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Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18

NCCoWM NCS enterprise In the fine art is
i0 he admired. lie has lust completed an
elegant photograph OF stewart college and
tive, 10bdcco LoGG
Wonder il Mae. couldn't take our
ncighbor's photograph from the mega
tive he made of Maj. Garth's Sheep,
the other day?
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18

Go to Byers' if you want
to buy Lead, Oil, Paints and
Painters Material and Win
dow Glass, at the lowest fig
MOS.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18
KincannOn d Hamlet haYl

the best and cheapest Lifting Pump in the
market. Call and see them. apl, '7l-tf
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18

Owen & Moore can furnish
you with Papers, Magazines
and Periodicals. of all de-
scriptions, at publishers pri-
ces, by the year or single
copy.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18

If you want sugar made into Candy,
leave orders ut McCaulcy n Co.'S. | will
make it at So OOpcr lOOpounds.
NJ. MATTILIi.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18

Fine Gold Pens for sale by
OWEN q MOORE.
up. l3-tf.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18
COULTER'S

Before you make your pur-
chascs.
April -. 'i1'iL
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18

Statesmen
W. n. DortCh, .. ~. Acbey,
". y. sWith.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-05-18

The best Havana and do
Cigars and Virginia
Tobacco, for sale at Bycrs'.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17
MEMPHIS TENN: TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER IT, 1872

one when the string of the latch is left
on the outside of the front door re-
member taking jolly, well-bred young
Englishman to one of the most charm
ing Of these homes, on cold, bleak
night, in mid winter, and tie impression
it made upon him. We we're admitted
into CHEEKY, pretty room, brilliantly lit
by generous supply of gas, and a fire
that did ones heart good to look at.
The family had all gathered around
table strewed with books, work, games
and drawing material; papa was deep in
"A review, mamma was giving her atten-
ton to a huge basket of stockings, and
the children playing, while a pretty
blonde on one side was struggling in the
tolls of a new dress, and prettier brn'
nette was marking handkerchiefs on the
other. We we're kindly and cordially
received and after chasing q thimble
and two pairs of scissors, which our en-
trance had been the means Of misplace
ing, the ladies returned to their work,
and our host, in compliment to my
friend, closed his book.
We were fairly launched in platitudes
when the bell rang, a young man entered,
bowed to us, shook hands with the pa
rents ard kootooed before the girls
He was hardly seated before another
gentleman appeared, received his quota
Of smiles and mods aud sunk into chair
then another and another, until eleven
pleasing specimens of the genus homo
were comfortably seated around the
table, soon four young lady cousins
Joined us, and then Babel of laughing
and chattering ensued. To my astonish-
ment my friend had lost that profound
consciousness of his arms and legs with
which most young EngliShmen are en-
dowed-he drew monograms, he became
fluent, he sang and otherwise disported
himself; the others we're on the best pos
sible terms and. quite at ease Papa had
relapsed into his book, mamma had
darned and folded, until she had erected
miniature Mont Blanc, so that science
and industry held their own at one end
of the table, while youth and happiness
frolicked and frisked at the other. The
evening went spinning, and ended in
music and dancing-my friend striking
out wildly after the manner of his race,
as if dragging Fatma by the hair of her
head into the fatal closet! Once out
side he was alternately gushing and
reproachful.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17
TOYS, ETo.
EDUCATIONAL.
THE LEBANON, TENNESSEE,
LAW = CHOOL.

will soon close the most prosperous session
since the war Six reasons Why every young
man who intends to make the Law his prOfes-
sion should attend the Law School at Lebanon,
Tenn:
lst-The Professors are the m st eminent
teachers and lawyers in the Southwest.
2d-The course embraces every principle OF
Law known to the Profession.
9d-Its Moot Courts are intensely practical
and in them are prepared and tried almost
every kind of a case met IN actual practice.
sth--Pupils entering oR January NH Will
get Diploma in ten months. and Llfense 70
They will also have the benefit OF a summer
i-vaeRtioD during the year. ..
fth-flee heaithfulness 81 lebanon and the
high Christian character Of its people.
tth-Nany Of the most successful Lawyers
and eniuent Judges in The Southwest have
been educated in this school. Address
dkw HON. M. GREEN. Lebanan. Ienn:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17
LOTTERY.
A Noble Charity.

