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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-05
RAILROADS.
Memphis & Little Rock Railway.
Winter Schedule.

COMMENCING DECEMBER s, 1873, UN-
u iii further notice, trains will leave Mem
phs as follows, city time;
Mail train daily, except Sunday ;.....".5;l5 p m
Freight and Accommodation daily. 81
except Sunday............''''' ~ d. III
Pullman Palace Cars on mail train.
Direct connection with trains on Cairo and
Fulton and Little Rock and Fort Smith rail-
roads. -,-.
Only direct route to all points in Arkansas
For Information and tickets call at 2SI and
21s Main street, or at the depot, Center Land
ms A. S. LIVERM0RE.
A-l13 General Superintendent.
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Tnre Of nm Oyercnat.


From the New Orleans Times.
A gentleman called here this morning
to ask about paragraph in Mondays
Times headed Treasure Trove."
" | lost an article of wearing apparel
on the shell road, Sunday evening, and l
think it the same you spoke Of
Z" 1t was an overcoat"
"Color?"
Light blue.gray"
What sort of collar?'
Velvet"
How do you account for having
dropped it2'
Well, it was rather warm, and l
slipped my arms out of the sleeves and
let the coat fall behind me 'on the seat
| suppose it must have worked out
Anybody in the buggy with your
Yes; lady"
Not a relative?'
oh, no; just young lady friend"
Good-looking, of course?"
" | should say So" with great emo
ton.
Ali do you, can You recollect doing
anything, or noticing anything, calcu-
lated to make that coat wor k out from
behind you and fall?"
Now, look here, young man. you We
been asking me whole lot of questions
that don't see the exact drift of /
called up here TO get my cotst according
to notice in the paper. You ought to
know by this time whether it's my coat
or not, and that's all the business you
have, so far as | see. paid for that
buggy, and / asked that young woman to
go riding; my overcoat worked out and
was lost, but don't see. what you've got
to do with how it worked out. You can
hand il over or not, just as you please,
but you needn't ask me any more ques.
tions. You newspaper men ask too
many questions"
The gentleman was excited, and for
got to thank us for his coat.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-05

A Missouri paper thiaks what the
women of this country most need is not
suffrage, but symmetry; not rights, but
nationality; not q place in our legisla-
tive halls, but a place to fasten their
stockinps
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oEFICIAL.
PROCLAMATION.


MAYORS OFFICE. CITY HALL.
MEnPHIs. TENN. .. January 2, lel4.
IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION q OF I'll r
Il City Ordinances. the General Council VAL
eo1Vene al the City Hall. in Exchange Build
ing. on Saturday. the Cd day Of January, lSlt b,
afSp.m., for the purpose Of making prOVi-
sion for the installation Of the Mayor and
members Of the General Council elect, ana
.ISS i9;.i6s JOHN JOHNSON. Mayor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-05

The Hartford Times tells a curious
story of flock Of crows in that vicinity
who recently lost their way in fog.
They lost their bearings at a point di.
rectly above the South Green, in Hart
ford. For a good while they hovered
there, coming low down, circling and
diving simlessly about like blindfold
person in blind mans buff, and keep
ing up hoarse cawing and general
racket beyond description. 1t was plain
enough that of the entire company each
individual crow was not only puzzled
and bothered, but highly indignant, and
inclined to utter cuss words in his
frantic attempts to be heard above the
general din, and tell the others which
way to go. Once or twice the flock swept
down to distance of not more than one
hundred feet above the street. Finally,
after going around for many times they
sailed away in southerly direction, evi-
IDENTIFY having got some clue to the way
out of the fog, or desperately resolved to
go Somewhere till they could see day
light.
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Mississippi 6 Tennessee R. &,

nN AND AFTER SUNDAY, NOV. 9. 1873,
" Trains will run as follows;
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
New Orleans Mail. daily...l 100 p.a. 2:f0 p m
Express. .daily-...............i:lop pm. S'5l q. ID
Trains on this road make close connection AZ
Grenada with Mississippi Central railroad tor
all points North and South; at Memphis VITA
the Memphis and Louisville line ior al points
North and East, and with the hemnhis and
Little Rock railway for al points IN Arkansas
and the West. only direct route to canton
jackson Vicksburg. New prlcans and Mooiie
Tickets on sale &C ssl Main street, corner OF
"nS.iO"' ISL anu - ~ NJ. BURKE. SUIT
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LEGACY.
Legacy.

