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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
INSURANCE.
MASONIC MUTUAL
Life Assurance Association,
OF MEMPHIS. TENN.
OFFICE: NO. o UNION STREET.

First Question--How much per annum will
i cost man Of thirty-five to insure his life in
the old mode?
Answer-slSl for a IS. 900 policy.
| Second Question-How much will II cost in
! the Masonic Mutual Assurance Association of
/ Memphis?
Answer-AbOut sS7 so, payable at intervals.
Third QuestOn-Why this difference for the
same risk?
Answer-1st. Because by this plan the Asso-
citation only calls for enough in initiation fees
| (the interest upon which will finally pay work.
I'd. If there are no deaths. no tax.
Fourth Question-How can you afford TO in
sure so much less than the old mode.
Answer-Because we do not charge enough
dends out Of your own money paid in premiums
Fifth Question: Is policy of insurance upon
/ the Mutual plan the same in all respects, save
as TO charges?
Answer-After the Association has issued
$500 policies, and is kept to that standard in
numbers, there is no difference, except that
you are taxed only at the death Of member;
while in the old mode you are taxed whether
losses or not, and that in advance.
Sixth Question-Will policy holder in this
Association receive dividend?
Answer-Yes; from all accumulation which
may accrue from forfeiture and surplus interest
Seventh Question-How are your funds in
vested?
Answer-Under direction of the Finance
Committee, on unincumbered real estate, val
ued at twice the amount of the investment, or
undoubted city acceptance.
Eighth QuestiOn-Does the Association pay
to the heirs Of the policy holder two dollars for
each enrolled member who has heretofore paid
all assessments. should any member fail to
pay on last assessment?
Answer-Yes; as the Association holds in its
permanent fund, paid in by initiation fee, an
amount in excess of any amount it will be at
one time called upon to pay on the death of q
member.
We insure from 15 10 80 years. 32-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
,AueaIfny T5aividaaI.

The following is the last thing written
by the late Artemus Ward:
"Ontil quite recent I've bin a healthy
individooal. I'm nearly sixty and yit
I've got muskle into my arms which
don't make my fists resemble the tread
Of 3 canary bird when they fly out and
hit a man, Only few weeks ago | was
exhibitin in East Hhowhegan, in b'ldin'
which had formly bin oekepied by a
pugylist-one of them fellers which hits
from the shoulder and teaches the manly
art Of selfdefens. Andhe cum and said
he was goin' in free, in conscience of
previsly ockepyin' sed bldin', with a
large yeller dog. / sed, TO be sure,
sir; but not with that yeller dog.iI He
sed, oh, yes. sed, oh, no. He sed,
Do you want to be ground 70 p0EderT
| sed, Yes, / do, if there Is a powder
grindist handy. When he struck me
disgustin' blow in my left eye, which
caused that concern to at once close for
repairs; but he didn't hurt me any more.
| went for him. went for him ener-
get cally. His parents lived near by,
and will simply state that fifteen min
utes after I'd gone for him bis mother,
seein' the PROSTATE form of her sou APP
proachin' the house onto a shutter car
ri'd by four men, run out doors, keerfully
looked him over, and sed Ny son,
you've been foolin' round a thfashin
masheen. You went in at the end where
they put the grain in, come out with the
straw, and then got up in the thinguma-
Jig and let the nosses trod on you, my
sonf You can imagine. by this what
Iisagreeable person am when I'm
angry." .i.a "A
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
LITTLE ERNEST BROWN.
Brightest blessings, fairest flowers,

Soonest fade from earth awayl
Why. sweet bud of hope and promise,
s Why so transient was thy stay?
Brightly beamed thy radiant features
With a light almost divine;
Tender herald-beauteou angel
Sent TO earth from fairer cline. "
Far beyond the ken Of mortals
Passed thy fragile form away,
And thy pure and joyous spirit
Sings and shines in endless day.
An angel mother called thee hence
To join her seraph song. IN
8 Ali call us, too. from earth's duh joys
To greet that happy throns. Z
Thy gentle tones--they linger still
q In fond affections ear; 8Elb .
That infant voice. in feeble strains
4a We so much loved to hear. 4ailG
Sadly moaned the winds of autumn
Whilst we scooped thy narrow bed;
But in Heaven our treasure resteth.
Where no parting tears are she'd.
Dear little Ernest. housed in heaven
Safe from Life's wintry blast; ii
Thy suferings here are sweetly o'er.
And all thy sorrows past. sffEFs
MEMPHIS, December 10. 1870.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
An incident in Caiaveras.

