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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-18

"A Nevada man, who was walking
with his brother to attend his wedding,
was astonished by proposition to
take the bride elect off his hands and
marry her in his stead, with true good
nature he consented, and the prospec
tive bridegroom and groomsman
changed places, to the satisfaction Of
all parties concerned.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-18

There isa cheerful rumOr that Reu6an +.
Fenton and Ulysses s. Grant have shaken
hands across the bloody ehasm.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-18

Three cases Of tricbinae were reported in
Buffalo Yesterday.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-06-18

Strawberries are arriving at San Francisco
at the rate Of thirty tons per day,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02

Insures at Board rates.. Private dwellings
especially desired; policies issued for three
years for two annual premiums. Att
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
WHAT HE SAYS OF us.
Bret Harte's Views About Mem and
Things I'm the SOufh.

Things In the Sonfh.
"Gath" writes from Washington to
the Chicago Tribune:
The poet Bret Harte, the most felicit-
GUS short story writer since Hawthorn,
has just returned from the South, where
he has been lecturing at Atlanta, Macon,
Milledgeville and other places. His re-
fined nature and Indifference to politics
gives him some value as critic OF
things below the line of war. He said
to me:
Those people have suffered beyond
any idea / have entertained, but do
not see how the present generation is to
recover. l never got rid of the idea
that / was in foreign country; and
often, proceeding to talk with some man
superior in his neighberhood, / found
that we had no point of agreement as to
a primary principle. Our very thoughts
have been planted in unlike soils.
Entering a cemetery of the Confed-
crate dead in -" said Harte, | was
touched with this remarkable sign over
the portal;
tive mourn our dead, Perkins and
Smith.
II called my friend, the town-mans
attention to the powerful contest Of Per.
kins and Smith; and then the matter
was explained. They were couple of
Yankees, looking out for something to
speculate in, and by that time the coun-
try had been picked clean; so they be-
gan to stir up the impulses of patriotic
bereavement and organize Confederate
cemeteries. Poor fellowsl They arein
the infancy of that kind of sharp wited.
ness which has built up the riches of the
North.
Their women of the superior fami-
lies, said Harte, "surpass ours in real
intrinsic strength, and are very far su-
perior to their men. | never heard such
English spoken as at some of the private
houses | visited. Propriety without
frigidity, and classical amiability met
me very frequently. At the same time,
some OF the little conveniences, without
which we could not get along, are wholly
absent from households otherwise very
perfect. Their cuisine might be rene
died.
Georgia is superb State, with such
latitude of climate and scenery that it
reminded me of California. saw some
views there, atmospheric, horid and
scenic, that / never saw surpassed. And,
in character, costume, and that nameless
aerial relation OF people and things,
which makes effects, the South is much |
better adapted to illustration in litera-
ture than the North.
'Why, at ---, as | sat in th1 ho-
tel in that drowsy, satisfying air felt
that, if l were to stay there year, !
would be just like the rest of the peo
pie, and want to put my legs higher than
my head and hardly talk, so much was
the effort
Harte thought that one evils of the
South was the surplus of political dis
cussion. The press was not enough
news press, but redundant in contro.
versy. He also thought the Northern
people we're ignorant of the South.
"For my part, he said Il had not the |
faintest idea of the country"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
EsDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 2. 1874.

taught to wear by day, had been dropped
the moment the young ambitious will
has lost control. The lids lie shut over
bright, busy eyes; the air is gently and
evenly famed by coming and going
breaths; there is little crooked mound
in bed; along the bed foot. or on chair
beside, are the day clothes, sometimes
neatly folded sometimes huddled off in
hurry; bulging with balls, or, in the
lesser fellows, marbles; stained with the
earth of many fields where woodchuck
have been trapped or perhaps torn with
the roughness of trees on which squir-
relS have been sought; perhaps wet and
mired with the smooth black or gray mud
from marshes, or the oozy banks of
streams, where muskrats have been
tracked. Under the beds foot lie the
shoes-oDe on its side--wth the gray
and white socks, now creased and soiled,
thrown across them; and there, in their
little cells, squared in the great mass of
night, needless how the the earth whirls
away with them or how the world goes,
who is thinking of them or what is doing
at home, the busiest people in the world
are resting for the morrow.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
SPECIAL NOTICE.
SoHEScK's MAxDRAKE PILLS