4 HAD RATHER HAVE A SITUATION
.,.n In MeWphis who needs n man competent
and anxious 10 work. please answer ;his ad-
rertiEemeut. r.vr
l05-lo5 heapocNuliys Di's w.
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.tpurs Ann RALFTGH RAILROAD.

MEMPHIS AND RALEIGH RAILROAD.
Daily Trains Except Sunday Leave Mem
phis at 9 am, 1.l0p.m and 4.lO pm: % Leave
Fare for round trip. so cents Tickets for
sale ut 2S7 Main (cor, Madisonl. DEPOT oihce'
and at Raleigh. JOHN DONOVAN, Pres.
JAS SPEED, Gen'l Ticket Agent.
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JEWELRY.
JEWELRY AT PANIC PRICES
AT
August JOerss' Jswelry Store,
No. oO2 Main street,
(bet. Adams and Washington.l

MY LARGE AND WELL SELECTED
vi stock Of JeWelry, consisting of gold
gents and ladies' watches, Il carat, opera
Nilsson, matinee and vost chains, coral. ame-
thyst and solid gold sets, bracelets, charms.
rings, blue enameled tockets, necklaces, ETC.,
will De sold al nearly cost prices to suit the
times. Also, constantly on hand a large ss-
lection Of Jet and Fancy Goods, cheaper than
elsewhere. rAUGUsT J0ERSS.
OK
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Love I'm Sweden.

Courtship and marriage in Sweden
are peculiar institutions. Du Chaillu
says: l saw one match made. He
met her at the gate and poked his fingers
in her ribs, and said: i want to get
married, don'tSyoul' oh, don't know.
Go away Yes you do; let's get mar.
ried. Well. ask papa No, never
mind him, we'll get married anyhow
And he went around telling everybody
he saw, I'm going to marry that girl.
The preparations continued during the
three weeks required by law to have the
bans published in the churches Fishes
were caught, stores for the feast laid In,
beer brewed, and whisky purchased,
Wedding publications. are INDUCED in
for week. This couple were married.
They went from the church to the house,
and the bridesmaids locked the bride in
her room. The groom knocked at the
door, How much will you give to come
inY Two cows and So That's rot
enough. Three cows and $40 oh,
you are rich; you must give more
than that Five COWS and $25 was the
final offer, which was accepted"
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TAXES.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

0FFIcE oF CRY Tax COLLECTOR.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, December l6. 1873.
10 AND PAY YOUR CITY TAXES NOW,
OR BEFORE THE lsT oP JANUARY, as the taxes
for 1878 will be declared past due and the Tax
Collector instructed to issue his WARRANTS
without further delay. "AsTHELAw DIRECTS. "
FELIX W. ROBERTSON,
9l-l02 City Tax Collector.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-05

A student in the State University of
Iowa City, by the name of Bailey, wrote
to Bailey, of the Danbury News, to ask
if the man Of humor was any of his kin.
He received this reply
DAEBURY. Conn.,, December 8. 1878.
In answer to your note | am COM
PEELED to say that some one has got up
a corner or my relatives of the name of
Bailey, and that at present | am not in
possession of one, to my knowledge.
1t is fearful thing TO stand alone IL
the world, without single, or married,
relative in the distance, but am so sue
cessful in concealing my sorrow that no
one suspects its existence.
Whether my ancestors came over IN
the Mayhower depends in large meas
ure upon what was the passage money.
If anything at all, am inclined to be-
lieve that they went around.
When asked if am a relation of
yours, you should kindly, but firmly, de-
ny it. 1t is going to be too hard win
ter to take on relations. Yours in SYM
pathy, ]. W. BAILEY.
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PLAsTERERs.
PL A IT Z r IN &c l..

w h. JOCKEY a CO., PLAIN AND
w ornamental plasterers. Is Gayoso 81.
Job5ing promptly attended 70, st-ll3
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MEDICAL.
DR.. Curtis on ManhOnr+. !"
2OOth EDITION.
F. CURTIS. NJ. D.. etc, etc.
Revised and Corrected by the Author. f.. Dr

Revised and Corrected by the Author. y. DE
f. CURTIS, NJ. D.. etc., etc.
A MEDICAL ESSAY on the cause and cure
of Premature Decline in Man, showing how
health is lost and how regained. 1t eiVcs
clear synopsis fthe Impediments to Marriage.
and Physical Debility, and other diseases ap-
pertaining thereto, and the remedies therefor.
the results of twenty years successful pIac
"CURTIS ON MANHOOD. > There is no
member of society by whom this book will mt
be found useful, whether he be parent pre-
ceptor or clergym." London Times.
Price 50 cents, by mail. Address the auihor.
DIR. CURTIS,
4O-xviii99 9Tremont Place. Boston. Nnes
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Sleeping cars on mail train. Depot Center
Landing, foot of Washington street. Ticket
Offices, 2S7 (cor. Madisonl and 2Is Main street.
A. S. LIVERM0RE, Gen. Sup't.
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OFFICIAL.
N O TIC e.

