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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-15
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-15
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-15
THE EUROPEAN WAR.
REPORTED RETREAT OF PREs.
SLAMS FROM BEFORE PARIS.
AFFAIRS IN AND AROUND PARIS.
NOON DISPATCHES,

&C., &C., &c.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
Attempted suicide of Napoleon.

The foreign mail which arrived at New
/ York Saturday night brought the partie-
'ulars of Napoleon's attempt at suicide,
lon the 18th ult. The Cassel correspond
lent of the Vienna Presse, who has pecu-
liar facilities for obtaining reliable in
writes as follows: ein
The Prussian government has issued
The strongest prohibition against the re
|ceipt at the telegraph Office of report
'of the circumstances which / shall now
Relate to you, from authentic sources, in
|spite of all attempts at coneealment
Yesterday the news spread here like
.wild-fre that Napoleon had, on the 18th,
made an attempt at suicide. The details
|of the affair are communicated by the
officers on guard. Napoleon for two days
exhibited strange elevation Of spirits,
He received during the last few days
,several dispatches and letters from Paris
'and Hastings, spoke but little, and for
two days left his room only once. This
WAS about FIVE o'clock in the evening,
He had given orders that all dispatches
(which arrived should be brought TO him
wherever he was. Two,
(which had just come from Hastings and
Brussels, were accordingly taken to him
In the park.
He read them. and grew visibly pale.
He then returned to the castle and shut
himself up in his room. After they had
|seen or heard nothing of him for two
'hours his immediate attendants began to
be alarmed. About halfpast mine
10 clock they resolved on the pretext Of
having something important to commu-
'nicate, to ask for admission into his
room. =
Prince Murat undertook the task, but
|io his repeated knocks and calls no an
|swer was returned. After half an hour
|they broke open the door, and found
Napoleon lying on the sofa in deep
faint.
Two physicians we're Immediately
brought, and they succeeded, after the
lapse of an hour, Ia bringing Napoleon
|to himself. Everything pointed to aR
attempt at suicide. The Governor Of
|Cassei made his appearances at still
later hour in the castle, which was in a
hate of the greatest confusion. The
Governor did not leave till morning. and
has sent long account Of the matter 70
HE headquarters --i..f - III
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
Hew to M.ke Farming Attractiv
md prOnfAble.

The necessity and advantage of keep
ing strict account OF farming opera
lions seems to be but little understood
by. farmers, or il understood they otter
feel weared by the cares and tolls o.
the day, and after short trial neglect
this most necessary duty before they
have even realized any Of the benefits
to be derived from it. In the spring o.
1853 determined to see if there were
any advantages to be derived from keep
ing debt and credit account of my
farming; also an account Of my family
Expenses, and the dates and time wher
crops arrived at maturity, and would
­ that since that time have continued
that practice.
Many will say they have not the time
that it may do well enough for those who
are able to hire their work done, etc
but let me say that consider the time
spent in keeping these accounts as the
most profitable, in many points of view
|of any of my hours of labor.
| The first yehr found that TO raise an
acre Of potatoes cost me, including seed
1924, and that received from them $BS
THE next year / put the same acre in to,
bacco, and found, instead of a profit Of
IS45, a profit, above expenses Of manure
and labor, Of 1884, and my land left in
far better condition than after my crop
of potatoes. found in 1865, that on
my corn was only SIT per acre, while an
acre Of cabbages gave me net profit
above marketing and all expenses OF
is2l2. Now, if had kept no account OF
s these crops, | should not have known
that my tobacco and cabbages paid me
better than corn and potatoes, but
should not have realized how much bet
= ter: neither would / have known just
/ what per centage my load of manure,
which | had purchased, paid me.
Since | first began to keep my farm
accounts / am fully satisfied that | have
+ cleared double the money which ! had
+ done before, and | fully believe that il
was mainly due to this practice. | have
been enabled by this means to do what
every farmer ought to strive to do--that
lis, to improve. his farm, to beautify his
Ihome, and to make it place where his
children will delight to stay, where hap1
|piness and eontentment will reign sui
]preme. .se,ta f.e
How many farmers neglect to make
home the paradise they might, feeling
themselves too poor to surround their
places with neat fences and flowers, and
Things to crafty the taste and enlarge|
the mind Is it any wonder that their
children, as they grow up, leave for some
more congenial employment, or some|
more pleasant home, many of them fall i
ling into vice and ruin, which might have
been avoided had their parents made
home attractive and the cultivation of
the soil delightful occupation, as III
might have been, instead of drudgery|
land hardship ao
Let all hope, through the influenced
|arising from free interchange of ideas
|and the publication Of agricultural pa
|pers, devoted to progress and improve
ment, that farming may, as it should !
take rank among the most ennobling|
pursuits in life. II. III. Waller, in Bos1
|fon Culti0atOr. =
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
A SAD STORY.
A Wife Sends Her Dying Message
Her Husband.

