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Year: 1879

herd Of cayotes to the wounded buffalo. II
comes to destroy the city's life, to paralyze
its business, and to leave only the skeleton
to tell of the havoc that was wrought.
Dealing with the situation from a severe,
but practical standpoint, the Memphis Ap'
peal sees the scourge in front of the city,
and looking beyond it, sees in the light OF
the torch Of the incendiary, the starving
thousands who, to-day, are without food to
pass them over until the morrow. Never
was city in so deplorable condition
Most of her leading men have fled to places
of safety, hundreds Of them never to re-
turn. Of all those who in seasons of health
are there to plan and advise, but few re-
main to share the danger, and counsel the
bewildered poor, who cannot fly from the
terrors that environ them. Every man who
could do so, has looked, or is looking
to the safety Of himself and his
dependents; but not one word has he said,
not one dollar has he lett, from which the
penniless may profit. No provision has
been made for the safety of abandoned
property, "no money has been suh.cnbed
to maintain an integrity, which, Once as
sailed by hunger, will prove but weak in
deed" The city and county governments
are impotent in the emergency, and the
condition appears to be absolutely hopeless.


Those who left the city went under the
spur and pressure Of panic; while most Of
those who remain have yielded to that feel
ing of dread and insecurity, that render
peace Of mind and health of body impossi.
bic.


What will come Of all this, no man
knows; but all may conjecture. Necessity
knows no law; hunger no crime. The
twenty thousand blacks and whites, now
penniless, finally driven 10 desperation by
their sufferings and wants, will enact
scenes, from a mere contemplation Of which
the mind recoils for very horror. This is
the outlook, and in it we read the doom of
Memphis. Property values are already
destroyed, citizens by the thousand, flying
from their business and their homes, as


from the grim monster himself, leaving all


to the mercy of the burglars and thieves or


the more dreaded hunger.driven mob--all
these form an ordeal that but few men,


who can avoid it will pass through for the
third time. In this lies the horror of tie
present and the peril of the future 10 untor'
tunate Memphis. For years to come,
though yellow fever gain no hold any
where in the South, the city will be and re-
main but mere shadow, skeleton of its
former self-shorn of its business, its lite,
its wealth, its air of thrift, of all that rem
dered 1t the second city of the lower
valley.
Year: 1879

OUR PRESENT BANKING SYSTEM is vast
improvement on that Of twenty years ago,
as every one must admit who remembers
the trouble we had with wild cat money.
Any man who is so bilious as to deny this
should take a dose of Motifs Liver Pills,
and recover his normal brilliary condition
as soon as possible.
Year: 1879

An extraordinary suicide is reported


to have occurred at the town of Jhito-


mir, in Russia. A well-dressed traveller


arrived at the Hotel de France, of that


place, stating that he was Mr.. Joseph


o., colonial agent. He spent a few


days in walking about the streets. On


the fourth evening he retired to his


room early, and locked himself in.


Next morning he was called at the


usual hour, but made no answer to the


summons. The door was broken open,


when terrible spectacle presented it.


self. Mr.. O.'s body was lying on the


bare bedstead, from which the mattress


and bed-clothes had been removed and


was in state approaching nudity. The


eyes were wide open, fixed in CLASSY


death stare, and the features distorted


with agony the left hand was pressed


tightly upon the region of the heart,


the right hand convulsively clutching


the hair. An oppressive odor, as of
scorched fat, pervaded the room. When
the corpse was turned over, deep and


broad burn was exhibited in the middle
of the back, and the spine was found
to be completely carbonizcd. Upon
the floor underneath the bedstead were
discovered the wicks, embedded in a
little blotch of cold stearine, of three
candles, which had been taken out of
the candle-sticks and fixed upon the
planking. Over the flames of these
candles Mr.. O. had lain upon the skel-
eton work of his bedstead, and suffered
his spine to be slowly consumed until
he died. A manuscript lay upon the
table. It contained a resume of the
reasons which prompted this unfortu-
nate man to undergo self-inficted mar
tyrdom. It was written in four Ian
guages-Grecian, Russian, Polish and
Czechish. The first hand writing was
firm and bold the last few pages were
scarcely legible. The writer stated
that he wished to solve practically the
question whether suicides were cow
ards. He therefore had resolved to
subject himself to atrocious suffering.
He declared his intellect to be perfectly
clear. Additions were from time to
time made to the manuscript. The
victim rose from the bed to write to his
mother and father his last farewell. He
actually put something under the
candles to raise them a little, and re-
corded that the smell of his consuming
flesh annoyed him. The last words
scrawled were: eff could remain
alive, my life should be vowed exclu-
sively to vengeance on her. But 1 am
going to my rest. Be she accursed
with my last breath" There was evi-
lently woman in the case.
Year: 1879

