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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
Foreign Marriages.

From the Louisville Courier-JouI,nal.l
There are numbers Of rich and foolish
American mothers, who have gone
abroad with their daughters, while the
fathers and brothers are toiling IN bust
ness at home. whose main ambition is to
marry off their precious darlin gs to some
of the dissipated, poverty-strieAien counts
and barons that infest French, German
and Italian society. Rome is the chief
matrimonial market, where he young
American lambs, with their dollars
almost ticketed on them, are devoured
by the noble social ghouls, who delight
in their beauty, but especially IN their
money. But few of these marriages are
happy. The men have little or no
moral character; their way OF dealing
with their wives is quite opposite to that
patient, bill-paying. indulgent mairimo-
NAL coolie, the American husband
Hence. as soon as the Count has run
through with his wife's fortune, and the
plain, practical old gentleman, her father
stops the supplies Of his titled son-lEi-
law. mutual recrimination commences,
a coldness springs up, scandal 'winks at
calumny, and the feast Of gossip ana
flow Of SANDER is served up hot TO soci-
ETY., impatient f0t a fresh victim to dis
cuss and then tea- to pieces
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
Going mn the Nile.

Life on the Nile is, to my notion, the
most perfect luxury in this world. i am
always up before the sun The beauty
of the early morn is indescribable. How
many times that word must be used IN
writing about this life The bursting OF
the dawn into full day is swift, and with
in few minutes we have every gorgeous
color of our American sunsets, one color
rapidly succeeding another, splendor
following splendor until the sun rushes
up over the gray eastern hills, and pours
its warm floods of light into the luxu-
RANT valley. The world seems to me
very old each morning as see this scene
repeated, and think how often that same
sun has travelled the desert and looked
down over those hills into this valley,
and what generations of men and their
works he has seen here.
We take coffee on rising, and go ashore
for awhile, usually shooting dozen or
two pigeons before we return, and join
the ladies for breakfast at nine. After
breakfast and a pipe, if there is any wind
it generally makes its appearance, say
about ten o'clock. If there is no wind,
the men tack the boat, and in that case,
or if the wind be light we again go on
shore and walk, sometimes for miles,
across fields and through palm groves,
occasionally coming on board to rest for
awhile, always carrying our guns and
generally making pretty fair bags of
game. The ladies pass the day with
books and embroidery We dine at three
q clock. and rise from the table in time
TO enjoy the most delicious hour of the
day, that which precedes and that which
follows the sunset. AT seven clock we
have tea and chocolate, and the saloon
is then bright with lights, and the eve
ming passes rapidly. When all the rest
are asleep / go on deck and lie on one
of the sofas and look at the stars In
the clear air of this country there are
apparently three stars visible where one
is seen in America. In other days l
have counted eleven stars in the Pleiades
with my naked eve. Tonight and last
night | could count only ten. Farther
M the river / shall see the eleven. The
air is always rich and strong. never cold
nor hot except in the direct sunshine.
If the boat is sailing rapidly we lie on
the deck on the sofas under an awning,
watching the hills and the groves as we
rush BY them, taking no note OF time,
always surprised when the dinner hour
arrives. This which have described is
our life on the trip up the river. We do
not stop to look at ruins until the return
voyage.-Letter from Wm. C. Prime.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

CIV. HEISKELL is candidate for Judge
of the First Circuit Court of Shelby county.
P.T SCRUGGS is a candidate for Judge of
the First Circuit Court of Shelby county.
Election, 18th of May, 1870.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

PEopLE's CANDIDATE.-WM. MCLEAN is a
candidate for reelection to the Office of State
and County Tax Collector, at the ensuing
March election.
We are authorized to announce w. D..
STRATTON as a candidate for State and
County Tax Collector.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
clerk OF FIRST Circuit Court.

We are authorized to announce FRANK
TAFT as an independent candidate for the
office of Clerk Of the First Circuit Court, at
the ensuing March election.
EDrroRs LEDGER: Please announce me as
candidate for the Office Of Clerk Of First Cir
cult Court. ri b. I. REAVES.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

We are requested to announce MOSES
WHITE as a candidate for Attorney General
of the Criminal Court.
We arc authorized to announce, b. NEW.
TON HART as n candidate for the office OF
Attorney General of the Criminal Court, sub
iect TO the action of the Democratic Conven-
tion Of Shelby county. Election in May.
We are authorized to announce JOHN s.
KERR as a candidate fore the Office of Attor-
ney General of the Criminal Court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

Cornelius O'Dowd expresses the opin-
ion. in Blackwood, that in England a
man meets a marvellous energy and go
that he finds nowhere else. : Of course,
EXCEPT America, he says, for with us
We work life :. = high boiler pressure. but
the Yankees do more-they sit on the
valves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
County court clerk.

