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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13
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Our prices will continue to be the mos
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

Our Public Directory. TO strangers
visiting Memphis we offer list % clever. rcli
able business men. under the above head. on
the first page oftho PuBLIc LEDGER.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

.XXTANTED.-A SITUATION AS SALES
w man in respectable grocery or commits
sior hsuse. by an experienced and competen'
Add -ess G. W. T.. 1O7 Third street. 1873
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

WANTED TO RENT A DWELLING
w House, with ten or twelve rooms, fur
n;sbed or unfinished, situated within five
minutes walk of Court Square. The best OF
reference will BIO givon. Inquire at the LEDGER
ltl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

LARCENY AND AN ARREST. yesterday
Nelson Nance (colored), entered Mr.. II.
Marks store ostensibly to sell some
canary birds which he had in cages.
Mr.. Marks had just given his little son
eight dollars to pay his school tuition.
The boy left the money on the counter
and went up stairs During his absence
Nance seized the greenbacks and beat
hasty retreat, He was overhauled, ar
rested and committed to Jail
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

A SCIENTIFIC gentleman has remarked
that comparative trials prove that in the
majority of fish the proportion of solid
matter-that is, the matter which re-
mains after perfect dessication, or the
expulsion Of the aqueous parts little
inferior to the several kinds OF butchers
meat, game or poultry. And if we give
attention to classes of people, classed as
to the quality of the food they princi-
pally subsist on, we find that the
ichthyophagus classes are especially
strong, healthy and prolific Ia no other
class than that of fishers do we see so
large families, handsome women, more
robust and active men, or greater ex.
emption from common maladies. The
foregoing has been suggested by the re-
ceipt recently of some superb fish from
Messrs. Traders, No 32i Front street.
They keep an ample supply on hand lat
all times.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

PRoTRAcTED cases of chills cured for
one dollar, by using King of Chills. al
ON HATS made new at 362 Second st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

WANTED - AGENTS TO SILL TIL "
w CRESCENT SEWING MACHINE, the
most profitable machine for agents TO sell
Price, S2i. We call the. atten ton Of agents TO
ombiguous captations. which seem to promise
enormous wages, as do many Others, we make
!, Jargor deduction to our agents than do most
of ether parties who sell machines anything
.scriptiye circulars and sample Of sewing VIII
Ao sent free on application. Address
IJASTY & MORAN. Gent Ag,ts,
2i5 Second street. Memphis, Tenn:
n Il. Persons who buy machines of MS for
their own use, and afterwards become agents,
viii be allowed deduction on first machine.
Orders bv mail from all parts OF the country
viii receive Dr0Tnpt attention.. Iln
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-13

COUNTRY physicians are using and pre-
scribing English Female Bitters. Their
letters say so. l4l
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17
The Three HunchbaCks.

The following amusing and seemingly
incredible narrative we extract from a
late French publication
Three brothers, all humpbacked, and
all accurately alike in appearance, lived
at Besancon. One of them killed a man
in chance medley, but not being taken
on the moment, the prosecutors could
only swear that one of the three brothers
had done the deed. Rather then put an
innocent man to death the judge let the
guilty one escape, but to avoid further
inconvenience of the kind he bauished
all three from the province. One set
tied in Paris, became rich, and married {;
the others, after nearly starving in Eng
land, returned and paid VISIT to their
fortunate brother.
The master of the house was abroad
when they Knocked, and the poor wife
was troubled more than little by the Wis
it. "My husband is very jealous" said
she to them while she was giving them
something to eat. "You must 90 to the
farthest quarter of the town, and never
come here again: but I'll make your
brother look to your wants" While she
was speaking she heard her husbands
knock, and cried out, Follow me if you
value your lives.
She ordered the servant not to open
the door till she should return, and then
conveyed the brothers down the stairs
and locked them into the cellar. Her
husband scolGed for being kept out so
long, but a good dinner restored him to
humor; and at night went out to pay a
visit.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17

