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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-11

Eight lines of nonpareil, solid, constitute a
square. ,
Displayed advertisements will be charged
according to the SPACE occupied, At above
rates-there being twelve lines Of solid type to
the inch.
Notices in local column inserted for twenty
cents per line for each insertion. =.
Special notices inserted for ten cens per line
for each insertion. W. -
Notices Of deaths and marriages. twenty
cents per line. a.,
Advertisements published at intervals will
be charged one dollar per square for each In
sertion.
To regular advertisers we offer superior IN;
ducements, bota as TO rate of charges and
manner Of displaying their favors.
All bills for advertising are due when con-
tracted and payable on demand. ID =,
All letters, whether upon business or other
wise, must be addressed TO.
IS II. WHITMORE.
Fft Publisher and Proprietor.
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!
ing his fine ccuntenance, the captain Of
the steamer with pale lips and blanched
cheeks, approached the young Templar,
and, in a low and trembling voice, said
Great God sir, we are sinking. We
are snagged, sir, in the bottom, and
nothing can save US.
How long can you keep her afoatY
carelessly inquired the young Templar.
She may 90 down in five minutes;
she cannot keep ahoat more than fif-
teen, replied the Captain.
Do not make your situation known
to any one except your crew, or we will
have a panic, and then all will be lost.
Signal the Lady Gay to lean to; none
will notice or understand that signal OF
distress Get your crew and hands ready
to move, and will manage the rest. "
Blow Warder, blowl said the young
Templar, speaking to his ensign, who
stood near him, and at the same time
leaping upon the capstan.
Every one was startled by shrill
blast from the Warder's trumpet A
hundred Templars' swords leaped from
their scabbards at the blast. Atten-
JIOut huC JOunB
Commander. The next ceremony in
the programme is for the Sir Knights,
ladies and gentlemen, on this boat, to
make visit to our friends on board the
Lady Gay. AS the steamers are rapidly
approaching each other and cannot be
kept but a minute or two together, the
movement must be rapid one. You
will form in procession at once, and, as
the boats come together, pass over the
gangway under an arch Of steel to the
lower deck of the Lady Gay. Forward,
Sir Knights, to the gangway Music in
front. The band will play the Knights
Templar Quickstep.
In obedience to these orders the
Knights formed double line to the
gangway, facing round, with swords
crossed above the heads of those form
ing the procession.
In less than eight minutes the whole
precious cargo of human life had passed
from the Mississippi to the Lady Gay
even the colored cook-except the two
files Of Templars, when the young com
mandant said
From the rear, right and left, in
ward wheel, march, And filing inward
the Templars rapidly passed over the
gangway to the Lady Gay, the young
commandant being the last to leave.
One minute more, and the Mississippi
steamer sank to the bottom
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ing cards with his friends; OF course the
fashionables do not call II gambling, but
what else is it, when man neglects his
wife and family and loses half his for
tune in one night? "A
| And then, after coming home late, he
sleeps late, and when he gets up is cross
because he lost ten thousand at euehke,
and goes ont again to the trotting course,
and don't come in until another half
night has passed. What kind Of life
is that?
And yet you must expect it, if you
link your life 10 a man you do not love.
OF course you have your round Of
pleasure, too but you don't care for
him, only for his money, and his passing
infatuation for your pretty face or grace
full figure; so you each go your own
way, each on the road to ruin.
Of course, when he finds out that you
have flirted, and even allowed Ormond
Woodfeld to kiss you, he storms aud
says he won't allow his name to be dis
graced, etc. and then you get indignant
and tell him ITS none of his business to
interfere with you, as you married bis
money, not him, and that you love Or
mond, and when he (your husband) dies
you intend marrying him.
Then he storms and swears and sues
for o divorce, and you and your children
are disgraced, fof lawyers and reporters
search and pick and exaggerate every
little innocent action of yours as wrong,
and the world knows all your secrets
during your life, and all yonr letters and
] a. IL.
construed, until they make mountains
out of mole-hills.
And then, when the case is completed
and the evidence summed up, you will
feel like burying your face in the earth
for very shame of the publicity of the
thing.
You can avoid this, girls, by thinking
less of wealth and brown stone front
houses, and more of true love and ster-
ling worth. Emma j. Oppenheimer.
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PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL
JAMES.
Il. WHITMORE.
Publisher and Proprietor.


PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL
JAMES.
Which wish to remark
n And my language is plain
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain
The heather Chinee is pecniiar,
Which the same would rise to explain.
Ah Sin was his name;
And / shall not deny
In regard to the same
What that name might imply.
But his smile it was pensive and child-like,
As frequently remarked to Bill Nye.
It was August the third;
And quite soft was the skies;
Which il might be inferred
That All Sin was likewise. ,,,..,.
Yet he played it that dayu William
And me in way desplse.
Which we played a small game,
And All Sin took hand
II was euchre. The same
He did not understand;
But he smiled as he sat by the table,
With the smile thatwas child-like and bland
wv VI p n HlE Mt H = A
Yet the cards they were stocked
In way that grieVe,
And my feelings were shocked
At the state of Nye's sleeve,
Which was stuffed full OF aces ana powers,
And the same with intent TO deceive.
But the hands that were played
By the heather Chinee,
And the points that he made,
We're quite frightful to see
Till at last he put down right bower,
I Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.
Then looked up at Nye,
And he gazed upon me;
And he rose with sigh
And said: ~ Can this bep
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor -
And he went for that heather Chinee'
In the scene that ensued
| did not take hand,
But the floor II was strewed
Like the leaves on the strand,s -
With the cards that All Sin had been hiding
In the game "he didn't understand"
In his sleeves, which were long,
He had twenty-four packs
Which was coming 1t strong,
Yat state but the facts; lAa
And we found on his nails, which were taper
What is frequent in tapers-that's wax
Which is why remark
And my language is plain
That for ways that are dark, gHtr
And for tricks that are vain. nHg.
The heather Chinee is peculiar;
Which the same | am free 10 maintain;
-OUerldRd Monthly.
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HOW HE LOST HIS SEAT.
John Bull in n Washington TheI
ter.

John Bull in n Washington Thea.
ter.
Don Piatt, in one of his racy Wash
ington letters, tells the following:
Led by curiosity, / made part of the
great crowd assembled to hear the
famous German tragedienne do Lady
Macbeth.
In adding lady friend to my party
gave up my reserved seat, thinking
could secure one at the door with diff
Guilty. This proved impossible. Every
seat was secured and even standing
room disposed Of /, however, after
seating my party, wandered down and
dropped into chair near group of dis.
tinguished Congressional Shanghais. In
a few minutes John Bull of geHteel ex.
terror approached, and after fumbling in
his pocket to no purpose took seat
near me. He was not permitted to rest
long. In few minutes a party under
direction of the usher demanded his
chair He refused positively to vacate,
asserting that he had paid for his chair.
"Well, sir, you have the number
then2" q
Why, no; you see that blarsted Bit
of paper is gone--cawn't find it, you
know-but reclect very well. "
We'll, sir, this lady is entitled to the
seat and if you don't vacate must cal
the police.
And so the usher left, and John Bull
sat with lady standing before him
Feeling sorry for tine inebriated Bull,
said to him he had better give the lady
her seat, as he would unquestionably be
elected.
Elected blarst it; l shall appeal to
Mr.. Thornton. | don't care, you know;
as it's lady, | invite her, you see, to
take my seat-Merican customs, ehf'
And so, in the most elaborate style, he
invited the female to sit down, which
she did very rapidly. Bull took another
chair and soon was put through the same
process. He appealed to me, threatened
Mr.. Thornton and again vacated. This
continued until | saw him travel along
the row and end by standing in a corner
where he could neither see nor hear. In
this uncomfortable position he stared
and nodded through the performance.
At the end and while | was struggling
to get to my party, having. occupied a
chair all evening to which | was not en-
titled, felt my arm seized, and looking
around was encountered by inebriated
Bull.
"Am under obligations" he said, for
your genelmanly ferance. couldn't
find number you know--got it now
look, will ye, how I've been treated"
4 \ II \
of the check with the number Of his
chair upon it, and to my intense remorse
and amusement l found that had been
occupying the poor fellows place |
did not enlighten him, but on the con-
trary assured him that it was cursed
shame. And sol was.
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Destruction of Henry Clay's Birth
place.

The telegraph briefly mentions the
destruction by FIRE of the house wherein
Henry Clay was born, April II, I'M.
1t was situated on small tract of or
binary land near the old Slash church
in the county of Hanover, about five
miles distant from Ashland. A picture
oft before us, says the Richmond Wing
represents it as an old-fashioned, one
story frame house, with sloping roof Il
has large chimney at either end
which, according to the fashion of the
times in which they were built, have ma
.terial enough in them for three modern
ehimneys. At the end is shed-room
built over the chimney. This shed had
from age, settled and separated from the
main'building, thus leaving gap into
which dry leaves and other combustible
matter had from time to time fallen. A
spark dropping upon them oecasioned
the fire, WHICH resulted in the destruc-
ton of the hunble birthplace of the
great American commoasF.
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The Indian Territory wants to be pro-
NOTED to be the "State of Ocmulgee."
The Colt Company at Hartford are
making 400 Gatling guns for the British
government
Georgia is a prominent Baptist State,
having one hundred and eighteen thou
sand of them reIr. -rr.
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NOTICE..
$1,000 Per Week

