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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

The census has been taken all over
France, but the result will hardly be
known before the middle OF March,
as the drawing up of the various sta
t%istical tables will entail much labor.
Meanwhile, it is interesting to look
back into the past and see what pro-
gress the population of this country
has made in the way Of increase since
the beginning Of the last century. In
100 it was not quite up to 20.000,000,
in 1901 it was a little over q, 900, 900
of Frenchmen; hut the year 1872
showed a elimination OF nearly 2,000,-
900. The war and the losses and mis-
cry which it had entailed, coupled
with the surrender Of Alsace Lorraine,
we're the cause of this substantial de-
crease In 1876, however, matters had
begun to improve, and the censustaken
in that year raised the figures to ex-
actly 81, 900, 900. tits hoped that this
years census will show that the popu-
lation Of France has increased even in
a greater proportion, and that it may
be found to have risen to 38,500,000,
the highest number ever yet attained.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
CjeneraI 0hermnn,a Rotreat.

General Boynton ~telegraphs. Gem
eral Sherman has taken to parapets''
in the matter Of the attack he made
upon the engineers in the first publ
cation Of his annual report. As it was
first given TO the press by tho General
himself, it contained the following slur
in speaking Of the engineers:
when war comes the engineer nat
urally takes to maneavering and to
parapets, whereas the infantry. cavalry
and artillery must 90 in and do the
fighting.
In the pamphlet edition just issued
under his supervision, the above is
changed into the following:
When war comes suddenly, as il
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
Rescued from a

William j. Coughlin, Of Somerville,
Mass, says; I'm the fall of1S76 | was
taken with a violent bleeding of the
lungs, followed by a severe cough. /
was SO weak at one time that l could
not leave my bed. In the summer of
1877 l was admitted to the city hospi-
tai. While there the doctors said l
had a hole In my left lung as big as a
half dollar. l YVES so far gone at one
time a report went around that | was
dead. | gave up hope, but a friend
told me Of DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for
the Lungs. | got a bottle, when to my
surprise and qualification | commenced
to feel better, and to-day | feel in bet
ter spirits than | have in the past
three years.
II write this hoping every one
afflicted with diseased lungs will be
induced to take DR.. Halls Balsam for
the lungs, and be convinced that con-
sumption can be cured" Sold by
druggists.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

Rome accepted the services of
st. Ignatius and allowed him to do his
work in his own way. His order even
now is a vast and growing power in the
Roman church. The Episcopal church
bad a Loyola in the person Of Wesley.
but she drove him out, and the conse-
quence was the creation of a new
church, knowing not the heir
archy Of England. Nothing
could be wiser, even in a
merely sectarian view, than for Pro.
testant Episoopalians in the South to
encourage the education and ordi.
nation Of colored men whose hearts
are inspired to enter upon the minis.
try. They could do invaluable work
among the large colored population
throughout the Southern States in the
way OF propagandism, more efficiently,
probably than it could be done by
whites. ANY religious sect which re-
fuses to recognize the value Of such
agencies will surely behold other sects
exclude it from the field.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
Senator HOar's EuIOgy ON Gar.
field.
New York Herald.l

New York Herald
A sufficient interval has elapsed
since the death Of President Garfield
for the country reasonably to expect
some calm analysis of his qualities and
associations and achievements to tenn
per former eulogies which are pro.
nounced upon his memory. For the
purpose Of speaking we'll Of the illus
trious dead it is not needful that the
most sympathetic orator shall lavish
praise indiscriminately. Indeed, he
defeats his purpose by such a proce.
dure. After a careful perusal of the
grafton delivered by Senator Hoar. of
Massachusetts,, of which we print a
synopsis on another page, we regret to
say that he has done injustice to the
subject Of the panegyric by imputingto
him too near an approach to
the superhuman, America will cher.
ish the fame of President Garfield
among her most precious possessions
and rank him among the best products
Of her manhood; but history cannot
exalt him to the supereminence which
Senator Hoar claims nor stamp his ca.
reer with the verdict of absolute ex.
cellence. To borrow an apt phrase
from familiar English poetry, Mr.
Hoar has erred in describing his hero
as "iaultily faultless." If we may il.
lustrate our criticiem of Mr.. Hoar'l
failure by a somewhat fanciful meta.
phor, he has adorned the dead Will
scentless and symmetrical camellial
instead Of hanging a wreath Of fragrant
and graceful roses upon his tomb.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
Uncle Sans Big Printing ONCE.