One day in 40, an honest miner in
Calayeras bit himself with small snake
OF the garter variety, and, either as q
possible antidote or with the determine
ton to enjoy the brief remnant of a
wasted life, he applied brimming JUG
OF whisky to his lips and kept it there
until, like repleted leach-which it in
no other respect resembled-it fell off.
The man fell off, likewise. The next
day, while the body lay in state upon a
pine. slab, and the bereaved partner Of
the deceased was unbending in a game
Of seven-up with friendly Chinaman,
the game was interrupted by familiar
voice, which seemed to proceed from the
jaws of the corpse: s.s
" / say-Jiml" Bereaved partner
played the king of spades, claimed
high, and then, looking over his
shoulder at the melancholy remains, re-
piled; well, what is it Daye2 I'm
busy" II say-Jiml5" repeated the
corpse in the same measured tone. With
a look of intense annoyance, and nut
tering something about people that
could never stay dead NOR n minute, ("
the bereaved partner rose and stood
over the body with his cards in his hand.
jim" continued the mighty dead,
how furs this thing gomez" "Tve
paid the Chinaman two and half to
dig the grave" responded the bereaved.
Did he strike anything?" The China
man looked up: "Me strikes pay dult;
me no belly dead. Mclean in 'em grave
Me keep 'em claim" The corpse sat up
rigidly: Jim, get my revolver and
chase that pig-tail off Jump his damn
sepulchre, and tax his camp five dollars
each for prospectin' on the public do
main. These Mungolyum hordes have
got to be got under. AMI say-Jiml
t any more surpents come foolin' round
here, drive 'em off. 'Taint right to be
bitin feller when whisky's two dollars
gallon. Dern all foreigners, any howlp
And the mortal part pulled on his boots.
Such, dear readers, was the origin of the
anti-coolie movement,-Sa Francisco
Neics Letter .s.r
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
December Menaeraph by Josh BIZ.
IfugS.


December IL the last month in Josh
Billings Farmers Allminax. Other
dutys Of a maskuline natur have forced
US tew haul in our gang-plank. We
would like tew have hung on month or
two longer, and made big thing Ov it.
Dear reader, we must part, andit IL ike
pulling angleworms out ov their holes,
almost sure tew part the angleworms. |
shall think ov you az long az liv; pleas
tew resiptocate, when you remember me,
by uttering tear. i hay taken kon-
trakt tew remoy the muskeeters from the
State'of M Jersee, west Of the Rocky
Mountains, tew their new reservashun,
and l am anxious to get the bulk of
them started before they thaw out |
may,lose my life in the undertakin, but
! hav been told by good judges that 1t IL
sweet to die for ones eouRtTy. | kant
tell whether this ia so or not; l never
tried j. Goodbye; this kussid muskee-
ter kontrakt IL wearin on me. iiltf
Pile high the harth with beeohen wood,
Load down the kitchen table,
Fill up the old klay pipe,
And go it while yure able.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

A Hungarian lady left Paris in a BAL
loon, SO anxious was she TO see the horse
races at Pesth. She had staked all her
money on certain horse that was to
win. In fact, the wicked woman has
been living in Paris on horse steaks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
e LOCK STITCH which it

makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear.
ance on both sides Of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
requiring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any other kind of stitch. Being tho same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make q stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread tso
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

An individual who claims 10 have given
years investigating the lottery policy
business in the United States, says that
there are 10000 policy shops in the
country supplied by 81 900 players, who
afford the proprietors, at a minimum es-
innate, $l6, 200, 900 Of profits yearly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
when he apoke Of old Massachusetts he