4
VIII be found to possess those qualities neces-
sary to the total eradication of all bilious at
tacks, prompt to start the secretions of the
liver. and give healthy tone to the entire
system. Indeed. it is no ordinary discovery
in medical science to have invented a remedy
for these stubborn complaints, which develop
all the results produced by heretofore free
use of calomel, a mineral justly dreaded by
mankind. and acknowledged to be destruc-
tive in the extreme to the human system.
That the properties of certain vegetables
comprise all the virtues of calomel without its
injurious tendencies. is now an admitted fact,
rendered indisputable by scientific researches;
and those who use the Mandrake Pills will be
fully satisfied that the best medicines arc
those provided by nature in the common herbs
and roots of the fields.
These pills open the bowels and correct all
bilious arrangements without salvation or
any of the injurious effects of calomel or
other pOisons. The secretion of bile is pro-
noted by these pills. as will be seen by the
altered color of the stools. and disappearing
Of the sallow complexion and cleansing of the
tongue.
Ample directions for use accompany each
box Of pills.
Prepared only by j. II. Schenck & Son, at
their principal office. corner Sixth and Arch
streets, Philadelphia. and for sale by all drug.
gists and dealers. Price 5c per box. cod
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02

The Amoor river is suggested as a
good place for canoe.bial felicity.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
savant versus servant.

Sauver writes in his "Causerier ave-
mes Eleves." "a French savant, {
member of the Academy, wished to as
certain the progress of the teaching o
languages at one OF the English uni
versities. Having some friends amonG
the professors, be announced to them biz
visit and the object of it. His English
friends determined to give the academic
ian high idea of these studies, and foi
this purpose resorted to rather extra
ordinary means. They chose twenty ol
the students best acquainted with Greek
Sanscrit, French, Spanish and so on,
and ordered them to dress as peasants,
and 90 out on the road at some distance
from the university to meet the stranger,
He was proceeding quietly along, re-
hecting upon the high importance of the
study of the languages, and the pleasure
that he had experienced since he was
upon English soil of speaking with the
inhabitants, as if be we're native. All
at once peasant, apparently, approach
ed him, and asked him, in Latin, if he
could render him any service. Soon
another accosted him in German, then a
third and fourth, and finally a whole
troop of peasants addressed him in all
the languages of the world. The
academician was overwhelmed with
astonishment, and arrived ct the
university full Of admiration at
this phenomenon. 'Messieurs, said
be to the English professors, | have no
further need to examine your teaching;
you are unquestionsbly the first masters
in the world Your learning has spread
through all the surrounding places, and
your peasants even know more of the
languages than our students at Paris :
he desired to know, however, If the sign
language was taught with success at the
university, and accordingly they prom
ised to him the best of their pupils of
this class. For this purpose they gave
instruction to a servant of the house,
one-eyed and little stgpid, that a
French gentleman was expected there,
and AS he was very deaf hs must speak
with him only by signs. The interview
takes place. On seeing the man the
servant holds up enc fpgeri the other
quickly holds up two; the savant pre-
sents three, and the domestic replied by
putting his fist vigorously before the
eyes of the learned academician. The
latter was amazed, and went to the pro-
iessors, exclalming ,AdmirableI admir-
able we understand each other per-
fectly. / said to him, there is one God;
he replied two, Father, and Son; l
answered three, Father Son and Spirit;
and be promptly showed me his fist, as
if to say, the three make only one God.
The delight of the savsnt was complete,
aud be went away to make his report to
his colleagues at Paris of the wonders
accomplished by the teaching at Oxford.
Meanwhile the domestic arrives, in his
turn, red with rage. oh, that miserable
Frenohmanl cries be; be came mere to
insult me. he toiG me by his goslars
that ! had only one eve. ] replied tnAt
] had two. AZ persisted in maintaining
that We had only three between us. But
it was well for him that he left, for !
showed him the fist of an Englishman.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
Directors:

JAMES D. PORTER, JR.. Gov. of Tennessee.
LOUIS HANAUER. of Schoolfeld, Hanauer
4 Co.
f. NJ. WHITE. of F. NJ. White d Co.
NJ. G. PEARCE. Of Pearce. Suggs q Co.
q. URQUHA2T. Of e. Urquhart & Co.
T, B. HAYNES. of 7. B. Haynes x Co.
HENRY wETTER, Of HI. Wetter & Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
The Boys Ra,,

