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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-11
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-11

MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 8, 1875.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY. SEPT. 81,
HD-is g, trains will run as follows;
Leave. Arrive
New orle ans mail, daily, ;..2;5O pm. 1850 pm
e9trGis et AZ unday) y)....,...4:4O pm. S45 m
fIelgnS IIa w .'.'..,'. ..... $3.50 I'm. 4:3Op.m
ISF GSSFt ou"u' NJ. BURKE, Sup't.
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-19

MANS WAY.-The front steps of citi-
zen of High street have needed repairs for
many months past, and almost every day
since last October he has promised to send
carpenter around to fix them. lie came
home the other day to find that his wife
had been tripped up again by the steps,
and this time she had received broken
limb. She felt just as any woman would,
and as he came into the house she stop
ped grooming long enough to say:
1.-THE doctor says Pm laid up for three
or four months, and guess you'll fix those
steps now y
"They ought to have been fixed long
ago." he slowly replied, "but if you are
going to be laid up all Summer l won't
bother with 'em-I'll come and 60 by the
side door !"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-19

LITTLE THINGs.-Little villages are
nearer to being atoms of shattered paradise
than anything we know of; and little for
tunes bring the most content, and little
hopes the least disappointment.
Little words are the sweetest to hear ;
little charities fly furthest, and stay long
est on the wing; little lakes the stillest,
little hearts the fullest, and little farms
the best titled.
Little books are the most read, and lit
tie songs the most loved. And when ma
turc would make anything especially rare
and beautiful, she makes it little; little
pearls, little diamonds, little dews.
Everybody" (says writer0 "calls that
little that they love best on earth. We
once heard good sort of a man speak of
his little wife, and we fancied that she
must be perfect little biiou of wife,
We saw her, and she weighed two hun
bred and ten pounds; we were surprised.
But then it was no joke; the man
meant it. He could put his wife in his
heart"
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VERY IMPORTANT.

Mr. Editor Of The AEgis d. Intelligencer!
As there is q great deal of rivalry everywhere,
in the political field. in the social circle, and
even in the church, therefore you might expect
1t In the business profession. This rivalry In
business has reached the climax in the stove
trade.
Ever since the TIMES COOK took the Gold
Medal for quick baking it has been attacked by
Jealous rivals, but since it has taken the lead
of oil first.cass Cook Stoves In Baltimore and
bids fair to finally supercede them. 1t has in
Cured the spite and envy of those who could
not secure the sale Oft, so much so that they
crew them and show buyers one.half and say
he TIMES COOK has very light castings. They
also say 1t will not bake well, draw well, is not
No. iron, &C., &c.
So the only security for buyers is TO come d
rect to No. 80 ". Gay Street, near Front Street,
and see for themselves if the TIMES COOK
isn't the largest, heaviest, most economical, and
best BAKING STOVE ever made. Every one
of the TIMES COOK is guaranteed to bake per.
fectly.
The reason / can sell them so cheap is that
am connected with the "Quakertown Stove
Works." and we make them ourselves, so you
buy from first hands. No two profits at young
Glnck's.
We do say 1t is the heaviest, largest and the
best working stove ever offered for sale.
Nearly eight thousand sold.
Call and examine for yourself.
w. j. II. GLUCK,
90 N. GAY STREET,
(bet. the Bridge and Front ST.
Baltimore, Md.
sE-Ask your neighbor about 1t. au21-1y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-19

THE OLD RED CENT.-As the old fred
cent" has now passed out of use, and, ex-
cept rarely, out of sight, like "the old
oaken bucket" its history is a matter OF
sufficient interest for preservation. The
cent was first proposed by Robert Morris,
the great financier of the Revolution, and
was named by Jefferson two years after.
1t began to make its appearance from the
mint in 1899. 1t bore the head of Wash
ington on one side and links on the other
The French Revolution soon created rage
for French ideas in America, which put on
the cent, instead OF the head of Washing
ton, the head of the Goddess of Liberty, a
French Liberty, with neck thrust forward
and flowing locks The chain on the re-
verse side was displaced by the olive
wreath of peace; but the French Liberty
was short lived, and so was her portrait on
our cent. The next head or figure that
succeeded this-the staid, classic dame
with fillet around her hair-came into
fashion about thirty or forty years ago, and
her finely chiselled Grccian features have
been but slightly altered by the lapse of
time.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-05-19
VARIETIES.
Truth is an object of philosophy.
Half of fact is whole falsehood.


