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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-27
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-27

ON AND AFTER MONDAY NEXT. JUNE
" 80, 1873, trains will be run daily Sundays
included) between Memphis and Covington.
Leave Covlngton.. :CO a. m
Leave Memphis 400 p. IN
Arrive at ington...-..."...."...... 7:Oo pm
Trains leaving Memphis will start from the
depot the Memphis and Little Rock railroad.
J. w. WILBUR, Superintendent.
N. MoNsARRAT, Gen'l Ticket Agent.
Memphis, June Is. 1873 l0O-l26
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-27

who carried the mail to and from that
hourishing little burg, she learned, to
her great delight, that they needed an
other boy to perform like service at
the other end of the line. Here was
her chance now was the time, the ac-
cepted time for her, and borrowing
suit Of boys clothing from her mail car
rying friend she fled, applied for the
post, and filled it honorably and credita-
bly, for one year, under the assumed
name of
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30
AFEARED OF A GAL.

oh, darn it all !-afeared Of her.
And such a mite Of 4 gal
Why, two of her size rolled ints one
Won't ditto sister Sal.
Her voice is sweet as the whipperWilPs,
And the sunshine's in her hair;
But I'd rather face a redskins knife,
Or the grip of 4 grizzly bear.
Yet Sal says, ''Wby she's such dear,
She's just the one for you"
Oh, darn it all!-afeared of gal
And me just six feet two.
Though she amt any size, while Pm
Considerable tall,
Pm nowhere when she speaks to me,
She makes me feel so small.
My face grows red; my tongue gets hitched
The cursed thing won't go;
1t rifles me, cause it makes her think
Pm most tarnation slow.
And though folks say she's sweet on me,
1 guess it can't be true.
Oh, darn it all .--afeared of q gal,
And me just six feet two.
My sakes just 'spese if what the folks
Is saying should be sol
Go, cousin Jane, and speak to her,
Find out and let me know;
Tell her the gals should court the men,
For isn't this leap year?
That's why Pm kinder bashful like,
Awaiting for her here.
And should she hear Pm scared of her,
Yourl swear it can't be true.
Oh, darn it all !-afeared of gal,
And me Just six feet two.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30
New Mexican AIermaids.

A delicate but self-satisfied youth
/ Of great Gotham recently found him
self III one of our New Mexican coach
es. In leaving our goodly town the
shOddy exquisite placed himself care
fully upon the back seat by the side
of a miniature rifle and fishing tackle,
which he carried as a part of his bsg,
gage. As the coach drove over the
Acequia bridge the youth saw pic
ture which caused his heart to dance
with delight. In the shade of the tai
cottonwood trees, which line the
banks, gamboled a group OF young
Mexican giIis in the limpid waves q
the Acequia.
''For Gods sake, Mr. Driver, what
are those beautiful animals ?"
''Them are mermaids," answered
the stage man, suppressing q twinkle
in both eyes.
go, hold on Just one minute, and
out went exquisite with line and rod,
while he threw the hook toward the
laughing group with a gesture of be-
seechlng agony.
The gay throng gradually closed on
the fascinated fisherman as he sat
upon the bank drinking in the rzptu-
rous scene before him, but paying
little attention to his line or bait
Suddenly black-eyed Peri of about
fifteen caught the end of his pols,
and with a dexteroUs movement land
ed the fiherman into the middle Of the
Acequia. Every mermaid Of the
batch Immediately took lively inter
est in irrigating their captive, who
only succeeded in crawling mp the
Acequia bank after desperate strug-
giles, and very much in the condition
of q Norway rat.
The washerwoman at the next sta
ton declared she never saw so much
Rio Grande mud on one suit Of
clothes in her life, and the young man
was heard to muttcr, often, to him
self: ''D-d hard fish to catch, those
Mexican mermaidsl'
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