Can be made on the quiet By parties Who are
M 10 snuff, without interfering With Other
M0RGaN a co. 5so BroadWay, New
WcrE 6a-eod-ls6
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The wonderful progress we have made
in this country is forcibly illustrated by
a fact stated By the New York Express.
In 1870 the Presidents message was
passed over the ten wires Of the Western
Union Telegraph between Washington
and New York, in little over an hour,
and to Boston in a little more time.
Forty years ago the following feat was
performed on horseback with Presi-
dents message:
The express which brought President
Jackson message was only AZ hours
from New York to New Haven. fhs
rider from Straford to New Haven, l43
miles, performed the distance, with one
horse, in IL minutes From New Haven
TO Hartford, "a piies, in one hour and oil
minutes; from Hartford to Worcester,
60 miles, in three houVs and - mlngiesi
from Worcester TO Boston, 40s miles, ~
two hours and % minutes, being seven
hours and SO minutes from New Haven
to Boston, distance l34 miles, or II hours
and 20 minutes from New York 10 Bos-
ton, distance 2l0 miles.
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Merchandise Bought and Sold.
RAILROAD.
RAILROAD.
PASSENGERS GOING EAST,
Via LOUISVILLE OF CAIRO,
Should purchase tickets by the
ERIE&A7LANTIC& q GREAT WESTERN
RAILW

forming the best and NEST comfortable Line %
NeW York. Boston, and Northern and Atlantic
Gt;ss with maEnifcent Palace Combined Day
and Night Coaches, through to New York
without change. fr 0.eff
Twe lightning Express Trains Daily.
This is the only Line from Cincilhst %
New York under one management; the only
Line from Cincinnati 70 New fork without
break of Gauge; the only siae V nose lrss;ss
run through 10 New York without change the
only Line running coaches through Wltnont
using Corhpromife Wheels; the only Line
running Palace Broad Gauge Coaches through
without change. .t.
IF you desire prompt time and eeTtslh
connections, finest scenery on the Conuneht'
most Comfortable Cars In the world. most mag
nifcent dining halls and ample time tor 9e u,
and the safess. best, and most cesss' - = n
|reute--eo 10 New York by the ERIE A Al
LANTIC K GREAT WESTERN RAiLMAl. /.
Tickets by this Line for sale a. all Ticket
Offices through the South. -
Gen'l Passenger Ag't, n. I.
W.B. SHATTUC,
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DENTISTRY.
DENTISTRY. w W.
Dental Co partnership.
DRS. HINSON & MAYES.

DR. HINSoN HAVING ASSOCIATED
IL with him DR.. Mayes, of Bolivar, Tenn,
who IL n graduate of the Baltimore and Penn
sylyania Colleges Of Dental Surgery, sessions
and winters '5S and 49, takes this method TO
announce to the public, as in the past, SO IN
the future, will be found striving to.excel in
repairinQ the natural teeth and replacing arti-
fcfai with neatness and dispatch. Particular
attention given in the regulation OF teeth ana
diseases Of the gums with ETHEREAL; and Nj
trous Oxide gas being given in the extraction
of teeth, Hypnotics are also used in plugging,
which are harmless and efiicacious to obtund
sensibility. Office and residence, No ZSS
Main street, Memphis, Teun. ~ I2-lZs
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Nearly all the aailies who fed to
Greece during the CretaR iasETection
have now returned to their old homes on
the island
Prairie chickens are so numerous in
Illinois this season that numbers are
tiled By flying against the telegraph
wires.
Cincinnati sras her policeman with
steel nippsrs for seizinE theiT victims
instead Of clubs and revolvers
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GROCERIES.
Goods for the Holidays !


Goods for the Holidays
tfetgM
on N
80 barrels Buckwheat Flour,
80 - Navy Beans,
so HOminy and Grits,
20 packages Dried Frutt, hI
so barrels KrOut,
100 half barrels KrOut, aa
200 boxes Cheese,
500 packages Pigs Feet.
$50 boxes Layer Rhisins, i.+i
ESQ - Figs and CitrOB,
200 kegs Holland Herring, w
600 cases Can Fruits,
so " sSardines,
JUST RECEIVED AT
G. A. ECKERLY'S,
I1gl Cor. Front and Union SITS.
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s PUBLIC LEDGER.
FNHE PUBLIC LEDGER is PUbLlShEp
E.W HITM0R RE,

The PUBLIC LEDGER is served to ok spbseTi; b sr
PER w EEK, payable weekly to the carriers.
BY mail Gin adyancel; one year, sod IL
months. N; three moaths, szi one MONTH
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oa-RssIdsnt Nutics.

