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Year: 1879

STEPHEN SIMS, of this village, had
a very close call from Lightning
during the storm Of last Sunday
afternoon. He was sitting in his
house between two open doors, read
iug a newspaper, when the lightning
passed through, knocking him sense
less and scorching the newspaper aud
his undershirt, and leaving a black
mark on his breast. lie is all right
now. Chronicle
Year: 1879

Nashville American, 13th.l


House bill making it penitentiary
Otfense to carry concealed weapons
passed its third reading in the house
Yesterday after a lengthy discussion.
This is the only way to suppress the
practice and prevent bloodshed.


The vote in the house rejecting
house bill to protect food fish in the
waters ofTennessee was wisely recon
sidered yesterday and made the special
order for this forenoon.


A warm discussion occurred in the
house yesterday over the bill to estab-
lish an asylum for the insane in East
Tennessee. To this bill an amend
ment, providing for the erection of a
similar institution in West Tennessee
was added, and then the bill, as amend
ed, was rejected. During the discus
sion it was stated that out of 1900 in
sane persons in Tennessee only about
400 are provided for. The others are
incarcerated in the various iails in the
State or cared for by relatives as well
as it possible. To confne a lunatic
in Jail, where there is no proper pro-
vision for him, is to leave no hope for
the recovery Of, reason: it is simply
slow death.


The house judiciary committee
agreed, yesterday. to unanimously
recommend the rejection of the bill to
judicially redistrict the State.


The house spent the greater part of
last nights session in discussing Mr..
Reynolds bill with accompanying
amendments to tax all persons coming
into the State and selling goods at
retail by sample at the same rate as
our home merchants. Speaker
Fowlkes and others said that letters
had been received from merchants in
various towns of the State urging the
passage Of law that would at least
put these retail sample sellers on the
same footing with them as to the pay
ment of taxes. This was all they
asked. Nashville merchants had also
urged the passage of such a bill. The
bill was rejected, but motion to
reconsider will be entered. The@ill
has no reference to commercial trav-
elers selling goods at wholesale to
merchants.


The senate concurred, yesterday, in
the house amendment striking out the
assessment clause in the bill to allow
the city Of Nashville to collect its own
taxes, and the bill now awaits the sig
nature, of the governor. This bill will
necessitate the election of city tax
collector, or imposing the additional
work on some one of the present city
officers.
Year: 1879

Is an Atheist a competent witness =?
The question came up in the United
States Circuit Court in San Francisco
the other day, and the Judge said
that the old common law doctrine,
under which man who didn't be-
lieve in the existence of God was ex-
cluded from the witness stand, had
become obsolete; or, if not, it was
high time it had. In support of this
view he pointed out that the ancient
rule, if still in yigor, would exclude
such men of science as Tyndall and
Huxley, which he seemed to consider
an absurdity. His remarks are pretty
sure to give rise to discussion.
Year: 1879

NASHVILLE Christian Advocate
With the currency resumption let
there be also a resumption of the sim
plicity and economy of our fathers.
This is the resumption that will bring
plenty to our homes and tranquility to
the fevered spirits of our people. With
the downfall Of initiation, let shoddy-
ism, vulgar display, extravaganza and
speculation be banished from the land.
Let simple tastes and modest equipage
be more than ever the mark of true
gentility.
Year: 1879

A sensitive man would rather face
loaded cannon's mouth than to have
contribution box showed under his
nose when his girl is eagerly Watching
him and he knows there is no money
in his clothes-not even a scent of CO.
logne. That is what makes SO many
of our young men look old and care
worn before their time.
Year: 1879

THERE is a rumor that Minister
Welsh is to be recalled from London.
1t is said to have been at his departure
an open question how long his bust
ness would allow him to remain
abroad. He may wish to return, but
he has not, however, informed the
State department that he has that
wish
Year: 1879

George" said devoted young
mother of our acquaintance to her
very juvenile son, you cannot have
another cookie till you ask for it
property Please, for Christ s
sake, amen, said little innocence with
Immediately folded arms.
Year: 1879

ALL the provisions of the revenue
bill relative to tobacco go into imme-
,diate effect, except the one that re-
duces the tax to sixteen cents, which
does not become operative until the
hrst day of May. The new regulations
In regard to the packing of cigarettes
will be promulgated in the course of a
weeE
Year: 1879