The wife then went down into the eel,
lar, and there found the two poor broth.
ers dead, one lying here aad the other
there. What was to be done? She sent
for a strong Auvergnat, brought him
down stairs, showed him one corpse
which she had previously taken out Of
the cellar, and promised him Louis d or
on his return after ha7inE thrown it into
the Seine. He made nc scruple about
the matter, but popped the body into the
sack, took it to the bridge and shook it
into the river. Returning for his reward,
the wife disputed his claim, as the body
was still lying outside the cellar door
Here the stupefed man saw what he firm
| ly believed to be the corpse he had thrown
from the bridge, and, resigning himself
to destiny, he got it into the sack and
went through the ceremony the second
time. Coming back, be was terrified and
enraged by finding the tgiee-dropped
corpse knocking at his own door. "Are
these your tricks, master ?" said he, 'Ah,
Monsieur Ghost ! clever as you are, I'll
settle you the third trial"
So saying, he forced the poor husband
into the sack, carried him to the same
spot and effected the third discharge
This time he returned in triumph, for
the wife, ignorant Of her husbands fate,
and having no more corpses to remove,
paid him twice what she covenanted, and
gave him glass of wine into the bar
gain.
"Your good health, madame, said he;
"you are better than your promise, but
I earned it. I found the hnmpbacked
rogue or his ghost knocking at the door
after I had thrown him in for the second
time" "Oh, wretch q" cried the poor
woman, 'you have drowned my hus-
band"
While she was screaming and he stand
ing in amaze, the gen d'armes entered,
secured both, and sent them to prison
Next day they were brought before the
magistrate of the quarter and examined.
The poor wife concealed nothing the
Auvergnat was not called on for an ex-
PLANTATION; and while both were awaiting
sentence Of death the three brothers, in
full life, but with pale faces, were usher
ed into the room. Some fishermen sta
toned near the bridge had saved the
three. The unmarried men had been
only dead drunk in the cellar, and the
submersion, and the consequent pulling
and hauling and ejectmept of wine and
water, had recovered them from their
drunken lethargy before the natural time
On their first appearance before the mag
istrate, they could give no explanation
of their visit to the river, and the hus-
band had no idea Of the canse of his be-
ing seized on but his Wife's explanation
made all clear.
The king hearing of the strange ad-
venture, settled a pension on the unmar-
ried men, but they were not to dwell
within fifty miles of Paris, and the mar
ried man was not Jealous for q year and
a day after his seizure and escape from
the river.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17
WHOLE NUMBER 262.
A Day FOrty-eight Hours Long.

Last week We showed that the frst be-.
ginning Of the day is somewhere between
America and Asia. The precise locality
of that somewhere has not been deter
mined. If the Pacific Ocean were thick.
ly populated with men, the place Of the
beginning of the day would be a matter
of great consequence, and would proba-
bly, be settled by statute. The day would
start from a meridian line extending from
pole to pole, and the longitude Of shis
day line would be so accurately 6xed
that a man might stand sstFids is and 70.
alize the paradox Of having one foot on
Monday and the other on Tuesday. Many
Ofthe readers Of this will live long enough
to hear this subject discussed in national
councils.
We propose to show that Monday or
any other day of the week is foFty-slEht
hours long We mean that during the
whole forty-eight hours, Monday iS on
the earth somewhere TO be found. The
Monday of this city is, Of course, twenty
four honrs long, but before and after our
Monday there is a Monday in some other
quarter. When Monday begins in New
York there have been three hours Of
Monday in London, and for three hours
after our Monday ends there will be Mon
day in San Francisco. Thus between
these places Monday lasts eighteen hours.
Now, if the day line were at our anti.
podes, Monday would begin the2s twelve
hours before ours, and end end twelve
hours after ours. Thus, for the space Of
forty-eight hours the earth is not rid Of
Monday. ..-
The fact may illustrated in another
way. Suppose We are at the day line
Monday there begins, and in tWenty.four
hours along comes Tuesday; but Just
vest (half an inch if you plesse) Mon
lay began only an instan before il end.
I'd east of that line. The MONDAY east
If the line is twenty-four hours long,
md west of the line is the same length,
md in all, Monday lasts forty y-eighth0ur.
Scientific American.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17
a}Iisf<any.
Oourtship--HOw it is Done in Germany.
[COrrespondence saturday Gnzette.l !

