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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-08
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Vic woodruff searching Tor uSt1ce.
Chicago Tribune lnterView.l
"Please tell me the object Of your
visit to Chicago"
81 have come to secure the in
dictment of Stephen S. Jones, of
the Religio-P Philosophical Journal.
He has issued a million copies Of
the vilest, most filthy pamphlet
that ever came off a press. Never
was there before anything SO nasty
and obscene sent out through the
mails, and yet wherever have gone
| have found that terrible thing
staring me in the face. 1t has
broken up my engagements. |
have lost thousands of dollars
through it, and now | am here for
justice. Do you know what these
men have done for me ? | tried for
weeks to get my daughter, my only
child into a school, and could not
do it because she was Victoria
Woodhulls girl. When left her
she put her arms around my neck.
Said she: Mamma, if you can not
clear this stain from your character
telegraph me. | will kill myself,
and you see that you do the same
That from my daughter~
She was all passion then, and
the tears rained down her face,
"With what does the pamphlet
charge you?"
"I will show it to you," she said
She went to the drawer of the
dressing-case and brought it to the
reporter.
1t is unfit for reproduction.
"Now," she continued" "you
notice that this pamphlet contains
the one written by Treat. | am
going before your Grand Jury il
Chicago. Storrs is my lawyer, and
l will show you some of the eyi'
dence l have to refute the villains
slander. Look at this" And she
produced the charges which will bt
presented before the Grand Jury
next week.
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SARDANAPALUS.
George Alfred TOwnsend's Estimate
of the Last Spectacular Play.

SardanapaluS; or the Legs of
Nimrod. 1t was written by Byron
under the egohstical delusion that,
as he had made a mistress of a
washerwoman, he was as great and
wicked as the Monarch of Assyria.
The action of the piece is brief
Three acts are consumed with legs,
which the monarch Byron, dis
guised under the name of Bangs,
languidly watches from the back
ground, These three acts are called
Babylon, The remaining two acts
are required for Byron to die. He
dismisses his wife and her bully
brother, and then his female friend,
Miss Myrrha, a Greek girl, off color,
sets off the fireworks. Then we
gaze on the ruins of Babylon. How
much of life's pursuit is mere legs,
How many playsare thus antipodal,
the bralns Of the spectator rolling
on the floor.
Sardanapalus was the last heir Of
the Washington Monument, other.
wise the Tower of Babel. That
tower, if you will remember, failed
through mistake of the contrac-
tors, who putseveral thousand lrisf
hod-carriers upon it, and supposed
that all Irishmen were one and the
same race. Consequently the Don
egal men and the men from Tip
perMy were unable to communi
cate; the Fenian kicked the Mol,
Mcguire down the ladder; TIN
Orangeman was unable to light hi
pipe at the Ribbonman's fire; an,
they had several strikes becaus
there were noelections among then
to Congress. The Tower of Babe
stuck fast Out Of the ruins of th
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Tho AduIterntIon OF CIaret.