A wife Sends Her Dying Message 20
80 rss4 Her Husband.
Together with the message of dying
wife, says the Kansas City News, sent to
this city with the hope of finding the
Ifaithless husband, comes one Of the sad
3dest stories of domestic afiliction we
have ever met
some years ago a man by the name of
IVY. ii Shuek married in the far East a
3niece of Chief Justice Chase, the union
Sbeing blessed with bright little child,
Hand life moving very happily for some
time.
1t proved, however, but another version
4of the old story of Inconsistency, aud dis
lsipation and dissolute companions soon
IRAN through with what little means the
3couple possessed, leaving them destitute
HFhe wife was too proud to apply to her
3friends for assistance, and being pos1
1sessed of considerable histrionic talent,
3went to the stage, together with her hus1
band, in very humble positions, thus
3ekeing out scanty living for themselves
land child.
So few months passed, until the
Ihealth of the wife began to fail, and then
|the husband deserted her, leaving the
3poor woman and child to take care of
themselves as best they might.
A Impoverished, broken-hearted, and fast
3dying, the poor woman laid aside the
HAST relics of her pride, and taking her
3child, sought refuge with relative, also
IA niece of the Chief Justice, living in
3Painesville, Ohio. lLr.L
A There were but few days left for her
3to enjoy the tender care which now sur
{rounded her, and from the first she sank
8rapidly, never once rallying until her
3death. Up to the last moment she spoke
( lof her husband in terms of the most tent
3der endearment and warmest love, and
4only regretted her death in that shel
Knight not bid him farewell. To LADY,
Z lat her bedside, who was on the eve of al
3journey to the far West, she gave dying
lmessage to her husband, saying that shel
him to be in Kansas City, and|
{ charging her with deep solemnity to use|
every exertion in finding him,
Her little child she consigns to his
care, and begs him with all the earnest
ness of o dying mother to bring it up inl
a way that will make its after life al
+ pleasure and an honor
We receive the story from the lips OIL
Hthe lady to whom the message Was de-
Slivered, she having failed to find theI
husband. Our exertions also hayeI
7proved futile, it being probable that hisI
1presept name is an assumed one, SO wei
Tive publicity to the statement in hopel
2ihst il may reach him, restore tha child
70 father, md make the father c better
|truer M ~. Daily GogueH Bluffs (iopa)l
Times, Oct. I.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
A Promising Roy.

A certain judge, while attending cour
in shire town was passing along a roas
+ when n boy was just letting down th'
bars to drive some cattle Ia.
His father stood in the door Of hi
,house, on the other side of the road, ant
seeing what his hopeful was doing
shouted out:
"Johnl don't you drive them cattle il
.there. | told you to put them in the
|pasture behind the house" "
The boy took no notice whatever o.
.the remonstrance, and his father re
heated the order in louder tone, with
7out the least effect; and the third tim,
gave positive orders not to drive the cat
Tie In there
The son didn't deign to look up, anC
.disobeyed the parental injunction with {
coolness which positively shocked tn,
'iudge, who, looking at the culpFii, said
In tone Of official dignity:
boy, don't you hear your fathe
speaking to your"
"Oh, y-a-a-s.r replied the boy, looking
'si The judge, but dom { mind what h
says Mother don't neither, and 'tweer
.she and !, we've SboHi got the dog so h
'ion't."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
Irhe st. Clair Flats Canal Seized b.
the Canadian Government.