when he spoke OF old Massachusetts he
could hardly restrain himself from break
ing out in applause, but, he said, when
Webster came to the peroration, he lis
tened as to one inspired, and finally he
thought he could see halo around his
head like what one sees in old pictures
Of saints and martyrs. II was the great
est intellectual feast Of his life-had he
missed 1t he would have missed the
grandest intellectual display that history
had recorded. Marshall said he made up
his mind that he had at last heard an
orator who not only fulfilled his ideal of
what great orator should be, but who
far surpassed his highest conceptions.
From that day, he said, he made Mr..
Webster his type Of greatness. Before
he left Washington he obtained posses
sion of all Mr.. Websters speeches he
could find, and from that day forth he
had read, he believed, every speech he
had made. aIHs bnt
Marshall was fond of relating his con-
troversy with Mr.. Adams. He did not
think il any disgrace to have been beaten
in debate by one so distinguished, aud
the compliment paid him by Mr.. Adams,
which we have quoted, evidently pleased
him. -..
Marshall could say sarcastic things
himself. We remember asking him once
who such person was who had just OBJ
tanned the floor, and whose face had
sinister expression which we did not
like, but which, made it a very marked
one. That" said he, is c. b.,
of Pennsylvania, a man, if he had lived
in the days Of the French revolution,
whose highest ambition would have been
to lead a company of Partisan fsh-wives
to cut gentlemen throats."
Mr.. Marshall died in Woodford county,
Kentucky, about three years ago. He
was one Of the noted men of that State.
Poor Toni
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

Its simplicity renders its movements
80 easy that child can work it. 1t is
almost noiseless in operation, and for
speed and rapidity of motion excels all
others, as has been demonstrated a thou
sand times by competition. t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

1t possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right--which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequire
an inclination of the body forward (detri-
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use. -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

The prices are within reach of every
one. Machines are made to suit all
tastes and circumstances, and the plain
est in finish will work as well as the most
costly.
Full and thorough instructions given
at the house of the customer at any time,
free of charge, and the utmost pains
taken to render complete satisfaction,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
'ooK siNDERV-
$1,000 Per Week

Can b msde On The quies - parties uts 40.
NJ % tnua, without InlerllTIHr nIi1 1ftlr
nooD a CO., sac nroad ssg. Nen
hork. 1-a1I-IH
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

1t is an instrument of great versatility
in its operations. II will hem, fell, braid,
cord, gather, tuck more beautifully than
any other machine in use without bast-
ing or any preparation of the work.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

Its yearly sales are larger than those
of all other Sewing Machines combined.
This fact alone is the surest test of its
merit and superiority. a ! ho1t1
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
THE MIGHTY WEBSTER.

He had never seen Mr.. Webster We
wis., we could give In his own words the
description he gave us Of Mr.. Webster
and his speech, butwe shall attempt only
to give our recollectiOns Of it. In the
ffst place he said Mr.. Webster was the
grandest looking man he had ever seen;
he did not need TO be pointed out; and
when be arose 10 speak he looked the
least Ike used mp man" that he had
ever seen. why" said Marshall,
there was confidence and victory in his
eye, bis entire presence, and he had not
cosspleted the opening passage Of his
speech, commencing with the words.
'WheuA mariner, tossed upon the ocean,
etc, bef5-s i felt convinced that he wonld
carry the day ..irrll. ..Ia...
He heard the whole speech, hang with
upon every sentence, agreed
with eTery position which he took, and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17
Ladies Oyster 6 Refreshment
PA RLOR >,
NO. as7 MAIN STREET.
Near Madison.

NITHERE MS CUSTOMERS CAN BIZ
w served al all hours with The most deli
ous Tea. Coffee. Chocolate. Chkes, Soniec-
ons and
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oYsTERs IN EVERY STYLE.

His rooms are comfortably and convsnieLts- 9
.rranred, and guests viii receive prompt -
te-.ion. Give hin q CAL. -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-17

M ftsnsasisy oratorA 4 Remini..
cence-Hfs Home I'm kentucky
His Appearance I'm Washington
DeIirfnm Tremens - Temperance
Speeches-Duel with James Wat.
COnlrOHeraY. --.-
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19
WASHINGTON WAR NEWS.

