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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-13
EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS
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M
GMtHnGlS Underwear and Furnishing Goods
NOTE QUE PRICES /!

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Gentemen's red flannel U~ndershns, Low
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A superior quality of white al-wool Shaker flannel Shirts and Drawers
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Great bargains in finished and unfinished
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-13

OR RENT-HOUSEs NOS, 1898 AND 200
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-13
LADIES AND
GENTS

Fresh Oysters and Celery
received daily by express at v.
ID. Fuclls', Al Jefferson NJ. ST
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
pretty mad. can tell Won.

pretty mad, can tell you.
Mr.. 0rmsby had good sermon that day,
but could hardly hear a word, my mind
was so full of the biscuits.
Miss 0rmsby warn't there, and as soon as
the last HYMN was sung, he got up and said
that he had had call from a church in the
far West, and that he had made up his mind
that it was his duty to accept it He went
on to say that he would like to go that
same week, and then, without so much as
tellin' us that he was sorry to leave US, OF
offerin' TO wait until we could get some
one else, he gave the benediction and dis
missed US.
can tell you there was talk enough
when we got out that mornin', and some
of the folks thought we ought to pint a
committee to ask Miss 0rlnsby about it.
but brother Ralph said, No; if they was
goin, let EN- go peaceable; so they all
agreed to say nothin' at all.
We heard afterwards from little Johnny
Hall, who was Playing near the parsonage
late on Saturday afternoon, that Mr.. 0rms-
by lie brought the biscuits out in big has
ket, and then Mrs. Ormsby she helped him
to stick them on the pickets, and she laugh
ed all the time as if it were good joke.
don't want to judge anybody, but I
never did think that woman was fit to be a
minister's wife, and l don't think so now
Well, they moved off, bag and baggage.
on Wednesday of that week, and we've new
er heard from Mr. 0rmsby since, and l do
not know as we want to, seein' he hurt our
feelin's so, though we've never found as
good preacher as he was, and never will. "
And this was Miss Melissa's story.
Harper'S Magazine.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03

Just as he has made up his mind that the
turkey has joints in its wings the host asks
him if he thinks the Indians can really be
civilized. The girl next to him laughs,
and he says he will explain his views upon
the subject after dinner. Then he sops
his brow with his handkerchief and presses
the turkey so hard with the fork that it
slides off the dish and upsets a goblet Of
water on the girl next to him. Nearly
frantic he gouges away again at the wings
and gets them off in a mutilated condition
then digs into the breast. Before he can
cut any off the host asks him why he don't
serve out the turkey. Bewildered, he puts
both legs on a plate and hands them to
the maiden lady, and then helps the
young girl TO a plateful of stuffing, and
while taking her plate in return knocks
over the gravy dish. Then he sits down
with the calmneSs of despair and fans him
self with napkin, while the servant clears
up and takes the turkey to the other end of
the table. He doesn't stay to discuss the
Indian question that day. He goes right
home after dinner and spends the night in
trying to decide whether to commit suicide
or take lessons in carving.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
The Color Of RInemen,s Eyes.

There has not been a better opportunity
to observe the peculiaritieS OF markSmen,
for there have not been five such teams to-
gether before. A marked peculiarity is the
eve. It has been said that the best shots
are blue-eyed Observations at Creedmore
show that this is true in great measure,
and show that this may be put down as an
axiom that the best shots have light eyes.
The Irishmen have two men, Ward and
Dyas, whose eyes are rather dark; but
Wards are hazel, good color among ri
femen; and Dyas has dark gray. The rest
Of the team have blue or gray eyes. Lieu
tenant Fenton, who recently made total
of 2l1 out of 225, has ewes Of ''lriSh blue,
that can see wonderfully we'll There is
not dark eyed man in the Scotch team, il
BOYD be exeepted-and his are dark gray.
DR.. Mitchell, of the team gives it as his ex-
perience, that the best shots have light ha-
eel eyes. They are as good as telescope,
said one of the rifiemen. Fulton's eyes are
as blue ss the sky, and Farwell's 5 are little
lighter. Dakin has blue eyes, and Bodine
splendid gray eyes Allen, who shoots re
markably well, has blue eyes. Rathbones
are gray, as are Weber'S. The Australians
all have light eyes-blue, gray ana hgnt
hazel The Canadians are dark-eyed, as
team. but there are no black eyes there.
The .'far away, steady look Of the best
marksmen is noticeable. When they look
at an object, they "look at it, not glance
at it. They are all quiet, reserved, self
contained gentlemen. Rife-shooting seems
to be one of the gentle arts, Judging
from the quiet gentlemen who excel in it.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
A fearful Beast.

