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w rEGMORE HOUSE.
NOS. Ios and m Adams street..
=. m. wHIFEmoRE, PRoPRrEroR

I WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFoRN
II my friends, and the public generally. thaf
have re,nmed business at my old stand ana
sohclI tneir patronage. The house has heen
tnof0uen,y cieansad. rooms are large and we'll
Ventilated, and those who may favor me ,-ith
tne,I patronage may rest a. sured that 40 nains
VII DC spared 70 make them comfortable,
Deals ana lodeing per week. $7'sa. fer per-
manent ooarders board for sinRla week az
gay board per week, sc Is dinner, 7be. sne.
fer, 2oc.; breakfast. 50c.. lodranE. T5c.
where parties are not know n. these nrie.
must De be paid inyarlAAly In advance. lis-Is
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ORR As cEN s1oNs

"Wednesday. and Thursday mornings. The Bal
loon will take up four persons. Price of each
upward trip, $40. 1Il IlllalnN
80 See Fourth edition of p" Erouaut"
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Ice Cream. Strawberries,

9 Q d A w A 4 II II
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N O II Il @ H

THE CePARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
l. existing under the name of McCombs 4 Co.
has been renewed and continued under the
name and style Of McCombs. Keller Il Byrnes.
Memphis. July 10. 1869.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.

J. J. DuBOsE, - - EDITOR
J. HARVEY MATHES, CRY EDITOR
E. WHITMORE, BUSINESS MANAGER.
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On Monday. July p. and vim register whites
on tbs day: colorsd on Tus eday tl3thl, whites
on w ednesday (l4rh), and co lored on Thursday
n5th J Thereafter viii 90 % Germantown on
frlf az. l6th. and Collierville the l1th. furthef
nef zee will be given Of 9th CT appointmontf
Wien made.
Persons =he have lost the y eerti6cates q
Ware. Lone. Dnvis. Sears 40. 1 Williams, vii
receive duplicates upon proper aihdavit Of The
JOHN p. 30 uGHNKR,
Commissiener Of Reeistration for Shelby 60,
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Singing Mice.

Musical news naturally grsvitates
toward the London Orchestra, the
leading authority in music in England.
Two or three correspondents of that
journal tell some stories of singing
mice. One writes:
1.-THE existence of these little animals,
especially in domestic dwellings, is by
most people regarded as mythical, though
they are spoken of by writer's on Nat
urai History. Last night, however, |
had an auracular evidence Of the fact.
About eleven o'clock was called down
to the basement floor OF my house to hear
a singing mouse From the corner of one
of the kitchens, where there was mouse
hole came a song such as one would hear
from q we'll trained canary bird, though
in greatly subdued tones. They were
soft and sweet beyond description, and
the notes perfect and continuous, not a
discord among them, and often accom-
panied by delicious trilling. For full
ten minutes my daughters and | stood
listening to the music with absolute
astonishment and delight, so clear and
exquisite was it. How much longer it
might have continued to sing, we know
not, for we left it while yet warbling."
Another says:
About twelve months since we had
singing mouse in my house at South Nor
wood, and evening after evening be used
TO amuse Us with his delicate little
whistling in different parts Of the house.
| set a trap in one of his hsunts, and
caught him early one evening. He was
allowed to remain there, and continued
singing in the trap for upward of an
hour. On examining him found him of
a slightly different color to the common
mouse, being more inclined to brown
ish fawn color, and the skin soft and
silky; the nose was short, and the eyes
brilliantly black and bead-like."
And here is the explanation, from cor
respondent No. g.:
1.-THE most Trustworthy explanation of
the singing mouse phenomenon is that
the supposed gifted little musician is in
reality the victim to disease caused by
tke presence OF a worm, probably eysfi-
eercus .fdsciotdris, inhabiting its liver.
The irritation caused by the presence Of
this parasite brings on repeated attacks
Of coughing, the sound of which, through
the tiny trachea of a mouse, closely re-
sembles chirping or whistling."
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Wanted a Good Nap.

A correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Jsurnal, writing from Chatta-
nooga, tells how he heard a Yankee
school marin speak a piece of her mind.
He says:
"Last night, on the train hither, we
we're treated gratis with law and gospel
from a Yankee school msrm, who came
on the train at some way station, and
nothing save an exclusive sleeping car,
all to herself, seemed to answer She
was by no means taciturn indeed she
was somewhat elaborate in her sane
timonious criticisms, and impressed her
hearers with the fact that she enter
taiued an honest aversion to every
thing of the male persuasion, and asked
the indefatigable conductor to furnish
her a lower berth, but not to put her
under man, soT Sue said, on my last
trip you put horrid fellow over me, and
he kept such an incesssut vrigEling,
turning aud twisting / could not sleep q
wink. The Conductor catered to her
wishes, and doubtless the loyal element
enjoyed pleasant dreams
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How Mark Twain was Sold in Newark.

The Newark Press contains the fol-
lowing exposition of what Mark Twain
terms "a Wicked Fraud" perpetrated
on him during his recent lecturing visit
to this city: or rNe .DR
1t is seldom pleasant to tell on ones
self, but sometimes it is SORT Of relief to
man to make sad confession. wish
to unburden my mind now, and yet | al
most believe that am moved to do it
more because l love to bring censure up
on another man than because / desire to
pour balm upon my wounded heart.
don't know what balm is, but believe it
is the correct expression to use in this
connection, never having seen any balm.
You may remember that | lectured in
Newark lately for the young gentlemen
of the Clayonian Society? / did at any
rate. During the afternoon of that day
/ was talking with one of the young gen.
tlemen just referred to, ar he said he
had an uncle who, for s,ome cause or
other, seemed to have grown permanent
ly bereft of all emotion. And with tears
in his eyes, this young man said:
"Oh, if / could only see him laugh
once more Oh, if could only see him
weepW
/ was touched. l could Rever with
stand distress. said
Bring him to my lecture. I'll start
him for you"
"Oh, if You could but do it, If you
could but do it, all ur family would bless
you forevermore-fo for be is very dear to
me. Oh, my benefactor, can you make
him laugh Carr you bring soothing
to those parched orbs p
/ was profoundly moved. / said:
My son, bring me the old party
around. l have got some jokes in that
lecture that will make him laugh if there
ia any laugh in him, and if they miss fire
have got some others that'll make him
cry or kill him, one or the other"
Then the young man blessed me, and
wept upon my neck, and blew his nose
upon my coat tail, and went after his
uncle. He placed him in full view, in
the second row of benches that night,
and l began on him. / tried him with
mild jokes, then with severe ones; |
dosed him with bad jokes and riddled
him with good ones; fred old stale
jokes into him, and peppered him fore
and aft with red hot new ones; / warmed
up to my work, and assaulted him on the
right and left, in front and behind; /
fumed and sweated, and charged and
rsnted, till / was hoarse and sick, frantic
and fnrious-but never moved him once,
never started smile or tear Never
a ghost of smile, and never suspicion
of moisture | was sstounded. | closed
the lecture at last with one despairing
shriek-with one wild burst of humor-
and hurled a joke of supernatural atrocity
full at him. 1t never phased him Then
sat down bewildered aud exhausted.
The president of the society came up
and bathed my head in cold water, and
said: What made you carry on so
toward the last ?"
said II was trying to make that con-
founded old fool laugh in the second
row."
And he said: swell, you were wasting
your time-because he is deaf and dumb,
and as blind as badger"
Now was that any way for that old
mans nephew to impose on a stranger
and an orphan like me2 / simply ask
you, as q man and brother, if that was
any way for him to do?
MARX TWAIN.
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and prisoners to place OF safety, on the
approach of the Spanish troops, set fire
to the town, and when demonstrated with
for the act by some of his followers re-
piled: myself and my family are the
greatest losers by the measure, which, as
your chief, 1 have decreed." l." His
example in personal sacrifice has been
initiated in Puerto Principe by the Mar
quis of Santa Lucia, the Count Of Villa
mar and other wealthy Cubans who have
personally taken the field and thrown
their lives and fortunes into the war
Such men, when upheld by the popular
voice, as these are, seldom fail. Had the
wealthy natives of the Western Depart
ment followed the example of their coun.
trymen in the eastern and central por-
tions of Cuba the resources of the Span
ish authorities would have collapsed be-
fore now, and the struggle, except so far
as regards a few fortified ports, would
have been at an end.
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AUCTION SALES.
Bankrupt Sale Of Real Estate
and Personal Property.

