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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

THE Memphis LEDGER says that no
citizen Of that place has ever been sent
to the penitentiary for stealing wheel
barrow or grindstone. We are glad to
hear that Memphis is not as bad as some
people would have US believe; we would
ike to hear, however, as to the chances
of hot stove escaping capture, II no
policeman was around. = hn0Trttte
Press and Herald.
Well, as to that, we Aatter ourselves
that we have few frstclass artists IN
that line who could get away with sueh
a desirable article as red-hot stove,
even if a policeman happened to be
snoozing by it on bench. But sucn
things cool off too soon, and the stove
lifter's neighbors would denounce ham
as fraud.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

Josh Billings gives a remarkably lust
definition Of country newspaper editor:
" An editor il a male being whose bizi.
ness IL to navigate a nuze paper. He
writes editorials, grinds out poetry. in.
serts deths and weddings, sorts out man.
uskripts, keeps waste basket, blows M
the devil, steals matter, 6tes other
peoples battles, sells bis paper for a
dollar and ifty cents a year, takes white
beans and apple sass for pay when he
can get it, raizes a large family, works
nineteen hours out Of every twenty-four,
knows no Sunday, gifts damned By every.
body and once in 3 while whipt By sum.
body, lives poor, dies niddle.aged and
often broken-hearted, leaves no money
and IL rewarded for a life ov toll with q
short but free obituary puff in the nuEe
papers."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

He rose in the morning the first of his
household. Once he relates, he wss up
at balf-past five, went to the chapel, but
found no one Of his assistant preachers
there. OF three or four in the house all
were asleep. i preached myself,
writes the old man of eighty-four When
he complained, his assistants urged that
they were up late the night before. He
made it rule that every one in the
house should retire at nine, in order to
attend the morning service at five. At
eighty-six Wesley admitted the weight
of years. His eyes, he said, we're dim,
his voice was faint; he could no longer
keep his accounts or his journal. He
travelled almost to the last, and was
followed by the throngs who never
deserted him. In the spring Of 1871
he was brought to his house in City
Road, stricken with fever. On the I'd
Of March he died, surrounded by group
of friends. When he was dead they
broke into psalm of praise. His fune-
raj, at FIVE o clock in the morning, was
attended by a vast throng, and q sermon
was preached in memory Of his good
deeds in City Road Chapel, when the
church was hung with mourning, and
every member of the great audience, ex.
cept one, who took the blue ribbon from
her hat when she saw her error, was
clothed in black. City Road Chapel is
Wesley's monument. There are the
building and charitable labors he
planned there the room in which be
died--his house, his church, his tomb.
he desired at his funeral, he said, no
pomp, but only the tears of those who
loved him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

At very successful seance in Cincin'
natl the other night a man burst into
tears when the medium described very
accurately a tall, blue-eyed spirit stand.
ing by him, with light side whiskers and
his hair parted in the middle. Do you
know him 2" inquired a man at his side,
in q sympathetic whisper. Know
him ? I guess do, replied the unhappy
man, wiping his eyes. he was engaged
10 my wife. If be hadn't died he would
have been her husband, instead Of me.
Oh, George, Georgel" be murmured, in
a voice choked with emotion, why did
you peg out2
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Murder ana suicide

MACON, Ga, March A. Yesterday
John Abel and John Cherry while in.
toxicated in bar room became involved
in a quarrel. Abel drew a pistol and
fred at Cherry, fatally wounding him
near the heart. He then pointed the
pistol toward his own bosom and shot
himself dead.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

MONTREAL, March 4.-The petition Of
Rosenbaum against the eKtradition de.
eision Of Judge Ramsay was refused
yesterday by Judge Mondlett in the Su.
perior Court. he will be handed over
to the United States authorities.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

THE papers have been getting of nu'
merous original puns like this: The
long pole knocks the (per) Simmons.
Ben. Butler was always long headed
and ought to pay double poll tax.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04
PUBLIC LEDGER

A CORRESPONDENT Of the Banner pro-
poses Michael Burns as candidate Tor
Governor. We feel relieved now Tor
this makes out the one thousand even
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