A new boat has been added this
week to the already long list of excur.
sion boats plying between Philadel-
phia and Delaware Bay. The new
steamer, the empire State," is well
known, having run On the Delaware a
number of years ago, and will ply be-
tween Philadelphia and Fortescue.
She is a larger boat than the Republic.
Fortescue is a watering point on the
Jersey Shore about three miles south of
Sea Breeze. A few Wilmingtonians
who were arrested there few years
ago, for fishing in violation of the law
of New Jersey, have no doubt a dis
tinct recollection of the place.
Year: 1879

Tomorrow is the day fixed upon for


the Uniform corps X. Of P. excursion to


Atlantic City, and If few clouds should
curtain the sun the day will be the
more pleasant on that account. Every
thing possible has been done to make
the affair not only success but to make
1t comfortable for the sxcursionists. All
mistakes made at the rscsnt Ishoboth
excursion will be avoided. The excpr-
sionists will be conveyed from this city
by way Of the P. W. & B. railroad TO
Washington street wharf, Philadelphia,
to leave the depot promptly at G q. m.
After crossing the Delaware they will
then take the Camden & Atlantic broad
guage road direct to their destination,
this part Of the journey being made in
80 minute The excursion will leave
Atlantic City on iss return trip at s p.
M, reaching home between and 8
O'Clock. This will give at least 8 hours
on the beach. A special street car will
leave Rising Sun at 5 .. m, TO convey
excursionists to the depot and will
await the return Of the excursion at
night, the fare both ways being at q
reduction. = x s't'
Year: 1879

This morning VIM. H. Zane appeared
at the police court and desired to be
sworn in stating that he had been ap-
pointed as watchman at Front street
wharf by the truckers who have their
produce at said wharf. His Honor
administered the oath, and the watch
man went on his way rejoicing.
Year: 1879

The last ,ase tried at the police court
last evening was that of young man
arraigned on the charge Of slapping a
lady in the face. The charge being
sustained the young man was required
to pay SO and costs.
Year: 1879

John w. WigVins colorsd was ar
raigned at the police court this morn
ing on the charge Of violent assault and
battery on his wife. Rebecca Virgins
testified TO defendant being angry be-
cause she did not press his nscktie, as
he wanted TO 90 ON the excursion. The
excursion being postponed witness
thought nothing more about the neck.
tie until evening when she returned
home from bard days work. As soon
as witness arrived at the house defend
ant commenced talking to her when
without the least provocation he picked
up large club struck her on the back
threw her down and kicked her in the
side. Witness said that she had often
been i'll treated by her husband and
her life was in danger. Jane Ander-
soa testified to being present when de-
fsndant struck his wife, she saw him
throw her down and kick her. The
prisoner was fined e5 and cost and was
held in the sum OF 5000 to keep the
peace.
Year: 1879




FRIDAY, Jan. 3l-6 p. N.


Briefly summarized the stock market may be de-
scribed as having been weak at the opening steady
during the interval and unquestionably strong at
the close. Between times there occurred very
lively episode. Mr.. Goulds pet fancy Union Pacific
under sharp attack. driven from % TO o'A'
The decline precipitate and unexpected Casting
about for of the why and the wherefore. 1t
ascertained that parties injured by Goulds
"smash" Of the Northwesterns yesterday were quite
ready to render a quid pro quo by smashing Union
Pacific to-day. The endeavor was successful so far
it went. but it did not go far enough to insure
perfect success under the joint support of Messrs
Gould and Sage the price rallied to 64a and closed
While Mr.. Gould made to take his own medicineit
not administered in sufficiently heroic doses to
purge him of the stock market for good and ALL
This might have been accomplished. however. had
the attack been persevered in to point which would
have rendered his money lenders uneasy and
demand for more margins imperative. As 1t turned
out the attacking party popularity supposed to con-
sst of Messrs Keene Morgan and others of that ilk.
became weak kneed and wavering at the moment
when pluck and determination were most essential.
and the chance of wiping out long continued and
notoriously black spot upon the market was lost.
Out of period of much feverishnoss and uncertainty
the market grew into condition of decided strength
coward the Close Although the future is most prom
isng Of higher prices it would seem that an inter-
regnum Of irregularty expressed by feverish
fluctuations. may prevail for some days to come
The rebuff of the last day or two is not only stag
gering to professional SPECTATORS. but has chilling
influence upon the outside public. Besides this there
are some items Of a financial nature which are not
altogether satisfactory The St. Paul road. it is sad
will show q heavy falling Off in comparative earnings
the Delaware and Lackawanna annual statement Is
the Of encouraging to stockholders the Lake
Shore road said to be 100000 behind last year in
its January earnings, Western Union Telegraph is
threatened by the passage Of Senator Jones bill en-
abling railroad companies to throw open their
lines to public business. and the Western
Union Railroad. which is . sort OF ap-
panage to the st. Paul road it is feared may be un
able to meet the interest tomorrow on its bonds.
In the way Of the great movement toward higher
prices necessitated by the better state Of things
that awaiting in the future. these obstacles
small indeed. but they may be sufficiently i'm
porant check the advance for the present. or at
least render the market dull and irregular At the
close to-day it was, however. neither one nor the
other prices being strong and the temper decidedly
bullish.


