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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20

We had the pleasure Of greeting yester-
day our friend, Col. W. d. Lannom, of
Paris, Tenn, who spent the day in our
city il being his first visit to Frankfort
since ls60-6l, when he represented the
counties of Hickman and Fulton in the
Legislature. His visit recalls an anus
ing incident which occurred on the me-
morable excursion of the Kentucky Leg
islature to Cincinnati and Columbus at
the invitation of the Ohio Legislature
iust before the war, while he was a mem
ber Among the party were General
Scott Brown, of this county, then Adju-
fant Gcneral; Clinton AcClarty, Clerk
of the House, and General George h.
Hodge. then a representative of Camp
he'll county. Now, it happens that Lam
nom and McC Clarity strikngly resembled
each other, while in features and general
appearance General Hodge and
General Brown were not unlike.
One day. while being entertained very
in Cincinnati, il seems that
I ,anpon and Brown returned together to
tbe Rurnet House, and entered the par
lor arniin-erm, feeling very comfortable
after their rouRd of pleasure and sight
seeing. Opposite the door by which they
came in there was q Large, mirror reach
ing from the ceiling to the noor' mis-
taxing this for door, aud seeing THAR
own images. Lannom remarked: See
Brown, there comes Chnt. Me-
CLARITY and George Hodge. Yes,
says Brown, land as tight as bricks:
Let's 20 and take them offto bed, said
Lannom, and they advanced to carry out
their laudable purpose until they were
first apprised Of their error by coming IN
contact with the mirror. Lannom says
il was remarkable ease Of mistaken
identity. and not at all attrib-
utable, as some might infer, to the peeu-
liar influences under which excursion
ists are generally supposed to labor
Frankfort YoemdR
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
From the Monthly Review.l
TOWARD EVENING.

Farther the shadows fall
Along my wayi0 ldIpf fu1
'Tis past the noon of day.
My westering sun tells that the eve is
near;
know, but feel no fear,
And loved ones have gone home t
A holy band.
hear them call me from the spirit land
A gentle call.
Yes, dear ones, shall come.
o, not alonel though now
lead the van, .a..g g.up
And with uncovered read
Press on where others led
When my young life began.
i am not left alone,
Though they are gone;
Sweet voices of the past, a.
d And Of to-day Is .Ef cifafA
The loved that round my way
Still twine around my heart
Tell me how good thou art.
o holy Light and Love
Beam on my soul, .,. .r,.,...- 81. .... %
My inmost life control; 20 'iil
Then may each pure thought spring;
And peace, with gentle wing.
Brood like the dove.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
Hints About the Human voice.

At o recent lecture in the Royal As
sembly Room, Birmingham, Mr.. Charles
Lunn explained the qualifications requi-
site in musical instrument, and passed
on to speak Of the human voice, nature S
instrument. In order to produce a sound
there must be air or breath; but this did
not produce tone or sound. That air
must be set in motion by means Of vocal
organs, for sound was air in motion. The
human vocal sound was the result of
breath or air obstructed in the organs Of
sound, and that obstruction could be
used at will He then gave a minute
description of the nature, mode OF ac-
ton, and the capabilities of the vocal
organs, remarking that sound was pro
duced by the air coming out from the
chest through the windpipe, exciting the
vocal cords. s'a lIT,f'I Ea Ia.
The chief object Of a master or pupil
in that science was TO get the greatest
possible sound with the least possible air
Intensity and strength did not consist in
or depend upon the quantity of air con
sumed, but the way in which Il was used.
He characterized the idea Of their being
a chest voice as stupid and erroneous.
Having enlarged upon various other
points. including the voice as n means
Of conveying thought, the influence Of
dialect and the duties and objects of
master, he concluded BY brief reference
to the nature Of stammerin1 and Of con
sumption. He said there we're various
causes of stammering. and in two cases
only could it be treated with any hope Of
success Ifhe we're to say that he could
sweep consumption from the land he
shoHld tell them What Was talse; but in
many cases a proper knowledge Of the /
nature of the vocal organs, the way TO
use them, and a due exercise Of them, !
would prevent the disease from taking
root in the constitution.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
$4,000 FOR SIo!

