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ninrens,s ImsginatIOn.

Dickens followed, in the Pick
wick Papers, the method Of his
favorite novelist, Smollett. In the
adventures of Roderick Random
and Peregrine Pickle the interest
is purely biographical; there is,
properly speaking, no plot. Certain
things occur in the experiences Of
those scapegraces, and are recorded
as they occur; still there is no
attempt, as in the Tom Jones of
Fielding, to make each incident or
occurrence an important element
in the main design of the story.
But the humorous incidents In
Dickens's narrative are distin-
guished from Smollett's by the
absence Of coarseness. Smollett
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TONE WORKS.
ENCOURAGEMENT
~~N~~N~
For Magistrate.

For Magistrate.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
reelection as Justice OF the Peace in the
Fourteenth Civil District of Shelby county.
Respectfully, j. A. THOMPSON.
l23-te
BENZ. C0LMAN is a candidate for Justice
Of the Peace for the Fourteenth Civil District.
l22-te
JOHN 7. ELLIOTT is a candidate for re-
election as Magistrate Of the Fourteenth Civil
District at the ensuing August election. 92t
JAMESHALL isl candidate fer reelection
to the office of Justice Of the Peace for the
Fourteenth Civil District. 12S-te
For Constable.
T. S. MALLORY is a candidate for ~re-elec-
ton as Constable of the Fourteenth Civil
District. S9te
For Attorney General Bartlett Cir
cult Court.
1 am a candidate for election to the Office of
Attorney General of the Bartlett Circuit
Court, subject to the action of the nominating
Convention of the Democratic and Conserva-
tive party to be held in June next.
73-te G.. W, GORDON.
For sheriff.
c. L. ANDERSON is a candidate for re-
election to the Office of Sheriff, subject to the
action of the Shelby County Democratic and
Conservative Convention in June next. 70te
For County Trustee.
To the voters Of Shelby County:
l am a candidate for re. election to the office
Of County Trustee for Shelby county, subject
to the nomination Of the Democratic and Con
servative Convention to be held in June next.
May 20. 1876. L7ltel J.J. RAWLINGS.
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doubtless represented the manners
of his age in depicting scenes which
made US laugh, and at the same
time make us somewhat ashamed
of the cause of our laughter. The
more literally true his descriptions
are, the more he repels the taste.
Besides, he had a misanthrope's de-
light in exhibiting human beings in
situations which were as degrading
as they were ludicrous. Dickens's
immense animal spirits and his
sense of comic situations might
have been expected to drive him at
times into violations of decorum if
not Of decency; but his imagination
was so beautiful and humane that
it allowed free course to his hui
merous spirit and invention, and
still contained both spirit and in
yention within proper bounds for
the production Of humor at once
beautiful and beneficent.
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The Paris Academy of Medicine,
says Galignani's Messenger, has re-
ceived a letter from DR.. Tholozan,
dated Teheren, May Oath, on the
state of the plague in Mesopota-
mia, Arabia, and the adjoining
countries. This distinguished ply
sician has been for the last tel
years keeping a statistical register
on the subject, from which we learn
that small epidemics broke out in
those localities and in Africa in the
years 1867, 1871 and 1874; it had
nearly died out in 1875. About
the LIST of January Of the present
year the plague reappeared in Mes
opOtamia. 1t began in an Arab
camp near the Tigris, at about two
days journey south of Bagdad.
Shortly after it made its appearance
at Hillay; toward the end of Feb
ruary it reached Kifii, and, still
travelling northward, it arrived at
Bagdad on the 18th of March. To
give an idea of its virulence there,
from the 18th to the 18th of April
SIC cases and 313 deaths were re-
ported, and from the 18th to the
25th there were ninety cases and
sixty deaths per day, A further
increase occurred in the first
week of May, when the
daily average was 160 cases and 100
deaths, From the 10th to Goth it
had decreased throughout the whole
of Mesopotamia, and DR.. Tholozan
predicts that it will, as usual disap-
pear during the heat Of summer.
He suspects, however, that the
germs Of the pestilence, after re-
naming dormant during the season,
will revive in October and commit
fresh rayages during the winter.
The disease respects no altitude; i
will spread quite as well over cold
and dry table lands as over low and
marshy districts, Mountain chains
are no protection against its pro-
gress, but deserts are, because Of
the difficulty of communication
across them. Thus, while the
Turkish and Persian authorities
have established sanitary cordons
to the north and south of the in.
fected districts, the west and north
west are left open, because there
the desert offers far better protec.
ton than any human power cal
devise. 1t has been remarked in
Mesopotamia that the plague had a
marked tendency to generate
focuses of infection, a first case
being invariable followed by several
more in the same house. Quaran-
tines were, at the date of the letter,
in active operation in the ports Of
the Persian Gulf.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

