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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-28
A FLAG OF TRUCE
From the New York Herald.

and personal meeting with Gen. German,
the commander-in-chief. This proposition
was duly considered; but as there was moth
ing to be feared from meeting with Low
rey it was agreed to, on the terms and con
ditions mentioned by Lowrey. Accordingly,
at the stated time, Gen. German repaired
to the appointed rendezvous, where, pune
tual to the moment, he met the noted chief
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-28

Campaign Of State and National
Troops Against the Lowreys-Its Ut
d. ter Failure-The Troops withdrawn
The Gang Propose .sTreaty of
j Eeace''-DescriptiOn OF the outlaws.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-28
- Read the following from a reliable Drug

sS-Which makes it more than Cough Remedy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-10-28

Many human being has passed away for whose
death there was no other reason than the neglect OF
known and indispUtably proven means OF cure.
Those near and dear to family and friends are
sleeping the dreamless slumber into which, had
they calmly adOuted
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-03

When we acknowledge that drunken
ness is a disease, let us not forget that it
is also a sin. No man is forced to be-
come a drunkard; he drinks to excess
with his eyes open, with his hands free,
with his conscience upbraiding him, un-
til he browns it in the bowl. He volun-
tarily surrenders his reason, his taste,
his judgment, his health, his character
and his conscience on the altar of appe-
tite; is not that sin2 He knows that
his habits of indulgence will unfit him
for the duties Of child, husband, parent
and citizen, and while they deaden the
faculties which should elevate him above
the dumb beast they intensity and
quicken all the animal and brutal in
stincts Of degraded humanity; and is not
that a sin2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-03
The influence of Pretty women.

Life becomes more harmonious, it
beats with keener pulse Of enjoyment,
in the presence of pretty women. After
all, charming little figure, piquant
little face, is the best remedy for half
the ills OF existence, its worries, its vex-
ations, its dullness, its disappointments.
And even the larger and more placid
types of beauty in the beauty of Lady
Dumbello, if there is tinge of stupidity,
there is, at any rate, an atmosphere of
repose, a genial influence moulding our
social converse and habits into gentler
shapes.
Ii is amusing to see how the prettiness
of woman tells on her dress, how the or
der and propriety of her dress tells on
her home. The pursuit of beauty, the
habit Of prettiness, give an ideal dignity
to the very arrangement OF her bonnet
strings. In every movement in the very
sweep of her ample folds, in the pose of
her ianguor, in the gay start o. her ex-
citement, one feels the softening, har-
monizing influence of her last look in
the glass. She may be gay or sorrowful,
quiet or energetic, but she must be pretty.
Beauty exercises an imperceptible COM
pulsion over her, which moulds her
whole life into graceful and harmonious
forms. Her dress rises out of the mere
clothing of man into regions of science,
of poetry, Of art A thousand consider
ations of taste, harmonies of color, con-
trasts, correspondence, adjustments of
light and shade, dictate the choice of q
shawl or tint Of glove.
And as prettiness tells on dress, It
tells on home. Flowers, pictures, the
CAV notes of sonata, the coziest of
couehes, gorgeous hues Of Indian tapes
try. glass works of Murano, a hundred
exquisite something's and nothings, are
the natural setting of pretty women.
The art of the boudoir tells on all but
the chaos off the husband study. Around
that last refuge of barbarism floats an
atmosphere of taste and refinement in
which the pretty wife lives and moves
and has her being. And from this tone
of home grows the tone Of society, the
social laws of good humor, of proprieiy,
Of consideration for others, of gentle
meas. of vivacity The very rush of the
rough tones that have Numbered over
peloponas as Pericles bends over Aspa-
sia the little turns and delicacles OF
nbrase. the Joyous serfdoms and idleness
af the msnliness and most energetic Of
men. tells of the triumph of pretty
women.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-03