The opening. highest lowest and closing prices Of
stocks at the New York Stock Exchange to-day
<,v1
Year: 1879

Russian merchants recently returned
from the interior of China to St. Peters
burg have furnished terrible details re-
specting the famine which has for some
time past prevailed throughout certain
provinces of the Celestial Empire. They
depose to having seen people die in the
streets of many towns and villages from
sheer starvation, and state not only that
cannibalism is practised upon the bodies
of the dead, but that famished men at
tack the living. and prey upon them
with ferocity. One of them alleges that
he was present at the examination Of a
mendicant who had been arrested for
some petty theft and in whose profess
sional wallet the mangled remains of an
infant were discovered. This man con-
fessed to the magistrate that for some
time previous to his seizure he had
lived exclusively upon the fresh flesh of
human beings, as lie could not surmount
his antipathy to that of dead bodies. An
other appalling case which came under
the notice of a Russian merchant was
that of a young man who had persuaded
his father to assist him in numbering and
subsequently eating u girl to whom he
was berrothed. Men have been exc
cuted for killing and eating their own
children, and sons have slain their
fathers in order to appease the, pangss OF
hunger. In some of the northern dis
tricts whole villages stand empty, their
inhabitants having one and all per'shed
for want of food.
Year: 1879

Did ever you see name printed on 4
growing apple, pear or peach? No!
Well, if you wish to have that pleasure,
this is the way to obtain it: While the
fruit yet hangs green upon the tree, make
up YOUR mind which is the very biggest
and most promising specimen of all.
Next, cut out fiom thin tough paper the
initials of the name of your little brother
or sister or chief crony, with round
specks for the dots after the letters, and
the letters themselves plain and thick.
Then paste these letters and dots On that
side Of the apple which is most turned
to the sun. taking care not to loosen the
fruits hold upon its stem.


AS soon rs the apple is ripe. take OIL
the paper cuttings, which. having shut
out the reddening rays of the sun, have
kept the fruit green just beneath them,
so that the name or initials now show
plainly. After that. bring the owner of
the initials to play near the tree, and say
presently: "Why, what are those queer
marks on that apple up there?"


You will find this quite pleasant way
to surprise the very little ones, and, of
course, you ran print 4 short pet name
IA easily rs initials. ~. Nicholas.
Year: 1879