Few people have any idea Of the ex-
te%nsiveness of Uncle Sans printing
establishment at Washington, and
fewer still have any conception of the
waste that is made there. England
spends about $2,50O,0 900 per year on its
printing, but gets a revenue Of at least
$1,000 from the sale Of the printed
books. Uncle Sans concern cost last
year 50, 2l5, 939, and the revenue from
the sale Of printed matter was $893l,
and from waste 1886, 1893. OF
the vast sum annually expended
for public printing, fully half
a million dollars is squandered. Uncle
Sans printing Office is run on free
and easy principles, and they are be-
coming freer aud easier each succeed
ing year. Last year $900,0 900 was
spent for letter heads, binding blanks
and all other kinds of printing for Of
fee holders; $2l7,4 was the cost Of
maps, charts and engravings; nearly
$4,000 was used in printing eulogies,
which go into waste baskets all over
the county; $206,56S was spent in
printing eccentric MIR lie Dues agri-
cultural essays; SIT, 765 was the cost
Of printing the Government Record;
last winters bills presented in
Congress were printed at an outlay Of
over $1,000, and thousands of copies
thrown away; the report of the Paris
Exposition was gotten up in elaborate
form and cost $8l ,049. They were
recently knocked off at auction by the
hundred copies at two and q hall
cents a pound. And, to clap the eli
max, it may be said it will take oyel
$500, 900 to pay for the work ordered
in 1880, but not done until this year
Uncle Sans printing Office is a gigan.
tic waste spout. 1t needs a thorough
overhaulinp.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

WASHINGTON, January Accord
ing to all accounts, the new Postmas-
ter General will appoint his son, Frank
Howe, to the position Of Chief Clerk
Of the Postofice Department. The
position Of Chief Clerk in the Post
Office Department is one of peculiar
intimate relations with the Postmas.
ter General, and it is generally filed
by a man intimate with the Postmas-
ter General. 1t is safe to assume
that young Howe is on intimate terms
with his father. His appointment
would have, however, squinted in the
direction Of nepotism.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

most always does with Us, in the be-.
ginning the engineers naturally resort
to scientific methods, whereas the in
fantry, cavalry and artillery, with
superior practical knowledge acquired
in contact with troops, must 90 in and
do the fighting without further time
for preparation, etc.
just how far the General has lifted
himself out of his difficulty does not
clearly appear.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
Mrs. gurratt and GnItcau.

Boston Advertiser
1t has been suggested, by way of
contrast with the Guiteau trial, that,
sixteen years ago a woman who was,
at the worst, only a const' uctive part
ner in the assassination ola President,
sat manacled hand and foot before the
tribunal which was trying her" That
was a military trial, conducted when
the passions excited by the war we're
still hot, aud the laws, lsng silent, had
hardly begun to assert themselves.
Long, long may it be before there will
be occasion for another trial like that.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

Ex-senator Lowry, who was for
merly so conspicuous a figure in Penn
sylvanis politics, once accounted for
the suddenly acquired wealth of q
Harrisburg official by the statement
that he dispensed with the services of
a hired girl" Police Captain Walsh,
Of New York, whose salary was $500,
and who died the other day, leaving
an estate of 100000, must have dis
covered a more effective rule Of
economy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
Weakness Cured.

LYNN, MASS, Dec. IS, 1880.
| gave that valuable medicine
Browns Iron Bittars, to my sis.er for
weakness. After taking two bottles,
she was able to run as well as ever.
1t is certainly a wonderful tonic.
VIM. JONES.
S. Mansfield & Co W. N. Wilker-
son & Co., and G. W. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
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Bishop RaimOndI, Vicar ApOS-
tOlie of Hong Kong, China.