The Hon. A. P. Van Duser is lectur-
ing on the taxes in a novel way in San
Francisco. he uses large blackboard
and ciphers out before the audience
the small proportion Of taxes paid By
the wealthy corporations
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04

Defaulters are now more elegantly
called " bypotheearies.'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04
NOW is THE TIME TO BUY

vii please send IN their orders, as ! can on
them at IEss than New York prices, for cash,
or geod city acceptance at thirty sixty or
ninety days.
- Pianos Tuned and Repaired b. eompe-
tant vorkmen. E, A. BENSON.
&-f a7 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
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NOTICE.

TN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ORDER OF
i the County Court at the January Term,
1874, requesting " sll parties holding County
Warrants issued prior TO November l, 1873,
which are not embraced in the published list
made By w. W. Mcdowell. County Attorney,
to file the same with the Clerk of the County
Court for registration. /" notice is hereby given
70, all persons holding such County Warrants
to file the same without celay.
TOM H0LEMAN, JR.,
WIN. WALLACE. fCommittee.
J. I. ELLIOTT,
February q, 1874. loo-o
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04
NOTICES..
NOTICE.
Wednesday. March 4th.

at o'clock pm, for printing and publishing
the proceedings II the General Council, the
ordinances, the Advertisements. the manufac-
turing Of blank books and the job work Of the
city. or any Of them separately; the city re-
serving the right to reject any or all bids;
JOHN L0AGUE,
Is Mayor.
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CAPITAL. gs,ooo,ooo STERLING.

,.ross premiums for 1s7a....~ 81 a54'17s 40
Total Expenses .
agents and brOkeS3
ASSETS COUNTRY.
-, nu, With Insurance Departments Of varo subject to
Td. Trustees subject to payment United @
Premiums in course IN Agents @ "a
All % s9N,08 %
IN the United states Promptly Adjusted and Settled from Local
Funds without the Chief Office at Liverpool
TINTED STATES BRANCH, Nos. 214 AND 2l6 BROADWAY,
PARK BUILDING,
WILLIAM H. ROSS, Manager.
TRUSTEES
SHEPHERD KNAPP, WIN. H. MARCY, JAS. M. MOkhIsVN'
pret Mechanics Pres Leather Manu Bank PEST DE-
DIRECTORS
T Tk ~ F F. usPStD1NG JOSEPH
F. FIJI T. N \. FMafffNG.
HT TOMlINSON, Agent, &Fl
No. II Madison Street, Memphis. Tennesseea
TENNESSEE hsg.AyGn cOTsss0SRs7 QQTon'E N!
s.S5. @ s 5 d Raa2R E S 1nSss T R
Of T%sSs I cmS Sn n S R1a
ss s H9e du na'hs nssc d Company in thy
STATE s Memphis Tennessee during SSRR0% Tennessee
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-04
III. T. TOMLINSON, Agent,
ison Street. Memphis, Tennessee

E. INSURANCE CoNMIssIoNER's OFFICE, [
NASHVILLE, January l, 1874.
yER. DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE
,ool and London, United States Branch,
the said Company has complied with all
Tennessee imposed on insurance comha-
Agent Of said Company, has authority 70
for and in behalf of said Company in TINS
ling December 81, 1874.
7 Insurance Commissioner OF tennessee.
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Roads to Ruin.