Is proving such an indispensable article to
those suffering from liver complaint that
parties are in some cases purchasing half a
dozen bottles at time, after they have tri,
it. Physicians frequently prescribe the
Sacred Bark which is one of the ingredients
OF this medicine. The advantage of using
Turner's Regulator arises from the fact that
its ingredients are the result of experiment
and study such as few physicians could de-
vote to single object.
Year: 1879

As hs sat on the steps on Sunday
evening he claimed the right to kiss
for every shooting star. She at first de-
INJURED, as became Q modest maiden.
but finally yielded. She was even so
accommodating as to Call his attention
TO flying mstsors that were about to es'
cape his observation. aud then got to
calling" him on lightning bugs. and
at last got him down to steady work on
the light OF q lantern that man was
swinging about depot in the distance
where trains were switching.
Year: 1879

March, have been published and are
now accessible to the profession. Such
official prOmptness must commend
itself to the bench and bar throughout
the State, and we hope Judge Lea
may be able to keep the opinions of
the Supreme Court published as fast
as delivered. Mr.. Jere Baxter, who
was appointed under an act of the last
legislature assistant reporter, to get
out the decisions of the court de-
liyered during the last few years of
General Heiskell's term of office,
which have not hitherto been pub
lished, has issued from the press the
first volume of his official work, as 4th
Baxter, as a continuation of the series
ofreports heretofore published by him
as a private enterprise. If he perse-
veres with the same zeal and dispatch
in the preparation of subsequent vol
umes that he has manifested in this,
his Office and labors will soon termi-
mate, as they cease on the publication
of all the decisions not reported by
General Heiskell. Colonel Lea's work
is well done, and we are glad his selec-
Non for the position is giving general
satisfaction"
Year: 1879

From and after tomorrow the full
noon telegraphic report which appears
in the leading afternoon papers of the
East and North will be given in the
LEDGER. Byrecently increased facil
tiles We have been receiving more
telegraphic matter than we could
publish without holding back the
paper to late hour. To obviate this
and to accommodate all classes Of our
patrons, both in the city and country,
two editions will be issued when
necessary. The first one will appear
about two o'clock; the second one
from three to four, according to the
quantity or importance of additional
news received by wire or otherwise.
This arrangement, we believe, will
meet want long felt by the public
and will give great satisfaction to our
readers generally. Every department
of the paper will be kept up to the
best standards known to modern
journalism.
Year: 1879

Rev. DR.. KELLY, pastor of the Nc
Kcndre Methodist Episcopal Church
Of Nashville, recently startled the
orthodox members Of bis church bg
preachinga sermon ip which be took
ground against the commonly accepted
doctrine Of the literal resurrection of
the entire human race at the last great
day. This produced a profound stir
among the brethren, and many Of
them call upon bin to recant and fall
back into line.
Year: 1879

THE Philadelphia Times has the
following editorial in regard to the
State debt question:


1t really looks as though the long dis
pute over the Tennessee debt was at the
last ended in creditable way. The leg
islature, at its recent session, proposed to
pay fifty per cent Of the principal and
occurred interest in new State bonds run
ming thirty years and bearing four per
cent. interest, and the only question was
whether the creditors would accept the
proposition or stand out in the hope of Sc
curing more favorable terms. Governor
Porter and Ex-Governor Brown and other
leading citizens of the State were deputed
by recent mass meeting at the State
capital to come to New York and repre-
sent the situation to the creditors, most of
whom reside in that city. They have
just discharged their mission, and the re-
suits is an Endorsement of the proposed
settlement General Roger A. Pryor,
who visited the legislature as an attorney
of the bondholders. Joined the visitors in
assuring the creditors that the present
offer is as much as the people are really
able to make, and certainly the most they
will ever offer, while all the speakers
agreed that there was no doubt the State
would live up to its agreement. The up
shot of it all was that the resolution was
unanimously adopted, many of the heaviest
bondholders being present. earnestly rec
ommending all the creditors to accept the
proposition, and it is probably safe to re-
regard the vexed question as now practi-
cally settled and settled honorably.
Year: 1879

