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The Portland daily press., 1872-01-15
Caution to the Public.

Every intelligent and thinking person must know
their efficacy established by well-tested experience In
the hands of regulariy-edncated physician, whose
fulfil; yet the country is flooded with poor nostrums
and cure-alls purporng to be the best in the world
which are not only useless, but always Injurious.
The unfortunate should be PARTICULAR in selecting
his physician as it is amentable yet ineontrovert-
BILE fact, that many syphtic patients made mis-
cradle with ruined constitutions by maltreatment
from inexperienced physicians in general practice;
for it is point generally conceded by the best syph
ographers, that the study and management of these
plants should engross the whole time of those who
would be competent and successful in their treatment
and ours. The inexperienced general practitioner,
having neither opportunity nor time to make him
self acquainted with their pathology commonly pur-
sues one system Of treatment, in most cases making
indiscrminate of that antiquated and danger
GUS weapon, the Mercury.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-15

THE GLORY OF MAN Is STRENGTH. Therefore the
the nervous and debiltated should Immediately use
Helmbold's Extract Buchu.
The Portland daily press., 1872-01-15

There are many men Of the age of thirty who art
troubled with too frequent excavations from the blad
der, often accompanied by slight smarting burn
ner the patient cannot account for. On examining
the urinary deposits ropy sediment will often b
found, and sometimes small particles of semen al
bumen will appear or the color will be Of thin milk
ish hue, again changing to dark and turbd appear
ance. There are many men who die of this Difficult
ty ignorant of the cause, which is the
SECOND STAGE OF SEMINAL WEAKNESS.
can warrant perfect cure in such cases, and
full and healthy restoration of the urinary organs
Persons who cannot personally consult the Dr.. cal
do so by writing in plain manner a description O
their diseases and the appropriate remedies will b
forwarded Immediately.
All correspondence strictly confidential and will
returned if desired.
Address: DIR. j. B. HUGHES
172 Cumberland St.. Portland.
nR@Send Stamp for Circular,
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

Sir Walter Scott paints, in one OF the
Waverly novels, a girl who pretends TO e,
be deaf and dumb, and keeps ner full
possession Of hearing and speech Sc
cret for years, until she chooses to re-
veal it. 1t has often been said that sucn
a deception was an impossibility, ana
that the great novelist, protesting 70
portray nature, had no right to palm
this off upon his readers. His reputa..
ton has been vindicated by a recen.
marvellous case of self-control. Abou.
two years ago, q certain George SEQ"
was convicted, in New York, OF our
glary. On his trial, he pretended TO oe
deaf and dumb, ana thereby created y
much sympathy that he was sentences
to only two years. imprisonment, WINE
his accomplices got ten. He was sen.
TO Sing Sing, and then to Auburn. Az
both prisons he kept up his pretense,
and SO escaped all heavy work. A lew
days since he was released, and instant
" gswe his tongue full compensation
for its two years Of enforced abstinence
from talk.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23
Foreign Gossip.

FRANCE smokes 294 ,OOO, OOO, 900 cigar.
cites annually, at the rate of 1923 every
second.
AN official return shows that in the
year 1871 there was consumed at the
House of Parliament 12,50O,OOO cubic
feet of gas, costing, at 5s. 3D.. per LOCO,
1857.
The Shah of Persia's visit to England
will have reference to an international
communication scheme, enabling the
traveller to 20 from London to India
without change of carriage.
Tue Japanese Government has issued
an edict against the sale Of children and
young gitls, which has become very com.
mon in Japan. The children are sold
for the small sum of 90 each.
The Tichborne claimant has been in
the coal regions of Sunderland, and had
an enthusiastic reception from large
crowds at the railway stations and en-
route to the Local Committee room,
where he was presented with an ad-
dress. iA
A PROJECT was recently brought for.
ward in the French Assembly for tax
upon domestic servants-fve francs for
woman and ten francs for a man ser.
want, and ten francs for the former and
twenty for the latter in all cases where
more than one is kept.
IT it is announced on good authority
that the Austrian Cabinet has entered
into no engagements whstever with any
other power respecting the conduct 70
be observed with regard to the next
Papal election. The Austrian Govern
ment is, however, aware that its true
interests incline toward the protection
CT perfect religious liberty. II is iur'
thermore announced that neither has
an engagement been concluded between
the Courts of Berlin and Rome on the
same subject.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23
Lex misunderstanding or Spanish
Officers In Cuba.