Mayors OFFICE, CRY HALL. I
MEMPHIS, Tenn, December Is, 1871
TNHE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF
j. John +. Thomas, or the owner or owners
of lot No. g. in F. W. Smiths subdivision of
a part of block Sc, South Memphis, are hereby
notified to appoint two treeholders, who, with
by themselves. shall constitute Jury TO deter
mine the amount Of compensation TO be paid
for apart of said lot taken for the extension of
JOHN JOHNSON. Mayor.
December 10, 1873. 94-123
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PHYSICIAN
NOTICE.
Il. O. o. f..

THE SPECIAL RELIEF COMMITTEE
Il gives notice TO all needy Odd Fellows or
their families in the city. that they will be
supplied with whatever their necessities may
require. By making application for orders
upon the following committeeman:
A. W. NEWSOM, les Front street
GEO. w. J.. CROOK. 81 Madison street.
WIN. HENRY. IS Madison street
y. p. HOFFMAN, 90S Main street.
The Odd Fellows' commissary store will be
open from 10 70 - o clock on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays. 1-l00
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LOUISVILLE tsGiSTiiGh AND AND n NASH S VI teiiisEE
Great Southern Railr0ad.
sCHEDULE.

SCHE DULE.
Express Train leaves daily Sundays
eNcepted) 80 "'i
Ieayss daily. Sundays excepted. 6:l0 IN
Mail Train leaves daily................ l:l0 p. IN
Brownsville Accommodation leaves .
daily Sundays excepted) ............... 4:lO pm
ra- No change Of cars by this line fo- 10 lis.
Vile. ST. Louis or Nashville. Pullman PA 'gce
sleeping. cars on all night trains.
For Tickets or information apply at
Tisket Oflce, 2s7 MaiU, cor. Madison.
JOHN T. FLYNN. sup't Memphis Div;
JAMES SPEED. Ticket Agent. -
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PUBLIC LEDGER.

NNHE PUBLIC LEDGER is PUBLISHED
| 4 every afternoon Except Sunday at No. IL
| Madison street.
The PUBLIC LEDGER is served to city subscri-
bers by faithful carriers at FIFTEEN CENTS
| PER WEEK, payable weekly to the carriers.
By mail (iu advanced: One year, s.; six
months, s4 three months. 81; one month,
| rs cents.
Nowsdealers supplied at 21S cents per COPY.
Weekly Public Ledger,
Published every Tuesday at so per annum lin
ADVANCE; clubs Of five or more. 81 %.
Communications upon subjects OF general
interest to the public are at all times accept
able.
Rejected manuscripts WILL NOT be returned.
RATES OF ADVERTISING IN DAILY:
irst nsertion.......-......."...Sl % per square
For one week k'......''..'............ 3 90
For two weeks...-................4 ~ .
For three weeks.............'.....'' W =. =.
For one mon OO
RATES OF ADVERTISING IN WEEKLY:
Subsequent insertions......... 80
Eight lines of nonpareil, solid, constitute a
square.
Displayed advertisements will be charged
according to the SPACE occupied, at above
rates-there being twelve lines ofsolid type to
the inch.
To regular advertisers we offer superior in;
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.
Notices of deaths and marriages, twenty
cents per line.
All bids for advertising are due whom con-
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NOW Ms THE TIME TO BUY

