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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08

TXTANTRD - CUSTOMERS FOR ALL
w kinds of furniture, mattresses, bed
ding and feathers, az $40 Second street rear
Monroe. [4S-l3Ol @. p. DAVIDS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08

SNoR SALE-A HOUSE AND LOT ON
the southeast corner Of DeSoto and web
ster streets containing SIX Loo tns VIA, Apnly
an the premises. OH
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08
STEAMBOATS,.
For Arkansas RIVER.

CHEEK LIN IL.
Memphis and Vicksburg Packet Co.
For Helena, Friar's Point, NapO-
leon, and the Bends.
U. S. MAIL LINE TO NAPOLEON.
Steamer A. ]. White, I.EA
Mark R. Cheek................. master -
Leaves TUESDAY and FRIDAY at pm.
For HaIe's Point.
For Oseeola, Randolph. Fulton, Hale's Point
and the bends.
GEO. W. CHEEK.....George Malone, master
II RAVES MONDAYS, WEDNES- 49,
IL DAYS and FRIDAYS. at p. m sllsEitl3
board Boa or to GEo. W. chick, sup't.
l09-t ~ Madison street.
Temnhts and Arkansas River Pack.
eI Company U. \. Mail Line.
T1HE ELEGANT PASSENGER BOATS OF
IL this line leave Memphis for all points on
Arkansas river Tuesdays and SatuF-
W. P. WALKER, Agent.
est Office on Wharf boat. foot Court 81.
Memphis, Helena and Frfar's POint
Daily Line.
Steamer Phil Allin, t.EA
y ames Lee-......-...-.-.--.....-.--ina sieI
Leaves MEMPHIS Mondays. Wednea-
days and Fridays. az 5 o'clock pm. and
FRtAR's POINT tuesdays. thursdays
and saturdays, at 10 o'clock an.
Steamer Pat Cleburne, L.
Stacker Lee. .-.....-.-..,.-m astera-l-
Leaves MEMPHIS Tuesdays. Thurs
days and Saturdays. AZ o'clock Pm;
and FRTAR'S POINT Wednesdays. frf-
days and Sundays. at 10 o'clock an.
For freight or passage apply on board. ll,if
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08
BOARDING.

BOARDING "A PLEASANT FRONT ROOM
Is with board, suitable for gentleman and
wife or two gentlemen. can be had by imme-
date application Reference exchanged.
MRS. u. j. BECKTEL,
1Os119 65 Linden street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08

+ TAKE PLEASURE IN INFORMING THE
former patrons that have taken charge Oh
fhe Whitemore House. and hope by attention
10 business and the comfort Of travellers to
, merit share of public patronage. Terms
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08

BOARD AND PLEASANT FRONT ROOM,
ID for gentleman and wife, az NO " M9 ao ~ 9
street. A few day boarders taken. lOI-lls
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08

n "u0'"'e' WV NV a. ]. MILLS, NJ. D.
n r. Whitemore will still be found at the
bo,,. e, Nos. lO9 and Ill Adams street. ll3-f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08
LOST.

r 0ST-A pearl, EAR RING. FIVE DOL
lars reFs,rd will He paid for its return to
Felix, 292 Front street. ----- -ty-.i-
r OsT-ss REWARD. = LOST ON TIE 20
instant. one pair Of 0la h 1911
cles The finder will receive me ~ 10
by leaving them at Ledger o. &c. ~. -
II OsT-DRAY BOOK NO. "a. LlBkk AZ.
reward will be paid il Il is ret teu 10 WI w
Memphis City Transfer Company, ~, os Iii
Court street 49,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08
GROCERIES.
BUSINESS HOUSES.
WANTED.

DICKINSON, WILLIAMS A co.. COTTON
IL fartorg 2G6 RrOnt street. w
The New York herald., 1873-07-09

ENoR NORFOLK, CITY POINT AND RICHMOND
y The Old Dominion steamship Company will de-
snia BE- siskeman S9mmsndcr for Norfolk City Point
through bills of ladng ali points South and Southwest
through passenger tickets TO all points Accommoda.
uons uneQuaed Apply pier M or at general ONCE 1877
Greenwich street, corner Of Dcy street
The New York herald., 1873-07-09

CARATOGA-DIRECT ROUTE, FARE 81 rs THROUGH.
- via Citizens line; elegant STEAMBOATS, daily Saturdays
excepted, at z. NJ, from pier 40 North Mver footof
Leroy street, arriving at Saratoga at ga. M.
The New York herald., 1873-07-09

