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"Hold the fort, for Hayes IL coming,
Victory signals still:
Hear the shout from Washington
Ulysses says He willy"
Yes, Gle will" ASK Brlstow and Jewell.
Hold the fort" / accept your resignation
with regret" says Ulysses TO Belknap, when
he is caught stealing. Hold the fort Yes,
He will, and out goes Jewell, because he
proposes TO end the straw bids" and intro
dUce honesty into his postOifice. Hold the
fort and out goes every man who sympa-
thiZes with these reformers. Hold the fort"
sud the whisky thieves are pardoned, and re-
stored to favor. Hold the tort" and partI-
san duty Is required of Cabinet officer
Chandler takes the Guardianship Of the Re
publican National Committee. Postmaster
Edmunds runs the campaign, and the whole
Is enlisted in perpeiua,inr IL
self and all lis cnormiiies. by the success OF
HAYES. Ulysses says lie will "-Tpsilaa-
"a SsstiEd.
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The Housekeepei.

The aim of this publication is TO treat
housekeeping as domestic science; TO sup.
ply practical and interesting information
about every department of home; ant 10
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Wide Awake,

The August number is illustrated by some
thirty handsome pictures, and has contribu-
tons from the pens of f. T. Merrill, Nora
Perry, Mary E. G. Wyeth, Phebe F. McKeen,
C, II. WoodEan, c. f. Guernsey, Mrs. Halo.
well, Margaret Eytinge, Edgar Fawcet, and
fifteen other able writers. There is certainly
no other publication that for 20 cents will
give the younger people of both sexes a
choicer selection of amusing as well as in.
structve reading.
Any Of the above publications may be
seen at the bookstore of Osman 81 Hapeman,
where single copies are for sale and sub.
scrIptons received.
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ISallOu's Monthly.

A main attraction OF Ballous just now is
NJ. Quad's story, "ThatTaylor Boy" of which
there is a large instalment in the september
number; besides which are the following
contents:
Standardization; African Weapons
Among the Alps Bombay; Marian Leslic's
Husband; The Dying Hunter; All for Love,
and the World well Lost; a Parting; Marah S
Temptation; A Strange Memory; Gabriel's
War; A Pretty Young Lady-A Tale of
Home Life Lunacy and Love; Water. Lilies
Whaling off Cape Horn; A Kafiir Festival
The Housekeeper's Story; The Storm Child A.;
Miramar; Rob Laughtons Good Time; Mar.
rying for Money, Miss Gray-Squirrel and the
Giants; The Fairy aud the Fish; Curious
Matters; Patent Coupler's Peculiarities
Ruthven's Puzzle Page; The Housekeeper;
A Cunning observation-disclosures illus.
trations)
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Literary Notices.
Harper's Magazine,

Olive Logan contributes the opening art
Gle in the September Harpers ina beautiful
ly illustrated glimpse Of life at Long Branch
On account Of the "protracted absence of tn
President this summer the place has beef
less gay and crowded than usual, yet DIV
has found abundant material IN few weeks
experience there tor gossippy and enter
tanning article.
The next illustrated article is A. III. Guern
sey's summary of new work on Japan by
Mr.. Grifis, just published. The book, w
are led to infer from the summary, is one o.
high merit. Ernest Ingersoll talks pleasant
ly about very welcome visitor from the
sunny south each summer TO these parts, the
Baltimore oriole, which was SO named, We
are informed, by the great naturalist Linneus
in honor of Lord Baltimore, giving him a
stronger hold upon the recollection of man
kind than he secured by any monument in
the noble city which he founded"
An interesting article on Eton College, by
E. S. Nadal; and the history of Mason and
Dixon's line, by Rev. Tryon Edwards, are
other illustrated articles; and lastly, in this
list, Is very fascinating article, by Mrs.
Mary Treat, on the "Carniverous Plants of
Florida" And are there really carniverous
flesh eating -plan,s-plants that no! only
eat or absorb insects and other flesh that
come in their way, but are exceedingly ex-
pert IN catching insects? There are many
such plants it seems. Among them, we are
told,
The pinguCulas, or butter-worts, are carn.
vorous plants and closely related to the u,r.
but TO a casual observer they do not
at all resemble each other. The utricularias
usually grow in water, and have finely dis
sected leaves, and little stomaCh-like sacs
into which small insects are entrapped, from
which they never escape any more than they
would from the stomach Of an animal; but
the pinguiculas grow on land, and entrap IN,
sects on their large broad leaves, which are
into stomachs, when they secrete
fluid corresponding TO the gastric juice in
the stomach of animals. The leaves lie fiat
On the ground in the form Of a rosette, and
are always moist and feel greasy to the
touch, from which II takes beth its common
and scientific nane-pinguts being the Latin
'or fat.
In the way of poetry and fiction the Sep.
ember Harper is more attractive than usual.
Book VII, of Daniel Dorando is given entire.
A "Woman.hater," OF which the third part is
given in this number, is publish anonymously
In Bldck,cOod and Uarper; but SO strongly
has it impressed critical readers, that its au.
.horship has been attributed to the most Wig.
orous OF English novelists. Mrs. Dinah Mu-
ock Cralk's beautiful story, "The Laurel
Bush" has reached its fourth part; Julian
Garth is still continued; and
n addition to the serials, there are five ex.
,ellent short stories
j. 7. Trowbridgc contributes another Of his
characteristic domestic stories in verse,
Toms Come Home" beautifully illustrated
~ Sol Eytlnge. Poems are also contributed
~ II. b. Aldrich, George Lunt Mary e. Van.
lyme, John w. Chadwick and Carl Spencer.
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ULYSSES Says 'He Will"