In the matter of W. II. Order. Bankrupt, in
Bankruptcy at Memphis, Tennessee.
DY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
ID entered in the above matter by the Dis
trict Court Of the United States for the Dis
trict of West Tennessee, in Bankruptcy, will
proceed to sell,
On Wednesday, February 81, 1869,
to the highest and best bidder, at the sales
room Of Monsarrat, Lanier d Co., H6 Second
street. Memphis Tennessee, between the hours
Of 8 o'cock a.tn. aud o'clock pm. of said day,
all the right, title aod interest: legal and
equitable, which belonged to said Bankrupt at
the date of filing his petition in Bankruptcy.
in and TO the personal property described as
follows, to-wit All the promssory notes, Sc
curities, debts. demands, claims equities, ac
counts. books of accounts. choses in actisn, and
all and singular, the personal effects and
assets of said Bankrupt. OF every kind and de-
scriptioH as well as to the real estate set out
as follows. to-wit lst. Bis interest in lots ard
z. block q, in the town of Fort Pickering, near
Memphis, Tennessee. This property is encum
bered by vender's lien for the payment of
three notes of $3.50 each, dated September 7tb,
1860. due 8, II and Is months after date, given
fer purchase money, with interest on said
notes. %. His interest in lot on the corner of
Main and Broadway streets, 10S by l26 feet.
Said lot is encumbered BY trust deed exc:
cuted to secure note for S2i52 26. in favor of
estate of w. B. FAINT, due February lst, 1865. 3D..
Also, the right of redemption on the following
described property to-wit: A three-story brick
residence, the same being the western end of
tenement sold 10 W. II. Grider by W. B. WAL
dram, and located op Adams street, adjoining
Waldran cotton shed, in the city OF Memphis,
Tennessee. This property was levied on aud
sold June 10th, 1867, by the Sheriff. to satisfy
an execution in favor of N. D. Elliott, Execu-
tor OF estate of Q. G. -Atkieson. deceased, tor
$5307 20, cost, etr,, s5C7 50. 4th. Also, his
equity Of redemption in lots ] and 2, and the
north half of lot 3, in block q, in Fort Picker
ing, near Memphis. Tennessee; said properly
has two story frame house on it. This prop
erty was levied on and sold by the Sheriff of
Shelby county. to satisfy sn execution in favor
Of the Southern Bank Of Kentucky, June 80,
1867, against W. II. Grider, and bought by T.
NJ. Cash. for s2763 so; amount Of execution,
costs, etc., sl59 81. 5th. Also, his equity OF
redemption in the remainder interest in lots !,
and 8, block "a. 130 feet on Sixth street hy 80
feet on Georgia street, located in Fort Picker
ing, near Memphis. Tennessee the same has
a one story frame house. This property is in
numbered by q life estate the remainder in
terest which belonae cd TO said Bankrupt was
sold under execution. but is subject to redemp-
tion. 1t is the equity of redemption in the re-
mainder that propose to sell, which was sold
first for S275 costs, etc. and again for S224l rs.
costs. ETC.. Schedule can be seen at my Office,
27S Second street.
so G. a. LEFFINGWELL. Assignee.
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The Story of Naughty Little Girl at q
Hntel