From Lowell's "AHatowy Blade.,q
WhoeYerh has lifted the curtains ofboys
slcoves, soon after their inmates have
gone to bed, and has looked lovingly in
has seen a pretty sight. Generally iheir
faces are laying most restfully, v;;a hand
under cheek, ara 10 many cases lool
strangely younger than when awake, and
often very infantile, as if some trick OF
older expression, which they had been
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02

An important discovery which will no
doubt be Of great service in murder
trials of certain class, has been made
by DR.. Richardson, and English chemist
Comparing, says the paper from which
we take the account of this discovery,
under a powerful micl oscope, the hu-
man blood with that of the lower ami
mails, he finds the globules of the former
even in their minimum size-to be
larger than in such animals as the horse,
reindeer, sheep and goat. he asserts
that, through this knowledge, stains
made by human blood may be recog-
nized as such, even after lapse of FIVE
years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
RALLROAD TlME TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND LoUBlvILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
rA--, -
Am. Pm. AN. Pm.
Express. except Sunday. 200 $50
Mail Train :. 4.lU l.z0
Brownsville Accommoda- 4s
tion, except Sunday.....10.00 4.l0
Depot at head Of Main stress.
Ticket Office. 2S7 Main street, corner Of
Madison. ttt rsLf
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02

December sth, look out Tor the rapid
transit Of Venus. II you miss Venus
on that day, wait until 1882. Venus will
also 60 tearing round in 2O04; but Tiers
Is yet time enough to smoke glass for
that event.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02
MARBLE WORKS,
MONUMENTAL
MARBLE WORKS.

ITALIAN. AMERICAN AND TALADEGA
i marble at very low prices, as follows:
Headstones, 2 feet, with socket and foot.
stone. ;......;...... IS 90
fooystone. Iett1ered.. .........:..:...'.. @ % @ 70 90
Headstone, 3 feet, with socket and foot
stone, 10 "
And all other sizes in proportion. Italian
and American marble box tombs. paneled all
round. and full size, $780, Also Italian mar
500 These rates arc lower than marble was
ever sold at in Memphis before. Designs sent
to the country free of charge. Elmwood curb
ing at reduced rates.
57,SS TH0S MAXWELL. ss Union st
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
Proceedings of tho Central Execu-
tive Committee OF the De.nOcrtIc-
Conservative Party OF Wilson
County.

Proceedings of tho Central Execu.
tive Committee OF the De,nOcrtIc-
Conservative Party OF Wilson
County.
WHEREAS, The time is approaching
when the people of this Congressional
District will be called on to vote for q
Congressman, and whereas they are
anxious and desirous Of casting their
suffrages for true and honest white
man, and whereas the Republican
party have placed in nomination for
that high aud exalted position John A.
Hyman, negro, who is totally deficient,
both morally and intellectually, to
represent n free and intelligent peo-
pie, and whereas we have learned with
regret that the meeting at Goldsboro,
on the Sth inst, failed to make any
nomination, and being fully convinced
that the interests of the Democratic
Conservative party, not only of this
District, but of the State Of North Car
olina, imperatively demand that the
organization of our party should be
kept up and that the honest voters of
the District should be allowed an op-
portunity to record their votes at the
BALLOT box against corruption and the
odious doctrine of social negro equal
lty, and whereas the time is too short
to expect to get a formal expression
of the sentiments of the people i'll
convention and animated solely by
q desire to promote the cause which
we have SO much at heart. and with
out arrogating to ourselves any dispo-
sltion to dictate to our friends in
other parts of the district.
The Democratic Conservative Ex-
ecutive Committee for Wilson county
do recommend to the honest men OF
the District the name of George w.
.Blount, of Wilson, gentleman of
high character, moral and intellect
ual worth, and undoubted patriotism,
and most earnestly urge them to give
him their most cordial and earnest
support on the 9th day of August
next.
On motion, the Secretary was Or
dered to furnish copy to the Dem
ocratie papers in the District, and in
Raleigh and Wilmington, and request |
them to publish the same
II. W. KING, Chairman.
5. NJ. WARREN, Secretary.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
EUROPE.
THE SPANISH QUESTION IN THE
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, July 25-Noon-In the
Commons yesterday evening, Disrael
announced that the land transfer, the
indicature and the endowed school
bills would be withdrawn and the
Parliament prorogued on the Sth OF
August.
Russell asked whether the govern
ment had made any remonstrance to
France against the connivance Of her
authorities in the violation of the
Spanish frontier by the Carlists. He
especially referred to the rumors that
tAe French government had inter.
fered with Spain in a manner contra
ry to friendly relations and the law OF
nations; that Carlists escaping into
France, instead of being returned, had
been furnished with passports and
frontier. He urged that i'll accord
ance with an ordinary courtesy due
from one civilized nation to another,
there should be no unnecessary delay
in the formal recognition of the Span
ish government by Great Britain.
Derby replied that Spain had
not asked England to interfere
and he considered the recognition
OF CNe spanish government at pres
ent premature. When the time
arrived it would be better that such
recognition should be q collective act
of all European powers.
1t is reported from Spain that Gen
eral Morie0z won great victory in
Navarro, taking 1900 Carlists prison
ers
The Telegraph's special from Berlin
says it is reported that the German
Government is making strenuous efforts
to stop the supplies of weapons and
money to the Carlists, and has called
the attention of the Versailles govern
ment to the subject.
The Times special from Paris says
the government consented to a recess
because it hopes before the Assembly
meets again to prepare new constitu-
tional bill for which it can in the
secure the support of the
majority. The government hesitated
to commit itself fully to the bill re-
ported from the committee of 80, by
Venaloon, because it was sure to be
rejected.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31