The tax-eaters sing parody of the famous
stanza ending thus:
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The Rlonx as Fiehters.

Cleveland Herald
If there should be a general
Sioux war, as there is now too much
reason to fear will be the case, those
who expect that it will be speedily
suppressed and the Sioux easily sub
dued and exterminated, may have
occasion to change their views after
one summers campaign. The
Sioux are born fighters. OF the
whole Indian race they are the most
formidable as foes. They despise
labor and prefer starvation to indus
try and fighting to either. Other
tribes may possibly be brought to
the arts Of peace, at least to lin
tied degree, but the Sioux are in
tractable.
They are still powerful in num-
bers, and if the various tribes could
be gathered under one head the
government would have no light
task in overcoming such a foe. The
region in which they are now ope-
rating is in favor Of their mode of
warfare, as they can scour the
plains on their fleet ponies, making
forced marches of fifty miles a day
if necessary, and when hard pressed
take to the hills, which afford them
safe retreat from the regular
troops. When well mounted they
are most formidable, horse and man
seeming but parts of the same body,
and to kill the rider it is first nee
essary to kill the horse. Indian
fighters say that for a short battle
they dread a well mounted Sioux
band armed only with bows and ar.
rows more than if armed with the
rifle. They can fire with unerring
precision whilst going at full speed
with their bodies concealed behinC
the horses, and with such rapidity
that the air seems full of flying ar
rows. When worsted they are away
at full gallop, and only the mos
daring and well-mounted cavalry
can hope to come up with them.
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Attachment Notice.

Before John Spelman, Justice of the Peace
for Shelby county, Tenn.-Cubbins 4 Gum
VS.. @. l.. Bernard.
IN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT HAV.
i ing been sued out under section 1856 Of the
Code Of Tenn; ssee, and returned levied upon
the property Of the defendant, and affidavit
having been made that the defendant is in
debted to the plaintiffs in the sum of
$50 % due by account. and that the claim
is just, and that defendant is non resident of
State Of Tennessee; ii is therefore ordered,
that the said defendant make his personal
appearance before me on the 4th day Of Au-
Gust, 1876, at 10 o'clock am, at my office,
NO. 1877 Main street, in the city Of Memphis,
Tennessee, and defend said attachment
suit within the time prescribed by law,
or the same will be proceeded with ex parte
and that a cory Of this order be pulished once
a. week for four. consecutive weeks in the
Memphis Public Ledger.
This 18th day Of June, 1876.
l4 ll0-ll6-l22 JOHN SPELMAN, J.P,
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Saturday, August 5, 1875,