Country Merchants, Schools and Seminaries
will please send in their orders, as | can fill
them at LESS than New York prices, for cash,
or good city acceptance at thirty, sixty or
ninety days.
Bs- Pianos Tuned and Repaired by compe-
tent workmen. Z. A. BENSON.
2S-t S17 Main street. Memphis. Tenn.
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Nos. Cures. Cents
|. Fevers, Congestion, 1n1ammations, u
.. Worms, Woua Fever, Worm Collie, 81
3. Crying-COIic, or Ieethingof Infants, 81
4. Diarrhea, of Children or Adults, 81
5. Dysentery, Gurng, Bilious Collie, %
g. or1Us, Vomiting, %
Z. Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, 81
8. Neuralgia, Toothache, Fucenche, %
9. Headr shes, Sick He1dache, Vertigo, d
10. Dyspepsia, Bilious Stomach, y
IL. Suppressed, or Painful Periods, 81
Y. whites, too Profuse Periods, 80
Is. Group, Cough, Difficult Breathing, y
IA. salt Rheuisa, Erysipelas, Eruptions, %
Is. RheumatisIn, Rheumatic Pains, 80
10. Fever and Agsse, GNU tever, A6nes' "
IL. piles, blind or bleeding, %
Is. Ophthalmy, and Sore or Weak Eyes, %
10. CatarTh, Acute or Chronic Influenza, 5J
90. VVhooping- Violent Coughs, 50
q. Asthma, Oppressed breathng' :. eV
o. Ear Discharges, Impaired Hearing, 20
23 ScrofuIa, Enlarged Glands, Swelings, %
"a. Ecraerul Debility, Physical Weakness, 30
25. Dropsy and scanty Secretions, 30
&c. sen-Siclxness, Sickness from Riding 30
Ss ~ Ni@me NiSTo;ss DeSiIity, Seminal weakness,
or Involuntary Discharges, lOO
90 Sore Mouth, Canker, Sg
30. Urinary weakness, Wetting the BED, 90
81. Painful Periods, with spa7n's' 90 So
so. sufFerings at Change OF IAie, Ivy O
90 EniIensev, Spasrns st. Nitus' Dance, loo
al Dinhtheria, liberated Sore Throat. 80
s5. Chronic COngestions and Eruptlons' Of
. FAMILY CASES.
Case troroccol with above 30 large viois and od
Manual of Directions, SW ~ ~
Case NIorOccol of 20 large vlaIs ana DoIs ,, The
cese or single box TO any part OF the
country, free OF charge, on receipt "t
price. Address
Humphreys SPECIFIC
homeopathic Medicine Coz
neice and Depot, No. 562 BRoADwAY, Nv HoRK.
For sale by all Druggists
And by H. C. Steever & Co., Second St., corner
Madison; Andrew Renkert, l20 Main st. +.
W. Vigus, lS7 Poplar St., Memphis, Tenn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-05

The editor of the Louisiana missouri J
Press, in relating what he knows about
farming, touches up the hog question in
this style: To make Berkshire pigs out
Of your hazel-splitters, select a cool day,
stand them on their hams tied to as ap-
ling, and drive their noses back into
their shoulders, leaving about an inch
protruding. II you look at the agricul-
tural papers you will see that all blooded
hogs are fixed that way. If you have
any whose noses are longer than the rest
Of the body better sell them to an arte-
sian well company for drills, as you
cannot drive the noses back without
telescoping the whole pig. When you
cut up hogs leave the hams square, leav-
ing some hair, too; salt everlastingly,
and they will be worth several cents less
per pound than when trimmed and cured
80 that Christian can eat them"
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1t is well known that in his great
sledge journey in search of the relics of
Sir John Franklin, Captain Hall made
distressing discoveries, which he re-
solved never to give to the light as long
as Lady Franklin should live. On his
last departure from Greenland in the
Polaris he intrusted all his important
documents to Mr.. Smith, of Tessuisak.
From them it is now ascertained that
Captain Hall made the sad discovery
that Franklin and his party we're re-
duced to the dire necessity of eating
each other. The fact of this discovery
would have added still greater fame to
Captain Hall He kept the secret from
Lady Franklin; but nov that the tender
and heroic explorer rests under the same
dreary skies with the lost Franklin, this
most unhappy secret has come to light.
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PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.
Mail and Freight Train leaves ,S.SS S.9S pm n,
The mail and freight train leaves Cow igton
for Memphis at am. and returns to Covlng;;
ton at 7:65 p. m. Trains leaving Memphis VIII
start from the Underwriters Warehouse.
j. W. WILBUR, Gen'l Sup't.
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RAILROAD TJME TABLES.

MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE R. r.
Arrives. Leaves.
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JOHN T. FLYNN. sup't Memphis I
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-07

The political situation in France grows more
and more towards the only solution that is pos
sible without dissolution of the Assembly
q crisis and contest between the Bonapart-
lists and the extreme republicans that would
bring infinite trouble upon the French OF this
time. We have always held that if MacMahon
and the Left and Right Centres would unite in
favor Of an honest republic there would be
peace and the beginning of the true Republic;
for, however much it would differ from the
ideal republics that form the basis Of our
hopes in democracy, it would be an honest
government and would have behind it the hopes
II would be conservative, of course, just as
our own American Republic was conservative
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-07

1t is only within the past few years that the
sport of miniature yachting has assumed any
important dimensions in this country. It
appears to have first attracted attention in
France, and then English yachtsmen took it
up, with view to improving the models of
larger vessels, relying on the theory that the
fast model, fifty or sixty inches in length,
may furnish the dimensions for proportion
ately fast yacht some fifty or sixty feet in
length. Last season large number Of min
nature yachts were built ranging in length
from two to six feet, and on one occasion
thirty-fve of these boats participated in
regatta The trials of speed this year have
not brought out quite SO many competitors,
especially those that were sailed on
Prospect Park Lake, as the yacht
owners had no place to keep their
boats but now that the Park Commissioners
with commendable enterprise have COM
menced building boathouse, there will be
no lack of entries to the different matches.
A miniature yacht race will probably form
part of the sport at Saratoga during the
regatta week, as the managers have offered to
give very handsome prize if the yacht
owners will bring up their boats and sail q
race on the lake. Miniature yachting is a
class of amusement especially beneficial, as it
will foster an early love for the mother sport
Of yachting and also inculcate considerable
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE,

General J. W. Singleton, OF Illinois, Is staying al
the Gllsey House.
Senator Timothy U. Howe, OF Wisconsin, is at tho
St. Nicholas Hotel
DR.. Samuel @. Howe of Boston, has apartments
at the Brevoort House.
Commander L. A. Beardsee, United States
Navy, is at the Gilsey House.
"Tooth Carpenters" are what the Mutual Asso.
citation OF Dentists are styled.
Ex-Governor Odin Bowie, OF Maryland, yester-
day arrived at the New York Hotel.
Lord DufTerln (the Governor GeneraD, Countess
DufYerin and family arrived in quebec yesterday.
Colonel Lord Clartna, OF the Ninety regi-
ment British Army, is residing at the ST. Nicholas
Hotel
Mr.. Shine of Medina, Ohio, has eleven sonshines
in his cottage, and Is still not content to keen
shady.
Congressman Alexander Mitchell OF Wisconsin,
arrived from Washington yesterday at the Hon.
man House.
Major Orlando NJ. Poe OF the Engineer corps,
United States Army, is registered at the Hotel
Brunswick.
The present Mayor OF Charleston once BACKED
thing he ever did.
The Rev. Dr.. West OF Cincinnati, declared in q
recent sermon the "citizens OF that city have
we'll nigh made Sodom and Gomorrah respectabe.n
James Gray, OF Vermont, wrote hertz love
you as the tempest loves the placid lake." and
now she Is Obliged to sue him for breach OF promise.
Chicago clergyman remarks, II would as soon
see my name In the bottomiess pit as In the public
prints OF Chicago" He'u see 1t there sooner, per-
haps.
pedlar said to be los years Old still travels
about England. Nothing Is told US about his vital
powers having been corrupted by tobacco or al
cohol.
Mr.. Mark Firth, q gentleman who lately built
and endowed q block OF almshouses In Snefield.
England, now intends to present public park to
that city.
IL is reported that Mr. Norva OF the Times, mas
bought the Express, and that Comptroller Green
has bought the Graphic Sad commentary, If true,
on the fate OF the comic papers.
ExPresident Buenaventura Baez, OF st. Do
mingo, who has been living in quiet retirement at
the Brevoort House for several months past, sailed
for Porto Rico yesterday in the steamship City Of
Mexico.
N. Villemessant. editor OF the Paris Figaro has
just let out matter very important to the future
historian. He says that NJ Theirs himself was the
the author OF somewhat celebrated letter pub
lished in his journal over the signature OF IAN
Old Subscriber" at the time OF the Barodee-
Remusat contention. In that letter M. Thicrs
took strong ground for the election OF M. Remusat,
and spoke severely OF NJ Barodet. Yet, queerly
enough the latter "nerce Communard' has
scarcely spoken in the Assembly. and supporu
almost all N. Theirs notions