1t has been lately ascertained
that unsorupulous wine-growers in
France are using the aniline dye
fuchsine, or magenta, to restore the
color of olaret after it has been di-
luted with water. That the beyer-
age thus treated is harmful in its
character, is proved by experiments
conducted by NM. Feltz and Rit-
ter According to their testimony,
a half-grain of fuchsine in solution,
taken on an empty stomach, causes
deep redness Of the ears, intense
itching of the mouth, and slight
swelling of the gums On repeat
ing the dose every day for fort
night, diarrhea and albuminaria
were developed in addition to the
other symptoms. Fuchsine injected
into the stomach or veins OF q
dog induced the same symptoms
A large or frequently repeated dose
invariably caused the appearance o.
albumen in the urine--a result due
to a peculiar degeneration Of The
cortical substance of the kidneys.
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mOdation Tex. Sundayl-II.I5 f.z
Ticket Office 27S Main street.
W. ]. ROSS, Gen'l Sup't.
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,lar under Jne cellar anu lntO Ille
,istern, and, yanked 'em right up,
very fibre of 'em. Woman was so
leart broke when she come out and
zee the yard just as bare as the
ioor of a brickyard that they had
TO put her to bed. Bibles truth
they did ma'am, and / had to work
for that house three months for
nothin' and find any board, to pay
fur the damage done. Hope to
die ef l didn't. Jest gimme suthin'
| kin do; I'll show you what work
is, but wouldn't dare to go foolin'
around no flowers. You've got a
kind heart ma'am; gimme some
work; don't send a despairin' man
away hungry for work"
"Well," the lady said, "you can
beat my carpets for me. They have
just been taken up, and you can
beat them thoroughly, and by the
time they are done | will have
something else ready for you"
The man made a gesture of
despair, and sat down on the
ground, the picture Of abiect helr-
lessness and disappointed aspira-
tions.
"Look at me now," he exclaimed.
"What is going to become O me:
Did you ever see man so down in
luck like me? | tell you, ma'am,
you must give me somethin' | can
do. | wouldn't no more dare fol
to tech them carpets than nothin
in the world. I'd tear 'em to pieces
Pm a awful hard hitter, and the
last l beat any carpets was for 6
woman out at Creston, and | jusI
welted them carpets into string
and carpet rags. l couldn't helE
it. can't hold in my strength
Pm too glad to get to work, that's
the trouble with me, ma'am. 1T
Bible fact. I'll beat them carpet
if you say so, but won't be re
sponsible for 'em; no making m,
work for nothing for five or si1
weeks to pay for tearin' EN- int,
slits, yer know. I'll go at 'em
you'll say the word and take th,
responsibility, but the fact is, In
too hard worker to go foolir
around carpets, that's just what
am"
The lady excused the energeti
worker from going at the cal
pets, but was puzzled what to sc
him at. Finally she asked hiI
what there was he would like to d
and could do with safety.to himseI
and the work.
"Well, now" he sail, "that
conSiderit in ye. That's real cor
siderit, and I'll take a hold and d
something that'll give ye the wut
of yer money, and won't give me n
} chance to destroy nothin' by worl
in too hard at it. If yell jel
kindly fetch me out a rockin' chai
I'll set down in the shade and kee
the COWS from liftin' the front gat
and gettin' into the yard. An I
do it well, and only charge yc
reasonable for it, fur the fact is +
so dead crazy fur work that it ism
big pay | want so much as a stead
job.
and when he was rejected al
) sent forth, jobless and breakfas
less, to wander up and down Il
: cold, unfeeling world in search
work, he cast stones at the hou
and said, in detected tones:
"There, now, that's just Il
t way. They call us a bad lot, al
{ say we're lazy and thieves, al
won't work, when a feller is iu
t crazy to work and nobody woI
t give him marry job chat he kin {
Won't work! Land alive, th
Z won't give us work, and when
| want and try to, they won't let
q work. There amt a man in Anne
1 ky that 'ud work as hard and
e Stiddy as l would if they'd gimI
v a chance"
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lR-79.l
Chancery Sale of Real Estate,


Chancery Court of Shelby county Paul A.
Cicalla, executor, etc.. of the estate Of Jehn
BOgiann0, deceased, VS.. Mary Ellen Bogi-
anO ct al.
DY VIRTUE OF AN INTERL0CUT0RY
ID decree for sale. entered in the above
cause on May 81, 1872, and renewed November
IS, 1874, and June q, 1876. will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, in front of the
Clerk and Masters office, Courthouse build
ing, Main street, Memphis, Tenn. OR
Saturday, September 16, 1876,
within legal hours, the following described
property. situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
and described as follows, to-wit: Lots Nos.
A, As, 46, AZ, As and ~, on the Flippin plan Of
subdivision, and between Wheaton's aud
Vaccaros. each fronting the Horn Lake road
90 feet, and running west los feet to an alley,
except lot No. 40. which fronts 7l19 feet on
said road and back west to an alley $50 feet.
Terms of Sale-0n credit of six and twelve
(6 and l2) months. the purchasers required to
execute notes with approved sureties lien re-
tanned to further secure the same, and equity
of redemption barred.
This August %, 1876.
EDMUND A. COLE, q. and NJ.
By r. ]. BLACK, u. c. and M.
RandolIh. Hammond x Jordan, Attys.
l5l-l61-5-1-l3
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Saturday, September 16, 1876,
Sheriff IS Sale of Real Estate.