COOK'S EXCURSION TICKETS
~ to all parts OF Ireland Scotland England. France
Belgium. Germany Italy Switzerland Spain, Egypt
10 70 lo per cent below ordinary fares
America and be used from any European They
holders TO travel In large parties
Cooks sixth personally conducted party from New
York leaves per steamer Samaria. July l2.
Cooks personally conducted Tour Round the World Will
leave San Francisco October Is next -
Cooks Hotel Coupons available at 800 first class
hotels throughout the world uniform aDd fixed prices
Full particulars to route, expenses, &C., for upward
monthly COOK, SON 4 JENKINS 262 Broadway, n Y
and Fleet street, London.
CPECIAL NOTiCE.-THE SPLENDID STEAMSHIP
IDAHO sailing on "Wednesday, July 9, will carry .
each Rooms in mid section. Apply to WILLIAMS 4
GUION, ~ Broadway.
GREAT WESTERN STEAMSHIP LINE.
" New York to Bristol Engtand) direct The steamers
of this line sail from pier l8 East River follows-
ARRAGON, Western, Wednesday, July9
LAPLAND, Jones' Wednesday, July l6
Cabin passage, $70 Excursion tickets $l20
Intermediate. S45; Steerage, $50.
Parties wishing send Tor their friends obtain pre-
paid certificates Drafts for 81 and upward.
E. Z. MORGAN's SONS
The New York herald., 1873-07-09

CTONINGTON LINE TO BOSTON.
~ Day Boat
The steamer RHODE ISLAND, the fastest and
most magnificent steamer ahoat, leaves Twenty third
street pier, East River daily at 80 r. NJ Direct
nect0n with express trans Tor Narraganse pier PrOvi
dence and Boston, Best White Mountains
Splendid excursion. Take the RHODE ISLAND remain
on board, and be back to the city at A. M. the
morning.
Steamer SYLVAN GLEN lea Peck slip at 10 p. II.
and connects with the RHODE ISLAND.
The New York herald., 1873-07-09
NEW YORK HERALD WEDNESDAY g. ls7s-TRIPLE SHEET


COUNTRY sRAT FOR SALE OR BxCHANGR-
For House in this city; ten acres good Land ten
plenty shade and fruit trees Address e. T.. herald
Office.
The New York herald., 1873-07-09

CREENWICH AND STANFORD PASSENGERS WILL
~ for the sent take the steamboat AMERICuS from
Returning leave Stamford by special boat ats 80 and
Greenwich at is A. Nj.
The New York herald., 1873-07-09
LEGAL NOTICES.

DURsUANT TO DECREE OF THE HIGH COURT
of Chancery made In cause, Hasam Cron.
1870 H. No. H. the administration of the estate Of
Betty Olwant late Of Bolton, in Lancashire England
chIld,sH, Of Thomas Gat.sra 0lwan. who sbYut The
claiming be the legal personal representatives of
such children, who died after 9Th June, lS and also
william Bew:heT, both Of whom, up 70 ne year
be the legal personal representative or repressnta-
tves OF the said John Olwant Bewsher; or william
June 1859 their solicitors before the st day
November 1878 to come in and their claims at
the Chambers Of His Honor the Vice Chancellor Sir
Inn london In England or in default thereof they viii
percmp ory excluded from the benefit Of the said de-
cree Tuesday the lth day of November 1878 II of
the clock at the said Chambers Is appointed for
hearing and adjudicatng upon the claims
Dated this 18th day Of June, 1873.
JOSHUA BIRD ALLEN, Chief Clerk
Thomas Johnston, No. Raymond Buildings. Gray s
Inn Middlesex, Agent for Messrs r. 7. Il. wnder, OF
licitors
The New York herald., 1873-07-09
EXCURSIONS,


A HOY FOR THE CHOLERA BANKSi-THE STEAM.
"A er CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN win make trip to
the Cholera Banks, Thursday July TO- afurding splcn.
did opportunity for a days fishing Refreshments and
fishing tackle sn. bal be procured the boat by
those desiring ten at reasonable rates. prize OF IS will
be given ,he one catching the largest fsh Steamer
leaves M0rrisania dock Mt A. NJ 10Th street. Harlcn~
sos; Astoria, 5:5; Eighth street, 80; Fulton slip, 54s.
Tickets for the excursion 81 under the direction Of
Capt. c. H. LONGSTREET.
A GRAND OCEAN EXCURSION TO THE FISHING
"a Banks giving fine view OF the harbor and forn-
canons-The new last and elegant saloon TWL-
LIGHT will make daily excursions Saturdays excepted.
Leave Eighth street. East Rlyc,s ut oclock Peck slip.
10 twenty third street, North River, 81 CHRISTOPHER
street 30 and pier No. g. Dinner, me nts bait
and line on board. Tickets, 81 ladies, Soc Good
E,AsT RIVER ROUTE TO CONEY ISLAND-sTEAMER
~ M0NITOR leaves daily Eighth street. East River ae
$50 A. NJ. Y 80 and 30 p NJ; Peck slip al 80 A. NJ,
y 80 ana so r. ~ Fulton Jerry, Martins pier Brook
lyn. 10 A. NJ, and p NJ
ENoRT LEE PLEASANT VALLEY AND SHADY SIDE
steamers leave daily from Spring street at 10 A. NJ
z D: 10 and r. NJ landing ut Twenty third
ues later sunday time rom spring strcet 80 TO- II A.
A. and 30 +. NJ, landing at Twenty third St Faro
l5 cents
The New York herald., 1873-07-09

