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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-04
BORAX.

Que half pound will drive the
cockroaches out of any house. A
lt,ge handful of the powder to ten
gallons of water Will effect q saving
Of fifty per cent in soap. 1t is an
excellent dentrifrice and the best
material for cleansing the scalp.
TO MAKE OLD GUTTER FRESH.
Knead with lime water or a very
diluted solution of washing soda.
Simply Washing III water is often
perfectly cficacious.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-04

Fatty oil, wood oil and almond oil
are recommended by DR.. G. Calvert.
DR.. Husemann advises the use Of
saccharate of lime, made by dissolV-
ing 16 parts ot loaf sugar in 40 parts
of water, adding to this 5 parts
good slaked lime, digesting the mix
ture with frequent stirring for three
days, fltering and evaporatiDg the
citrate to dryness at 100 G.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
schurz.

Schurz gesticulates very little, but is
always earnest and forcible in his utter
ance, and is very apt to create the i'm
preston that he means and feels what he
says. Where he shows to best advantage
as debater is the readiness with which
he yields to interruption. This for a
man with a prepaHd speech is very rare.
Sumner will never yield, lest he be
thrown out of his bearings, and have the
thread of his discourse snapped asunder;
but Schurz has the remarkable faculty
of keeping the exact status of his speech
in his minds eye, and taking il up where
he left off after half an hours Interrupt
ton. 1t is not safe to interrupt him. He
is very ready at repartee, and always
tries to say sharp thing on such an oc-
casion. He evidently spends good
deal of time in the preparation of his
speeches, but they are worthy Of it.
Easy writing makes hard reading"
saith the proverb, and the same is true
as to speaking Labor is the condition
of success in oratory as in everything
else. Mock.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
acknowledgements!
For Congress. .

We are authorized to announce A. T.
., LACEY, ESQ.,, as n candidate for Congress.
subject 10 The action Of the Democratic Con-
RressionaI Convention, 1l4-tc.,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
a Telegram story.

The most curious fact, taken alto
gether, ever heard of the electric tele-
graph was told by cashier of the Bank
Of England. ! D-"'
Once upon. a time, then, on a certain
Saturday night, the folks at the bank
could not make the balance come right
by Just elO0. This is serious matter
in this little establishment; / do not
mean the cash, but the mistake in arith-
metic, for it occasions a world of scru-
tiny. An error in balancing has been
known, am told, to keep a delegation
of clerks from each office at work some
times through the whole night. A hue
and cry was of course made after this
fl00, as if the old lady in Thread
needle street would be in the Gazette
for want of it. Luckily on the Sunday
morning, a clerk lin the middle of the
sermon, dare say, if the truth were
known felt a suspicion of the truth dart
through his mind quicker than any flash
of the electric telegraph itself. He told
the chief cashier on Monday morning,
that perhaps the mistake might have
occurred in packing some boxes of specie
IOT L0b w cob 4uutCbt WuiCn udu DoCu ocuJ
to Southampton for shipment. The sug-
gestion was Immediately acted upon.
Here was race-hghtning against
steam, with eight aHd forty hours start
given. Instantly the wires asked,
Whether such a vessel had left the
harbor2' Just weighing anchor, was
the answer. Stop her." frsntically
shouted the electric telegraph. 1t was
done. Have upon deck certain boxes
marked so and so; weigh them careful
ly.p They were weighed; and one--the
delinquent-was found by just one
packet of hundred sovereigns heavier
than it ought to be. "Lether CO." said
the mysterious telegraph. The West
Indian folks were debited with just eIOO
more, and the error was corrected with
out ever looking into boxes or delaying
the voyage by an hour. Now that is
what may be called "doing business"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
GambIiug Among Pfute Indians.