1t is the easiest thing in the world to
find one OF these roads, for they run in all
directions over the social planet. They
present, as the advertisements have it, s. a
wide field for CHOICE They comprise
highways and byways, round about roads
and cuts across, smooth paths and rough
paths, ascents and descents !; and as they
intersect each other at points inuumerable,
travellers to the common terminus can turn
out of the road they have started on into a
new one at their pleasure.
The outfit for the journey, be it long or
short, is not of much consequence, since
restitution and despair await all " no per-
sist in pursuing it. Some set out with
pockets full of gold others with their
pockets empty, hoping to fill them by the
way. To some the fiend, speculation,
plays the cicerone, marshaling them to
seeming Dorados in the distance, that melt
in the moonshine, as they travel on. The
will-o'-the-wisp, with his pasteboard sig
mails, beguiles others to the brink of the
precipiee, whence they tumble headlong
into irremediable shame The goblin, gin,
heads a caravan of self-destructionists
whose name is legion. All besetting
sins pull one way. and betray their vic
tim into one or the other of the many roads
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THE GREAT MEDICAL REFORMATION
The Satanic Theory that preparations
which infiame the brain are, in any sense
of the word, remedies, has been operthroa0rs,
and can 1aeUeY be re-estGblsshed. The Won
derful effects which have attended the use
of DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR BTTTERs as an
antidote to the causes of disease and a cure
for every comfortable ailment, have DEM
onstrated the utter fallacy of the doctrine
that alcohol is tonic as well as stimulaat
The New and Incompatible Vegetable
Remedy which has superseded the death
draught of rum bitters, is as free from
every intoxicating element as the dew of
Heaven, yet see how it is invigorating the
dyspeptic, purifying the blood of the
scrofulous, strengthening the debilitated,
arresting premature decay, and replacing
dependency and weakness with cheerful
ness and activity. Truly grand Medical
Reformation is in progress.
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True Economy of Life.

The true economy of human life looks
at ends rather than incidents, and adjusts
expenditures to moral scale of values.
The real wastes of life are not those men
pirate about most volubly and condemn in
censorious tones. De Quincy pictures a
woman sailing over the water, but awak-
ening out of sleep to find her necklace I'M
tied and one end hanging in the stream,
while pearl after pearl drops from the
string beyond her reach; while she
clutches at one just falling another drops
beyond recovery. Our days drop one af-
ter another from our too careless holding,
like pearls from string, as we sail the sea
of life. Prudence requires a wise hus-
banding of time to see that none of these
golden coins struck in the mint of Gods
own eternity are spent for nothing. The
waste OF time is more serious loss than
the extravagances against which there is
such loud acclaim. Here are thousands
who do nothing but lounge and carouse
from morning till midnight.-the drones
in the human hive, who consume and
waste the honey honest workers wear
themselves out in making, and insult the
day by their dissipation and debauch.
Here are ten thousand idle, frivolous crea-
lures, who do nothing but consume and
wear and waste what honest hands accu-
mulate, and entice others to lives as use
less and worthless as their own. Were every
man and woman honest toilers, all would
have an abundance of everything and half
of every day for recreation and culture.
The expenditure of few dollars for arti-
c1es OF taste and 9ertu is small matter in
comparison with the waste OF months and
years by thousands who have had every
advantage society could offer, and exact
every privilege it affords as a right. Her
aid of Health.
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to ruin. The only trustworthy safeguard
against their entieements is resistance at
the outset. When morbid appetite or in
clination pull ruinward, brace the moral
system against them put manhood against
temptation; ask help from heaven. Chris
tan firmness is more than match for Sa-
tan and all his agents. Misfortune may
overtake any man; but misfortune is not
ruin. In that terrible word, in its true in
depreciation, is involved a loss OF charac-
ter, of self-respect, of moral courage, of all
that renders life valuable. Beware of the
first step leading to such consumma-
tiOn.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-20
THE THRESHER OF THE PERIOD.

This is the famous "VIBRAToR" THREsHER,
which has created such revolution in the trade
and become so FULLY ESTABLISHED as the
leading Thresher'' of this day and generation.
More than seven thousand purchasers and ninety
thousand grain raisers pronounce these machines
ENTIRELY UNEQUALLED for grain saving, time
saving, and money making.
Four sizes made, viz: 24-inch, as
inch. 32-inch, and 36-inch Cylinders,
with 6. 8, 10 and 12-zzorse StFiounted's
Powers. Also Separators - alone % exc
pressly for Steam PoVer,and I'm proved
PORTABLE STEAM ENGINES for
steam Machines
Alfpersons intending to buy Threshmg Ma
chimes, or Separators ''alone, or Horse Powers
alone" as well as GRAIN RAIsERs AND FARM.
Frs who want their grain threshed, saved and
cleaned to the best advantage, are invited tosent
for our new forty page Illustrated Pamphlet
and Circulars {sentf ree) giving full particulars
about these Improved Machines and other nfor
nation valuable to farmers and threshermen.
Address,
NICHOLS, SHEPARD & CO,
Battle Greek. 1fich
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The Most Wonderful Medical
Discovery OF the Age--Eyery
MAN His Own Physician. Fra
Zier's Great Remedy.

