davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
When Sine Won,t. she Won't.

A vivacous writer on Switzerland says:
"Only the day before your visit the Bad
Step had its latest tragedy, with q comic
edge to it as most tragedies have. In the
pouring rain party left the hotel at Cha.
mounix for the Mer de Glace, and, com.
ing up on the other side, took the Bad
Step first The sweetest of little old
ladies, mere dot of woman, with her
doctor of divinity, we're among them,
and went on over the slippery rock,
made doubIy dangerous by the rain, be-
cause, once started, there was no turning
back. She dragged the pounds on
pounds of wet water proof cloth clinglng
about her feet to the little oasis where peo-
pie rest and gird up their loins before eros
sing the ice. Here she threw herself prone
on the ground, and was still as an ink.
blot. When the others started her hus-
band tried to rouse her. No, she said,
you may all 90 on. want nothing. |
will die herel 1t was the calmness Of
despair. Women often threaten in GER
tain contingencies TO give up, but the
thing is rare as snow in August. When
it happens the family machine stops and
desperate remedies are applied. This
woman did the thing without the threat,
also a rare thing for her sex, and was
ever a doctor Of divinity in such plight
before? He had lived with her forty
years, and she had the power to sur
prise him. He had seen her endure
years of wasting sickness without losing
cheerfulness; he had seen her go down
into the valley of the shadow Of death,
and come back smiling with baby in
her arms, but now at last she had
given up He offered to carry her
down the rock and across the ice-he
who had come abroad for his health; but
she answered him only Go with the
rest. will die here like the refrain
of a dirge. The doctor must have
scolded at this point, if he we're not more
than mortal but it did no good, and
finally he wrapped the mantle of his
thoughts about him, and sat down in the
rain to mediate new chapter on the
woman question. The other people
went on, and the two kept solitary watch
on the Mer de Glace, like the two gray
headed eagles in an eyrie. At the end
of silent half hour, in which the doc
tor discovered what very hard working
people those are who only stand and
wait, she rose up, walked over the ice,
mounted her mule, and regained the
hotel. She had broken the handspring
of hope, and it took Nature just half an
hour to mend it. ."-Nelos.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
Rxron,s Mother.

If Byron's ancestry was dark one
on his fathers side, it was an evil one on
his mothers, who was an incarnation Of
all unreason. She was ignorant, she
was silly, she was passionate; in
her RACES she was uncomfortable.
She would indulge him to excess one
day, and the next he was lame brat. :"
When they were on good terms he would
call her Kitty Gordon" and when they
we're in their theatrical RACES he would
throw open the door of the drawing
room and say: Enter the honorable
Kitty" She was fond of him in her
wild, foolish way, and was generally at
war with his guardian and his teacher.
He was allowed, while at school, to
spend Sunday with her; but that did not
satisfy her, for she frequently kept him
week, and would not send him back.
When his teacher refused to let him visit
her she went to the school, and abused
him so loudly that the scholars and the
servants could not help hearing her.
Byron, your mother is fool, said one
Of his schoolmates. " | know it, he
answered, gloomily.
Whether Byron loved his mother may
be doubted, but it is certain that he
treated her with respect and Difference.
He repaired Newstead Abbey and placed
her in it when he went abroad, and fire.
quently wrote to her, addressing her as
the Hon. Mrs. Byron, title to which
she had no claim. She was proud of
his genius, and read with eagerness all
that she saw about him in print When
he returned to England after his two
years travel she was anxious to see him.
He wrote from his hotel in London that
he would soon see her, and in the post
script of his note said: You will con-
slider Newstead as your house, and not
mine, and me only as visitor" Super
stitious at all times, she remarked to
her waiting woman when she read the
note: "If / should be dead before
Byron comes down what strange thing
it would be-" The strange thing came
to pass and was brought about by a fit
of rage into which she was thrown by
reading over her upholsterer bills.
Byron received notice of her illness and
started Immediately to her, but arrived
too late. She had breathed her last.
My poor mother died yesterday" he
wrote MS IrlenQ IlBOt anu an Ou
my way from town to attend her to the
family vault | heard one day of her
illness, the next of her death. Thank
God, her last moments we're tranquil. |
am told she was in little pain, and not
aware of her situation. l now feel the
truth of Mr.. Gray's observation, that we
can only have one mother"
Byron was deeply touched by his
motLers death, and the night after he
reached Newstead was heard by her
waiting woman signing heavily in the
room where her body lay. She entered
and found him sitting in the dark beside
the bed. When she expOstulated with
him on the weakness of giving way to
grief he burst into tears and exclaimed:
OH Mrs. Ry l had but one friend in
the world, and she Is gonel' On the
morning of the funeral he would not fol-
low the body to the grave, but stood
looking from the abbey door until the
procession had moved of. Then he
turned to his man Rushton, who was the
only one remaining, and, asking him to
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
The 22d Day of August, 1874,