- RATES OF PASSAGE.
Catin-$70 $50 and 20 gold, according to accommoda-
ton.
Round trip tickets at low rates.
stecrage.To Liverpool Queenstown, Glasgow London
derry London, Bristol or Cardiff, $50 Prepaid cert-
Gates $32 currency
Passengers also forwarded to Havre, Hamburg, swe
oen, Norway Denmark and Paris at reduced rates.
Drafts issued at lowest rates
For Cabin and business apply nj the
Company's office. No Is Broadway
For Steerage passage, at 50 Broadway
a.. JOHN g. DALE Agent or to
O'DONNELL FAULK, 402 Chestnut street. Phiiadel-
phia. "
M s. CREAGH, lo2 State street. Boston
c. BROWN, 8! South CLARK, Lake street Chi
cago.
WILLIAM 1NMAN, Liverpool, and No. Rue Scribe
Paris
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
Tom Marshall's Duel.

Tom Marshall was captain of COM
pany in Col. Humphrey Marshalls regi-
ment of cavalry in the Mexican war.
One evening, when very much under the
influence of liquor, he went to the quar-
termaster with whom he mas intimate,
and behaved in 50 outrageous a manner
that the latter was compelled to kick
him out. Next morning, of course, the
quartermaster was the recipient of a
cartel from Captain Marshall. The
challenged office declined to fight duel
for the several reasons that he held n
profitable position, from which he de-
rived a comfortable support for his fan-
lily, who depended upon his exertions
for living; that he was constitutionally
opposed to dueling anyhow; that he had
taken an oath when sworn to his COM
mission not to engage in a duel so long
as he was an officer in the United States
army, and he did not desire or intend
to forfeit that commission and suffer ig-
nominious dismissal from the service by
gratifying Captain Marshall's very evil
dent mania for the duello. ''But, "
wrote the quartermaster in conclusion,
"as Captain Marshall is dissatisfied
with one kicking, l will pledge myself
to give him kicking every time he
comes about my quarters and misbe-
hares himself as he did on the occasion
complained Of"
"Gentlemen," Tom would say, in that
peculiar serio-droll way of his, 81
would rather the rascal had shot me
dead than decline my challenge in that
manner"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
Died OF Starvation.

A man named Ryan died, the other
day, in a London workhouse, whittier
he had been carried in state of utter
starvation. He had been editor of a
French newspaper, which. being sup
pressed, he had come to London and
endeavored to get living by translat-
ing manuscripts ; but, as this did not
prove a lucrative employment, he left
his lodgings suddenly, and had since
been walking the city streets day and
night. He had had, he said, no food,
for days, except pieces of bread which
he found on walls, fences, etc., during
the day. He at times slept on the grass
in the parks, but at night sit was one
continued move on, move on y" from
the police. We can well understand
that poor Ryan's nerves must have been
unstrung by this kind of life, more es-
pecially as he was suffering from con-
sumption-his death being accelerated
by that disease, though Immediately
caused by exhaustion and neglect" !"
The jury found verdict in accordance
with the facts, and Ryan has moved
on to a world where no policeman's
voice can disturb him.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
The Yellow Fever.

The Shreveport Na.) Times of late
date says:
The epidemic exhibits but little change,
and that the decrease in the number OF
new cases is greatly owing to want OF
material. The number of deaths is
fearful to contemplate Che mortality is
beyond precedent, and it looks as
though but comparatively few will get
well. Thus far very few have got
about, while some linger along between
life and death. In some few instances
whole families have been swept out of
existence in the short tpace of one
week. The sudden change in the
weather last Sunday night sent scores
to their beds, which accounts for the
large number of interments in the last
day or two. In the language of one of
the New Orleans physicians, they drop
ped off like sheep dying with the rot.
Medical treatment of the most skillful
kind does not appear to do any good in
great many cases, whereas, in many
others, the temporary relief afforded is
quickly followed by death. Our stores
are all closed, and all our dwelling
houses turned into hospitals in fact,
Shreveport is one great hospital one
great charnel-housei
The Times publishes death record.
That journal says the number Of inter
ments since the 1st of September sums
up 342 !; the number of sick is estima-
ted, variously, at from 500 to 800.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
The Boy who Splits Wood.

