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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05
ADDITIONAL COTTON.

MANCHESTER, ENG., October 5-There
is some disposition to buy yarns for the
continent and sellers are making strong
efforts to obtain better prices to cover the
advance in cot on.
LIVERPOOL, October ., $3.50 pm
Cotton quieter. Uplands, SID; orleans,
Cd. Sales to-day, 1900 bales. Receipts,
1900 bales; American, $500. Futures are
quiet.
New YORK, October 5, 1923 am
Cotton dull. Ordinary, SIC; good ordi-
nary, 9Hc; low middling, 1886 middling,
l0Kci good middling, l0Ac middling fair,
ll%o; fair, we. Futures are dull at
very little change from last evening s
closing prices.
NEW ORLEANS, October 8, 1l;30 m.
Cotton firm. Middling, 10 3-l6o
Receipts to-day, G36i bales, against 503t
same day last year. at Galveston 75l(
bales against 1888 same day last year
Mobile 2i53 against 1874 Savannah 5000
against G5l7; Charleston 1856, against
$3.50.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05

SPRINGFIELD Daily Leader The
opening Of the road to Memphis will
be celebrated with pomp by the people
Of that city. The company has not
yet announced a programme. OF
course it cannot be expected that
people will be carried there and return
free, but a reduction, no doubt, will
be made so as to offer an inducement.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05
Charlie MeUOm as In the Ha lds
Of the Wild Nv Ju.

Eli PAso, October 4.-Advices from
Deming say that George Wilson and
D. b Leroy, who left there Septem-
Der 10 for Mexico to obtain little
Charlie McComas from the Indians,
returned there yesterday, their efforts
being unsuccessful owing to the death
Of Ju, the principal Indian chief, who
was drowned 10 Oass Grand river
while drunk on the Dist, which had
demoralized the band, and because Of
the presence Of a large body Of Mexi.
o,n troops and the interference Of the
Mexican local authorities, They re-
port the boy alive aud well with JUS
widow, who does wish to give him up
They also report that the indiana
elected GerOnemo chief after the death
Of Ju, ignoring the latter's sons, whici
created a bad feeling. Geronemo j
said to have $50 warriors in his band
and using every means TO obtain am
munition, even offering horse for tel
| cartridges. .f. HIa
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05

Yesterday was Tennessee day at
Louisville. Governor Bate and staff
and a large number Of Tenuesseeans
attended 1t Was a wet day, but over
1900 people passed the stiles A
banquet was given our Governor and
nartv
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05
OiTY AFFAIRS
As DiclOse1 Through the COun-
Gil Meeting YeAIef day.

The Inspector OF Weights and Meas
ures reports his receipts during Sep
tembar at $751; SO,
Only % dodgers were accommodated
in the stationhouse during September
aud 4S7 patients were treated at the
city dispensary.
The markethouse receipts last month
amounted to 1923 Is, of which $72 80
was taken in at the Poplar and the
remainder at the Beal street market
house
The police court fines aud mitti
muses. collected in September amount.
ed to $l775 70, of which Sl27S 70 was
fines The police pay roll was S276l.,
6j, and other police expenses 1905 60
The Board of Health carts loaded
22O8 loads of garbage, 1850 earth boxes
aud 1920 Of street material last month
Total, 5O7S loads, aud the fire depart
ment turned out to answer alarms II
times. @
President Hidden, that eminent
sauitarian, aided by DR.. Thornton,
will consider and report upon the pro
priety Of allowing Sam FOltz & Bro, to
slaughter stock on the upper end of
Second street.
The Old Folks request permission
to re open Winchester cemetery for
burial purposes by the lot owners, but
not for transient burials. Their sp,
plication will be considered later on
by the authorities.
A couple Of suuken coal barges
which blockade Bayou Glyoso near
the Gas Works are to DO removed
within ten days by the own ,rs,or they
will be taken out By the authorities at
the owners expense
Two people died in the Marine Hos
pital last month, and at 81 per patient
per day the marine amount suTs up
1902 The total number Of patients 10
the City Hospital during September
was 3l4, and ID died, while 116 re-
mo;ned for Treatment on the first
inst.
A stylish kind of number for drays
and other vehicles, after the fashion
in vogue at St Louis, is proposed in
lieu oithose now use | here. The city
attorney, the President and the Police
Chief are to inquire into the details
Of the affair, and il there is no profit
or job about it, aud no profit except
to the city, a change from the present
to the proposed style may be made
The City Rilwiy Company an
uounce to the authorities that their
charter granted by the Legislature in
1865 allows railways on any Of the
public streets, aud they want to build
car lines on Second, from Beal to thu
northern limits Of the city, also from
Poplar out Polk to Alabama ant
Winchester to the cemetery, and The
company is anxious to obtain th
views Of the city managers regardin
the matter, as we'll also as the plal
upon which the city willrequire th
lines TO be built.
The threatened closing Of the pub
lie alley between Gayoso and MEGA
and Front and Main streets is strict
prohibited by the authorities. I'll
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05
DIED.