My camel, writes Carlo correspondent,
was tied down in the sand patiently await
ing his burden. You tie a camel to him
self-that is, when he has shut his legs up
under him like knife blades, you Slip a
leathern bracelet over his knee and there
you have him, for it is impossible for him
to open his leg so long as this bracelet is
around it, binding the leg above the knee
and the shin bone together like a pair of
tongs. OF course it is not easy to find any
thing in the desert to which you may tie
your camel with security; a benefcient
providence has therefore made every camel
his own hitching post, likewise his own els
tern and vegetable market and step-ladder
in fact, the camel is the most complete
machine on four legs that we have knOwl-
edge of. HIS machinery is clumsy and
needs oiling. His great joints show
through his sides, and his tail is the barest
apology ana unworthy of notice. You
would think your camel went on stills, if
you were to start off suddenly, sitting in a
nest of luggage on that high back of his.
You would think he had his feet in poul-
tices, if you were to look at the soft spongy
things as they fall noiselessly on the earth
and spread under his tottering weight.
And that fearful face of his, with its
liquid and pathetic eyes, and those deep
cavities above them, deep enough to hold a
hens egg; his aquiline nose, with its long,
slanting nostrils, that Lshut tight against
the sand storms and the whitening kamSin,
and give very sorrowful expression to the
face; the whole face looks as if it was just
going to cry. The absurd under lip is
puekering and pouting to the most charm
ing extent, and you are not at all surprised
when the beast finally bursts into tears
and cries long and loud, like great over
grown baby. This is the pudding-fOOted
pride of the desert, whose silken hair is
mans raiment, and whose milk is meat and
drink. While my camel was still kneeling
with his strap over his leg, stepped into
the curve Of his neck and went up the
front stairs to the top of his hump. The
saddle was tree of wood with thick rugs
lashed over it. It was little like swing
ing in sawbuck, riding that camel to
Sakkarah. He edged forward over the
desert, putting the two legs on one side of
him forward at the same time, and then
kneeling over and pushing the other side
ahead. 1 was continually rocked back
and forth until my head swung loose on
my shoulders, my sides ached and all my
spine was sore. Many people are seasick
when they mount camel for the first time.
The motion is not unlike that OF small
boat in a chop sea. There is certainly no
pleasure and very little elegance in your
rest as you toss to and fro on the summit of
that animated mountain Of india rubber.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
Row a Nevada Justice Tied the Knot.

Judge Knox, of Virginia, was awakened
from sound sleep about one o'clock this
morning by furious ringing at his door
bell. His Honor, in no very good humor,
thrust his head out of the window. Stand
ing on the sidewalk were three men and a
young woman.
"What dye want?:, asked the Judge
'Want to get married, answered trem-
ulous male voice.
''Well, if this amt pretty time of night
to roust man out of bed for a job of that
kind"
Something dropped on the sidewalk and
His Honor cried out, whats that?"
''Ten dollars" answered one of the men.
"Here's the wust OF being a public
man" sighed the Judge. 81 s'pose you'll
have to come right up, whether or no. The
door amt locked. Slide up. First door to
the right"
The party went up. His Honor was sit
ting up in bed, and said he Hoped the lady
would excuse his costume, and the lady
said, "Cer'nly."
"AIl right, then. You two fellers that
amt going to be slaughtered stand back,
and you two come forud. Yes, license all
correct. Lady twenty-five; name Spiklng-
ton. Gentleman twenty-ene, and named
Mufflv, do you to take this woman to be
your welded wife?
''Oh yes, sir, gasped the young man,
his face crimson, AID his knees trembling.
The two friends behind exchanged grins.
"Well, that's right. Belinda Spikington,
do you take this man to be your welded
husband?'
"Cer'nly," answered the lady.
''Well, that's all right, but before go
any furder, I'd be obliged to you, Mr. Muf-
fly, for chaw of tobacco"
Mr.. Muff1y not being addicted to the fl
thy habit, one of his friends supplied Ills
Honor with mouthful of the weed.
Eureka amt my brand, the Judge re-
marked quite affably, as he fixed the pill
low more comfortably behind his back and
began working his jaws. ''Solace is much
better. However, Mr.. Muffiy and Miss Spi-
kington, do me the favor to jine your
hands. So. Now declare you man and
wife by virtue of the authority vested in
me by the laws of the State of Nevada. The
jobs DONE"
"What's the feeY asked one of the
friends, a tall man with grave face, step
plug forward.
THAT, remarked His Honor, with be-
coming humility, sis usually left to the
generosity of the groom"
"How's that for styleY inquired the tall
man, handing the Judge three trade dol
lars.
"Thankee," said the Judge. "Good
night, gents; long life and a happy one
to you, madam. hope you fellers will find
that ten when you go down stairs again.
think it would break your hearts to lose it. E"
Yir0inin CifV NelCs
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
One way of Carving n turkey.

