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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-19
The Homo of j eEerson.

A correspondent Of the Washington
Chronicle who has lately made pilgrim
age to Monticello, once the home Of
Thomas Jefferson, thus describes the
mansion in which the great gentleman
dwelt
ut is two'story main building and
wings, the former projecting front and
rear in immense porticoes on solid stone,
the center of the building being capped
with a plain but ill-lighted dome. On
the ceiling Of the front protico is large
compass dial, and Immediately oyer the
main door there is set in the wall large
clock, with dials showing inside and out,
and there is exhibited ladder made
by Jefferson himself, and with
which he wound up the time
keeper at stated periods by the
weights suspended from the pulleys on
the walls of either side The main en-.
trance really consists of three double
glass doors, all of which can be removed,
and you first enter q vestibule, octago-
nal in shape, and pass Immediately into
parlor of the same shape. The two
apartments have inlaid floors of walnut,
mahogany and cherry, which have yet to
be surpassed by any work OF the kind in
this country Although they were in
constant use in Jeferson's days, as he
always had lots of company, and have
been used since, and are still, by picnic
and dancing parties, they are not warped
nor injured in the least, and need, ap-
narentiy. only soap and water to restore
them to their original glossy appearance.
There are two diningrooms, one in each
wing, the rest of the building being cut up
into small and badly Lighted bedrooms:
Ventilation seems to have been buried
beneath every other consideration, as
there is no room in the house through
which there could be gained direct air
current. The beds, even, are set In re-
cesses or alcoves in the walls, to form
which space and room are sacrificed,
and the stairways, one in each wing, are
so constructed and of such scanty bend
that their descent would be perilous in
the daytime without lantern. A Gov
cred way, which is in rather dilapidated
condition, leads from either wing to his
library and office respectively, and an
underground passage, through which he
made his escape from Colonel Tarle
ton and the British cavalry, is shown
10 visitors There is suspended in
the vestibule a four.light lantern, but
beyond the old ig-body, in which it is
said be used to ride to Charlottesville,
there is not an article OF curiosity in the
house. The jauitor or keeper of the
nremises is white man named Thomas
Wheeler, who lives in the east wing. He
was the overseer for Commodore Levy,
the last tenant of the entire mansion,
and as the property is now in litigation
he remains il charge by Sufferance,
sustaining himself by what he can make
off the farm and the collections twenty
Eve cents each) which he demands from
visitors
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-19

At the late Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church held at Browns
vile the following appointments were
made:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-19
SPECIAL NOTICE.
transformations CAN RE CuREp
'cHEECR's PULM0NIC SYRUP,
SCHENCK's SEA WEED Tonic.

6CHEECk' IS PULhONIC SYRUP,
SCHEHCK's SEA WEED Tonic.
SCHENoK's Mandrake PILLS,
Are the only medicines that will cure Pull
monary Consumption.
Frequently medicines that will stop a cough
will occasion the death of the patient; they
lock up the liver, stop the circulation Of the
blood. hemorrhage follows, and in fact, they
clog the action OF the very organs that caused
the cough.
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia are the
causes of two thirds Of the cases of Consump-
ton. Many persons complain Of a dull pain
in the side. constipation, coated tongue, pain
and restlessness. the food lying heavily on
the stomach, accompanied with acidity and
belching up Of wind.
These symptoms usually originate from a
disordered condition Of the stomach or tor
pid liver.
Persons so affected, if they take one or two
heavy colds, and if the cough in these cases
be suddenly checked, will find the stomach
and liver clogged. remaining torpid and mac
tive, and almost before they are aware the
lungs are mass OF sores, and liberated, the
result of which is death.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is an expecto-
rant which does not contain opium or any
thing calculated to check a cough suddenly.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic dissolves the
food, mixes with the gastric juices of the
stomach, aids digestion, and creates a raven
Gus appetite.
When the bowels are costive. skin sallow. or
the symptoms otherwise of bilious ten
dency, Schenck's Madrake Pills are required.
These medicines are prepared only by
j. H ScHENoK Il Son,
N. Il. corner Sixth and Arch sts., Phila.
And are for sale by all druggists and dealers.
eod-27-52
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Taking "A Photograph.