From Our Girls, by Dion Lewis.
The dress of French peasant tells
you at once of his place in society.
Throughout Europe the dress may be
taken as the exponent of the wearer S
position. This is as true of women as
of men. For good reasons, the language
of dress is not so definite and explicit
in America. But even here we may
judge very correctly, in most cases, by
the every day dress, of the position Of
the wearer, The social character and
relations of women, as class, in any
coantry, may be clearly inferred from
certain peculiarities in their dress. For
example, we are in Constantinople. If
in a moment, we could be set down in
that city, and not know where we were,
would any of US doubt the language of
that veil over woman's face2 Would
anybody suppose her to be a citizen2
Would anybody suppose she belonged to
herselfp Leaving Constantinople, let
us visit an old-time fashionable social
gathering in Vienna. Women entg
the ball room. They are dressed in
gauze so thin that you can see their
skins all over their persons. Would any
OIL us mistake the language OF that
kind of dress? Would any of us be in
doubt of their relation to men? Come
to America to-day. We attend social
gathering. Women appear with their
vital organs squeezed down to one-half
the natural size, their arms and busts
naked, while their trails are so long that
whenever they turn round they are
obliged to use their hands to push them
out of the way AS we all comprehend
at glance the meaning of the wells in
Constantinople and the nudity of the
women in Vienna, so we all infer the po-
sition of woman in America from these
peouliarities of her dress ! read thus:
The compressed vital organs and the en-
numbered feet mean that women are de-
pendent and helpless. Having but little
use for breath and locomotion, by a law
of nature, they cramp the instruments of
breath and locomotion, while the nudity
of the arms and bust signifies slavery
to mans passions. No one supposes
that when woman becomes n citizen and
mans equal she will compress her lungs,
fetter her legs, or appeal to his passions
by any immediate exposure of her per
con I.H...
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by any means, must pronounce without
taste, without reason, and in every sense
such an unmitigated offense against
civilization as to merit the epithet BAR
barous. We can stand the posterior
promontory, the shoes with heels in the
center, so that, indeed the hollow Of
the foot makes hole in the ground"
and the waving and switch movement Of
the body, and that brave swing of the
arms which ever prompts to military
this and more we can stand;
but the head-gear of the day we are
compelled to cry out against as un-
bearable.
Yet we only now put in plea for our
dear little friends under twelve. OH
take the haystacks from their heads and
shoulders 1t is crying wrong done to
them.
Now, sweet sixteen has notions Of her
own, and we may say will of her own.
Besides, she is candidate, and has a
right in some sort to fix up her own
platform; and while she does, in our
opinion, greatly mar her form by this
days head-gear, she is not exactly under
her mas control, and If she damages
her prospects she must take the conse-
quences Therefore we venture only to
give this bit of advice-for we love them
all-and that is to free their gay heads
from the abominable burdens which must
be as uncomfortable and unhealthy as
they are ungainly and shocking to good
taste. But mind you, fair young friends,
whose friendship and good opinion the
would not lose, hardly for the
world itself, we assume no authority but
in humble attitude we supplicate the
queens of love and beauty to make them
selves more beautiful by little indie
pendence in this matterl
With reference to our dear little girls,
for them we would head an insurrection.
Their heads are not so near the grave
hat their hair should be dead.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-03
Good Advice to Dyspeptics.