BROWNSVILLE BEE: I'VE are
glad to notice as an evidence Of the
efficiency of our fclIOw-eitizen, Judge
Lea, as attorney general for the State.
that the decisions Of the Supreme
Court, from his induction into Office
last September up to the first Of last
Year: 1879

MIssPENT EvENINGs.-The boy who
spends an hour of each evening loung-
ing idly on the street corners, wastes
in the course of year three hundred
and sixty-live precious hours, which,
if applied to study, would familiarize
him with the rudiments Of almost any
of the familiar sciences. If in addi-
tion to thus wasting only one hour
each evening, he spends ten cents for a
cigar, which is usually the case, the
amount thus worse than wasted would
pay for ten Of the leading period,ca
of the country Boys, think Of these
things. Think Of how much time and
money You are wasting, and for what ?
The qualification afforded by the lounge
on the corner, or the cigar, is not only
temporary but positively hurtful. You
cannot indulge in them without seri-
ously injuring yourself. You acquire
idle and wastcful habits which will
cling to you with each succeeding
year. You may in after life shake
them off, but the probabilities are that
the habits thus formed in early life will
remain with you to your dying day.
BE warned then in time, and resolve
that as the hour spent in idleness is
gone forever, you will improve each
passing one, and thereby fit yourself
for usefulness and happiness.-Rural
NeU Yorker.
Year: 1879

NEWSPAPER RIGHTs.-A case of in
terest to newspaper subscribers and
readers has just been decided in Day
ton, Ohio, under the newspaper law.
Mr.. Wolf the Dayton distributor OF
the Gazette, left copy of the paper
at the wrong door for several months.
The paper was accepted and read, and
when Mr.. w. called to collect the
money for it, the party who had taken
and read the paper refused to pay for
it on the ground that he had not or
dercd it ! Mr. Wolf, anxious to avoid
a legal contest, offered to compromise
for half cost, bat the party asserted
that he couldn't collect, and refused to
pay anything. Suit was then brought
and Wolf recovered the entire bill.
That is the law, and parties who want
something for nothing will make a
note Of it. The defendant in the above
suit could have notified the carrier, who
first made the error, that he did not
want the paper, not having subscribed
for it, but he did not do so, and thought
to get the paper for nothing.
Year: 1879

IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THEIR LAWS.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows


Of the United States has made some


very important changes in the laws of
| the Order The name of the Grand


Lodge has been changed to the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge


The most important changes were


made in the laws relating to the non
payment of dues. A vast number of
members have heretofore been sus-
pended from all connection with the
| Order for non-payment of dues, and
could be reinstated after applying in
writing and by paying one years dues
| if he apply within less than one year
after suspension, and by paying the
initiation fee if he be suspended more
than one year, provided the majority
Of the lodge approve of his reinstate-
ment.


Under the new law a member will
not be cut off from all connection with
the Order for non-payment of dues,
but will be suspended from active" to
dormant" membership. A member
will become dormant Odd Fellow
if at the last meeting of the term his
dues aggregate the dues of one year,
and as such will be debarred from ben
efts both pecuniary and attentive, bat
his name will be retained on list of
such class, and he may visit his lodge
or encampment. A dormant Odd Eel
low may be restored to active member
ship upon application made in open
lodge or encampment by member
thereof, which shall be held over until
the second meeting thereafter, the Sec
retary or Scribe reading the same at
each meeting, and be determined affirm
atively on ballot vote by majority
of the members present for such amount
as the bylaws Of the lodge or encamp-
ment may prescribe. All members
heretofore dropped or suspended for
non-payment of dues are reinstated to
dormant membership in the Order,
subject to the conditions given above.
A dormant Odd Fellow shall be SUBJ
ject to trial, suspension or expulsion
from the order for cause under the law
the same as an active Odd Fellow
These new rules take effect immedi-
ately.
Year: 1879

