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Year: 1879

EDITOR LEDGER-Will you allow
me through the columns of your paper
to put few questions to DR.. Plunket
in order to show his unfairness, injus-
tice and duplicity, in regard to his
famous order No. 6.


Question-Dr. Plunket, what mo-
tive did you assign at first for issuing
order No. 6?


Answer-That I was afraid the
spores or germs of yellow fever might
be preserved in the cotton and next
year upon being opened might produce
yellow fever.


Odd you ever see yellow fever
spore or germ, doctor2


Al never did.


Odd you ever see or read OF any
person who had seen one?


Al never did.


Q.-How then came you to issue an
order against their preservation


A.-Oh, it is only a theory of mine,
Q.-Are you aware that physicians
equally as capable as yourself, and
with much better opportunities for a
practical acquaintance with yellow
fever than you ever have had, or ever
will have, if you remain as far from il
as you have done this year, disbelievc
entirely in the germ theory2


A.-Certainly, sir. | know that.


Odd you ever hear or read Of
yellow fever being produced by tie
handling of cotton in any condition
Al never did.


Q.-And yet when you did not even
know that such a thing as germ OF
spore was in existence, and when
there is not single instance on rec
ord in all the ages of the past of yellow
fever being produced by cotton, you
concluded to enforce hurtful rule
based upon such foolish theory2


Al did, sir.


Odd you ever reflect how much
injury and injustice you were doing
Memphis to enforce such a rule?


Any business is to attend to NY
duties as president of board of health
Q.-Do you not know that if quar-.
antines, such as have prevailed thi:
year, should be maintained against
Memphis in the future, whenever q
case of yellow fever is found there
that it will be the destruction of tn,
place?


A-Well, if Memphis dies it il
none of my funeral.


Dwell, doctor, it seems that re-
Gently you have changed your minC
somewhat and you now say that you
was not so much afraid Of the germs
as of people coming to town to handle
the cotton, if it was allowed to come
in. Am l correct in this ?


A.-Yes, sir.


Dwell, doctor, did you at tn,
outset of the epidemic, issue orders t
let no one come into town excep
upon the most urgent necessity?


A.-No, did not interfere will
any going into Memphis until tina
Year: 1879

A HEAD WORTH HAVING John
Harris, who had his head split open by
falling ak at the new Yellow Jacket shaft
some two years ago Is again on the Com
stock. Although the AK fell about 100
feet upon his head. and he lost in conse'
quence a strip of skull-bone four inches
long and two and a half inches wide. he
has taken that head to England with him
and brought it back. end thinks good
deal of 1t and with it yet. His is one of
those exceptional cases in surgery of
which there are not half a dozen in the
books, and which ranks with that where
tamping iron, blown by a prematurely-
discharged blast, passed through a mans
head from chin to crown, and yet failed to
kill him. The cash made by this ax in
Harris's head was large enough to kill half
a dozen men. When the Tones were taken
by the surgeons from the wound the large
veins between the lobes of the brain sent
torrent of blood gushing forth. 1t was
staunched with lint and the man rallied
Inc surgeons feared 10 remove the INT
lest he should bleed to deatlr, and it re-
mained two weeks till it became so far
decayed as to force lis removal. Contra
~ to expectation no blood followed, nor
was there any second hemorIbage from
the wound. Harris has pretty much re-
covered from the effects of the accident.
He says he experiences no head troubles
whatever, his manhood is as vigorous as it
ever was, but he has had hitch to his
walk, sort of jerk, let-go-and go,on
movement which is the result of the hurt.
Heisa wonderfully good man for one upon
whom the experiment of dropping an AK
100 feet upon his head has been success
fully tried Gold Hill Neacs.
Year: 1879

Stranger 10 We IRE, our attention has
already been called to some matters within
the province ofthe County Commissioners
that require immediate attention. One Of
these days our county will be called on
to pay bin of Eve hundred or tbous-
and dollars for team or life lost in the
river At the bridge. The railing which
is entirely gone from one side shonld be
repaired 1t once t., avoid this. Then the
rad over the bluffs - you approach the
bridge is in . condition where days
work BY one man may prevent serious
accident to some one driving down in the
dark. "A stitch in time saves nine," il
sn old and hcmely, but very pertinent
adsge.
Year: 1879

committee appointed to receive General
Grant at Chicago. We look to Logan to
do his duty in this matter, and to tell
Grant very plainly that be is to be the
next republican candidate for president.
There has been too much nOnpart,tan
CANNON talked to Grant and about Grant
lately. Every sane msn knows that Grant,
If he lives, will be the republican c4ndi
date for president, and there il no sense in
affecting ignorance on the subject. On
with the lOOm.