rSypLANATION; s12 MAKES YOU A
FImember of the Association-i. e. $40 for
policy. 81 medical examination fee, and 81
CONTINGENT fee. said 81 payable yearly in ad-
vanee for office expenses. On the death of a
member an assessment of S2 is levied on every
SURVIVING member, which is the amount paid
- the widow or beneficiary of the deceased
assas mea ,ment of 81 after due notification; When
usses shA ,sociation numbers several thousand
% tue a.; be classed according TO ages. viz: All
hasy thney WI, ne ages of Is and . years in one
oinss oiSvwer Il between o and 80 years in an
other. and SO on up to % years, when rs tne ae
limit: and eve " ellss W Dc xili IL ,ar,L
aie n6c frnt; thu Z time each policy viii be
SlO,yo; iIs Jhst ~ era "a, uber Of dollars as there
rn arbers os tbe FL Nss; and at the death OF
az . ,,,ar tha s,,rviv;ng Snembers OF his class
only are assessed the So Sne polley zee OF Slv,
or the greater portion of it, msee ~
fund 10 provide for the delinqs ;s.st ~ AZ
bers; and said fund is loaned ~ desray;ne
interest accruing therefrom, aft, Niey- boIds
the expenses coming back 70 the ~
ers as dividends. 3 The advantages ,"ss T
binary Life Insurance Companies are. -
panics can break it; the fees are so small, sn nt
required to be paid at such long intervals N '.
any and every man can SECURE 70 ms tamliy a
competency upon his death. This Company
Is NOT restricted to members of the Masonic
fraternity d. c. TRADER, Pres't.
II. NJ. RAGAN, Sec'y.
efr III. q. TRADER, Treas.
BOARD OF DIREcroRs-Hon p I Scruggs, OF
Messrs Scruggs & Duncan; "A Vaccaro. Esq, oi
Messrs A Vaccaro x Co; J Stanton, of STAN
ton & Moore; A Hatchett. Esq. of Busby a
Hatchett; Ed Picket, jr. attorney at law, oS
w. r. HopeEs, NJ. D., Medical Examiner,
Office No. 33 Madison st. nlr 2o-iW
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20

The King of Bavaria has addressed
the folloxing autograph letter 30 Profes-
sor j. Huber, of the University of Mu-
mich: Ny Dear Professor Huber-The
articles published by you during the last
few weeks, in the Augsburg Gazette, on
The Papacy and the State, have deeply
interested me both by the profoundness
of your observations and the admirable
MANNER in which you have handled
your subject u is always sincere
pleasure for me to see the great political
and ecclesiastical questions of the day
openly and freely discussed by the repre-
sentatives Of German learning. / can
not, therefore, refrain from returning
YOU my best thanks foryour noble labors,
on which my attention has been Of late
so firmly fixed Assuring you Of my
continual regard and lasting esteem.
! am. your King and appreciatoF,
Munich. April 10. $50 Lows
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20

Judge or Supreme Court.

The friends of Hon. JOHN L. 7. SNEED,
of Fayette county, are authorized by him to
present his name to the people of Tennessee as
the Western Division, Election, August 4th,
1870. .,l.-.. 70
Tn response 70 the published call Of members
of the bar in various counties Of East Tennes-
see. and numerous solicitations Of friends;
Panch Of the Supreme Court of the State.
April .. 10. III JAS. W. DEADERICK.
We are authorized and requested to an
nounce Hon. 7. A. r. NELSON as q candi-
date for Supreme Court Judge from the East
ern Division. The election is TO be held on
+ he first Thursday in August, and two Judges
fr, 1m each of the three divisions of the State
are to be elected. a l ~ : y ------.-- -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20

A girl In Dresden, Stimulating blind
ness and deafness, was brought into ap-
propriaie institutions, subjected to the
most searching examinations aud 70 cou-
tinued watching-yet kept up the appear
ance Of these tWo inhrmities for over six
months without single fall or break.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20

Some fellow has taken sprreptitions
peep At Florence Nightingaie's feet aud
discovered that one them Is elub foot
PITY she had not knocked him oyer with
a clnb. = eaaieaQo PosI. n
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20

Rev. S. B Halliday, the newly-ap-
pointed assistant Of Henry Ward Beecher.
Is the one who vas Tor so many years the
hseS OF the Five Points Mission, His
parf Of the rsstorate now is 70 attend 70
the outdoor chariiies Of the church
HeEry Ward Reecher % continue fbe
.. ID .f. -t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
reorFifteenlh judicial Circuit.