We are authorized to announce j.. S. CAR
RUTHERS as a candidate on the independent
ticket for Clerk of the County Court of Shelby
,,ounty, at the ensuing March election.
thereby announce myself as an independ-
en' j. j. SEARS.
We are authorized to announce JAMES
REILLY, the present Deputy County Court
CLERK as n candidate for County Court Clerk,
nj the ems uing March election.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
rhe rope's opinion of Washington.

The Pope does not at all agree with
the dictum of the Pail Mall Gazette that
Washington was narrow man. In
the reception-room of the American
College, in Rome, there hangs a fine
painting of thJ Father Of his Country.
Pic Nono's eye rested upon it, during a
recent visit to the college. Ali
said he TO the Americans in the com
pany, that was a great and good man
a good man indeed. Those who were
present report that the words were
spoken so warmly as TO leave no doubt
that they came from the heart.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

A. WOODWARD is a candidate for County
Trustee of Shelby county, at the election in
March next.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
Judge OF second Circuit Court.
Att,y general of Criminal Court.

We are authorized TO announce J. A. AN
DERSON as a candidate for Judge of the
Second Judicial Circuit of Shelby county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
CIerIs of Second Circuit Court.

We are authorized to announce u. r.. HAIR
RIS ms an Independent candidate for the o1ict
Of Clerk Of the Second Circuit Court, Mt the
ensuing March election.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

Eight lines of nonpareil, solid. constitute
Displayed advertisements will be charged
according to the SPACE occupied, at above
the inch.
Notices in local column inserted for twenty
cents per line for each insertion. :.
Special notices inserted for ten cents per line
for each insertion.
Notices of deaths and marriages, twenty
cents per line. -,
Advertisements published at intervals, will
be charged one dollar per square for each in
sertion.
To regular advertisers we offer superior in,
ducements, both as to rate of charges and
manner of displaying their favors.
All bills for advertising are due when con-
tracted and payable on demand.
All letters, whether upon business or other
wise, must be addressed to.
Il. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

Prince Napoleon's (PloH-Plonl mis-
tress at the present time Is SAID TO be q
young woman from the United States.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

MARCUS J. WRIGHT is candidate for
Sheriff Of Shelby county, at the ensuing
March election
Thereby announce myself rs an independent
candidate for reelection to the Office Of Sheriff
of Shelby county, at the ensuing March cleo
t;on A. p. CURRY,
Sheriff of Shelby county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Tax Collector on Privilege,

Tax COLLECTOR on PrIvIIeges.
We are authorized to announce GEORGE
C. HOLMES as q candidate for Tax Collector
on Privileges of Shelby county. Election,
Saturday, March 26 1870.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

/ am n candidate for Clerk of the Criminal
Court of Shelby county. ,r r .,,ppv
w. T. AVERY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
Insfice of the Peace.

We are authorized TO announce ALfkED
RORFRTSON as a candidate for the otfce Of
.Justice of the Peace Of the Fourteenth Civil
District. Election. 26th Of March. to
We are authorized to announce Esq. 5. A.
MOORE as a candidate for reelection to the
Office es Justice Of the Peace of the Fourteenth
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

We are authorized to announce JAMES Z.
FROST as a candidate for Constable Of the
Fourteenth Civil District. Election, March
26th.
Tn replv 10 a very complimentary call in the
dnneoI. signed Citizen" i hereby announce
myself as a candidate for Constable Of the
Fourteenth Civil District, pledging myself. II
ability. Respect'y, BEN. @. GARRETT.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

NtAROLINA LIFE ms. CO., 2l9 MAIN 81.
" J. Davis, Pres't; W. f. Boyle, Sec'y.
NLAPP, VANCE & ANDERSON, ATTOR-
" neys- -at-Law, 325 Main street, Memphis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
BUSINESS HOUSES.