Every sane man in this community,
and we know of none who are not, 10 q
Grant man. He is without doubt the
most popular man in the northwest.
Year: 1879

A horse attached to . light spring
wagon, kicked up little excitement al
Front and the railroad about nine
O'Clock this morning by running away,
hs was opped just in time to prevent
his going overheard. Fortunately nc
one was hurt.
Year: 1879




and an island are indeed curious
freaks of Mother Nature, but such a
phenomenon exists close to West
minister Park, where you enter by a
narrow channel, girt by high cliffs,
into the "Lake of the Island," love
ly sheet Of water soma three miles
long and nearly a mile wide, in
which are number of little islands;
while both shores of the lake have
densely wooded hills, interspersed
at long intervals with scrubby little
farms. The flora Of the bed of this
lake is lovely beyond description,
and is in plain view below your boat
over almost its entire length, so that
you are actually sailing upon a mag
niicent aquarium of miles in extent,
whose bed has rarer and more luxu.
rant combinations OF beauty than
any ever constructed by the hand of
man. Think OF such a sight /!
Breathes there a man with soul so
dead that it would not burst into en-
thusiasm over such an experience =?
But am not half through--nay, not
hundredth part have | told you,
yet am admonished that if do not
''cut it short" your scissors will !


Tomorrow we descend the Rapids
to Montreal, and your next "Morley's
Letter from New York." WILL be
from New York.


MORLEY.
Year: 1879

There are very few who doubt that the
legislative bill will eventually fail as a
whole. It is certain, however, that the
suffers brigade is rapidly encountering
obstacles in the movement for an extra
session. The conservative sentiment
is increasing among the senate demo-
Gratis. There are indications of pur-
pose to disregard the edict Of a joint
democratic caucus and decline to be
bound to cooperate in force for the
repeal of the federal election legislation
at the risk of an extra session.


1t is just possible that Senator Thur
man in his ambition to inaugurate some
movement which might result in max
ing him more conspicuously the favorite
of the bull-dozing element south, in
contradiction to Senator Bayard, has
overshot his mark, and has permitted
himself to be made a dupe Of the suit
lers' brigade. The indications are that
Senators Bayard and Herman, by their
conservatism, represent the real spirit
of the majority of the democratic sena-
tors. rather than Senator Thurman.
The attitude of the latter is only to be
explained as piece of political demo-
gogue, undertaken with view to the
advancement of Thurman's presiden-
tial aspirations.
Year: 1879

New York, Feb. 13-Regarding the
prospects of an extra session the Iri-
June's Washington special says: The
house democrats do not give any signs
of weakening on the position they have
taken and a prolonged fight is expected
there over the matter, which will make
an extra session almost certain without
regard to the action of the senate.
Year: 1879

The heirs of Napoleon III. have
been defeated in an action against the
state for the recovery of the Chinese
museum and arms at the Chateau Pier
refonds, or their value. out of the civil
1iaf
Year: 1879

The republican members of the SEN
ate, lin caucus Thursday, adopted the
report presented by the committee ap-
pointed to arrange the order Of BUSH
ness for the remainder Of the session.
1t was agreed that the postoffice appro-
priation bill shall be taken up as soon
as the pending measure in regard to
Chenese immigration is disposed of,
and that preference shall be given to
other regular appropriation bills.
Year: 1879