AN ENTHUSIAST ON A HIGH HORSE.
An enthusiastic friend of the Amer
lean centennial celebration, writing
to gentleman prominent in official
circles, suggests that at precisely IL
o'clock noon on the fourth of July, '76
Washington time, all the guns, the
bells, locomotives and other loud
whistles, trumpets, the organs and
other musical instruments, with the
tens of millions of singing voices OF
our great land bust forth in sounds
of Joy and praise. All the telegraph
lines shall be silent, at the command
of the United States Government,
from 11:45 to 1915, P. NJ, and send
the electric fash and click over the
vast iron maze to every city and town
and village of our land, and even to
Europe, Asia, Africa, and the isles of
the sea as far as the lines can be at
that moment secured, and at this sig
nal instantly let the cannon thunder
forth the death-knell of oppression;
let all the mighty steam whistles pro-
claim the grand march of civilization
amid the western wilds and the isles
of the sea, and bid the slumbering
millions of heathendom awake and
Join our happy nations in singing that
sublime invocation to praise-''Prais
God from whom all blessings flow"
&c.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

It seemed, however, as if Charlie
was actually afraid of the money that
was so temptingly near Jessie's grasp,
Tor he commenced a series of inter
views that bore entirely upon the
subject of an immediate marriage.
What IS there to wait for 2" he
would ask, and then enter upon cal
culations of his present expenses and
those OF the future, proving most con-
clusiyely that there was a decided
saving for both in uniting their in
! comes.
You remind me,'' said Jessie. "of
/ the Dutchman who said he could al
most support himself alone, and it
was pity If two of them could not
l do 1t entirely
But, though she laughed at him.
Jessie was quite willing to admit the
force OF his reasoning, and one bright
June morning, SIX months after
Aunt Jessie's death. there was a uuiet
wedding in the village church, and a
breakfast in the cottage for a few
chosen friends. & Among these was
Aunt Jessie's lawyer, for the will
stipulated that the sealed codiciI was
to be opened at Jessie's wedding if
she preferred love to money.
The bride was a little paIer than
usual when, with a solemn face, the
New York lawyer broke the big red
seal. Visions of John Garland hold
ing drunken revels in her aunt's
house fitted across her mind, and
then she looked into Charlie's face,
and over her own crept an expression
of perfect content.
The will was opened and found to
contain only a letter directed to
Jessie, and a short, legally worded
formula, making herself and her
chosen husband joint inheritors of
her aunt's fortune. Truly, the bride
opened the letter from the dead.
With loving words Aunt Jessie
blessed her, and wished her happi-
ness.
81 do not" she wrote, ''approve of
the money power in q family being
entirely in the hands of a woman
therefore you will find, dear Jessie.
that half of my fortune only is yours,
the remaining half to go to the hus-
band who has proved that he loved
you for your own sweet self, not for
your fortune"
During the wedding tour of the
young couple, Mrs. Markham, at their
earnest solicitation, took an affection
ate farewell of her pupils, and re-
moved her household treasure to the
New York mansion, to which, in due
time, came Charlie and Jessie to
brighten the long, silent rooms with
their happiness, and establish that
loving circle that makes home of any
house, however grand or however
humble.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

BE Nor IDLE.-One great power
rules the world as it always has done
the power of labor. For labor con
quers all things. Everything we do
has to have a certain amount of labor
expended on it, to bring it to state
of perfection. However difficult it
may appear, however impossible it
may seem to be, remember if you at
tack it with energy, and labor with
all your might, your efforts will be
crowned with success. Inventive
man, by the aid and application of
labor, wins for himself a name that
Will always be honored, respected
and remembered by his fellow-citi-
zens. 1t has been truly said, that no
excellence is obtained without labor.
Few persons conversant with the
world have failed to discover that in
the race of life, men of moderate
means and attainments frequently
outstrip competitors endowed equally
by the smiles of fortune and gifts of
genius. Difference of talent has little
to do with it; the power of steady,
unaUducu fuuOr eXceis esa sytIuS OF GEM
us and he who would succeed in life
must labor constantly.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

A HORSE STORY.-We learn from
the passengers on yesterday mornings
train of the Selma, Rome and Dalton
road of one of the most startling Incl
dents which ever occurred in the his
tory of railroad travel in this State
When the train left Alpine, a horse
was seen on the track about one hun
dred yards in advance. The train
came thunderering on, and the noble
beast was not slow to take the hint,
and moved himself off at q rate which
told he knew thing or two himself
about railroads. The chase cOntinu-
ed for mile right along the track;
when the horse reached the bridge,
over Talladega creek, he went boldly
forward upon a twelve inch plank
When about half way across he turn
ed to look back, not needing the bib
hcal fate of Lots wife. He thereupon
lost his balance and fell across a
scantling which formed part of the
framework OF the bridge. The train
was stopped, and the animal, which
had made such race was rescued from
mis- perilous condition by means of
ropes and chains. In that single mile
dash the horse ran over three trestles,
and what is wonderful to relate, the
horse actually widened the gap be-
tween himself and the train, and be-
fore turning around to see chow the
other old thing worked, could have
bid defiance to his snorting iron rival.
-AldOdR9G State journal.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30
The TRUE HARVEST OF LIFE