Half of a fact is whole falsehood.
"A Chicago lady, whose lord and mas
ter INDUCES rather freely in the convivial
glass, says he is kind but indulgent hus-
band.
AFTER all," says an old doctor, "there
are only two kinds of disease-the one of
which you die, and the other of which
you don't
Lace is what rufles the men now-a-
days.-H. You are wrong. Lace ruflles
the women as usual. 1t is the paying for
it that ruffles the men.
"A frontier Texan who was asked if lie
was going to the Centennial Exhibition,
guilelessly replied, nd like to, but I'll
have to put it off till next year."
-"Vill you dake sumding 2" said Ger
near tavern. II don't care if do" was
the reply. "Vell, den, let us talk IL walk"
--"Suc, you is an ongrateful niggcr.---
Look at you now and the day got YOU
Wlfen married you you hadn't Il rug to
your back" EYES," retorted Sue, "and
now Use all rags"
"A little neglect may breed great
mischief; for want of nail the shoe was
lost; for want OF shoe the horse was
lost and for want Of horse the rider was
lost, being overtaken and slain by the en-
envy; all for want of little care about
horseshoe nail.
The rapid and emphatic recital of the
following is said to be an infallible cure
for lisping: Hobbs meets Snobbs and
hobbs; Hobbs hobs to Snobbs and Nobbs;
Hobbs nobs with Snobbs and robs Nobbs's
fobs. "This is" says hobbs, "the worse
for Hobbs's jobs" and Snobbs sobs.
"A gentleman having an appointment
with another who was habitually unpunc-
tual, to his great surprise found him wait
ing. He thus addressed him: "Why,
see you are here first at last. You were
always behind before; but am glad to
see you have become early of late"
"A lady once applied TO Mr.. Reynolds
in behalf of an orphan. After lie had Civ
en- literally, she said:
"When he is old enough l will teach
him to name and thank his benefactor."
"Stop," said the good man; "you mis-
take-we do not thank the clouds for the
rain. Teach him to look higher, and
thank Him who gives theg clouds and
rain"
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came, too, and they lowered me from the
platform when the speed slackened so that
l could run in here and tell you all was
safe p
While we spoke my wife's fingers had
first united the handkerchief around my
neck, and then, in the dark, found some of
the knots of the cord binding me. But
was still tied fast and strong, when there
was rush of many feet upon the staircase
and in another moment light and joyful
voices.
"We've captured the whole nine !" was
the good news. "Three, including John
Martin, are desperately wounded, but the
surprise was perfect! Now old fellow for
your
A dozen clasp knives at once severed
my bonds, and dozen hands were extend
ed in greeting.
AS for the praise showered on my plucky
little wife, it would require a volume to
tell half of it.
The would-be assassins and robbers
were sent for trial and sentenced to penal
servitude.
Alice and left for more civilized COM
munity the following year. But before
we went, there was an invitation sent to
us to meet committee from the railroad
company at Postville. We accepted; had
a dinner; were toasted and complimented,
and then Alice was presented with sill
yer tea service, as testimonial, from the
passengers upon the threatened up train,
the company and railroad directors, in
token of their gratitude for the lives and
property saved by my heroine.
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Pc O tic al.
Poor Little Joe.