The Boston Journal of Chemistry
says;
If man wishes to get rid of dyspep-
sia he must give his stomach and brains
less to do. 1t will be of no service to
him to follow any particular regimen
to live on chaff bread, or any such stuff
Ito weigh his food, ETC., so long as the
brain is in a constant state of excite
ment.
But if he passes fourteen or fifteen
hours day in his Office or counting
room, and takes no exercise, his stomach
will inevitably become paralyzed, and if
he puts nothing into it but cracker a
day, it will not digest it.
In many cases it is the brain that is
the primary cause. Give that delicate
organ some rest. Leave your business
behind you when you go to your home.
Do not sit down to your dinner with your
brows knit and your mind absorbed in
casting up interest on accounts.
Never abridge the usual hours of sleep.
Take more or less exercise In the open
air every day. Allow yourself some in
noeent recreation. Eat moderately,
slowly, and of what you please-provided
it be not the shovel and tongs. If any
particular dish disagrees with you, how
ever, never touch it or look at it. Do
not imagine that you must live on rye
bread or oatmeal porridge; a reasonable
quantity Of nutritious food is essential
to the mind as well as the body. Above
all, Danish all thoughts Of the subject.
IL you have any treatises on dyspep-
sia, domestic medicine, etc, put them
directly into the fire. If you constantly
talk and think about dyspepsia, you will
surely have it.
Endeavor to forget that you have
Keep a clear conscience; live
regularly, cleanly; be in
dustrious, too, but be temperate.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-03
LIttIeGfrls.
From the Richmond Dispatch.l

From the Richmond Dispatch.l
We love the little girls-those sweet
buds ofwomanhood from seven to eleven.
We often wish that they could never grow
older, and that their bright happy faces
could never bear the traces of the sor-
rows, disappointments, and cares Of this
world. Holding these sentiments, We
cannot withhold the expression of our
complaint against Fashion for dressing
up the heads of so many Of these terres-
trial angels in the artificial mimiery Of
hair-a miserable Imitation, which, to-
rether with their own naturally soft and
glossy ringlets, is made to appear crisp
and dead as though it had been roasted
in the fire. What an abominationl
First the natural hair of the innocents
seems to have been wound around a
poker as hot as it could be not to set the
hair in a flame. and then over that is
placed the coarse imitation, dead and
lustreless.
We have been an humble victim, an
amiable acquiescent in fashion-seldom
daring to find fault with what we always
know the world--and what's more i'm
portant, the ladies-will assuredly adopt.
But we cannot submit tamely to this out
rage on innocence, beauty, grace and
health. We will at least protest; and
we beg mothers, as they prize these
graces, to save these tender and sweet
charges Of theirs from this daily mon
strosity. They are so gentle, and, like
infants, it is seldom that they can be I'M
graceful if they try. They are full Of
health, and that precious oil distilled by
health that penetrates the tubes Of their
ringlets and gives them their charming
rlossiness should not be burned and
deadened to please fashion. To see one
Of these innocents, with beaming face
and rosy cheeks, with a mountain Of sun
dried or kiln-dried hay fastened lumpily
with pins, like butchers skewers, be
meath their bonnets, is indeed an abomi-
nation.
The whole matter Of this huge burden
of wool. and fax and old rags, or lint, or
tow. and tree-bark ana dead hair, that
fashion piles upon young people
heads-nay, and not a few Of the old
ones, toO-we, although not fastidious
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-03
Too much Confidence.

A Galveston young man has lost taith
in human nature worse than urant diu;
He courted girl over two weeks and
her parents said they wouldn't permit
any such thing, so the young people con-
cluded to elope. He got a young man,
a friend of his, to take the girl to New
Orleans, where he would meet them and
marry the girl, and 60 somewhere and
enjoy life sensible. The young proxy
took the girl all right. but before the ssl-
low that did the courting arrived be Lad
married her and gone to keeping house.
The deceived chap says you wont catch
him courting up another girl Tor some
one else, not If he knows 1t.
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Trust sale.

-
DY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED TO ME
ID executed, and recorded in the Registers s
Office of Shelby county on Sd Of November
1863, in book 70, page liS, ETC., will sell 70
the highest bidder. for cash, to carry out me
provisions Of said Trust Deed, the following
real estate conveyed 10 me therein. tO-wit A
certain tract or parcel of land in Shelby
county. Tennessee. in the Buntyn tract, on
Memphis and Charleston railroad. near Bun-
tyn station beginning at the point Of north;
west intersection Of GO0dwyn and Midland
avenues; thence north. with west boundary
ofGOodwyn avenue, eleven chains and ninety
four links; thence west eight chains ana
twenty links; thence south eleven chains and
ninety-four links; thence east eight chains
and twenty links; containing 3 ls-lOO acres
more or less. Sale on
Monday, 22d OF May,
At the Real Estate Exchange Of Royster.
Trezevant < Co.. northeast corner of Main
and Jefferson streets, Memphis, between 10
o'clock am. and o'clock m. Title believed
to be perfect, hut sell and convey only as
Trustee. JOHN p. TREzEVANT,
Trustee.
RorsrER. TREzEvAST 4 Co.. AuetiOneers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-03