Correspondence Saturday Gazette.7
Oh you American lovers, rejoice in
your secret walks, your lonely rides,
/ your escorts from evening prayer meet
irgs, those well established rendezvous
for lovers. You can indulge in secret
sighs, billet-doux and poetry little do
/ yoUrealize the inconvenience with which
modern German courtship is carried
on. There are no secret interviews and
smuggled letters to inspire the heart of
an amorOus German. If he has anything
to say, he says it before anybody and
everybody who happens to be in the
room. If he calls upon the mistress of
his affections, he behOlds her quietly
knitting stocking in the midst of the
family circle; and with all this array of
spectators must he unbosom his heart
and WOO his bride. By unbosoming his
heart | don't mean proposing. Unless
he can watch a second behind door
in a ballroom, or elude for an instant
the watchful care of the young lady's
guardians, that momentous question,
"Wiil you have me 2" and its delicious
answer, eyes, dearest, will never be
whispered between them at all. He must
60 to pater fdmjHas, or some married
friend whose affections are doubtless as
withcred as her features, and make
them the mediators. When all is ar
ranged, the engagement announced, and
the romance entirely over, then he can
see the lady alone, take her occasional
ly to the theatre (when he wishes to do
this before the engagement he must in
vite also the mother or the aforesaid
withered reIation), and indulge in a
walk once a week.
This extreme reverse seems at first
glance the more unnatural from the fact
that Germans are essentially a romantic
and poetical people. Their literature,
their love of music and worship of art
show this, no less than the mistaken and
romantic attemps at chivalry among the
students, and the tenderness and kind
ness one meets with everywhere. Their
politeness, rough though it sometimes
is, and the interest, almost curiosity,
which is taken in your affairs but Ger
mans have to look beyond mere firta
ton and love-making. They are usual
Iy poor, and must choose a wife as the
Vicar of Wakefield did, ''for wear" A
fashy, brilliant girl, who tackled the
usual domestic instruction would neverdo
for them, and lady who should throw
of her reserve and openly accept the at
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17
Harper's Weekly--The POpe-- What Rebel
Officer Says,

A late number of Rqrper's contains a
caricature of the Pope, representing him
as an old woman in petticOats with many
ridiculous surroundings. Now we are BY
birth, education and conviction, as strong
ly protestant as any one on this Contin-
ent. But for the honor of human ma
ture, we must hope that there. are few of
our faith, who have the bad taste not to
say the bad heart to enjoy a burlesque
of an old man in his hour of sorrow.-
We of the South cannot but think that
he is thus held up to ridicule, because
he was the only Sovereign in Europe,
who sympathized with our people. We
cannot but ask too why these scurrillous
prints we're not issued during the war
Was it for fear Of disaffecting those gal
liant Irish soldiers, who led the attack
and covered the retreat? When the
Convent in Columbia, S. G.. was to be
burned, the Irish troops were left outside
the city. When their services were no
longer needed, the Head of their Church
is mocked.
There are some other facts which we
remember, not as southerners, but as
Americans. The first expression Of sym
pathy with our struggling fore fathers
came from Catholic Ireland. The Sign
er of the Declaration of Independence,
who had most at stake, was the wealthy
Charles Carroll, Catholic But for the
assistance rendered by Catholic France
and Catholic Spain, we would never have
succeeded in our Revolutionary Strug-
gle. Lafayette, the friend of Wash
ington was a Catholic. To the same
Church belonged DeKalb (who fell at
Camden, South Carolina), Kosciusko,
Pulaski (who fell at Savannah Ga.),
Chastellux, and scores of others. A
large number of confidential frsends of
were Catholics, aud we
have no desire to set up a claim to a
higher or purer Professionalism than that
Of the Father of his Country. There
have been no purer Jurists than Taney
Of Maryland, and our own CASTOR OF
North Carolina, beth Of whom were
Catholics.
We remember gratefully, as Ameri-
cans that those who were most active in |
the horrors of the late civil |
war, were the Sisters Of Charity. For |
all their Kindness to sick, wounded and |
dying soldiers, whether wearing the |
grey or blue, we, with sincere Protes-
tant fervor, invoke upon them the |
choicest blessings Of a God of mercy
Land pe Lore.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17