| word was given they could fire as soon
| as they pleased. jackson, knowing
Dickinson's superior quickness with
| his weapon. resolved not to attempt to
! get the first fire, but to take the
| chances for second.
The instant the signal was shouted
Dickinson fired. The dust flew from
the breast of the Ioose-ftting black
frock coat which Jackson wore, but he
stood there like q pillar of adamant,
apparently unharmed. Dickinson
started back in horror and amazement,
exclaiming, ''My God, L have missed
him." His stern and unrelentlng an
tagonist took deliberate aim and pull
ed the trigger. The pistol did not re-
spond. He looked and found 1t was
only at half cock. A second time he
took aim, and as the sharp crack rang
out among the silent woods where the
deadly scene was laid, Dickinson tot
tered and fell into the arms of his
friend. He died the same night.
Jackson was able to mount his horse
and ride home next day-barely able,
for the bullet which seemed to miss
him had really passed through the
fieshy part of his Droast and cut the
breast bone. His shoes were full OF
blood when he walked from the fatal
field; but he concealed the fact, rs ne
said, "because he did not want Dick
inson to have the satisfaction of know
ing that he had hit him at all" In
answer to the question how be could,
after receiving such shock, retain
his steadiness of nerve, he replied:
81 believe I should have killed him
had he shot me through the brain.
The wound never healed properly;
was the occasion Of frequent hemorr-
hages in later years, and intimately
caused his death.
There is no evidence going to show
that Jackson ever repented this duel.
Long afterward-indeed, only few
weeks before he edied-a friend visiting
his sick chamber happened to pick up
an old pistol lying on the mantel.
The keen-eyed invalid saw the move
ment, and remarked quietly, THAT IS
the pistol with which L killed MIR.
Dickinson"
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
TIE FLOODS.
TERRIBLE WATER SPOUT IN
NEVADA
LOSS OF LIFE AND DESTRUC-
TION OF PROPERTY.

TION OF PROPERTY.
SAN FRANCEsCO, July 25-Noon.-A
dispatch from Eureka, Nevada, says q
terrible water spout bursted in the
mountains yesterday, ard swept
through the town, killing twenty per-
sons and causing great obstruction to
property. Another dispatch from
Elko says q water spout crossed the
Central Pacific Railroad track between
Humboldt Wells and Toana, injuring
it SO that the western bound emigrant
train cannot get through to-day
Another despatch from Eureka gives
the following particulars of the storm
yesterday: It had been raining with
great violence from early i'll the morn
ing to noon, when the cloud burst on
a lofty range of mountains to the cast
ward, and q vast volume of water
rushed down the canon where the
town is located. The eastern part of
the town was flooded in ten minutes
by fearful rush of water, which con-
stantly increased in violence, depth
and impetuosity. The people were
hemmed, and every moment houses
were torn from their foundations and
swept away with their occupants.
Ropes were procured and a line form
ed, and brave men, thus protected
dashed into the torrent, saving many
lives. Only few women and child
rem were lost. Roger Rabinett, re-
ported of the Sentinel, is among the
drowned. The Sentinel Office was
swept away. The bodies are being
brought to the Court House as fast as
recovered. Three Cinnamon were lost
and thirty houses swept away, and all
that part of the town in which were
situated dance houses and other places
Of amusement is gone. The flood last
ed only half an hour. 1t is believed
that the total loss of life will reach
twenty-five or thirty.
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
NEW YORK.
DONALDSON ON HIS TRAVELS