The people of the United States have been hum
plugged with all kinds OF patent MEDICINES, quacAss
shameful manner The writer of the following is one
Believing that by cleansing the blood was the only
true way of banishing disease and being Tor years
scrofuious Affection and after trying many kinds Of
patent medicines and the most eminent physicians
ood Br ~ ny
gave me Immediate relief, but effected complete
eossesse ens Wonder Reang virtues prepared
quantity of Btters and was IN the habit OF giylng
effected the most miraculous cures not only curing
serofua and CONSUMPTION OF the L1ngs but all d ae
demand became SO great found mysem eaiea upon POI
co to establish aborafory for the purpose
Of compromising and putting them up IN large qnainu
et5er or my discovery to the public being
apatentmedcine man, but am getting oravey over
storekeepers with my Root Bitters to sell again and
it is my desire and determination to place the same
child on the face of the globe. These Root Btters
are strictly medicinal preparation. prepared from
aboand in our pastures eds and forests They open
all the natural passages of the body cast out
pure blood and sound nourishment; hence they must
reach all diseases by and ~ q M IT.
six bottles for $780, price within the reach OF ALL
NJ g person can take my Root Bitters and remain
long qnwe Victory upon victory they pave gainea
IN life They are Constantly eecting the
utmost Importance For Consumption, Asthma,
Serofula Scrofulous Eruptions, Catarrh Weak Lungs
Lost Vitality and broken-down constitutions these
Root Btters universally admitted to be the most
wonderful discovery known to the world. Thelr pee
toral healing properties penetrate every portion OF
the human Frame soothing the Lungs, STRENGTHENING
the Stomach Kidneys and Liver Gle ansing the blood
from every kind of humor. No other medicine VIII
cure Chronic rheumatism Neuralgia Heart Dlsease2
Fits Dizziness Headache, Dyspepsia. Fever and
Ague, Costiveness, Piles. Urinary Diseases Kidney
Disease and Liver Complaint so quickly as this RooE
Bitters All such diseases are caused from PAD
stomach and poisonous condition OF the blood For
weakly nervous young men, and to delicate females
these STRENGTHENING Root Btters are especially REG
commended One bottle Will 90 more 5oWa Ras eraa,
mors Cancerous formations, Dropsy. salt
Rheum, Ulcers Boils, Fleshworms, Biotches, rus
tues Eruptions and Pimpes en- the Face ana Corrup-
lions from the Blood, than all otter remedies In ex
istence. a. :.
warrant my Root Bitters positive cure for the
above and similar diseases, and in case OF failure VIII
thank All to call or write and take back their money
GEORGE W. FRAZIER DIsoevERER.
Laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio.
EF-Ask your Druggist or Storekeeper for FRAZTEB's
RooT BIrTRRs, and accept no substitute Whatever
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IT is often remarked by strangers visiting
our State that we show larger proportion
of good horses than any other State in the
Union. This, we tell them, is owing to two
principal reasons in the first place, we breed
from the very best stock; and in the second
place, our people use Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition POWDERS, which in our Judgment
are of incalculable advantage.
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Having concluded to advertise and Introduce my
wonderful discovery known FrGzer's Root BitterS
extensively throughout the continent, publish
this notice respectfully inviting ali Druggists and
Storekeepers who do not have stock of Root Bit
ters on hand TO order supply for the people.
ton. Myers & Canfeld, Cleveland, Ohio; Fuller &
Fuller, Chicago; John f. Henry. Curran & Co.,
Go Ro;t 9oah " Go
burgh, and Johnston, Holloway & Cowden, Phila-
delphia. g. w. FRAZIER, Cleveland, Ohio.
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THE GREAT FAMILY MEDIcNE.-Dr. Will
hoft's Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Ton
ic! No case of incurable Chills has yet pre-
scented itself, where this scientific and safe
medicine has been employed. No case has
been found so obstinate as to resistit prompt
and mastery action. No man has been SO re-
dueed by malarial influences, but with its use
has come up perfectly reconstructed. No
pills or purgative required with this medi-
cine. WHEELOCK, FINLAY & Co., Proprie-
tors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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Success Based Upon Merit.