THE TRUE HARVEST OF LIFE
No man ever followed his genius
till it missed him. Though the re-
suit were bodily weakness, yet per-
haps no one can say that the conse-
quences were to be regretted, for
these were q life in confrmity with
higher principles. If the day and
the night are such that you greet
them with JOY, and life emits a fra
GRANGE like flowers and sweet seen
ted herbs, is more elastic, more star
~, more immortal, that is your sue
cess. All natures your congratu-
latiOn, and you have cause mOmen-
tarily to bless yourself. The great
est gains and values are farthest
from being apprehended, we easily
come to doubt if they exist. Per-
haps the facts most astounding, and
most real are never communicated
by man to man. The true harvest
of my daily life Is somewhat as in
tangible and indescribable as the
tints of morning or evening. 1t is
little star dust caught, a fragment
of the rainbow which I have clutch
d.-ThOreQU.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30
LABOR.

o mortal man, who livest here by toll,
Do not complain of this thy hard estate;
That like an emnet thou must ever moil,
Is a sad sentence OF an ancient date.
And certes, there is for it reason great;
For though sometimes it makes thee weep
and wall,
And curse thy star, and early drudge and
late.
With0uten that would come heavier bale,
Loose life, unruly passion and desires pale.
THOMSON.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

WHO SUCCEED.-A generation ago
there was a deal of cant in th,
newspapers about the hard lot o
the gentlemen of the press. al
most every country editor had hi
monthly or quarterly Jeremiad, il
which he INDUCED in a long and lu
gubrious wall over his hereulear
labors and his beggarly receipts
Now, that, by energy, tact, and per
sistence, the press has become az
engine Of power, the HFourth Es
tate" of the realm, we hear of nc
more of these piteous complaints
A Journalist thriYes or fails, accord,
ing to his qualifications and habits
The "b'hOys and Hfast" men of the
profession who 60 in for a short
life and merry One-Who mortga-
ges morrows Of happiness for mo
ments of present qualification
whose fingers itch to get rid of q
dollar the moment they receive il
who make larger investments in
champaign supPers than in interest
bearing notes-who despise the
homely virtues of temperance and
frugality, and Micawber-like, are
always counting upon some miracu-
lous piece of good fortune to ''turn
up"-this class is, doubtless, miser-
able enough, and think of their pro-
tession, as they would think of any
other, if they belonged to it, the
hardest worked and most poorly
requitted in the world. Such men
are always "hard up" for ideas and
money, have a natural herror of the
printers devil, and when not en-
gagged in digging out leaders from
their brains, are excavating their
own graves. But those who stick
to their legitimate business, and do
their duties faithfully, steer clear OF
bar-rooms and billiard saloons,
have horror for race courses, 90
hana-s- at night before tho k1y-lIvlv
Is "stolen," pay one hundred cents
to the dollar, and bear in mind that
there is "rainy day" coming, for
which it would be we'll to lay by a
snug sum-get along we'll enough
and find their calling as pleasant
and profitable, to say the least, as
that OF feeling pulses, preaching to
sleepy congregations, or piercing
the skulls of stupid jurymen. The
owners of our great representative
Journals are always on the watch
for such men; they have the eyes OF
a lynx to detect them in the hum
blest and most obscure positions;
and if to these qualifications they
add mental grasp, large resources,
and that tact and worldly knowl-
edge which put the keystone to the
arch of all their other qualifica-
tions, their ascent to the topmost
round of the ladder will be as sure
and rapid in this profession as in
any other.-Prof. Mathe,os.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