There is nothing young, unmarried
man likes better than to go to a dinner at
the house Of friend and to be asked to
carve the turkey. He has never carved
a turkey in his life, and with an
old maid on one side, watching him close
ly, and on the other fair girl for whom
he has tenderness, he feels embarrassed
whenhe begins. First he pushes the knife
down towards one of the thigh joints. He
can't find the joint, and he plunges the
knife around in search Of it until he makes
mince-meat out of the whole quarter of the
fowl. Then he sharpens the knife and
tackles it again. At last, while making a
terrific dig, he hits the joint suddenly, and
the leg flies into the maiden's lap, while her
dress front is covered with a shower OF
stufing. Then he goes for the other leg,
and when the young lady tells him he looks
warm, the weather seems to him to sud
denly become 400o warmer. This
leg he finally pulls loose with his fingers.
He lays it on the edge of the platter, and
while he is hacking at the wing he gradu-
ally pushes the leg off on the clean table
cloth, and when he picks it up it slips from
his hand into the gravy dish and splashes
the gravy around for six square yards.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
TO FINE POINT.
Love and Luere weighed In the Hal
Rnce.


A young man of buslness-like habits and
calculating turn of mind, worthy descend
ant OF father of similar character, recent
ly received visit from the author of his
Delng. While they were sitting together
In the evening the old man said:
IheophIlus, my son, lemme see, you're
getting well stricken in years-getting on
to twenty-seyen next grass; time YOU were
thinking OF marrying and settling down"
well, father, replied the Young man.
81 have given the subject considerable
thought, and after mature driberation
have concluded to allow my heart to beat
alone for one or J,rO eStimable Young fe-
males of my acquaintance.
And who be they?" asked the old gen.
tleman.
"One is the daughter of an ex-revenue
official. She is not a girl of inexperience,
bat woman of solid sense and matured
taste and judgment. l should say she. was
between 3S and 40 summers, and wears
wOrsted stockings and glasses. She is not
beautiful in the cant Of the poets, but her
eye-she has only one-beams with the in
tellec,ual beauty of her soul, and on her
sloping brow is stamped"
Il know, l know" said the old man,
impatiently; ''but has she the stampsg'
The author of her being" replied his
son, ''was indicted for aiding to defraud
the government of 375. goo gallons"
''Then" cried the father, ''she's the girl
for you to lie to. You har met"
.''But, continued the son, ''there is an
other, trembling fawn of II, beautiful as
the aurora and fair as the magnolia bios
som of her native South, her limpid eyes"
''ShOOt her impid eyesI' said the old
man, chow is she fxed?''
''der paternal estate, " said the son, ''was
small, and was completely DESTROYED in
1853 by the Union soldiery."
''Then you have no business with her"
said the practical old man.
Pardon me, sir, said the son, respect
fully. ''The soldiers stole her only moth
er's only hen, took all the fence rails for
fuel, carried away a mule, and inflicted
other outrages too numerous to mention
upon her fathers property. In fact, he
lost everything"
well, that's only proving my case,
''Nay, sir, stay one moment. Suppose
Tilden and Hendricks should be elected,
then she could come on the country with
her claim"
But she would not get much for a hen
and rail fence"
''Ah!" said the young man, but l have
gone into the calculation. Suppose that
hen had laid thirty eggs, as at least, she
would and Matched ten chickens, half Of
which would have been roOsters, the case
stands for 1858: 1 hen, still in stock; 8
spring chickens sold; pullets kept and 20
eggs sold, Look beg of you, at this ia
bic that have prepared:
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
nix ON Tnden.

