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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-12
PERUVIAN BANDITS.
A Daring band Invade Linn, Plum
der Houses ana XIII several Per-

A Daring Band Invade Lima, Plum
der Houses anu XIII Several Per-
sons.
Peru, like all Spanish-American
countries, is cursed by the presence of
bands of robbers, who roam through the
country, lurk in the mountains and
watch for opportunities to plunder the
people. Sometimes these brigands ap-
pear suddenly in considerable force In
villages and towns of large size, seize the
weather. inhabitants and extort. from
them heavy ransoms. Travellers are
frequently overhauled and plundered of
whatever valuable things they may be
possessed. 1t is not often, however,
that the brigands venture into the large
cities. A recent exception must be
noted. On Wednesday evening, June
3, at about seven o'clock, a band of some
twenty men, heavily armed, appeared in
the city of Lima and attacked the man
sion Of Seniors Suarez Valdez and Julio
Sagasti, at No 390,i the Gale dc Belen.
Six of the rascals kept guard at the
door, four of them were stationed in the
principal drawing room, and the re-
mainder'of the band proceeded to inves-
tigate the contents of the house. They
remained searching the apartments for
about quarter of an hour, amusing
themselves by menacing and ill.treating
the ladies' OF the household. Everything
of value that could be carried away was
secured, and the thieves then proceeded
to break up the furniture found in
the mansion. Sonora Sagasta repeat
edly cried out for help. After awhile
the operations OF the bauditti became
noised abroad, and the inspector, Luis
Isac, arrived at the scene, taking with
him the musket of a civic guard sta
toned at the nearest corner. DE was
Just about to fire on the robbers when he
was struck down by bullet which pen
etrated his left breast. By this time
considerable body of policemen had ar
rived On the scene. The bandits left the
house, went into the street, and sharp
engagement ensued, lasting for several
minutes, and ending in the safe retreat
of the bandits from the neighborhood,
after having killed several persons The
first victim was the celador, or civic
guard, at the corner of Gale Belen, who
fell dead, pierced by a bullet in the
breast. While the robbers we're endeav-
oring to force their way into the dark
square, near the penitentiary, the excited
people had left their houses and ran into
the streets. Among them was mason
who had just left his work on the church
of the Encarnacion. A bullet struck
him, and be fell dead, A woman by his
side was shot at the same time. The
thieves finally made their escape in the
direction Of the penitentiary toward the
gate of Juan Simon. The celadors fol.
lowed them; four men were apprehended
as belonging to the band, while the police
we're pursuing But as they were not
armed, it is extremely doubtful whether
they had any connection with the rob
bers. Four persons were killed outright,
and seven severely wounded, including
three women, among them Sonora Sag
ast, who was severely beaten by the rob
bers while in the house, And all this
happened in the populous capital city Of
Peru before eight o clock in the evening
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-12
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Many who are suffering from the effects of
the warm weather and are debilitated, are ad-
vised by physicians to take moderate amounts
of whisky two or three times a day. In lit
tie while those who adopt this advice FREE
quently increase the number of drinks,
and in time become confirmed inebriates. A
beverage which will not create thirst for intox-
ioating liquors, and which is intended especi-
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whether at home or abroad, is DR.. Schenck' s
Sea Weed Tonic. Containing the juices Of
many medicinal herbs, this preparation does
not create an appetite for the intoxicating
cup. The nourishing and the life-supporting
properties Of many valuable natural produc-
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A single bottle Of the Tonic will demonstrate
its valuable qualities. For debility arising
from sickness, over exertion or from any cause
whatever, wine glassful Of Sea Weed Tonic
taken after meals will Strengthen the stomach
and create an appetite for wholesome food.
To all who are about leaving their homes, we
desire to say that the excellent effects of DIR:
Schenck's seasonable remedies. Sea Weed
Tonic, and Mandrake Pills, are particularly
evident when taken by those who are injuri-
ously affected by a change of water and diet.
No person should leave home without taking
a supply Of these safeguards along, For sale
by all druggists. eod-lS3-l55
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THE NEW
A FEW GOOD REASONS.