DUBLIC NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
that by virtue Of an execution to me
directed from the Honorable Chaneery Court
of Shelby county. Tennessee, in the case OF
A. y. Joiner VS., j. W. Vernon OF al,
Judgment rendered on the llth day Of July,
1876, for the sum Of fifteen hundred and
ninety FIVE dollars and seventy cents, with
interest and costs Of suit, to satisfy said
judgment, etc., will.
On Thursday, September 21, 1875,
in legal hours, in front of the Court House.
Memphis, Tennessee, proceed TO sell, to the
highest bidder. for cash, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit: Lying and being in
the county Of Shelby, State Of Tennessee, and
bounded as follows: Beginning at the north
west intersection Of Exchange ard Second
streets, in ihe city OF Memphis; running
thence north with Second street thirty-seven
feet one and one-half inches; thence west
seventy-four and One-quarter feet; thence
south thirty-seven feet one and one.half
incnes to Exchange street; thence east sew
enty.four and one-uuarter feet to the begin
Levied on as the property Of defendant,
W. l.. Joiner, to satisfy said Judgment,
interest and costs.
Memphis. 9th day Of August, 1876.
@. L, ANDERSON,
Sheriff Of Shelby County, Tenn.
BY W. W. COLEMAN, ID. 5.
j W. Vernon, Attorney for plaintiff.
ll9-l55-3
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MEMPHIS g. CHARLESTON R.R.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.

ON AND AFTER THURSDAY. AUGUST
" 81. 1876 ,...
Mail train. daily.............12.0 .0l am 90 pm
ETnresS train, daily......... 5.OOp.m II 05 am
Somerville accom- dation 90
\ (except Sundayl........... 5.20 pm o.zV am
Jackson, Tenn, accom- -
mediation lex. Sunday. 40 pm IL ID am
Mail train will not stop at nag stations De-
tween Grand Junction and Memphis. =,
Trains connect at Grand Junction for all
points, and at Decatur closely for Montgom-
ery and points South. Close connection for
Nashville by both trains. Close connections
at Chattanooga for Eastern and Southeastern
points.
No change Of cars between Memphis and
Bristol and Memphis and jackson, Tenn.
The new and magnificent sleeping car line
will have one Of their new sleepers leave
Memphis daily on Express train at ;. .ee pm.
for Lynchburg, Washington and Baltimore
without change. 0Aly one change to New
York and Philadelphia. Time ti0eRty MIN
altes faster than city time.
Ticket Office, 2TS Main street.
WI. ROSS, Sup't;
ToM B. DUrS, Ticket Ag't. 4O-t
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LEGAL
Trustees sale.
Saturday. September 8, IS76,
mo. $685.
NONRESIDENT Notice.

In the Chancery Court of Shelby county, Ten
nessee-W. B. Galbreath VS.. seth W. Bolton
ct al.
1T APPEARING FROM TIE BILL IN
4 this cause, which is sworn to, that the de-
fendant. Seth W. Bolton, is a nonresident of
the State Of Tennessee and resident Of the
State of Arkansas; that he is indebted to the
complainant in the sum Of s5OOl 25 and in
terest, due by note for that amount, and at
tachment having been issued and returned by
the Sheriff, levied on the property of said
Bolton; it is therefore ordered that he make
his appearance herein. at the courthouse,
in the city of Memphis. Tennessee, on or
before the first Monday in November, 1876,
and plead, answer or demur to complain
ants bill. or the same will be taken for con-
fessed as to him and set for hearing OK parte
and that a copy Of this order be published
once a week. for four successive weeks, in the
Public Ledger.
This 10th day Of August, 1876.
A copy Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE. @. and NJ.
BYE. B. McHESRY, Deputy G. and NJ.
Wright & Folks, Solicitors for complainant.
1853 5-l1-l7
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MISSISSIPPI q TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change OF schedule.