BARON GEROLTs DIsPArCHEs-THE MAIN PRuo-
SIAN ARMY ADVANCING on CHALONs-fiB
FRENCH CLAIM SOME sUCCESSEs-GEN. siIEh-
IDAN WITH GEN. sTEISMETZs CORPS.
WASHINGTON, Aug 18.-Baron Gerolt received
dispatch from Berlin to-day stating that he Dochan'
was ineffective and that vessels passed into the d-
ferent ports without much trouble; none OF any con-
sequence had yet been captured. He also recei''i
intelligence that the Prussian army was Iaplny az
yancing on Chalons, and that the main BODY oi ti'
Prussian army had passed by Metz.
There were numerous cypher kilograms receiver F"
the French legation-one Of these announced tt''
mendous uprising of the people in Paris and neig''
boring departments, calling for aims, etc. anu tn'
Olivier late Prime Minister, had to fly from Paii' ~
save being lynched by the citizens ana soiniH'
Those DISPATCHES also clam several adVantai''
gained bv the French in repulsing the Prusaian al
vance breaking up their communications ana D''Hs
inc the French forces to points intended iot 'L'
Grand engagement. Minister Berthemy anu '"'
members of the legation are enthusiastic III 'hen
opinion of Marshal Bazaine. and assert tha' T."
days will prove whether France and her generals anu
army are vanquished or not.
Upon inquiry at the Office Of the italian LeeatioH
to-day it was ascertaned that the reported eallns
ont of the Italian army is correct, but for what pu
pose is not given.
Gen. Sherman received a dispatch from Gen. Sheri'
dan. this morning, dated Tuesday, Aug. 10, at Bet
lin. He states that he en- route to the hlnS
beadouarters. and that he had received permission
70 ioin Gen. SteInmetzs corps, which Is part OF th'
advance of the PTussian army. Col. Forsy'h ac'oln'
i'm
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19

The first and most natural effect of the at
tempt to introduce politics into the Labor
Congress was to deprive its proceedings OF
much of their interest for workingmen. 1t is
this fact which accounts for the failure of the
session now holding at Cincinnati. The labor
ing classes of America base their political
principles on higher grounds than mere per-
sonal interest. Their intelligence will revolt at
the idea of administering the national affairs
for the benefit of a class, even though them
selves form that class. Those who attempt to
create party on such a basis will come to
grief, even if they succeed. Class legislation
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19
BANKRUPTCY.

Congress made two or three amendments IN
the Bankruptcy law during its last session,
but these, though much needed, do not OBJ
viate the necessity for that thorough revision
which experience shows the whole act should
now undergo Mr.. Heflin has proposed bill,
which is now before the Committee on the
Revision of the Laws, which we believe would
remove most of the imperfeetiOns complained
of. 1t is careful revision of q number OF the
sections, and proposes many substantial I'M
proyements. We regret that the Committee
did not examine it and report 1t Tor pass'eo
at the last session, but trust it may DC .ihen
ND early at the next, and made part Oh our
Bankruptcy law.
The most important amendment is making
the fraudulent stoppage of payment, or non
novment of debt of any kind whatever, an
oct of bankruptcy. AS the law heretofore
stood this provision was confined to com
"mercial paper" 1t now applies to all debts.
The amendment further provides that the sus-
pension and resumption of payment of
commercial paper for the period of fourteen
days is an act of bankruptcy, whether such
suspension and nOn-resumptiOn be fraudulent OF
not.
The act is further amended by providing
that what is called the fifty per cent clause
shall not apply to debts contracted prior to
Jan. 1, 1869. Both of these amendments seem
to be Just and substantial improyements-but
they do not do away with the necessity OF
making the provisions of MIR. Helms bill
part of the Bankrupt law.
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19
THE WAR IN EUROPE.
Continued from First PAGE.


made for the enemies of the countryF ine a'"'''
creates sensation in Paris. Al,
The Paris Journals comment bitterly "pVn 1"'
..,,a. "a Austria. which is neutral in the present
s.,uoc,e when with barely 10000 troops she m'ght
ayenge Ssdowa.
The Mopiteuy de Ia Floae Of Paris publishes liss
90 German vessels captured since the commeucenens
% the war They are eleven in number.
About, the correspondent Of the Soir describes tho
entrance of the Prussians into Sayerne. He says
they do not maltreat the country people, but exact
requisitions ont of proportion to the population.
Large sums of money and enormous quantities OF
bread tobacco wine, beef, and forage are demanded
At all places where the people resist the Prussians
are very cruel but otherwise they disposed to bs
orderly, quiet and kind. Many peasants kill their
horses to prevent the Prussians from taking them
The Figaro newspaper proposes the presentation
of a sword Of honor to Marshal MaeMahon; and tho
subscription started for that purpose Is already very
large.
The Times says "All day Monday aud good part
of Tuesday, the French were fighting their way 'o
get a position against the enemy on the rear ana
flank. Progress was consequently slow. Oh IueS-
day night they had got no further tran staen' 10
miles from Metz. These arc the only facb post
lively known"
The London papers have only some 30 words OK
war dispatches this morning-less fresh than tha
American papers have every day.
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19

