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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-27
RAILROADS.
Arkansas g. Texas Short Line
WA
Memphis & Little Rock Railway
RESUM ED.

|OE AND AFTER THURSDAY. MAY 2STH,
" trains will run Iegul rly as follows:
Mail train leaves Memphis daily. 1925 pm
Mail train arrives atMemphis daily..12 ;S5 p. m
Freight and Accommo odation. Mon
days. Wednesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays, leaves Memphis......... 1:l5 am
Arrives at Memphis....:........ $40 pm
r. for Fulton, Texarkana. Jefferson, Shreye-
port, Marshall. Longyiew, Dallas. sherman.
Dennison, Palestine, Hearne, Waco. Houston.
Arkansas and Texas Also, in same depot,
u Argepta. with trains on Little Rock and
Fort Smith railroad for Lewisburg, RUSSELL
gilie. Dardanelle, ClarksvilIe. Van Buren,,
Fort Smith, et,, Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars on Night Trains. For Tickets and in
formation, apply at 278 Main street. 278 Main
street, or at Depot. foot Of Washington street.
A. :. LIVEkM0 RE, tien'l Sup't.
j. II. PERRY. Gen Ticket Ag't.
i4-QQ r. A. WILLIAMS Pas ger Ao't
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coTToN FACTORS.
OWEN, McNUTT & CO.,

POTION FACTORS,
b ECETvTNG, FORWARDING AND GEH-
/ \ eral Commission Merchants, Lee Block
IS Union ST., Memphis, Tenn.
Ali cotton or other produce eonsigned e as
nsured, unless otherwise instructed, Bag
fne. rope and other supplies furnished at the
pwest market price. nhz lOl-XYiii-lO0
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MUSIC.
Established i'm 1853.
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Jepet at foot of Main street.
Ticket Office. 27 Main street. corner Of
Madison.
M. BURKE. GenT Sup't.
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Depot at head of Main stree
,Iicket Office, 2S7 Eain street. corner of
Madison.
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Policies Issued upon Fire, Marine and Inland
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THE NEW
Improved Remington
SEWING MACHINE.
AWARDED

The HIGHEST ORDER OF medal" AWARDED
AT THE ExPosIrIoS.
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N = y, VAVVFt JlIIuH3 VsVV OsVV =
..ldii lrdln. ....-............ :. 4.lU l.lU
Freight and Accommoda-
., ton, except Sunday. 1910 6.10
brownsville Accommod n $50 40
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
Expanding the Chest.

Take strong rope and fasten it to
q beam overhead to the lower end of
the rope attach stick three feet long,
convenient to grasp with the hands,
The rope should be fastened to- the
center of the stick, which should hang
six or eight inches above the head
Let person grasp with the hands two
or three feet apart, and swing very
moderately at frst-perhaps only bear
tie weight, if very weak-and grad
ually increase, as the muscles gain
strength from the exercise, until ii
may be used from three to five times
daily. The connection of the arms
with the body, with the exception of,
the c!aViQls with the breast bone, max
ing a muscular attG chment to the ribs;
the effect of this exercise is to elevate
the ribs and enlarge the chest, and as
nature allows no vacuum, the lungs
expand to fill the cavity, increasing the
volume of air, the natural purifier of
blood and preventing the congestion
or deposit of tuberculous matter We
have prescribed the above for sll cases
Dfhemorage of the lungs, and treated
consumption for thirty-fve years, and
have been able to increase the meas
nre of the chest from two to four ir.
ches within a few months, and will
good results. But especially as pre-
ventive We would recommend this ex
else. Let those who love to live, cul
tivate a well formed capacious chest
The student, the merchant, the seden
tary, the young of both sexes-aye al
should have swing on which tc
stretch themselves daily. We are Ger
tain that if this were to he practicet
by the rising generation in a dress al
lowing free and full development 0
the body, many would be saved frou
consumption. Independently of it
beneficial results, the exercise is a
exceedingly pleasant one, and as th
appai atus costs very little, there nee
be no difficulty about auy one enjey
ing it WHO wishes it Dio Lewis.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
An Ex-senator Convicted.