Prop your eyes wide open, Joey,
Fur I've brought you sumpin great,
Apples? No; darn sight better!
Don't you take no int'rest? Wait
Flowers, Joel knowed you'd like 'em-
Amt them scrumptious? Amt them high
Tears, my boy? Volts them fur, Joey?
There-poor little Joe don't cry.
was skippin' past winder,
Where a bang-up lady sot
All amongst lot of bushes
Each one climbin' from pot;
Every bush had flowers on it
Pretty? Mebbe not! oh, no!
Wish you could q seen 'em CROWN
1t was SIGH stunnin' show.
Well, thought of you, poor Teller,
Lynn here so sick and weak,
Never KNOWN of any comfort
And puts on lots O. cheek.
"Missus," says l, eff you please, mum,
Could AK you for rose?
For my little brother, missus-
Never seed one, suppose"
Then l told her all about YOU
How bringed you up-poor Joe
(Lackin' women folks to do it,)
Such imp, you was you know
Till yer got that awful tumble,
Jist as l had broke yer in,
lizard work, too,) to earn yer livin'
Blackin' boots for honest tin.
How that tumble crippled of you,
Sos you couldn't hyper much
How it hurried when 1 seen you
Fur the first time with your crutch
"But," says, "he's laid up now, mum,
Pears to weaken every day."
Joe, she up and went to cuttin'-
That's the how of this bokay.
Say! 1t seems to me, ole Teller,
You is quite yourself tonight;
Kind o. chirk-it's been fortnit
Since your eyes has been so bright.
Better; well, Pm glad to hear it
Yes; they're mighty pretty, Joe,
Smelin' of 'em made you happy?
Well, thought it would, you know.
Never see the country, did you?
Flowers CROWN everywhere!
Sometime when you're better, joey,
Mebbe kin take yon there.
Flowers in heaven? M s'posc so;
Dunno much about 1t, though;
Amt rs fly rs wot might be
On them topics, little Joe.
But I've heard 1t limited somewhere
That in heavens golden gates
Things is overlastn' cheerful
B'leve that's wot the Bible states.
Likewise, there folks don't get hungry;
SO good people, when they dies,
Finds themselves well fixed forever
Joe, my boy, wot ails yer eyes?
Thought they looked little singular
Oh, no! Don't you have no fear;
Heaven was made for such as you is
Joe, wot makes you look so queer?
Here-wake up! Oh, don't look that way!
Joe! My boy! Hold up yer head!
Here's yer fowers-you dropped 'em, joey,
Oh, my God can Joe be dead?
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Two sparks from Tendon once came
upon decent looking shepherd in Argyle
shire, and accosted him with:
"You have very fine view here; you
can see great way
"Yu aye, yu aye ferry great way"
"Ah you can see America here, sup
poseS
"Farrer than that"
slow is that"
"Yu jist wait tule the mists gang AVA,
and you'll see the mune."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-27

Olive Logan writes from Washington
q racy pen.picture OF the spouse of the
Japanese Minister. This diminutive
lady, who is spoken Of as Mrs. Yoshida,
though that Is but one OF her many
names, is really a little beauty, though OF
q sort which is somewhat odd to the eyes
of western civilization. Her complex
ion it would be difficult TO describe. 1t
is no more like ours than a pure white
diamond is like diamond considerably
off color; yet it would be false to say
this lady's skin in any way suggests that
Of persons who have iu their veins even
the faintest tinge Of negro blood. Her
eyes are black and soft and luminous,
and there is in them a strange, uneasy
shrinking from observations sort Of
fear-which perhaps this lady herself
never knew, for she is yolng, and has
lived in an age Of progress; but this eye
expression is an index of the sbject
modesty OF women in the East, the moral
and physical abssement of the sex, which
has lasted through years of forgotten
time. In another generation or two, the
women of Japan will probably be as
quick of eye, as saucy Of speech, as
some Washington bellies, but Mrs. Yo-
shids, though an advanced Japanese, is
certainly type of womsnly gentleness,
modesty and sweetness Her English
vocabulary consists of about six words,
and it is strange study to see her at
the opera, her whole attention fixed
almost to a strain upon the doings Of
the mimic scene, the action Of the
players, more especially their songs
while atevery moment she turns to her
husband and talks to him in choicest and
most fragrant Japanese. Mrs. Yoshida
has only lately donned the frills and fur.
bellows of our fashions, having hereto
fore preferred the loose soft garments
OF her countrywomen, but how she is
more Parisian than Paris, and her new
trousseau must have cost elough to buy
a farm in Japan. But then she didn't
want the farm, and the clothes, in Wash.
ington diplomatic society are indispens-
able
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MEMPHIS, TENN MONDAY EVENING, MARCH a. 1876