within legal hours, the following described
property. situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
and in the city Of Memphis, being the re-
mainder interest of Ii. l.. Brinkley in one un-
divided half of certain property, tO-wit: Lot
No. 2a2, 7414 feet by l4S% feet fronting 74l4
feet on the east side of Main street, and run
ming back between parallel lines l4S1a feet to
an alley, the same being on the northeast
cerner of Madison and Main streets.
Q. Lot No. 1868, triangular lot lying between
jackson street, Raleigh road and the alley
east Of Third street.
g. Lot No. 800, llS115 feet by l4S]z feet, north
west corner of Concord and Third streets,
4. Lot No. 1893, l4S11 feet by 1857 feet, north
east corner Of Concord and Third streets.
Also the fee Of said Brinkley in and to the
following property, to-wit, in Shelby county,
Tennessee, being part Of a tract of land lying
northeast Of the city Of Memphis, and desig-
mated upon plat book No. |, page IS, Regis
ter's office OF Shelby county, and by parti-
ton between II. l.. Brinkley and Annie G..
Snowden the lots cOlOred yellow on said plat
belonging to defendant, H. L. Brinkley, as
particularly named in partition deed regis
tered in Book No. rs, pp. 45S and s59 in said
Registers office, to-wit: Lots 3, 5, 6 Z and
in block No. 2. Lots 8, 10, IL, II, Is, l9, 20, q
and % in block No. 5. Lots !, 2, 3 4, s. IL, Is,
"A, Is, l6 and II in block No. 6. Lots 9, TO- II,
II, is, 10 and 20 in block No. Z. Lets 25 and 26
in block No. 8. Lots 3, 10, IL y, u, 4. l5 l6'
Lots 9, 10, IL, u, l3, a, l5 l6 and II in block
No. 10 Lots l, 2, 6, 7, 10, IL, 16, II, Is and 10
in block No. II: Lot II in block No. lS. Lot
l in block No. 4.
Terms of Sale-0n credit Of seven months;
purchasers to execute notes with approved Sc
curity, bearing six per cent. interest from
date. Lien retained to secure the same, and
equity of redemption barred.
This June 80 1876.
EDMUND A. COLE, G. and NJ.
By R. j. BLACK. d. @. and M.
Robertson & Rese, Attorneys. 105-136
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Attachment Notice.

Before J. M. Coleman. Justice Of the Peace
for Shelby county, Tenn.-A. X. Gillen &
10. VS.. A. P. Durham.
IN HIS CAUSE AN NATTACHMENTH HAV-
i in zen sued out under section 1856 of the
Code OF tennessee, and returned levied upon
the property Of the defendant by garnish-
ment on 7. Estes 4 Co., who answer that
they have in their possession forty-nine dol
lars and twenty-five cents belonging to tho
defendant. and attidayit having been made
that defendant is indebted to. the plaintiff in
the, sum Of one hundred and eighty dollars
and that the claim is lust, and the
defendant is a nonresident of the State
Of Tennessee; ii is therefore ordered thai
said defendant make his personal appear-
ance before me on TIE llth day OF August,
1876, at 9 O'Clock am, at my Office, No. ~
Front street, Memphis, Tom, and defend
said attachment gqlt within tho time pre-
srEibed BY law, or the same viii be proceeded
with ex parte; and that copy of this order be
published once o week for four consecutive
weeks in the Public Ledger,
This the 9TH day Of July, 1876.
ll2. llS-l2i-lS0 j. M. COLEMAN JP.
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The Turkish Crown Diamonds
have been found, and the large stone
known as Ischoban Tascki," which
had been missing for some years,
was discovered among the effects of
Sultana Valide. She was the late
Sultan's mother and the ruling ge-
Mus of the harem-a sort of queen
dowager. She was originally a
slave in the harem, but, with her
good fortune she assumed the
naughty and imperious behavior
often observed in vulgar women
suddenly raised to affluence. Her
domineering character was aggra-
waited by an ignorance more than
Turkish, which seems to have been
reflected faithfully in her grandson,
Yessoud, the eldest son Of the de-
posed Sultan. In spite of all this,
her influence in the harem was un-
limited, and, apparently, almost as
powerful over the mind of her son,
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An English servant once sued an
employer for wages due him to the
time he quit. "He sets me such
funny jobs" said the servant,
"such as standing on a gate-post
to whitewash the moon with a pot
Of blacking; at another time, to
fetch a load of clouds to litter the
horses. He told me the other Sun
day, when l wanted my dinner, to
cut Bath brick into mutton chops,
and fry them in four-wheeled
wagon at VishuIious. 1t amt likely
that | can do them conjuration
tricks" Ridiculous as this appears,
there is q moral to be drawn from
it; 1t is-work at something.
" Better" said Christina of Sweden,
." to be doing wrong than doing
nothingw That goes too far, but
the strange queen wanted to ex-
press her disgust Of Sloth in the
strongest words. Whenever bust
ness is dull, and hard times come,
many people complain of want of
confidence more than a want of
work. This complaint becomes
chronic, and those who grumble
the most do the least to bring indi-
vidual confidence up to its healthy
point. Labor, unintermitting and
wisely directed, is a catholicOn for
nearly all the ills of hard times,
Work at something, and with q pur-
pose, and the crust Of business stag
nation will soon begin to show
signs of breaking.
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The Foly OF weddlDg Tours.