The trial of the ex-senator William
N. Graham took place in this city last
week in the United States Circuit
Court, before Judge Benedict aud a
jury. Mr.. Graham was indicted for
having embezzled absut $173 900, til e
property of the Waikiki National
Bank, OF which establishments he had
been President. Mr.. A. H. Purdy,
United States Assistant District At
tOrney, conducted the case on the part
Of the government, and Mr.. William
Fullerton and Mr.. John Mcdonald Rp-
peared as counsel for Mr. Graham
The guilt of the ex Senator was so
clearly proved. that no defence was at
tempted by his counsel, and the jury
rendered a verdict of guilty without
leaving their seats.
This ruined man once held q high
position in the State and enjoyed the
respect Of the community in Middle
town, N. Y, where he lived. But he
fell into bad habits, and before this
crime was known, he had lost his
standing. The cashier of the bank,
Horton, in league with him, fed fIom
Justice and is said to be in South
America. The president is now con
vict, and would feel more intensely
the degradation of his sentence had
he not become insensible to the feel
ing Of shame, But the way of trans
gressors is become harder and harder
And while the number of such often
ses as this has so greatly increased OF
late years, it is to be hoped that the
increased number OF convictions may
prove to be a check upon these crimes
In. Y. Observer.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
snort Horn nun Lord mayor 0Oeo.

We are pleased to learn that this
fine animal has been purchased jointly
by our friend Judge d. >. King of our
county and Thomas Kirk, Esq, of
Fayette county. Negotiations have
been pending for sometime between
these enterprising breeders of fine
blooded cattle and Charles E. Coffin,
Esq, of Maryland, who is the owner
of the famous herd of short horns
known as the Mairkirk Herd, to which
place Judge King recently made visit
As il was deemed a matter of the
greatest importance for the still fur
ther Improvement or the already fine
herds Of these gentlem en-, Judge King,
not being willing to rely entirely upon
his own Judgment, procured the seryl-
ces of our felIew citizen Mr.. H. II.
Hankins, who. accompanied him and
whose unsrring Judgment and indorse-
ment is a sure guarantee OF the superi
or excellence Of this animal. The blood
or breeding Of this bull is of the most
popular and fashionable in England or
this country, as he possesses three
fourths of the Bates or Duchess blood,
(cows and heifers of which blood sold
at the recent New York Mills sale by
Mr. Cambell at prices ranging from
twenty to forty thousand six hundred
/ dollars each) crossed upon the equal
" valuable and still more ancient fami-
" known as the Princess tribe of
Short-horns, whose pedigrees are
traced to the earliest and most noted
animals of which history gives any &C
count. Lord Mayor is1a beautiful red
color and is intended to supply the
plsee in Judge Kings herd of his old
bull London Duke 4th 5606, and is Sc
Iected under the supervision of Mfr
Hankins, togethefA with Judge King,
as one suited to cross upon the pro.
duce of the old Duke, now disabled
from dislocated hip. Lord Mayor i:
also equally well suited to use in Mr.
Kinks herd, he having some of th'
produce of London Duke with Others
of kindred blood.
The loss of this fine bull, London
Duke 4th, is to be regretted, as he i
the son of Mr.. AlexaDder's old Duk,
of Airdria (12730,) the most famous
sire America has ever possessed, ant
wAose services are well known by tn
short-horn breeders Of America, t.
have worked a greater improvemel
than any other animal. We wish thes
Snterpnsing gentlemen the creates
success in their laudable efforts to still
further improve their own fine Herds
and thereby bring mat ial within th'
Beach of others thus engaged, as it i
though the efforts of such publicspir
tied, enterprising individuals that tn
general stock of the country is TO b
improved, and the wealth Of the coun
try. thereby greatly enhanced = Clintol
Go. RepMdZicnn
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
wNo Intoxicating Liquor Sold. .zy
THE NEW PROPRIETOR