No, 1877, N. r; DIN the Second Chancsry
Court OF Shelby county, Tennessee-Car
der, Parish & Malpass ". Mrs 81. Al. sims
Thomas H. Allen, J.. W. DlckfusOU- ri n
Dieklnsons W. W. Williams, arm -OicKfn.
son, Williams & Co,
~ appearing from Dill duly sworn 70 in tbf.
4 cause that the defendant, Mrs. M a. Sinsg
Is q nonresident Of the state of Tennesses
and resident OF the State OF ArEanftas. an
shat she Is indebted TO cOmpIafssantT in ~
sum or SlGl5 2O-l00, due by accOu nt- and thei
an attachment issued from TITS eOurt A.,
tsehlng so much of the estate OF said dessD5.
AMI, sims as was necessary to satfgfv eom.
plalhanIs debt and especially to attach oe-.
Jan beles OF cotton mention ed IN Ire 6fu
when has been returned levied, etc
~ Is therefore ordered, ThEft she MAKE har
appearance herein, at the eourt-ho1sa ~
tne second Chancary C0art OF the ~01nsV
OF sneloy, In the city OF Memphis. Tsn1ee-
see. on or before the first M0ndav II
APan L3.lt ana plead, answer or demUr Ia
SomPiAlhants Dill, or the same viii I9a faher
loL confessed Is TO her and set for hearing
S1Pa5tei andthat a copy Ofthis order be pnbs
HhRea once a week, for tour successive wsskq.
A cOpy-aGtest.
Nd. Z. STEWART, Clerk and plszter.
5yC. Deputy @. RndM
Myers q Wyatt, S0ls. for complu'ts. fsI5
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Atianhmanf Mnfina.

No. l27 A. DIN the Second Circuit Court o
Shelby County, Tenn, II. Pulte VS.. ThOs
r. Parrish.
n this cause an attachment having beer
Il sued ont under section $3.50 Of the Code
and returned INTO court, levied upon the real
estate OF defendant and mdavt having been
made that the defendant, Thomas f. Parrish
Is indebted 20 plalntlM In the sum OF S2S2 I8
with interest from the FIRST day OF November
1910, by balance due plaintiff, and that the
defendant, Thomas #. Parrish, is a nOn-resf.
dent Of the State OF Tennessee;
II p therefore ordered, That he make his
personal appearance herein, before the Judge
of the Second Circuit Court OF Shelby County,
on the third Monday In May nexband defend
sald aI5acnmen5 suit within the time pre-
scrtbed by law, or the same viii be proceeded
with experte, that a copy OF this order
Pc published once a week, Tor four congecu-
uye weeks. in the Memphis Appeal.
Done at office, this 9TH day ofFebruarv. 1871
2. ID. BOYLE, CLERK.
By w. LEWIS WHARTON, Deputy Clerk.
M. Williamson, Lewis & Craig, att'ys for
plaintiff. "a
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Attachment Notice.

Holmes VS.. Rufus Holmes.
A FrACHMEET having been sued out IN
"A the above entitled cause, on the grounds
that the defendant has abscOnded and Is a
nonresident OF the state OF Tennessee, etc [.
and the same having Deen returned by me
proper Oncer levied, etc:
the viii tab noflcs that said
SUIT Is set for trial on the 18Th day OF Feb
Tn9Ty, 1911, at the office OF Tom Holeman, IT.,
}. p Oakv1llel l2th Civil District, shelby
county, ~ 10 O'Clock am when and where
me SAID etendan viii appear aud defend
SAID suit or she same Will be proceeded with
expartei u Is further ordered that this notice
Ae puolshad once g. week, for four weeks, in
the Memphis Daily Appeal. This 2Sth day OF
January, 1871.
fe5 TON HOIRMAN In U
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%NnN.EKPLasIYE COAL OIL.