ert Renick and Jonathan DOnnel as his
sureties.
Col DOugherty was several times a
member of the Legislature.
24th May.-A special session of the
Court was held for the purpose of fixing
the jail bounds, which were ordered to be
defined as follows: d" Beginning at a dog
wood stake, witness three white oak
stumps; thence eastwardly to a hickory
stump below the bridge; thence north
wardIy to a black oak; thence westwardIy
to a small white oak by Mr. CrossIey s
shop; thence northwardly to the place
of beginning, including the Jail, Mr.
Fithian's Mr.. Fooss, and Mr. Weaver
store" This was doubtless clear and def
mite at the time, but it will puzzle Anti
quarians now to locate the bounds be-
yond which the prisoner for debt might
not pass without putting his sureties in
peril
25. On an outer leaf of another of the
record books, extemporized from foolscap
paper, may be found these words: al,
William Ross of Champaign county, do
certify that Betsy Ross, my sister, is of
age, and has the consent of her parents
to get marriage license; the 28th of May,
A. D. 1905.
(Signed) WILLIAM Ross, jun.
And, then below follow these words in
writing of the clerk:
"Married on the Both day of May,
1905, Daniel Harr and Betsey Ross, by
Daniel Milhollen, Esq"
This was the first marriage license and
the first marriage under the new authori-
ty. It is to be noted that the marriage
ceremony was performed by civil officer.
Justices Of the Peace could be found in
every Township, and they were specially
authorized by the marriage act of 4th
April, 1903, to perform the marriage GER
emony. Not so, with ordained ministers
of Religious Societies: they were transi-
ent at first, and few in number, and be-
sides, the law required that they should
have license from the Court of Common
Pleas of their proper county to authorize
them to solemize marriages. The act of
4th April, 1903, was mainly copy of
the Territorial act of 1900, which provid-
ed that "male persons of eighteen years
and female persons of the age Of fourteen
years and not prohibited by the laws of
God, might be joined in marriage" In
the re-enactment by the General Assem-
bly, the prohibition of relationship was
confined to this: they should be mot
nearer of kin, than first cousins" So
stood the law until 1910, when the sin
gular prohibition was added that the par
ty should d" MT hare husband or wJe
living which continued until 1924 when |
it was dropped.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17
A Hog in Hoops.

Tie Vergennes Vermonter tells the
following laughabls story
A few days since d lady residing Ia
the eastern part of the State, having lust
returned from an evening entertainment,
hearing a noise on the back stoop-s
long and narrow One-stepped out to
ascertain the cause. At the other end
she discovered the intruder to be e good
sized hog. She at once assumed = bel
! ligerent attitude and commenced scream.
ing "WheeI Whee /" The hog took the
alarm and made for the door, and, dis.
covering the largest space between the
lady's two feet pitched for that, and ahs
instantly assumed a horizontal position
and movement for the door. But to pre-.
vent a premature elopement, she caught
hold of a post and Der hoops caught the
hog. His sWineshiP found himself at
once incareeratsd in hoops. Then came
the struggle Woman's determination
against hogs villa contest not une.
quail, but as persistent as It was lHdicrous.
The noise brought the lady good mother
to the scene, but what could she do Al
though the squealing of the pig and the
positive assertion that see ''should sure
ly be killed" was hard fora fond mother
to bear Withoutlending assistance, a COM
unavoidable, aud, to effect
this, the hoops were unfastened, and
away went his pigship, arrayed in his
new attire, lacking only one thing 70
make him respectable dressed, viz
waterfall,
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17