Respectfully asks share of public patronage, fee
ing sure that he offers favorable induccment
as any other House in Washington. CaTl and see
Jan IL. 1871 .SEtf JAMES LEASE
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22

The attention public particularly called goods
beauty quality keep Men,
and Children.
Magnificent readiness funeral o
ingon c H.
Oct 80, J. HOPKINS
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
Nice Apples

AT c. H. BRowNELL q BROS.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
T. D. MCELwAIN. JOHN 5. FOSTER,
McELWAIN & FOSTER,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS

TTHHOs. d. McELwAIN has re-established his
,t6io Real a Estate Ageney in WsShiHgto1 T. h,
TER. a man of large experience in real estate
transactions, Persons having real estate which
see them 1t is the intention of the arm to in
tiOnsaIes.
Two Farms OF about 100 acres each in Concord
tOwnShip-gOOd corn and WI heat land-within i've
miles of Washington.
Three Farms within one of Washington: one
OF lSO acres, one OF 80 acres, and of 100 acres.
Three Farms in Union township within three
ceres each.
--one fine Farm, well improved, in JEFFERSON Up.
One Farm in Wayne townships good land.
good orchard and well watered.
Two Dwelling Houses East street.
One and two story frame dwelling, containing
six rooms: belonging to Mrs. Ellen ICONS, sitnat-
ed on East street.
Two-story frame Building suitable for Board
ing House, and known as such, situated On Fay
ette street.
Two Dwellings on Market street.
One Dwelling on North street.
Two Dwellings on Temple street.
Two Dwelling Houses on Washington avenue
One Dwelling on Main street.
Several other pieces OF dwelling property varf-
ousIy located Easy terms and moderate prices.
New brick Dwelling and grounds located in
the corporate limits of w ashington.
Thirty Town Lots in good locations
100 acres of land-the Manly farm-situahed
Iieothe Pike The land is we'll Satsrsd and IN
good shape. Three houses and a good orchard -
no oe sold as whole or eNt mp to suit pun ehasers.
y. l.. Reed's land situated on the Bogus Road
about one. half mile east OF Chiliicothe ROAD -
Belng o. acres OF land. 90 acres cleared and IN
There IS u valuable sand and gravel ham on az
land Terms easy. -
Oltice zap Stairs over Green & Chat
Oct 8, lS7S
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
The Money Panic!
rs ALMOST OVER
FALL & WINTER STOCK,

Every article of which has been purchased in the last days.
saving of from Is 20 per purchases made
ago. careful examination of few of the leading articles SELL vii
give you idea how bought Fall stock
goods in general
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22

- The Bay State has town where
the wedding bells haven't rung for a
decade and a half. But the hearts Of
expectant damsels iveng there are
constantly wrung.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22
FARM
FOR SALE.

r WILL offer FOR sale the farm known as the
l. "Crumrne farm, - situated in Fayette county,
ohio. on the waters of Rattlesnake. containing
100 acres of first rate land of which 100 acres are
clear and 40 acres well timbered. 1t has upon IL
bearing orchard of different kinds of fruit trees
There are upon the premises a large tw0-story
frame dwelling house containing Z rooms. a large
frame barn. besides other buildings. All the
buildings are in good repair. The title is good.
The terms will be made to suit purchasers. En-
quire of Roswell +. Howard. Xenia Green Coun-
ty, Ohio. JACOB CRUARINE
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22

- A man out West who has mar
ried aud buried three sisters, now
comes up smiling at the alter, having
begun on a new family.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22

Oct. 30, 1872.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22

WE HAVE JUST PRINTED a vari e.v
OF Justices Blanks, Constable's Sales.
Of &c. All which we have on land and 10
sale at the Herald oGise,
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-01-22

by Adams \ Shook for the sale OF ali Kinds
OF Sewing Machines, both new and second hand
All parties about to purchase should call aud
ing Top Machine, formerly sold at $Ss for 80.
Como in and see for yourself. Depot in Will
lett's Building. corner Court and Main strrtls
Nov 20. 1919. Inns
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16
Large Family.

