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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-17
MEMPHIS TENN: MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY IL 1878

stock, the cattle range being unsur-
passed. The Indians can see every one
coming in five miles of. without them
selves being seen. They can also let
their pursuers come within a few feet Of
the bluff, and shoot down, retiring, il
necessary, to other similar bluffs. AS to
food, the Indians can find all they want
OF cattle in and around the lava bed, and
can also go out on the lake in canoes TO
fish or shoot game. The only thing they
now lack for a long siege will be ammu-
milton for their guns, but they will make
arrows instead. Those pursuing will
have to follow the Indians on foot, and
in journeying through these gullies and
crevices to hunt them must expect to
find the Modocs on the high bluffs above
them on every point, or making their
way through concealed passages TO se-
cure hiding places. 1t will require the
greatest cunning and strategy to capture
or exterminate the Modocs in this lava
section, notwithstanding their insignif-
cant numbers.
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AGnat story.
From the Danbury News.l

From the Danbury News.l
A retired clergyman writes an account
of little affair that happened in his
place. 1t appears that there was a young
woman, fine spirited girl, engaged at a
wash-tub opposite an open door. just
behind her was young man, as is gen.
orally the case, and in the yard was an
old buck that was allowed the freedom
of the premises, which is not always the
case, we are glad to say. Well, this
buck came up to the door and looked in,
and the young man going close behind
the young woman, pointed his finger
straight to the buck, and the old fellow
recognizing at once the pressing charac-
acter of this mute invitation, put down
bis head and dashed forward, and the
miserable man stepped one side and
fed, and the young woman, sli uncen-
scious Of the arragements. received the
awful shock without warning, and
passed over the tub, and the air for an
instant seemed to lie full of slippers and
wet clothes and hot water and suds.
And the next minute that goat came fly
ing out of that door at a dreadful speed,
bald the whole length of his spine, and
with wild look in his eye. Aud for an
hour afterward he stood pack of the barn
scratching his chin and trying to recall
all the circumstances in the unfortune
affair
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LOVE AFTER MARRIAGE.
Hints 20 welded Folks.

Suggestive Hints 10 Welded Folks.
From the Golden Age.l
There was much more than mere wit
ticism in the remark of the old bachelor
who had paid attentions to maiden lady
for twenty years, visiting her regularly
every night, when rallied for not marry
ing, IF / we're married, l should have
nobody to court, and no place to 60 at
night he had deeply felt the contrast
between his own delicate and ethereal
enjoyments, and the hard, discontented,
fretted life Of too many married people;
and his answer was irony. He saw there
was something in courtship which too
often exhales and expires after marriage,
leaving a cold, dull, monotonous burden
where all was beauty, buoyancy be-
fore. Let me see what that some
thing is. In courtship nothing is taken
for granted. Both parties are put on
their good behavior Love keeps itself
fresh and active by constant expression
in word and act But, strange to say,
the courtship usually ends with marriage.
Very soon both parties yield to the sense
of possession, and the feeling of security
robs gallantry of motive, and extracts
the poetry from the mind The beauti-
full attentions which we're so pleasing be-
fore marriage are too often forgotten af-
terward; the gifts cease, or come only
with the asking; the music dies out of
the voice; everything is taken for
granted, and the love that, like the silver
Jet of the fountain, leaped to heaven,
denied its natural outlet, ceases to flow
altogether. Then come dull, heavy, hard
days, with two unhappinesses tied to-
gether wishing themselves apart; and
not always content with merely wishing.
This is unnatural, and wrong What
married life wants to give it new
tone and sweetness is more of the
manner as well as the spirit of the
courting time. Very much of the pleas
ure of courtship comes from the con-
slant attentions of the parties to each
other. Their affection voices itself in
all possible ways. Every sentence is
edged with compliment and spoken in
tender tones. Every look is confes-
sion. Every act is a new word in the
exhaustless vocabulary of love. Kiss
and caress are parenthetie clauses and
gestures in this dialect of love, and gifts
and sacrifices are the more emphatic ex-
pressions of the spirit no language can
fully articulate and no devotion declare.
And it is the fact that affection confesses
itself continually in look and word
and act, making the voice musical and
the fingers poetic in their touch, and
doing that makes the experience so
beautiful, the only Eden many a woman
has on earth. Love must have express
sion or it will die. 1t can be kept for
ever beautiful and blessed as at the first,
by giving it constant utterance in word
and act. The more it is allowed to flow
out in delicate attentions and noble SER
vice, the stronger and more satisfying
and more blessed it will be. The house
becomes home only when love drops its
heavenly mama in it fresh every day,
and the true marriage vow is made not
once for all at the altar, but by loving
words and helpful service and delicate
attentions to the end
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TIE MuRDEROUs MODOCs.

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MUSIC.

pianos, Organs, sheet Music, aud
m rurioal merehandise and Instru-
menfa Of every description, whole
sale aud retail.
esf and best selected stock Ia this
city. and q full assortment OF the
Chick eii Ing, Hollenberg and Hal
letl a Cumaton Pianos, the Estey
organs, and brass and silver instre-
being practical ptnnO-muher
and musician OF taste and abiiity,
nnk known 90 the public na auch
since 1903, patrons OF this muslc
will md all goods strictly ns repre-
sentod and warranted, and nc mod
crate prices and ON easy terms
Warerooms. NO. 27a Second street
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STOKES AND FOSTER.

The FascIRatiOns of the GaIIOws.
From the New York Sun. Feb. 81
you would be surprised said War
den Finley TO the Sun reporter, yester-
day, to see the number of people Whe
come here to see Stokes and Foster. l
wish you would print this in the sun.
Il may relieve me somewhat from the
opportunities oe visitors If yeu will. IL
is a surprising fact that the great ma
jority of the people who come to the
Tombs are women; and they beg and
implore 10 see the condemned men.
New, Foster and Stokes are not simply
in my custody. They are in charge Of
the Sheriff, and / act simply as his agent.
BE has given directions that nobody
shall be allowed to see them unless upon
q written order from himself l could
not exhibit them If Ewould, and ! would
not if / could, for We don't keep q
menagerie here. Is isn't q shoa as peo-
ple seem to think. Why, sir, they come
from ell parts Of the country 10 see
Stokes and Foster. IL is al wrong, and
il you Will print this you may stop II in
some measure.
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NOTICE.
Executors Notice.

HAVING QUALIFIED As EXECUTOR
III ofBridroi Quinn. deceasei. creditors are
n0fifci 20 present. their claims accordlnE q
Law. and an debtors D. cone iqrgard and
rcifie. B. p. nARNks.
lI1-lf-lf3-li5 Ne. - Main %.
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RAILROAD.

Southern Railway Security Comply
Gesseo Memphis and Charleston R. R.)
MEMPHIS, TENN, February s, 1873.
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MASONIC MUTUAL
Life Assurance Association,
No. ss4 FroHt Street,

N.vuolla Block, cor. UniOn street, up stair
Ar. coNsTTTUTEG YOU A MEMBkk-.,
AlK Si0 Tor policy, 81 examining ieoi ane !,
annually. No other eHpef e 81 IN IN ~. -.
lessed a.
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Full Compliance Made with State Law
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MEDICAL.
DIR. R. l.. LASKI,
Surgeon
AND ACCOUCHER.

OFFICB. 5S UNION ST. ; RESIDENCE. go
~ Main street (6ayoso Blockl- Vmee hours
from 20 10 an. and from % SPIN. ere-
cialties: children and female diseases. Hrnd-
uafed at tho Universify Of Berlin lGermanyl;
with more than thirty years practical eAre-
rience. Vaccination daily at he once, ec-
tween and o'clock pm. el-XFi-e3
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GREAT SOUTHERN RAILROAD
SCHEDULE.

Express Train leaves daily texcept
sunday. - a.ui
MAIL Irnln u0ll p Al
Brewnsvillo Accommodation leaves
daily Except undayl......-----.-----..i;top Pm
No change Of cars BY this line for Louisville.
ST. Louis and Nashville. Pullman palace
sleeping-cars on all night trains.
Ticket Office, 237 I-2 Main 81.
JOHN T. FLYNN.
Superintendent Memphis Division.
JANIS SFEFn. Ticket Aceut. A-I
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STATE OF CoNNEoTIcUT. HARTFORD Co., S.,
HARTFORD. January 9, 1873.
Personally appeared before me- NITAAN,IH;L iy anaI;
fed To administer oaths, LUclUs j. HENDEE,
President, and JoTHAM ,GooBSow. Secretary,
and made solemn oath. that the foregoing g ing
HTS9a TxsUpsNoE COMPANY is true. And
certify that have examined the assets Of said
z1aNnany. and that it is in possession OF stocks
and bonds to the amount Of one hunurea
1hon9and dollars, and more, at par value.
NATHANIEL SlIlPMAN.
Justice of the Peace.
H. A, LITTLEr0N, Agent,
.,oo 1ss % Madison street.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Gen. Meacham and the MOdOcs.

Gen. Meacham has been in Iowa City,
and the Press, of that place, says:
Concerning the murder of Candy
and Thomas, Gen. Meacham was conf
dent before they went to the council that
they were going to their massacre. They
had all been warned by Toby, Riddles
squaw, but no one believed her except
Meacham, who had known her for four
years, and trusted her implicitly. She
is pure blooded Modoc, and her hus-
band, Riddle, is white Kentuckian. 1t
is too late to regret that Candy and
Thomas had not the insight into her
character which enabled Meacham to
trust her fidelity, for then the fatal coun-
Gil would not have been held. But Candy
trusted nobody but the army, and the
Rev. DIR. Thomas confded in nothing
but Providence, while Mecham relied
upon the squaw, and he was the only one
who came out to tell the tale. He was
shot III the crown and forehead, in the
right arm and left hand, and had one of
his ears nearly cut off in the attempt
Hooka Jim made to scalp him. He shot
one of the Schonchins and is confident
he killed him, for the head was brought
to camp by one of the Warm Springs.
There is family of Schonchins, which
accounts for the Scnonchin captured
with Jack.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
A Remarkable Criminal,

A convict named Moncrief Waddams
has recently met death at his own hands
IN the New Jersey Penitentiary, whose
career in life has been somewhat re-
markable. According to New Jerseys
traditions, this young man committed
more robberies and stole more horses
than any other three men in the coun-
try, and four years ago, such was the
terror of his name that the farmers of
New Jersey formed vigilance commit
tees in every county to protect their
stock from being carried away by him
and his gang. Waddams sprang from
a wealthy family in the north of En-
gland, and was graduated at Elton and
Oxford with high honors. For some
high-handed misdemeanor, growing out
of his reckless and rollicking DISPOSE
ton, he was arrested at Leeds, and
through family influence was released,
on condition of his quitting the coun-
try. This he did, and coming to New
York, he began wild and reckless
career, almost without parallel.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
A New Printing Press.

Mr.. Hoe has completed new "per-
fecting press" which is to " knock the
spots off, the Walter machine. The
new press, which is now being tried and
perfected, prints $4,000 copies, on both
sides, in one hour. The Daily Tele-
graph, I am told, is to have the press as
soon as perfected. The circulation of
the Telegraph, with all its faults, is
really immense. Its daily sale is never
less than ITO, 000-ithas reached on more
than one occasion 100000, and even
275, 900 copies and 100000 is its ordi-
nary sale during the busy season.
really don't know much about the clrcu-
lation of journals at home, but if | am
not mistaken these figures exceed those
of any American daily. Some very
valuable improvements have recently
been made in the rapidity of the process
of stereotyping the plates for news
paper presses. The Edinburgh Scots
man, which is now printed on two Walter
presses at very great speed, has Its
plates stereotyped for these presses II
an almost incredibly short time OF twelve
and half minutes for the first plate ano
two minutes for the subsequent ones
and for its Hoe presses it beats even thu
time, turning out the first plate IN onl..
eleven minutes. -LOndoa Letter.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03

infrmity, and degeneration, for which
no one could have been prepared. An
English paper attributes this melancholy
state,of things to the severity of the
toll of the French lower classes. The
peasant is, in general, misery of his
time as of his money; having his own
little plot, he works at it almost literally
day and night, sparing only enough
time on Sundays, perhaps, to attend a
daybreak mass and an occasional YES
pers and not only works thus indefati-
gably himself, but compels his sons
nay, his wife and daughters, too, for
they are practically his slaves-to keep
pace with him. The Breton peasant
utilities his children on the farm when
they are not more than two or three
years of age, and little toddling fellows,
unable to walk without stagger, may
be seen driving COWS to pasture, and
picking grapes at vintage-ti in the
Breton fields. Another cause of degen-
eracy, no doubt, lies in irregularity of
life and unhealthiness of food. A much
larger proportion of French peasants
than is commonly supposed are "heavy
drinkers" and what they drink is the
worst sort of cheap, fiery white wine,
du pays. Absinthe is by no means I'M
known to them, and they eat the most
indigestible of hard, sour bread, and
buckwheat galettes. Their life, in short,
is in too many cases divided between
debauchery and exhausting toll ; and
the consequences are seen III the feeble
bodies, the premature wrinkles anC
bent figures, which are but too familiar
to the tourist in the French interior.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Starching and Ironing.

Starch and iron shirt bosoms as usual,
and when the articles are thoroughly
dry, place one at a time on narrow,
hard and very smooth board, which has
had one thickness of cotton cloth over
it, sewed tightly have the polishing
iron" heated so that it will not scorch,
and rub it quick and hard over the sur
face, up and down the bosom, using
only the rounded part on the front of
the iron. A still higher polish may be
obtained by passing damp cloth light
ly over the smooth surface, and then
rubbing hard and quickly with the hot
iron. [ think it needs a good deal of
patient practice to do this admirably,
but know it is crowned with success,
and when once learned it is as easy as
other ironing. A "polishing IRON is
small and highly polished, with a round
ed part which allows all the friction to
come on a small part at one time, which
develops the gloss that may be in both
linen and starch. These irons may be
had at our hardware stores for about
seventy-fye cents each one is sufficient
for a family. Collars and cuffs look
nicely done in this way.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Funny Temperance Case.

In Akron, Ohio, I heard of funny
temperance case. A rum-seller whom
will call Hi Church, because he was
"high" most of the time, had been
sued several times for damage done by
his rum on citizens of the town. One
man came out drunk and smashed in
big glass window. He was too poor to
pay for it, and the owner came against
Church. A boy about sixteen got
drunk and let horse run away with
him, breaking his arm. His father
made Church pay the damage. A me-
chanic got drunk and was killed on the
railroad track, and his wife sued Church
for 1000 and got it. A farmer got
drunk and was burned in his barn on
the hay. His son sued Church and re-
covered. Church got sick of paying out
so much money for personal and prop
erty damages. It ate up all the rum
sellers profits. Still, he acknowledged
the law to be a statute, and that it made
him responsible for all the damage done
by his rum. He used to argue, also,
that sometimes his rum did people
good, and then he said he ought to re-
ceive something back.
One day lawyer Thompson got to
drinking. thompson was mean, like
most all lawyers, and when he died of
the delirium tremens there wasn't much
mourning in Akron. There wasn't any
body who cared enough for Thompson
to sue Church for damages done. So,
one day, Church went before the court
himself
"What does Mr.. Church want?" ask
ed the Justice.
81 tell yer what, Jedge," commenced
the rum-seller, "when my rum killed
that thar mechanic johnson and farmer
Mason, cum down like man. paid
the damage and squared up like Chris
tian-now didn't 1, Jedge?'
eyes, you paid the damage, Mr..
Church but what then?'
"Wal, Jedge, my rum did good
deal lords KILN lawyer Thompson now,
and it pears ter me when kill lawyer
| kinder oughter get a rebait p
ELI PERKINS.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Mixed SWindling.

California has this drama: One
Whitney, having sum of money IN
bank, and owing an equal sum, con-
suited one Dixon as to the best means
of avoiding payment. Dixon promptly
counseled that Whitney should with
draw the money and lodge it securely IN
his hands, so that it could not be at
tached by legal process. This was
done but when Whitney desired to
withdraw the sum from his ingenious
and guileless friend, the latter denied
all knowledge of the transaction. There
upon the despoiled Whitney Graves the
interposition of the law, and makes a
clean breast of it. The legal myrmi-
dons overheard Dixon, and it is at last
discovered that he has made over the
cash to an evil woman named Richard
son, with the understanding that both
are to fly, rejoining each other in dis
tant city, where they can diffuse the
booty i'll peace Searching and urgent
investigation of this person disclosed
the fact that she had just perfected her
arrangements to throw overheard her
fellow felon and run away with another
man man of the Hoodlum color, with
taking eye and correct taste IN hair
oil Search for this young man brought
to light the amusing fact that he had
spent quite portion of the money in
purchasing fugitive outfit for another
young woman, who, as soon as she had
got the articles, did literally and actu-
ally fly with still another young mai
about whom nothing is known, except
that he seems to be the only one in thi:
strange succession of criminals who ha:
reaped any of the fruits of the origina
crime. Considering the extreme com
plication and embarrassment of every
body concerned, and the small hkeli
hood that he will ever get any o
his money back, it is possible tina
Whitney may now almost wish that, in
stead of monopolizing his capital in tina
secret fashion, he had quietly paid hi
debts with it.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-03
Soldier Habits.

According to good authority, MacMa-
hon, the soldier President of France, is
a true military-republican in many of
his ways, and vastly popular. He lives
retired, unostentatious life; and though
he displayed extraordinary pomp when
sent, few years ago, On an embassy to
Prussia, his manners are unpretending
and his dress plain. He seldom appears
in uniform, and the only mark of dis
tinction he wears is the red ribbon of
the Legion of Honor. His most marked
characteristics are love of children and
fondness for study. He made a tri-
umphal entry into Milan, in 1859, with
a little girl, who had offered him nose
gay, perched upon his holsters. He is
probably as well versed in military his
tory as Faidherbe, and is often busy
with child and map upon his knees.
His favorite amusement is riding. In
society he is shy, almost sad, and seems
i'll at ease. He likes to saunter about
the boulevard, with his hands in his
pockets, and cigar eternally in hui
mouth, when he is not on horseback
and he is seen to most advantage a
home, surrounded by his family.