Closing a long article on "The
Morals of Duels," the New Orleans
Times says, that all the stuff in
mems minds about "honor" as dis
tinguished from honesty, is quite un.
necessary to the worlds good health,
and might as we'll be relinquished.
Honesty is the only honor of any
worth; and honesty has not the
least imaginable use for the duello.
A code that substitutes "houor' for
the need of being right, is diamet-
rically opposite to honesty's code,
which makes the right Indispensa-
bic to every man. The duello is a
code of paradoxes. 1t is exclusive
ly the privilege of gentlemen; no
other challenger need you fight
than one who is reputed such. If
he fight it is not material that he
should be right, or guiltless of
wrong in the quarrel, as the honor,
so authenticated, is all that society
exacts. But what the code of good
old fashioned honesty exacts from
all who pretend to be gentlemen
is, that they shall have the deport-
ment and demeanor of gentlemen,
that they shall not commit affronts,
nor do wrong, but shall found the
test of their claims to the reputa-
ton of gentlemen upon their feel
ings, their virtues and their man
ners.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

know of thousands of parents
who have received from God
child, and then they turn the young
immortal into a dressmaker's DOLL
AS if God had not made the little
creature beautiful enough, they
must overload it with silks and la
ees, and then torture its freedom in
to the thongs and screws of arbitra-
ry fashion. This overdressing of
the body strikes through into the
heart. How can a stop be put to
the crop of fops and fashIonists if
children are to be trained into fop-
perry and coxcombry from their
cradles? How can our children be
taught selfdenial and spiritual
mindedness while under the artifi-
eial trappings of pride and extrav-
agance. e.-CuVLer.
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ADVERTISING RATES

u One Inch Space CONSTITUTES SquuTt.
Where advertisements are ordered TO 5e
unusually displayed they viii be charged
for according to thespace they occupy; one
inch to constitute square.
Sheriffs, Clerks and Rangers. who send
Us their patronage will reeGive the Wing
without charge.
HCASDIDATEs-For announcing can
didates for County offices and the Legisla
ture. $40; for Congress $50: for Mupicipa
and civil district offices. SAL in advance
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The noldest inbabitanti' has /

The coolest inhabitant" has been
unearthed. The Mckenzie Times
resurrects the following from a bio
graphical dictionary: "Mrs. Betty
Trantham, died in Maury county,
Tenn, Jan. 10, 1884, at the age Of
l54 years. She was born in Ger.
many; emigrated to British Ameri-
ca, and from thence to North Caro-
lima in the year 1910. At the age
of l20 years, her sight became al
most extinct; but during the last 20
years of her life, she possessed the
power of vision as perfectly as at
the age of 20 years. For many
years previous to her death, she
was unable to walk. At the time
of her death, she had entirely lost
the sense of taste and hearing
For 20 years before her death, she
was unable to distinguish between
the taste of sugar and vinegar. At
the age of 65 years she bore her on
Iy child, who is now living in A.
D., 1885, and promises long life al
An %
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

The highest mountain on the
North American continent is Mount
St. Elias in Alaska, whose eleva-
ton is 17,900s feet. Next to ii
comes the volcano of Popocatapeti,
in Mexico, 1854 feet, and Orizaba,
also in Mexico, 1873 feet. If the
newly discovered peak of the Holy
Cross, in the Yellowstone region,
found by the Hayden exploring
party, be really 1900 feet high, as
they estimate, it will be the fourth
peak in elevation on the continent
of North America, and. the highest
mountain in the United States, ex-
Guiding Alaska. Heretofore the
highest peak in this country was
supposed to be the Big Horn noun
tain, which is elevated $4,000 feet.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

SILENT INFLUENcE.-If a sheet Of
paper on which q key has been laid,
be exposed for some minutes in the
sunshine and then instantaneously
viewed in the dark, the key remov-
ed, faded spectre of the key will
be visible. Let this paper be laid
aside for many months, where
nothing can disturb it, and then in
darkness be laid on a plate of hot
metal, the spectre of the key will
appear. This is equally true Of our
minds. Every man we meet, every
book we read, every picture or
landscape we see, every word or
tone we hear, leaves its image on
our brain. The traces, which, un-
der ordinary circumstances, are in
visible, never fade, but, in intensi-
ty Of light of cerebral excitement,
start into prominence, just as the
spectral image of the key started
into sight on the application Of
heat. 1t is thus with all the infu-
ences to which we are subjected.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. p, 1873,
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
In Chancery, Purdy, McNairy
County, Tenn.