He was very pleasant spoken man
that photographer He said it was q
nice day, and that we needed a little
rain and that the Arkansas difficulty was
bad thing, and that photographs were
three dollars per dozen; no orders booked
without the cash in advance. He wanted
to know if wanted full length, hall
bust, or what. | told him "or what,
and he yanked his camera around, flung
the big screens recklessly about, poked
the skylight curtains this way and that
with long stick, and then ordered me
to sit down.
A trife morel he said, giving ME
another jerk.
Then he stepped back and closed the
right eye and squinted again.
Shoulders upl" he said, as he gave
them twitch which made the blades
crack.
Then he went to the left and squinted
and cried hal" and went to the right
and squinted and shouted uni" and he
came back, seized my head and jerked
it up until | saw stars.
That's betterl" he said, as he walked
back to the camera.
But it wasn't. He came back aud told
me to twist the right shoulder round,
hump up my back, swell out my chest
and look straight at butterfly pinned
to a corn starch box, and be as pleasant
as could.
Capital" he cried, as he took a
squint through the camera, only"
And he rushed back, jerked my head
little higher, pulled my ears back,
brushed back my hair anG said I'd better
try to smile and look natural.
How the deuce" | began, but he
waived his hand, and said must pre-
serve my placid demeanor.
Now sit perfectly still, and don't
move hair" he whispered, as he threw
black cloth over the brass-bound end
of the camera, and made sudden dive
into his little dark den. AS he ratified
the glass and dashed the acids about, |
felt small pain in my chest, another in
my neck, another in my ribs; but | said
I'd die first, and kept my gaze on that
butterfly
Ready nowl" he cried, as hejumped
out and put in the glass. My head be-
gan to bob, and the butterfly seemed to
grow as large as horse, as be wits.
pered, Look out-keep perfectly still"
/ braced for big effort, and he jerked
down the cloth. felt as if the fate ola
nation rested on my shoulders, and |
stuck to ii. He turned away, and |
heard him talking softly to himself. AT
ter about an hour and half he put up
the rag, jerked out the glass and ran
into the den. He was out in moment
and, as he held the negative up to the
sun, he said:
"Ahl you bodied your head-have to
try it again. M Quad
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From the Marysville Bulletin.l
A young gentleman in this city in
whom we have the most perfect conf
dence gives us the following converse
ton, which he overheard between two
colored citizens the other evening as he
was returning from prayer meeting:
Sam, does you know Jonah!
Jonah. what Jonah2"
why, Jonah that swallowed the whale
don't you know him"
why, damn his big-moufed soul, wa
he from FirginnyY
"0f course he was from Firginny."
" Well, de Firginians was always he'll
for FISH"
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CYCLoPEDIA.
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Publishers Agents,
Are now Canvassins the City for Subscribers t.
AppIetOn's American CyclOpRdia
Revised.

NOW IN COURSE OF PUBLICATION, A
N volume issued every two months till the
work is complete.
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PRODUCTION. and is THE BEsr EvER PUBLISHED,
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urally find its way as an indispensable neces-
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President Union anu Planters Bank; J. NJ
PettigreW, President Chamber Of Commerce
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-19

An ambitious Indiana father has writ.
ten letter to President Grant request
ing that the name of his son, now four
years of age, be placed on the list Of
eligible candidates for appointment to
West Point. The writer adds that he Is
particularly solicitous that the rising
youth should receive a military educa
ton. inasmuch as the martial spirit ii
strong within him.
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Methodist Episcopal Conference APP
nOlnImanla.