From the Virginia (Nevada) Enterprisel
About the only vice which our Piute
Indians are addicted to is gambling.
They are inveterate gamblers, perhaps,
because it is the only way they have of
amusing themselves. Among the lum-
ber yards and great timber yards about
the mines, these warm days, they are to
be seen in groups of forty and fifty,
male and female, all eagerly engaged in
card-playing or wistfully looking on. In
rambling about town half a dozen such
groups may be met within a single day.
Half dollars seem TO be quite plentiful
among them, and not unfrequently gold
coins are be seen put up.as stakes.
Some Of the women are quite as sharp
as the men, and are up to all the lodges
known to the whites, understanding
marked cards as well as the most expe-
rieneed American sport The proprie-
tor of drug store IN this city tells US
that a squaw who comes TO his place to
buy cards will take only certain kind.
Although he can see no difference in the
cards be is selling, she will pick outwhat
she wants, and will call them out by the
backs as fast as he could by looking at
the faces. This squaw and her brother
are the big gamblers Of all the camps in
the neighboFhood Of this place, and also
those Of Gold Hill, and have things
pretty much their own way. A good il.
iustration Of their love Of gambling is
to be found in the case of a young Pi-
ute, at Fort Churchill, a few years since,
when that military post was in full
blast. BE first lost his money, then his
blanket, and one article Of clothing az
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12

The residents Of Niagara Falls, says
the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, are
so accustomed to having among them
the elite of the social, literary and politi-
cal world that they usually exhibit en-
tire indifference toward notoriety or pop
ularity. Nothing short of scion of roy
atty will create excitement sufficient to
secure attention from the creme de la
creme of that place. Not until the pres
ent week has there been an individual
among them who succeeded in COM
manding more than ordinary attention.
Early last week a literary incog. arrived
and put up at the Niagara House. He
registered from Oregon, was about thirty
years of age, rather tall, and INDUCED in
very long hair. Early the present week
he hired a feet pony, arrayed himself
in full Mexican dress, with the char
acteristic sombrero hat. Furnished with
a 5000 saddle, ornamented with Mexican
dollars, the tapidarus and cantenas
richly fretted with gold and silver, he
started out with break-neck pace for a
tour of the country and different objects
of interest around the falls. In his
Western costume, from day to day, he
visited the several objective points,
exciting wherever he went considerable
curiosity as to who he was and where he
came from. Everybody was asking,
:. Who is he?' Some said he was Buffalo
Bill, and some said he wasn't, and he
was finally set down as his partner, the
famous Texas Jack, who had just arrived
IN take charge of the great buffalo hunt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12

ter another. Finally, when he was
nearly naked. his opponent offered to
play him for his hair, he TO be allowed to
cut out lock OF certain size every
time he won. The winning Indian was
facetious, and so cleared the youngsters
head Of every hair upon it, except a
bunch left here and there where they
would present the most ridiculous ap.
pearance. When turned loose in this
shape, the boy became the laughing stock
of the whole camp. The Indians
squaws, bucks and all---fairly screamed
out with laughter, and lay down and
rolled upon the ground as the comical
figure met their gaze.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
PUBLIC LEDGER.


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interest to the public arc at all times accept
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Notices in local column inserted for twcnty
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Special notices inserted for ten cents per line
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12

painting orchestra yainly endeayored to
force the glorious strains of Beethoven
symphony through an atmosphere so
thick with tobacco smoke that an ac-
.quaintauees face could not be distin-
guished ten feet away. Even the music
was blupted by the weight of fumes.
To eternally grind away at quid of
" fine cut, may be disgusting trait.
but to be taken to task for it by a people
who smoke like locomotive tunnels in
railway carriages, at dinner, and at
every other place where two or three are
gathered together, and who plug their
nostrils anywhere and everywhere with
the coarsest of snuff, is not eminently
soothing. but it was impossible to make
the Berlin citizens view the matter in
that light at all. .s,f .dsaq fr.t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
For Renresanfalixe.