In answer to the calls of the bar and people
of this at, / announce myself candidate
comprised of Shelby, Upton and Fayette
counties dtel laa II. j. FLIPPlN.
AT the request of a respectable portion Of
the Bar, and of the people Of the Fifteenth
Judicial Circuit, announce myself candi-
date for Judge of that Circuit. The, election
IL TO be held on the first Thursday, being the
f'A DA' u . '' ISAAC NJ. STEELE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
aTAGaG5IN00 4. 4 8..' 4. a .a 81 l.77 a.
T TR RACTI We NOTICE!

mense arrival Of NEW DRESS GOODS These consist
Of LEN0S in checks stripes and chene patterns MO-
ZAMBIQUES BAREGES and embroidered GRENA-
DIMES. These are introduced as the best value ever
presented for the inspection Of the Memphis public
The common price of these goods is 35 cents yard
they will be sold at FIF FTEEN CENTS od .80a.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
Chancellor First Chancery Court,

didate for Attorney General OF the CrlminhI
Court. te
Chancellor First Chancery Court.
EDITOR LEDGER: Please announce me as an
independent candidate for Judge of the First
Chancery Court of Shelby county; ynne
te Il. ,. AL RED.
nominee for Judge of First Chancery Court.
Election May %, 1870.
ChancelIor second Cbancery Court.
I hereby announce myself candidate for
Chancellor of the Second Chaneery p Goprt OF
Memphis. lteI u. A. hANooN.
EDWIN M. YERGER is the Democratic
nominee for Judge Of Second Chancery Court.
Election May 26, 1879.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
INSURANCE,
MASONIC UTUALu
life Assurance Association,

OF MEMPHIS. TENN. ,ss.t
Cooperative. and Purely Mutual : Charter
Taxes by the Laws of the Stae. a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Attorney General.

q We are authorized to announce LUKE 4.
WRIGHT (the Democratic nominee) as a can
didate for Attorney General of the Criminal
Court. 70
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20

We are authorized to announce JOHN +.
FLIPPIN Democratic nomineel, as a candi-
date for Judge of the Criminal Court. Elec-
tion Thursday, May 26, 1870.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
RATES OF ADVERTISING IN WEEKLY

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All letters, whether upon business or other
wise, must be addressed to.
r.. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
Judge OF Criminal Court.

inee for Judge Of Second Circuit Court. Elec-
tion May B. 1870. Hk TO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
ChancelIor 8 second Chancery
Judge Of First Circuit Court.


@. w. HEISKELL is a candidate for Judge
OF the First Circuit Court of Shelly county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-20
Weekly Public Ledger,

Published every Tuesday at So per annum lin
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Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-06

AN unfortunate married man was
very iii used by his Nantippe; and he
was even treated with an occasional
thrashing. His friends rallied him
upon this, and ut last spurred him on
to declare that he would make an effort
to be master. One day, not long after,
his better half became so furious that
he found himself to ask shelter under
the table. Jus Mt that moment the
voices of his friends were heard in the
passage. "COme out, come out :"
cried the wife, fearful of exposure.
"No, no." cried the husband in tri-
nmph; come ont, indeed! Not |! FU
sbO,r for once that / UIa Al0Ster -
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-06
THAT INDIAN TALK.

How, how, Great Father, how.
Ne Spotted Tail me Rattling Cow;
Ne Red Cloud: whisky time now:
How, Great Father; Howt How:
Nc ogallala; me Brule Sioux.
How, Great Father. how do:
Red children come long way, ugh.
Big whisky love. Great Father too:
Poor Injun tired; peace lnjpn try.
war.palnt no good; no whissey bay;
Treaty no want; treaty all lie.
Great Fathers whisky Injun no spy.
No whisky give, no have pow.wow.
Poor Injun dry; dry In)un row..
When whisky time. Whisky time now
Father no tsngue. How! How! How!
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-06

BACCmASAr.lAN to ditto reclining
against n lamp-post: "Would you
,hic) be so kind rs deShide little ditt'
renee tween Ihicl me an m frien.
He shays that's the thicl sun Shinen'
now; i shay its the thic) mme. What
do you (hicl shay" He of the lamp
post-"You really mus 'Scuse thiel
me, gentlcmen. I'm ,hicl stranger in
these parts
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-06

SOME people are never contented.
Amer having all their limbs broken,
their heads smashed and their brains
knocked out, they will actually go to
law and try to get further damages.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-07-06

THERE is good sense in the new
motto for merchants:
Late to bed and early to rise,
Never get highland advertise"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-10
KEEPING FAITH.