BURNETT's COOKING EXTRACTS are the
best. Sold by all frst-class druggists
and grocers.
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J. E. SPENCER & CO., NEW YORK,
MOST PERFECT,

MOSH RGISE'GC1's
Natural, Artificial help to the human eye ever
known. They are ground under thei- own su-
peryision. from minute Crystal Pebbles
Diamond" on account of their hardness
and brilliancy. The SCIENTIFIC PRINCE
PIE on which they are constructed brings the
the eye, producing clear and distinct vision,
as in the natural. healthy sight, and prevent
ing all unpleasant sensations, such as glim-
mering and wavering of sight, dizziness, etc.,
peculiar to all others in use: They are mounted
in the finest manner, in frames of the best
quality, of all materials used for that purpose.
Their finish and durability cannot be sur
passed.
CAuIIoS, : none genuine unless bearing
EE- W. @. BYRD, Jeweler and 0ptician, is
sole agent for Memphis, Tenn, from whom
they can only be obtained. These goods are
not supplied to peddlers, at any price;
10 aoA -1l-1Q
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II H II M =

The terms are liberal: 0ns-third cash; bal
ance in one and two years. with six per cent.
interest; and the chain of TITLE short. sim
pie and perfect.
RoYsTER. IRRELEVANT & CO..
Auctioneers.
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ORLEANS AND GEORGIA SITS.

WE GIVE NOTICE THAT WE SHALL.
by direction of F. W. SMITH. ESQ.,. con-
tinue the PEREMPToKY PUBLIC SALE of
LOTS lying between
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26
A Smart Feline.

Thomas cats are generally not cele-
bratcd for their talents, except in the
musical line, but there is one owned
Just at the edge of certain city, who
makes himself agreeable in a way not
often adopted by his kind. He has
long had habit of following mem
bers of the family in which he resides
into the city, and we have it from one
of the gentlemen that his right arm
has been elongated three inches
within the past year, by his constant
throwing Of stones to drive back the
eat; notwithstanding which treatment
he generally finds pussy awaiting him
on the road home, when he Is going
sowards it late at night, and frequent
" a half mile or more from Tho
house, to which Thomas always returns
with the last one Of the family a
home" positively refusing to enter thu
door until the last one is housed. he
Gently the gentleman turned his hoci
of hens out to grass in his own do
main; but, as is the custom with hens
they prefer to 60 into ne'ghbor
field. The eat, having seen the raid
ing hens driven from the field several
,;mos by their owner has at length
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26

"What is your business ?" said the
magistrate at police court the other
morning to prisoner.
"I'm an observationist, your wor-
ship"
"An observationist what is that ?''
"One who looks around in day time
to see what he can steal at night, if il
pleases your worship"
1t did not please his worship, and
so he sent the observationist to the
penitentiary for SIXTY days.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26

A doctor recently settled in Havana,
ILL.,, and the first case he had was a
boy, who, while Smelling pop-cord, got
a kernel in his wind pipe. The doc
tor examined the case carefully, look
ed at the patients tongue, and then
told the father Of the boy to build up
hot fire. When that was done the
doctor told them to take the boy and
hold him over the fire until the kernel
got hot enough to "pop out" The
old man went up stairs and got hi'
shot gun, but while he was loading il
the doctor escaped.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26