IFrom the Detroit Free Press, lotn.I
There was q rumor current yesterday
Forenoon that the Canadian government
3had taken formal possession of the st.
3Clair Flats Ship Canal, and the rumor
Twas in the afternoon developed as sure
zfact. Monday afternoon, acting under
BORDERS from the government at Ottawa,
3the gunboat Prince Alfred arrived at the
3canal from Collingwood, having on board
the Hon. Mr. Langeyin, Minister OF
APublic Works, and other Canadian Off
3cials, and proceeded to take for
dmal possession of the works,
1hoisting the British flag as evidence
3of their earnestness. The Prince Alfred
came down during the night, lying of
Windsor, and yesterday morning the
action taken by the officials was tele-
{graphed to the Ottawa Government
Soon after the gnnboat weighed anchor
Ifor the Flats, where she was stationed al
lday yesterday, her presence, and the|
flying British flag causing much wonder
lment to marines, Some of the city off
26cials at Windsor were of the party
who went up yesterday, and those offi-I
,cials left at home were greatly pleased
lover what they chose to call BRITISH
|pluck." They argued that the Domin.I
ion Government would hold the cana
|until the question of ownership was fully
land finally decided, and-perhaps III
will. There was any amount of excite
|pegt among mariners and shlp-owners|
Hast evening, and every Yankee met
with had his knapsack ready packed for|
|call. The local effect will be TO causel
.much excitement, and it may be hard to|
RESTRAIN the impatience of our peopleI
Inntil the question can be settled by di-
!piomaey. Tho Toronto Telegraph of
Yesterday has the following:
i, October l0.-The gup-boat PrinceI
IA Alfred has arrived here with Hon. Mr..
|Lanseyin. On heF way down she took
Of the canal built by theeI
IA americans on the 81, Clair Flats and
Iboisted the British flag"
The Associated Press yesterday after
noon dispatched the following, dated at
|Windsor' to all points In the country;
1.-THE gunboat Prince Alfred has ar-l
rived with LangesIu, Minister Of Publict
Works. ON board. The vessel came
Through the new ship canal constructed;
|by the American Government on the st
Clair Flats, and the Minister took formal
of the works on the part oil
the DomipioD Government, hosting the|
British flag. IL
Governor Baldwin had not been ofi-i
cially notified up to last evening, and thel
steamer Michigan will not completes
|sh;nn;nC har ammunition until someI
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
A story About Grant.

,t,, ~ ~
when General prant was returninl
from Long branen, a cavalry H captaI'
and q MAJOR ana Judge advocate m TN
late war were on the same boat. lhe.
mao Doth served ana won some distihc
t,oh IN tne Army o. the fotomac. oeein'
.ne % uJnerai .I M:g, snohlng, a. usual, Is! ~ chal
on aeck, the MAJOR said 70 ms companion
nVYo you know VINO that Isl
.s.,' ies' repnea .he oapta5n, oi course
tnSS Unran., that tne rresldent, ,,i,
les sala 'ne MAJOR II go an'
pay my respects 70 nm
"a ~ 4 ou nad oet.e5 n9t, sala the 0aptain
In, yes saio .ne MAYOR, ne ~
cace''e,. ~. man, anu u great ueneraI' oe
''Igs' wan' ho'l,ins rom MN, sol u 70.
Ne ne Went went ana geI''hg near ,he zen
era' cnalr, sara 4 oeI,eVe nave th' u
ITn;. TD,;ol u auuiesSins 'he resiueh' oi INT
oniteu Tta o'a'es ,,
hC biNhe mon ioOhCu iaAiig up liOil
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
The Girls OF the War.