between 10 am. and PM, at R. Van Brock
lin * Sons. Nos. 299 and 3Ol Second street,
Memphis, Tennessee, sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, for cash. the following
One dark bay horse, about fourteen hands
high one rockaway and harness; one buggy
and harness; and one. wagen. The sale is 20
be made to pay the debt in said deed mem
toned. W. /. COLE.
COLLIER 4 HoUsToS, Attorneys.
July 20. 1874. 122-I5I
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A CERTAIN TRUST
ID deed made on the 9th day of June, 1850,
BY d. @: 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. AZ.
page S79. to which reference Is made, l will on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01

fetch the sparring glove, he proceeded
to take his usual exercise with him.
Silent and abstracted, he threw more
violence into his blows than was his
habit, as if to get the better of his feel
ings. At last the struggle was too much
for him. He flung away the gloves, and
retired to his own room.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED MADE
ID to me June II. 1873, by y, B Webber, and
J. NJ, Williams and Henry Williams, recorded
nessee. in Book 81, pages 146. ETC., will, on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
PAPER.
Paper ! Paper Paper
aR ALL KINDS
A. ". DU PONT SE O0s
Manufacturer. and Wholesale Dealers
Louisville, Kentucky
Have lust removed to theiI nsv. IarK
four-EtorY warehouse, No. lA Main So
80-t
LEOAL.
Trust Sale.

Under THE POWER GIVEN NE BY
~ the deed Of Thomas Kofod, executed
July %. 1873, and registered in Shelby county
IN 4 Record Book No. of chattles, page Isl,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01

Mr.. Hnry Bergh, it is said, has been
at Long Branch, making observations as
to the cruelty of horse racing, and there
is a ruror that he will shortly begin
a campaign against the popular amuse-
ment"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
Arkansas & Texas Short Line
VIA
bIemphis & Little Rock Railway
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.


IcaoNiMENOING MONDAY. ULY 6rH AND
~ until further notice, TT ms will depart
hnd arrive as follows:
Mail train leaves Memphis daily. 2:45 a. m
Mail train arrives atMemphis daily 900 a. m
Freight and Accommodation, Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays,
arrives at Memphis..... ............... S:25 pm
Freight and Accommodation, Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
| leaves S:OO am
Fare as Low and Time as Quick as by
any other Route.
1874 Connection Complete. 1874
bNLY DIRECT ALL RAIL ROUTE
| 10
little Rock, Kensett. Newport. Hot Springs.
Il Arkadelphia, Fulton, Texarkana, Jeffer-
son. Shreveport, Marshall, Minneola,
Rockdale, Longview, Dallas, Sher-
man, Dennison, Palestine,
Hearne, Waco. Austin,
Houston, Galveston,
lnd all intermediate Points in
Arkansas and Texas.
lDireet Connection ia same depot at
litt!e Rock with trains North ana South on
be Cairo and Fulton Railroad; nB Passen-
brs reach JacksOnport and Batesville via
lewport, Searcy via Kensett, Pine Bluff via
little Rock. Also, in same depot at Argenta
lith trains on the Little Rock and Fort Smith
lailroad for Lewisburg, Russelyille. Darda-
bile. Clarksville. Van Buren,. Fort smith,
IL. Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on night
Naius.
Nn8- Ask for Tickets via Memphis.
Fer Tickets and information call at 2sS
nin street, 2zS Mata street, or at
Nepot, foot of Washington street
A. s. LIVERMORE, Genl Supt.
j. II. PERRY, Gen 4 Ticket Ag't.
NS-f3s r. A. WILLIAMS, Pas'ger Ag't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
Trustees Sale.

DURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF A DEE
il in trust to me executed on the 14th day Of
November. 1873, by 4. W. PrOvine. and filed
for record in the Registers office of Shelby
county, Tenn, on the 23d day of June, 1874.
the Indebtedness thereby secured remaining
unpaid. will on
FRIDAY, the Slst Day Of July, 1874,
within legal hours, at the south gate of Court
Square, in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.
sell for cash to the highest bidder, at public
outcry, the property therein described as
follows. to-wit: Situated. lying and being
in Shelby couRty, Tennessee, near to
and south of the city Of Memphis.
and beginning at point on fernando
and the Memphis and Selma railroad (for-
merly the old Fort Pickering railroad) thence
southwardly along the east line of the Her
nando road 100 feet to stake; thence east
wardly and at right angles with said Her
nando road $50 feet to the point Of intersec-
tiOn Of the 80 feet left along said railroad for
street, which we will call Railroad street;
thence westwardly with said 30 feet left be-
tween this lot and the railroad to the Begin
ming corner on fernando road. being part of
original lot No. 80 of Willo Williams division
of land, laid off and surveyed by f.. 3. Todd
for said Williams. and let No. Is Off. NJ. Pro-
vines subdivision. on the east side of Her
nando road. and being the same lot conveyed
to the said u. NJ Provine by j M. Pr0vine.
on the 9th day of February, 1872.
Terms cash, Title believed TO be good. but
1 will sell and convey only as trustee. Equity
VI ss.iSs DAVID H. POsToN. Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
RAILROAD TINE TABLES.

AND LoUuSVlLLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
Monday, August 10, 1874,

between 10 o'clock am. and "A o'clock IN,
at the southern gate of Court Square, Mem
phis Tennessee. sell for cash, at public out
cry. the property conveyed to me by said trust
deed. described as follows, to-wit: Part Of
let 10. of block 55. in the city Of Memphis,
beginning 50 feet west Of the intersection Of
the south line Of Vance street with the west
line Of Orleans street; thence west 30 feet;
thence south with Pettit's east line l56 7-l2
feet 70. 20-foot alley; thence east with the
north line of said alley 30 feet thence north
l56 7-12 feet to the beginning Also a tract Of
$50 acres in the Eleventh surveyors district
and Eighth civil district, one mile south Of
Shelby Depot as particularly described in said
trust deed, to which reference is made for
fuller description. Also a tract of land in the
Second civil district on the waters Of Big
Creek, part of 2O00-acre tract granted by
North Carolina to A. Sharp. and more par
ticularly described as lots s, and s, said three
lots containing together $50 acres; all Of said
property in Shelby county. Tennessee. Equity
of redemption waived. Titles believed good.
but 1 will sell and convey only as trustee.
W. X. P0ST0N. Trustee.
MCFARLAND * GOODWIN, Attorneys.
110-140
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01

Depot at foot of Main street.
Ticket Office. 2S7 Main street. corner OF
M. BURKE. Gen'I Sup't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01

MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE R.R.
Arrives. Leaves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining I'm the POst0ffice at Mem
phis, saturday, August 1, 1874.
Published IN tie daily ne,cspaper hoping the
LAR6 EST CIRCULATION IA the circuit
of the Memphis Pofofice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
Eight Dollars per Annum.
VOL. XVIII.
PUBLIC LEDGER.

TIME PUBLIC LEDGER is PUBLISHED
j every afternoon Except Sunday at No. ID
Madison street.
The PUBIC LEDGER is served to city subscri-
bers by faithful carriers at FIFTEEN CENTS
PER WEEK, payable weekly to the carriers.
By mail lin advanced: One. year, So; SIX
months. s4; three months. 50; one month";
rs cents.
Weekly Public Ledger,
Published every Tuesday at so per annum lin
advanced; clubs of five or more, I'll ~.
Communications upon subjects OF general
interest to the public are at all times accept
able.
RATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY:
First % per square
subsequent insertions............ 50 a, a,
For one week 8 w a,
For two weeks....................... 50
For three weeks.....-...-............. " a,
For one month.................. oO
RATES OF ADVERTISING IN WEEKLY:
First insertion....: % per square
Subsequent inserti0ns.......-,.. 5O
Eight lines of nonpareil, Solid, constitute q
square.
Displayed advertisements will be charged
according to the SPACE occupied, at above
rates-there being twelve lines ofsohd type TO
the inch.
ducements, both as to rate of charges and
manner of displaying their favors.
Notices IN local column inserted for twenty
cents per line for each insertion.
special notices inserted for ten cents per line
for each insertion.
Nouces of deaths and marriages, twenty
cents per line.
ALI bids tor advertising are due when con-
tracted and payable on demand.
xvhafhar uann nuginasq or 0ther-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-01
TuesdaY. AUGUST 25, 1S74,