We got oar dinner with the nurses,
because the man that keeps the hotel
charges full price for the children if they
sit at the table in the big dining room.
Once my mother let me 60 down with
her, and q gentleman that sat next to us
said, Little girls should be seen and
not heard" The mean old thing died
last week, and was real glad, and |
told Della so, and she said if went and
said things like that ! couldn't 60 to
Heaven. Much she knows about it; and
/ wouldn't want to 90 if dirty things like
she is, went there. Yesterday, Mary,
our nurse, told Bessie Nettle's nurse,
that she heard Larry Finnegan was
going to marry her. Larry is one of the
walters, and he saves candies for me
from the big, dining room; and Bessie
Nettle's nurse said, "Oh, Lord what a
liel" and Bessie Nettle went into her
mothers room, and her little brother
said she nipped him, and Bessie said,
"Oh, Lord what liel" and you
should have heard how her mother did
talk to her, and went and shut her up in
the dark room where she kept her trunks,
and didn't let her have nothing but bread
and water; and Gus Rogers went and
yelled through the key-hole, and said,
Bessie, the devil is coming to fetch
you" and Bessie screamed and almost
had fit, and her mother told Mrs. Rog-
ers, and got Gus licked, and Gus says
he's amind to set the house on fire some
day, and burn her out. One day went
into the parlor and creeped under the
sofa, and there WASH nobody there
They don't let dogs or children go into
the parlor and l think it's real mean |;
and | had to creep under the sofa, SO
nobody could see me; and Mr.. Boyce
came in, and Miss jackson; she said one
day that children was q worse nuisance
than dogs. And Mr.. Boyce and Miss
jackson came in and sitted down on the
sofa; and he said, 30 Louisa, do love
yoa so much" then he kissed her, for |
heard it smack. And then she said, 20
Thomas, do wish | could believe you;
don't you never kiss anybody else r
And he said, "No, dearest" and | yelled
out, "Oh, what big storyr for | saw
him kiss Bessie Nettle's nurse in the
hall one night when the gas was turned
down. Didn't he jump up2 You bet;
and he pulled me out and tored lay frock,
and he said, "0h, you wicked child,
where do you expect to 90 for telling
such stories p and told him, You shut
up, l amt going anywhere with you" /
wish that man would die, like the other
one, SO | do; and | don't care whether
he goes to Heaven or not.
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Did any one ever hear of such nom
sense2 They want US to be masculine,
to think. Thinking, my dear friend,
wrinkles the face, and Injuries the diges-
ton. We want education enough to be
witty-that is very well--but no more.
A woman's kingdom is her beauty. 1t is
brief, and not given to all but shall we
give it up altogether for the dry, hard
lines of masculine life2 No, never.
Girls should be reared as they make the
pate de foie gras. Nail your goose to a
board in dark cellar, then stuff it with
food until you bring on disease of the
liver; the liver is the delicacy. So with
girls: Make US soft and tender, that we
may be attractive. Volta tout.-A ladv
as reported 6y Don Pidtt
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the morning until noon. This announce
ment is posted up in all conspicuous
places about the headquarters, and it is
understood to be inflexible and of gen.
eral application. When these rules
are broken it is usually done in the case
of some prominent officer or citizen who
supposes that rules and regulations were
never intended to control his or her
movements, and who insist on being an
nounced with such lofty disregard of
regulations, saying, 81 think he the
General will see me" that nothing less
than downright incivility would suffice to
turn an applicant away unsatisfied.
When once broken, the rule limiting the
hours for visitors gradually falls out Of
practice until renewed. This order, the
General has explained, is meant for
everybody, so the morning viii be de-
voted to talking and the afternoon to
writing Wash Cor. New YorkHvaM.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.

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H06P.skIBT kANuFACToRY.
City Directory.

OJE m
BANKS.
M emphis City Say. Inst. cor; Jefferson and
M enphis Bank, corner Main and Madison
lN J. J. Murphy, Prest; +. M. Cash, Cash'r.
Nirst National Bank. IA Madison.
BOOK STORES.
Ghurch h Co.. Booksellers, Stationers, Prin-
~ ters and Binders, 80 Main.
Gtleaves, @. G. X Co., Booksellers, Stationers.
BOOTs AND SHOES.
Npiller, William. 2ls Main.
n ,inkhausr & Bro. slK Second.
CARRIAGES, BUGGrES, ETC.
wv oodruff q Co., l7s Main.
CIGARS AND PIPES.
NUa aver, Marshuetz 4 Co., removed to 300
Nh Main street.
Srsyser, &C., a:l. Z Importer Headquarters in
StOTSTrHfs a oySTi9S Hose,i SND GENTS, FURNISH.
ING GOODS.
wv ard, J. g.. Resident Partner Garthwaite.
w Lewis a Stuart. 21 Main.
COAL OIL, LAMPS AND SOAPS. :
EDrescott, o. F. Il Co., 40 Jefferson.
HID osenbaum a. Bros. Coal Oil. Petre Oil and
M Stoves. wholesale and retail: 234 Main.
aSs.ss S:sssi' S.ss;:. n 81 SsIs asn cor, NJ Court
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
n and Cotton Factors, 226 Front. up stairs.
A ttwood & Anderson. Produce, Grain, Cot
IA ton. etc. $50 Main.
VXT right, W. p, Grain and Produce, Of every
w ss1ITIsHn sSosMGRcrM% GnrSSi S6L%EGE. IIIass RO0A
m eddin's Commercial College, open Day and
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Joe Richie-He Murders Sheriff and
Deputy Sheriff.