vegetables in a villa like a gaudy fly
thrown over a sluggish salmon in
a pool. The salmon cannot resist
it, neither can Briton. Sensible
people in America must read with
amusement, not unmixed with
something like contempt, discus
sions in Parliament, like that of
last Thursday, on the propriety Of
the queen calling herself by this
title or by that. The whole pro-
ceeding must have an air of un-
reality, almost of seryility, about
it in the eyes Of your hardheaded,
practical people. When the para
graph in the queens speech upon
the subject was read in solemn
silence at one of the official dinners
the night before Parliament opened,
whether at the duke Of Richmond's
or Lord Granville's do not know,
a young peer was overheard to say
in a loud whisper, "queen of Eng
land and begun of India" among
the inextinguishable laughter Of
the assembled magnates. That
light-hearted sally represents, not
unfairly, the feelings of the major
ity of sensible people whom you
meet. Mr., Disraeli, they say, hav-
ing created three dukes, which is
one more than any other prime
minister ever managed, is insatia-
BILE. He now wishes to create an
empress before he dies, and accord
ingly has taken the opportunity of
making royalty ridiculous. The
matter was unconsciously brought
to its proper proportions in the dis
cussion when Sir George Campbell
suggested that the queen should be
regarded as the great mogpl and
the Indian princes as the great
maccullum.
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A ParinIan Landmnrk Gone.

A house of sinister historical in
terest is about to be demolished to
make way for the Boulevard st.
German-that in which Marat was
assassinated by Charlotte Corday.
The room where this event took
place now forms a part of an apart
ment occupied by DR.. Gaultier, and
it appears that the preceding tenant
several times received a call from
Mile Albertine Marat, who used to
visit the spot where her brother
was stabbed; she died in 1842 in
extreme poverty. Another person
used to visit the house, NJ. Pillet,
who died quite recently, and who
was the last person who spoke to
Marat before Charlotte Corday was
admitted. He brought Marat a bill,
and the terrible member of the
convention, who was in his bath,
asked him to open a bit of the win
dow, AS Pillet was leaving the
house he met Charlotte Corday, who
was trying to persuade, and who
finished by persuading, Simonne
Evard to allow her to see Marat. So
writes a chronicler in the Gaulois.
According to Lamartine, who calls
Charlotte Oorday the Joan of Arc
of liberty, her name was not Char
lotte but Marie, and Catherine
Eyard was Marat's servant, who as
sumed the name Of Albertine Ma
rat.
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AMystery OF Perfume.

No one has yet been, able to
annalyze or demonstrate the essen
tial action of perfume. Gas can be
weighed, but not scents. The
smallest known-the very monads
Of life--can be caught by a micro
scope lens and made to deliver up
the secrets of their organizations,
but what is it that emsnates from
the pouch of the musk deer that
fills the whole space for years and
years with its penetrating odor-an
odor that an illimitable number of
extraneous substances can carry on
without diminishing its size and
weight--and what is it that the
warm summer air brings to us
from the flowers, no man has yet
been able to determine. So fine, so
subtle, SO impondersble, il has
eluded both our most delicate
weights and measures and our
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AUCTION.