NITY BANK, CORNER JEFFERSON AND
" Front. s. II. Tobey, Pres't L. G. Kirk.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25

nENTISTS j. b. & VIM. WATSON,
IL Office old stand 31s Main. Also proprie-
tors of Memphis Dental Depot, same place.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15

Many years ago there v as in the East
ern part OF Massachusetts worthy ID.
D., and although be was an eminently
benevolent man, aud a good Christian,
yet II must be confessed that he loved 3
good joke much bettor than even the
most inveterate jokers. 1t was before
church organs were much in use; it Sc
happened that the choir OF the church
had recently purchased double bass
viol. Not far from the church was q
large pasture, and in it huge town
bull. Ono hot Sabbath in the Summer
he got out of the pasture, and came bel
lowing up the street. About the church
there was plenty of untrodden grass,
green and good, aud Mr.. Bull stopped to
try the quality; perchance to ascertain if
its location had improved its flavor. At
any rate, the doctor was in the midst of
his sermon when:
"Boo-woo-woo'' went the bull.
The doctor paused, looked up at the
singing seats, and, with grave face,
said:
"I would thank tho musicians not to
tune their instruments during service; it
annoys me very much"
The people Uttered, for they we'll knew
what the real state of the case was.
The minister went ON again with his
discourse, but he had not proceeded far
before another "boo-woo- WOO came
from Mr.. Bull.
The parson paused once more, and
again exclaimed:
~ have twice already requested the
musicians in the gallery not to tune their
instruments during the sermon. now
particularly request Mr.. Lafevor tnat he
will not tune his double bass viol while |
1 am preaching"
This was too much. Mr.. Lafevor got |
up, much agitated at the thought of
speaking out in church, and stammered |
out:
Itisn't me, Parson B.; it's th-that
town bullr'
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15

How HE FIXED THEM.-Zadoc Pratt
the millionaire tanner OF Prattsville
Greene county, N. Y, has hearty con
tempt for stuck-up people. Learning
one evening that some young men in
his employ were excluded from ball
room because of their occupation, he re-
paired forthwith to the hotel where the
ball was in progress, procured an axe,
and with his own hands cut down the
stairway leading to the hell. Telling the
dancers to stay there and enjoy their ex-
clusiveness as long as they chose, he
turned TO the landlord and told him to
employ a carr enter after the bal was
over to rebuild the stairway, and bring
a bill of the expense to him.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15
Most Honest Republicans.

1t pays to be loyal.
Fifteen years ago John Sherman, OF
Ohio, brother of Tecumseh Sherman,
the General, first went into Congress-
At that time John Sherman was worth
about $1,000.
Now looxi
The wealth ofthe very honorable John
Sherman, of Ohio, is not to be computed.
He has $75,0 900 in real estate in Mans
field, Ohio; owns the greater part of a
street.railroad in Washington; has $780,
600 in bonds and money, besides having
large interests in immense tracts OF
Western lands.
Where did John Sherman get all
this?
During the fifteen years he has been
in Congress his salary has never been
moro than 5000 year, and many years
it has not been SO much as that. But we
will concede that his income has been
five thousand dollars each year, and that
he has saved every cent if it--which is
beyond possibility.-and then he would
have but S75,OOOl
OF course Senator John Sherman did
not use any corrupt or dishonest means
to make money while acting as servant
of the peoplel
He is too loyal for that.
Bu', nevertheless, the very Honorable
John Sherman has accumulated hun
dreds of thousands of dollars above his
legitimate income. and somebody has
been made SO much poorer thereby
They do say that railroad stocks, bonds,
and Government lands have something
TO do with these things sometimes.
Let Mr.. Sherman tell what he knows
about money making.-Pomeroy Dem
ocrat.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15
srr.. Psrtlnxtea shepplng.