One of the most remarkable escapes
from instant death ever recorded occur
red at Kalamo, last week, at Levi Sweets.
while engaged in threshing. AS one of
the men was driving into the yard with
:, loaded tank of water for the steamer
his little girl. ten years old, climbed
upon the hind end of the wagon unob-
served by the driver and three other men,
who were likewise riding on the tank.
She had got seated just in front of the
hind wheel when a younger sister came
up, and she proceeded to pull her on the
wagon while still in motion. Losing her
balance, she seized the rolling wheel to
save herself, and the wheel rolled over
her, striking her left arm just at the arm
lit, passing diagonally across her body,
and going off at the right shoulder.
Strange to say, when the accident became
known. she was picked up still alive and
insisted that she could walk to the house
alone. DIR. Smell was sent for immedi-
:tely and made an examination in twenty
minutes after. lie found that the heavy
weight had crushed her right lung.
which was filled with blood; the other
lung being somewhat injured, it was diff
ilcull JOI W DlSstlliC. 'cIlS SuNSSSoSN
in throwing off the blood. when she
brcathed easier and commenced appar-
emily to get better. We called at the
house last Saturday, when we found her
holstered in the bed, eating rice pudding.
To questions asked she declared the
wagon running over her didn't hurt her
the least bit, nor had she suffered any
pain from the first. The bruised mark
of the wagon tire not only showed plain
across her breast, but showed the same
mark directly opposite on her back. prov
ing conclusively that the space between
the wheel and ground was not more than
an inch. Strange to say, not bone was
broken, but being remarkably healthy
child her ribs were rs flexible as spring
steel. The doctor says the only danger
lies in an abscess forming about the lungs,
in which case it may prove fatal. Other;
wise he can see no reason why the child
will not be around in a few days. The
weight of the wagon. including the :our
men, was 4,2OO pounds. Had such a
weight passed over the strongest man II
would have crushed him to death.-Fer'
n,o,atville (Aich.) Hasok.
Year: 1879

don and Miller were the same. Seldom had
returned from the continent, and took a
fancy to stroll through the country toward
home. On his way he came to Layman's
and there saw Fanny. That was the at
traction that held him.


By some means his father. who was a
desperate and unprincipled man, learned
Of his marriage, and plan was devised to
remove her. In the first instance, it is sup
posed that the gypsies were to abduct her
and invcigle her into some situation which
would warrant divorce. Subsequently,
however, her death was resolved on,whether
with the sanction Of the Scldons or moi is
uncertain. The old woman who claimed
the girls body was doubtless one OF the
gang of gypsieS The alleged sickness OF
the elder Seldom must have oeen a lrumped
up story, to which it was not difficult to get
retainers to swear, especially when all the
authorities were anxious Ia cover up the
cuilt of the real culprits
Year: 1879

The paper had been folded along the
fourth line and then torn off at the corner.
1t was conveyed to Layman and kept by
him as likely to be of value. There was
small doubt that Fanny was in the vehicle
which Layman overlook on his way home,
and that the screams which he heard were
her cr;~s for help. Could it be that Miller
was atthe bottom of the abduction? Lay
man remembered that Miller had frequently
written in an album belonging to Fanny,
snd in comparing that writing with the
writing on the SCRAP Of paper they were
found to be identica, Layman made his
way to York to con lit lawyer as to the
hest means OF discov' ling his sister. When
he reached that ci , almost the first thing
he saw in newspaper was the discovery Of
the body of murdered woman in the river
Aire, just above Leeds, near place known
as The Forge. The won4en's linen was
marked "F. L." Feeling sure that this
must be his sister--for the description an
swered to her in every observation-disclosures
Year: 1879

When a man puts on airs and swells
around, making people believe that he
owns two-thirds of every bank in the
City, people look up to him and admire
him. Just let the same man in a shabby
coat try to borrow q few dollars, and
You'll find out how much the same peo-
ple admire-the dollars-NsW York En-
DresS
Year: 1879

The cotton gins opened out yester-
day and between them turned out two
dozen handsome bales of the heecy
staple, all made from freshly gathered
cotton hauled in by the farmers in the
vicinity Of the city. To-day they we're
at it again, though it is said less ac
lively than yesterday owing to cotton
coming in less freely, all because the
Honorable Johnson's pickets are
worrying or trying to bulldoze the
cotton growers. 1t is authoritatively
stated that the cotton gin owners in
this city have employed eminent coun-
sci and they mean business. They are
prepared to fight this question to the
bitter end, and in this fight they have
the sympathy of nine-tenths of the
entire community exclusive of board of
health pay drawers The attorneys,
with Judge w. S. Flippin in the van,
are prepared to defead every farmer
in the courts free Of all cost to the
aforesaid farmer. In the minds of
the gin men, the merchants and the
attorneys, there is neither justice or
reason in this cotton prohibition or
der known as No. G" and all who
may wish to come to the city with
seed cotton to be ginned and baled
need have no fear of incurring cent
of law costs The odious road pick
cts may attempt to intimidate or give
annoyance, but measures are in pro-
gress to checkmate even this trouble.
The farmers are therefore invited to
bring in their seed cotton.
Year: 1879

MEMPHIS, September 20, 1879.
EREQUENT applications being made 10
Il the Board Of Health and Superintendent
Of Quarantine by absentees from here to re-
turn, we deem it best to make this public an
nouncement, that, though the number of new
cases Of yellow fever and deaths are small
and perceptibly on the decline, it would not
be safe for those who have not had the dis
ease to return yet.