A little salt put into a glass OF soda
water will make it keep a month.
1t don't take a Memphis mao long to
make q milk punch bald-headed.
A Delaware horse prefers ice cream to
oats. He's human in that respect.
A Leipsic girl may not go to the thea
ter With a beau, but she may go alone.
England has a few iron.elads left, but
how long they will be left is not known.
Tied back skirts all have the appear
ance OF having been through the Centen-
NAL gates.
The English Colonel Valentine Baker
wears prison life away by writing for the
magazines.
Boston is to have a Sunday paper
edited by ladies. It's great specially
will be what it won't have.
The Scotch have a standard time of
three minutes for boiling eggs, and they
want all other nations to come to it.
To write a good love letter, you ought
to begin without knowing what you
mean to say, and to finish without know
ing what you have written.
The Supreme Court of California re.
Gently examined thirteen students who
applied for admission to the bar, and
refused to admit any Of them.
Buffalo Bill is a scout with General
Crooks command, on the plains, and
a1vertises that whoever appears on the
stage in his name is a swiRdler.
About five seconds after he drew q
revolver on us he was being carved into
strings" says the editor of a Montana
paper. The he was a mountaineer.
Danbury News: IAN evidence Of the
hard times in New York is the fact tina.
an ordinary peach costs fifty cents.
Less than a year ago this fruit was sell
ing for fifty cents a basket"
1t is said that a Virginia man who hal
lately had delirium tremens, saw angels
instead Of snakes, and now all the sa
looms in the place where he lives are
fighting over the honor Of having solo
the whiRky.
Several Baltimore physicians say tina
many diseases are caused by soap thu
grease for which is obtained from un
healthy animals Dare say. And ther'
are other diseases that are caused by ex
! aetly the opposite.
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Personal.

Mr.. j. Van Dusen, passenger travel.
ing agent of the Pan Handle route, and
Mr.. P. P. Young, general Western tray
cling agent of the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, both having Offices in Cincin.
natl, have been in the city a few days
on business and we hope have had a
pleasant time.
Colonel Josiah DeLoach, Postmaster
of Memphis, has gone to Hot Springs t.
see his s~on.iDlaw, Richard Pritchsrd, Of
New Orleans, who is there for his health.
John S. Toof, Esq Secretary Of the
Cotton Exchange, returned to-day from
a trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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Beecher's victims.
New York Sun. 19th.l

New York Sun, 18TH
The story of a quarrel between
Theodore Tilton and Elizabeth Til
ton over their son Ralph is pro-
nounced by those familiar with the
facts to be a fiction. A lawyer in
New York, who is related to Mrs.
Tilton by marriage, and who has
served her as counsel gratuitously,
told Mr.. Tilton last winter in one
Of his visits home, that Mrs. Tilton.
who was living on Madison street
with Mrs. Morse, her mother, was
really in want, and that Nj. Angus
tus Storrs, the Treasurer of Ply
mouth church, had not paid her
the 500 a month which Mrs. Til
ton was promised. Mr.. Tilton
gave his check promptly for $1,000.
On the last visit of his son Ralph,
Mr.. Tilton took him with his
daughters Florence and Alice and
his son Carroll, to see their grand
parents in Keyport, N. J.. The
children are there still. Mr.. Tilton
is at Ocean View, near Long
Branch, and is at work on his lee
ture for next season.
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Price, twenty-five Gents.
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MemphisThreAtened with BayOBets
From a private letter dated Deer Park,
Md. received here, we take the follow
ing excerpt:
The President is as mad as a wet hen
in regard to the silent ostracism ;"
which is going on in Memphis toward
Colonel G. P. M. Turner since he made
his Aip.Aap into the Republican ranks.
TIE Executive says if he learns of any
further persecution Of Colonel Turner
on account of his color, previous condi-
ton or present politics he will send Gen.
Sheridan and a large military force to
Memphis to straighten out all such indi.
cations of disloyalty. he is determined
that no guilty man shall escape. God
is just, and the President e bust
ness.
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Dom Pedra,a TrnnaIa.