A JUDGE LEARNING HIS Trade
Judge Mitter said to the Iowa Bar
Association: on will perhaps be sur
prised when | tell you that the ablest
lawyer of this or any other bar, when
he is for the first time appointed a
Judge has to learn his trade, as much
as the mechanics apprentice. Of course
/ do not mean by this that LIE has to
learn the law, for | am supposing him
to be learned in the law. But what
the apprenticed mechanic learns of his
master is not the science of mechanical
forces, at least not mainly that What
he does acquire in that pprenticeship
is skill in the use of his tools. This
is precisely what | am saying of a new
Judge. Let me illustrate this from
my own experience, for it is closely
related to training in lawyer. 1t is
in fact the same thing. | am very
sure that it does not take me half the
time now that it did at first to eliminate
a complex case presented to me for
decision what is irrelevant or imma-
terial, and to ascertain the point of
conflict necessary to be decided. And
this is equally true whether the con-
test be one of law or fact, or both.
BY practice and attention | can listen
to lawyer, read document offered
in evidence, pass with him lightly over
the formal parts of the instrument,
and when he comes to.the vital matter,
the few words, perhaps, which alone
touch the issue, | catch their precise
meaning, and if | do not get that
clearly stop him until do. 1t is
rare that ! need go over that instru-
ment again. SO | have acquired, i
hardly know how, except by practice
by training-the faculty of taking
an immense record of five hundred or
one thousand pages, and turning at
once to the parts, whether of pleading.
of evidence, or whatever it may be,
and in one-third the time it took me
when | first went on the bench, i
gather the materials for my Judgment
without digesting a mass Of useless
chah
Year: 1879

A DUTcHMAE had two pigs, large
and small one. The smaller being
the elder he was trying to explain to "a
customer, and did in this wise:


"The little pig is the biggest"


Upon which his wife assuming to
correct him, said


"You will please excuse him; he
no speak as good English as me; he
no mean the little pig is the biggest
pig, but the youngest pig is the oldest" "
Year: 1879

Justice Randall seems to be do


ing the majority of court busines,


from this end of the beat of late


We have had 10 sceances by Squire


Farragutin some time. We do not


know whether lie has become dis.


gusted with that business, or


whether the people prefer TO have


their cases tried before Squire Ran
dal, but this we do know: that


most of the court business that
properly belongs here is going up
to the latter's court.


The phonograph, or talking


machine will be heard at Scranton
academy next Tuesday night. All
who have not seen this wonderful
invention should not fail to attend.
In connection with the phonograph
a gentleman from Mobile will deliv-
er scientific lecture which will be
worth the price OF admission, which
is only % cents for adults, lJ cents
for children. The proceeds of the
exhibition will be given toward
building u Baptist church at this
place.


AT Live Oak academy next
Monday night the public will have
another opportunity to see and
hear the wonderful talking machine.
Edison's phonograph. 1t is well
worth seeing, and all should go.
A gentleman will be ou hand who
will deliver lecture on scien-
titic subject, which will add inter
est to the occasion. The price of
admission Las been reduced to 25
cents for adults, and 10 cents for
children. The proceeds of this
exhibition will be given to the Pres
byterian church, and all friends
should attend.


We would like to call the atten-
tiOn of our delinquent subscribers
to the fact that we would be pleased |
to have them pay up what they |
owe. Not that we need the money |
due us; oh, no, money is no object,
we just publish Il paper for the
the editor finds in read
ing exchanges, writingarticles, etc,
and the business manager finds in
travelling over the country solici-
ting, talking with his friends, and
the like; but then as this is a new
year we have entered upon we think
t would be more business like to
ave all accounts squared up SO we
;Ould all take a newstart. We are
going to give all delinquents thirty
lays notice, beginning with this
ssue, and if they do not pay up we
will drop their names. tyou are
delinquent, take warning.
Year: 1879

For full dress much extravaganza


displayed in mitts and stockings. The
former are of point lace or chantiliy, and
silk stockings have lace let in on the in
step or at the sides; this is also mixed
with embroidery, and the lace-like effect
is often given to silk stockings by en-
broidered openwork Of cobweb tineness.
Year: 1879