Putting commercial considerations aside,
and looking merely at social ones. how great
an alteration will there be in the ways OF
civilized beings il flying IS brought within
the reach OF alt who Gun buy an engine and
some durable wings To take the most po-
etic relation OF life, what different thing
will courtsbip he when lovers seek the
clouds, as OF course they will, and when vows
are exchanged in the air. Lord Lytton tried
to describe something of this kind. but his
hero was clumsy fellow who could not
learn to manage his wings and constantly bad
to be caught by the woman who loved
him. Very different will he the case
with the vigorous and wcll-trained young
Englishman, who will take the lady whom
he admires out to fly, just as ladies are now
taken out for drive, or will perchance
urge his suit when lowering outside her
second-floor window, and will perch on the
sill to learn his fate. Then, in the more pro-
sale part OF life. in the ordinary routine OF
commonplace daily existence, what strange
alterations will occur! Our ancestors would
have laughed at any one who had told them
that the time would come when The ,hrones
In the streets would have under their feet
men OF business who were being dragged to
and fro from their daily work; and it is





haps in the next century the peaceful ram
bIers by the Regents Park will find the
sky overhead suddenly darkcncd at Il cer-
tain time in the afternoon by the great
focks OF city men who are tiring TO their
homes in the far Northwest. There will, Of
course, be some Inconvenience from the
general acquisition OF powers OF flight; but
then every great change brings with it a
certain amount OF suffering. Thus It is
terrible to picture the feelings OF the quiet
householder Of the future when he leans
that large number OF school-boys nave re-
Gently been let loose and are flying about
the neighborhood, or that the crew Ut a
man. Of. war recently paid of have bought
aerial machines and may appear at any
moment. Such drawbacks as these
will. however, be trifing when COM
pared with the vast advantages which
men will gain from the possession Of
wings. Perhaps the most striking OF these
will be the facility which will be given for
the pursuit and detection OF crime. Il is
not easy to picture a flying policeman or to
imagine iniunctionS to move on coming
from above the chmncy-potS ;.but it is per-
haps possible to realze bow perfect feel
ing Of security the inhabitants OF London
will have when they know that all over the
metropolis watchiul inspectors are poised
in mid-air, and that soaring constaDlcs are
constantly on the lookout. Let it be honed
that when these days come men will not TO-
get to whom they owe so much. and will
regard the members Of the Aernnautical
Society as bcnefactors OF humanity and
worthy Of enduring fame.
Year: 1879

THE STRATEGIsTs.-The Clinton Hall
Combination presented the Strategists at
the Theatre again last night to good audi
ence. The entertainment is indeed amusing
and we'll worth seeing. The singular situ-
ations and ridiculous and confusing COM
plicatons Of the piece render it highly in
teresting throughout, and we are surprised
that the Theatre has not been crowded each
evening OF the engagement OF this excel
lent company, every member Of which is
good actor. The plot Of the play is not
very deep, it is true, but, as we have al
ready said, the performance is the best anti
dote for blues to be found. Tonight is the
last performance of the company here.
Year: 1879

CONFERENCE EXCURSION TO NORFOLK
The Annual Conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Virginia will he held
this year in Norfolk, and the Ladies' Foreign
Missionary Society OF the Broad-Street Meth
odist church have made arrangements for
an eXcu, sion to that city on the 2lst OF No
vember by the steamer Ariel. the tickets to
be good for ten days.
Year: 1879

Peter the Great was a. half-savage in
his manners. He never had pleasantly
enough to play a joke, though some of
his rudenesses had very comical effect ::
On his second visit 70 town in Hol-
land, he and the burgomaster of the
place attended divine service, when an
Unconscious action of the czar almost
upset the gravity of the congregation.
Peter, feeling his head growing cold,
turned to the heavily wigged chief mag
istrate at his side and transferred the
wig, the hair of;whieL lowed down over
the great little mans ahahlders, to his
own head, and sat so tip the end of the
service, Hl{en. he kreturned it to the in
suited RbIrgomaster, bowing his thanks
The great mans fury was not appeased
till one of Peters suite assured him that
it was no practical joke at all that his
majesty had played that his usual Gus
tom, when at church, if his head was
cold, was to seize the nearest wig he
Could lutch.-5elgraUia.
Year: 1879

The other morning citizen called at a
hardware store on Woodward avenue
and said he wanted key to a certain
door in his house, and he too9up and
carried away almost the first key handed
out to him. On his way down town af-
ter dinner h. stopped and exchanged the
kew for another, explaining that the ilrst
wouldn't fit. These. changes took place
twice a day for the next four days, the
citizen being unable to get hold OF q key
to fit. On the sixth day he drove up to
the store with a door on a dray, and
calling to the proprietor he said:


"Bring your box of keys out here and
we'll get a fit to that lock. Here | have
been running back and forth for about II
week, and might not have got fit Tor
4 whole NORTH if my wife had not sug-
gested that bring the door down here;
Some of these women are mighty smart. -"


"Put why didn't you take the lock OIL ,i
and bring it down in your pocket?
asked the dealer.