The democracy of New Hampshire in
their State Convention, the other day,
adopted Il resolve, which shows how they
intend to keep faith with the public credi-
tors. The resolve is as follows
Resolred, That while oil existing contracts
entered into in good faith should be fully kept in
the letter and spirit Of the contract, Congress
should impose such just and equal taxes upon
all government bonds and United States Sc
curities as will compel their holders to bear
their just share OF the burdens of Govern
ment.
In the first part Of the resolve they sol
EMMY declale that all contracts should be
sacredly kept, and in the last four lines
they as solemnly declare that they will not
keep them. The government has prom
ised that lis bonds shall not he taxed, the
courts have decided that they cannot be
taxed how the democracy are going to
tax them without breaking faith with the
holders is what we cannot clearly under
stand, and we don't believe these New
Hampshire men do. 1t is said that a man
'cannot eat his Loaf and have it," neither
can non-taxable bond be taxed unless
somebody is cheated. Democratic faith in
the matter of our public debt is Punic
fait.., and Ensigns Stebbins on the Maine
Law is its exponent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-10
AFFECTING SCENE.

The appearance of the mother and sis
tiers at the Morgue in New York, to see
the body of the girl Annie Mcnamara, who
was murdered by her paramour at house
of i'll fame, gave rise to an affecting scene,
described as follows:
Into this room, with its atmosphere of death
where the collins lay, piled like logs of wood
in regular order, just before the Coroner had
arrived, came the mother and three sisters OF
the dead woman. The mother-she who had
nursed the dear dead one when little pratt
thing child she who had brought her up in the
knowledge of the right, and who had rejOiced
to know that her teachings had not been vast
ed upon her child until that fatal night when
the intelligence of the terrible death in an in
famous house came to her, with all the crush
ing force of hope lost forever-staggered
into the abode of the dead, clinging the while
to the arm Of young daughter who tried in
vain to quiet the heart that gave vent to its
anguish in sobs that made the most hardened
present feel as they had probably never felt
before. Slowly she dragged herself into the
room, and guided by the girl at her side on
whose shoulders her head leaned heavily, she
made her way to the coffin in which the corpse
of her daughter lay shrouded. She did not
lit her head, but as her hand .toucneu Inc col-
fin, she shrank back with an involuntary
shudder, and low moan, full Of agony, es-
capped the tightly closed fps, and the hand fell
helplessly at her side. A few words Of en-
enlargement from the young woman on whom
she leaned, and the hand was again lifted to
theEcofbn, and the mother raised her head to
look upon the face of her lost oneg Her. eyes
stared wildly and saw not, for the outstretched
hand wandered about the coffin top for long
time before it touched the pale, upturned face
which it sought; but when il did once come
in contact with the ice-cold forehead, and toy
cd in a mechanical sort of way with the strag-
Cling locks of hair that hung down on both
sides of the face of the dead, the heart, bowed
down with its awful weight of woe, gave vent
to its feelings and the mother, in the fulness
of her sorrow, sobbed, aloud.and called again
and again upon the one who heard not, A'.4Ah-
ME, OH Annie, speak to me-" she cried; ''if
you could only tell me all" and the only re-
sponse was the echo Of the que stioning voice
and the splash OF the waves that broke upon
the stone fronting beside the Morgue. Again
and again was the name of the dead one call
ed and again did the same response come
back; and at last, in the midst of her great
griet, the. poor mother was Jed from the side
Of the coffin and taken to an adjoining room,
/ whore she fell into a deathlike swoon. II
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-10
A BRAVE BOY REWARDED.