There was boy in Nelson street,
Danbury, yard cutting wood, yesterday,
and he worked at it in strikingly nat
ural manner. First he set the stick on
one end and prepared to strike it when
it tumbled down. Then he stood it up,
and put n silver under the weak side to
sustain il, and lifted the axe for the
blow, when it tumbled again. As he
had got the axe up quite ways this
time, and was fairly quivering with ex-
dectation, the reaction was not pleas
ant. II appeared TO weaken him, and
before another trial, he leaned on the
axe and looked around ON the scenery.
At the third trial he put several slivers
under the stick, and was some five min.
utes doing it. Then he raised the AK,
carefully, deliberately took aim, ant
| brought the blade down with terrible
force, and within about an inch-and-a
half of the stick, which Immediately
tipped over. This surprised him. He
looked at the axe, then at the stick,
and then around at the houses to see
if anybody was looking. He was ten
minutes propping the stick up the
fourth time. When he got it so it
Wpuli stdilu Wltuoui btlHS Htlu, ne
teok up the axe, and after several mock
motions so to get the right aim, he
swung the implement down again.
The blade struck the stick with terri
BILE force within about sixteenth-of-
an-inch from the edge, and took off
slip about five inches long. We don't
suppose there is anything quite so ag-
gravating as this. Splitting your shin
open to the bone is pastime in com
parison. The Nelson street boy stood
that stick up again without any cere-
mony, and with the least display in the
world swung the axe over his head and
brought it spitefully down. The blade
this time clipped off n half-inch chip,
and then swung around with such mo-
mentum as to throw the boy off his feet
and drive him headlong over pile of
other sticks, every one of which he
struck with his knees or face. We
don't think we ever saw any boy get on
his feet as quick as that boy did. And
we were not in the least surprised to
see him snatch up that axe, and with
screams and sobs, beat that stick until
he was exhausted. With this unpleas-
ant duty performed, he flung the axe
in among the tomato vines, and went in
the house for piece of cake.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
A Young Lady's Experience.

The DetdO0re County Penn Ameri-
can gives the following account of Il
young lady's success in poultry raising
In Concord, farmers daughter, dur
ing the past year, had the care of his
poultry-yard. In the spring she COM
menced with about sixty fowls, of the
common breeds, including one Domi-
nique rooster, and several hens of that
stock. She had also two roosters of the
Partridge Cochin breed. From these
she raised $50 chickens. When young
she fed on cracked corn, but when fat
tening them gave whole corn and Indian
meal. During the season she sold eggs
to the amount of 800, and from Sept.
20 to Jan. II, she got ready for market
$50 pairs of chickens, which she sold
for $500. She thinks the Dominique
much the best for market, but they are
not hardy when young. She has some
hens of the Cochin breed which weigh
six, seven, and eight pounds each. 1t
Will be seen from this statement what
may be done by proper attention to
poultry, the profits being perhaps
larger than any branch of farming. 1t
also shows that the business is one in
which females may engage with success.
The time occupied in caring for sixty
to hundred hens doesn't average more
than an hour or two a day. The exer-
else is light and pleasant, and the
change from household duties rather
agreeable than otherwise. Indeed, we
consider the poultry business, as an oc-
cupation, both profitable and interest
ing. Gathering eggs, setting the hens,
watching the Matching, and tending to
the young, has charm which, in con-
nection with the profit, is calculated to
please every lover of natures great
working world"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
Stranger than Fiction.

