty-four teachers in at
tendance at the Gage county normal
school.
A number of fine buffalo We're killed
about ten miles north of Sidney during
the week.
Sidney wants n good photograph gal
lery, restaurant, cigar manufacturer and
tailor shop.
Hunters are generally having good sue
cess bagging chickens. They are said to
be plenty.
After September LIST the Republican
Valley road will carry mail from Beatrice
to Red Cloud.
Thousands of tons of hay is being put
up in Seward comfy this year. 1t is of
excellent quality.
Two hundred dollars will pay the vii
lage expenses of Bloomington for the AZ.
preaching year.
Valley papers are warning their readers
to plow ~fre-guards and be careful about
setting out prairie fires.
The Clarkson school building at North
Platte is pretty well under way, and will
be completed early in September.
The fall term of the Aurora school will
not before the middle of Sep.
TENDER, as the new house cannot be com.
pleted at an earlier hour.
A little rat terrier belonging to our har.
ness maker, Henry Hoppe, killed ninety.
five rats one day last week ON the farm of
Alex. DobsOn; it WAS all done in the
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01

SIDNEY DILLON and party stopped
half an hour on the crest of the
Rocky Mountains at Sherman
to inspect the work on the
Ames monument. Sidney growled
and swore at the builders because, in
his opinion, the two great pillars upon
which the body,of the monument is
to rest, are trail and weak. W. ap-
prehend that this attempt to comment
crate the public virtues of the cham
pion of credit mobilier in pillars of
granite will be classed among the fol-
lies of u day. If the Ames brothers
are to be immortalized by monuments
for the active part they took in the
construction of the Union Pacific that
national highway will be their most
unperishable m, nument. Long after
the great pillars at Sherman have
crumbled into dust the Pacific rail-
road will continue as one of the great
arteries through which commerce will
pulsate between the Atlantic and Pa
cific ocean.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-09-01
The Iowa Senatorship.

McGregor News.
Keep it before the people that John
IL. Gear has made for two terms the
best governor Iowa has aver had.
Keep it before the people that ever
since his reelection he has been recog-
nized as the proper man for our peO-
pie to advance to the position of their
senator, to succeed the senatorships
of Governor Kirkwood and Governor
Grimes. This prestige he has honor
ably won and will as honorably hold
to the end. Every mar in Iowa who
acts on the principle of true civil SER
vice reform, of reward and advance
ment for efficient and satisfactory pub
lie service, must concede this.
But now IN a great opponent to
overthrow the results of this generally
admitted and justly founded claim.
He issues circulars and pamphlets say
ing: II am the great arbiter of hui
man rights; behold my opinions on
railroads, Interstate commerce, bank
ing, science and the Bible, expatria-
ton, civil rights, ETC., etc., etc. l
have been cut of public services for a
dozen years, still / know more about
Iowa's affairs in a minute than this
man Gear does in a year, and the peo-
pie will find out that 1 do; / have not
been out of n thing, though i have
not been out of politics; ] have
been n managing convention man ever
since l quit being congressman; ] have
amssed half a million as a railroad
lawyer and q national banker; now |
am opposed to the very root and prin-
ciple upon which the railroads are
founded viz: complete management
of their own financial affairs; thus am
|, and the ~pretender Gear must be
brushed out of the way by Iowa re-
publicans." This the spirit of the
campaign which Wilson and his friends
have been conducting against Gov.
John H.. Gear.
AS a candidate for senator, Mr..
Gears campaign is rested on no such
manufactured claim for recognition;
no such towering heap of eIudition is
to be employed to squelch his oppon-
emit. On the contrary, he bases his
Siaiiio soioiy uPoH Ills ieCoIu hs all
efficient and competent servant of the
people, and upon his sterling honesty
and fearless integrity. If any fault
could be found with the character OF
quality of his public service he would
not ask promotion. If he no longer
meiited the full confidence of the
people he would resign from the place
he has. Governor Gear does not ask
official promotion upon the dubious
claim of ten.year-old political notori-
ETY. not of the best quality. Will the
people of Iowa pick up and prefer the
musty claims that have to be fresh
ened in their minds t o the fresh and
well earned distinctions of the best
servant they have aver hadl We shall