LYLEs-At his residence, near Marion,
Crittenden county, Ark October 8, 1885, In
L. LYLEs, son of U. p. and Jane LyleI.
Funeral will take place from the residence
Of his ia iher, No. $40 Vance street, at O'Clock
pm. Saturday, October 9th. Friends Of the
family are invited to attend.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05

JUDGE Hoadly has broken down
physically and will not probably IN IKE
another speech before the election.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05

GOVERNOR Butler claims that h"
will be reelected by a majority Of
10000, and still he is not an LL d
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05
woman and Her diseases

is the title Of large illustrated treat.
ise, by DR.. r, v. Pierce, Buffalo, N,
", sent to any address for three
stamps. II teaches successful sell
treatment s8lHn altaaHl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05
VACCINATION NOTICE.

A FRESH supply Of VacciAe Virus has
n Just been received at the Board Of Health
office, No. 81 Poplar street, where par.
ties who are unable to pay will be vaocin ated
free Of charge. School children are espe ,ial.
j. II. PURNELL, NJ. D.,
October 4, 1873. Secretary Board Health.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

PETROLEUM.
Cleveland, October 3. - Petroleum
unchanged, 8. W. ll00, Sc.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
liverpool October - Bacon. short
rib steady 40s; Cumberland cut steady,
45s Cd; long clear dull, 33s short clear
steady, 3ls. Lard; prime western steady,
405. Corn; new mixed steady, 6s ID.
Wheat spring No 2, new, dull, IS 3d.
No ! white, steady, s. 0d new western
winter steady, IS 90; spring No 2 old,
dull, 81. Turpentine spirits dull, Bis Sd;
at London steady, but dull, 80s Cd.
Tallow prime city dull, Ais. Beef
prim mess dull, 70s Chez G. American
choice firm, 5Gs Cd. Pork prime mess,
eastern, dull, SIS. Shoulders dull, 29s
Cd. Hams long cut dull, Cos.
WALL STREET.
New York, October 8, HOO am
The day opened with strong and adj
vancing market for stocks, During the
first fifteen minutes the whole list moved
up a to x per cent, as compared with
last nights closing hguers, Wizards lead
ing and in the latter there was sharp
break. Blocks of 1000 to 5000 shares of
various stocks having been thrown on the
market causing decline Of 4 to per
cent in the latter
The Lackawanna and Northern Pacific
directors will meet tomorrow to consider
plans to fund its floating debt, etc, and
second mortgage bonds bearing per cent
interest will probably be issued.
lilo a m-The sale of Arkansaw Is;
Mississippi and Ohio railroad bonds was
made this morning at u against ~ We'd
nesday The break was caused by the decis-
ion of Judge Miller, of the United States
Supreme Court TO the effect that railway
companies are not responsible for bonds
issued by the State Of Arkansaw in aid OF
the roads.
Wheat is unsettled and a shade lower,
with fair speculative trading.
Governments-8s, l0l; AIS, Ia 49,
1905; Pacific 6s of IS, l29 bid.
Money easv at 3; prime mercan-
tile paper, 6@7; bar silver HOY; ex-
change weak, 1921 for long and 4S5 fol
sight
Governments are firm. States ar,
quiet. Railways arc firm. Stocks ar,
weaker.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05