At the late Conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church held at Browns
vile the following appointments were
made:
MEMPHIS DISTRICT.
0. o. Knight P. E.
St. John, /. l.. Chandler.
Sixth street, to be supplied.
Galway, g. Havell.
Brownsville, T. Cotton.
Lake, ]. W. Drake.
Dyer, ]. L. Park.
Alimo, j. r. Fuller.
Weakley and North Gibson, W. G.
Haynes.
Benton and Henry, L. A. Rudisell, r.
j. Cook.
Huntingdon, to be supplied by A. W.
Hawkins
Huntingdon Circuit, l.. Hull, M. I.
Brown.
Carroll, A. G. Park.
Lexington, Z. n Williams.
Decaturville, S. q. Stricklin.
Saltillo, S. R. Phillips.
Adamsville, W. j. McAnally.
G. W. Williams, Professor in West
Tennessee Seminary.
WEST TENNESSEE DISTRICT.
d. W. Hays, Presiding Elder.
Memphis Centenary and Rogers
Chapel, C. W. s. Woods.
Memphis Circuit, NJ. Morrison.
Fayette, to be supplied by Fl. Cook.
Mason's and Brownsville, II. W. Key.
Huntington, H. Bruton.
Henderson, j Worley.
Mansfield, to be supplied by r.
Willis.
Cypress, M. c. Young.
Purdy, to be supplied by W. Faulk.
Humboldt and Milan, to besupplied by
g. W. Marsh.
Gardner's Station, to be supplied by A.
Faulk.
Trenton, to be supplied by James Cox.
Crittenden, to be supplied.
f, W. Wilson was transferred to the
Desmoines Conference.
d. Rutledge was transferred to the
Central Ohio Conference.
STATISTICS.
Prohibitions, 1913. Members, 1885.
Local preachers, III. Deaths, l36. Bap-
tisms, children, 326; adults. 976.
Churches, l56; value, $l93, 800. Sunday
schools, l47; officers and teachers, 668;
scholars, $685.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-19

A lady lately remarked to q well known
professor, whose services she had just
engaged: you will be pleased With my
daughter as a pupil, feel sure she is
exceedingly clever, and has such nice,
heavy touch for sacred music.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-19
FRUIT
FRUIT.
WAVERLY HALL FRUIT FARM.
KERR AVENUE.

TINE UNDERSIGNED Is PREPARED TO
furnish strawberry and raspbeIry, plants
In quantities 20 suit purchasers. Orders len
with spicer Ryan. So Main street. SHAH
have prompt attention. -
-'-'N JOHN +. sPICER. Manager.
October j, 1874. Ut
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5000 CASH GIFTS, aggrogating..~.~...s25O, 900
PRICE OF TICKETS:
Whole Tickets, $40; Half Tickets, So; Quar-
ter Tickets. SO so; Eleven Tickets, 500.
80 INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS.
This Concert is strictly fer MASONIC pur-
poses, aud will be conducted with the same
iberality, honesty aud fairness which char
acterized the first enterIrise.
JOHN l.. ROPER. President.
FOR Tickets and Circulars giving full infor-
matien, address,
HENRY v. MOORE, See'y, Norfolk. Va.
JOE LOCKE
will give full particulars, $50 Main street.
Room 1, upstairs. 8 ot e0d&WZI-5o
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ASSURANCE.

p0i;.;.,i ,sue5 upon Fire, Marine and lnlane
risks ct equitable rates.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04
GOOD AGENTS WANTED.

The immense circul alton of the Christian
Union has been built up by dctire cdnUdssers
No other publication compares with it for
quick and profitable returns. The public
eagerness for Mrs. Stoves new story, the
popularity of the paper, the friendly support
OF thousands of old subscribers, the artistic
premiums for immediate delivery, light outfit
and complete instructions to beginners, as
sure repeated success to agents. and offer active,
intelligent persons unusual chances to make
money. All who want safe, independent bust
ness write at once for terms, or send 81 for
chrome outfit to j. B. FORD g. CO., New York
1oston, Chicago, Cincinnati, or San Francisco.
N n nYY ofMedical Wonders. Should be read by
kkEEIH all. Sent free for stamps. Address
OVVA DIR. BONAPARTE, Cincinnati, o.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04
The MOnastic Libraries.