Right Rev. j. t. Raimondi.
Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong, China,
is at st. Joseph's church 10 this city
and will remain there for a few days.
He will preach in the chapel on Sun
day (to-morrow) in Italian at ten
o'clock mass, and in the evening at
1880 in English, when he will give an
interesting account of the Roman
Catholic mission in China.
Bishop Raimoudi was born in Milan,
Italy, in 1927; was ordained a priest
May 18th, 1850; entered the services
Of Foreign Missions in Milan 0cto.
Der Sd, 1850; left Europe in March,
1852, for the missions among
the savages and cannibals in the Pacific
islands, where be spent four years.
From there he went to Borneo to work
among the Malays. In 1858 Bishop
Raimondi was sent to China, where he
spent the last twenty four years. In
1861 he was appointed Procurator
General of the sacred congregations Of
the Propaganda Lide and Project
Apostolic of Hong Kong. In 1874
the Protective Apostolic of Hong
Kong was erected into a Yicarate
Apostolic, and he was made the first
Vicar Apostolic OF that place, and
c~oncecrated in Rome Bishop Of Aean
tho on the I'D of November Of tn,
same year by His Eminence, Cardina
Franchi, in the name of His Holmes.
Plus Pope TX. One month afte
Bishop Raimondi returned to Hon
Kong where he was received wit
great pomp by the Catholics an,
. Protestants Of the place. In the las
score ofyears Bishop Raimondiworke
very hard with the greatest success
especially in the important matter O
education. He succeeded in .stab
fishing the Brothers Of the Christia
schools in Hong Kong, where they ar
having excellent schools. At preser
Bishop Raimondiis engaged in havin
q beautiful, large building erected fC
a college, which will be entrusted
the a r of the good Brothers of ID
Christian schools. The laying of th
corner stone Of the new college too
place in Hong Kong on the Sd Of Nc
Vember last. Bishop Raimondi is ais
engaged in having a beautiful churc
erected in Hong Kong, which will
the first Roman Catholic church j
the island, the present Cathedral bein
quite unfit for the always increasiu
Catholic population.
A resident of Relfaat Ohio h.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
LEDGER.
saturday sVeainE. Jan. =. IssI.
LITTLE by little the investigating

LITTLE by little the investigator
committee at Nashville digs out a teV
surface indications, as it were, o fth'
deep mine which furnished the means
methods and Influences whereby tn,
1908 bill was showed through. A
witness has been found at last to ties,
tify that a mar told him money waf
actually paid to a member of the State
Senate. 1t is proved by more wit
nesses than one in fact that a man
named Chapman, a Gallatin saloon
keeper, told it around at the time
that he and Brahsford paid Barrett
five thousand dollars for his vote, but
that he returned the money saying
that the other side, the 1908 folks
had offered him ten thousand dollars.
Even this is only second hand infor-
nation, but it points toward the place
where the smoke issues, and the peo-
pie cannot help thinking there is some
fire underneath. A few pebbles of
truth have been gathered. Certain
so-called low tax men. bought
bonds on the short side;
certain Jealous advocates of the
States credit and honor bought on the
long side, and then both sides sought
to influence legislation according to
their interests. Their opinions and
their speculative interests were in per-
feet harmony. There was much drunk
enness and general ~debauchery from
all accounts, yet a certain kind Of
method in all the madness hat ruled
the hour. 1t would be most charita-
BILE to conclude that some of the lob
byists we're drunk or crazy. We are
not permitted, however, to draw such
. complimentary inference except in
the case of q few members Of.
the legislature. The lobbyists
had too much at stake to
take the chances of intoxication.
A fine state of affairs aud a fine set of
men to pass laws and settle a great
question so as to make it binding for
ninety-nine years, and that beyond the
power ACKNOWLEDGMENT Legislature or
even Constitutional Convention to
annul. Such was the intention, and
such the boast of newspapers hat
lauded to the skies every man who
voted for the measure. Those who
would consider such a settlement
morally binding, aud profit politically
or personally by agreements patched
up at drunken orgies in back rooms
and drinking shops, must endorse the
means by which it was procured
The act as passed was defeated in the
Senate. At the end Of two days a
member moved to reconsider,
and it then passed by a majority ofone
vote. including those cast by the Sena-
tor who for some mysterious reason
had changed his mind, aud two others
who had been drunk, if not
otherwise influenced, to misrepresent a
free aud decent constituency. This
is the law we are asked to accept,
and, if we do not, we will again be
called Republicans. 1t will be a pain
full evidence OF degeneracy and apathy
if the people of Tennessee do not re-
pudiate this measure and its authors.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

General Hancock stated to q New
York interviewer Thursday that he
will not take any action to summon
the court martial to try Sergeant Ma
son, who att mpted to shoot Guiteau,
until he receives instructions from
Washington.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
MWasImmediatea AID Constant.

