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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

Fresh oysters az tbe Confidential,
3s Jefferson a., soc. per dozen. Isl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
BOARD.

DARD-FAMILY ROOMS, SINGLE OR
in suits, with board; also table board, at
Madison street. l44-l0o
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
LOST.

bsT-s5 REWARD FOR THE RECOVERY
of a black and-tan pup; signs Of mango on
tail; answers to the name of = Dandy. :"
|urn to Al MARKET SQUARE.
|bST-A BOY FIVE YEARS OLD; HAD
on when last seen purple calico waist
black pants; had light hair, blue eyes,
weighs about thirty-three pounds; VIII
'ny by boat, ut the mouth of Wolf river.
fs,153 WASHINGTON SP0RE.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

DR. SALE-A COTTAGE HOUSE AND
lot; house contains six large rooms, pan
and closets, large hall and porches front
rear. the house new and in good order;
j4x23l feet to an alley, situated az corner
seiy on line of street railroad. Terms easy.
NV 10 4. p. F0NTAINE,
le-l55 No. 9 West Court street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

DR. sALE-MY TWO-STORY BRICK
dwelling on fernando road. convenient to
4 .1S9 DR. W. D. HALL. So Beal st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

DIR RENT = COTTAGES, OFFICES.
sleeping-rooms and one store room on
in street. Apply to
McRAE, MYERS * SNEED,.
II 27QlI Main street. up stairs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

Jim Franklin, one of the cleverest sec
ond clerks that ever sharpened a Faber
No. 2 or checked in cotton seed, was out
upon the street yesterday for the first
time in three weeks, having been con.
fined to his bed by severe attack of in
termittentiever Chris. Sharpe went
up yesterday in the Office Of the City OF
Yicksburg from here. Billy Haiues,
pilot Of the GAINESVILLE, is now under
the treatment OF his family physician for
rheumatism, and fears be viii not be
able to 20 out on his boat Saturday .........
Beck Jolly and Wallace Lamb are the
James Towards pilots.........Capt. VIM.
Gall will leave St. Louis the latter part
Of the week, to meet his boat, the Future
City, hereby Yesterdays ST. Lsuis
Republican has the following: Captain
John d. Elliott, Of the Legal Tender,
left for Memphis last evening. On the
completion Of the repairs Of his boat, be
viii return and load her for White
river Pilots Csyton and Fitzpatrick
have been engaged to take the John B.
Maude OUT The New Orleans Re
pubHcaa says Mr.. Murray, a steamboat
mate, from ST. Louis, died in Algiers
Friday from yellow fever. he resided 10 J
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
Olympic Theater.

Fresh Oysters at the Con tinentaI.
3S JenerROn sc. SOC. per dozen. ISL
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
FRESH OYSTERS

Received daily by ]. A. Signaigo, 278
Second street. John B. Edwards, will
be there to wait on his old customers.
1A04
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
Changes.

eBeloW bench mark.
tBcloW high water Of ISL.
Blank t--.-..l indicates no report; cipher l0l
stationary; 90 rising. -
Observer Sirnal Service. u. S. A.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

DR. SALE-HORSES- SEVERAL GOOD
80 ~ II f1Nr - HALL a. CO..
7-e DeSoto Stable, IS Union street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

! OR RENT-A BRICK COTTAGE OF FIVE
rooms on Tate street, south Of Vance. APP
TO JESSE NJ. TATE,
i4-li9 Corner Orleans and Tate sts.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

|OR RENT-DwELLING NO. 15S SECOND
AND0LPa, HAMMOND & JORDAN.
|2t $40 Second street,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
MONEY.

MONEY.
PUBLIC LEDGER 0PPIcK,
MEMPHIS. TENN. August 81. 1873. !
following are the quotations for local
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

channel, there is eight feet, and at
Reeves nine feet, while at Island % but
eight feet is reported, Above here the
cutting out process is slow, and at
Island 30 there is but seven and half
feet OF water, and above Cairo six and a
half feet, The weather continues clear
and hot.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
FOR SALE.