JOHN oYERTON. JR, q a candidate to
represent Shelby county in the Lower House
Of the Legislature. subject to the action Of the
primary meetings Of y uly Goth. gl l5 tc(f
JAMES M. HARRIS Is a candidate to rep
resent Shelby county in the Lower House of the
Legislature. subject to the action Of the pri
mary meetings of July 10th.
JOSEPH BARBIEREl Is . candidate for
Representative in the Legislature. subject 10
the decision of the, yOtcrs AZ the primary cleo
tions, July goth. DeO-s I'd Siin H8a t
s.R, CANNON IS a candidate To o.reprcsent
Shelby county in the Lower House of the Leg
islature subject TO the result Of the primary
elections to be held the'20th of July instant.
l09-te - n - 80 n - =.
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10000 Numbers Only.
.351 CASH PREMIUMS,
To be paid Immediately after the Distribution
takes place.

The Board.of Directors. in commencing this
Third Scheme to the public, promise that It
shall be carried out in the same good faith
tions Of this Society, and made them another
name for fairness, promptness, and fidelity TO
promises. The high character and standing of
the Managers selected will also be an addi-
tional guarantee that perfect justice and fair
ness will control this Distribution.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
INSURANCE..
DIR. HINSON

HAS LATELY PROCURED AN INsTRU-
III ment that removes the disintegrated por-
uon oi the teeth with comparatively no pain.
and il il we'll worthy Of attention, and can A.
comphsh with Il more in one hour than for
merry IN three. Give him 3 call and your
teeth shall Be more perfectly piurred and f0r
less money than ever before.
S. HINSON. Dentist.
l0-ld Odice and dwelling. % Main q.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
s22, 200 90 IN s5l PREMIUMS
To be Distributed in Conformity to Law.
CcrtincateS;

SOEDlIlCbBGBs
MEMPHIS, TENN, June 8, 1872.
We, the undersigned, take pleasure in at
testing the perfect honesty and fairness Of the
Distribution of the Memphis Agricultural and
Mechanical Society, and heartily commend the
object of the Association, the reliability for
the payment Of the premiums drawn, and the
prompt drawing on the day advertised, to the
confidence of the public.
W. NJ. Harrington, Pres, Union * Planters Blk
f. S. Davis, Pres. First National Bank.
III. Il. Garth, Pres. German National Bank.
j. ]. Freeman, Cashier Merchants Nat. Bank
j. j Murphy, Pres. Memphis Bank.
NJ. J. Wicks, Pres NJ. a c. Railroad.
Certificates for Sale at all the Agen-
cies of the Association.
pB-0rders with the money for Certificates
may be sent per Express. or Registered Let-
ters, or Posteffce Orders, at the risk of the
Association, and immediately upon the Dis
tribution taking place the Official Numbers
will be forwarded to each correspondent.
All orders to be addressed,
Memphis Agricultural and Mechani'
cal Society,
II. o. LOck-b0x No. rs,
ID 345 Second street. Memphis, Tenn.
JOHN G.. BALLENTINE, President,
LKOS TROUsDALE, Secretary.
MANAGERS:
THOMAS L. HILLS. JAMES COLEMAN.
TOBIAS WOLFE. w. o. WooDsoS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
SPRINGS.
sWAYNE'S
MAMMOTH SPRINGS.

mHIs BEAUTIFUL. PLEASANT AND
economical summer resort is near spding-
VILE Depot. on Memphis and L9uisyllle ... hall-
Tenn. Only seven hours from Memphis ana ls
eleven from Louisville. Excursion q nall
fare tickets ff0m Memphis, Mason, hfoy,qqs-
KeR,;e Paris. Clarksville and Bowling Green;
Hacks from Springville. TO the Springs, 50
miles by a shadyridgo road. meeting the morn
nisrred accommodations and hot and cold
baths. No style to pay for.
Board az good as the country anords. fer
day. 50; week, SO; month. SO, Childron un-
nails. Mail and 3 xpress Offices az spring
Vile. where address " Proprietor sWayne,s 8
Mammoth SPRING" +" or 70 their care. oZ-lfo
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12
EDUCATIONAL.