Out in Ohio rs,es-rig tvgnty Zap
fist clergymen, Eko we're ISsend-ng
convention, went down % secluded
spot on the river, in the Afternoon for
the purpose of taking 4 swim Ials
score Of brethren removed their e!cth-
ing and placed them upon the railroad
track close at hand, because the grass
was wet. Then they entered the wa
ter and enjoyed themselves. Present
" an express train came round the
curve at the rate of forty miles an
hour, and before any of the swimmers
could reach dry land, all their under.
shirts, socks and things were futter.
ing from the cow-catcher, and speed
ing on toward Kansas. 1t was pain
full for the brethren, exceedingly pain
ful,-because all the clothing thai
could be found, after careful search
was a sun umbrella and pair of eye
glasses. And they do say that whel
those twenty marched home by the re
fulgent light of the moon that even
ing, in single file, and keeping clos
together, the most familiar acquaint
ance with the Zouave drill, ON tn
part OF the man at the head with tn
umbrella, still hardly sufficient to Gov
or them completely. They said the
felt conspicuous, some how and tn
situation was all the more embarrass
ing because all the Dorcas societie
and the woman's rights conventions
and the pupil. at the female boardin
school seemed to be prancing aroun
and running across the route of tn
parade. Most of the brethren ar
now down on immersion, and altogeth
or in favor of the water only in sprinkl
ing.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26

HYpRoPHoBIA.-A German forest
keeper, eighty years old, not wishing
to carry to the grave an important Sc
cret, has published in the Lepsip Jour
nal, recipe he has used for fly years,
and which, he says, has saved several
men and a number of animals from d
horrid death by hydrophobia. The
bite must be bathed as soon as posi-.
bic with warm vinegar and water, and
when this has dried, a few drops OF
muriatic acid poured upon the wound
will destroy the poison Of the saliva
and relieve the patient from all pres
ent and future danger.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26

A young lady was entertaining
some friends the other evening, when
one said, miss =, your braid is COM,
ing off," She clapped her hands to
her head and found nothing unslipped.
The gentleman quietly pointed to the
braid Of her dress, about half a yard
of which had been torn off and was
living on the floor. There was an au-
dible smile,
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-26
! Thrilling Incid emf.

world of fiction hardly contains
thrilling chapter than an Incl
lich marked the life Of the late
lr. Lee, Presbyterian minister
village of Waterford, n. Y.
Lee was sitting in his study
midnight, preparing discourse
liver to his congregation, when
ard noise behind him, and be-
conscious that some one was in
Dom. Mr.. Lee exclaimed
What is the matter ?" and, turning
nd in his chair, he beheld the
face of a burglar, who was point
pistol at his breast. A rufian
! entered the house by side win
uos, supposing all the occupants were
locked in slumber.
"Give me your watch and money"
said he, "and make no noise or l will
FIRE."
You may put down your weapon,
for | shall make no resistance, and
you are at liberty to take all the valu'
ables 1 possess" was Mr.. Lees calm
reply.
The burglar withdrew bis menacing
psstol and Mr.. Lee said
IL will conduct you to the place
where my most precious treasurers are
placed"
He opened the door and pointed to
the cot where his two children lay
Numbering in the sweet sleep Of in
nocence and peace.
These" said he, "are my choicest
Jewels. Will You take them ?"
He proceeded to say that, as min
lister of the Gospel, he had few earthly
possessions. and that his means were
devoted to but one object-the educa-
cation of the two motherless children.
The burglar was deeply and visibly
effected by these remarks. Tears hll-
ed his eyes, and he expressed the ut
most sorrow at the act which he was
about to commit.
After few remarks by Mr.. Lee,
the would-be criminal consented to
kneel and join in prayer, and there,
in that lonely house, amid the silence
of midnight, the offender poured forth
his remorse and penitence, while tht
representative of religion. Of Feae' II:
good will, told him TO go III 81 IL
more
Such scenes an q; rH-T -iI-a Irrnr
renee in this void Il 81.