IA NetD Invention THOROUGHLY TEsTED and
secured by Letters Patent.
2-Makes perfect LOCK STITCH, alike on
both sides. on all kinds Of goods.
3-Runs LIGHT, SMOOTH. NoIsELEss and
RAPID-best combination of qualities.
4-DURABLE-RuHs for pears without repairs.
WI do all Udrieties Of cork and Fancy
Stitching in a superior manner.
els most easily managed by the operator.
Length Of stitch may be altered while run
ming, and machine can be threaded without
passing thread through holes.s
7-Design Simple, Ingenious, Elegant, form
ing the stitch tcithom the use of Cog Wheel
Gears, Rotary Cams or Lever Arms. Has
the Automatic Drop Feed, which iRsures RHt-
form length of stitch at any speed. Has our new
Thread Controller. which allows easy move
ment Of the needle-bar and prevents injury 70
thread.
S-COHsTRUcTIoN most careful and FINISHED.
It is manufactured by the most skillful and
experienced mechanics, at the celebrated
Remington ArmOry, IlfOn, N. n
Cincinnati Office, ISL Fourth street.
104-156
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The Dubuque Times tells romantic
little story about the marriage Of Mr. N.
L. Alden, of Dubuque, and Mrs. Abbie
NJ. 0rcutt of Boston, which took place
there on the 22d ult. The bride and
groom became acquainted thirty years
ago, and two years later were engaged
to be married An unfortunate occur
renee caused rupture and they sep
arated, she remaining in Boston and
he going to the West, Each was mar
ried without the others knowledge, and
both had children, he five and she three.
About five years ago her husband died,
and over a year ago his wife passed
away. Last June the former lovers
met in Dubuque, made it all up, and the
marriage bells rang again.
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to lunch just now, but and here he
threw the dress over his arm if you
will come with me I'll fit it for you. "
WHAT says /, "you fit my dress for
mel No. sirl Let me ask, Do you make
it practice to try on dresses and fit
them, and so on2 Why, certainly,
said he; and must do him the justice
to say that he had. the manliness to
blush here. Why, a good many of our
lady customers won't have anybody but
a man to fit their dresses for them.
Now" continued Mrs Wiggin, I" it is
this / am contending for: Drive those
lazy, effeminate, Mandy pamby dry
goods clerks out into the street and give
their places to intelligent women. The
idea of man in such position selling
garters and corset strings, bahl
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Tuesday, August 25, 1874,

at the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
streets in the city Of Memphis, Tennessee.
sell at public auction, to the highest bidder.
for cash, the following real estate, to-
wit: A lot in South Memphis. being
lot in block 80, fronts on the west side Of
Main street 300 feet. and runs back between
parallel lines 100 feet, and is bounded on the
north by Huling street. on the south by Treze-
want street, on the west by lots 6 and 8. and
on the east by Main street. Equity of redemp-
tion especially. waived, and title believed to
be good, though sell only as Trustee.
JAMES p. WOOD, Trustee.
PATTERSON * Lowe. Attorneys.
Iulv 23 1874 1&-164
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The 2sd Day Of August, 1s74,

between 10 am. and pm. at r. Van Brock
lin i Sons, Nos. 299 and 3Ol Second street,
Memphis, Tennessee, sell at public auction.
10 the highest bidder. for cash, the following
property, conveyed 10 me by said deed, viz
One dark bay horse, about fourteen hands
high one rockaway aud harness; one buggy
and harness; and one wagon. The sale is to
be made to pay the debt in said deed men
toned. W. l. COLE.
COLLIER & HoUsroS, Attorneys.
July %. 1874 l22-l5l
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Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A CERTAIN TRUST
ID deed made on the 9th day Of June. 1860.
By D. G, Cross. to me as Trustee to secure GER
tain Indebtedness therein mentioned, which
trust is Of record in the Registers Office Of
Shelby county, Tenn, in Record Book No. 42.
page 379, TO which reference is made, will on
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OF ALL KIHDR-
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The Grange advance., 1874-07-15