The leading characteristics of this school
are as follows: FfI
For Born SExEs-Course of study compre-
hensive and practical; instructions impaired
with interest and care; reviews and examina-
tions frequent and critical; thorough discipline
through the employment Of mild agencies; and
MORALS, coupled with intellectual advance
ment, THE PRIME CONSIDERATION.
Single desk pattern of school furniture. with
all recent inventions to secure ease. conven-
ience, and health; three acres of ground for
recreation purposes, including two acres of
fine forest trees, the whole affording a eOmmO-
dious common playground for all.
Reference is given to the following patrons
Of the school:
j. j. Busby. W. N. Brown, T. R.FarnswOrth
G. w. Goyer, W. d. Beard, j. j. Rawlings,
Jno. S. TOOf, G.. Falls, j. X. Stebbins.
l27xiv-20xv
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PUBLICATION.

>--->--~~>~-->~------~~~-~S
MO PAPER IN MEMPHIS is A BETTER
IN advertising medium than the Western
methodtss, il having within the limits Of
which Memphis is the commercial center a
very large circulation. This can be known
and read Of all who may become interested.
Judicious advertising will pay. Our Office is
279M Main street, up stairs. in same building
SAT- R. W. BLEW &Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-12

GEORGE A, ,MATHES.t Of ,Spmeryillc, is
hereby announced as a candidate for Floater
TO represent the counties Of Fayette and
Shelby in the Lower House Of the next Gene
raj Assembly, subject to the action of the pri-
mary elections in Shelby, on the 10th inst. and
the Democratic Pictorial Convention. 1l8.te
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-06-21

all the time. There is no little boy worry
ing me to open his jack-knife, and there
are no shavings over the floor. The mag
azines are not soiled with looking at the
pictures, but stand prim and neat on the
reading table, just as leave them.
your carpet never looks dirty" say
wcaryworn mothers to me.
ooh, no." l mutter to myself, "there are
no little boots to dirty it now"
But my face is as weary as theirs-wea-
ry with sitting in my lonesome parlor at
twilight, weary with watching for the lit
tie arms that used to Irvine around my neck
for the curls that brushed against my cheek,
for the young laugh which rang out with
mine, as we watched the blazing fire, or
made rabbits with the shadow on the wall,
waiting merrily together for papa coming
home. have the wealth and ease l long
ed for, but at what price? And when l see
other mothers with grown-up sons, driving
to town or church, and my hair silvercd
over with grey, I wish l had murmured less.
Tile AppeaI
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-06-21
VARIETIES.

"A young lady seeking situation was
interested in an advertisement for some one
to do light housekeeping. So she wrote
to the advertiser, asking where the light
house was, and if there was any way of
getting to shore on Sundays.
-"Really, my DEAR" said poor Mr. Jones
to his better halt, "you have sadly disap-
pointed me. once considered you jew
ell of woman; but you've turned out only
a bit of matrimonial paste" "Then, my
love-" was the reply, console yourselfwith
the idea that paste is very adhesive, and
will stick to you as long as you live"
An orator, in appealing to the "bone
and sinew," said: My friends, 1 am
proud to see around me to night the hardy
yeomanry of the land, for love the agri-
cultural interests of the country and we'll
may love them, citizens, for was
born a farmer; the hapipest days of my
youth were spent in the peaceful avocations
of a son of the soil. fl may be allowed to
use figurative expression, my friends, I
may soy l was born between two rows of
corn" "A pumpkin, by thunder !' ex-
claimed an inebriatcd chap just in front of
the stage.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-06-21
Murnuring.

l was tired of washing dishes l was tir-
ed of drudgery. 1t had always been so,
and l was dissatisfied. l never sat down
moment to read, that jamie didn't want
cake, or piece of paper to scribble on,
or bit of soap to make bubbles. I'D ra-
ther be in prison." said one day, ethan to
have my life leased out so," as jamie knock
ed my elbow, when l was writing to q
friend.
But morning came when l had one
plate less to wash, one chair less to set away
by the wall in the dining-room, when
Jamie's little crib was put away into the
garnet, and it has never come down since.
had been unusually fretful and discon-
tented with him that damp May morning
that he took the Group. Gloomy weather
gave me the headache, and l had less pa
tience then than at any other time BY.
and-by he was singing in another room, ~
want to be an ANGEL and presently rang
out that metallic cough. never hear that
hymn since, that it don't cut me to the
heart; for the Group cough rings out with
it. He grew worse towards night, and
when my husband came home he went for
the doctor. At first he seemed to help him,
but it merged into infammatory Group, and
all was soon over.
~ ought to have been called in sooner
said the dec or.
l have servant to wash the dishes now
and, when visitor comes, can sit down
and entertain her without having to work
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-06-21
VOL. XVI.--NO. rs.
What's in a Name (?