The seals of some of the oldest and
most valuable monastic libraries in Italy
are at last to be broken. Priceless man.
uscripts yet NEGLECTED, works of in
estimable value for historical investiga-
tions, have long been buried and closely
guarded within the walls of the con-
vents. If any persistent explorer has
gained admission to them, he has still
been met with such vexatious restric-
tions as made the libraries practically
as inaccessible as if they were on Mt.
Athos or Sinai. Now these treasures.
with the important exception of those
contained in the Vatican, are to be as
free to the student asif they were placed
ON the shelves of the British Muse
um or in the alcoves of our own public
library. The commission on the prop
erty of the suppressed converts in
Rome have determ med to preserve three
only out of the forty libraries intact.
These are the Casanateuse IN the Min
erva, the Dominican monastery where
the Inquisition held its sittings, the
Angelica, belonging to the Augustinian
order, and the Allessandrina inthe Uni
versity, the three largest and most i'm
pO1 edIlb AOld1lCo, dlICI IlIC NdOlCtl, III
the city. They contain together a lit
tie ever 800, 900 volumes. OF the books
IN the other monasteries. there are to be
selected 1000 volumes, half OF which
are TO be divided nearly equally amongst
these three libraries. The commission
proposed to give the 100000 volumes
which are left to the municipality of
Rome for city library. This is to con-
tain all the works relating to the history
of the city. its topography, chronology,
laws, descriptions of life and customs
and the works of famous Romans. In
all these departments it will be particu
larly rich and interesting. There is also
to be placed in the city library the mu-
steal archives of the order of the Ora
tory, whose founder, st. Filippo Neri,
was the reputed inventor of the oratorio,
so called from the Oratory or building
in which these compositions were first
performed. Amongst these archives
are preserved many very valuable and
still unpublished works of renowned
masters, as Palestrina and others
Boston AdUeTtiser.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04
Iceland.

The Danish Government has just
granted very liberal charter to the
1celanders, who have long been clamor-
ing for almost entire separation from
the old country. The charter is to go
into operation on the Isl of August
next, when will be Celebrated the thou
sandth anniversary of the colonization
of the island. In all matters concern
ing the island particularly, and not be-
longing to the Imperial Legislature,
Iceland will have its own legislation and
Administration. The national repre-
sentation is the Althing, consisting of
thirty members elected by popular
suffrage on a very liberal franchise
adapted to the wants of the country,
and six nominated by the King. A Min
lister for Iceland. nominated by the
King and responsible to the Althing, is
the head of the Administration. The
independence of the tribunals, freedom
OF individuals, liberty of faith and Of
the press, of public meeting and equali-
ty of citizens before the law, are all
guaranteed. The Crown Prince of Den
mark will probably visit the island dur
ing the milIennial festivities.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04
A Convenient Way to Measure Land.

1t is frequently desirable to measure
a given plat of ground or portion of
field, and simple method, such as the
following, for which we are indebted to
an exchange, will be of use to many of
at a convenient distance to attend to
such little jobs, and even when they do
reside in the immediate vicinity one
does not always care to incur the ex-
pense incident to such a small job. If
the lines are already established the
plat can be measured with sufficient ac-
curacy for all practical purposes by
means of a neat rod-pole, made as fol-
lows: Procure stick of pine, white
wood, Eastwood or almost any other
timber, one and a half inches square
and sixteen and one-half feet long.
Dress each end, tapering from the mid
die. so that the pole will be one and
half inches square at the middle and
about half an inch square at each end.
Such pole will be light and quite stiff.
Now graduate one side with the marks
representing feet and inches, and gradu-
ate another side to ind cate surveyors
links. A pole one rod in length must
be equal to twenty-five links. To dl-
vide one side correctly let mechanics
compass be adjusted so that the points
will divide the distance into twenty-five
equal spaces or links. A line can be
measured with surveyors chain.
Now, then, if a person does not un-
derstand how to multiply chains and
links, let him compute the measure
ment by square feet. In one acre there
are 43, $50 square feet. An intelligent
schoolboy can measure the length and
breadth of square plat, multiply the
one by the other, and divide the
product by 43, $50, which will give the
number of acres and the number of
square feet representing the fraction of
an acre. If it is desirable to measure a
triangular plat, two sides of which lie
at right angles, measure these two
sides, multiply the distance in feet one
by the other, and divide that product
by two, which will indicate the number
of square feet, by 43, $50, and the quo
tient will represent the number of acres,
Chronological Journal.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04