375 TIN STREET, LOUISVILLE, KY,
March 20, 1881.
II. II. Warner & Co.: Sirs-The
effect produced by your Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure, which I took for a
severe kidney difficulty, was immedi-
ate relief and constant improvement
until it effected a permanent cure.
MRS. ELIZA A. RAE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

General Lee Wallace is said to have
painted an admiral portrait of his
father and he has in his study a pic
ture Of historical interest, This is
called THE Oonspirators," and rep
resents as sitting on mar BILE blocks in
an old Washington yard a group of.
men who plotted to kill Lincoln. The
portrait was taken from life, the Cen
eral having sketched the men in
court during their trial,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

Health and strength given to deli
cate women, nursing mothers and in
FAINT children who use Browns Iron
Bitters.
S. Mansfield & Co, W. N. Wilker-
son 4 Co. and G.. W. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

No disease is a severer test of ones
patience or fortitude than piles, or
hemorrhoids, and there is none from
which we more a~nXiously long for
relief, which can be used by using
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment.
For sale by w. N. Wilkerson & Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

81 move" said a delegate in a Vir-
GINA convention, that our chairman
take a dose Of Dr.. Bulls cough syrup,
he is so hoarse that | cannot under.
stand him" That gentleman had no
doubt tried this wonderful medicine.
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07

A resident Of Belfast, Ohio, has
been put under bends Of $500 to ap-
pear before the grand jury on the
charge Of opening a letter written by
his wife to her father.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

ing once more. Thus it is clear that so
long as Christ is. accepted and secure
before God and His throne, so is each
believer. We are bound up in the
bundle of life with Him.
3. No condemnation of the believer
rests on the ground of interceSsion
The High-Priest acted only for the
children of Israel, the people of God /;
hence the presence of the priest before
the mercy seat for Israel is a proof that
they were accepted as the people of God,
and that God had communion with them
through Him. 1t is a mistake to think
that.the Lord Jesus is High-Priest for all
people. In fulfllment of the type, He is
before God only on behalf of His chosen
ones, hence His Intervention on Gods
throne in behalf of believers, or in be-
nall OF any one is proof that those per-
sons have been accepted before God, are
viewed not as rebels or aliens, but as
sons, and as it is proof that they are
sons, and there can be no condemnation
against the son, inasmuch as being sons,
we are In Christ, therefore, the interces-
SION OF Christ is conclusive proof that
there is now no condemnation to them
that are In Christ Jesus
With this three-fold cord of death, re-
surrection and intercession, the weakest
believer is bound to the heart of God.
Now if there is no condemnation upon
the believer and none in store, what re-
mains? We answer, the future holds for
the believer in Christ Jesus nothing Jut
glory. We do not look for Judgment.
but for the appearing of our friend and
Saviour, who, at His Judgment seat or
Benia, will reward us according to our
service here. 1t is in the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ that the great fact of
our complete acceptance shall be made
manifest, for we shall receive the resur-
rectlon change; we shall be glorifed with
deathless, painless bodies; we shall
shine IN the image of Him who has re-
deemed US; then shall He roll off the
curse of condemnation from this sad
earth, fill up the many graves, batter
down the monumental piles, and uncover
the flowers, and give glad song to crea-
tons long-hushed lips.-Rev. l. NJ
Haldemam.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