A North Germany paper advertlses
for the American heirs of the fortune of
a widow lady of Amsterdam as follows :
"The following heirs of Catharine
Spelling and her daughter Dorothy,
both of whom died a violent death in
1852, at Amsterdam, are requested to
send their addresses Immediately to the
Royal Probate Court at Amsterdam ::
Sophia Behrensburg, Otto kellenaer,
Anna Derfling, Maria Derhing, Joseph
Derhing, all of whom emigrated to the
United States since 1864.
ERNEST BELGER, Solicitor.
The story of the death of the two
women, so long ago as 1852, and the
finding of their murderer, twenty years
after, the revelation of actual occur
rences which are as terribly tragic as
may be found within the lids of ro-
nance. The widow, Catharine Spelling,
and her daughter Dorothy, were joint
possessors of diamonds, money, and
bonds worth one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, and occupied house
by themselves on Harlan street, Am
sterdam. One day, in the summer of
1852, placard appeared on their door,
saying they had gone to the country.
Six weeks rolled around and still the
placard remained on the door. The
of the police were aroused
by the long absence of the women, and
the house was entered. The placard
was found to be fearful deception
the bodies of the two women were found
on the floor, their diamonds, money.
and bonds missing, and no clue to the
murderer and thief was found.
In July last, the house was torn down,
and in its destruction came to light
equaling in horror the dis
covery of the assassination of the two
lone women. Between the house taken
down and the adjoining one was a space
of about foot, and confined in this
narrow cell was found the skeleton of
man, caught midway between the top
and bottom, and on the ground beneath
him were found the diamonds, the
bonds, and the money of the two MUIR
dered women. The assassin, in attempt
ing to escape, had missed his footing,
fallen between the houses, and, with a
strip of blue sky visible above the high
walls of his living tomb, had starved to
death.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
The Romance OF a Rich Young Girl.

There is n young girl employed in the
factory at Ottawa, Canada, where the
Bank Note Company turns ont Canadian
greenbacks by the cord, whose life from
her very cradle has been n romance well
worth telling During the "cholera
year about 1855, unless my memory
is ut fault-there came TO Ottawa, then
Bytown, young American couple,
travelling, it would seem for pleasure,
or seeking home in Canada. Hardly
had they arrived here than both were
smitten by the fatal disease and died
with that terrible rapidity which marks
the most aggravated cases. They died
at IA hotel, leaving behind th..a Il baby
daughter but few weeks old, and
nothing whatever TO indicate their iden.
tity beyond the fact that they came
from New York. The proprietor of the
hotel wts about to send the child to the
Foundlin, Hospital when childless
woman of middle age, whom he had
employed to wash the infected clothing
of the sick, offered to take charge of it
and, if it lived, ado0t it as her own
The mild lived and thrived and grew
III handsome and ever girl, unaware
nat any one but the woman she called
mother had given her birth.
1t wa not until some four or five years
since, hat n gentleman from New York
inter ted in the publication of weekly
Journal, happened to be passing through
Ottawa and heard the girls queer his
tory. A little investigation sufficed to
show that she was his niece, the son of
h,nt hn l. al 1,nl
years before, anu the manner of whose
death the survivor had been unable to
trace. The result of his conference
with the girl and her foster parents was
her departure with him for New York,
where she remained until last summer,
enjoying every advantage of education
and position which wealth and atfec-
ton could confer upon her. Then she
came to Ottawa to pay her foster mother
visit. She found things with the old
woman changed for the worse. Her
husband, who had been IN his lifetime
a sort of crier or tip-staff in one of the
courts, was dead, and she had been
compelled i'll her old age to take to the
tub and mangle again to earn liveli-
hood. What put it into the girls head
devotion, fancy, or what not-l can
not say, hut certain it is that she vowed
not to leave her old mother while
she lived, but to stay with her and work
for her. Her uncle came from New
York SO soon as she had apprised him of
her intention and endeavored to induce
her to alter her determination, but she
was infexible. She gave up her easy
home in New York with all the accessor-
les of society, dress, and prospects,
doffed her silks and put On humber
but quite as becoming prints, obtained
employment in the Bank Note Printing
Company's office, and is there still,
living with her old foster-mother, to
all appearances as happy as when in
New York she was a budding belle and
probable heiress. Who, after this true
recital, shall say that there are no ro-
mances nowadays?
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-10-03
Buckner and Burnside.

The Mobile Register notes that some
thing of romance is connected with
the recent return to Mrs. Buckner, the
wife of General S. b. Buckner, the ex-
Confederate General, of Kentucky, of a
certain large property, which, when the
war broke out, she had conveyed to
her brother When General Buckner
entered the Confederate service, and
before Mrs. Buckner joined him there,
she conveyed theproperty to her brother
under deed of trust The young man
afterwards married, became father, and
entered the Union service. The ques-
ton now was what would become of the
property. If he should die or be killed
without making will reconveying to
his sister the property she had decided
to him his child would inherit the for
tune. On the eve of the battle of Sharps-
burg, however, he made will of this
character, and at the battle named was
killed. General Burnside, who com
manded the corps in which the young
man served, knew that this will had been
made. He kept the secret, and, after
the war, informed General Buckner of
it, and the latter by his aid was enabled
to recover the will. The testamentary
proofs having been obtained, Mrs.
Buckner's title was fully proved, and
the fortune, which seemed at one time
to hang upon slender thread, was
returned to her.