In my perambulations through the
town, on my way to the commandants
office, ] encountered a group of pretty
|giris-say from eight to twelve years old
They could not help from attracting my
attention, because every one of them
carried q neat little knapsack on her
back. What" | thought, every.
thing modified A juvenile female
army In one seSse they were.
They answered my questions very
|modestly. They went to school, they
said, from seven to eleven in the morn
ing, and with gravity added, "now, in the
afternoon, we are very busy in making
lint and bandages ready for our broth
|ers. 1 ascertaiRed afterwards that by
order of the Director General for Schools
|all female schools in Prussia are now thus
occupied some hours every day. In the
German struggle for independence
against Napoleon /, in 1895, several
women took up arms in the defense
|of their fatherland. At Stettin, the
|other day, tall and strong
peasant girl, well dressed, and with
full purpose of heart, applied al
|the barracks with the intention
|of enlisting as volunteer. She was
five feet six inches in hight, and was
resolved to fight for her country.
She was dissuaded, not without diff.
|culty, and spoke of offering herself to
some other corps, still hoping to be
accepted. Two other girls at Ham
burg enthusiastically offered their servi.
|ces in the defense of their country. The
harvest work, now ripe for the sickle,
IFS sadly neglected in the rich land, and
Indeed throughout Prussia. "a Healthy
Girl " writes to one of the German news
papers, urging girls and women in the
towns, whose health permits it, and who
have nothing else to do, to form bands
for gathering in the harvest. Cologne
Correspondent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
she Did Have Him.

i 4 A man named Hotchkiss, over in New
Market the other night. thought h
would have some fun in soaring his wife
5by dropping loose brick down the chin
ney into the fireplace in her room. s.
he crept softly out Of bed, and with moth
ing ON but his night shirt, sneaked uI
stairs and got out on the roof. Mr.
1Hotchkiss dropped nineteen bricks dowr
Rthe chimney, each one with vigorous
4 slam; but his wife never screamed sol
(itary time. So then Mr.. Hotchkiss gave
1 it up, and thought he would 60 down
stairs; but Mrs. Hotchkiss had her head
gout of the trap door watching him all the
Etime, and when he had finished, she shut
1 up the trap and fastened it on the inside.
III may be as well to state that Mr..
Hotchkiss spent the rest of the night sit
|ting on the sharp peak of the roof, with
/ his trailing garment of the night futter-
ing in the evening breeze, singing m
lonely tonight" Mrs. Hotchkiss inti1
mated to her con6ding friends that she
Thought she had him. .---Nepdrk Cbwier
r.-.f -a-e-B----
An East Tennessee woman stopped d
railroad train by waving red flag, and
wanted to know of the enraged conduct
tor if Sairey Melvina Thompson was
|aboard-which theIsam was her sister.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
PROPOSALS.
Notice to Contractors I!
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.leWc-k e the hne q this -.ad Between IL
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Plans. rroties and speclfcati ms may be ex
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| can Be ohfairea - as -sice on and nfter o.
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|iion, and rrupositions will bs considered 10
. 1ne-half mile 1ections.
The Company reserves The rirht 10 reject an,
and I'll pruposals whose terms may not Be- con
|s'lered satisfactory.
The favorable character Of this work recon
mends itself % the attention Of contrartars.
I1l-i6l W. d. PICKETT, Chief Enginucr.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17

The brewers Of Berlin have sent fv'
'handEsd kegs Of beer, packed in ice, Il
',he German army A committee oi
brewers, armed with the proper beer
glasses, accompanies this shipment o.
bop extract. What can the German sol
lhsrz expect at the hands Of the French
" their own eountrymen mdlt-treat them
in this way3
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
FAIR.
TO THE MERCHANTS
FAIR.
BUSIN ESS MEN
NJ L NJ p H is +.
or1c. o MrsrHIs AasIeulruaAL !

AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY,
MEKPHsss TENs.. Oct. 8. 1870.
NTFScRs. r. C. RITE a CO. APPLIED TO
.D me two weeks since for the privilege Of
publishing a Newspaper during the comine
fair. to be distributed grafis on the Fair
Grounds, with fair and faithful reports Of the
proceedings. Il granted them the gaid privi-
icre. 20 far as am clothed with authority. be-
lieving them 10 be fully entitled TO the privi-
lege, from the enterprise, public spirit and
liberality they have displayed in noticing the
Fair, publishing the greater portion Of it, Pre-
lninm List, and forwarding the interests Of
the Society in their valuable paper, the Prae-
teal Planter Very respectfully.
LEON TR0UsDALE. Sec'y.
twill be seen from the above card that w
ALoxF have oficial authority 10 print Fair
PAPER for gratuitous Distribution on the Far
tirounds. In accordance with the above priv
ilere, We intend % print hand.s,ome 1, ieur, Fsss
sheet. 70 be called the fkfE hEroHrEa. We
have engaged the services Of an erpersenced
reporter, who will furnish a daily report o. AZ
the rroceedines and incidents Of NE fa,r.
We hope our friends will sustain n. IN tnls
rcntorprlae. as We have used our best eaorA ~
promoung the intercEts ef the FAR.
Pubiishcrs Practical Planter. IA Union street.
DLANTATION AND CROP MoRTGA AGES
II for sale in Quantities a anti ~ thir ofior
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17