Appleton's Journal.l
1t is notorious that a woman will
submit to every suffering and un-
dergo every penalty required by
fashion. She will sacrifice her
beauty and comfort in dress, and
jeopardize her dearest prospects of
life, to the requirements of usage.
A wedding tour may have untold
discomforts it may embarrass her
modesty, endanger her connubial
bliss, injure her health, lay the be-
ginning of chickering's and differ
ences; it may have known every
disadvantage, but it will be insisted
on if society utters its behestS to
that effect. 1t is women who are
specially anxious that marriages
should multiply, and yet it is wo-
men who have given the wedding
ceremony such elaboration of dis
play and loaded it with such costly
expenditures, that marriage, with
a majority of men, is impossible
Fashion, or common sense, or some
other power, should dictate that
marriage ceremonies ought to be
simple and unostentatious, and that
after the ceremony is performed
the calm of some sweet seelusion is
necessary, not only for the future
health of a wife whose nerves are
already overstrained by the excite
ment of what is to her a tremend-
ous event, but the foundation of
an intercourse between the newly
married couple that shall be sweet
and lasting, Have any of our peo-
pie the courage to defy usage, and
act according to their own inclina-
tions at this important period2
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Pills. TENN. WEDNESDAY EVENING. JULY 2& 1876 NO 1877

sold their claims to a friend of his.
A dividend of ST per cent. has been
paid. His paintings were sold by
the assignee for 1880; stage prop
erty, $4,000; library and private
theatrical wardrobe, 1880. Twen-
ty-two creditors proved claims
amounting to $25O,000. The estate
of Oakes Ames had a secured claim
of 100000, it being a fifth mort
gage in the theater. Among the
creditors are Richard A. Robertson,
$39,70 Manufacturers and Build
ers' Bank, $34, 400; Mary f. Booth,
$50, 800; Clark Bell, $4,000.
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AdministratOr's NOtice.

WHEREAS, LETTERS OF ADMINS
w tration on tho estate Of Fred Schenk,
deceased, we're granted to the undersigned at
the present term of the Probate Court of
having claims against the estate Of said de-
cedent are hereby required to exhibit said
claims 70 me at my office, No. 2OS Main street,
Memphis, Tenn, within .a9 time limited by
law, or the same will be barred,
JOHN S0HEInL En-.
MEMPHIS. TENN. June %, 1876, 99-iA
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EDWIN Booth,s Bankruptcy,

Mr.. John 81. Platt, the assignee
in bankruptcy of Edwin Booth, the
actor, has filed his final report, the
proceedings having occupied over
two years and a half. Although
Mr.. Booth has not applied for his
discharge, his creditors have lir-
tually given him one, as they all
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mo. 2Sl4.l
NOn.Resident Notice.

nessee-James A. Shane ct al. (frm of
Shane, Harris Il Co.. VS.. Seth W. Bolton.
1T APPEARING FROM TIE BILL IN
i this cause, which is sworn to, that the de-
fendant, Seth W. Bolton is nonresident Of
the State Of Tennes ee it is therefore ordered
that he make his appearance herein, at the
courthouse, in the city Of Memphis, Tennes-
see, on or before the first Monday in August,
1875, and plead answer or demur TO complain
ants bill, OF the same will be taken for con-
fessed as to him and set for hearing OK parte
and that copy Of this order be published
once week, for four successive weeks, in the
Public Ledger.
This 5th day of July, 1876.
A cOpy-Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, @. and M.
By E. 3. MCIIENRY, Deputy G. and M.
MCDOWELL Il BURROWS, Solicitors for COM
plainant. llI-l17-123-l2g
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official Turquie declares, "every-
thing seems to indicate a demon
stratlon."
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THE TWO ARMIES.