The New York World give a de-
tailed statement of the travels of
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
which concludes asfollows: "The
actual number of miles travelled by
him from Rio Janeiro to New York
and through this country, making
an allowance of 500 miles for short
side trips between different points,
is 19, This does not include
the distances he has travelled by
carriage, etc., in various places,
which would make out the 10000
miles. From March Goth, when
the Emperor left Brazil, until July
9TH, when he ended his travels, is
1O1 days. The average number Of
miles travelled by him daily is 1913
12-10O. He has been up every day
at 6 am, and never retires, except
when travelling at night, before II
pm. He has worked on an aver
age sixteen hours a day.
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elephants as RAilrOad Travellers
Chicago Journal

AANNh "NNAAaAsl
When about eight miles out, one
corner of the bridge gave way, and
five cars of the third section ran
off the track and turned over into
the soft mud. The first car con
tanned horses, the second an elk and
a camel, the other three the five
elephants. The small animals we're
easily liberated, but the elephants
were all in a heap. To remove
them the top of the car was cut
away, and then was exhibited the
intelligence that marks these half
human brutes. They obeyed every
command of the keeper like child
rem, and were released with not a
scratch on them. The remaining
distance to the city was made over
land, and a happier crew never
started on a march than were those
animals. The cool atmosphere and
the bright moonlight were all in
spring. AS all bridges were gone,
at every stream the elephants took
fresh enjoyment Of their liberty.
They arrived here before the train.
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Thursday, the 27th
Thursday, the 27th
Thursday, the 27th
COHEN
125.t
CALL for the Calhoun cigar.

The undersigned, retiring from the
retail trade aud going entirely into the
manufacture and Wholesale trade Of
cigars, offers for sale from now to the
10Th of August, a complete set Of fixtures,
consisting of fine show cases, tobacco
stand, counter, etc, also a lot of broken
boxes Of cigars, pipes and other smokers
articles, at very reduced prices for cash.
B. SoHALsoHA,
1856 Main st., bet. Union and Gayoso,
I0f
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rhs rennsusss state sauetteer.

In reply to a short communication
signed Subscriber" which appeared in
Saturdays LEDGER, the agent writes as
follows. This is none Of our quarrel,
and we care nothing about it one way or
another. We have examined the Gazet-
teer, and find that the names of Colonel
CAN'T and Colonel Kortreeht do not ap-
pear:
To the Editor Of the Ledger:
ALI we have to say to Subscriber is,
that W. A. Collier was of the firm Of
Smith Il Collier, aud so appears. Geo.
CAN'T was Of the firm Of CAN'T, Patter.
son & Lowe, aud Patterson & Love ap-
pears in its regular order. James Mayd.
we'll has no particular office, asthe latest
City Directory will show; aud the names
of Mcdowell & johnson was given, to be
inserted in that style, as it was better
known to those who might wish to find
the address. And as to the Southern
Life Insurance Company, they we're sol.
vent January 4, 1876, when the canvass
for the work was made, as an order for
the Tennessee State Gazetteer, signed
by the Secretary, Mr., Ben May, will
show. There are slight errors which
will creep into all works Of this kind,
but the above shows that Subscriber, "
First-Does not know how to find
names in a directory.
Second-Shows his ignorance in as.
sorting and publishing such an article
against a work of so vast importance to
the public and business men in general
Third-He no doubt is one of the few
who "squesled" on the presentation o.
his order for the work" and was only
too generously let of by the delivering
agent.
Very respectfully,
ALLAN C. WENDELL,
Agent for the Publishers,
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she Married the nan she Loved.