Tickets sent by Express C. 0. D.. ifdesired.
,o.na cosh pr;ze 81, 900
! 3.and Cash prize ....,....,.......... Is 900
! Snd Gssh prze .'''.................... 1900
4 4.anJ Casb prize '''.................. 1000
T,ah pie ''''''........,,.......... 5000
Sash pr;Se '.................. 1900
a a Sh p;-a. 40 00O each - 5000
Sasb pr;1ss AZ 011 each b.,.,............. 5000
, Cash priSes al 01D each 1000
For balance Of Prizes send for Circular;
This legal enterprise is indprsed by the high
es authority of the State and the best business
"TI limited number of Tickets on hsad vii
he FURNISHED those who apply FIRST. II.
All ,,rizes will be paid in full AGENTS
WANTEp For full particulars address
j. NJ. PATTEE,
74-@ General Manassr. Omaha: Neb:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17
PUBLICATION.

Mo p APRR IN MEMPHIS Is A BETTER
~ adv ertising medium than the Hes.rrn
NE tho dist, Il having within the nnits oi
va ich ] femphis is the commercial center :
vezy lar gs circul alton. This can be Know n
and rea Of all who may become intetestee /.
Judleic as advertising will pay. Our onice ~
~ n ain street, up stairs, m same oaiidint
81 R.W. BLEW 90.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17

Miss Kate Field writes to the Ameri-
can Register that, rather than accept a
home on the rolling deep." she would
90 out as governess in an English family,
Which is the worst fate che can imagine
falling to the lot Of a woman.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17

The mind Of Mr.. Watson, the rev.
erend and scholarly English wife mur-
derer, has ceased to wander OF be IN
sound since his sentence has been com
muied from death to imprisonment for
life.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17
PHYSICIAN.
DIR. r. RIEGER,
once No. 20 Poplar street, Oyerton
Hotel Building,

CFCOND DOOR FROM MAIN STREET.
- Special ofhce hours from 5 TO p.m., for the
treatment Of fsyphihs-prlmary.s .secon ndary, ter
tiery and hereditary; gon0rrhea, Gleet. stric-
ture, spermatorrhea ana diseases o. the skin.
79-l04
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17

A Captain OF Dragons. Who Me-
Age, Kills His own Son la ~ Duel
without Knowing Him, and IN in
Hts Turn Killed by the ~Ofher OF
the Murdered Man. the Victim of
Thirty Years Ago, Who Lastly
Kills herseIf.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-17
RAILROADS.
LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
AND -
GREAT SOUTHERN RAILROAD
Winter Schedule, Oct. q, 1872.

Express Train leaves daily Except
sunday ..:;.... ...........-......-......S;29 Am
Mail Train 40 y. N
Brownsville Accommodation leaves
daily Except Sundayl..,,,,............i:hp ,. m
Na ohsRge Of cars BY this line for Louisville.
81. Louis or Nashville. Pullman palace Sleep
inE-cars on all night trains. The through car
for ST. Louis, Chicago and the West will be
run on the :l0p m. train, except on Sundays,
when il will be run on the 2;10 pm. train.
Passengers by the $40 J. IN. train make close
connection al Humboldt for an points on the
Mobile and Ohio and Mississippi Central rail
roads. For tickets or information. apply at
Ticket Ofilce, 23S Ia Main y
JOHN 7. FLYNN, Superintendent.
JANrs SPgED, Ticket Agent. at
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02

ECCENTRIC. In one of the Western States
there resided family consisting of an old
man by the name of Beaver, and his three
sons, all Of whom were wicked. They had
often laughed to scon the advice and en-
treaties of a pious, though very eccentric
minister, who resided in the same town. 1t
happened that one of the boys was bitten by
a rattlesnake and was expected to die, when
the minister was sent for in great haste. On
his arrival he found the young man very
penitent and anxious to be prayed with.
The minister knclt down and prayed in this
wise: go Lord, we thank thee for rattle
snakes; we thank thee because q rattlesnake
has bitten him. We pray thee to send a
rattesnake to bite John and one to bite Bill.
And, O Lord, send the biggest kind of a
rattlesnake to bite the old man, for nothing
but rattiesnakes will ever bring the Beaver
family to repeptapce!
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
-N-A><