not generous; she charged frightfal
prices for her sweets. One could not
get sugar-plums enough to "go round, I"
just for foe cents. 'sOh for = quar-
ter" And the days of quarters COM
ing. We wanted dollars, and dollars
brought scorn of their single blessed
ness. If one had a hundred, now.
And having hundreds, thousands are
desired; and having thousands, one
envies the millionaire. What is the
use Of living if one must pinch aud save
thousands More, more, more," is
still the secret cry" more, more,
more"
But some do live to be millionaires !?
That is very true; but they are no
more contented than the rest ofthe world.
There is always something that cannot
be boug ght, and that is inevitably the
thing a millionaire sets his heart upon.
Let us get moral out of this, if we
can. Morals are very useful. If moth
ing can bring conteutment, which is
u No, NV 10 VI w SoVIA Iud" "uA-O"Iuc-
wisp in the very dawn of life. Let
US endeavor to have and hold it, while
we have nothing--no money, no fame,
no honors. Let US be contented with
the fact that we live; that We see, and
hear, and speak that there is a blue
sky sometimes, green things growing
under it. Don't wait until those green
things grow on your own estate, else
you may wait until your estate is just a
little bit Of turf some six feet long.
Hold content fast. Once gone you
never find her again never though
you have ladies full of diamonds aud
bags full Of gold for your very own.
Strive for money if you will, but
sacrifice nothing for it for. know that
at the moment when you are richest,
you may look back on the moment when
you were the poorest, and had. neither
house, nor lands, nor gold, and feel that
you were richer then than gold can
ever make you-aud that amidst the
misty memories Of humble roof aud
coarse attire and common food content
lies dead.-Mary kyle Dallas IN the
Ledger
The Grange advance., 1874-07-15
Less "LaWing." " !"

It is true as it is serious, that the
farmers, as class, in this State partic-
ularly, have INDUCED to large extent
in Having it," An examination of
our courts will show that an undue pro-
portion Of the civil suits involve country
issues, and it is too often the case that
both the plaintiffs and defendants are
farmers. True, the farmer is often
compelled to come into the court as =
plaintiff to defend his property from the
grasping avarice Of land spectators,
for be is usually most easily caught and
the fattest game that the lawyer can
bag.
Farmers have long been aware of the
folly, and worse than folly, of going to
law; but the lack Of social aud business
intercourse with their neighbors often
prevents proper understanding of
right and mutual interests, encourages
suspicious and jealousies, and too often
leads them into courts and sometimes d.
viding the whole neighborhood into ac-
tive partisans. But, thanks to the inau-
ence of the Order of Patrons Of Husband
ry, this disturbing element in farm
life through the country. generally, is
rapidly disappearing The Order has
brought farmers into closer communion
with each other, and has developed
mutual confidence and respect; and
without assistance Of any secret charm
has produced change which is now
substituting arbitration for law. A.
bltration is one Of the grand principles
Of the Order aud is already producing
important material results, as we'll as
promoting peace and harmony in many
neighborhoods. The vast benefits that
the world is expected to derive from
the adoption Of arbitration by the great
powers, are precisely such az will ac-
crue to the farming world by the same
practice.-"Pac;fc Rural Press.
The Grange advance., 1874-07-15
Content.

The love of money is said to be I" the
root Of all evil" I suppose that We
have all written that in our copy.books,
knowing at the same time that money
was the root Of taffy, and slate pencils,
and dolls, and tops, and chewing-gum,
and the longer lingering of the organ
grinder and monkey, and alt our child.
ish luxuries and dissipations.
And perhaps We have really come to
believe what we then wrote in disbelief,
for most wicked things are done for
money, after all. Yet, we all desire to
have n'oney-as much Of it az We can
get. We work for money when We else
would not work at ali. We give
strength, health, sleep, aand pleasure
for it: .'.~ -
There are so'ee-may We never be
amongst them-who give their coz.
sciences for it and there are beings
chiefly dusky orientals,, who lame, aud
blind, and mutilate themselves to win
more small coin from compassion. And
l presume that at the outset every one
hxes some sum with which he will be
sat!stled. some income, possessed ot
which. he will fold his arms, and like
the Sabbath keeping couutryman, :. pu,
up his legs" and think of nothing. L.
Alas thatday never comes: The man
who is content with his worldly pos.
sessions does not exist. Peace aud res,
do they ever come TO us while We
live? Does any one ever say, 8 I want
nothing more I fear not. We 81
remember when Eve cents Was 4 snal
treasure, and We went, attended BY J,
train nf little brothers and sisters. q
spend it With the old i woman at III,
candy shop. Alas the old woman va wla.
The Grange advance., 1874-07-15