How TO PRESERVE A BOUQUET
When you receive bouquet, sprinkle
it lightly with fresh water; then put 1T
into a vessel containing some soapsuds,
which nourish the roots and keep the
flowers as good as new. Take the bou-
quet out of the suds every morning, and
Law it sideways in fresh water, the stock
entering first into the water keep 1t
there a minute or two, then take it out
and sprinkle the flowers lightly by the
hand with pure water. Replace the
bouquet in the soapsuds and the flowers
will bloom as fresh as when gathered.
The soapsuds need to be changed every
third day. By observing these rules, a
bouquet may be kept bright and beau
tiful for at least one month, and
will last longer in very pass
able state but the attention
to the fair but frail creatures, as
directed above, must be strictly OBJ
served. or "the last rose of summer "
will not be cleft blooming Alone" but
will perish. artisan
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-06-04
A Hero.

The Pittsburgh Dispatch contains
one of those commonplace histories of
heroism in the discharge of ordinary
duty which we note with emphasis from
time to time, not only because of their
own stirring meaning, but for the indi-
cation they give of the tone and temper
and the ruling motives of the great un-
der-mass of American society; the men
and women whose names never find
their way into the papers never even
enter into the calls for public meetings
or charitable subscriptions who go
through life with one days meals, and
work with no better prospect than to
begin another the next morning who
know nothing of the undergraduates
lofty resolves or aims; never analysed
their own souls esthetically would set
down Longfellow's Psalm of Life, or
Carlyle's Thoughts of Living as senti-
mental bosh, yet, when occasion de-
mands, live and die in their cheap
homes, beside their tools or their en-
CINE, simply and grandly as though all
the years gone before had been a sol
emn preparatory vigil. Take this
young fellow Sutton, for instance-a
subordinate of some kind or other on a
railway train. "The conductor" the
Dispatch states, "sent him to the rear
to flag another train coming up behind.
On his way he fell on the track and was
run over by five cars and the caboose.
His legs were completely cut off above
the knee, but, remembering his orders,
he cleared the track of the dismem-
Of
taking a flag out of his pocket, waved
it until he had stopped the approaching
train. Without this, a collision would
have been inevitable"
1t is only necessary for us to repeat
the story. All our college and school
boys have histories of countless heroic
deaths stored away with the rest of
their book-lore. They can tell you how
Cato paused, sword in hand, and
Socrates waited to sacrifice cock-so
coolly did these old sages watch deaths
coming. Their eyes Will flash, and
their ingenious faces redden, and their
hearts beat to loftier measure there
after at the hackneyed recital of how
Nelson died like woman in the first
breath of his great victory how kings
have died like kings, on the scaffold, a
spectacle for the attentive world how
unnumbered young heroes in our own
war leaped to meet death, as though he
bore crowns for them. Such facts of
history are ennobling and good for any
American boy to learn and remember,
be the book Latin or English. But the
notice in the mornings paper of this
poor railway workman throwing his
own severed legs from the track, and
the train before he lay down
to die, is of more import to him than
all the others, and more wholesome in
its meaning.-NeU York Tribune.