1t is a subject of general remark, among
both wholesale and retail druggists, that no
medicine introduced to the American public
has ever gained such popularity and met
with so large sale in all parts of the land,
in the same length of time, as DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. This cannot de-
pend upon its having been more largely all
vertised than any other medicine, as such is
not the case. The correct explanation, we
think, is found in the fact that this medicine
produces the most wonderful and perfect
cures of very bad cases of bronchial, throat
and lung diseases, is undoubtedly the most
perfect and efficient remedy for all kinds of
coughs that has ever been introduced to the
public, and at the same time possesses the
greatest of blood-purifying and strengthening
properties that medical science has been able
to produce, thus rendering it sovereign rem
ely not only in the cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Hoarseness and Coughs, but also
for all diseases of the liver and blood, as scrof-
ulous diseases, blotches, rough skin, pimples,
black specks and discolorations. Ithas there
fore a wide range of application and useful
ness, and it not only gives the most perfect
satisfaction to all who use it, but far exceeds
the expectations of the most sanguine, thus
eliciting the loudest praise, and making per-
manent EiUinQ advertising mediums of all who
use it. For these reasons it is that there is
not perhaps druggist in all the vast domain
of this Continent, who tries to please his GUS
toners and supply their wants, that does not
keep and sell large quantities of this most val
liable medicine.
JEsUP, Iowa, May 9Th, 1878.
DIR. r. V. PIERCE:
Dear Strive take pleasure in saying that
your Medicines have sold entirely beyond our
expectations. We regard them as the best
medicines extant, and hear them spoken of
in the highest terms of praise.
r. l.. SMITH & Co.
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.Totnson's Anodyae Liniment will give
more relief in cases of Chronic Rheumatism,
no matter how severe, than any other article
known to medical men. Used internally and
externally
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Thirty Years Experience OF an Oa6
Nurse.

Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is the prescrip-
ton of of the best Female Physicians AID Nurses
in the United States and has been used for thirty
years with neverfailing safety and by mill
ions of mothers and children from the feeble infant
of week old to the adult 1t correets acidfty of
the stomach relieves wind collie, regulates the bow
els and gives rest health and comfort TO mother and
child We believe it to be the Best and Surest RENE
dy in the World in all cases of DYSENTERY and
DIARRHGA IN CHILDREN, whether it arises from
TeethiAgor from any other cause. Full directions
for using will accompany each bottle. None Genuine
unless the fac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS is on
the outside wrapper.
SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS. FFE,
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Profitable Employment.

Work for Everybody. Good Wages.
Permanent Employment. Men and
Women wanted. Full particulars free.
address W.. A. HENDERSON & CO., Cleveland,
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Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From no other cause than having worms in the ston
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~ AEPer Day gparanteed using our
~ 0WeIi AugeE Sgd Gs essaa3sns ire 5,
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WHEN writing to advertisers please mention the
w name of this paper.
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BROWNS vERMIFUGE CoMFITs
will destroy Worms without injury to the child, being
perfectly WHITE and free from all coiorng other
injurious ingredients usually used in worm prepare
tions.
CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 2t5 Fulton street, New York.
Sold By Druggists and Chemists, and Dealers in
Medicines at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A Box. -
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o. PATENT LEGS AND ARMS,
n Atreduced prices. Price list free. Address
- l.. LOCKWOOD, 700 n, 9Th St, St. Louis.
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