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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12

1t was his first baby, and he sat down
to think about it, with a copy of L" De
wees on Children y spread out before
him.
Having refreshed himself with the
phenomena of Group, scarlet fever and
measles, he closed the volume and
sighed.
!" Poor devil" That was his judgment
on himself. Poor devil.
Then he wrapped his morning gown
about him, and went and rested his nose
against the window pane.
1t was raining outside, and it didn't
seem to him particularly sunshiny with
in.
Hive sirup," said he to himself, " at
% cents per ounce bottle; socks, 81 20 a
pair; relays of paregoric, 40 cents a
relay; linen, 80 cents per yard and God
only knows how many yards it's going
to take before L m through with it; nurse,
800 a month; doctor, twice day, at So
call.
Then he heard yell, and rushed up
stairs, expecting to find the baby dead.
The door was slammed in his face, and
he meandered gloomily back to the
sitting,room.
1t seemed gloomier than ever.
He thought he would 60 round to the
club, and then he thought he wouldn't.
When a man is for the first time a
father, instinct tells him to dodge his old
companions. 1t is better for him to
tread the wine-press alone.
But how to get away with the ceaseless
stir and rustic of females going in and
out doors and up and down stairs2
He was nervous, and felt like man
sitting on the ragged edge Of remorse,
Likewise he recalled the saying Of
Isaiah, In that day seven women shall
take hold of one man.
But it seems to him as if seventy wo.
men had taken possession of his house,
and penned one man up in one corner
Of it.
1t occurred to him to sing a hy mn
but then the baby might be asleep, and
his instructions were to keep as quiet as
possible. And still the rain fell, and
the dripping branches tossed to and fro
with every gust. Was there ever such a
dreary day2 Was ever the problem,
"What shall l do with myself" so ut,
terly unsolvable2
But it is the duty of a man of genius
to rise superior to circumstances.
Little minds bend before the tempest
of human events; great ones turn that
tempest to their purposes.
SO reasons the man with his first baby;
md uhan his housa naases m he his cas-
tie, and nurses and nature combine to
make it his prison, he turns to and finds
nepenthe and occupation in whiting
himself fresh supply Of toothpicks.-
NelDs,
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ENN: SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12 1874

colt, and when be had just started again
for the house ip no good hamor, the
mare reappeared. At first he was dis
posed to 60 home, but she actually
blocked his way at every step. He took
the hint, and again followed her, and
near the middle of the wood she stopped
at sink hole. A little examination
showed him the colt lying on its back at
the bottom, and unable to move. He
had but one match, and used this up in
seeing the position of the colt. He
found himself unable to eztricate it
without assistance, and it was near
morning before he obtained help and got
the colt out The mare, meantime, had
pranced around, showing the liveliest
interest in everything done, and, when
the colt was finally relieved, her joy
seemed extreme. Mr.. F. mode care
ful examination to ascertain, if possible,
how she got out of the woods. and finally
found where she had throwa top rail
off, and then jumped the fence She
had never been known to jamp fence
before.
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Non-Resident NOliee.

Betsy Nelson) Second Circuit Court Of
NJ vs., Shelby county. Tennes-
1T APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause. that the defendant is nom
resident Of the State Of Tennessee; It is there-
fore ordered that he make his appearance
herein at the court house in the city Of Mem
day in September next, 1874. and plead, an
swer or demur to PLAINTIFF bill. or the same
will be taken for confessed as to him and set
for hearing ex parte; and that copy Of this
cessive weeks, in the Memphis Public Ledger.
P. D. BOYLE, Clerk.
By GEo. J. CAMPBELL, Deputy Clerk.
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An rnIeIiirent mnre.