st. Louis Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.l
Several days ago a beautiful
young lady arrived at the Lindell
Hotel in this city. Registering
herself as Miss Ida Hermanee, San
Francisco, she engaged the hand
some parlor in the hotel at twenty
dollars per day, together with the
bridal chamber. She was magnif-
Gently dressed, wore several thou
sand dollars worth of diamonds,
and dispensed among the walters
money as though she were a prin-
cess. On Saturday she published
an advertisement informing q. G..
Crippin that a lady at the Lindell
Hotel desired to see him. Crippin
heard of the advertisement to-day,
went to the hotel, and found an old
sweetheart. The meeting resulted
in a hasty marriage in DR.. Schuy-
ler's church this evening. Crippin
is well known in Cincinnati and
Chicago as a seller of safes. The
young lady is said to be the only
daughter Of a millionaire widow of
California. She ran away from her
mamma about two weeks ago to
Crippin.
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An Eye 10 business.
Chicago Journal


A man who had just bought a
watermelon on Madison street, a
day Or two since, was approached
by a strange young fellow with a
note book, who inquired:
what is your name and address,
Flease?"
"Who are your" demanded the
man rather savagely.
"0h, don't get angry" was the
meek reply, "I'm only an under
takers clerk"
The man suddenly coming to his
senses, Immediately negotiated the
return of the watermelon to the
dealer for a few bananas and some
last years apples.
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SMOKE

The John G. Calhoun Cigar, 9 for 25e.
Sold everywhere.
The finest cigar in the United States for
the money. Ask for them.
First class Saloons Keep Them!
Call for tbeml Try them
Wholesale Depot, 200 Main.
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The type, material and workmen Of
the LEDGER job Office are rs good as the
best, and hence we guarantee first class
work and full satisfaction to our patrons.
l28t
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The finest cakes and best
candy, also soda and mead, at
FlOyd's, Main st., two doors
above Jefferson. 1873
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In the LEDGER job Office can be found
competent, skillful and tasteful printers,
who can give entire satisfaction in the
display Of any job Of printing. 1887
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The Pennsylvania Railroad,
THE GREAT TRUNK LINE
Fast Mail Route of the United States

will be most direct. convenient and ecOnOmi-
cal way Of reaching Philadelphia and this
great Exhibition from all sections of the
country. It's trains to and from Philadelphia
will pass through q GRAND CENTENNIAL
DEPOT, which the Company have erected at
he Main Entrance to the Exhibition Grounds
or the accommodation of passengers who
wish to stop at or start from the numerous
large hotels contiguous to this station and the
Exhibitions convenience Of the greatest
the Pennsylvania Railroad, which is THE
ONLY LINE RUNNING DIRECT TO THE
CENTENNIAL BUILDINGS. Excursion
trains will also stop at the Encampment Of
the Patrons Of Hasbandry, at Elm Station, on
this road.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is the grandest
railway organization in the world. 1t con-
trolls seven thousand miles of roadway, form
ing continuous lines to Philadelphia, New
York, Baltimore and Washington, over which
luxurious day and night cars are run from
Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, Columbus, Toledo, Cleveland and
Erie, without change.
It's main line is laid with double and third
tracks Of heavy steel rails upon a deep bed OF
broken stone ballast. and its bridges are all OF
iron or st0ne. Its passenger trains are
equipped with every known improvement for
comfort and safety, and are run at faster
speed for greater distances than the trains OF
any line on the continent, Tit Company mas
largely increased its equipment for Centennial
travel. and will be prepared to build in its
own shops locomor ives and passenger cars at
short notice sufficient to fully accommodate
any extra demand. The unequaled resources
at the command Of the Company guarantee
the most perfect accommodations Tor all its
patrons during the Centennial Exhibition.
THE MAGNIFICENT SCENERY for which
the Pennsylvania Railroad is SO justly cele
brated presents to the traveller over its perfect
roadway an ever-changing panorama OF river,
mountain, and landscape views unequaled IL
America.
THE MANIFESTATIONS on this. line arC
unsurpassed. Meals will be furnished al
suitable hours and ample time allowed fol
enjoying them.
EXCURSION-TICKETS at reduced rates
will be sold at all principal Railroad Tlcke
0fices in the West, Northwest. Southwest.
Be sure that your ticket reads viz
the Great Pennsylvania Route to thu
Centennial.
FRANK THOMSON. D. NJ. BOYD, JR..
General Manager. Gen1 Pass'r Agent
10-35d&W
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The "Tilden" and "OWl" are all
the go,
But the "Marble Head' still more so.
s. STERNBERG &C.,,
l24t Sole Agents, 313 Main st.
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The best soda and mead in
Memphis, 9 glasses for 20c, at
BarIee's, 32S Main at. 1927
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HowARD's ice.cresm palace is the
place most popular with ladies. 100
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The ladies' faVOrite, chOcO-
late cream, the best drink Of
all, at Bartee's. 1921
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SID Cooks Billiard Parlor has fans
that make the room cool. ll3t
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CALL for the Calhoun cigar.
Over $4,000! Over 5000!
Over $4,000! Over $4,000!
No. 227! No. 2s7!
No 227! No. 227!
Main Street | Main Street !
Main Street Main Street !
CLOSED TO MARK DOWN STOCK
CLOSED TO MARK DOWN STOCK A!
Owing to the illness of Mr.. NJ. S..
Chapsky his stock of
Clothing and Furnishing Goods
will be sold regardless OF cost.
Prices Marked Down in Plain Red
Figures. The Goods Must be
Sold inside OF 20 Days.
Unprecedented bargains can be had.
Mr.. Harry Cohen has purchased the
entire stock of clothing and furnishing
goods.
THE STORE WILL Be RE0PENED
Thursday Morning, July 9th,
Thursday Morning, July 9th,
Thursday Morning, July 9th,
Thursday Morning, July 9th,
Thursday Morning, July 9th,
For the
INSPECTION AND SALE OF GOODS.
Don't fail to attend this great sale.
BARGAINS CAN CERTAINLY BEHAD
AND
L MEAN WHAT L SAY!
Rememember the day.
Thursday, the =
Thursday, the =
Thursday. the =
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Ice CREAM, soda water, candies and
cakes at Towards. 100
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PERSONAL.
New Advertisements