The comparativeS small number of new
cases and deaths is due to the fact that there
are so few unacclimated people here.


Those who have had the fever and wish to
return will be permitted to do so, and will
be furnished a certificate to that effect on ap-
plication to the Superintendent Of Quaran-
tine. None others will be permitted to enter
Memphis before it is officially announced by
the Board Of Health that it is thought there
is no longer danger from the infection, which
will be done at the earliest possible day.


G. B. THORNTON, MD,


President Board of Health.


JOHN JOHNSON,


Superintendent of Quarantine.
Year: 1879

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
500 per month fOrless than one year The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free,


Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at SOC per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing pOstOffiOo.
Year: 1879

San Francisco Chronicle.l


A new Chinese trick has been dis
covered. A few days since, ON the
arrival of a vessel from Honolulu,
containing several cases of shoes that
had been shipped to that port by some
Chinese house in San Francisco and
sent back condemned by the con
signees, the custom house officials
were curious to know the cause, and
this curiosity prompted them to open
the cases, when an ingenious plan was
discovered to smuggle opium into that
port through the heels of the con
demned shoes. The heels, at a
glance, appeared natural and properly
made, but by pulling out a nail or two
and removing one thickness Of leather,
a hole occupying nearly the whole size
of the heel was found, in which opium
had been placed to introduce into the
Hawaiian market. The condemned"
business was part OF the programme,
and the shoes were returned, evident
ly to be reloaded and forwarded again
to that port.
Year: 1879

the great good such an association as
the Howards might do, he makes a
great mistake, and says that which one
man should not say of another, unless
possessed of much more proof than he
can produce. But now that his sins
have found him out" l will merely
add, go, and sin no more"


MATTHEW BRAMBLE.
Year: 1879

SUBSCRIBERS who wish to re-
new will do us u favor by SEND
ING MONEY before their time
expires, as our mail list is very
large, and our force 10 do the
work small. NO USE TO SEND
ORDERS WITHOUT the MONEY.
Year: 1879

IT would have been unhealthy for
Dennis Kearney to have attempted to
burn Grant in efigy on his arrival at
San Francisco. He would have been
swept from his sand lots and the face
of the earth, which would have been
a net gain.
Year: 1879

From Boston Exchange.


On New Years eve a gentleman went TO
church. In the course of time he conclud-
ed to remove his overcoat, and with all the
grace and ado imaginable. After taking
his seat and folding his arms, imagine his
surprise when he discovered that he had
removed both dress and ovcrcoat and was
in his shirt sleeves. The rest is better i'm
agined than told The same evening a
drcssy, prim gentleman went to another
church, and aiterremoving his ulster, was
horror.stricken to find that in place OF his
dress coat he had on his short knit blouse.
Year: 1879

DENTISTRY 1t should not be forgot
ten that DR.. T. j. Holden, the Dentist is
here and that he will remain only very
short time longer. Those who may de-
sire first class dental work should avail
hem'elves Of this opportunity. Office at
the New York Hotel. Do not DELAY but
have your teeth attended to at once. =
Year: 1879

TINE SHORTENED.-Fro an official
communication received at the Weaver
willie Post Office we learn that schedule
time on the route between Reading and
this place has been reduced to hours in
the Summer and 10 hours in the Winter,
and tfat the Department vii insist ON
that time being made by the contractors
Ii will require quick work aud short stop
pages to make the trip in 10 hours over
heavy Winter roads.
Year: 1879

REMovAL.-The Bank Exchange Sa
loon, Frank w. Young Proprietor, has
been removed to the building just above
New York Hotel, The new quarters are
neatly fitted up and Frank will be glad
to see his old friends and patrons. 1t
will probably take HIM and them some
time to feel at home in the new location
as he had occupied the old stand for %
Vears
Year: 1879

FINANCIAL REPoRT. The Auditors
Report of the Financial condition of
Trinity county will be found in our ad-
verti~ing columns this week 1t is pub
lished by order Of the Board Of Super
vi ors