From the Lexington (Ky.) Gazette, Sept. 81
On the Harrodsburg road, four miles
from Lexington, lives Mr. Funkhauser.
Last Tuesday night, as Mr.. f. was en-
joying the profound sleep which follows
an honest man S hard days work, he was
awakened by the repeated neighing of
his saddle nag. After waiting some
time for the mare to cease, he became
impatient, and bouncing out of bed,
drove cher off. He thought it rather
strange, too, that she should come to the
house and leave her colt in the woods,
where she had been running some weeks.
He thought it still more remarkable that
his man, usually very careful, should
have left the gate open, so that the mare
could come from the woods to the house.
While he was turning these things
over in his mind in that halt uncon-
scious state preceding sleep, he was
again aroused by the mare. She neighed
loud and shrill and at last put her head
to his window. Her persistency finally
suggested that something might be wrong
with her. He got up again, but as soon
as he approached she started in brisk
trot for the woods, and he re-entered the
house. But scarce had he seated him
self on the bed when the mare was
again at the window, making more
neise than ever. At last he
thought Of the colt, and, remembering
some wonderful instance Of intelligence
in brutes, determined to follow. The
mare preceded him to the gate, when he
opened it, she passed through, and i'm.
mediately struck out through the dark
ness, aud he lost sight of her When he
had stood pondering a few minutes,
thinking the mare had played a rather
sharp game on him to get back to her
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CONCERT.
DISAPPOINTMENT.
SECOND AND LAST
GRAND GIFT CONCERT
IN AID OF THE
Masonic Relief Association
OF NORFOLK. VA.
DAY POSITIVELY FIXED.
THURSDAY. 10TH OF NOVEMBER.
LAST CHANCE.
THIS ENTERPRISE is CONDUCTED BY
Il the Masonic Relief Association, of Nor
folk, Va, under authority Of the Virginia
Legislature tact passed March s, 1879.
$4,000 TICK ETS-6OOO CASH GIFTS
~
O,O0O TICK ETs-6OOO CASH GIFTS
3 = o. 90 90
TO BE GIVEN AWAY,

5000 CASH GIFTS, aggregating. ng..........s250, 900
PRICE OF TICKETS:
Whole Tickets. $40; Half Tickets, s5; Quar-
ter Tickets. 50 so; Eleven Tickets, 800.
40 INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS.
This Concert is strictly fer MASONIC pur-
poses, and will be conducted with the same
liberality. honesty and fairness which char
acterized the first enterprise.
JOHN L. ROPER. President.
For Tickets and Circulars giving full infor-
nation. address,
HENRY V. MOORE. Sec'y. Norfolk, Va,
pg- Information furnished by Joe Locke,
$50 Main street, Room /, upstairs,
3 81 eodkw27-36
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Saturday, Sd day of October, 1874,

the. real estate mentioned and described in
said decree as follows: A certain lot or par
county, Tennessee, being the west half of lot
No, 9, in Block No. 43, as described on the
plan OF what was known heretofore. as the
town of South Memphis, said half OF said lot
fronting. as supposed. forty or forty-one feet
tending back southwardly one hundred and
seventy-hve feet, more or less. and being the
same lot conveyed by W. B. Ross to John D.
Martin, April Is. 1851, and by said Martin
May 20, 1851, who with her husband Richard
X Bectel rold and conveyed said lot on the
Goth of July. 1866, to defendant Jane o.. u.
Thomas. JOHN II. FREEMAN, Clerk.
I. b. TURIEY 4 HENRY CRAFT, Solicitors
for Complanants. 3-2S
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InsOIvent Notice.
STATE OF TEEyEssEE, sHELBy County

STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY COUNTY,
OFFICE COUNTY COURT CLERK,
MEMPHIS, TENN, August %, 1874, }
To Chas. Richmond. Administrator, ETC..
HAVING SUGGESTED THE INSOLVEN-
III cy Of the estate of 7. N. W ellis deceased.
you are hereby ordered to give notice, by ad-
vertisement in some newspaper published
within the said State, and also at the COURT
house door Of Shelby county. for all persons
having claims against said estate TO appear
and file ne same with the Clerk of the County
Court, authenticated ia the manner prescribed
by law, on or before the 9th day Of February,
1875; and any claim not filed on or before said
day, OF before an appropriation OF the funds
Of said estate is made, snail be forever barreds
both in law and equity.
Witness my band, at office, this 26th day Of
August, 1874 JAMES REILLY. Clerk.
BY HUGHB. CULLEN, D. G.
Notice J. hereby given as required above.
CHAS. RICHMOND, Admir-.
MElRHIs, August 26, 1874. 154-25
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LEGAL.
Supreme Court sale.
In Supreme Court at jackson.