"Come, Ike, and get your basket and
let's propel to town."
They enter fashionable millinery es-
tsblishment.
show do you sell pitators?"
"Do you mean, madam, to insult
mef"
II would like to consult you about q
couple OF pecks. Ike bring along your
basket"
"But, madam, we don't deal in pota-
toesl'
"Your advertisement"
sour advertisement it certainly says
no such thing"
"But 1t does. Ike come here. Didn't
you read it to me the other night, about
this new millinery store having conceiv-
ed new assortment of pitators from
New York;"
Ike mods.
"Tbere now, you needn't be skeered;
amt no revenue deceptive"
Milliner smiles.
Madam, you have made mistake.
Our advertisement announces a new ar
ticle OF female apparel with which young
ladies, whose bosoms are not fully de-
veloped, are enabled to beautify their
forms, and render preceptible the affec-
tionate emotions of their loving hearts.
Hence they are called palpitators."
''La, mel your advertisement didn't
say about barades envelopiag female
bosoms to show their notions of affec-
tien. Now, if you denounce them as
bosom pitators. you would be more in
telligent. Well, I'm arter stomach pi-
tatoes, which have much affection for,
besides my bosom is parallel enough.
and pretend in the future TO keep it SO
without putting pitators in it anyhow
Goodbye, Mrs. Milliner. Come, Ike,
let's tramp"
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15
AsrifnItitraI.



1t is of no little Importance 10 have at
hand convenient and reliable mode for
testing the richness of milk. This is
usually done by the mere rule of guess.
We will give more reliable wav. with
in the reach of all, and one whereby any
person may safely govern himself in de-
Gliding upon which OF any number of
nilkmen he will patronize, or of which
of any number OF cows he will purchase.
Procure any long glass vsssel--a CO.
logne bottle or a long phial. Take a
narrow strip of paper, just the length
nom the neck to the bottom of the pl ial. .
and mark it off with one hundred lines
at equal distances; or, if more conven.
lent, and to obtain greater exactness.
into fifty lines, and count each as two
and paste it upon the phial, so as to di-
vide its length into a hundred equal
parts.-Fill it, to the highest mark, with
milk fresh from the COW, and allow it to
stand in "a perpendicular position twen-
ty-four hours. The number of spaces
occupied by the cream will give you its
S@AeN"N POI -OohtdBo III bue lnllk, WllnOuL
any guess work.
Now, if you wish to carry the expert
ment further, and ascertain the per cent
age of butter, set the milk in large
dish, and collect, say 100 or 200 ounces OF
cream; make your butter in the cream
by ascertaining the number of ounces of
butter you have made. Thus, if one
hundred ounces of cream give five
ounces of butter, you will know that one
hundred ounces of milk will give five
ounces of cream.
Such experiments are worth being
made, and made carefully. + In no other
way can you know what you haze in a
COW or milk, or what you are buying
In this way, also, you may test the exact
nutritive value of different kinds of milk
from your cows-a very important mat
ter. Farmers may derive much benefit
by making a few simple experiments,
now and then. They need not interfere
with any of the regular duties of the
farm; and nothing but spirit of habit
ual indolence of thought and action will
keep them from doing so. Such expert
ments often lead to important results,
and evoke interesting and instructive
facts Mississippi Agriculturalist.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15
SAVING FODDER.

| In many localities the drouth has
made short crop of the hay, and though
of fexcellent quality, it will not suffice to
carry the ordinary stock of the farm
through the coming winter. All the sub
stitutes ever used for good hay will be
wanted, and it becomes farmers to make
the most of them. Oat and wheat straw
that are often allowed to rot upon the
ground, or are used for bedding, make a
very good fodder, and should be CAREFUL
ly stacked or stored in the barn at the
time of threshing. If cut and mixed
with corn meal or with wheat bran, cat
tie will thrive upon the feed quite as well
as upon good hay. Those who have
sowed corn fodder abundantly have
good substitute for hay. Save what is
left from the Fall feeding. Make the
most of the fodder from the cornfield.
which is often demaged from careless
stacking. 1t is not yet too late TO cut salt
grass and bog meadows, that are often
neglected from the abundance of other
feed. To be sure there is not much nour-
ishment in these grasses, but there is
some, and when J un through the cutter,
and mixed with meal or roots they serve
good purpose. Carefully store the tur.
nips that have been sown betwesn the
corn rows, or by themselves. 1t fire.
quently happens that dry Summer is
followed by abundant Fall rains, which
come in season to allow us to make a
large turnip crop.-AmericGn A1ricuL-
turalist.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15

REMOVING THE Dap Roor.--In trans
planting seedlings of any kind, the tap
root should always be shortened at least
one half, and quite often three-quarters
ofits length may be removed with BEN
eft. 1t is passing strange that men who
know nothing practically of horticulture
will constantly advise leaving the tap
root entire, and insult common sense by
declaring that it is an injurious practice.
to remove it, because it seoms to be nat
ural. The horticulturist who strictly
follows nature will nevar make any
great progress, for all there is of art is in
merely changing or diverting nature
from its legitimate channels Hearth
and Home.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15
Miscellaneous.
Tp
AFTER FIVE YEARS.

Raautitul she locked az sba Law tber.
in ouiet slumber. on the sof, i'm tb,
drawing. room of the Howard mansion
which ia situated n the town az Deen
dale in the aastern mart ofsnffolk He,
comnlexion was of that marble white.
,ass which contrasts 60 wa,l with blacl
hair. clear detinad avabrows. lo,g and
heavy eva,ashas. a r,I, ,ed month. .
straight Selicat,, nose. n beantirul chin,
IN s,ct a s,ca ~ axon,s,,a lov.Iinass
sho n,i,,h, h.va oda a. ts,h;ao, a.,
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a. har s,cs
-Ifsha 10 Iova,v IN ronosa What ,s,
sba he wben an;ma,ion aud activitv
light mn that wonderf,l c,cas AsL lin,
who stands bv her: he will tell Won her
rar. beautv. and her exonisite t;onra
In sbor. sha seems "a daughter 81 The
gods divinelv furn
Ha who stands bv her s,d. and ,ooLs
a, bor 60 ,o,,;nr,, e. a. v,,ssss ,',,'o
,oves har 30 rass;nua,o,.. sa.a.s,,,. ~. .'.
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, ne'oa no"a,u a''eep' poy $1,000 iook,
.hs s ~ - ~ ua"a..a. I ~ en'e.vu
the room. He seemed considerably sur
pl,ssu . =. Witnessing ,',.s, sucn - a,soieau. he
..ss' -"Ss na' t'' 'oau w .oso.'sa. :" "uy .
Eyes, ior no o,osseu ove' 70 nun iaio nis
n"no on n's snos'uoi, anu saio IN Ainu
'o,''' o' you iose my uausn-
'or' an Ano" YOU uo' "si' my
poy, you haVe my PERMISSION 70 woo
hei' 'nougn "netner you win ner or
no' sie WIN oecius. l know OF no man
70 "noin 4 wouiu SO reaoiiy give my
oaugh'er as 10 you. Money does not
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15
DANIEL wEBsTER's OXEN.

He had an extraordinary fondness for
great oxen, and took great pains to pos
sess the choicest breeds: He liked a
good horse, and appreciated the fine
points Of that snimalI but he was not d
lover OF the horse. "I am not aware"
says Mr.. Curtis, ''that lie cared anyth ng
for dogs, although, in his most active
days Of shooting, he may have kept a
spaniel or a pointer. But Of all the brute
creation, he loved the OK. Oxen were
the pets of his large agricultural tastes;
and when he could not see and feed
them he missed one of his greatest pleas
ures. He had come down one fine morn
ing, after night of pain, and was seated
in one of the parlors that looked upon
the lawn. There he had herd of his
best oxen driven IN front of the window,
that he might look once more into their
great gentle eyes, and soc them crop the
grass"
Porter Wright, who was superinten-
dent of Mr.. Webster's farm, gives the
following account of the cattle:
she had one hundred and ten head of
cattle when he had the most. He raised
some, but, when lie went up into New
Hampshire, he'd buy a great many; he'd
buy all the handsome oxen he saw
twenty at a time some years. He was
fonder of stock than any ther part of
farm. When he had friends with him,
he would have some of his finest oxen
yoked up and driven to the house, that
they might see them. That is the way
he saw them last from his window. 1t
was not large lot, but they were his
best oxen. He sat there, talking with
Mr.. Thomas and Mr.. Curtis and looking
at his creatures, and he enjoyed i it was
his last enjoyment. 1t was about week
before he died.
The herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1870-1871, 1870-10-15

AN INFANTILE ISPosroR.-C Chicago
boasts, among her fragrant successes, sn
infantile impostor. A bright-eyed, neat
ly dressed little girl accosts the bypass
or on public street with, "oi sir, I've
lost my way; want to get to-" and
she names ST. eet long way off. Sud-
denly thought seemed to strike her
Cant you give me six cents to pay my
car ref" The device rarely fails to OBJ
tain the money, and her father, who
walks on the other side of the street and
collects from time TO time, is becoming
rich.