James White owned right up like a
man. He said it was all nonsense for
a man to claim that he was sober when
the city hall and opera house seemed to
him to be nodding to each other, and
the monument to be skipping around on
one leg. Yes, he was drunk. He hap
pened to come along where man was
selling new cider at five cents per glass,
and he bought and drank three cents
worth, and it few TO his head. He was
a man of large family, respectable char
acter, worked hard, and if anybody
ever again saw him drink three cents
worth of cider he was willing to sit
down on a buzz saw.
CIT seems to me that you are IN earn
est, :" remarked his honor. Truth and
veraeity can be seen right in your eyes,
and I believe it will be safe to let you
90. But beware of cider in the fu-
ture. Shun it as you would nomina-
ton for alderman. It looks nice, tastes
good, but, ah! it has sapped the toun-
dation of many a noble structure and
brought bitter ruin to many a happy
hearthstone. Go, Mr.. White, go forth
into the great, wide world with the de
termination in your heart never to drink
three. cent cider or TO have a large fam
ilv or q respectable character again"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16
A Disastrous BlGnder.

The Memphis cotton exchange, from
numerous reports on the cotton crop In
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Arkansas, estimates that in these states,
from the blightiug effects of the recent
severe drouth, the aggregate yield will
be about forty-fve per cent. less than
that of Iast year. This will be q severe
loss to the states directly concerned
but there are still more discouraging
facts in this Memphis report, viz. Hav-
ing realized advances TO the extent of
their interests, laborers have abandoned
the picking of the cotton in many IN
stances, and as, in addition to prices of
cotton being very low, very little grain
or meat has been raised, there is much
fOreboding as TO the future. This de-
Yotion of their lands and their capital
exclusively to the cultivation of cotton
has for many years proved a disastrous
blunder to our southern planters. They
have depended upon their cotton to sup.
ply them, not only with all their house
hold and farming utensils and imple-
ments, their clothing, furniture, ETC.,
but to supply them with provisions, to
a great extent, from the northwest,
when, for manufactures of all descrip-
tions and for all the articles of subsis.
tence OF the temperate zone, our cotton
states offer facilities and advantages
which exist nowhere else in the world.
To these important matters of southern
reconstruction the attention of southern
planters cannot be too earnestly direct
ed,-N Y HeTHT
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16

of this chap, walking off with hatfu
of money.
Half an hour afterward the little Lac
was cuddled close to his mothers heart
Ralph was lying back among the cush
ions IN the cabin; Captain Jack was Close
at hand, busting all the buttons off al
overcoat that the emotional fellow had
insisted his accepting as a mark of his
esteem, and looking at May and the
child with all his honest soul in his eyes.
"Gracious God % he said, going over
o Ralph, "supposs you hadn't been
aboard l''
"And suppose you hadn't been out
with the boat ?" said Ralph.
''Suppose we look above for a solution
to these things % said.
We slept that night In our old quar-
ters at Captain Jacks house on the
shore. At sunrise the little chap was
at his old trick again. and cried out
from his sleep in the adjoining room.
Ralph grasped my arm. 'sThank God, y
he said" thank God for the child %
&c [ told you so three years ago, I
rejoined.
''I'm cured now, Hail., said Ralph,
Sc for once and all.
" You ought to be, Ralph it took
a miracle to do it. "
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16
Sunlight for the Sick.

