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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06

A. H. STEPHENS is sometimes called
an aristocrat but here is a picture Of his
household: Mr.. Stephens could not but
be entertaining. The colored children
Of his household servants come aud 60
at will, squat on the floor, play with the
dog. or stand before the fire and stare to
their hearts content, take part in con-
versation whenever they desire, being
humored in everything by their much
loved master. In his bachelor life his
servants are his family; and their welfare
has always been a source of anxiety and
comfort to him. So writes Radical
visitor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06
NOTICE.
M4yoA's oBgIeE. CRY HAUL 4

MAYORS 0BFIcE. Cry Hall,
MENPHIs, TESN.. April 10, II. ]
nHE INTEREST UPON THE GOLD BONDS
4 Of the City Of Memphis will be paid In
gold on Monday. the 1st Of May, ISL. upon
presentation Of the proper coupons at the
ofics OF = = NJ. Myers & Co.. No. q Pine street.
New York city. and also at the Office Of the
City Comptroller. City Hall, Exchange Build
ing, Memphis, Tennessee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06

FREE LUNCH at Eureka saloon, $50
Second street, tonight. invite all
friends and the public in general to at
tend. A. KAUFMAN.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06
NOTICES..
ODD FELLOWS
MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION

DRETHREN OF THE ORDER WHO DE-
ID sire 10 become members Of the Associa-
ton, will give their names 10 the Secretary. at
members are requested 10 meet in the Lodge
room next SATURDAY EVENING. 9th inst,
at o'clock. for permanent examination.
1858 j. p. PRESCOTT. Secretary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06

IT is said that a bill is about to be in
troduced into the British Parliament for
the purpose oflegalizing marriages for a
limited period of time with a view Of
testing whether the parties are satisfied
with each other. This ought to please
the most advanced Of free-lovers. By
limiting the probation TO six months, a
pleasing variety might be kept mp If sat
isiaction was not given.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06

FoRYEY sticks to Grant like plaster.
The night after the election in Washing
ton he made a speech to crowd of dar-
kies and department clerks, eulogizing
Ulysses magniloquently, and nominal
ing him as the Radical Presidential can
didate in 1872. Forney was rather luke
warm toward Grant few weeks ago,
but since he was made Collector Of the
Port at Philadelphia he has become a
different man. he is now as deyout a
worshipper Of the White House idol as
Morton himself, and no doubt he will
bow before it with the most unAinching
perseverance until he becomes satisfied
that the people won't let it stay there
any longer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06

A FEDERAL JUDGE in Idaho has come
to grief by a wag writing in his name a
letter Of resignation to the President,
who at once filed his place. The vic
tim of the hoax has gone to Washington
IN saek relief
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06
THE ERA OF BLOOD.

1t is curious how important events
seem to happen in clusters and in quick
succession. For instance, We have at
one time a series of steamboat and rail-
road disasters, all occurring almost ST.
multaneously. Then we have an cpl
demic of fires. Then comes formida-
BILE list of tornadoes and accidents by
food. The coincidence of these events
has long ago attracted the attention Of
even the most careless observer. Why
it is so under the laws that govern the
economy Of nature no one can tell.
Just at present the demon Of murder
seems to hold high carnival all over the
Union. We scarcely open a paper that
does not record more or less homicides.
The telegraph is busy with noticing the
more important of them. Not for years
has so much crime been committed in a
short space of time as within the last
two or three weeks. What is the matter
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06
TRAVEL.
MEMPHIS. Aprll Pc. 1s71.


MEMPHIS, April 26, 1871.
The break in the Jackson Railroad
makes difference Of two hours only
i'm time of arrival at New Orleans.
The mail train leaving Memphis at
1890 pm. arrives at Pass Manchac
at o AM, and passengers then take
boat for New Orleans, giving them
delightful trip across the beautiful
Lake POnchartrain. Returning the
boat leaves New Orleans two hours
earlier, so that trains leave Pass
Manclac on time.
JAS. YONGE, Gen'l Sup't.
C. p. Oakley, g. T. A. sol
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06
LATEST TTEELEGRAMS.


AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. VIA 8. P. 4 A.
TELRGRAPH COMPANY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06
PROPOSALS.
To Contractors.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-
- esived By the undersigned for the erection
the corner Of Market and Third streets. plans
and specih 'ations can be seen az the Office OF
Jones q Baldwin architects, Kit Williams
Block. Bids q be left with the Secretary OF
ne Board Of Education, az the Odd Fell0ws'
o'clock noon. The committee reserve the
right 70 reject any or all Of the bids.
G. S. FENNER,
N. j. WIGGIN
+. j. MANSFORD.
oJ-oS Building Committee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-06
CALL.
FOR SALE.
A Rare Chance.

/ WILL SELL A ONE-HALF INTEREST
Il in my Billiard Hall, No. 81 Adams street.
10 party undcrstandingth the business. at n low
price and on easy terms, II applied for soon.
52-t j. n. WfLLBrT.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12
Lotteries.

The delusive chance of getting some
thing for nothing, seems always a greater
incentive to exertion than the certainty of
fair equivalent for fair value. Though the
lottery, pure and simple, was long since
abolished by law in all, or nearly all the
States, more gambling of a popular and
specious kind is going on to-day than ever
Before. Go right into our most refined
and moral communities and advertise some
sort of worthless public entertainment
negr minstrels, slight of-hand feat. no
matter what-and append promise to dis
tribute among the audience bushel of
cheap jewelry or a lot of fancy goods, and
you will be sure of a crowded hall, when
perhaps first-class lecture, or really val
liable entertainment Of any kind would fail
of enough patronage to pay for room and
lights.
Put two cents worth of candy into a
twenty-five cent package, and proclaim
prize in each package, and in few hours
you may sell enough to sicken a whole
township. Get up worthless publication
daily, weekly, monthly. no matter which
and offer to all subscribers mammoth
steel engraving of the death-bed of some
body or other. or promise piano to every
thousanth name added to your list, and you
will obtain an amount of patronage that a
really valuable periodical might toll for in
vain.
But all this is gambling. and gambling
of very mean kind, for it is an attempt
to get something for nothing, and yet to
quiet the conscience by such poor shift
as substituting the word scheme or gift"
for the true word-lOttcry.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12
Remarkable Discovery.

The Newark advertiser says: ''Solnc in
terest has been created in Sussex county
during the excavation for the Midland
railroad by the discovery of some relics
of former times in the form of two silver
Masonic badges. ornamented with square
and compass, moon and sun, in accordance
with the Masonic emblems of the present
day, which we're found FIVE feet below
the hard earth excavations of the Midland
railroad. How the badges ever got there
is a mystery, as no human remains were
connected with them, and the soil is a
compact slate. Mr., Victor NJ. Drake. of
the Newton Herald, says that it is we'll
known that Masonic emblems were worn
both by the pioneers and Indians of the
country as a means of self-preservatiOn
against the incursion of tories and robbers,
who, in early settlement of the country,
held almost undisputed sway on both sides
of the State line. The fact is well estab-
lished that as early as 177G Major Wood,
of Goshen, who was in command at the
Minisink battle, fought opposite the Lacka-
waxen, when, being OverpOwered by the
Indians and takens prisoner, saved his life
by signaling Brandt with the grand hail
sng Masonic sign of distress and Masonic
badges were in general use at the time,
both in the Delaware and Susquehanna
valleys, as one of the means of protection
against the bloody Indian incursions to
which the frontier settlements were at
that time table,"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12
For the Herald and Tribune
THE DYING YEAR.