LEDGER Book Bindery, ID Madison
street,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-05

President Hidden, that eminent
sauitarian, aided by DR., Thornton,
will consider and report upon the pro
priety Of allowing Sam FOltz & Bro, to
slaughter stock on the upper end of
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08
A Truly Strange Coincidence.

speaking of strange condolences,
said DO0fcker, II am reminded Of a
thing that happened to me once.
was standing on the breakwater here
in Chicago one day in the summer Of
1912, when one of my cuffs dropped
into the lake and a big fish came
up and swallowed it. | mourned a
good deal over it, because the sleeve
button in that cuff was made of gold
that | dug myself in California in
lS49. Well, time ran along and | for
got all about the sleeve-button. Soon
after that | had the trouble with my
hair, and had to doctor for that"
What trouble was that, paw?
asked Theophilus.
Why, didn't | ever tell you about
that. Well, you see | found that |
was losing my hair. 1t didn't come
out by the roots, but it seemed to be
broken off near my head, and yet, al
though | lost considerable every night,
there never was any loose hairs in the
led in the morning. | finally got a
friend to sit up and watch me one
night, and in the morning he explained
the whole thing. | had bitten it of
and swallowed the hair.
"But. to get back to my first story
One day about seven years after | lost
that cuff l was walking on Manhattan
beach, arm in arm with Mr.. Selig-
man, when he picked up something
that was buried in the sand. "Why,
that's silver" said he. 80 it is, said
|, and sure enough it was solid sill,
yer. But what is further, it was the
indentical sleeve-button | had lost
thirteen years before in Lake Michi-
gan. Now, what puzzles me is to
know how that fish got way round to
Manhattan beach from Chicago"
There was short silence which
Theophilus interrupted. What puz-
zles me, paw, is how the fish changed
q gold sleeye-button int silver one.
Dooilicker thought he heard one Of
the hens cacile and went out to see if
she had laid an egg.-Chicago Herald
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08
The Artful Oriental Races.

Though the annals of artfulness can
boast Of mourning households where
collins have incased stolen plate ill.,
stead of corpses, and of particular
race-horses painted to resemble certain
others and sent on long journeys in
order that intending hackers might be
misled, we can not, as a nation, dis
pute the palm of trickery, mental or
manipulatiye, with some of the Orient
al races, whose merit undoubtedly
raises them to that bad eminence.
Possibly in the special branch ofhorse-
stealing the South American Indian
might receive an equal certificate of
proficiency with the Arab; but as bold
and expert general thieves the Hin
docs and Chinese stand unrivaled.
A Chinaman has been known to
seize gentleman's finger and cut it
clean off in the midst Of crowd to
obtain possession of a ring and escape
detection. This immunity is due per-
haps to the great resemblance which
the faces of Chinese mob bear to
one another in European eyes, render
ing individuals absolutely indistin-
guishable at first, as well as to an in
genious artlice for Disgusting broad
bladed knife in the semblance of a
closed fan such as all Chinese carry.
HindoOs will swim or float cautiously
along a river at dusk with an old
basket or empty gourd over the head,
whriing or twisting laZily with every
eddy, and Drawing the crocodiles, to
gain in entree to the bungalow they
desire to plumber, under the very nose
of the DrOnrietOr.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08

Geese may be picked, says the Farm
Journal, two or three times during the
summer. The time to pick is when
the feathers are ripe. This can be
learned by plucking few. If they
come out easily, and the quilts are
clear, they are ripe, as it is called. If
they pull hard and the quilts are filed
with a bloody fluid, they must be left a
little longer. In picking take only a
few feathers between tho thumb and
finger and give short quick jerk
downward. Practice will give the
knack of picking easily and rapidly.
Under each wing will be found a bunch
of rather long and coarse feathers.
These support the wings and must not
be plucked. Before beginning opera
tons it is prudent to draw an old cot
ton stocking over the head of the
goose,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08
SI,NI,.