A correspondent writes from Havana
under date of Aug. IL 4:
The murder of the Mexican Gen. In.
clan and OF his a'd.de camp by the
Spaniards has been partially balanced
by Gen. Agramonte. He had captured
seven Spanish officers, among them a
very distinguished Colonel, and held
them prisoners in his camp. As soon
as the authorities in Puerto Principe
hear d of this capture, the Government
Secretary and another officer repaired,
under flag of truce, to Agramonte's
camp. He received them Hospitality,
listened to their petition, informed them
that he then held seven Spanish officers
prisoners, that it was not his custom to
shoot prisoners, and that he was willing
to parole them on one condition, that
Gen. Inclan and his aid de-camp be
liberated. Agramonte's establishment
when the Spanish commissioners re
gretted that it was out of their power
to comply with that one condition, be-
cause the patriot prisoners hal already
been shot, can be imagined. Agrl.
monte then invited the commissioners
to breakfast, and gave orders to his
chief of staff to have all the prisoners
shot at once. When the firing was
heard, Agramonte turned TO his guests,
and regretted that he could not comply
with their wishes, because the Spanish
officers had already been shot.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

The population of Boston is aho..
one-fourth that Of New York. but ~
valuation of the property is about On"
half that of New York. The hones,r
OF the Boston Assessors is the canss
they say, OF such curious EXHIBIT.
A MAN named Rosello was robbed i,
New Orleans the other day of his pocL
etbook, which contained piece of tow,
used as a bandage for President Lincoln
after his assassination. Rosello had hear
offered $500 for the relic. tG
The growth OF cotton as staple mr.
duct in the warm valleys of Californ;s
has been attended with such satisfac
tory results rs to encourage the belief
that, before many years, the production
of the country will be materially aus.
mented by the supplies from that
source.
The Hartford ladies, especially the
property. owners, are plucky, and they
don't mean to pay taxes without repre-
sentation. So say nine tax. paying Ia.
dies, one OF them representing $1,000
ard they have made formal protest
which accompanied the amount due for
taxes.
TYING line, on the end Of which i.
6sh-hook, to a large rocket, hitchng
the hook to a mans hat and then ret.
ting him to fire off the rocket, is the
latest form of practical joking in Troy.
N. Y. 1t works TO the intense aston.
ishment of the victim, and the intense
amusement of the jokers. r..a
A FELLOW in San Francisco theater
expressed his appreciation of the play
by firing salutes with his revolver.
When mildly demonstrated with by the
usher he swore he was going to have his
fun, and put one bullet through that
gentleman's hat, for which playf,ilness
he was locked up on charge OF attempt.
ed murder. sA'
The States which hold elections pre-.
vious to the Presidential contest in
November are as follows: New Mexico,
Sept. i; California, Sept. 9; Vermont,
Sept. 3 ]; Maine, Sept. 9; Colorado Ter.
ritory, Sept. 10; Dakota, Indiana, Iowa,
Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Dis.
trict of Columbia, Oct. 8; South Caro-.
lima, Oct. l6; West Virginia, Oct. "a.
1T is stated that thirty of the best Eu.
ropean epgravers are employed in New
York city in manufacturing counterfeit
plates OF European bank notes. Fifty
persons travel between New York and
Europe, carrying over the counterfeit
bills to the old world, and as many
more act as agents in the larger cities Of
Europe for the circulation OF spurious
currency.
A WOMAN, an infant and bottle Of
milk caused great commotion on an
Indiana train the other day, when il
was running at the rate OF forty miles
an hour. The bottle dropped out Of
the window, the mother franticly
pulled the bell.cord, stopped the train,
and wanted the conductor to go back
after the babes lost sustenance. He
didn't 90
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23
A Novel Motive Power for Street Rail.
WAYS.

The level streets and extensive lines
of horse.railways of New Orleans have
afforded excellent opportunities for ex.
perimenting upon different methods Of
applying motive power to the same
and as accounts of the compressed air
power have subsidized, we are enabled to
present another, possibly more practi
cable in application-said to be now in
operation on the New Orleans and Car
rollton line. On four-wheel truck
about half the length of an ordinary
passenger car are a boiler, tank, and
double.cy hinder engine of seven inches
stroke, The tank is filled with about
three hundred gallons of water. This
water is heated at the depot in a sta
tionary boiler and discharged into the
tank at the beginning of each trip. In
this manner enough steam is provided
to propel the car nine miles, and have
a surplus of power left at the end OF
the trip. One man performs the du-
ties of engineer, brakeman and conduc-
tor. There is no escape of steam, nor
any MORE beyond that ordinarily caused
in running passenger car, and trial
of nearly three months has shown this
new motor to be not only practicable.
but much cheaper than horse power.
The actual running expenses have been
stated TO be $l.4O per day Cincinnati
Commercial.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