&10 a day at home. Agents wanted. Out
pa" ct and terms free. TRUE Il CO.. An.
gusta, Maine.
GBLT CARPETIN6S. SOC per yard. FELT
q CElLlNG for rooms in place Of plaster.
and sample, address O. j. FAY, Oamden.N j.
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RAILROADS.
CE NTENNIAL EXH IBITION,
Philadelphia, Penn.

THIS GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXHI-
i bition. designed TO commemorate the one
hundredth anniversary Of American indie
pendence, will open May 10th and close No
yember 10, 1876. All the Nations Of the world
and all the States aud Territories of the Union
will participate, bringing together the most
comprehensive collection Of art treasures,
mechanical inventions, scientific discoveries,
manufacturing achievements, mineral speoi-
mems, and agricultural products ever exhib-
tied. The grounds devoted to the exhibition
are situated on the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and embrace four hundred and fifty
acres of Paramount Park, all highly improved
and ornamented, on which are erected the
largest buildings ever constructed five OF
these GOV ering an area Of fifty acres and cost
ing $500 900. The total number Of buildings
erected for the purposes Of the Exhibition Is
over one hundred.
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G REDER, carpenter, IL Washington.
IQn
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COOLEST place in the city-Converse's
Billiard Parlor. loaf
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"LIFE'S PROMISE TO PAY"
By Miss Clara Conway,
AT MAN o r s. 129
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Five for csc! Five for 25c!
Another fresh lot of Cuban and Mexi'
can Twist cigars just opened by
SOL COLEMAN,
200 Main street.
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SPECIFIC PILLS.
Vegetable Tonic SpeciaO pills,

E0R TIE PERMANENT CURE OF CON
II orrhea. elect, Impotence, Seminal Weak
ness, InOntinence. General Debility. Gravel.
Structures, aud all diseases caused BY self-pol-
luton, such as Loss Of Memory, Pains in the
Back, Dimness Of Vision, Spermatorrhea, etc.
Price, 81 so per box; 8 boxes for IS.
125 1853 ID. Y. GOODYEAR, 1871 Main st.
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CALL for the Calhoun cigar.

LADIES, go to Towards for ice cream.
100
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Stokes goes up to Auburn to serve out
his last two months. He is to cook for
q gang of fellow-copviets,