CARE OF THE EYES. .-Multtudes of men
and women have made their eyes weak for
life by the too free use of eyes ght, reading
small print and doing fine sewing In view
of those things, it is well to observe the fol-
lowing rules in the use of the eyes.
Avoid all sudden changes between light
and darkness.
Never read by twilight on very cloudy
day.
Never sleep so that on waking the eyes
shall open on the light of the window.
DO not use the eyesight by light so scant
that it requires an effort to discriminate.
Never read or sew directly in front of the
light of a window Or door.
1t is best to have light to fall from above,
obliquely over the left shoulder.
Too much light creates a glare and pain
and confuses the sight. The moment you
are sensible of an effort to distinguish, that
moment stop and talk, walk Or ride.
As the SIX is blue and the earth green, it
would seem that the ceiling should be blue
ish tinge, the carpet green and the walls Of
some mellow tint.
The moment you are instinctively prompt
ed to rub yonr eyes, that moment cease US
ing them.
If the eyelds are glued together on wax
ing, do not forcibly open them, but apply
the saliva with the finger, and then wash
your ewes and face with warm water.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
ADDRSSS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LIB.
ERAL ST ATE COMMIT! EE.

The following address of the Liberal State
Committee of Pennsylvania has been issued:
To the people Of Pennsylvania sue
cessful consummation of measure of fraud
in this city that must appal alike the guilty
abettors, has made Philadelphia appear to
give the unexambled majority of over 10 900
in favor Of continued corrupt rule in Penn
sylvania. With every channel of power
ready TO aid in executing the systematic de-
iance of the popular will; with the debauched
or plant canvassers to register 25 200 fraud
ulent names; with the most desperate re-
peaters of three cities to woe the registry,
With an abundance of money plundered from
the people to pay them; with the election
officers selected expressly to receive every
vote offered in favor of the ring; with police
force TO pilot repeaters to their localities, and
protect them in polling illegal votes; with
officers of tho law to guarantee their immunity
from punishment; wi, large preponderance
of our citizens who claim to be champions of
morality and reform given their unqualified
sanction to what they knew to be a deliber-
atoly planned pollution of the ballot box, the
result is but the logical result of the rule that
is now supremey enthroned in our city and
State. Nor was this gigantic system of fraud
confined to Philadelphia. In the principal
cities and towns throughout the State thou
sand of illegal votes were polled. The Lib
eral cause was thus overwhelmed in Reading,
Chester, West Chester, Columbia, Harris
burg, Pittsburgh and other localities, while
the rural districts give large and uniform
gains. am warranted in announcing that
the large majority po!led for Hartranft is
wholly fraudulent. Friends of the govern
ment, let no triumph of lawessness deter
you from giving your best energies to the
cause. The highest prerogative of free
people has been violently usurped by insolent
and debauched power, and the people must
resent it, and resent it promptly, or give un-
questioned license to wrong. Now more
than ever in the contest is the election of
Horace Greeley to the Presidency a supreme
necessity, if peace and an honest government
are not to perish from the annals ofour history
Right will triumph sooner or later, and it
will yet triumph in this desperate struggle if
the people shall prove faithful 10 themselves,
to their laws and to their country.
A. X. MCCLURE,
Chairman Liberal Republican Committee.
Phi, delphia October 8, 1872.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02

THE COBBLER'S SECRET.

waggish cobbler once in Rome,
Put forth proclamation
That he d be willing to disclose,
For due consideration,
secret which the cobblng world
Could i'll afford to lose;
The way to make in Gne short day,
A hundred pairs of shoes.
From every quarter to the sight
There ran a thousand fellows
Tanners, cobblers, bootmen, shoemen,
Jolly leather sellers
All redolent of beef and smoke,
And cobblers wax and hides
Each fellow pays his thirty pence,
And calls it cheap besides.
Silence The cobber enters
And casts around his eyes,
Then curls his lips-the rogue-then frowns
And then looks wondrous wise.
"My friends, he says, '"tis simple quite,
The plan that proposes
And every man of you, think,
Might leain it if you chose.
good sharp knife is all you need
In carrying out my plan;
So easy is it none can fail,
Let him be child or man.
To make hundred pairs of shoes,
Just go back to your shops,
And take a hundred pairs of boots
And cut off all the topsn'
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02

KEEPING FRUIT IN OUR Rooms.
should be chary of keeping ripe fruit in our
sitting rooms, and especially beware of lay
ing it about sick chamber for any length
of time. The complaint which some people
make faint sensation in the presence of
fruit is not fancitul-for two continental
chemists have shown that from the moment
of pucking apples cherries, currants, and
other fruits, they are subject to incessant
transformation. At first they absorb oxygen
thus robbing the surrounding air of its vital
element Then they evolve carbonic acid,
and this in far greater volume than the purer
gas is absorbed, SO that we have poison Civ
en- us in the place of pure air, with COM
pound interest Temperature affects the
rate of changes, warmth accelerating it
Good HealH
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02