DR. SALE-TWO BILLIARD TABLES.
complete; Phelan's patent cushions;
rth size, 41zx9 feet but little used; will be
1 cheap for cash. Apply or addregs
W. j. DYCHES,
.s-I50 No. 345 Second street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

DR. SALEOR EKCHANGE-PLEASANT
cottage on ESchanse street extended.
~ ~ anu w a. WUFATLEY. $50 Main st.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21
PULLMAN's PALACE

The only line running magnificent day cars
and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

Room Sleeping Coaches,
From 81. Louis. Louisville. Cincinnati and
Columbus. 70
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

5R SALE-AT A BARGAIN-THAT COM,
plete suburban residence of 5 acres, "a
les from the city on the Horn Lake road,
wn as the jacob PLACE: dwelling Of "
lbs, with all modern Improvements and all
G pnveniences and comforts, out-hoHTs.e ss
~, II SWAYNE& C0LMAN,
IT'S Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

OR RENT-TOAeooD TENANT, UPPER
floors over 3l71a Main street. 1851
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

ri SALE MAGISTRATES BLANKS
for Mississippi and Tennessee. a generaii
rtment kept on hand ard for sale cheep ~
Office.
5R sALE.-TAM NOW SELLING FINE
American and Italian monuments. tomos'
lstoues. and all kinds Of cemetery NofA'
OST. IHOS. MAlDn bLihsir ,,-a
/ No. SO Union st.. bet. Second and Ihird.
lR sALE-AT THIS OFFICE, OLD PA
'pers, al 50 cents per 100. The cheapest
ppinr paper you can set, and good q put
ar your carpet. W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-21

r. sALL'-A LOT WITH DOUBLE TEN
enert hon se on Il, on the northeast cor
NJ Vance an d Cynthia streets, fronting %
on Vance bv 1857 on Cynthia. Each
e has four rooms and servant house.
so, lot on corne- OF Marr ana M ,ssit "a.
- 800 sf-eef For te-ms apply to
- TOrIrt N Il EFFEhkON.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08
Division Fruits and Vegetables.

'J'P-It HtH0tHt-lItIeN Htce.
Class I.--Eruffs.
LIBERTY H. BAILEY JERRY BRIDGES HENRY Dowp-Committee
Best and greatest display of Fruit by one exhibitor 90
I'd best and greatest display of Fruit by one exhibitor 90
Dest 10 varieties OF Apples, . 90
ID best 1G varieties of Apples 90
Best specimens of Apples each %
ID best specimens of Apples, each n
Best exhibition of Pears, on
I'd best exhibition of Pears -
Best specimen of Pears, Oh
I'd best specimen of Pears, TX
Beet exhibition of Plums, on
I'd best exhibition of Pums ~
Concluded next week.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08
SPECIAL.

All persons indebted to MISS Il. Munger. Of
the News Depot, will please call and settle
their accounts before the 18th inst.
For saie.-The house and lot owned by
j. VI. Servoss, in the village Of Paw Paw. A
good house ia desirable location. Terms easy
Enquire OF y. w. ROWLAND, or ASA s. KIDpER.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08

New Carpets! New Oil Cloth!
81, 81 all the New Patterns arriving
Clothing for Men and Boys.
Ladies' and Mems CATERS and SHIPPERS,
Chdn FANCY SHOESa extremely
prices being opeued
Largest stock and finest assortment Of
shewls and scarfs ever shown here.
pr express direct New York; have large ue of the
latest mpotatons of
HATS AND GAPS,
such
Black Oriental Waverly Alpine and the Royal Purple
LennOx.
All popular styles Broadway style of Black Silk HAS $3.50
and each.
IN POINTS STRIPES TICKS, DUCKS DENNIS C0TTONS AND
COrTONADEs Our STOCK is COMPLETE.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08

For ssale.-One Pair of Working Oxen,
or will exchange for Horses. CHAs. NoRTHRuP
one mile north OF the village OF Lawrence.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08
PAY /! PAY

We ask our friends who have unsettled ac-
counts to call at the old stand without delay,
or costs will certainly be made. 941
Mills BRo's
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08

Z,
CHAs CHRISTIE AUGUSTUS SPAULDNG, j. " Observation-Disclosures
Best half bushel of White Wheat, 81 90
I'd best half bushe of White Wheat 80
Best half bushel of Amber Wheat, | 90
"a best half bushe of Amber Wheat, 30
Best half Bushe of Oats, 80
I'd best half bushe of Oats, -
Best half bushel of BARLEY 90
ID best half bushe of Barley, %
Best half bushel of Buckwheat, 80
I'd best half bushe of Buckwheat 25
Best half bushe Of Timothy Seed, 90
I'd best half bushel of Timothy Seed 80
Best half bushe of Clover Seed l 90
I'd best half bushel of Glover Seed so
Best half bushel Of Field Corn, 30
I'd best half bushe of Field Corn, %
Best 25 lbs Flour made from White Wheat 30
I'd best % lbs. Flour made from White Wheat %
Best 25 lbs Buckwheat Flour 80
I'd best 25 lbs. Buckwheat Four 25
Best % lbs Indian Meal, 80
I'd best % lbs, Indian Meal %
Best half busbe early Potatoes, 80
I'd best half bushel early Potatoes 25
Best half bushe late Pot o,es 80
I'd best half bushel late Potatoes %
Best twelve of Sweet and Pop Corn each 80
I'd best twelve of Sweet and Pop Corn, each, %
Best quarts of Beans and Peas, each, 80
ID best quarts of Beans and Peas each rs
Best half bushel of Sweet Potatoes, 80
ID best half bushel of Sweet Potatoes. %
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08

Competitors for Premiums for Field Crops, must enter
the with the Secretary the time of before the
Annual Fair, and file with him before the 10Th day of
December statement showing the and expense of
cultivation; the quantity of each when sown or planted
and when harvested the preparation of the soil for the
seed, with the kind and quality of manure used
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08
Division D.-Farms and Field Crops

I1est cAUIUtIUH OF TOUItry by one person, 3
I'd best exhibition of Pouty by one person,
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
WeRL lIOrmWnII.

w cSG COrhWAtIs
 E. F. Scovi!le has been appointed deputy sheriff. He possesses the necessary quail ficatlons and no doubt willImake an efficient officer. We congratulate him.. Pratt & Foster are building coal sheds preparatory to entering largely into the coal trade. They have already about one hundred and fifty tons on hand . c. H. Hubbard of Indi ana, and A. Basora of New York city, are spending few days at T. s. Gold's...... Jonathan says he is going to ''gie OCT" drinking ......We are indebted to R. F. Eos ter for ride in his elegant new carriage, drawn by as fleet span of horses as can be found in this vicinity......J. M. & Go. have nearly finished repairing the dam, and it is done in thorough manncr......North Water street presents very pleasant ap pearance nowadays, quite a contrast to what it used to be......We are real glad to hear from our old friend IS. o." and that he finds remunerative labor in his new home. When we spoke of the stock spec ulation of U, O." we were thinking of an other s. c. who has been known to take a little stock that offered good dividends, and we had no idea that our esteemed friend of Pinnaconing would think we meant him, for we well know that he does not take stock in anything but mail routes. Elias Scovile has seen a ghost thusly: During a recent visit to his brother in Middlebury he occupied room in which his mother died, and she appeared to him twice in the shape of spirit. Elias declares that he distinct y saw her features and would have sworn it was his mother, but being determined to satisfy himself whether it was her ghost or not he made the startling discovery that it was huge shirt collar which he had put on for the occasion. and it had been staring him right in the face as his mothers ghost. Elias says he has not worn collar in years before, and it will be years before he wears another if they are going to serve him that way......F Friday, July 25th, Peter Fritz was arraigned before T. L. Hart on the charge of assault and battery preferred by his wife. The court found hlm guilty, and imposed fine of two dollars and costs and twenty days in Jail. NUF CED.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
Holnesteaders
25.SO6 27.6Oi

These statistics mean that more than 90, .. 900 persons have settled on public lanGs in five Land Districts of Nebraska. Sixty four of the homesteaders were women. Each of these settlers also usually repre- sents family, if not actual yet prospect i've, and hoped for in the near future. More than three-fifths of them took up farms to the south of the Platte river, where the Burlington & Missouri River railroad com pany have sold along their track 300, ,O0o acres to some three thousand buyers.
 On the whole, the proof seems conclu- sive that the Gulf Stream of migration in Nebraska is setting strongest south of the Platte river, where tue B. &. M. R. R. |, the initials, as jokers say, of the Beef and Maize Route, just in the latitude of New York city. is already open one hundred and ninety miles west of Plattsmouth, with branches north and south. This re. zion draws the multitude. When Beechel was asked how stranger in Brooklyn could find his way to the Plymouth Church he answered, follow the crowd! No better advice can be given to stranger who hunts land in Nebraska. Follow the crowd to Lincoln-to homesteads-pre-emp or to railroad lands. Follow the 25.O00 who have secured farms in Lincoln. You can not go amiss.
 The proverb, ''as good fish in the sea as ever were caught" will be always true l; but Uncle Sam cannot always give us farm iu Nebraska. Wide as that sea of land is, settlers will soon absorb it all, as they have drunk up Iowa already.
 Fish multiply, farms minify,
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
GRAVE YARD HUMOR.

Any one who visits Childwald, England. can read in the cemetery there, the follow ing epitaph:
 'Here lies me, and my three daughters, Brought here by using Seidlitz waters. If we had stuck to Epsom salts, We wouldn't have been in these here
 vaults"
 The following lines are said to have been copied from a stone in Oxford, New Hamp shire:
 ''ro all my friends bid sdicu,
 A more sudden death you never knew, As was leading the old mare to drink,
 She kicked, and killed me quicSer'n a wink"
 On tombstone in South Carolina is tn e following beautiful tribute to departed worth:
 "HeIe lies the body of Robert Gordin,
 Mouth almighty, and teeth ackordin'.
 Stranger tread lightly over this wonder,
 If he opens his mouth,you are gone by
 thunder"
 An inscription on monument in East Tennessee winds up with the following touching obituary:
 ''She lived life of virtue, and died of the cholera morbus, caused by eating green fruit, in the hope of blessed immortality, at the early age of 2l years, months and sixteen days! Reader, Go thou and do likewise ,"
 In town in Connecticut man died, who had large wen on the top of his head, and his tombstone bore the following tribute to his memory, and also to the wen
 "Our father lies beneath the sod,
 His spirits gone unto his God,
 We never more shall hear his tread,
 Nor see the wen upon his head"
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
SPICE COLUMN.

It is remarkable fact that the moment 6 woman writes letter she is frantic to put it in the post otfi;e, although she may have been putting off the writing for six months.
 In a recent article on fair in his locali- ty, the editor of Western paper says a brother editor took valuable premium, but all unkind policeman made him put it right back where he took it from.
 It is suggested that persons who go about with their Cashmere shawls turned inside out to show that they are genuine, should adopt the custom of walking on their head !, to show that their boots are soled.
 A portland man, caught fishing for trout on another mans land the other day |, completely silenced the owner, who remon = strated, with the majestic answer, "Who wants to catch your trout I'm only trying to drown this worm."
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
The Bridgeport Farmer Says: MT. H

The Bridgeport Farmer says: MT. H.. G. Scofield of this city performed rather notable engineering feat on Saturday, on the new division of the New York and New Haven road from Harlem to New York. It became for the purpose necessary to lift the draw of the new bridge across Pelham bay on this line, structure weighing l6O tons. To effect this object Mr. Scoield devised the plan of building trusses, placing them on heavy scows, floating the latter around under the draw at low tide, so that the ris- ing of the tide would do the work required. This was successfully executed Saturday, July 18th. The tide rose four feet and six inches, and the scows settled in the water but two feet, raising the draw sufficiently to make the repair required.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

A fire in Madison on Tuesday destroyed the extensive peat works located about a half mile west of the depot and near the Shore line railroad track.
 The Chapman cod fishing excursion party have returned to New Haven from their second trip, with 4,6OO pounds of fish. Now they want to go again.
 A barn in Meriden near the Malleable Iron works belonging to James M. Bartlett was burned Tuesday night. Loss $500 insurance $4OO in the Hartford Mutual.
 The grocery store of John Jeffrey in New London was burglarized for the third time within few weeks on Monday night Goods and money to the value of $500 were taken.
 The Palladium building in New Haven, belonging to the bankrupt estate of E. s. Scranton & Co.,, was sold by auction on Wednesday for $25, 900 (above incumbran- ces) to Luzon B. Morris. It is mortgaged for $5O,OOO, and portions of the building are leased for terms of years. A dwelling and store occupied by Mr. Austin Hall in the western part of Easton were totally destroyed by fire on Sunday night. As no one was in the building an6 there had been no fire there, it must have been the work of an incendiary.
 The authorities of Black Rock, in Fair field county, having sick pauper on theil hands, shipped him to New Haven to gel rid of him. He arrived barely alive and was cared for. The meanness displayed by some Connecticut towns towards pau pers would make the average heathen blust for humanity.
 On the 18th of August the Ninth Twelfth and Thirteenth regiments, c. ". will hold their annual reunion at Bridge port. These regiments were formerly brigaded together, and they have therefor very appropriately decided to hold a brigad' reunion this year.
 In New London the blessed children nov go about with raspberry tinted finger tip and mouths, made mournfully sanguine by the gushing out and overfowing of huckle berry pies, while grave senility is doubled up with the contortions of the cucumbe and the hard intestine knots of strin, beans.
 A New London stone-mason performed foolhardy feat last week. Having cut thu stone intended for the top piece of the Sec ond Congregational church, he straddled and was pulled up on it to the top of th' spire, where he aided to adjust it in it place. This spire is the tallest in town, ,ant twenty feet higher than Groton monument
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
MIExgtet Gtt1ts*
SALISBURY. CONN. Friday Morning, Aug. 1, 1873.
Fate of am ErOM0ut.

A letter from Ionia, Michigan, gives the following details Of the death of La Noun tain, the eronaut When fully half mile from the earth, and when the whole struct- ure looked no larger than a hogshead, the balloon slipped between the ropes and was instantly inverted. The car and it's occu- pant dropped like shot with the most ter rife velocity, the unfortunate man clinging to the basket. That he was conscious Was evident from his struggle.
 With all the intensity of life he strove to raise the basket above him, evidently hop ing to use it as parachute. He succeeded in his object, but when about 100 feet high he loosened his hold, folded his hands and arms before his face, and his feet first struck the ground with dull heavy thud.
 Then ensued panic and uproar ln the crowded multitude. Women tainted, strong men wept and the canvass came Ay- ing over the crowd like huge bird.
 Some one cried out to get from the way as it would fall with crushing force. Then the cry was taken up and general rush made for safety, in which many were more or less injured. La Mountain was crushed into literal pulp. A medical examination disclosed the fact that hardly whole bone was left Many were ground and splintered to powder.
 His jaws fell upon lis arms and were pulverized. The blood spirited from his mouth and ears. The corpse was laid out and placed on the public square, where it was viewed by thousands during the after noon, and sent to his home at Brooklyn, Michigan, the following day.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01

BRIGHAM YoUNG AND Ills WIvEs.-Occa- sionally Brigham Young breaches sermon aimed specially at the women of his flock, who are at times found little hard to man. age. The following, taken from Salt Lake paper, is specimen of the style ill which he administers bis reprimands:
 Il wish my women to understand that what am going to say is for them as well as others, and want those who arc here to tell their sisters, yes, all the women in the community. am going to give you from this time to the 9th of October next for re- aection that you maydetermine whether you wish to stay with your husbands or not, and then am going to set every woman at liberty and say to them, now go your way, my women with the rest, go your way. And my wives have got to do one of two things, either round up their shoulders to endure the afiictions of this world, and live their religion-that is polygamy-or they must leave; for will not have them about me; will go into heaven alone rath- CT than to have scratching and fighting about me. will set all at liberty. What, first wife, too? Yes, will liberate you all. I Iwant to go somewhere or do some thing to get rid of the winners. do not want them to receive part of the truth and spurn the rest out of doors. Let every man thus treat his wives keeping raiment enough to cover his body, and say to youl wives take all that have and be set at lib erty; but if you stay with me, you vii comply with the law of God in every res pect, and that too without any murmuring or whining. You must fulfill the law o1 God in every respect, and round up you shoulders to walk up to the mark without any grunting."
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-01
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