Sheep intended for the butcher need
abundant feeding. Oilcake with the
ground feed is excellent. Store sheep
will thrive in good pasture, well
watered and shaded. The Importance
of a cool shelter from the hot MONDAY
sun cannot be oycr-cstimated. Sheep
troubled with dysentery will retire
from the flock, and, unless looked after
may be lost Remove the sick animal
to cool shed and give one ounce Of
castor oil, followed by bran or oatmeal
mash. Flies are often troublesome at
this season, If maggots are found
apply tar and grease and clip the wool
closely about the affected part.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08

A prominent writer in one of the
foreign journals devoted to agrlcultu-
raj interests, strongly recommends the
introduction of the japanese goose
into poultry yards. From the descrip-
ton given Of this breed it is only rea-
Sonablo to think that they are as well
suited to our wants as to those of our
British friends who favor the change.
This goose is as nearly beautiful in APP
pearance as it is possible for goose to
be; it is equally at home on land or
water, and all its movements are grace
full and swanlike; they withstand
changes of climate even better than
our own domesticated geese, and can
be kept without shelter even in the
most severe winter season. The Japan
ese goose is much more prolific than
the ordinary breeds, and commences
laying in midwinter, rarely showing
any inclination to sit before June or
July, which of course renders it neces-
sary to hatch their eggs under the Or
binary fowls of some good heavy
breed; the Cochin has been found best
adapted to this purpose. AS regards
food these birds are by no means fastid-
ious, and the yield Of feathers and
down is described as something Won
derful to see.-American Stocknlan.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08

There is show to do it," in loading
hay and pitching it upon the wagon,
which nearly all understand but few
practice. do not refer now to the
various mechanical ccntriranees which
are coming into use in some parts of
the country, whereby the services of a
"pitcher' are dispensed, but to the
Old-fashioned, back-a0hing method that
ninely-nine out of every one hundred
. farmers are perfectly familiar with. In
our experience there are but few hired
men (and they most always have this
part of the work to dog who know
how to pitch on forkful Of hay.
They stick the fork into the hay-cock
or wind-row wherever it happens, and
then waste their strength in Juggling
at an unwieldly weight which is more
often delivered on the side of the load
than on the top. Bya little care taken
in inserting the fork well over on the
opposite side of the hay-cock, but not
too deeply, and by taking hold Of the
stale well down toward the fork with
one hand and with tho other grasping
1t about midway, one can lift the
weight with less exertion than by any
sort of leverage he can devise. In this
way the forkful can be laid in an in
verted position and the fork can then
be easily withdrawn. This is what
the "loader" wants, for he then can
place it easily on any part of the load
The forkful being on the load it is
for the leaders, interest to take some
pains in laying it since he generally
"pitches Off" One-half the fretting
and tugging could he averted by laying
each forkful in order upon the load
beginning, for instance, at the forward
ladder and loading around, and bind.
ing with small forkfuls in the middle
to prevent sliding off. The farmers
work is hard enough at the best, and
whenever, by using little thought
he can tighten his burden, no one can
blame him for so doing.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08

This name no longer applies to fem
mime frauds of the class that tempted
Ulysses and his crew to destruction,
but is given to an ugly two-limbed ba-
trachian, a singular salamander that
inhabits the rice bitches and similar
localities in South Carolina and the
Gulf states. One of these curious
creatures is now at the Philadelphia
Geological Gardens, where, however,
it cannot be said to be exhibited, since
its mode of life requires it to be buried
in several inches of soft mud, which
Obscures the water when it moves.
The siren is distinguished from all
other salamanders by its lack of pos
terror members, and from most others
by the persistence throughout life of
gills adapted to breathing air only when
kept moist. Thus tie siren is a step
nearer to the fishes than are ordinary
salamanders, which are ilsh-like only
in their immature tadpole stage, and
atterward become cold-blooded air.
breathers. with lungs like reptiles -
Philadelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Rolling.