The remedy, so simple and 50 per-
sistently neglected, is Co attend the pri-
naries aud to select the best ulen in your
precincts for delegates Take men that
cannot be- tampered with, who are not
spledged, who have minds Of their own,
and courage to express their sentim cuts.
Give US for once, as an experiment,
iu'politic men; men who will consist
cntly aud stubbornIy vote only for com.
petent, honest, Intelligent men for coun-
ty and State Offices. This is the first
step towards political reform. The peo-
pie have this matter in their own hands,
and they alone are t. blame if profess
si''nal politicians use them to secure
ti,e;, own elevation. .''-Ka,,sas Farmer.
The Lawrence Standard has the fol-
lowing suggestive paragraph:
When an old party editor hears Of
= farmer attending Grange picnic aud
making political speeches, he strait
way declares there will be scarcity Of
cornand hay. The politicians DON like
70 have the farmers work in the fields Of
labor Y % they have pre-. empted. Politics
Tor the politicians say they. but the
rule ct politicians is nearly over Is
The Grange is8 doing ! wondrous
power OF good, Never abandon il.
II y#SsI
The Grange advance., 1874-07-15

no Grange tie FArmers scheol.

We take the following extract from
Il speech delivered by William W. Rey-
(holds at Fedonia Kansas as printed in
the Industrial Age:
"Cannot the Eastern capitalists see
they have invoked contest that is sure
to result ultimately in their disaster
The seat of power. and population has
been transferred from the coast States,
from New England, factories and Wall
street centres, to the prairies and plains
of the West and Southwest. New Eng
land could once afford, perhaps, to be
dictatorial and domineering, but her
psalm singing and plundering in the
name of liberty is, to use a more en-
phatic than elegant Western phrase,
played OUT Her monopoly power is
broken. Six or eight millions of peo-
pie cannot govern or control forty mil
lions.
"The West and South are natural
allies. Their interests are mutual. In
this currency question there is but one
course for the West and South to pur-
sue. They must look 20 the interests
Of large majority of the people. If
the Eastern bond-holder forces an issue
with the Western plow-holder and
Southern planter, the bond-holder's
power must be broken. Vetoes cannot
save him. The West and Southwest
can carry wise, prudent, national meas
ures by two-thirds vote. A veto is a
very unsafe and sandy foundation upon
which to build up and sustain meas
ure Of governmental policy. The West
and South demand relief: They de.
mand legislation in the interests of the
people, and they will have it. They
have the power, and sooner or later
they will exert it. Sectional legisla-
ton, legislation in the interest Of class
es, capitalists, monopolies, must stop.
"And this, take it. is what the pro-
test Of the Grange means. The Grange
is school-the farmers college-where
he is to be educated in his rights and
responsibilities. In the Grange, and
through its agency and influence, the
farmer learns the correct principles of
government. He learns the value of
sound political principles, policies and
measures Of government. The great
questions Of political economy he there
learns. AS he gatghers his grass, he
arners crop Of ideas J.; it's the best pay
ing crop farmer can grow-a crop Of
brains.
But he learns more than this in
the Grange and through Grange influ.
ences. He learns that men Of integri-
ty must be chosen to represent correct
principles. am pretty certain there
is this much, at least, in the farmer or
Grange movement.
"There is need of reform, of less Leg
islation, Of better legislation. We want
more money and less laws. The West
ern farmers are in earnest. They mean
business. They do not preach the doc
trines Of the commune. None. are
more interested in the supremacy of the
law and wise and equitable adjust
ment of the relations of labor and capi-
tai. They do not belong to class that
is visionary and ideal. None are more
intensely practical. The Western far.
mer is non-partisan, but he will always
identify himself with that organization
which makes the strongest appeal to his
sturdy sense Of justice, and is the most
practical in its legislation. It is meas
ures and governmental policies that he
desires, rather than sentiment aud theo.
ry."
The Grange advance., 1874-07-15

The Grange isI doing ! xondrous
power OF good. Never ai,andon Il. .;..5
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