In Supreme Court at jackson.
James NJ, Heathman VS.. Henry G. Dent ct al.
RY VIRTUE OF The DECREE PRO-
~ nouneed in this cause by the Supreme
court OF tennessee at Jackson, at its April
term 1874, will sell to the highest bidder. NJ
cash, IN 'front.' Of the Office of the Sheriff of
shelby county, in the city Of Memphis, within
legal hours, on
Saturday, 3d day of October, 1874,
the real estate mentioned and described in
the pleadings as follows: A certain tract or
parcel Of land in South Memphis, Shelby
county. Tennessee, and being at the Southeast
intersection OF Elliott and Hernando streets.
fronting seventy feet on east side of Hernando
street sire ~, with depth and front Of ene hundred
lots Nos. and 2, in Block u, of Buffers ad-
diti9n 70 Memphis, and same conveyed to de-
deed from A. NJ. Ferguson and N. Stout rec. o.
istered in the office Of the Register Of Shelby
county. JOHN H. FREEMAN. Clark.
HUMEs x PosToN, Solicitors for Complain
ants. 328
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LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the POst0hice Mt Mem
phis, Saturday, Sept. AZ, 1874.

Published IN tie ddily ne,cspaper having the
LAR6 EST CIRCULATION IN the circuit
ofhe Memphis POsioefce.
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Saturday, Sd day Of October, 1874,
Supreme Court Sale.

In the Supreme Court at Jackson.
L. D. McKissick ct al. vs.. Rosa Martin ct al.
DY VIRTUE OF THE DECREE PRO-
ID nounced by the Supreme Court Of Ten
nessee at Jackson, in this cause, at the April
term, 1874, !. will sell TO the highest bidder,
Tor cash. in front Of the office of the herff Of
Shelby county, in the city of Memphis, within
legal hours, on
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VOL. XIX.
PUBLIC LEDGER.

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Saturday, the Sd of October, 1874,

SATURDAY tne 0u OF UctODer, 1874
at the south gate of Court Square. in the city
Of Memphis, Tenn, sell at public auction, to
the highest bidder, for cash. within legal
hours. the property in said trust deed and the
deed therein referred to. described as follows,
to-wit: Situate. lying and being in Shelby
county, Tennessee. in the Seventeenth Civil
District Of said county, in range and sec
tions 3 and 4. and being part Of Subdivision
Of a six hundred and twelve acre tract pur-
chased March 20, 1865. from A, Woodruff By
4. Irby, and more particularly described as
follows, to-wit: Beginning at a stake south
431ao east 13 links, black gum, the north
east corner of Mount Vernon Church lot;
thence north IA east 66 $40 poles to a stake,
southeast corner of A. G. Roark's 142-acre
subdivision thence west Il so north 2ls poles
to a stake, three dogwoOd and two white oak
pointers. the southwest corner Of said Roark's
subdivision; thence south "a east 76 g. 10 poles
to a stake. mulberry and birch pointers. south
So east l6 links birch; thence east IL
north 2l7 39-l0O poles to the beginning, con-
tanning by estimation l00& acres.
Title believed to be good, but / sell and con-
yey only as Trustee. Equity Of redemption
barred. JAMES NJ. ADAMS, Trustee.
HUMEs 4 PosTON, Attorneys. 15t-25
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Trustee Sale.

PY VIRTUE OF THE TERMS OF A DEED
ID in trust executed to the undersigned
Trustee. on the 1lth day of January. 1873, and
of record in the Registers Office Of Shelby
county, Tennessee, in Deed Book 1O2. page
E4, will on
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XTTATSON Mrs A NJ White Miss NJ
w Whitfield Mrs l. White Mrs J
Woods Mrs NJ Wood Mrs W II
Warrall Mrs
" ERGER Mrs V f
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RAILROAD riNE TABLES.

AND LoUEvlLLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
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MISSISSIPPI AND TENEEssgE R.R.
Arrives. Leaves.
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Upon the Occasion orHis First Baby

Publisher and proprietor:
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LADIES, LIST.