The Duty OF PATRIOTISM M.-George III.
PendIeton, in speech at CINCINNATI recently
said: Is there any Democrat who halts and
doubts as to his course? Is there any who
fears for bis consistency or doubts the duty
of patriotism? love the Democratic party
know its courage; | know its purity; be-
leve in its principles; | revere its wisdom
when it speaks will obey" "All men are
wiser than one man." When its wisdom
and purity shall point out the course and
lead the way, what Democrat shall say he
cannot tread that path with honor and con-
sistency When its patriotism shall coun-
sci, what Democrat shall say he is too proud
to follow the example? do not expect Mr.
Greeley, if elected, to give us partisan
Administration. ] would not respect him il
he should do so; it would be contrary to the
spirit of this movement; but he has promised
that he will restore true fratenal affection
to all our people; that he will give us purity
and honesty in Administration, and it is folly
to refuse because we can obtain no more.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
Chairman Liberal Republican Committee
Phiia delphia October 8, 1872.

The QUEEN oE rhr Hoo DOCS. Day be-
fore Yesterday the hands of the law were
laid upon Miss Lucy Woodland, the Queen
of the Hoo-pops. This remarkable woman,
vested with power to make her erem,'s
shrivel up with premature old age, and blow
away on the wind, was found in her den on
Second street, engaged in series of howl
ing incantations over "a seething cauldron that
was supposed to be boiled by the blue blazes
of the internal regions.
Mrs. Mary Mack wouldn't let Lucy shove
the baby across her porch floor in soap box
and the result of it was Miss Lucy took a
terrible oath for to ''ix her." and there is
little doubt that, had the officers arrived at
her domcile five minutes later than they did
Mrs. Mack would have been turned into
stone, Or bag of salt, or may be, tank of
soap-grease.
The door was close shut, but through the
cracks could be seen the form of the Hoo
boo Queen, bending over her cauldron, and
chanting in horrid voice:
''Open de gate for de blackman, dare
He am comm, coml';
Wild fire in his mouf and horns in his hair,
Don't you see him comin'?'
"Hello, Auniy, open your door" called
the policeman.
'Look var, white man, jst go right away
from dat door. De debil's in her sure, "
came back in response.
But the weird Lucy, being informed that
Mrs. Mack was sailing trough the air on a
broomstick, protruded her black visage out
side, and was done for in q twipklng.
In little bag around her queeply neck
were found dried toad's foot, the wing of
bat, an owls eye, a snakes tongue, and
half dozen cockroachos, all of which bore
to her a charm o: protection from the devil
and his imps, and gave her special power to
do very much as she pleased.
Mrs. Mack having proved that the Hoo
Doc Queen was constant annoyance to her.
the reptile bag made sad failure and left
her quite in default. She might appeal to
it in her widest strains, but it couldn't con-
jure up 500 bond for twelve months Of
good behavior, and the woman of wonders
went back into the narrow way that leads to
Beargrass. Co,rier-Journal.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
A TOAD UNDREssING.-Audubon relates

A TOAD UNDREssING.-Aud relates
that he once saw a toad undress himself.
He commenced by pressing his elbows hard
against his sides, and rubbing downwards.
After few rubs his hide began to burst
open along h!s back. He kept rubbing until
he worked all the skin into folds on his sides
and hips; and then grasping one hind leg with
his hands he hauled off one leg of his pants
the same as anybody would; then stripped
off the other hind leg in the same way.
lie then took his cast off skin between his
fore legs into his mouth and swallowed it;
then, by raising and lowering his head, swal-
lowing as his head came down, he stripped
off his skin underneath, until it came to his
fore-legs, then, grasping one of those with
the opposite hand, by single motion of the
head, and while swallowing, be drew it from
the neck and swallowed the whole.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
That is a clever Persian story about Mo-

That is clever Persian story about Mo-
hammed Ali and the camels. A Persian
died. having seventeen camels to be divided
among his three sons--the eldest to have
half, the second third, and the youngest a
ninth. Of course the camels can't be divi-
ded into fractions, so, in despair, the broth
ers submitted their difficulty to Mohammed
Ali. "Nothng easier!" said the wise Ali,
"I'll lend you another camel to make eigh-
teen. and now divide them yourself. The
consequence was, each brother got from
one-eishth to one-half of camel more than
he was entitled to, and All received his camel
back again; the eldest brother getting nne
camels, the second six, and the third two.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
sasr.or-xxx,-rAcE.prrz7nHH