Though rolling is of much benefit
on light, porous and lumpy soils, yet,
an exchange AYERS, it is injurious on
wet clays, except in dry weather, when
they are lumpy after blowing. Roll
ing stiff soil when wet renders it
more difficult of cultivation by press
ing the particles still mere closely to-
gether and preventing the admission
of air, Even light. arabic lands re-
quire the ground to be dry when rolled,
If for no other reason than that other
wise the soil will adhere to the roller.
Grass land, however, is best rolled in
showery weather.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08
Better than Millions.

Robert Burdette talks in his pater-
nal way to young men who have their
living to earn. Beginners in life can
not have too much Of that kind of en-
Couragement
James G. Fair is worth $40, 900, 900,
and the whole $42,000,000 of it, my
dear boy, can't make him as happy as
you are with the dew of youth in your
heart
If you envy him, il you, with your
brown hands and your bright young
face with the down just shading your
lip, with not a gray hair in your head
or a gnawing care in your heart, with
the morning sun shining on your up
turned face, with the velvet turf under
your feet and the blue heavens above
your head, with the blood coursing
through your veins like wine, with
fifty or sixty years of life before you,
with mirage after mirage of bright
dreams and beautiful illusions and
pleasant vanities making the land.
scape beautiful about you; if you envy
this man his gray hairs, and his
wrinkles, and his old heart, you are q
fool, my boy; and you are scattering
ashes on the roses that grow in the
morning.
There is lightness in your step, my
son, and color in your blood, and the
dreams in your heart, and all the love
and beauty and freshness of the sun.
rise, the $40, 100000 cannot buy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08
Household Hints.

Remove ink stains on silk, wooden
or cotton by saturating with spirits of
turpentine.
Washing pine floors in solution of
one pound of coppems dissolved in one
gallon of strong lye gives oak color.
Remove flower-pot stains from Win
dow sllls by rubbing with fine wood
ashes and rinse with clean water.
=. A fashionable guilt is made of elk
patchwork i ~ every variety of color
zHecess If embossed, Shaded and gros
grain silk of every possible shape, and
joined together with gold silk in elab-
crate feather stitch: form a square
which Il edged with a very deep
bordering of dark plush, and lined
throughout with quilted crimson satin,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-08-08

be covered very lightly with sitting
of leaf-mold and kept damp; not wet,
never dry. The minute plants when
Just up and showing few true leaves
should be drenched with sprinkling.
pot or hose, and then pricked out and
set about two inches apart either way.
Celery thrives best in cool, damp
weather, and is generally raised as a
second crop, after such as early cab
bage, onions, peas, lettuce or radishes.
1t will thrive on any nice garden soil
II it is very rich and thoroughly work
ed, of course excepting countries which
are too cold or too hot. Heavy soil, or
a rich, mucky soil, Is thought to be the
best, yet fine celery is raised near Chi
cago on sand which lies but few feet
above perpetual water. Fresh manure
put in with the plants often causes
them to rust. Manure literally applied
to the previous crop leaves the land in
fine condition for celery. Dwarf celery
is now used in preference to the large
sorts.
We have succeeded well by planting
the young plants at the lst of July, six
inches apart in rows FIVE feet apart.
We prefer to set the plants in the bot
tom of burrows three to six inches be-
low the surface, a compromise between
level culture and deep trenches. In
this way the growing plants are less
likely to dry out, and they are more
easily hilled up as they become larger.
After the plants are a few inches high,
soil should be drawn up around them,
to keep them from becoming dark
green and tough. The tops of the
leaves must stick out some to help the
growth of the plants. They must not
be hoei, handled or disturbed unless
they are free from dew or wet, as this
will cause them to rust or rot.
From this start remember the diff
culties in raising nice celery are these:
The seeds are small and slow to germi-
nate; the plants will not stand much
sunshine; the soil must be very rich;
manure applied when the celery is put
in often causes it to rust; handling
when wet also induces rust; it must
be gradually hilled to blanch well, and
care taken to set and make the young
plants live; it is expensive to prepare
and market and likely to rust, to rot,
to get too hot or too cold where it is
stored away for winter; and the de-
mand is light in many places, as people
have not learned to like it or cannot
afford to buy it.