LADIES' LIST.
A USTIN MRS c Allen Mrs Q
"A Ashbrook Mrs & Aldridge Mrs S E
Aldridge Mrs E
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09

j. j. WOrthington, of Chetopa, Kansas,
is in town.
S. L.Johnson was over from New Lex
iRgton yesterday.
Hon. Harvey Wells, of Jackson county,
was in town Saturday,
Mr.. Will Powell, of Shelbyville, Ind,
spent the Fourth and Sunday in town the
guest of Mr.. Cicero Smith
Hon. NJ. T. c. Williams, Missouri State
Senator from the Corroll district is on
visit to his father, DIR. C. NJ. Williams, in
town.
Mrs. C. A. Beery, of Chillicothe, for
merly of Washington, is one of the Vice
Presidents of State Ladies' Temperance
League.
Rev. s. L, Gillespie, of Bloomingburg,
delivered lecture on Missionary Life in
Africa, to large audience at Greenfield, on
the 9th
DR.. Louis Sterkle, of Bellville. ILL.,, paid
| the HERALD call yesterday. He is here
with his wife on brief visit to friends and
relatives. The Doctor was formerly cit
izen of Washington, and was some fifteen
years ago in partnership with DR.. j. w.
Cleaveland in the drug business. This is
his first visit to his old home in ten years,
and he says he finds few of the old land
marks left and would scarcely recognize
| the place except for some familiar faces,
among the older citizens. ~
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S9z5,S9O.57


Was the total assets of the First National
Bank Friday evening last. These figures
are sufficient to indicate the immense bus
mess which the bank is doing yet few
words as to its condition and business ope-
rations may be of interest to our readers,
and especially gratifying to its stockhold-
ers. The gross profits of the bank for the
first six months of 1874 were S27, 1855.
Its current expenses were $3,873.61; and it
paid taxes to the amount of s., ,444. 81. The
two items of expenses and taxes, making
$5, 5,318.55, being deducted from the gross
profits, made the net earnings of the bank,
for the half year, $21 ,8o?. Of that amount
$4,000 "a six per cent. dividend) was dis
tributed among the stockholders, and the
remainder, $9805, was set aside as undi-
vided profits. The deposits of the bank,
Friday evening last, were 1924, ,8O2 %; its
loans, &465, ,706.85. The cash on hand and
available, including checks and drafts on
other banks, and funds in the hands of the
banks redeeming and reserve agents, was
$50, ,955.93. The paid-up capital of the
First National, it may not be amiss to men,
ton, is 5000, 900; and its surplus is $5O, ,425.
Adding thereto the $9,sO5 just passed to
undivided profits, it gives to the "Old Re-
| liable a working basis of $3.50, ,23O.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
Il. L. ROBINSON, P. NJ:
REOomIngburg SIandered.


BLOoMINGBURG, June 26, 1874.
EDS. HERALD: 1t appears that the Regis
ter man has been ION the round'' about
BleOmingburg. He says Of our village:
"To say that we were fayorably i'm
pressed with this place would be prevari-
cation. The fact Of the business is, it too
forcibly reminds one of the departed glory
of some deserted hall after gay throng
have left it, and the stiffness of midnight,
that ominous, oppressive stiffness that
seems to strike terror to the heart and
cause feelings of awe to creep o'er one, to
allow stranger visiting the place for the
first time to gaze upon it with feeling of
pleasure. The houses that form the town
are, in most part, old, dilapidated-looking
structures, many of them fast crum bling
to earth, giving to the town decaying ap-
pearance.''
Is not this news to Fayette county? to
know that Bloomingburg, the town that
boasts of having less "old dilapidated
houses, crumbling to the earth," than any
town in Fayette county, is about to return
to mother dust? Again, he says he saw
but one store in the place-that in which
the postofice is kept. The postofice is
kept III Dllly MCCOy > SURE, dG InS SouLA
end of town. Has the Register man for
gotten, that on the occasion referred to, he
was also in Mr.. Stitts large dry goods
store? that he tosk Marion township man
out of Stitt's store to dun him for his SUBJ
scription for the Register? that the man
paid him and told him that hsnceforth he
was done with him and his paper? Has
the Register man forgotten all this.
The information communicated the Reg
lister man by x-CommissionerfWm Smith,
is also news to us,-by the way, who is
ex-Com missioner Smitbs-has Bill Smith,
Washington, had the Register man out
sniping? No wonder VanpeIt did not ask
the man to dinner. can account for these
strange visions and impressions in regard
to Bloomingburg and her citizens on the
mind of this man, only from the fact, that
he had stopped "thO gnawing of his ra-
pacious stomach at that Mills grocery
Oysters are bad during the shot June sun.
If the Register man will visit us without
having EATEN at that grocery, and take {
straight dinner with US, perhaps things will
appear DeIGert--s-------------=---z b.
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Greenfield

