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nounces his Intention to build another
steamer at once.
Says the Pitisburg Telegraph. Com.
modore William II. Brown has gone TO
Denver, where Il Is hia intention to asso-
ciate himself with other capitalists and
purchase lot Of government land and
open coal mine. The Commodore has
heavy contracts for his P:ttsburg coal
this season. aud will ship 100000
bushels to the 81. Louis Gas Works,
100000 to the Mississippi Steamship
Company. New Orleans; 5000 600 to his
yards at Memphis aud White river, and
600 600 to Cairo and Columbus. Eight
powerful towbOAis will be used in moving
Il is vast amount Of coal. /"
The Blanche. recently sunk and raised
at v icksburg has been fully repaired.
The Memphis Dry Docks are to be sold
at three o'clock this afternoon
The Ma ry E. Poe completed her re-
psirs At Y icksburg on Wednesday and
started for R, ID river.
The wrsckiL boat Usage is hard at
work at the City OF Cairo, burnt a short
time since near C,Trollton.
Ii is stated thnt ttle John Kyle has on
board 200 tons Of iron, engine and puSh
cars for the Vieksburg and Ship Island
railroad Another shipneGt Of iron for
this road is coming down on The Ames.
Says the Wedne. days New Orleans
Herald; Report comes here that the
Flava, lately sunk in Cross bayou, near
Shreveport, is not 30 badly used up as
previously reported, I'D it IS said that
her bow is out of water, probably on the
shore; but no telling where her stern
may be at present, and it is likely that
she is standing on that psrt Of IT, and
that will account for the AVIATION OF the
other part
The Babbage and barges return to st.
Louis from Louisville with 1900 barrels
Of cement.
The Charles Bodmann will follow the
Nick Longworth to New Orleans, leav-
ing Cincinnati next week.
Rates to New Orleans from Cincinnati
are 4Oc per 100 pounds on heavy and
large lots Of freight.
The receipts of lumber at St. Louis for
the month of July by RATS, steamers and
barges amounted to q, $4,000 feet
Unless rates are advanced steamboats,
will have to cut down on their meals
and give them but two day instead of
three; and about the only possible way
they can make anything off their pass
engers is by feeding them peaches and
fat pork 1t is said that real hearty
first elaas meal made OF the above diet
will last a moderate sized constitution
full seven days, but then we. suppose it
depends entirely upon how they are
swallowed and the activity of the indi-
gidual in dispossessing himself
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A Great Horror Done Away with.

A Great Horror Done Away with.
House cleaning is great horror to
nine men out Of every ten. When that
time comes the men folks" as rule,
give the domestic hearth wide berth. !"
Oceans Of suds-the product of tons of
soap-fairly food every part of the
house. The women, from the mistress
down, labor as they never worked be-
fore, and what with the discomfort, the
smell of suds and the dampness, and
not unfrequently sickness, the product
of colds and overwork, matters are gen
orally disagreeable The simple use of
Sapolio instead of soap does away with
all this discomfort. 1t lightens the la
Dor hundred per cent, because it re-
moves dirt, grease, stains and spots,
with hardly any labor, with bpt little
water, and in one.tenth the usual time.
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ADVERTISING.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.

IRON AND AFTER THIS DATR. WE
4 viii charge Q0l cents per line for the first
insertior. and 6ve 90 cent? per line for each
subsequent insertion of all legal advertise
uents. except such as nay Be inserted for
thirty days or longer consccutveiy, which
will be charged a. card rate, b. The square,,
countiDg eight 81 lines nonpareii. solid. % tie
square. The printers fees 10 be paid In ad-
vance in every instance.
e. W. ALEXANDER.
B. n. Memphis Appeal Pub. CO.
A. J. kELLAR,
Memphis Aralsnshe.
h. WHIIM0RE,
Public Ledger.
Memphis, January 81. 1873. lit
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BRICK dust deposit indicates kidney
complaint. Check it at once. Helm
holds Extract Buchu, the diuretic par
excellence, is a certain specific for all
diseases of the urinary organs and sex
ual system. DR.. Helmbold is the only
man VINO. ever really utilized and ex-
tracted the pre-eminent virtues of
Buchu. His preparation is as much SUI
perior to the so-called Buchus," as
cream is to skinned milk. In fact, it
never fails. Sold by druggists. cod
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Asleep In his Red. at COrinth. Last
Night-NO Clue 10 the Assassin.
We learn by private telegram received
this morning that DIR. r. 7. Dunn, Dep
uty United States Marshal at Corinth,
Mississippi, was most brutally assasi-
mated about eleven o'clock last
night, while asleep in his room, at
Corinth, by some unknown person or
persons by being shot through the win
dow with doHble-barreled shotgun, tho
contents (buckshot) of both barrels en-
tering his head, and so near was the
muzzle of the gun when it was fred that
the powder burned his hair. DR.. Dunn
was well known in this city, being a
brother of Ned Dunn, who formerly was
proprietor of wholesale liquor house
on West Court street, and has numbers
of personal friends in the city No
clue to the assassin has been obtained.
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An enormous sea serpent has lately
been seen in Lake ChamplaiR, neal
Dresden. His existence there has been
known for the last twenty years. He is
said to be from twenty to forty feet long,
and to have silver-like scales that glitter
hideogsly in the sunlight. He lives
either on land or in waller as his taste
-acufree
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Olympic Theater.

This popular place Of amusement on
Washington street will be open tonight
for the reception of the public. The
Harmonican Minstrels and host Of va
riety stars will appear. Clog and fancy
dancing, vocal exercises, negro comical.
tiles aud character acts are on the in.
teresting programme of entertainment.
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JOE LoCKE.-Harper, Galaxy, Dem
crest, Peterson, Cooley and other mag
azines for August, and the latest novels,
received at Joe Locke's news de-
pot, No. 236 Main street. The latest
dailies from all quarters, foreign papers
and periodicals of every land, maya
zines and fashion books of latest dates
can be found at Joe's. A fine lot of sta.
tionery, etc., for sale.
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TAXES.
City Tax Notice

sOFFrcE OF Cry Tax COLLECTOR.
.MFuPHs. TENNESSEE, July D. 1873.
|, BOOKS FOR 1878 HAVE BEEN
med over 70 me for collection. We now
Il great inducement 70 FRoHPr TAX PAY
They will be allowed TWO ASp HALF
VI PFR MONTH DISCOUNT mp to the LIST OF
nv. III paid BY the lst Of August the
INT would be TWELVE AND HALF PR
FFLIX W. ROBERTSON.
a. Civ Tax Col1crfor
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DON'T BUY COAL
st. Bernard Coal Association,
NO. 3 MADISON STREET.

Bow BELLS for July has arrived, and
is to be had at Walkers news depot, lO5
Beal street This magazine is the finest
ladies journal placed upon our table,
and Walker has plenty of them. Call
early and secure copy.
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Prince Adalbert OF Prussia bequeated
the whole Of his private fortune. includ-
ing a handsome palace, situated al the
Potsdan gsts. in Berlin, to his morgan
attic wife, the Baroness voa harnim, nee
Elssler, who has offered TO sen the same
TO Government, as Der intention is to re-
s;de in Austria.
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PARTIES desiring to visit Raleigh Min
eral Springs during the week by observ-
ing the advertisement of the Memphis
and Raleigh railroad will see that they
can leave the Louisville depot at 8
I'm, ll:55 am. and 4:40 pm. Can re-
turn from the springs same day at so
p. IN. and $3.50 pm. 1881
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MntrIlnonlnI Mofes.

The executed marriage licenses re-
turned to the County Clerk during the
week are as follows: ]. j. Smith and
Miss d. A. Corn; W. F. Wesson and Miss
Fannie E. Belate. Twelve colOred cou-
pies likewise INDUCED in marriage dur
ing the same period.
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Personal.

S. Slernberg, the tObacconist, 3l3
Main street, leaves tomorrow for the
Eastern cities, and will visit all the eel
ebrated tobacco manufactures in Vir-
ginia, to purchase fine tobacco, cigars,
ETC., which he proposes to sell at the
lowest possible prices.
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MANsFoRD has Tribune lecture sheets
and all the August magazines, papers
from all points of the compass, The latest
novels and complete assortment of sta
tionery, all to be found at the corner of
Second and Monroe.
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An amateur naturalist who has been
trying to account for the unwonted
scarcity Of hies at one Of the Long
Branch hotels this season, has arrived at
the conclusion that it is owing to the de-
moralizing effect upon insects Of the
gigantic fans used bv the ladies'.
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LOST.

IN, yesterday EVENING OR LAST
Eabt small black memorandum book,
,ssaotat n one side, containing papers
bI Ien npIv to me. A liberal reward will be
III i'S rei II r ,SHANKS. II Monroe st.
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The Indian wives OF Border whites.

----~1ls-I~.DH--
The Indian wives of border whites.
The custom of taking to themselves
Indian wives still prevails among the
hunters and trappers of our Western
Territories, and correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, writing from Wyo-
ming, says
1t is no uncommon thing, in this
mountainous region, to find a white and
squaw who have q numerous progeny
of half-breed children growing up around
them. These children are active and
quick-witted, and their descendants will
go toward making up our highland popu-
lation. The sqaws make good and faith
full wives, and, so far as their knowledge
goes, good mothers. They seem to enjoy
life, and, in their gambling games, get
thoroughly excited. The women have
games of their own, and no man inter
feres with them in any way. The game
seems to be somewhat like the old play
of the children, called Button, button,
who's got the button2
During the whole game all the women
sing together the most lively air have
ever heard among the savages, and all
are eager for the possession of the grand
prize, which consists of beads and bead
work, scissors, money, needles, and a
hun bred other things dear to the femi-
nine heart. The children, too, are
anxious lockers on; and he who supposes
the Indians do not enjoy themselves
ought to see them engaged in this game,
where their whole soul seems to be alb
sorbed in pleasurable excitement II is
called Ni-u.witz, the Game of Hand; and
while it is going on a woman at either
end of the two rows of players beats
on the pole which separate them with
all her might, keeping time to the mu-
sic, and increasing the enthusiasm as
much as possible. Some of the young
squaws are handsome, black-eyed
creatures, with masses of raven
hair, who would attract attention any
where Their bright-colored blankets
set off their charms to hegreatest advan-
tage, and they appear modest and dec
orous enough. For long time | was of
the opinion that there was no such thing
as handsome Indian girl, but in this |
was greatly mistaken-some of them
being very fair to look upon. They
break early in life, and the old women
look like the veriest hays. The young
girls have all the playful little ways OF
their fair sisters, and the little ones have
their dolly papooses, the same as white
children. Human nature, after all, is a
good deal the same everywhere, and a
little observation among savages shows
that they are governed by the same pas
siohs and impulses that we are, though |
A love of ease and a con
Tempt for hard work are by no means
confined to the redskins.
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R sALE-A COTTAGE HOUSE AND
,'; house contains six large rooms, pan
ID closets. large hall and pOrches front
ear the house new and in good order;
v23i /, set TO an alley, situated at corner
,ndo RI Nad and Wellington street, imme-
|; = 10 4. p. FONTAlNE,
1sS No, o West Court street.
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R SALE-A NO. l SECONDHAND
ioslin rockaway. in good order, with
and shafts and neY single harness. APP
{ Eclipse Stable, No. Is Monroe street.E
4 M, G, COSTELLO.
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ATTORNEY.

b. TR EZE v ANT,
Attorney-at-LaM,
~ Public, u. =. Commissioner
and Commissioner OF Deeds.
.5aADISON STREET,
in prepared to serve the public. 1914
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,R RENT. LEASE OR SALE.

R RENT. LEASE OR SALOON TIME,
com Eortable new frame house, situated
!. SIC Shelby street, one block north Of
4 street, containing eight rooms, gas,
/. fruit trees, etc. Apply at f. Layigne's
store, 269lz Main street. l24-t
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B SALE-ATA BARGAIN-THAT COM
lete suburban residence Of 8 acres, 2lla
| from the city on the Horn Lake road,
IN as the jacob PLACE: dwelling OF u
81, with all modern improvements and all
and comforts, out-hogses.
~ SWAYNE & C0LMAN,
US Main street.
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R SALE-A COTTAGE HOUSE WITH
hree rooms, kitchen and servants rooG';
a shady lot, one of the prettiest in the
46xl50 feet; situated on Cynthia, near
g street, convenient to street cars. Also,
!. IA, Smiths subdivision, Georgia street.
d feet; price, 5000; long time given il
red. Apply to G. CURTIS,
-147 At Drug Store, 2i6 Main st.
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m EDIcAL..
TR o N !!

THAT PALE, YELL
J. low, siekly looking
skin is changed to one Of
freshness and health.
Those diseases of the
skin, pimples, pustules,
hle.ches and eruptiOus
are removed. Scrotula.
serofulous diseases of the
eyes, white swelling, ul-
GERS, old sores, or any
kind Of humor. rapidly
dwindle and disappear
uader its influence. In
fact, Il will do you more
good and cure you more
speedily than any and sll
other preparations com
bined. WHAT Is TT 10
= ...s...,fr avn rQrfnrRr
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A soluble Oxyd Of non combined with me me-
dicinsl properties of Poke Root Invested Of all
disagreeable qualities. 1t will cure any
chronic or long standing disease whose real or
direct cause IS bad blood. rheumatism, pains
In limbs or bones, constitutions broken down
hy mercurial or other poisons, are all cured By
ii. For Syphilis, or syphilitio faint, there is
nothing equal to il. A trial will prove Il. ASK
for DIR. CROOKS COMPOUND SYRUP OF
POKE ROOT. d75-lsi-wl4-E
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DidnA 49, muioa'es ho reporb' clphor W.
''Iio5lSSie eiail ~ rising s.w. RHODE.
Observer SiRnal Service. U. S. A.
THE RIVERS AND WEATHER.
The river has fallen nine inches since
our last report, the water level now be
ing eleven feet seven inches above zero
on the gauge. With this rapid decline
the chanRel at Osceola must soon begin
to cut out, and in the course of few
days there will be at least seven and a
half feet over that crossing. The upper
streams generally are declining, and the
lower tributaries, except Red river, are
falling, and down to a dead lew water
stage.
BUSINESS.
There was little done at the landing
last evening or this morning. The Belle
of Shreveport, on her way from Red
river to St. Louis, had 200 bales of cot
ton for reshipment at Cairo. The local
packets out had light trips. The Henry
Ames, after few days delay at Osceola,
passed down last night with good trip.
and the Grand Tower arrived from ST.
Louis during the night with 200 tons,
BOATS TO LEAVE.
FoR RED RIyER.-The Lady Lee will
be here to leave on Monday.
For VIcKsBURG. The new City of
Helena, Captain Isaac Mckee and Geo
Walton in the Office, departs this even.
ing for Vicksburg, cad carries the United
States mail. She is a fine passenger
and freight boat, aud has considerable
speed, as well as attentive officers.
FoR ST. LoVIs.-The Grand Tower,
Captain Lennox, departs at five clock
this afternoon for Cairo and st. Louis
FoR Arkansas RIVER The regular
Arkansas river packet Clarksyille leaves
at sharp five o'clock this evening for
Pine Bluff, Little Rock, and all points on
the Arkansas river. Capt. Barrett CON-
mands, and Mr.. Il. W. Outlaw is chief
purser.
FoR CNcISSATI.-The 6ne passenger
steamer James d. Parker, in command
Of Captain Robert Wise, leaves az FIVE
o'clock this afternoon ioT Louisville,
Cincinnati, and all points on the Ohio
river. Mr.. Mcintyre is prime minister.
FoR NKw ORLEANS. - The elegant
steamer Pauline Carroll, Captain James /
Yore, viii be down to leave st six O'clOck
this evening for Vicksburg, Natehez
and New Orleans.
FoR Nav OBLEAvs. The elegant
steamer shannon. Captain Hicks King,
will be down tonight, aud leaves at 3
1. N. tomorrow foF Eieksburg, Matches
and New Orleans
NIsCELLAErbUS
A private letisg from Captain Alex.
Halliday, Of the Jennie Howell, an
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sALE-A LOT WITH DOUBLE TEN
rat house on it, on the northeast cor
" Ftaee by 1857 on Cynthia. Each
q Tpr rooms and servant house.
mas !, ~ corner Of Mari and Manassas
: 10. " 8 feet on MARI by 1859 on
!, iIo ,. For terms apply y
'sas streei MgN W. JEFFERSON,
- 10 Madison street.
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FUwiTsEs reysired, vanished and
re-uphplslsred By Karin EYE, 81 Mad
ison street. lie
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BUT ysur wood from C. d. johnson,
III Poplar street, near Fourth. l0st
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R SALE-AT & BARGAIN ONE BAB-
ock Fire Extinguisher, new and m per
rider, at Ledger office. liS-l39
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Prassisn blss Fill b one Of the fash
onable colors next fall.
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EoR BENT oRLEAsE.

R RENT OR LEASE. COTTAGE WITH
ix rooms. out-houseg and garden. APP
4 AMES i BEATIE.
1896 Main street
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car iGISTRATES' BLANKS
!. Nissi.s;n;an Tennessee. A general
psnt hsnt ~ a. he, 4 ard for sale cheap at
nee
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, RENT = COTTAGES, OFFICES,
eeping-rooms and one store room on
street. Apply to -
MoRAE, MYERS & SNEED,
279% Main street. up stairs.
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Changes.
Above loWll
Stations.

Below bench mark.
tBelow high water Of 1871.
Blank (......l indicates no report; cipher (0l
stationary; ~ rising.
(0ficiall s. W. RHODE,
Obsarvar SiRnal Servica II & A
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VIM LIEBEY, the experienced and en-
newsman who recently bought
out the news emporium of A. r. Will
kinson at III Main street, has removed
to l724 Main, just across the street,
south of Poplar. He keeps full stock
of latest dailies, foreign papers, maya
zines, fashion and sporting journals,
fancy stationery and other articles, to-
baccos, cigars, etc. Give the worthy
young man n call
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FOR SAFE.

SALE-HORSES = SEVERAL 100D
Iddle and harness horses. co
HALL * w.,
& DeSoto Stable. So Union street.
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For I'D. Francis RIver,

E0f 81. Francis HAVof>
Regular Tuesday Packet-For all way land
ings ON tho Mississippi to Helena, Ian
guile, to Mariana, and st. Francis river to
Wittsburg.
ST. FRANCIS..........,T. R. Bowman, master
WILL LEAVE MEMPHIS AS sszs,
w above every TUESDAY, ats Lslseltas&
o'clock pm, For freight or pas nl<ssisadslHs
dage apply on board. 145-t
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
once; No. 10 Madison Street.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.
iu EHdPHIS,
urdaS Evening. August D, 1879.

PITTsBURG and Camel coal and gas
coke. Brown & Jones, office 2S2 Main
street, Bethel Block.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.


PUBLIC LEDGER OFFIcK,
MEHPBIs. TESS.. August 9. lS73. (
blowing are the quotations for local
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sALE.-IAM NOW SIZZLING , FINE M
nerican and Italian n l9naisents, tCln-i,s'
N. THOS. MAlDWELL,
No. So Union 81, bet. sec, md ana Third.
sALF-ATTHIs OFFICE OLD PA
rs, AT SO cents per 100. The cheapest /
ing paper you can get. and good 70 put
vour CARPET. gl-l
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ANOTHER ASSASSINATION.

Dir. X. T.. Dunn, of COrinth, Miss,
shot through the Head while
Asleep fn his BED. at COrinth. Last
Night-NO clue 10 the Assassin.
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A private letieg nom Captain Alex
Halliday, Of the Jennie Howell, an
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The custom of taking to themselves
Indian wives still prevails among the
hunters and trappers of our Western
Territories, and correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, writing from Wyo-
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FOR RENT.

In RENT A LONG EST ABLISHED
hnd the best located Ice and vegetable
n in the city. Fixtures, etc, for sale
by today at 1874 fernando. corner OF
Ice streets. l3.-lSs
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| Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Com
pany-U. S. Mail Line - For Pine Blu3,
| Little Rock, and all p9iEts through to Fort
Smith.
CLARKSVILLE, .................. Barrett, master
WILL LEAVE AS ABOVE ON Usys.
w SATURDAY, August 9, at So Assts sH
pm. seszHasala<<sa
JOHN N. HARDIN, Agent,
1919 Office on Whsrfbuat, foot of Codrtst.
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with a. few vigorous blows. Upon
being released the said Gum arose,
and imagining his dimensions to be
increased to the size of twenty
FOUNDER, and being reinforced by a
few sympathetic sons of Erin, he
sounded the charge and pitched into
Morton again, who cooily and bravely
met the assauft. and again the Gum
assumed his former position, and
would have been spiked and rendered
useless for time, had not the said re-
inforcements arrived upon the scene
of action. They were lod by a plucky
and peacemaking female, whose nails
did good service In the Young man's
face, when the bystanders interfered
and put stop to the unequal combat
Query, Who furilished the ammuni-
tionS.
Notwithstanding the backwardness
of the season, planting has been going
on as usual, and the apple and cherry
trees are in full blossom, while grass
and winter grain give promise of an
abundant supply OF food for man and
beast.
A shower of rain would be very
acceptable about these days.
VERITAs.
May 26, 1873.