Governor Dix, in speaking of Gov. Tilden
at the Cooper Institute, on Tuesday eve
ming, Oct. Bird, said:
s'Fellow-citizens, it would be an unhap-
DIV day for him, as well as for the country,
If he were elevated to the Presidency; for
we're he disposed to do right, he has none
OF the Qualities which fit man in great
emergencies to meet them with promptness
and deliberation. You are,
no doubt, aware that he is at this moment
prosecuted by two railroad corporations for
moneys which they accuse him Of fraudu-
lently withholding from them-one suit for
S240, 900, and the other for $50, 900. These
suits were brought long before he was NOM
mated for the Presidency, with no sinister
object, but with confident belief on the
part of the directors of those corporations
that he had fraudulently appropriated to
his own use enormous sums to which he has
no title. 1t is the first time in our history
that the integrity of a candidate for the
Presidency has been thus impugned, and
l trust that the result of the election will
be so decisive that it will be the last.
There is another accusation of a graver
character, which an abortive attempt has
been made to explain-that of defrauding
the Government by false return of his
income. wish, for the honor of the coun-
try, that he could have shown it to be un-
founded To his numberless disqualified
tions for the high Office to which he has
been nominated, it is deeply to be depIlored
that we could not have been spared the
modification, as American citizens. of see
ing superadded this last act OF dishonesty
with which he is charged. Intense preju-
dice may blind political partisans, but |
cannot conceive how any disinterested man
can give him vote.
Caleb Cushing recently remarked to a
New York Tribune reporter that he did
not feel that he ought to comment very
freely on current politics after an absence
of three years from the country. He
thought the aspect of the campaign would
probably change before election day. He
had been a Republican and saw no reason
for changing his political faith or Joining
Tilden's followers. He had never been
personally acquainted with Governor Hayes
but was very complimentary in expressing
the estimate he had formed of his personal
integrity and political sagacity. Cushing
said this country's affairs with Spain are
now OF a satisfactory character.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTH.
.N E1RN n. r.



Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo at
1850 a. m, Erie $50 q. M, Ashtabula 4:59
gainesville $40 and arrives at Cleveland at
6:S5 a. m.
Canneaut Accommodation leaves Conneaut
at 6Oo a. m., AmbOy GIL, KinGBville 6:2l, Ash
tabula 6:33 Sag brook 6:4S, Geneva 6:5S, Paines-
vile 7:aS, and arrives at Cleveland 6s45 a. m.
Toledo Express leaves Buffalo at 6:55 a. m
Erie lois, COnneaut ll:l7, Amboy ll:23, Kings
vile ll:S2, Ashtabula lls45, Saybrook li:55, Ge-
nevai il2;A p. M Painesville 12sS9, and arrives
at Cleveland at l;5g p. m. --e
tHecinc Express leaves Buffalo 1890 D. m,
Erie $50, Ashtabula 5:l5, Painesyille 6:t6 and
arrives at Cleveland at 7:l0 p. m.
Erie Accommodation leaves Buffalo sos
P. m, Erie 100 p. m, Conneaut 5:l4, AShtabula
$50, SaybrOOk 6:02, Geneva 6:l3, Painesville
7:0e, and ARRIVES ct Cleveland at $40 p. m.
Fast Mail arrives at AEhtabula at toe D. m.
GOING EAST.
Fast Mail arrives at Ashtabula at $50 n m.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland T.30 a. m.
Painesville 8.20, Ashtabula 905, COnneaut 9:2S
Erie l0.2e and arrives at Buffalo at Los o, M
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves
Cleveland at II; Is a. m, Painesville I2sH, Ge-
neva l:07 p. m, Saybrook lis Ashtabula l:3O
kinssytlle LA, Amboy lisa. COnneaut &O2
EriesslO, Buffalo 200 p. m.
Chicago and st. Louis Express leaves Cleve-
land st 3:l0 p. m, Painesvifle 1850, Ashtabula
4:4a Erie 6:OO, and arrives at Buffalo at g.Od
P. m. 2i r-.t
COnneaut Accommodation leaves Cleveland
at $50 p. m, PainesviIle 6s0O Geneva 6.38 say
brook &4S, Ashtabula 100 KingsVilie 7:l3, Am
boy 7:sS, and arrives at Conneaut at 7:3O D. m.
Special New York Express leaves Cleveland
at lO:s0 p. m, Painesville Ills Ashtabula I2sO3
q m, Erie l:20 a. m, and arrives at Buffalo at
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03
From the Detroit Free
In the Police Court.