MEMPHIS. TENN, September 3, 1876.
an AND AFTER SUNDAY. SEPT. SD,
~ 1875, trains will run as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily .;..2:5O pm. l2;0V pm
Sardis Ac'm 'dation, daily.
Except Sunday ,.;....;....-4;4O pm 40 III
trSnss nort sunSaVl $50 am. 1880 pm
isr,f ISrf M. BURKE. sup't.
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RAILRaAr IIME TABLES.
EMPHIH AND NVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
an. P.x.lI.H. Pm.


Depot az head OF Main street.
Ticket once. 2sl Main street, corner Of
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AND OTHER EASTERN CITIES
WITHOUT CHANGE.

This is the only line running Pullman
Southern Sleeping Cars from New Orleans
Mobile. jackson, Mics. Montgomery. Gre
nada, Decatur, jackson. Tenn, and Nash
Vile to Cincinnati without change, connect
ing at that point with all lines running
rullman and Wagner Palace Sleepers to
Toledo, Detroit. Gi and Rapids, Baltimore
Washington, sandusky, Cleveland; Butalo.
Albany, Salamanca and New YORK Without
This is the only line running its entire trains
between Louisville and Cincinnati. and the
only line by which passengers from tho South
en- route to Eastern and Northern Ciues
(not in through Sleeping Cars can AVOID a
tedious haul through the city OF LOUISVILLE oy
changing cars at Short Line junction, with
Al. and ct. s. r. R., three miles south OF the
,eity. where an elegant Dining Hall is located
under the management of the Railroad Com
through Sleepers from. Atlanta, Chatta
moora, Little Rock, Memphis and Vicksburg,
make direct connection at Short Line juno
tion with through Sleepers to New YORK.
Philadelphia, AMI other cities via this line
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MEMPHIS AND cHARL ssTON R.R.
Arrives. Leaves.
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A Puzzle for the BOYS and Girls.

A few days ago, says an exchange, the
"fifteen young ladies problem" was
printed in this column. It is as follows
In school of fifteen girls rule has
been laid down that they shall walk out
every day in each week in rows OF threes,
but that the same two girls shall never
come together twice il the same row.
The rule is supposed to have been car
ried out correctly during the six work
ing days of the week, but when the time
comes for their going to church together
on Sunday it is found to be absolutely
impossible to continue it any further.
Can the rule have been carried out cor
rectly during the six days2 .
A correspondent Whites that twenty
years ago he spent many hours over this
problem, convinced that it must be CO.
pable of solution, but had to "give it
up" He propourded it to several per-
sons and received two solutions of it,
one of which is given below. Our cor
respondent believes there are many solu-
tions to it, for the fifteen young ladies,
while continuing to observe the condi-
tions OF walking once daily for a week
in rows of three without any two per-
sons walking together twice, may, by a
system of weekly exchanges, arrange
themselves 80 that the rows OF three
shall be composed Of different combina-
tions of individuals each succeeding
week for long time. The solution sent
is as follows
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23