With hoary locks visage grim, Time.
the skillful weaver of the sepulchral robes
OF buried centuries. is .reading with quick
and noiseless step, up to the couch of the
dying year. finishing, with his mystic
touch, its shroud of alternate folds of light
and shade of crimson and of gold.
List upon the midnight air comes its
death-knell. Gone to lie amid the relics
of its predecessors. with all the ashes of
our pains, leaving some sweet memories
that come stealing through the soul like
angel whisperings from the spirit-land, and
seem to mock our sense of Earth's vain
and unsatisfying joys and lead the soul to
worship. Gone with record, true and
faithful, of all impcrfections of every hu-
man heart. freighted with souls mounting
either upward to realms of eternal light,
or descending to the regions of une1ding
night. Gone with whirlwind resting in
its bosom, with the record of nation its
altar dripping with blood and Gods holy
altar wet with tears. Gone to rest until
the great day of reckoning comes. then to
a separate feature of the Infinite scheme.
that the Sovereign Ruler of heaven and
earth devised to reveal and prove an Om-
nipotent Being.
Hail happy New Year! We gladly
welcome and fain would hope that thou
art born with a leaf in thy hand plucked
by the radiant and white-robed angel
Peace-from the tree of life. to enshrine
in the temple of the everything God.
SJc%A
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

Continues to attend to Claims. especi-
ally those growing out of the late war.
before the several Departments and
Courts of the United States; Pensions
due Soldiers, Officers of every grade.
Seamen and Marines, and the Widows.
Children and hcirs-at-law of those who
have been killed or died from wounds or
sickness contracted in the service; Re-
cruiting and Quarterniasters' Claims ;
Claims for Steamboats,, AID craft of all
description. used. rented, or destroyed
nv Government; Horses, Cattle, Fodder.
Corn. and all kinds of property taken for
Government purposes IN the Northern
ana Southern States; Mail Contractors
Claims and the Claims of late Post Mas
tiers, North and South.
Claims for property seized by the
Frcedmen's Bureau Treasury Agents.
and for the recovery of abandoned prop
crty. promptly attended to.
Particular attention given to Claims
for Il Refund OF Internal Revenue Tax
and Customs Duties erroneOusiy assessed
and paid. Railroad accounts and Claims
OH Foreign Governments.
Bounty and Bounty Land obtained un-
der all existing laws, and laws that may
hereafter be made.
Claims before the Departments. Con-
gress. Court of Claims, and Supreme
Court, i'm the hands of distant attorneys.
requiring the service OF al, agent IN wash
inSton. are requested. and VIII be ener-
getically prosecuted OH the most liberal
FERNS.
Suspended cases, Of whatever nature,
whether of long standing or recent date.
are solicited; also. pensions, suspended
by reas on of the late war, revived in the
several States.
Our long residence at the seat of Gov
ernment. Familiarity with the offices. and
thorough daily practical experience in all
the Departments, well qualify us for the
prompt and energetic discharge Of all
business placed in our hands.
REFERENCES Hon. Eugene Cassady,
l.. =. Senate: Hon. >. Il. Chase. Chief
Justice. u. -; Gen. W. Il. Sherman. L.
:. A. Hon. IL. NJ. McGill. late Gov. !;
W. T.. Olympia Hon. Jno. sherman. l..
=. Senator. Ohio {; Hon. :. {. Pomcroy.
L. =. Senator. Kansas {; Hon. w. ID.
Strokes, VI. c.; Judge q. W. Clinton.
Buffalo. n. y; +. y. Griffith. ESD.
JOnesbOro.
Attorneys ut Law and Agents through
ont the country who desire to form an ell
ergetic Branch Agency ut Washington,
which will be of mutual benefit are re-
uuested to forward business. Detailed in
formation. advice. instruction.. and all
necessary form. for every claim furnished
to correspondents. Terms moderate. Adj
dress CHAS. +. MCGILL. L. o. Box
639 Washington. ID. Z. Office and resi-
dence 9th street cor. r.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

A gentleman in London recently resist
ed the payment Of u bill for goods which
his wife had purchased without his au-
thorit.y he resisted payment chiefly on
the ground that the articles purclmS-
ed were luxnrics. not within the ordina-
ry scope of the duties Of wife, and not
necessary to her station in life. Ainong
these were gold pencil case, "A guitar
ard a double scent bottle. The judge,
before whom the shopkecper brought
suit for payment, decided the articles nam
ed to be unnecessary. In his mind
they were uselsss luxurics to the woman
who had contracted for their purchase. hc
gave it ~ his fiat that the ''law is not
bound to render any assistance to the grow
ing luxury and degencracy Of the age"
ard the husband, in obedience TO the de-
cision, kept his money in his pocket.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12
singular Fulnlment OF n Dream.