The two armies are in presence;
both are anxious to fight. 1t re-
mains to be seen on which side will
be the victory, for it may be truth
fully said Of both, "which is the
best is not the question; which is
the worst is a tosS-up." Rarely, in
the annals of modern warfare, has
anything been seen so radically
worthless as the Servian and Turk
ish forces. No military man would
dare to hazard an opinion as to the
result. Both have brave soldiers,
perfectly undisciplined and COM
manded by the chiefs of equal in
competency. The Turks have the
best artillery, the Seryians have
the advantage of position. Both
have cavalry, which is almost as in
efficient as that of France. The
numbers of the infantry are about
equal. In short, it is a case Of pull
Dick pull devil, and the success will
be on the side which will make the
feweSt blunders.
The grand total, on paper, is
100000 men now under arms, to
whom must be added 10000 Redifs
of the first ban militia of the first
reserve), who will turn out gladly
if a holy war will be preached, but
who will decline under ordinary
circumstances to leave their tents;
and forty-three battalions of the
second reserve in Syria, about fif-
teen thousand more. In compari-
son with what we have seen in
America, this war will be very
triAing affair, but its results will
be most important to the peace Of
Europe.
Neither side will be able to profit
by ysuccess. Russia will never per-
nit another Turkish occupation of
Servla, and 1t Will scarcely De Ine
policy of England to look on calm
liy at the dismemberment of Tur-
KEY and the establishment of Rus
sian protectorate on the shores of
the Bosphorus. The individual who
will probably profit most personally
by the conflict will be Prince Dan
lilo of Montenegro, who is backed
up the Czar, and who aspires to the
position of future sovereign of the
proposed Selavonic empire. The
Turks maintain that without Mon
tenegrin sympathy they would long
ago have stamped out the Herzego-
vinian insurrection, while the Mon
tenegrins swear that but for then
f good will the garrison Of Niksik
f could not have been reyictualled,
, In the meanwhile the warlike pop
ulation of the Black Mountains il
, mastering in arms on the frontiers
, Of Tenernagora, and, as the semi
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and if there were any spectators of
the raid they have made no sign;
but it is certain that $50 gentle
men in long tunics and white tur-
bans were quietly taken on board a
couple of transports lying ready in
the Golden Horn, where they were
joined by sixty persons of the Cir
cassian persuasion. One Of the
officers of the troops on duty, from
whom the tale has reached me, de-
clares that there were no remOn-
strances made, no questions at all
asked. The poor wretches appear
to have accepted their fate with the
utmost stoicism, as the tugs
steamed down to the sea of Mar
mora, where one after the other,
210 men were dropped into the
water and sent by this short. sea
passage to the Paradise of Moham-
med, with a thirty-two pound shot
fastened to their feet. Now all
this is perfectly we'll known to every
resident of Constantinople, and
that something unusual was about
to take place was so patent to the
foreign representatives that, on this
same Thursday evening, several
hundred armed Croats, Montene-
grins and Greek sailors patroled
the streets of Bayukdiri from sun
set till sunrise, soaring the peaceful
inhabitants out of their minds by
a demonstration for which there
was no earthly necessity, but which,
strangely enough, conceded with a
telegram in the Partisan papers next
morning to the effect that Oonstan-
tinople was in revolution, that
the garrison had mutinied, and
that the Ministers had been arrested
and put to death-all of which was
a Stock Exchange maneuver backed
| up by Russia and Greece, whose
policy it is to spread alarming re-
ports, in order, if possible, to have
a pretext for occupying the harbor
with the Black Sea feet before the
British iron-clads can steam uI
there from the distant Dardanelles
The wholesale destruction of the
Softas and Tcherkesses cannot, o
course, be justified according to thu
standard of civilized Christendom
but its effects here have been mos
excellent. There is no "opposi
ton +" to ask for explanations Of th,
government, and no newspaper
ventures to allude even vaguely tC
the circumstance. But the Sofia
are utterly cowed, and are showing
the greatest anxiety to go home t
their families, for which the Port
gives them every facility by grant
ing free passports and free ticket
by rail and steamer. The DANCE
to Christians living in the capita
has thus been conjured away; bu
it is to be feared that these fanatic
will vent their disappointed spleel
upon the unfortunate Rayahs i
those provincial localities wher
there are no foreign Consuls to de
mand an investigation Of their atrC
cities.
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DURING the CENTENNIAL

.Evhi Nition at Philadelphia, this line will sell
Exnur sion Tickets at greatly reduced TatesN; Nn
, TI1E Ih1EsA sh 0RT LINE, the only line running
tLldrnb = Qrs to Eastern Cities, For sale al
ali ali the Tick st Offices in the South and South
"''' JNO. MacLEOD, Gen. supp,
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