Editors APpeGI-In your article respect
ing the cause of the fire on b corner oil
Monroe and DeSoto streets, you say 1t was
a coal oil lamp explosion. Upon inquiry
we find it was Allegheny oil, and sold at
234 Main street. All the lamp explosions
that are published result from those hum
bH0 oils made out of the refuse OF coal oil,
viz: benZine, naptha, gasoline, etc, by
compounding a small quantity of sal
soda, cream tartar, etc, with them. Coal
oil Of ITO fire test will not explode in the
lamps now in use.
o. +. PRESCOTT & CO,
Do Main street,
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Attachment Notice.

p. NJ. Robertson vs.. T.. O, Bridgsfortb. Prest.
dent Of Pleasant Hill Building Association,
A TTACHMENT having been issued by me
"A IN the above cause, on the ground tha
the defendant Is q nonresident of tine State
OF Tennessee, so that the ordinary process of
law cannot be served pom him, and the
same having been returned by the prOper Of
ncer, levied, etc.
The defendant viii take notice that this
cause Is set for trial on Monday, the 6th day
OF March lS4li at O'Clock pm, before me, a
Justice of the = eace for Shelby county, at NV
office, in Memphis, 18th Civil District of Shell
BY county, when and whore the defendant
can appear and defend said suit, or the same
VII De proceeded win eXparte; and 10 is fur
ther ordered that this notice be published in
the Daily Appeal Once a week Tor four COM
secutiVe weeks.
fs8 s.. A M0ORE- LnaLlna noaoa-
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GAS FITTING, 3I5 Second street.
BEAUTIFUL SILYER.6REY AND OTHER
SPRING SHADES IN POPLINs,
VERY CHEAP, AT
HERZOG & BROTHERS..
ER q BROTHERlS.

"WHAT have you taken for it91 said
Mrs. Laura Thompson to her friend, Miss
Lake, referring 10 a sick headache with
which the young lady was continually
afflicted. ooh" said Miss l., 1--WE taken
csthartic pills enough to load a eannon.'
Discard them, said her friend, "and try
my medicine, Plantation Bitters. Bile
is the cause Ofyour difficulty; and i kpo,y
by experience the bitters are a ce~tai1
cure for biliOusness."
Miss Lake adopted Mrs ThOmpson's aG-
vice, and was cured within a fortnight.
She is now at the Metropolitan Hotel, and
win confirm this statement.
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Nonresident gotlcs.

No. l5, n. r. DIN the Second Chanesry
Court Of Shelby county, Tennessss-Iulius
Bake VS.. ;. B. Robbins and n. d. Plant.
firm OF 5. b. Robbins q Co,
IT appearing from bin duly sworn to in this
i cause that the defendant, n. b Plant, is a
nonresident Of the state OF Tennessee, and
that he is indebted to complainant by claim
in the sum Of Sl5S6, with interest from jan
uary %, 1870, and that an attachment, issued
from this court, aJtachIng'tha Interests OF the
said defendants, g.. b Robbins and Fl. b.
Plant, In the furniture. fixtures, leasehold,
good will, stores, etc, of the OvertOn Hotel,
Memphis, Tenn, which has been returned
levied, etc :
1t is therefore ordered, That said Plant
make his appearance herein, at the court
house OF the Second Chancery Court OF Shelby
county, in the city of Memphis, Tenn, on or
before the first Monday in March, 1871. II
plead, ansWer or demur to cOmpIaiuant's
bin, or the same VIII be taken for confessed
as to him, and set for hearing eXparte, and
that a copy of this order be published once a
week, for four succs -siye weeks, in the Mem
phis Appeal.
A COpy-Rttsst:
n. D.L. STEWART, Clerk and Master.
By Q. BELCHER, Deputy U. and NJ.
Hanson, Swingley & DashieIl, Soils. for
cOmulafnaut- TO
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EUNIcE TOWN LOTS.

A OPTIONAL lots have been laid on at
~ Eunics and q plat OF the town made. The
lots VIII be sold on reasonable terms for cash.
Persons desiring 10 buy win apply to d. 81.
REYNOLDS, at Lake Village, Chicot county,
Arkansas, who is fully authorized 70 sell and
make deeds 20 lots. Title good.
Eunice Is the permanent terminus OF the
Mississippi, Ouaenita aud Red River railroad,
on the Mississippi river, about sixty miles
below the month Of the Arkansas river.
It has been hxed as the permanent termin-
us by donation OF lands TO the railroad COM
pany and by agi OF the Old railroad
company with the new company that 1t shall
remain the permanent terminus
Eunlce viii be one OF the most Important
towns on tue Mississippfr1Yer between Menu
phis and New Orleans.
The Mississippi. OuaehitR and Red River
railroad, when completed VIII drain South
ern Arkansas, Northeastern Texas, and the
southern part Of the Indian Territory. 1t Is
now completed across the Mississippi river
bottom 70 Drew county, and Is being pushed
rapidly westward.
GEO. b. MAOKLlN, sarv. Ezr,
feS and Trustee sstste OF A. W. Mapklin.