The celebrated Joe Richie, of Hamil-
ton county, Tennessee, who escaped
from the Jail in Chattanooga about two
months since, has turned up in Pickens
county, Georgia, where, being caught at
his old tricks of horse-stealing, be killed
his captors and escaped. The Dalton
Times, of Friday, gives the following
particulars:
"Richie had stolen and swapped
mule, and being pursued by party who
fell in, on their way, with the Sheriff,
was overtaken at house four miles from
Jasper. The Sheriff entered the house
and found him seated at the table
shaving himself Placing his hand upon
RICHES shoulder he told him he was his
prisoner, and ordered him to get up and
follow him Richie replied, You'll let
me finish shaving first, won't your to
which the Sheriff assented. The des-
perado then stopped down and com
meuced strapping his razor on his boot,
and rose up with pistol in his hand,
which he jerked from the leg of his boot,
and Immediately placed the muzze of it
against the breast of the Sheriff and fred,
killing him instantly. The deputy then
rushed in and was fred at twice in rspid
succession. both balls taking effect in his
arm aud shoulder, disabling him. The
desperate then rushed from the house
and made good his escape in the direc-
tion of North Carolina, on large, fine
feet horse, which the Sheriff had ridden
to the house"
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Gen. ersnt Bs.isEsd b. otas.-sssksr..

Rseh day seems to bring an addition
to the crowd of oifice seekers, jobbers,
voluntary counsellors and compliment
AIRY callers seeking interviews with Gen.
Grant. The multitude has at length be-
come so numerous and pressing that the
General has been compelled to act on the
defensive, in order TO obtain sufficient
time to transact the routine business of
the day and to attend 10 matters Of great
importance. To-day he issued an order,
announcing that the hours during which
be will receive visitors will be from ten in
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An English paper says the Siamese
Twins, not discouraged by the opinion of
the Edinburg medical faculty as to the
peril Of undergoing surgical operation,
are now on their way to Paris to submit
their case TO the professors in the French
capital. They are accompanied by two
of their daughters.
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W HITMOdB q UOI
Publishers and Proprietors.
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Widow and Orphan Fund

Under the patronage of the Independent Order
Of Odd Fellows of America,
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1869-03-27
Fcuil|eton du L0uisiinuaiis.
LIE GAUL0IS EN- AWERIQUE.
-O-
TEXAS.
30
Clap. xxx.

Et pnis ARIEL apres un moment de silence ct
d'extase, continna ainsi
-Ou, je Tai vue ct j'ai In dams son anne. Cette
anne est blanche CONNIE sanctuaire ct pure
CONNIE une lnmiere autel 81 son cnur a batu ct
bat encore dams toute la rchesse de Innocence ct
toute la sinplicite de la vertu. cest pour toi, 8
Raoul bicn-aim6. Tu passas cote dele, dams son
7ayoH, 07T7s son TH1TrH; as pas 81 III v0rr
Po"rqnoi doncl Tu pouvais dependant l 'aimer sans
Granite ct l6pouser sans crime. Vous a,,rez 6te 81
heureux, Giant 81 jeunes ct 81 beaux! Mas moi.
MOL Lei. mes panvres amis, puisqne ie al
ancun pretre pour recevoir ma deniere confidence
ct quill fant pourtant confesser mes fautes quel-
qnun, recevez ma confession de mourant. ST vous
n'avez pas lie pouvor dabsoudre, vous aurez au
mons celui de temogner mon rcpentir. Et pus
c'est une penitence que laveu lui-meme. J'ai done
an,e Marie, ct je crois raimer encore. Que puis je
faire ! I'm sentiment vra ne sefface point du jour
an Jour, surtou qnand Wit de sonce ct de recueil