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 7 in block 80, fronts on the west side Of
parallel lines 100 feet, and is bounded on the
north by Huling street. on the south by Treze-
want strt 1t, on the west by lots 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.
July %, 1874. 12-l4
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16
Forest Trees and Culture.

The Lincoln (Neb.) Leader gives the
results of the system of tree-planting
inaugurated by the Burlington and Mis-
souri, Railway Company along its line
for distance of 100 miles, between Lin
coin and Lowell. This later experiment
is of special interest to the farmers of
Nebraska and many of the Territories,
showing, as it does, not only the method
pursued in planting, but also the kinds
of trees selected, and the percentage of
loss in the case of each variety.
The prairie was broken up the year
previous to planting, portion of it as
late as the month of November In the
spring the ground was again plowed and
made mellow. The trees were planted
in variety of ways, according to their
age and condition, but many were laid
in trench made by blowing. The fol-
lowing is list of the number and va
riety of forest trees planted:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16
TribulatiOns Of a Local Editor.

The Danbury Ne,OS says: Once upon
Il time local editor dreamed that he
was dead and in another world. He APP
preached the gate of a city before him
and knocked for admittance, but no one
answered his summons. The gate re-
NAMED closed against him. Then he
cried aloud for an entrance, but the only
response were scores of heads appearing
above the wall on each side of the gate.
At sight of him the owners of the heads
set up dismal howl, and one of them
cried "Why didn't you notice the big
egg / gave you?' At this rid and
most unexpected interrogation the poor
local turned in the direction of the voice
to learn its owner, when another voice
shrieked, where's the piece you were
going to write about my soda fountain =
And close upon this was the demand,
"Why did you write piece about old
Peddie's fence and never say word
about my new gate?" Whatever answer
he was going to frame to this appeal was
cut abruptly off by the astonishing
query. "What did you spell my name
wrong in the programme for? The
miserable man turned to flee, when he
was rooted to the spot by this terrible
demand /: "Why did you put my mar
riage among the deaths" lie was on
the point Of saying the foreman did 1T,
when a shrill voice madly cried, What
made YOU put in my runaway and spoil
the sale of my horse p And TINS was
followed by the voice of female hys-
terically exclaiming, "This Is the brute
that botched my poetry and made me
ridiculous |" Whereupon hundreds Oh
voices screamed, "Where is my article!
Give me back my articles" and In the
midst of the horrid din the poor wretch
awoke, perspiring at every pore, and
screaming for help. The next day he
resigned, and we had to hunt up another
local editor.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16
4 GREEN
tician sings
Bad Investments.

Financial authorities in New York re-
port that hundred and fifteen Ameri-
can railroads have failed to pay the
January interest on their bonds. The
amount in default is about twenty-seven
million dollars. These figures fairly
illustrate the extravagant lengths to
which, stimulated by an almost
boundless credit, the building of
needless or worthless railroads has
been carried. 1t cannot be regarded as
calamity, that we have at length come
TO full stop in this mad career.
Henceforth, railroad building will be
restricted TO regions where there are
already established communities, with
existing or prospective business suf-
ficient to justify the cost and insure q
reasonable interest upon the money in
vested. Nobody will be harmed by this
restriction, except the speculative few
who have made it profession to prey
with indifferent impartiality upon
foreign capitalists and the American
people.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16
The Fear OF Death.