John Campbell, Guardian of Sarah E. and
Margaret j. Faulkner, vs.. VIM. Faulkner and
others.
IN this cause It appears to the Clerk and Mas
i ter from the Original Bill, which is sworn
to that VIM. Faulkner, one of the defendants
in this cause, is a on-res ident of the State OF
Tennessee, Sc that the ordinary process of law
cannot be served upon him.
1t is therefore ordered that publication be
made for four weeks IN the Whig and Tribune,
a newspaper published in the City Of Jackson 3,
Tennessee; commanding said defendant l. ap-
pear ut the next term OF the Chancery Court to
be holden at Purdy, ON the
Ist MONDAY IN OCTOBER, 1873,
and plead answer or demur to co plainants
bill, or the same will be taken for confessed
and set for hearing eN parte as to him.
II. r. BECK, c Il NJ.
S, L. Warren, BY q. W. MOORE, y. c. 4 NJ
Sol for COmp't. aug2S-4w.
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PRICE OF TICKETS.

Whole tickets $50, 90; Halves $500, Tenths,
or each coupon $500; Eleven Whole Tickets
for $500, 90; 22% Tickets for 81 10000; ll3 Whole
Tickets for 50, ,OOO, 90; 227 Whole Tickets for
SO, 600, 90. No discount on less than SJ0O, ,OC
worth of Tickets at a time.
The unparalleled success of the Third Gift
Concert as well as the satisfaction given by the
First and Second makes it only necessary to
announce the Fourth TO insure the prompt sale
of every ticket. The Fourth GIFT Concert will
be conducted in all its details like the Third,
and full particulars may be learned from cir
culars which will be sent free from this office
70 all who apply for them.
Tickets now ready for sale and all orders ac
companied by the money promptly filled. Lib
eral terms given to those who buy to sell again.
THOS. E. BRAMLETTE,
Ag't Public Libr. KS. 4 Manager Gin Concert,
Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky.
Augustl6-l6W.
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FARM for SALE

WISH To SELL MY FARM OF l25 ACRES,
Il living northwest of jackson. said farm is
in coed state OF cultivation, with good build
ings and well watered. There are about four
or four acres in Strawberries and Taspberries.
The farm is well suited for fruit vegetable ahd
gardening business. Price $50. 90 per acre.
I will also sell four or five untmprOved town
lots. Twill also sell or rent the house that
now live IN wish to sell for the reason that
my health is bad and 1 want TO retire from
business and get out Of debt.
July 20, '72-u L, GOODELL.
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NUMBER ~.

In TIE BOWELS oE THE EARTH.-In
drifting on the l, 400 foot level of the
Crown Point mine the workmen keen
a hole Of considerable depth drilled a.
head OF the main work, In order that
they may not suddenly break through
into large body or natural reservoir
OF water. A day or two since, while
thus boring ahead in the rock a vein
OF water was tapped which was ex-
eeedlngly hot, so hot that eggs were
boiled IN 1t, and boiled till very hard
at that The eggs were placed in the
drllI hole, bit of rock before them,
TO back the water over them, and in a
few mIHutes they were boiled as hard
as could have been done anywhere
Sam Jones, superintendent of the
mine, who cooked and ate some of the
eggs, Is Of the opinion that this bit of
cookery was performed at a greater
depth IN the bowels of mother earth
than any that has ever been done on
the Pacific coasf.- Virginia, NeU.,
Enterprise.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30
MINIsTERING ANGELS.

From Heaven fair beings come at night
To watch DER mOrtals while they sleep;
Angels they are, whose sole delight
Is to comfort those who weep.
How softly on the dreamer's head
They lay their soft and snow-white hands!
They smile; then, in a moment ned,
They melt away to happier lands.
Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-08-30

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS Three
fatal accidents, all the result of drunk
enness, occurred on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad Sunday. West
Brown, cOlOred, ATTEMPTED to get a.
board the moving train while IN rap
id motion, at Short Line junction,
and was jerked underneath the wheels
and killed. J. Omara, an Irish sec
ton hand, was run over at Null
draugh's Hill, while asleep on the
track, and had his head cut off from
the body. An unknown man, also a
section hand, lay down on the track
near station, was run over by train
and Instantly killed.