The Rockland Free Press has the follow
ing sequel to the story Of the brave boy who
saved vessel from shipwreck in that harbor
Our readers will remember the circumstance
of the schooner Commonwealth OF this city be-
ing saved from going on the rocks at midnight
in violent storm and gale in December, by
a boy named Lewis Buchanan of South Thorn
aston A brief statement of the facts was
published in the Free Press at the time. The
following letter received at this office last
last Saturday, (new years morning, explains
itself;
OFr1cF OF BOARD OF WALTER CoM'Rs,
ST. LOUIS, Dec. %, 1869. J
TO Editor Rockland (Me.) Free Press
SIR Il enclose you paragraph from your
paper copied in the St Louis City Republican
of The 27th inst. Iwish to reward the ''Brave
Poy," as described in paragraph: l therefore
enclose to hin, (through you, check for $50
good, you may rest assured. Collect and
hard it over to this Brave Boy l am an
old seaman, and appreciate the perils encoun-
tered by him. Yours, GEO. n. BUDD.
We were fortunate enough to get an op-
portunity to pass the check mentioned over
to the Buchanan boy on Saturday, SO that the
gift came TO him on new years day, and with
which he was much pleased. Heis an ordinary
sized lad for his age, which is little less than
sixteen years, and evidently is accustomed to
the sea. He says he could have got ashore
during the day of the storm, but feared he
should not be able to get back to the vessel
again, so he remained by her. He expected
rough night, gave the vessel the full scope
of her chains to make her ride easy, and
otherwise prepared for the worst. He re-
manned on deck. At midnight the cables
parted. The vessel drifted rapidly before the
gale toward the ledge shore at Owls Head.
aad he knew that in all probabilityif she con-
tinued in that direction she would be dashed
to pieces and he be lost with her. His first
act was to lash the wheel to steer her for
the western shore of the bay, and then perilous
as was the task, he climbed out on the bow
spirit to loose the jib. The vessel tossed fear
fully, it was severely cold and the ''stops"
were frozen. He soon loosened four of them
the fifth gave him much trouble-he finally
cleared it, however. He then succeeded in
raising the jib, and in short time the vessel
ran to the smooth beach near the brick yard.
1t was after she struck the beach that the boy
was washed overheard by the sea. He fortu-
nately caught his arm through the main rig
gng near the rail, and saved himself. What
this boy of sixteen did that night was a feat
worthy of full grown man and an ex-
narinpcaJ seaman
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-10

The Bangor Wing had an item on Saturday
rejecting upon the Lewiston Weekly Journal
for the p,rblicationVof the Governors address
before its delivery. The Journal explains
that it was supposed that the address would be
given as usual Thursday morning, and some
copies Qfthe weekly containing itwere put IN
to the mails. As soon as il was ascertlned-
that the address would not be given till evc-,
ming a telegram was. sent, but 1t was too late
TO recall the papers. - y. go.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-01-10
GENERAL NEWS,

Silver is slowly getting into circulation in
the western cities.
Re-, Gene raj Anderson of Sumter notoriety,has
daughter WHO is the belle of Paris
3 One thousand loaves of bread and fifty tons
of coal were distributed to the poor of Phila-
delphia on New Years day.
The Russian Government is talking of
building a railroad through Siberia to China
Its length in Asia will be 900 miles.
New Yorker is building barn at Charles
town. n H., which will cost between six and
seven thousand dollars. The floors. are of
Georgia pine and the trimmings black wal
nut.
The Catskill Recorder denies the report
that a woman was detected in trying to SNUG
gle bale of hops across the river at Niagara
in her waterfall.
A family in Bridgeport was recently poi
soned by drinking tea in which child had
put pieces of tanned squirrel and muskrat
skins.
-Four business firms in Ottawa, Iowa, adj
vertise to pay their customers silver in change
provided the amount does not exceed fifty
cents and the purchase is over one dollar.
One of Connecticuts peculiar industries
is the manufacture along the Connecticut
river, of menhaden oil, which is used chiefly
to adulterate other oils, and as an imitation
of the medicinal cod liver oil.
A son of Lopez, the President of Paraguay,
is in Washington and making a favorable i'm
preston.
Horatio Seymour says cheese-making, in
respect to plans and efforts to cheaper cost
and improve the quality, is far ahead of any
ether farming pursuit in this country.
good real estate speculation is noticed in
the Ohio papers. A man who bought land
in Perry county, in that State, few years
ago, for $500, recently sold one-half of it for
$50. 900.