A bridegroom at Richmond, Va, the
3other day was so charmed.by the pros.
! pect Of welded bliss, that he forgot ia
procure license, and kept the wedding
5party in church for nearly two hours
while he went to hunt up the clerk Of
the Hastings Court.
An English wife, abusing her husband
on account of his mercenary disposition,
said TO him that if she were dead be
1wouid marry the devils eldest daughter
4 Il he could get anything by it. That's
strgs, replied the hnsbandi but in Eng
land One cannst lpsFfy two sisters.
The champion hopper Of the period
4 has turned up at Albany. He has only
lone leg, but shows so much expertness
lin the use Of it that he challenges the
world TO produce a man who can out hop
hin, Last week he hoped a mile in
'front OF the capitol, 10 the admiration
4 of a large crowd. What neEt.
1t is the opinion of many persons thai
=the late unprecedented freshet in the
@James and Shenandoah rivers was NOT
scaused by continued rain, but by some
thing like tbs bursting Of q water spout
on or about their head-vateFs, ana theiT
sources are not very great distance
[apart. The food came down in the She
.nandoah in great waves, succeeding each
othsF rapidly
At q fair in San Francisco for the
benefit Of French sufferers, "A young lady
worked the sentence "Vive Ia France
/ in the center Of a handkerchief with her
own hair and presented the handkerchief
to the fair. Monsieur Ploche bought il
. for $500 on Tuesday evening. On Fri
day it was sold for $1,000. 1t is estima
ted that the fair will realize $4,000 in
coin.
The St Louis Democrat Of Saturday
says: The physiological celebrity known
as the sleeping beauty, arrived in the
Icity yesterday morning in charge Of her
physicians, from her home IN Qbion
county, Tennessee, and, it is said, will
. form a subject OF investigation BY the
medical society. She is reported 10
have slept for tventy-one years, with
. singular intervals Of waking, each Of a
|few moments only, and but three or four
snch intervals in a day"
Failing to secure justice at San Fran
|oisoo, The other day for a breach Of con
.iraci, a few wealthy Celestiais Of thai
. city took the laE into their own hands
seized the spokesman Of their hroshef
|bsrbarians, Who had failed 70 come Ia
'time, carried him into q small ROOM
pinioned him with rope and broom.
|siick, bent him TO a sitting posture
placed piece Of wood in his mouth and
Kept him in that position for three days.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17

The state Of the market: Pens, ink
Ind paper are Stationary; new milk is
unchanged; brogans are heavy. but
|iealers generally are firm; wheat is a
grain better than oats; wines and liquors
Generally have n downward tendency;
|yeast cakes are rising.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-17
A tooth becomes relation-when it

A tooth becomes relation-when it
akin.
1t is expected that the funding of tn,
|national debt will prove slow opera
|tion. --'.-,
A young girl Of Schenectady has beer
committed to the Troy jail in default o.
$50 fine, for having promenaded through
the streets with colored man.
A lady on down train to Springfield
Mass, gave the occupants of the car
Surprise last week by presenting hel
|blushing young husband with son.
The Mayor of Montrose, Iowa, went
on the roof ola new three-story school
house and accidentally. stepped of. The
new Mayor reposes school examinations
i'm the hands of a committee.
A terrible commotion was raised on a
Pennsylvania railroad train recently, BY
d report that a passenger was afflicted
with q contagious erlptive disease. In
yestiggtion proved that the disease was
caused by fearful onslaught Of mosqui
fnac