EIGHTY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE CLEAR oUI AND


DEPART, UNABLE TO STAND THE LoNG-DhAwN-


OUT AGONY OF THE SESSION.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBUSEl


WASHINGTON, juno 2.-Representative Frye re-
marked In conversation last night that he Thought IL
would not require more than week or two OF such
weather as we have had In Washington since sat
urday to effect great change in the views OF some
of the most profound Constitutional lawyers among
the Democrats regarding the election laws. Mem.
bers of the House are leaving daily, and many Oh
them do not expect to return before next December
There are now twenty members absent with lnde1-
mite leave and about ten with leave for specihed
time. Resides these there are, as shown by. tho
ro-call to-day about fifty members absent without
leave. There Is no prospect whatever that inc
Democrats will have a quorum OF the House present
again at this session.
Year: 1879

Yesterday letter received by the moderator from
DE- Ludlow III which he declined to act upon the COM
mitee appointed defend the Presbytery against the
complaint OF the prosecution before the synod Hay-
ing endeavored moderator during the trial to main
wished To be excused from assuming any duty which
would make il necessary to become an advocate OF
either,
Year: 1879

dent has not yet formally rendered the appointment
to Secretary McCrary to fill the vacancy thus ere
ated but 1t is understood he will do so, In WHICH
event it is known that the Secretary will accept.
Year: 1879

TELEGRAPH MARTYRs.-If any set of men were
ever martyrs to their high sense of honor and
their duty to their employers, telegra ph opera
tors are surely the men. The last case is that
of the operator at Topeka, who has been placed
under arrest by order of the House of Represent
atives, because of his refusal to answer certain
questions relative to dispatches connected with
the late Senatorial election. The keen sense of
honor of the average telegraph operator does
not shrink from quietly informing his chums
that, from certain messages passing, this or that
business man is about to "bust," and will be
closed up in few days; or giving the leaders
of the political faction that he trains with, the
wink, informing them of the tricks set up by
the opposite party; or acquainting his particu-
lar bosom friend of sudden rise in produce, as
learned from private despatch received by
rival speculator, enabling said friend to get the
start of said rival; or Thousand other little
tricks, ell requiring keen sense of honor. But
let him be brought before authorized COM
mittee of Congress or State Legislature, for the
purpose of exposing bribery and corruption
dangerous to the public welfare, and he will
howl about his honor, and the violation of con-
fidential communications, and the integrity Of
his employers, until you can hear him, as Blaine
says, from the Penobscot the Sacramento.
Year: 1879

THE CHINESE BiLL.-The excitement, for this
last week, was the bill passed by Con gress to re-
strict Chinese emigration. The gu estion had
two sides to it, and the side for restriction WAS
ably set forth by Senator Blaine, In his letter in
reply to William Lloyd Garrison. America is
called the asylum of the oppressed, but it is a
question whether this should be construed into
license for the most degraded and diseased
population of a heather country to swarm here
By hundreds of thousands, to the detriment of
civilized citizens. There is no similarity in the
cases of the negro and the Chinaman. The ne
gro was brought here against his will, and kept
in slavery for generations, until this became his
country much as that of his oppressors. The
Chinaman comes against the will of the Ameri-
can people, who desire to put stop to it before
it becomes rs dificult aud dangerous question
as the negro problem did. But the President
has vetoed the bill, which postpones the subject
for the present.
Year: 1879

BLooD.-Tbere are epidemics Of blood, as Of
disease. Such an epidemic is surely prevailing
at this time. The telegraphic dispatches in the
daily papers abound in affairs of blood. Murder
and assassination run riot everywhere, and in
every conceivable manner and shape. The
South, as usual, furnishes the bulk of these
transactions, bnt no section or State is exempt
from them. Human life is held of no account,
and murder is committed upon the slightest
provocation. Yet, with this increase Of the
worst species of crime, the efforts of so-called
humanitarians increase to lessen the punish
ment of the offenders. cry of horror goes up
against hanging, ten times greater than against
the murder for which the culprit is hanged.
When the punishment for murder is but little
moro severe than that for theft, the crime will
be as common.