THERE is to be convention Of fat
men at Putin. Bay on the 10th of Sep.
TENDER, when 1t is expected that there
will be greater weight of humanity in
proportion to the number than was
ever before accumulated at one point.
The quantity of obesity that will con-
gregate on that occasion is something
to alarm the imagination, and strike
CONSERVATION into the hearts Of hotel
keepers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

The London Spectator believes Gam.
BETA will be the successor Of Theirs.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23

VIM. Nesbitt was horribly mutilated BY .
thrashing machine near Davenport, Iowa, last
week.
Mrs. Mathews, mother Of vice-P President
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-23


The Treasury Department has adopted regu-
lations providing that hereafter all appoint
ments and promotions in the New York Gus
tom-House will be made in accordance with
the results of public competitive examinations,
as prescribed in the rules governing the civil
service.
Since the letter Of Gerrit Smith, interceding
for the imprisoned Ku-Klux at Albany. SINH
lar recommendations have been received from
influential Republicans. The report OF Col.
Whitley, Chief of the Secret Service, who had
been directed by the President to investigate
AZ TO the several cases, will be the basis of the
Presidents action.
II is announced that eighteen Of the South
Carolina Ku-Klux, now in the Albany On. ~
Penitentiary, will shortly be pardoned by the
President, through the intercession Of Gerrit
Smith.
The contract for carrying the Pacific mails
between the United States and China has been
awarded to the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany at $500, 900 per annum.
The Internal Revenue Department has do
termined to enforce the law for the discontin-
uance of the one-third beer-barrel stamps, and
refer all who are injured by this course to
Congress for relief
Under the late law Of Congress granting to
disabled soldiers artificial limbs, or, in lieu
thereof, Communication, those who have been
paralyzed or have sustained some bodily injury
depriving them Of the use Of their limbs can
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
a.

LODGES. NN
sourH MEMPHIS, No. llS-meets I'd Friday
IN each month-hall corner Madison and Sec
ond W. S. Matthews, W. NJ; Ben X. Pull
"a AveERoSA, No. 1es-meets LIST Monday in
avery month, at Odd Fellows Hall, corner
Court and Main. O. NJ. Carroll, w. M; John
Beamish, Secretary.
LEILA ScoTT, No. 2S9-meets LIST Friday Of
each mopth-hall corner Madison and Second.
ii. II. Hiebee, W. NJ; M. S. Judah, Sec'y.
DFSoTo, No. 299-meets Sd Friday Of each
month-Odd Fellow Hall. X. Q. William
aon. W. M; r. W. Shelton, Secretary.
KILwrNNIHo, No. 3il-meets 4th Friday OF
zach month-at South Memphis Hall, corner
Of Madison and Second: W. B. Richardet,
W. NJ; Louis CEapski, Secretary.
ROYAL ARCH.
PFNE CHAPTER, No. 22-meets I'd Monday OF
each month-Odd Fellows Hall, @ M. Car
roll. N. Z. H. p; B. M. Levy, Secretary.
MrlrPHs CHAPTER, No. 95-meets at Odd
Fellows' Hall, Sd MONDAY Of each month. W.
S. Matthews, NJ. 4. II. p; John W. Ward.
Secretary.
R. AND 8. N.
EUREKA COUNCIL, No. 6-meets Sd Monday
of each month-0dd Fellows Hall. ID. u.
Forster, Tn. ILL.,. G. H. Myers. Rec.
TEMPLARs.
CYREYE CoMMAEDERY, NO: 4-meets 4th Mon
day Of each month. Geo. Mellersh. Com. I.
]. Barchus, Rec. 80, =.
CALVARY CHAPTER OF ROSE CRoIx, 18th, No.
/. Charles W. Adams, SD, M. W.; ii.
T. Tomlinson, Sd, &c.,.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11