A Western paper is reviewing the man
ner in which Mr.. Henry Wilson, the Phil
adelphia candidate for the Vice Presiden-
cy, achieved his political success, and the
ruses by which he has kept it since. 1t
appears that Mr.. Wilson commenced his
political life by trading on the fame of
Daniel Webster. Mr.. Webster had often
ded the more radical of his constituents by
saying some things which they regarded
as too favorable to the Southern people
At this time there lived in that same State
OF Massachusetts a certain shoemaker,
known afterwards as jeremiah Colbaith.-
Jeremiah thought that Mr.. Webster was
inconsistent He blazed with patriotic
fury, and left his last, in spite of the pro-
verbal warning, and took the stump, quo
ting the earlier speeches of Mr.. Webster
against his later ones. This proved to be
profitable. He was introduced to staring
audiences as the man who could vanquish
Webster. He was thereupon elected to the
State Legislature and to the United States
Senate. He dropped his adopted name of
jeremiah Colbaith, and, like the rose, is
now just as sweet as Henry Wilson. AS the
climax of his career, Jeremiah Colbaith,
alias the Natick Cobbler, alias Henry Will
son." finds himself running for the Vice
Presidency Gazette.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-06-21
Silent Men.

Washington never made a speech. In
the zenith of his fame he once attempted it,
failed and gave it up confused and abash-
ed. In framing the Constitution of the
United States the labor was almost wholly
performed in Committee of the Whole, of
which George Washington was day after
day chairman, and he made but two
speeches during the convention, of very
few words each, something like one of
Grants speeches. The convention, howev-
er, acknowledged the master spirit, and
historians affirm that had it not been for
his personal popularity and the thirty
words of his first speech, pronounced it the
best that could be united upon, the Consti-
tuition would have been rejected by the peo-
pie. Thomas Jefferson never made a speech.
He could not do it. Napoleon, whose ex-
ecutive ability is almost withouta parallel,
said that his greatest difficulty was in find
ing men of deeds rather than words. When
asked how he maintained his influence over
his superiors in age and experience, when
commander in-chief of the army in Italy,
he said by reserve. The greatness of man
is not measured by the length his speech
es and their number.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-06-21
The Atlantic Monthly on Grant.

Tile atlantic Monthly has been recognized
as publication in the interest of the Re-
publican party from the time it was started.
1t has adhered steadily to the organization,
and has been political power not only in
New England, but throughout the North.
1t has department devoted to politics,
and the utterances therein contained are
regarded as expressing the views of the
more thoughtful Republicans of Boston,
1t is in fact an index to the prevailing SEN
timent among the most cultivated mem
bers of the party in New England, and its
opinions are to be regarded as important
on that account. In the May number Wig
orous review of the presidential outlook,
concludes as follows
"Those who distrust the Administration
have an underlying ground of complaint,
which it would require great deal to re-
move. 1t has often been repeated but re-
petition does not weaken its force. 1t is,
that when General Grant was elected, four
years ago, it was the popular belief and
understanding that he would bend all his
energies to the work of purifying the Gov
eminent, of redeeming it from the corrup-
ton into which it has fallen, Of assisting
those whose object it is to make political
life in America once more respectable and
honorable. Instead of doing this he has
allied himself with the very men whose
names are b-ywords throughout the coun-
try for those vices which he professed his
desire to root out; he has lent his warm
assistance to petty factions, warning not
for any political object, but for the control
of plumber, and he now demands his
reelection on the strength of those services
to the country"