An old negro woman. one of the an
cient regime, living in Il family on upper
Curch street, and who lives in a very old
kitchen adjoining the residence, dreamed
for several nights in succession few weeks
ago of finding concealed treasure about
the house. She paid no especial attention
to the dreams, but did not speak of them
TO any one.
During the present week the dream was
repeated, and more vividly than before.
On Thursday she was sitting before the
fire smoking, when the dream occurred to
her mind, and she determined TO search
for the treasure. Taxing up several loose
bricks in tine hearth, she commenced dig
ging in the earth beneath, and in "a few
moments she was rewarded by finding u
very much decayed' wooden box. On
taking this up she found that il contained
u quantity of paper money. supposed to be
some of the old .'Continental' currency,
a gold watch. the works of which had been
destroyed by rust, and number of gold
and silver coins of English and Spanish
money.
The paper was almost destroyed, the
writing and printing being illegible, but
the coins were in an excellent state of
preservation. This is given TO us as IL
fact, and if true is one of the most singu-
lar events of which we have ever written.
We leave to spiritualists and believers in
supernatural agencies to solve the conuec-
tion between the dreams and the finding
of the treasure. As there can be no liv-
ing claimant for the watch and money,
the latter which is said to be worth several
hundred dollars, the old woman will re-
main as the legatee Of the one who earth
ed his treasure.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12
How a Texas Woman Persuaded
Her Husband to go Home.

A correspondent of the Denton Monitor
says handsome, dashing woman rode into
a village in that region few days ago and
alighting from her horse, went rapidly to
a drinking saloon where number of ''sov-
ereigns'' were having "high time She
singled out the finest looking man in the
crowd, and, walking up to him, seized him
by the arm and ordered him to put down
the glass he was about to drain. He DASH
ed down the glass and rushed away the
lady followed, and finally cornered him in
the billiard-room. She told him in firm
determined voice that the place he was in
and course he was pursuing would not an
swer for her husband that he was vast
ING her property. and that she would no
longer consent to be disgraced and impov-
erished by him. She demanded his pis-
tol He refused. She took it from him,
cooked it and presented it at him and told
him he must leave or die He concluded
to leave. She marched him ont as prls-
oner of war to where his horse w. S hitch
ed. ordered him to mount. and III few
minutes the two were leaving town, the
wife riding in rear of her captured lord
with his six shooter in her hand.
If more of the wives of drunken hus-
bands would act with like determination,
the evil would be abated.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12


A correspondent of the Geneva Costrie,
relates the following story of the Kate
Morgan, the little steamer which for more
than generation has piled on Cayuga
Lake, her owners obeying the behest OF
the FIRST proprietor. to "run her till she
busts -
Before the Chancellor Livingstone stem
med the current of the Hudson, yet after
the little Clermont had stirred the quiet
waters of the Collect Pond, the whistle OF
the Kate Morgan awoke the echoes in the
Taugh,nic Glen, and paddlewheel dashed
the spray upon Cayuga bridge. There is
bit Of romance attaching to her name
and building.
Old General Morgan, of Revolutionary
fame, haG noble estate on the eastern
bank of the lake, not far from where the
present Wells College Low stands. BE.
tween his only daughter, a lovely girl Of
eighteen, and young Fulton, had long ex-
listed tender attachment, which. however.
the poverty and obscurity of Robert led
the General to severely frown upon. Full
ton went to New York. He labored long
years in perfecting his invention; his day
of triumph came. and then he wrote to the
stern father, relating his success and ask
ing for the daughters hand.
Nay" wrote back the incredulous old
soldier. I'll believe what see with my
own eyes. Come you back. scapegrace, to
my own door and then, and not till then,
shall you have my daughter Kate"
Need say that Fulton came ioyfully
back, that steamer was built as rapidly as
circumstances would permit, that she was
launched, and in due time did sail trium-
phantly past the Generals door? But let
me add that, according to an express stipu-
lation made by the sly Robert in case he
succeeded, when the Kate Morgan sheered
in towards the Generals dock. small boat
was seen pushing out, containing the origi-
nal Kate, her grim father, and Il gentleman
in clerical vestments. They were soon on
board. and there, amid the waving of flags.
the ringing of bells, and the blowing of
whistles, the proud inventor ami his proud
eI bride were made one. n glorious sweep
up and down the lake completed the first
bridal trip by steam ever known in this
country.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12
The Oskaloosa Hoxal Hcrald saws |:

The Oskaloosa (Iowa) Herald says:--
.Last Sunday q. r. Gaskill, the Postmas-
ter at White Oak, went to John N. Kiss
mans for dinner. He had $500 in green
backs, and lot of postage stamps in the
house, and before going, at the suggestion
of bis wife he took the tin box containing
them, to put it in place of safety, and
finally selected the oven of the cooking
stove. spending the day at the neigh
bor's they returned home, built up fire
in the stove to get supper, and. after awhile
smelling something burning. they opened
the oven door to find their $500 a mass of
ashes. and the stamps so badly burned us
to render them worthless
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12
A Prophecy Fulfilled.

The London correspondent of the Chi
cago Journal writes: Noticing refer
ence to prediction by an ancient French
prophet, said to be found in a work by
Chevalier de Chatelain published some
years ago, have taken the trouble to
consult it to-day. The particular predic-
tion referred to is in these words: "When
the second empire shall have been es-
tablaished at Paris. it will last for eigh-
teen years, less one quarter; not single
day longer" Mark the single fulfill
ment. Louis Napoleon claimed supreme
power, though not Jet the title of En-
peror. on the I'd day of December. 1852,
and on the I'd of December, 1870, ex-
actly eighteen years, less one quarter,
not a day longer" he was prisoner of
war, and his dynasty at an end. This is
one of the most remarkable condolences
on record. for the prophecy has not been
cooked up for the occasion, but was
printed in black and white years ago.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

THE yicksburg Heraid announces that
Colonel +. NJ. Yerger isat present sojoprn-
ing in tuat city. with the view Of re-cstab-
fishing the Daily MississiIqton: The
New ORGANS Rep,ttlicm says This is
the same 4. Nj. Yerger who cut Colonel
Crane. of the United States army, to pieces,
in jackson, about year ago. His pres
ent intentions conc lusively show that he
expects no punishment for his crime.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

A JUDGE being challenged BY Sena-
tor. the following dialogue ensued Sena-
tor" Did you receive my note, sir"
Judge" Yes, sir" Well, do you in-
tend to fight me" No, SIR" l consider
you a pitiful coward" fright, sir; you
knew that well or you never would have
challenged me"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

A man out West, hearing that dry cop
peras. put in 4 bed of aunts would cause
them to leave, put soure in the bed of his
mothers sister. She dedn't go, and he
saws the thing is a darned humbug.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

A ROASTING young fellow having joined
without invitation a party dining at
restaurant, and indulgeg as usual in his
egotism, one of his party said to him
"You have told us enough of what you
can do; now tell us something that you
can't do" Faith, said he, z" that's easy
enough can't pay my share Of the bill.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

Az old maid, being asked to subscribe
for newspaper, refused. ssyinr she aways
made her own news. Wt Hk et
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

You may scratch your head over any
thing puzzling. but for other purposes 1t
is suspicious.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

AMONG the ancient Germans it was
death for a woman to marry before she was
twenty pears DID, BY the laws of Lycur-
gus the most particular attention was paid
to the physical education. and no delicate
or sick women were permitted ever to
marry
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-01-12

4 DOWN caster advertises for n wife in
the following manner: ANY gal what's
got a COW, a good feather bed with comfort
able fxings, $500 in hard pewter-one
that's had the measels and understands
tending children-can find customer for
life by writing a small billy dux, ad-
dressed TO Q. H.. and stickin' it in crack
of Uncle Ebenczer's barn, back side, jinin'
the hog pen.