We spent nearly all the day on Tuesday
last in Greenfield. This old town is not
growing with much vigor. 1t is ancient and
staid. Its business men seem to be fix
lures of the town and are, we should
think, not doing a heavy, but steady, safe
business. The town has probably reached
that point which so many country places
have touched. That is, that its present
size and capacity for business is fully
equal to the demands of the adjacent
country and further improvements depends
upon the use Of capital in the creation of
manufacturing establishme nts. There is
capital in Greenfield, and all that is nee
essary to make it thriving manufacturing
town, is energy enough to employ their
capital in the erection of and putting into
operation a few manufacturing establish
ments. The country in the immediate VI
cinity is densely populated, and pictur
esque in its scenery.
The day was intensely hot, and it was a
common remark in Green field on that day,
that 'it is terribly dry and hot and the
remark admitted of no argument to prove
the truth Of the common salutation. Eve
rybody and everything was extremely
quiet, and the only thing that came under
our observation to break the prevailing
monOtony of the place, was an effort be-
tween a couple of pugilistic young gentle
men of the adva need age, perhaps, of II
or IA summers, to settle a little personal
unpleasantnsss between them in which
honor, perhaps, was invol we'd; fists were
brandished most furiously in the air, when
both came to the pavement and were hu-
namely separated by the interference of a
clever-looking old gentleman; the young
gentlemen reluctantly yielded and contin-
ned to utter wrath full imprecatioHs and
threats of what they would do when they
catched each other out" But Greenfield
is moral place, and we were happy to
learn that the quiet of the good old town
is not often disturbed by exhibitions of
this barbarous character.
According to the weather record of an
hon ored citizen of the place, Mr.. Boyd,
who has kept weather record for thirty
years, and has had his mercury hanging in
the same locality for that length of time,
last Tuesday was the warmest day there
has been for thirty years; his mercury
touched 1O2 in that place, the highest point
it has ever reached.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-07-09
FAYETTE COUNTY HERALD:

I Have we a board of health? If we
nave not We ought to have good, efficient
board; one that would be looking after the
sanitary condition of our town. There are
good many hog-pens about town that are
positively nuisances of the worst charac-
ter-nauseating and sickening; bad enough
at any time, but a hundred fold worse dur
ing this excessively heated term. Certain
ly, the guardians Of the sanitary condition
Of our town are criminally guilty Of neg
lect of duty, as long as they permit these,
and other nuisances, to exist in our town,
thus exposing the health and lives of our
people to these EpeshferOus rotten nuis-
ances. We hope that our town authori
ties will spare no time in abating them in
in some way, and no langer permit the
health and lives of our people to be ex-
posed to their deadly influences.
= The union Sabbath-schoel concert, at
BloOmingburg, on next Sunday, 18th inst,
at O'Clock p. m, promises to be a very
interesting one. After recitations of Scrip
ture; music, etc, the following topics will
be presented:
THE Field''-by Morris Sharp.
''The Seed''- by D. E. Boies.
THE Sower'-by Rev. Mr.. Hirst.
All under the direction of J. NJ. Ed
wards.
- The weather the past week has been
continuously hot and dry, with the mer-
curry ranging from the nineties to above
one hundred all the time. Vegetation is
suffering terribly for rain, and crops will
be seriously injured unless we get some
soon.
= Mr.. NJ. o. Adams and lady gave a very
fine entertainment to large party of their
friends at their elegant new house on
Thursday last The house was complete
ly filled, and it was truly an enjoyable oc-
casion.
- The Ladies will hold mass meeting
at the NJ. f. Church, Wednesday evening at
s O'Clock, to consider the propriety of reor-
ganizing the temperance movement.