The buyer looked at him in vacant
way, stared hard at the door, and sat
down on the curbstone with the re-


dts a wonder that the whole family
wasn't sent to the bol.house ten years
ago. ."-DeheA Free Hess.
Year: 1879

Call at our Drug Store and get trial
bottle of DIR. Kings New Discovery
free of charge, if you are suffering with
a Cough. Cold. Asthma, Bronchitis,
Hay Fever, Consumption, loss of voice
tickling in the throat or Lungs. This
is the great. remedy that is causing so
much excitement by its many wonder
full cures, curing thousands othopeless
cases. Over one million bottles of DR..
Kings New Discovery have been used
within tbs last year, and have given
perfect. t.satistaction in every instance.
We can unhesitatingly say that this is
is really the only sure cure for throat
and lung affections. and can cheerfully
recommend it to all, Call and get q
trial bottle free Of charge, or a regular
size for 81 90.
Year: 1879

up, The long strike came to an end on
Saturday, and five flint glass factories
which had been idle for nine months. re-
sumed operations to-day. Seven other
factories are also working up to their full
capacity, with enough orders on file to
keep them all going for several months.


This agreeable condition of business af-
fairs prevails throughout Western Penn
sylvania, Eastern Ohio. and the northern
portions of West Virginia, from which
your correspondent has reports up to yes
.erday.


Very few idle persons are now to be
seen on the streets. Every able bodied
man who is willing to work can find some
thing to do at prices which will afford
him decent maintenance At the open
ing of the fall season last year, the ques-
ton uppermost in many minds was, What
shall we do to provide for the poor? Now
the poor, or such of them as are willing
to provide for their own necessities, are
busily engaged at some honorable occupa-
ton, where they earn sufficient money tc
keep themselves and their families. This
is. perhaps, the'most striking evidence ot
the improved condition of business that
could be adduced.


Taken altogether. the outlook for The
coming winter exhibits nothing but en-
couragement for all classes of people-fol
the laboring man no less than the mer
chant and manufacturer.
Year: 1879

SAN Francisco, August 2S.-The ply
sicians still report Kaloch improving. but.
as yet he cannot be considered out of dan
ger. A medical gentleman says more or
less pus has formed, and is still forming
round the bullet, and there is no way of
escape, as the hole from the surface is
already blocked up. 1t is feared if no
outlet is found for it by natural or other
channels, inflammation and blood poison
ing will ensue. At present the most un-
favorable symptoms in the case is feeling
of sickness at the stomach, every evening
about 9 o'clock, Kalloch fears it is pro.
duced By agitation to bis nerves, produced
by the presence of physicians at about
that time, and they have accordingly de.
cided to see him only iu the forenoon. L
is also thought it may result from ovel
nourishment.
Year: 1879

No use Of having the chilIs, no use of
headache,or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

There some difficulty I'm stocking
stagnant pond with good kinds of fish. One
cannot have the choicest without the very
best conditions for their culture. Trout
require cool spring water, and 1t should be
flowing stream unless there are abundant
springs at the bottom of tho pond, spring
ing from the gravel beds. Black bass Is
the next best fish to trout, and may be
kept In pond If there is an ample supply
of fresh watcr and foodl The yellow
perch comes next, and this will thrive
where bass will not: pond with muddy
bottom, If 1t is planted with aquatic veg
citation, will provide comfortable home
for this variety, Then come sun-fsh and
catfish. 1t is well to put In somo cat fish
and let them propagate and increase for q
time; then add some yellow perch which
would live on the catfish and increase as
these diminished until they took possession
of the pond. 1t would then be necessary
to provide some food, if.a large stock was
deeired. Catfish can DO easily caught
with q hook, put into tub Of water and
transported to q pond for long distance.
Yellow perch, could be procured in the
same way: A, fow, dozens would soon
stock pond Of half an acre. + When fish
arc put into q pond 1t would be we'll to
transplant some water plants by taking Up
roots Of water lilies, ETC., making ball Of
mud about them. and dropping them into
the water here and there. - TT. III n
Year: 1879