The Ohio Legislature, seeing that the
people of the State do not pay enough
taxes to support Abolition office holders,
last week increased the salary Of &. D.
Mansfield, State 5tatician, to 81 ,5O0.-
This Office, if not a nuisance, Is nothing
but a sinecure. The statistics published
in that oficers's report, generally appsar
about a year after they have been printed
in the State Auditors and Secretary'sFs-
port, or in the Cincinnati Gazets, Of
which Mansfield is an editor. The same
statistics we're formerly prepared By the
Secretary ofState, without any additional
to the State but Mr.. Mansfield
is a loyal pensioner upon the Treasury,
and the Cincinnati Gazette must be kept
in theloyal traces, so the people are re-
quired to pay 81, 800 per anhum for work
that would and could be done By any
capable reporter for one-tenth that sum.
Loyalty is a formidable foe in an attack
upon the Public Treasury.-Grisis.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17

RAT HUNT.-The young men offs hOOI
District No. 4. Walnut Township, ter
minated a rat hunt Of FIVE weeks duration,
on the 25 ult.
The number Of tails reported were rs
follows Captain Samuel Morris, 3,262 /;
Captain David Ward, 2SO9 total, 6,O71.
A sumptuous Oyster Supper was given
by both companies, to which the ladies
added many dolicacies, for which they
have the thanks of the companies. In
three hunts, these companies have killed
l5,0S2 Circlsvh1s Dem,
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17

SPEAKING Of Nellie Dean, the heiress
who married her fathers coachman,
Richmond paper bitterly says: off she
had married broker, he might be keep
ing accounts to-day in Sing Sing. Ifshs
had married a General, the world might
be ringing with the name of her husband,
alliteratively attached to the word Beast.
If she had married a leWyer, his con-
science might to-day be burdened with
the innocent blood of a judicially mur-
dcred woman. If she had married
President, her husband Eight to-day b
in Hades, and her own reputation disa-
greeably mixed up with distracted linen,
and china unaccounted for. An honest
coachman is better husband than dis
honest anybody"
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17
VOLUME VI. NO. 4.
URBANA UNION.
wv. HOUz, PEOP'H-

OFFICE:-Champaign National Bank Building,
second and third hOOs,) Westside North Main
street, near the Square.
THRMs:-S2 90 per aHaum, invariably in ad-
vance. 81, ,25 forSix Months.
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ILW nFnEWsPAPER8t

1.3ubscriberEwhOd do not giVeeEpressnotice
tothe contrary, ,arec ecOnsiderTdas wishing gtOcCn-
Observation-Disclosures to thepapcr.
2. If subscribers order the tiscOntinuance OF
theirperiOdicals, the publisher may cOntinueto
send them until all arrearages are paid.
8. IfsubEcribersn eglect or refuse to taketheir
periodicals from the Office to which they were di-
Fseted they areheld responsible till they have
settled The bill and ordered them discontinued.
4. IfsubsCribcrsremOvetO to Othcrplaces with
0Ht HtinfOrming the publisher, and the papers are
senttO thefOrmer direction, they are held re-
Bponsible.
5. The Courts have decided that refusingtO
take periodicalsfrom the Office, ,OrremOvingand
saving them uncalled for. is pTima faeie evil
dence OfiateutiOnal fraud.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-04-17

MIcHIGAN refuses, through its Legis-
lature, to restore capital punishment
BEVERLY TUCKER, who is prescribed
in the United States, recently travelled
from San Louis Potosi to the City of
Mexico, and was robbed FIVE times.