Dr., VIM. II. Hammond, in discussing
the sanitary influence of light, observes
that the effects of deficient light upon
the inmates of hospital wards and sick
chambers have frequently come under
his special notice that most physicians
know how carefully the attendants upon
the sick endeavor to exclude every ray
of light from the apartment, and even
some members of the profession are sin
gularly assiduous in this respect; but
that the practice, except in some cases
of actual disorder of the brain and 9th
er parts of the nervous system, IS per-
nicicus, admits of no question. During
the late civil war DIR. 81. visited camp
and hospital In West Virginia, In conse-
uuence of information received that the
sickness and mortality there prevailing
were unaccountably great, and be made
a minute examination into all the cir
cUmstances connected with the situation
of the camp, the food of the men, etc.
Among other peculiarities, he found the
sick crowded into a small room, from
which the light was excluded by blinds
of india-rubber cloth. The patients
we're as effectually bleached as is celery
by the earth being heaped up around
it; pale, bloodless, ghost-like looking
forms, they seemed to be scarcely mortal.
Convalescence was, under such clrcum-
stances, according to DR.. Hammond,
almost impossible, and his belief was
that many of the men had died, who,
had they been subjected to the opera
ton of the simplest laws of nature,
would have recovered.-M Y. Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16
An Aide-de-Scamp.

An amusing 2necdOte IS told of we'll
known French general, who played a
conspicuous part in a cavalry charge.
This gallant warrior had been severely
wounded on his head and bullet in his
thigh. Such an allowance might have
satisfied a man of quiet tastes, but was
far from sufficient for the fire-eatipg
general. In relating the charge, which
he did at every dinner party, he was in
the habit of throwing in half q dozen
bayonet thrusts and a couple of stray
splinters from a shell, and he invariably
appealed for corroboration of his narra-
tive to an aid d-de-camp who had ridden
by his side. On one occasion, having
imbibed more than his usual allowance
of AT Chateau Yquem, he drew a more
than usually startling picture of his
riddled and perforated condition. A
cannon ball had killed his horse, dozen
sabres had descended at once on his
head, a couple of lances had passed
through each of his arms, and all the
bullets and bayonets Of Germany
seemed to have given each other a rem
devious in his body "You remember
it well, don't you?" he added, turning
to his aide de-camp. The well-trained
subaltern had suffered long in silence.
The bayonets, bullets, lances, etc., he
had got used to by long practice, but
the cannon ball was the last straw that
broke the camel's back. ''No, general,
l don't remember it. How could you
expect me to? You know as we'll as I
do that the very cannon ball that killed
your horse struck the breastplate of a
cuirassier behind us, and then bounded
back and took my head off y
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-16
The Late Earthquake at Antigua.

A correspondent writing from Antigua,
Guatemala, under date of the 1st, gives
an account of the earthquake there the
previous evening. On the Sd of Sep
tember, at $50 P. NJ, without previous
warning, a strong earthquake shook the
ground violently in the direction from
west to east. Wave-like undulations
on the surface rose and fell at least a
foot. The first strong shock lasted from
twenty-five to thirty seconds, when the
contents of a large water-tank in the
court yard of the hotel were thrown out
Wild screeches and screams continued
even after the early terror had some
what subsided, and long after there was
the noise of walls falling more or less
distant, mingled with the sound of hun
dreds of voices chanting hymns for mer-
cy. Many shocks followed during the
night, every one of which gave rise to
new alarms and new implorations. It
was intensely dark during the continu-
ance of the shocks.
An inspection In the morning showed
chat about two dozen inhabited houses
were destroyed, causing loss of thirty
two lives. The number of houses dam
aged, and which will have to be- taken
down, is considerable. Many of the old
ruins of 1773 have suffered seriously.
During the confusion incident to the
earthquake, several men appeared with
long knives for the purpose of stealing
and numbering, but the political chief
of Antigua soon repressed them. All
the squares and courts serve as tempo
rary abodes. It will take some time
before the people of Antigua recover
serenity of mind enough to go to sleep
in their totlering houses. At Guatamala,
the capital, slight shocks were felt.
The Indians say that three villages at
the foot of the volcano Delfuego have
been destroyed.