We have from the London Agent of the AS
sociated Press the startling statement, sad to
be ON highest authority, that the Emperor and
Empress are fugitives from France that Prince
Napoleon has fled to Italy; that private prop
erty of the Napoleons has been removed,
and that the Napoleonic dynasty is at
an end. We are without confirmation
of this from our own correspondents,
who are certainly likely to be advised of
matter of so much importance. We do not,
therefore, fully accept the report, and yet 1t
must be regarded as in the line of near prob
abilities. With the end of the NapOleOnic
dynasty an earnest effort ought to be
made on the part of Prussia to make
an end also of the war which that
dynasty provoked. If the French people
should be found too bitter over their late
defeats to permit this, then the war can be
fought on with the sympathy of the world
still on the side of Prussia but until such an
effort be Intellectually made, the whole civil
lied world will insist that the moment the
cause is out of the way the war ought to stop.
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19

Anything that can be made to serve his turn
by depositing the prescribed number of votes
on election day seems acceptable to Mr.. Tweed
as recipient of the bounty of which he is so
prodigal but of which the public bears the
burden. The needs of Tammany have multi
piled the Park Police until there are one or
more of these gray-coated guardians to be
found at every little grass plot in the city, not
even excepting the diminutive triangle at
Fourth and Christopher-sts.; and 80 many of
them are so palpably incompetent, physically,
for their positions that it is evident they are
political paupers pensioned on the public purse.
There being nothing for these men to do
Tammany can better afford to pay them their,
money without requiring the pretense of an
equivalent. The fiagrant swindle might thus
be hidden with the other iniauities.
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19
Nesu;Uork Daily Gribmme.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1870.

London dispatch says the Napoeonic dynasty In
France is ended and that the Emperor and Empress are
on their way to England. - Official dispatches con-
cerng the recent battles around Metz represent them
as signal Prussian victories. There is great alarm
In Chaons the Prussian cavalry having torn up the raj"
roads within 20 miles of that place. - terrible con-
nagration has occurred in the woods in CANADA many
dwellings being burned, with loss of life.
The Cambria beat the Ider in the yacht race at New
port Yesterday Thirty men of the Big Horn Expe-
dition have returned to Camp Brown Wyoming Terri
cory - Ex-Gov. Seward is in Cheyenne. === The
Dakota Indian tribes have signed treaty OF peace
among themselves 49, Two lives were lost by col
lison in the Detroit River. === A State Temperance
Convention viii be held in Saratoga, Sept. 6.
The Presbyterians of Suffolk County, l.. L. have re-
united after separation of 80 years. == Coroner
whitehl Of Brooklyn has commenced an Investigation
of the causes of the Norwalk collision. 80 The Brook
lyn Caedonian Club held its annual games at Myrtle
ave. Park. Since January !, 15l,OS0 immigrants ar
rived at this port = Gold, 1l62 116l, ll6i Thermom
etc n.
New-York tribune., 1870-08-19
Preferred stock-since it came completely un-

Preferred Stock-since it came completely un-
der the control of it's present managers
That meantime its Stock has been IN
oroosed Inv not less than $2O,OOO0OO;
q That its Bonded Debt has not been dim'n-
isbed. if it has not actually been increased;
a That the necessary legal notice has been
very obscurely publishedf that the managers
rurnose In make a lew Loan, ostensiDiy W
redeem and cancel some old ones;
4. That its Common Stock, which sold ior
,os IN 1894. and for 90 in 1855, is now ana 1or
some time has been selling at 20 down 10 ~
O. That nevertheless an act was pusned
through Gov. Hoffman's first Legislature
whereby the stockholders were diyested OF
their chartered right to choose full Board OF
Directors annually, and the Directors then in
office were authorized to arrange themselves in
five classes, whereof but one should 20 out
of Office per annum-the residue holding over
by virtue of this act
z. That, the Directors proceeding thus to
classify themselves, the following were ac-
corded the longest term. so as to be fixtures
in Office till October, 1874
rJ5e Jay Gould, ~ William Tweed.
IL james Fisk, jr, ~ Frederick A. Lane.
These being the President, Vice-President
Comptroller, Counselor, Treasurer, and legislator
of the concern, in whose hands the whole con-
troll and management of the Road is virtually
concentrated.
Why should not the Erie Railroad pay divi-
dends from its net earningsf Its gross earn
;ngs are officially reDorted as follows: