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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-17
Without chimney producing light equal less than half the cost
Lamps Warehouse and Stable Lanterns also
Glass and Brass Lamps of all kinds, at lowest
wholesale price always on hand.

Having added large quantity inventions to mammoth stock con-
sstng kinds MENTION invite
fill orders quantity and all times
Lights for Balls Parties Weddings furnished short notice
Premium Washing Machines and Clothes WringerS
Always hand Hoping receive orders remain truly
Iltnyfns A: HTTZFEIp 4 SON.
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ss-Ths purest and ,westsst Cod LIvsrson
In the world IL Hazard A oaswell's. made on
the sea shore. from fresh-Selectsd llsers' By
cAswyll, Hazard A Co.. New York. IL Is abb
Iolutely pure and sweet. Patients whe have
once taken It prefer Il to any other. For sale
nv al druggists. xxi-SQ
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NOTICE.
Notice to Lawyers.

WE HAVE FOR SALE AT THE LEDGER
w Office blank notices to take dispositions,
and printed instructions to the officer taking
the same; also blank captions and certif-
Gates. s. lot
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On Marriage.

Happy Relief for Young Men from the
Effects Of errors and abuses IN early Mo. Man
hood restored. Impediments 10 marriage re-
moved. New method oftreatment. New and
remarkable remedies. Books and circulars
sent free. In sealed envelope. j
Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION. No. 2
South Ninth street. PhilAdelphia. Pam in
stitutlon having high reputation Tor honor
able conduct and professional skin. lN-xvi's
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On Tuesday, e5th Of March, 1873,

AT II O'Clock an, IN front Of my office. No.
Sl Second street. Memphis. Tenn. proceed
TO sell TO the highest bidder. for cash. the fol.
loving described property. to-wit: A lot OF
ground beginning at a stake on the south side
Of Spring street. 100 feet west Of the northeast
corner Of lot No. Is; thence west with the
south line Of Spring street 81 feet; thence In a
perpendicular line from Spring street 1885
ioet 10 the north side Of Oyerton street; thence
east with the north line Of Overton street 70
street not named; thence in q line perpendic-
ular with Overton street 1855 feet TO stake;
thence west and parallel with Spring street 100
feet to a stake; thence north on perpendicu-
lar line with Spring street 2O0 feet 10 the south
side Of Spring street; said lot Of ground being
part OF suburban lot No. p Of subdivision Of
Dunn tract. Also lot No. 20 Of said subdivi-
sion having n front Of 400 4-l0 feot on the east
side Of Camilla street, 2iS1 feet on the north
side of Vance street, and 2jSH feet on the
south side of 0verton street.
Levied on as the property Of defendant. j.
j. DuBose. to satisfy the balance of said judg-
ment, interest and costs. Sale to commence
nj II O'clock am. w. ]. p. DOYLE.
Sheriff of Shelby County. Tenn.
G. W. METQAIP, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Memphis. Tenn. March /, 1873.
l-4-7-10-1 3-l6-l9.2D
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Trustees Sale Of Portable Engine.
Thursday, march aOth, 1879,

VIRTUE OF A DEED IN TRUST EX-
ID ecuted &c me- by Robert Grindrod, TO secure
certain Indebtedness therein set forth. l will on
Thursday, march goth, 1873,
sell to the highest bidder for cash. one porta-
BILE four-horse engine, in the shop of said
Grindrod. No. s. fernando street, city of
Memphis. Sale at legal hours. and before the
door Of the courthouse building, Union St.
SIT CHAS. Y. BULLOCK. Trustee.
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SHERrFF'S SALE
OF VALUABLE
Suburban Property on Spring and
Camilla Streets.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. THAT by
IN virtue Of n plurlus heri facias 20 mo d.
rected from tho Honorable First Circuit Court
OF Shelby county, Tenn. In the case Of Eos
ter, Gwynno a 70. W. J. J. DuBose, judg-
ment rendered on the 18th day Of Nay. lsiV,
and fifty-four dollars, credited BY three hun
drcl and hlty-one dollars and sixty cents,
pail january "a. 1873, with interest and costs
Of suit. TO satisfy said Judgment. etc., will.
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X. Pm. -, :, =
: memphis A Ohio R. R. al az
memphis a Charleston a "a
}. sol X. N.-Daily. VoV
Mississippi A Tennes- a,
1890 see r. k.-Daily. ~
Memphis A Little Rock .,
II. R.-Daily. I.h
miss. river 70 Eeleua&
3 friar's P't-daily. ii
jVicksburg(tri-weeklO
IS Mon. Ihurs:, Sat.
Miss. river = St.Loun
81 Mon. and Thurs.
I White Rivcr-Semi-
3 Woekly-Tue1. Sat,
Ark'eriver, tri-weekly
3 Mon, Wod. 4 Friday.
Marion ltri-woeklyl-
10 Mon, We'd, Fri. 10 II III
Cuha. Tennesseo-
weokly-friday.
1Byhalia60live Branch
g Tues. and Fri. o.z
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MEMPHIS POsTOFFICE.

orrton Houx-FRoH An. TO br.n.; SUNDAY
Fa0N 10 lOA I.
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FISH. na
REELFO0T LAKE +
FISH DEPOT,
10 Beal Street.
FISH.

LII VARIETIES OF REELFOoT LAKE
"A fish received daily. Also Lake Erie fish,
trout, white fish. bass and other varieties re-
ceived daily by express and packets,
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IoCEAN FIsH,

fresh and in good condition, daily. la
Fish dressed for immediate use kept con-
SANITY on hand, and dressed to order without
extra charge. Orders for dressing chosen fish
must be left before u o clock m.
146-xvi-18 w. II. COMSTOOk u co. I
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-12-18

GENERAL KEMpEa.- -" e edmond, Dec 4,
1873. 4propos Of the visit Of General KEN
per to this city, it is said that he desires no
public inauguration, and will have none Of
it !; also that he will net appoint an aid de-
camp; also, that on account Of the Injuries
received BY one of his children fron. being
thrown from horse recently, he will not re-
move his family to this city until some time
after he enters upon the duties Of bis Office :;
also, that he will send brief message to the
General Assembly, and is preparing therefor
by gathering together the last years depart
mental reports and other papers, and it is
likely Governor Walker will also send short
ope, containing, however, no recommends
lions; also, that he would consider it scarcely
less than an insult for any maa or any set Of
men to offer him present Of a carriage and
foe span Of horses also, tha5 he has very
decided opinions upon many questions of
public policy, and is heartily in favor Of the
reformation Of the numerous abuses that
have crept into our State government, and is
in favor Of real, practical retrepchment; al. o,
that he has no idea Of allowing his name to
be used for the sanatorship. and thinks that
to be governor Of Virginia is honor enough
for him. General Kemper looks better than
he did during the campaign and seems to be
IN foe spirits, but duly impressed with the
magnitude Of the duty he isabout to assume. y
Chester, an Petersburg News.
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Medical Discovery.

Was it not one Of Sancho Panza's sayings;
"a laugh doeth good like medicine % At all
events itseems to have had such effect with
very considerable success in Pittsburg. 1t
appears that gentleman with mumps and a
gentleman with brain fever were lying in one
room very sick. So much 50, indeed, that
watchers were needed every night, and it
was thought by no means impossible that
the brain fever gentleman might at any mo-
ment, and withous much ado, go out Of the
world. A man was engaged 80 watch the
patients and to wake nurse whenever it be-
came necessary to administer medicine. As
some people will do on occasions fthe kind,
in still room and by sick bed, both
watcher and nurse fell asleep. The gentle
man with mumps, who seems to have been a
person with some determination and coasd-
cradle sympathy, lay awake watching the
clock which gave notice gifts being time for
his friend with brain fever to have dose Of
medicine. Mumps being a disease which
makes it exceedingly disagreeable even to
open the mouth. let alone speak, the mumps
patient found 1t difficult TO call aloud, and
not inding it desirable to. jump out Of bed
probably the room was cold on the fever
mans Accountants for the monet in a Diff
fculty but it was only for an instant. He
seized hold Of a pillow, and apparently with
a great deal Of vigor, struck the watcher IN
the face with it. This seems to have had
the desired effect, for it not only awoke the
watcher but knocked him down, awakening
the nurse and the man with fever. The
Ill F4L oh or
SO suddenly aroused from his slumbers sent
the humps man into FITS Of laughter so IN
comfortable that it threatened not only to
crack his sides but his checks. The fever
man saw the joke and had just sufaesept rea-
son left in him to enjoy it. He laugh sc, too
Then nurse and watcher joined, and there
was a quartet Of laughers, who literally
brought down the house in their n:ghtshlrts to
fnd what all this row could be about in the
dead Of night. 20 follow fhe account given
ia the Yittsburg Gazette owl hen the doc
tor came in the morning he found his pa
tients vastly improved ; said be never knew
SO sudden turn for the better and now both
are up and we'll
This medical discovery is one that suggests
new and great addition to the naoteria
asedico. The afflicted with the lnumps may
be prescribed an evening with Jcffsrson's
Bob Acres. or the Bellies Of the Kitchen"
Of the Vokes Family, and brain fever be
attacked by a course Of negro minstrelsy.-
The sick may lay in their couches not shud-
dcring at the contemplation of the Dispute
ting pill Of the depressing tjocture, but in
voking the science of the medicine with
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with the
Jest and youthful jolity BAL. A1aeSs=
car.
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Startling Facts.

Mr. Charles Brace, who for twenty years
has labored for homeless and friendless
children ID New York city, estimates these
neglected, dangerous waits at from twenty
to thirty thousand. In his semi-monthly,
s.The Dark Side of New York, from Fifth
Avenue to the five points now being pub
lished, Frederick Gerhard says: IF we
would seek the cause Of the existence Of
such an army Ct unfortunate street children,
it will be fouad in drink. Where the pa
rem IS are living, they are found Invariably
to be addicted to drinking; AID where they
are not living, it is because drinking killed
them, and thus the children were left help
less and destitute. There is evidence on al
sides Of this. AL will acknowledge that
Industry and thrift will succeed in earning
competency almost anywhere, but when
we fud in city like ours as many as seven
thousand five hundred drinking saloons,
eleven thousand places where liquor is
Sold it is evident there must be something
different from industry operating somewhere.
The money spent ia drink by the poor would
life them a long way out Of poverty. The
money spent in drink every year in New
York is certainly as much as fifteen millions
of dollars, of which thirty per cent comes
out Of the pockets Of people who live in
garrets, cellars and tenement houses or who
seek shelter in police stations little nao?-
en- thus squaderea scas visely used, the od-
uantaqes Of home and education could Se
gives to erery one 81 the street children"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-12-18
4 REMARKARLE LECTURE.

Probably no friend OF the colored race eV-
er spoke more strongly in their behalf than
did Gen. Roger A. Pryor. in a lecture delly-
eredin Brooklyn, on Tuesday last. 4 faith
full Abolitionist Of the earliest day OF the
struggle against slavery could not have been
more enthusiastic in their defence or more
Aattering in his prophesies Of their future
Of the past Of the colored man he SAID !:
"Ehe history Of his race is one long, sad sto-
ry Of lamentation and woe, Of misery and
oppression;" but ''he is gradually making
himself competent to the highest achievement
Of civilization" And again: ellis VIRTUES
are his own; his vices are the result OF the
untoward circumstances that have surround
ed him."
General Pryor contradicted the common
notion that the race is dying out. It in
creased twenty per cent. between 1860 and
1870. The negroes are developing the re-
sources Of the country, and doing better as
freemen than as slaves. The voluntary la
borers of 1872 sent TO market more cotton by
10000 bales than the slaves Of 1869. And
they are improving in morality and educa-
ton. '.To be sure" said Gen. Pryor "the
system Of slavery vas not the best school IN
which to learn the science OF government
but we have rot yet heard that negro Con-
gresham was in any way implicated in the
Credit Mobilier scandal, and do not believe
that the negro Legislature Of South Carroll
pa was any more purchasable than the New
York Assembly during the days oft Ring.
What the negro wants is chance to advance
with the rest Of mankind. In the North the
theatres, the hotels even the churches are
closed to him, and when he dies, prejudice
actually dehes the equality Of the grave and
forbids that his bones shall desecrate the
sanctity Of Greenwood and Woodland aud
Laurel Hill"
General Pryor anticipated that there woald
be gradual movement of the race south
ward until the extreme Southern States wcald
become their home, that there they would
increase 20 the number Of ten millions in
hall a century and that they will bring to
the. Councils OF the nasien patriotism, intel
ligence and probity. It is remarkable in
stance Of the changes which time works,
that an ultra Southerner should become the
defender and advocate of the negro before q
Northern audience.-BaH american.
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N0.t31.
UNSAIDs.

For days and weeks upon The lip has hung
precious something for an absent ear
Some tender confidence but lately sprung,
4 Some dear confession that but one must hear
The heart repeats it over day by day, sa
And fancies how and when the words will fall
What answering smile apon the face will play,
What tender light will linger over all 800
May grow reluctant; for the open gate 1is
Let in with him, perchance, guest unknown
On VI om- slow words of courtesy must wait.s
Or when the presence waited for has come,
1t may be dull or cold, too sad or light; oiJ
looE, that elbows the heart away from hoaa,s
Can often put the dearest words to fight. ri
Perhaps the time of meeting, OK the form,
May chill or wlther what we We longed to say ..
What fits the sunshine willn Fit the Storm. )
What blends with twilight, Jars the noon Of day..
Again, when all things seem our wish to serve,
Full opportunity may strike us dumb ~,
May sink our precious thoughts in deep reserve.
And to the surface bid the lightest come. 5,s,
And often ere our friend issout Of sight, ga
We start; the thing can scarce be credited
We have been silent, CIR our words been tritea,
And here's the dearest thing of all unsaid!
-Lippineot's Nagazme.
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TIE VALLEY yIRGINIAN,
ST u MT ON, VA.
THE LITTLE HAND.


This sweet little gem Of poem is the produc
ton Of the late Lady Lawrence, wife of Sir Her
~ Lawrence, who was killed in the beginning
the sepoy rebellion in India:
That hand of thine, my precious child,
How oft its eoft caress l woo,
And ask, with many q hope and fear,
y hat is that little hand to do?
How duetle, soft, unworn by toll,
The ready instrument of play,
II executes the fancies' quaint
That make thy life one holiday.
It rolls the ball, it guides the pen,
And ciphers strange can deity trace;
And oft, with warm affections gush,
1t fondy strokes my care-worn face.
The mimic al ms it we'll can WELD,
And rein thy small and steady steed;
And when We con the lettered page,
Points to the tiny words we read.
And in thy parents hands It's clasped,
When night and morn our prayer is pray'd
=. And pillows oft thy rosy cheek
When sumber's spell is on thee laid.
Twill not be always thus my boy,
For real life has other tasks
What is that little hand to do?
Once more thy yearning mother asks.
Is it to guide the seaman's helm,
Or point the gun. mid flashing swords;
Or will it WELD the Students pea,
And clothe thy thoughts in living words?
Will it be hard and worn by toll?
Or pale with sickness livid hue7
Oh could thy mothers heart divine
What is that little hand to do?
But might her fervent prayer prevail,
Unsullied should that hand remain
Glenn from corruption's filthy touch,
And pure from every sinful stain.
Still ready for thy Masters work,
The servant Of willing mind,
More prompt to give than to receive,
And grasped in many greeting kind,
And may another hand be found
TO hold it in loves welded grasp;
And may the hands which God then Joins
Be one till death shall loose their clasp.
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How PEOPLE GER sIcK.-Eatins too
much and too fast, swallowing impcrfectly
nlasticased food by taking too much fluid
during meals; drinking poisonous whisky
and other Intoxicating drinks ; keeping late
hours at night aud sleeping too late IN the
morning. wearing clothing too tight, so as to
relax the circulation wearing thin shoes ,
uesIectisg to take sufficient exercise to keep
the hands and feet warm. Neglecting to
wash the body sufficiently to keep the pores
open Exchanging the warm clothes worn
N warm room during the day for light cos
tunes and exposure incident to evening par
ties. Starving the stomach to crafty a
vain aud foolish passion for dress keeping
nm constant excitement, fletting the n,iud
with borrowed troubles: employing cheap
doctors and swallowing anack postrums for
every imaginery i'll ; taking meals at irreggu
lar intervals.
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a THRIVING Cry The city of Joliet Ill,
has, during the past twelve months, enjoyed
a year Of prosperity without a parallel ia its
history. The Republican, in detailed
statement Of seven columns, gives the result
of the work Of 1879, by which it appears
that during the year four HUNDRED and thr-
ty eight new buildings have been completed,
while the amount Of money invested 10 per-
manent improvements and buildings REACHES
the sum Of 81 3Ga .Gl9.60, of which. seas,
$50 has been invested in buildings, s7G654;
- city improvements, $500 600 in the Jol-
1T lron and Steel Company's works; railroad
improvements, $44 .275; peoltentiary bull
digs, $4,000; miscellaneous improvements
ana buildings In course Of constructions 75,-
| 7oA sfhe Aggregate is an excess Of the bus
lness spFovoasetiks Of 1877 S1a7 ,i77ssl while
/ the RRmber Of pew buildings erected 10 1879
/. n eus hundred and thirag; eight greats1 chan
I he Dlfsri0iis ycar E@ss - IS NJ
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A genuine Yankee at LISBON, Cs., wantinSy
to put a water pipe through drain several
feet below the surface without digging up,
the drain, tied a string to a cats leg, thrust
her into one end Of the drain, and giving
terrific "scat!'' the feline quickly appeared
at the other end. The pipe was drawn
through the drain by m,eaus of the line, and
an expense Of ten dollars saved by the op-.
GRAFTON.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-12-18

ANEcDorE OF PRENTIcE.-it vas seldom
an antagonist cou,d get the start Of Geo. D.
Prentice, the editor Of pupgeps memory. On
one occasion political opponent proposed
this query; ''What tune will ba played at
the funeral Of the Courier editor = Answer
The Rogue's March" Prentice. replied with
this conundrum why is the editor of the
Herald like tune of Raganini's ?
Answer He will be executed on a single
string"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-12-18

A western paper pictures reporter, in =
proposed new style ;o'f primer, as follows i
'Pere is the face Of :. reporter. See how Joy !.
full he looks. He has Just heard that y man.
has cut his own throat, and he is going f'"r.
the itemr. Should You like to be a repor-,
ter and get thrashed dark nights, and seet
dead persons, and climb up four pair Of
stairs ?"
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STAUN[TON VIRGINIA. THURSDAY DECEMBER Is, 1873

which he said the Presidents salary should
be $4,000, the Chief Justices $4,000,
the Associate Justices $4,000. Senators
$4,000 and representatives $4,000 Mr..
Stephens was listened to with great atten-
ton, members filling the aisles in the Vi
entity of his desk, and among his hearers
wete Messrs. Thurmon, Cenkling, Bayard,
and other Senators who had been attracted
from the Senate Chamber.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-12-18

Since Mr.. Bailey took to recording the
queer accidents which befall the good peo-
pie Of Danbury, it is astonishing how prone
the inhabitants Of almost every town in the
United States are to get into scrapes that re.
mind of the Dlnhury .N'eaes Mans para
graphs Here, for instance, we find a young
Colorado miner. according to the Reese Is50,
err Reyeil2e, taking hone a little blasting
powder in his coat-sail pocket to split a tough
log that deied the assaults of the axe. AZ
ter he got home he concluded TO call upon a
young lady living in his Eeghborhood, and
lighting his pipe, he started for her residence
Before he entered the house he recollected
that she disEked TOBACCO smoke so he knock
ed the pipe on the heel of his boot and put
it in his coat,tail pocket, forgetting that a
stray spark would be apt to occasion Sigh.
commotion if it should happen to reach the
packet Of powder. The amorous young min
er found his sweetheart at home, aud he was
soon seated by her side on a sofa, engaged ia
an absorbing conversation about those things
usually uppermost in the minds Of lovers,
when all at once he was interrupted. He
crawled out OF distant corner of the room
and. as he picked Up hustle and switch
Of false hair, he inquired whether the light
ming had struck any body else. The young
lady said that the Virginia City explosion
ought 10 teach any fool the danger Of carry
ing nltro-glyccrine around loose, and the
young lady's father excitedly remarked that
the Fourth Of July was over. and if any body
wanted to lei of fireworks they ought to go
out on the Hill and Go it. By this time the
miner concluded it. was getting late; and
the next day, whea hs went to see man a.
bout fixing the sofa, he casually observed
that a certain youug lady was inclined to be
a little too high toned, and to think herself
too good for miner, anyhow.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-12-18
NEW LEQU0R STORE.

Large and Superior Stock of Imported and Do
mestic Liquors of all kinds, ct
A. Z. BUCKS,
, Augusta street. near Post Office,
STANTON, VA,
AGENT for MOORES " CO., Baltimore.
ALE and PORTER in bottles for family use.
equal to Scotch Ale and London Porter, at half
their cost.
Having had an experience Of ten years in the
Liquor business, l have availed myself of the
knowledge thus acquired to select the purest and
Acst articles. Those wishing such, will DO well
90 eah before purchasing elsewhere.
nov lott 4. |. BUCK.
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aIa'am" said quack to nervous old lady,
your case is 2 scrutuntutury Complaint o.
Pray, doctor, what is that?" Is it the droop-y
ing Of the nerves ma am; the nerves haynS fall
into the pizarntum the chest becomes NOR
berous, and the head goes tizarizen, tzarizeu =
.. All doctoa, = exclaimed the old lady "yoW"
have described my feelings exactly.' ~.
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A young husband calls his wife 'Birdie,,
because he says. she is always associated 10
his mind with a BILL
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Unless you give me aid" said beggas,
to a LADY, am afraid | shall have to resort
to something which ! should greatly dislika.
TO do The lady banded hin, dollar ana
colnpass oEatelY asked what i it. poor n,...s.
that haye saved you from,?" Work wa.s
the motsaaspl answer.