An ANCIENT HUMoRIsT. who
lived in the sixth century, collected p jests
under the general title of Pedants, and in
this. fossil est-book we find jokes that have
been handed down through succeeding col
lections. and have become old and familiar
friends Among these ancient guests Is the
account of the man who, for fear OF drown
ing, determined not to enter the water until
he was master of the art Of swimming; of the
man who complained that lis horse died just
as he had taught il to live without food; of
the philosopher who carried a stone about
with him as a specimen of his house; of one
who stood beft re a glass with his eyes shut
to see how he looked when he was asleep;
of the man who bought a crow TO sec whether
it would live 200 years; and Of one who went
into boat on horseback because he was in
a hurry. Here we find the ever-new story
of man who meeting friend asked VIII 3ther
i1was he or bis brother, was buried; and the
blundering excuse of the person whonot hav-
ing attended to the request of a friend, said
when he met him, 'I'm sorry, | never re-
ceived the letter which you wrote to me about
the books" Rev. Mr.. Hartley Of Phil
adelsh;a, must, we imagine, have come fresh
from the perusal of IIierocles when he for
warded to NJ. Thiers last year one of the
original bricks of Independence Hall in that
city, "with the earnest prayer that the lesis-
lators of beautiful France may derive from it
such an inspiration as shall lead them to
erect a republic whose dignity, justice and
purity shall be the admiration of our age and
which shall prove model forother nations in
securing the rights and liberties of their
people. - British Rccicac.
The Placer herald., 1872-11-02
ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL DEMO.
CRATIC COMMITTEE.

The October elections are over. They
enable us to form tolerably accurate idea
of the true political situation in the country.
The National Democratic Committee feel
impelled to say few words to the people OF
the United States il regard to the results.
In Georgia we are to recount SO unex-
ampled victory for the Liberal ticket
as to take her out of the list of doubt
full States, and practically to pronounce in
advance the decision of at leastone hun
dred and twenty-five votes in theElecto-
raj College. To this it is only necessary to
add sixty votes to elect Greeley and Brown.
In Pennsylvania the distinguished Chair
man of the Liberal Committee eloquently
characterzes the methods by which the result
of the election there was accomplished. We
commend this statement to the thoughtful
consideration of tue country.
In Ohio despite the the most unprecedented
gains for the Liberal Democratic ticket, the
Grant managers have succeeded at the cleo
ton by a reduced majority, having brought
to the polls their entire reserve vote. Had
our Democratic friends in certain localities
shown the same earnestness and activity,
and recorded their entire strength they would
now be exulting over brilliant victory.
In Indiana the Democratic and Liberal
forces have achieved a decisive success over
Pennsy ylvania tactics, most unscrpuously
employed by the Administration and its
allies, thus showing that free people, when
aroused, know their rights and dare maintain
them. Indiana has fairly demonstrated that
she can neither be "bought or bullied.
h. ,,,o,,1 oc tbaeo roc,,ltc 10 that yirtOrV
!, in the plain view of our national ticket,
and ,,'.ot energy and courage vii! assure 1t.
It is more han that if we mean to preserve
free institutions "a this continent we must as
sure it. The event in Pennsylvania on Ieus-
day last is the most appalin;sg political catas-
trophe that has ever taken pace III me
country. Should the system through when
this catastrophe was wrought be fosted on
the other States, it rings out the doom of
freedom in America-a sad contrast surely,
that the city in which our Republic was
born, amid the anthems of a free people,
should now be the first to toll the knell of
its dying liberties. 1t is for the free, un-
bought people of the States to calmly review
the fearful crime against suffrage in Pennsyl-
vania and to decide whether its enthrone-
ment shall occur within their own limits.
For the first time the system of free gov
crnment and the sanctity of the ballot are on
trial in the United States. Fr,m this hour
forward they dwarf all other issues.
Let our friends in each of the States catch
inspiration from the heroic conduct of our
fellow citizens in Georgia and Indiana, and
from now till November let their struggle be
unccasing for liberty and an untanted ballot
box in the interest of reform and good gov
ernmept. AUGUSTUS SCHELL,
Chairman National Democratic Committee.