Pilford Christopher Jones came to the
skirmish-line in good order. He was a
finely-modeled man Of forty, having Just
enough nose, Just the right sort of chin,
and mouth none too large to take in two
harvest apples side by side. He entered a
drug store, lurching from side to side, and
inquired of the proprietor:
'Guz any boot-jazzes hereY
''No, sir; we don't keep bOot-jacks here.
''Guz any wagon-hubses?'
''NO, sir.
"Guz any ealico?"
''No, sir"
Then Pilford Christopher Jones threaten
ed to tear a showcase down, and raised
such a row that he was carried out and
dropped into a gutter, from which seclud
ed position a policeman rescued him.
mice way that was, wasn't it p remark
ed the Court as he bent over the desk.
''How did l know what sort of store it
wasp replied the prisoner. ''lf he had
kindly told me that he didn't keep a hard
ware store l should have gone out But he
got mad and called me fool and a mullet-
head, and then / got mad. I'm dreadful
good, Judge, when folks don't cal me
Names"
Cant you tell drug store from hard
ware stOreY asked the Court.
''How can l, or how can you, judge!
Both of them are fixed up with gold leaf
on the doors-both have a gorgeous clerk
to bow and scrape and smle-both sell for
cash down and keep asking you if there
isn't something else you want. If want
camphor I'm apt to go into a hardware
store. II want scythe Pm apt to 60 in
TO drug store.
''We want to enjoy ourselves in Detroit
this winter said His Honor, making three
long marks on the blotting-pad. ''You'd
only keep us in stew by your mistakes,
and think it better to send you up. You
might walk into barber-shop and ask for
sole-leather, into a hotel and inquire the
price Of pig-iron, or into an undertaker's
and want some coal sent up. Do you think
you will know the House of Correction
when you seeit"
''No, sir, don't. I'd be Just as apt to
fetch up in a barn or on boat"
Il don't think you will Well try it,
anyhow. The sentence is sixty days"
''Do draw any payY
''Not any to speak Of"
"Then l won't go! This is free coun-
try, and I'm going to Indiana.
Bijah tore the mans collar OIL, gave nm
a peach to call it square, and Pilford Chris
topher was the most cheerful prisoner in
the buggy.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-11-03

81 have thus shown you how valuable
such a claim would be properly carried out.
If were to work it down to March 4, 1877.
the figures would go all over the paper and,
stick out half way across the table to boot. -
''Why, my son, said the old man, ''that
claim for that hen alone would bust the
United States. There isn't money enough
in the country to pay for it.
"Then we will have to increase it so as
to make it equal to the necessities of trade
that is all, :" rejoined the yodng man imper-
turbable. "Besides, expect that legally
would be e-titled to that mule. She
would have had 1 colt in 1S63-that'S 2;
and those more in 1864-that's 4, or in
all. and these 4 would have had 4 more in
1865-that's 8, OF 10 in all, and so on like
the nails in the problem about the horses
shoe"
''But, Theophilus, said the old man,
''mare mules can't have colts, and if they
did half of 'em would be males, any how" "
''That makes no difference the son
went on.
Congress won't stop to consider that
besides there is one recorded case Of a hy-
brid breeding. So, besides as to that fence
Suppose it was yard 80 yards square,
then 50x4-20O ;call it a mile for round fig
ures, and add on the money it would have
cost to repair and whitewash it and COM
pound the Interest," tell you old man,
there's millions in it"
elbow many"
''Well" said the son, 81 may have made
mistake of few million dollars here and
there, but that don't amount to much.
should say my claim'u amount to about
$237, 396, ,844, 258, ,473, ,091, ,654, 1612. Knock
ing off the odd cents and what it'll cost to
get the claim through, shall at least be
assured of a modest competence. Even
though my winsom Evaline had nothing
but her beauty and virtue and this claim
for a dowry, l would gladly take her to
my arms
"Well, suppose, then, you have pro-
posed to herY
''No, not yet. I've got her and the ex-
revenue officials daughter on a string, and
I'll wait till after the October elections
then 1 shall be free to follow the dictates of
my affections"
"Bless you my son." said the fond pa
rent, as the happy tears bedewed his coun-
tenance and blinded his spectacles.