No. 9S6--0.R.D. BarEilla Raney ct ais VS..
La Grange and Memphis r. r. Co., ct ais.
DURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF SALE IN
il the above cause from the Chancery Court,
will sell, to the highest bidder, the following
property, to-wit: Situated in Fort Pickering,
and known on the Plan Of Subdivision as
Block /, Lots II II ~ p 26 q 80 50 "a AZ.
Block 2, lots 10 lS Is l6 20 q % 27 %. Block g.
lots 1857 Is Is II IS q % 26 2S 80. Block 4,
lots 7 Is 20 q 2S 28. Block 5, lots q 2S %.
Block 6, lots 6 Z II II 1908, Block I, lots
1914 is 16 II IS 10 q %. Block 8, lots 4
% :, RlSok Is % 3 b lSt' Ct q q z g 81
Block TO- lets y ls Il IS q % % 81 50 50 50 ~ 49,
Block II, lots 10 II Il IS Is IS SO SO. Block l2,
lots 10 Is II IL 10 20 q % q % ~.
Block Il, lots 5 6 2S % 80 "a. Block
Is, lots 26 TSe 10 4 Is ls II @26TSS4O.
Is 81 S2S7 38 80 40. Block II. lots 12 lS "a IS.
Block 10, lots 67s9 10. Block 2l. lots Is 81
89l0l1 IA. Block u, lots II, 26, "a. Block
%, lots 345. Block "a, lots 6 5 9 10 II - Is n
1919 20 2l q %. Block 25 lots 7 5 9 10 II IL l3
Sost o BlCck o., e. lot, ot.ll Il i y ls y
lots IL Is Ii is 16 IL Is i99O2l %. Block so,
lots 10 II - "a. Block ~, lots 267. Block
80, lots 459, Block "a, lot Z. Block SO. lots
2345e, Block 10. lots2 -Four acres. de-
kcrlDeQ hh UepOL drOunuh on the plan OF
Fort Pickering, bounded on the north BY
blocks IS and 10. on the east by Fifth street,
on the south by blocks 20 and q, and on the
west by Fourth street.
Seven acres situated south OF the old track
Of naGrange and Memphis railroad. porth Of
soloman Rozelps hc.t I.I Noles wide and 156
poles and 20 links in length, the same con-
veyed by A. b. Carr to LaGrange and Mem
phis Railroad Company by deed, recorded in
Book M, 2iS.
Also lot No, s. in block A, laid down on the
original map Of Fort Pickering as Rosser
street. but now fronting so feet on Pamela
street, and running back $50 feet-bounded on
the north BY lot No. in block A.
Also lot No, ., in block A, set apart origin
ally as Pamela street, now fronting so feet on
Broadway, and running hack 800 feet; bound
cd on the east BY lot s, on the west by lots 8,
and In block A.
Terms: Notes at Z, u and IS months, with
approved security. and lien retained. EQUITY
OF redemption barred.
JOHN P. IRRELEVANT. Auctionoer.
gEo. W. WfNoHEsrKR, Special Com missioner
1k5
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mo. 2226.l
NOn-Resident Notice.

In the Chancery Court Of Shelby county, Ten
nessee-John Spellman, guardian, etc., VS..
J. A. Anderson etAl.
1T APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause that the defendant. Louisa M /.
Anderson, is a nonresident of the State Of
Tennessee, and a resident Of the State Of
Mississippi; II is therefore ordered that she
make her. appearance herein, at the Court
house in the city Of Memphis, Tenn. on or be-
answer or demur to complainants bill, or the
same VIII be taken for confessed as 70 her
and set for hearing OK parte; and that copy
OF this order be published once a week for
four successive weeks in the Public Ledger,
This 10th day Of March. 1876.
A copy-Attest:
EDMUNDA. COLE, G. and NJ.
By &. B. MCHEERY, d. O. aud NJ.
CAN'T. PATTERSON d LOVE-. Solicitors for
Complainant ak OIL "a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-27
Saturday, April Is, 1879,

within legal hours. the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tonnes
see, tO-wit: Part Of original country lot No.
800, beginning on the south side Of Washing
ton street at the northwest corner Of a lot
heretofore conveyed to Mrs. Catherine ii
Conn: thence westward with the south line OF
Washington street 30 feet; thence southwark
parallel with said Conn's west line 100 feet.
mere or less, to point midway between the
south line Of Washington street and the north
line OF Adams street; thence eastward and
parallel with Washington street 80 feet 10
Conn''s west line; thence northward along
Conn's west line 100 feet, more or less, to the
beginning.
Terms Of Sale-0ne. third cash; balance in
six and twelve months; purchaser to execute
netes with approved security. Lein retained
to further secure same, etc.
This March "a, 1876.
EDMUND A. COLE, q. and NJ.
By r. ]. BLACK, d. @. and NJ.
i. B. MCFARLAND. Attorney. 2l.40