Two hundred and fifty miles north of
Chicago, on the west shore of Lake
Michigan, peninsula projects from the
main land (Wissonsin) into tho lake in a
northcastcrly direction. Beyond and in
the same direction, is chain of small is
lands extending nearly to the disjointed
portion Of the State of Michigan. These
Islands and the peninsula form Green bay,
which is the highway by which most of the
great lumber and ore products of Wiscon-
sin find thcir woy In market. Between
these islands arc several navigaOlc entrances
to the Bay, but the one most travelled is the
south entrance, known as Death Door.
About the time Of the first settlement of
the country by tho French, nearly the
whole tribe of Pottawatomie Indians were
drowned while attempting to cross this
passage, and the French called it Port du
Mort. A small island at the entrance to
the door, OH which is light house and fog
signal, is officially known by this name,
though among sailors and fishermen it is
called Pilot Island. 1t contains less than
five acres and for nine months of the
twelve is the home of the light keeper, his
family and two assistants. North Of Door
Bluff-thc name of the northern cXtrcmi-
ty or cape of tho pcninsula-:wo miles is
Plum Island, containing probably two
square miles. 1t is uninhabited and COW
orcd with heavy growth of pine and
cedar. This is the condition of oil the
country in this vicinity, the few inhabi-
tants depending almost entirely upon fish
ing for support. -Four miles east of Door
Bluff is Poot du Mort, which is two miles
west of the south point Of Detroit Island.
All this coast is lime stone, ard the chan
nels between the islands and Mt the en-
frances to the bays are full Of reefs of the
same stone, and to add to the danger of
navigation there is most of the time a
strong current flowing sometimes one way
and sometimes another, so strong at times
asto make boat unmanageablc.
Year: 1879

Looking west up the river from Las Vegas


New Mexico, tho most notable object in
the distant landscape is Iermit's Peak.
towering high above its fellows. 1t is
ABOUT twenty miles distant from town. 1t
Is bold granite mountain towering at a
perpendicular altitude of 1000 feet above
the bed OF tho river 1t Is difficult of as
cent and there is but one path by which
the top can be gained. The summit is bare
OF vegetation and the altitude renders 1t, as
IT looks, cold and inhospitablo. thas been
an inhabited place, however, the abode of
vcritablc hermit. In 1860 there appeared
In town an old gray-hcaded man, who
seemed to have been the victim of somo
great i'll fortune. He gave no account of
himself, but simply gave his name, how
ever, as Juan Augustine. lie WAS u man
or much earning and extensive reading,
but did not hold much communication with
his fellows. lie selected the high peak
abode town as the place of his abode, and
Tor three years he lived there solitary and
alono upon the highest pinnacle OF the
mountain. Ho abhorrcd fire, and never
Lighted even candle save on one dav of
each week, when he kept three small tuners
burning. He was a religious dcvotcc who
appeared to bo doing penancc for un early
lie OF Sin; or perhaps for some crime Ills
history was shrouded in mystery. lie
spoko French and Spanish fluently, and
some English. His religious zeal and mys-
terious habits and life created much int crest
among the simple natives of the surround
ing settlements, and they looked upon him
with supcrstitious awe and reverence They
thought it their duty to aid hlni, and during
the whole time of his abode in tho noun
tains they carried him food and provisions.
In this, way he existed like the patriarch Of
Old led by the ravens During his three
years Of sclf-imposcd exile he occasionally
made q visit to town, but could not be pre-
vailed upon to enter house or 20 neal
fire. at the end of three years ho left Her
mits Peak and went to tho Bcrnal Hill,
southwest OF Tccolotc, where he lived some
time An ancient cross is still there to
mark the place of his dwelling. Ho fan
cled high places far removed above the Or
dinary walks of mon. From Bernal Hill
he journeycd into the wilderness of Grant
county, where the bood-thirsty Apachos,
with as little respect for prayers and
penances then rs now, murdered and
scalpcd him. His history and real name
were never learned, l'ut he gave an endur-
ing title to the high mountain west of town,
the "Hernlit's Peak"