HrDsoS, July 25-Noor.-A bal
loon, under charge of Prof. Donaldson,
containing representatives of the lead
ing New York papers, which assembled
yesterday afternoon at 4:15 O'Clock,
landed in Germant avn, near this city,
at 5:24 o'clock this morning. 1t as
cended again to a high altitude,
nearly describing a circle around the
city, and proceeded in southwesterly
direction.
CATsKILL, N. Y, July 25-Night.-
Professor DonaldsOn's ballo3n passed
over here at 30 this morning. The
rope being within reaching distance it
was taken hold Of by man on the
ground and conversation was held.
Enquiries were made by the eronauts
rs to the locality. &c. latter which they
threw out ballast and ascended, going
in northerly direction before Il fair
breeze
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
From the st. Louis Republican.

Old sIickory's Nerve-Jack.on,.
Duel with DlckInson.
Dickinson was promising young
man belonging to q highly respectable
family in Nashville, and the junior Of
''"''E-"n ''y several years. Attached
g e ''i!:' rent and hostile faction, he
"a. .,rd Al rivalry where none really
rz.A'rd, and being in the habit OF
drinking too freely, occasionally made
remarks which would not bear repeti-
ton. OF course they were repeated,
and to the one of all others most deeply
Interested.
When the first offense of this sort
transplred Jackson vent to Dickinson s
father-ln-law, told what he had heard,
and begged him to guard, if possible,
against similar occurrence in the fu-
ture. The warning was of no avail,
for when the wine was again in the as
cendant Dickinson threw out the same
slurs, and this time they cost him his
hearts blood.
The duel ostensibly originated in a
horse race, which, by the way, was
never run; but the animus of it, SO far
as jackson was concerned, lay in the
fact that Dickinson had spoken i'll of
Mrs. Jackson. Dickinson was a dead
shot; could hit half dollar at ten
PAGES, kill birds on the wing. and ner.
form other miraculous feats with the
pistol. He was as brave and cool as
he was skilful and never entertained
doubt as to the result of the combat.
The arrangement was that when the
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31
NOTICE.

! HERE WILL BE An tLFGTION He'll
6. the usual rolling places IN New Hanover
county on the first THURSDAY III August, 1N1I
for the election at:
lst. Su?eIintC,i tC!:t OF l'.hlc instruction
2d. Members OF Congress; 81. NJ amhcrs Of II
State Senate anh House OF Representatives.
ssh. County officers, viz: Five County Com
missioner, Sheriff, County IRE aeurCr, Regis
ter of Deeds, County Surveyor, Coroner aut
Clerk of the Superior Court; 5th. Judge of the
Superior Court ard :SoIicitcr for til, TOurtl
judicial District.
A. K. BLACK, Sheriff
Wilmington, y. g., Julv 3. 1874.
july 1 -d&w1aWIW Frid's
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31

TRn GENTLEMAN IN BLACK" who is
the tutelar demon of dram-shops, as
sumes his sourest aspect when the
rapid progress Of NINEGAR BTrTERs is
reported down below" The Peoples
Vegetable Tonic is playing the mis-
chief with his bltters fired with rum.
All diseases which those demoniac
nostrums aggravate, under pretense of
relieving, such as indigestion, sick
headache, constipation, rheumatism,
gout, and intermittent fcversa are cured
by it. 4w
Wilmington journal., 1874-07-31

IT, IN spite 0fprotest and challenge,
an illegal cote is 2ollez, let the pro-
per atidaUits be at once made before
the proper officer, so that the parties
thus illegally voting may at once be
arrested and thereby prevented from
escaping the penalty provided by laaU
IN such cases. We repeat, let the pro-
per a6fdavats be made and let the
parties frauczule1atly voting be at once
arrested.