Some one of an inquiiiug mind wishes
to know if The emancipation Of women
was complete, and il complete equality
was established between man and wife
6y the law, as It is already, by the best
moral instincts, would it affect the in
teresting subject of poppngthe question,
or would the initiative reiuain as HE
tofore, with the malesg
The Lebanon (Ohio) Standard has the
following golden opp6 unity for any
one who fills the bill A young lady
wealthy, beautiful and accomplished
wants handsome, intellectual gentle
man to 90 with her on . bridal tour to
Europe the first of June n. B.-None
but intellectual men need apply.
Captain Baker argues That vultures
see rather than smell, because he has
known them to swoop at apiece OF red
flannel, installing it for the flayed car
eass of an animal Whom an animal
was skinned, exposing the red surface,
the vultures came much more promptly
than while the skin was on. The Cap
tain often shot elephants in high grass,
and observed that the vultures did not
find them for weeks. Pref Doremas
Agdssiz Harding.
Several newspapers have pa graphed
the death of Mrs. Laura Fla through
carelessly glancing at a tel ram an
nounc;ng the demise of one of her law
yers. The Detroit Tribune having writ
ten a moral editorial on the departure Of
Mis-. Fair from this world is determined
to correct the error by easy stages.
Here is its first step: 1t may be ranked
among the singular coincide 2cef that
Mr.. Cook, one of the leading counsel
for Mrs. Laura Fair, died in S3yi Fran
cisco on the same day that she did"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
Tuesday, sOth day of January, 1872,

at tho southwest corner of Main and Madison
streets, in the city Of Memphis, between the
hours of ten o'clock am. and two o'clock
pm, the following described property. or so
much thereof as may be necessary to pay the
aforesaid indebtedness. viz: The west one
half of lots numbered lis and ll6 in the Bat
ture addition to the city of Memphis, begin
ming at the intersection Of tho south line Of
Adams street with .the east line Of Water
street; thence south with Water street So feet (;
thence east parallel with Adams street so feet
10 the centre of alley; thence along the CEN
ter of said alley north 90 feet; thence west
with Adams street so feet to the beginning.
Also another piece of property, being Oh the
west end Of part of lot No. 499, as designated
on map of Memphis, beginning at stake on
the south side of Adams street continued as
run off by William Todd, and at the intersec-
ton VI line ten feet from the southeast wall (;
thence southwardly with said line to the head
of the old LaGrange railroad; thence with
the north boundary line of said railroad to
what was once Bayou Gayoso; thence north
wardly with said bayou to Adams street;
;aid property is at the point where Adapis
street and Charleston avenue or Pigeon Roost
road meet, and fronts on Adams street 1921
feet, and on Charleston avenue or old Pigeon
Roost road l22H feet. and is the same prop
erty conveyed to VIM. j. Wynne by tive deeds,
one from IL. M. Kerr and Lucilla M. Beatty,
registered in book No. 81, p. 80, and the other
from Daniel Abbott, registered in book No.
"a. p. $50, TO which references are made.
The title to said property is believed to be
good. The equity Of redemption is expressly
waived. But / will convey only as trustee.
1CRtd HOWELL B. JACKSON, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
Attachment Notice.

Eli Rayner Before s. A. Moore, a Jus
VS.. tice Of the Peace for Shell
IN THIS CAUSE PLAINTIFF HAVING
| made affidavit that defendant, Jordan
Yates, is Justly indebted TO him in the sum
Of thirty-iive dollars, with some interest, in
all under $40, due by promissory note for said
amount, and that defendant is a nonresident
of the State of Tennessee, and having prayed
an attachment against defendants estate,
which has been Issued and returned, levied,
by garnisheeing Roots 4 Co., said Roots x
Co. having appeared before me and answered
sum Of twenty-five dollars and fifteen cents !;
it is therefore ordered, that defendant mako
his appearance before me. at my office in
Memphis, Tenn, on Monday, the 18th day Of
February, 1872, aud defend said suit, or it
will be proceeded with ex parte; and it is
further ordered that this notice be published
for four consecutive weeks in the Memphis
Public Ledger.
110-115-l2l-l27 s. A. MOORB, j. z.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
GAS.
Card from the Memphis Gaslight
Company.
To the Public {:

OOAhRUASe
To the Public;
The board of directors of the Mem
phis Gaslight Company desire to declare,
in an authoritative manner, the future
policy of their company in regard to the
sale Of gas:
Our company is possessed OF the most
complete and ample appurtenances nee
essary for the manufacture and distrlbu-
ton Of an adequate supply Of illgmina-
ting gas for the city of Memphis, the
right to vend which we claim as an ex-
elusive and vested right. In addition to
the extensive works for the manufacture
of coal gas, we have in operation appa-
ratus for manufacturing gas from nap
the, under the process secured by the
Rand q Gale patent. BY this method
towned and controlled entirely by u.s.,
an Illuminating gas is manufactured by
our company superior to that which
auy other company can manufacture IN
this city by from fifty to one hundred
per cent. This is fact which will be.
come patent to every gas consumer OF
the city should another company enter
into competition with US. Within the
present week an improvement has been
made at our works which will forever
secure to this city the credit of possess
ing a light unsurpassed throughout the
globe. Through the same agency we
will hereafter be able to correct, in a
few minutes, deficiencies in the power OF
the light we furnish occasioned by cold
weather or from other causes.
We do not propose to lose consumer
on account Of price. Should another
company commence to sell gas at a
price lower than the rate fixed by this
company, we will at once reduce our
rate to a point fifty cents per thousand
cubic feet lower than ;he amount liked
upon by such other company, and VIII
keep descending in the same ratio,
We would remind Jhe public that we
desire no assurances or guarantees on
the part of our consumers, as we believe
that whenever matters come to open
competition, the superiority of the light
offered by this company, to say nothing
of inducements in price, will secure
continuance of the patronage it has sc
long enjoyed. e
It's made the imperative duty of every
officer and employee Of this company tt
pay strict attention to the wants and re
quirements Of our patrons, and any lscl
Of courtesy or neglect of complaints vii
subject the offender to severe rebuke OF
prompt dismissal from our service.
Adopted by the Board AID ordered
published, December %, 1871.
JAMES w. WILLIAMSON, President.
GEORGE w. GIFT, Secretary. lO4'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
NE. 1900.
In the First Chancery Court of Shelby
County, Tennessee.
Waddy Thompson

waddy Thompson
vs.
Il. NJ. Hepning Of al
TT APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
| this cause that the defendants, X.
N. Henning. Albert Pearce, Alexander
smith, David Gibson, Oliver Perrin. and the
unknown heirs of Marcus p. Woodruff, de-
ceased, are all non-residents Of the state OF
TENNESSEE, the two former and the heirs Of
NJ. p. Woodruff being residents Of New York.
and the others residents Of the State OF Ohio.
This suit being instituted to reach the inter-
ests Of Pearcs, Henning. aud the heirs OF
Woodruff, in a certain piece Of property in
Memphis, fronting on Alabama street, and
containing 81 acres, TO satisfy debt due BY
them to complainant of about s3O, 900 90; 1t is
therefore ordered that they make their appear
ance herein at the courthouse in the city Of
Memphis, Tennessee. on the hrst Monday ~
February, 1872, and plead. answer or demu{
10 complainant amended and supplemental
bill, or the same will be taken for confessed
as to them and set for hearing ey parte. and
that COPY " this order 10 published once q
weak, for four successive weeks, in the Mem
r'''- EDMUND A. COLE.
Clerk and Master.
BYE. B. McHESRY. Dep. Clerk and Master.
A copy-Attest.
Humes 4 Poston. solicitors for complain
ant. l08-ll3-ll9-l25
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
NOTICE.

A S TRUSTEE, / SHALL, UPON Tues
"A day. Ghe 6tb day OF February,
1872, sell for cash, at the corner of Mill and
Third streets, Chelsea, to satisfy the debt Sc
cured by a certain trust deed executed to me
corded in book No. 8, page AS, of the records
Of chattle mortgages and trusts, in the Regis
ter's Office of Shelby county, the following
described personal property: ] spruce beer
wagon. horse. 2 sets double harness, set
single harness, 5000 dozen beer bottles, 2 bales
OF cork, beer tubs, 500 beer boxes.
iO9td J. b. WOODWARD, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11
Friday, 2Oth Day Of January, 1879,

at the southeast corner Of Court Square, in
the city of Memphis, Tennessee, within legal
hours, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the
following property situated in Shelby county.
Tennessee, thus described: Being known as
sixty acre tract conveyed by John II. Raw
linRs to ]. D. Goff. and by j, d. Golf 70 Mrs.
Smithwick, and By her to Mrs. S. G. Law,
situated about two miles south of Memphis,
and contains 65-l00 acres, and beginning at
the intersection Of the east side Of Posten
avenue with the north line Of the said sixty
acre tract; thence southwardly with the east
line of Posto avenue five chains and eleven
links; thence eastwardly seven chains thence
in direct line, and at right angles, 70 the
north line of said sixty-acyo tract i've chains
and one link, TO stake in said north line;
thence west sixty-three links 70 the begin
ning. Terms Of sale, cash. Equity OF re-
demption barred. Title believed to be good,
but will sell and convey only as trustee.
a8td ID. III. pOSrON, Trustee.