II there was one black spot in hundred
Satan would be sure to put his finger
upon it. Many who expected sensa.
tlonal revivalist uproar were surprised
not to say disappointed, by the sobriety
and decency with which the service was
conducted. One enthusiastic old gen.
tleman cried out during Mr. Moody's
sermon, " Amen and glory" but other.
wise the congregation was as quiet as in
the Queens chapel. 1t was announced
that services would be held all the week
IN the chapel and at the Avenue de la
Grande Armee.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

across to Akkad on the Euphrates, while
a similar line, parallel to the former
stretching from Babylon on the Euphra.
tes to the Tigris, would designate with
sufficient accuracy its southern boundary.
The Book Of Genesis represents the Gar
den OF Eden as having been watered by
single river. The statement correctly
describes a remarkable feature of this
district of Babylonia While other parts
OF that country to the south are to a GER
tain extent watered by the Tigris as well
as the Euphrates, the district specially
referred to is exclusively irrigated by the
Euphrates. Large water courses, after
ward transformed into canals, but which
seem originally to have been natural
arms OF the Euphrates, conducted con-
siderable portion of its water from the
higher level of that river into the bed of
the rigris. From these, as chief arteries
OF irrigation, smaller water-courses such
as those alluded to by Herodotus spread
the water all over the country. The Pro-
lessor has no difficulty in identifying the
Pishon with the celebrated canal, Palla-
kopas, and the Gihon, with the Shatt-en-
Nil. Thus at last-if the conclusions
arrived at are not ultimately upset bv
some new Investigations in the extensive
cuneltorm literature which has recently
been nnearthed-the geographical cor
rectness of the writer of Genesis has been
clearly demonstrated.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

The Siamese language is so poor,
having, for example, no passive voice,
that it is found difficult to translate the
Scriptures into it. At the same time,
the country is flooded with low, vulgar
tracts in English, throwing ridicule upon
the Scriptures. These are printed in
London, and imported by English resi-
dents. The Siamese young men know
Just enough English to be led astray by
them.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-11-15

I" Men may glorify the fatherhood Of
God an | the brotherhood of men," said
DR.. Go Twin, preaching before the Ameri-
can Board the other day but such
beliefs will never send missionaries to
face the malarial belt Of Africa, or the
cannibals Of the South Pacific. Only such
tremendous truths as gather round Sinai
and Calvary-man's redemption, life and
death, heaven and hell-can inspire to
such undertakings
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The Garden of Eden is considered bv
Professor F. Delitzsch to have been sit
uated in the land Of Babylonia, in that
special district in which the waters of the
EuPhrates and the Tigris approach near
est to each other. This statement he
supports by a number of very strong if
not absolutely invincible arguments. He
finds arguments in the character of the
population, in the products of the coun-
try, in the name which still clngs to the
country. The ancient name Of the dis.
trict was Gar-Duniash the Garden Of
the Lord Of the Lands The precise dis.
trict in which Professor Friedrich D, .
litzsch considers the Garden of Eden to
have lain was that portion Of Babylonia
which lies Immediately north of the city
Of Babylon, between the Tigris and the
Euphrates, which formed, respectively.
its eastern and western boundaries. It's
limits on the north may be indicated by
a line drawn from Bagdad on the Tigris
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16

Two miners, Shepherd and Levi, were
found dead at Juniata, Pa. mines yester-
day, under ter tons Of sand.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
A JOLLY PUNISHMENT.

The Brooklyn Aldermen, in Jail Tor Con-
t-mpt. Provided With All the Luxuries
of the Season.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, Dec. 15.-In the appealed
case of the fifteen Brooklyn aldermen un-
der sentence of fine and imprisonment for
contempt of court, the general term of the
supreme court yesterday affirmed the orig
inal judgment, but reduced the term OF
Imprisonment to five days in each case
Sheriff Stegman was promptly notified q
the decision, and the order was served
upon him to take the aldermen into Gus
tody forthwith. A writ te
the sherifFs Office was made
lust in time to find the prisoners gather
ing to be escorted to the Jail. AS they en-
tered they all looked very doleful, but a
their companions rallied them their scowl
vanished and forced smiles took thei
place. It was evident that the men fel
keenly the disgrace to which they were be
ing subjected. A visit to the city prisol
dispelled all idea that they were to becom
inmates of a prison. The top floor o.
the building consists of five largo rooms
These we're each furnished with some half
dozen beds. tables and chairs, and lighte
with numerous gas jets. The under she1
if stated that the city fathes
would have the run OF thes
comfortable apartments, could hav'
anything to eat that they chose to orde
might receive visitors at all hours, ant
would be allowed to burn the gas all nigf
if they pleased. In sholt, all the ordlnar
rules of the Jail have been rescinded fe
their benefit, and the Imprisonment,
which so much has been said and write
is but farce.