Why is it that the inhabitants of So
called Christian countries fear to die
more than all others? The question
may imply a fact which is novel to many,
yet the fact is true. True Christians
are, undoubtedly, in the hour of death,
sustained by their faith, and we read of
many calm, holy, and peaceful Christ
ians' deaths but the fact remains that
death is dreaded by the mass of men in
Christian countries. There are many
we'll authenticated accounts of Christian
martyrdom, where men and women for
their religion have unflinchingly SUI
fered ignominy, persecution, and death;
but the same is true of other creeds.
The heather, however, is apt to face
death calmly. He looks on it simply
as so much physical pain. To him
there is no horror in what is beyond the
grave. The weak and timid Hindu, who
submits to insult and abuse without the
courage to strike one blow in his own
defense, goes calmly to his execution,
simply saying, "It is the will of God. q"
The "heathen Chinee" dies with a
smile which is childlike and bland,
while the poor Japanese will commit
lldIlhdIl US IL lOI SOllc Wtdltu-
Ter man, in order to earn few hundred
dollars for his destitute wife and child
rem. The North American Indian burns
at the stake with the war song on his
lips ; and the African in his own land is
destitute of that dread of death which
causes the darkey to turn pale i'll this.
All this cannot be mere bravado. If it
were it would not be so universal.
May not the reason be that the peo-
pie of more enlightened lands are i'm
bued with just enough faith in Christi
anity to entertain doubts as to their fu-
ture state which the heather does not
possess? While they are safe and well
men do not think of death and what
comes after it. But in imminent peril
and times of sickness the teachings of
childhood come back to them. They
think, if these things be true what will
become of us? They find it hard to
feel that calm confidence by which the
soul is upheld in the hour of trial. In
spite of themselves they will dwell upon
the hereafter, and the atheist breads an
initiation as much as others dread the
uncertainties of the future. There are
many theories about the fear of death,
but If the curtain were lifted from the
region beyond Jordan, and if the view
was an agreeable one, few would shrink
from the mere pain of dying. -Neu
York Sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-16
Pith and Point.

In what tone does ghost speak? In
tombstone.
AN Indiana jury recently returned
verdict of "blode to pieces by biler
busting"
The dressmakers are the best sup
porters of newspapers-they pattern
lie every one that falls into their hands.
BRoKER-How are you off for money
this morning? Cashier am off with
what little there was in the bank. Good
bye.
DOUGLAS JERRoLp, on being asked
what was meant by dogmatism, an
swered, "Puppyism come to ma
turity."
WHAT is the difference between Jew
and lawyer? The one gets his law
from the prophets, the other his profits
from the law.
You had better ask for manners
than money" said finely-dressed gen.
tleman to beggar who asked for aims.
81 asked you for what 1 thought you
had the most Of, was the reply.
"THIs is very crooked path, said
Jones to Brown, as they wound up the
sides of Montauvut. Crooked" was
the reply, sit is so COMPOUNDED zigzag
you can stand with one foot on zig and
the other on gag without any diff
| Guilty.
A DRUNKEN lrishman was found Ly his
friends the other night, lying in the
snow, with his heels upon the fence,
warming his toes by moonlight. He
was muttering "What a cowld fire you
have got, Biddy, darling have on some
carrysane, or my futs will fraze.
IT isn't worth while, under all circum-
stances, to express your sentiments
freely, unless you banker after martyr
dom. While Lydia Thompson was
capering in Memphis theater the other
night, fellow in the audience shouted,
Bully for you old tow top Good
Lordy, look at her kick - and they put
him out.
Z" How is it that you came home from
your party so early last night, Susan
Didn't you enjoy yourself?" Susan
=" Yes, ma am, but the young man as
tux me hin to supper insulted me. !"
Mistress =" Insulted you, Susan !?
Why, what did he say ?" Susan
Yes, ma'am. He asked if my pro-
gram was full, and I'm sure never 'ad
nothing but sandwich and a glass of
lemonade, 50 l come away home.
A GREEN BAY wis., Granger poll
tician sings
The hickory berry vine entwines
The brown nuts of the turnip tree;
The cashmere heifer skips and plays
To the tuneful bleat of the feathery bee.
On tall boughs mid the buckwheat buds
We hear the low of the finny poyer,
While the bay bull htched to the rumbling scythe
Husks out the golden clover.