The Jewish papers, the Times and
Messenger, are after Mr.. Moody, the
evangelist, for his statement "that there
was recently a meeting of thousand
Jews at Paris, whereat the boast was ut
tered that the Jews had killed the Chris
tians' God, and this sentiment was ap-
plauded."
The Messenger says that there has
been no meeting of thousand Jews
since 1858, and the Times adds: If M
illiterate hod carrier calls the Jews
"Christkllers, "'he is to be pitied and
forgiven. for he knows no better. But
for man in the position OF Moody to
say the same thing to q meeting of ten
thousand excitable people, and to repeat
it dozen times in one breath, with all
the fervor of his exotic oratory, is an un-
pardonable outrage. 1t would
be useless to tell Mr.. Moody that the
Jews had but little to do with the cruel
fixion of Christ, if that event dill Imp
pen as it is related in tie New Testa-
ment. The Jews had no part in the
government OF their country, which was
a Roman province, ruled By Roman
officials, its courts presided over by Ro-
man judges and it's towns garrisoned by
Roman soldiers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
A Quick Bargain.

There is an auecdote aboutthe manner
in which Mr.. Disraeli made his purchase
of the pasha OF Egypt'a 176, 600 shares
in the Suez canal. He was dining with
Baron Rothschild in London on the
twenty.ffth of November. While at
the table telegram arrived, which
Rothschild opened by permission from
his guest. he read it more than once,
laid it down, and said: "The khedive
has offered all his Suez canal shares to
French firms in Paris, and they decline
to pay what he asks. suppose he has
no chance in London, but I am desired
to ascertain" ~. Mr.. Disraei asked :
"How many sharesi Watts the price2"
As this was then not exactly known,
Rothschild telegraphed back to Paris.
The reply WAS "About ITS, 900 shares.
at "a, 600, 900 cash, and the khedive will
pay five per cent. on the purchase money
during the next nineteen years, after
which the shares will be free" After o
few moments pause Disraei said "We
can borrow four millions at three per
cent, and gain two per cent. by the
difference. The Suez canal commands
the sea-road to the East. I suppose
(turning to Mr.. Rothschild) that you can
let us have the money!" The answer
was in the affirmative. Then Dlsraell
said: Telegraph back that England
buys, subject to the approval by Parlia
men, which will not be withheld, am
sure. and add that the money can be paid
over by you when received" So, the
report rune, the purchase Of the khe-
dives Suez canal shares was rapidly
1Aade.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
The Crime Anticipated.

A Prussian journal has received the
following communication: In the spring
of 1915 the Swedish fleet lay in the har-
Dor of Wismar. The master-general OF
the ordnance. Karl Gustav Wransel, was
to make the passage to Sweden on board
the Lion and Admiral Blume on board
the Dragon. Somebody wished to send
off two chests. one by each OF the two
vessels. When the chests we're shipped
the one to be sent in the admirals
ship stood already near the powder
magazine-a noise was observed in one
of the chests as from clock work. 1t was
opened, and q mechanism in the shape
of clock was found connected with
a fire steel and fintstone, and beneath
them powder, pitch, sulphur, etc. The
shippers of the chests, a certain Hans
Krevet. of Barth, pretended to have re.
ceived the chests from three citizens OF
Lubbock, and was reported to have been
won over by Danish factor ct Lubbock.
He was executed.
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Lament.

loved him not; and yet, now he is gone,
I feel am alone.
l checked him while he spoke; yet could ht
a,eak,
Alas would not check.
For reasons not to love him once sought,
Aud wearied all my thought
To vex myself and him; now would give
My love, could he but live
Who lately lived for me, and when he found
Twas vain, in holy ground
He hid his face amid the shades Of death
WASTE for him my breath
Who wasted his for me but mine returns,
And this lorn bosom burns
With sitting heat, heaviug it up in sleep,
And. waking me to weep
Tears that had melted hiP soft heart; fol
years
Wept he as bitter tears
" Merciful Godw such was his latest prayer
'These may she never share !"
Quieter is his breath, his breast more cold
Than daisies in the mold,
Where children spell, athwart the chutthyard
gate,
His name and ife's brief date.
Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe'er you be,
And oh, pray too for me!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
A W0man's Presence Of Mind.

Illustrating the presence Of mind
which peopl proverbi lily possess at
time OF fire, the case may be mentioned
Of lady member of a certain English
opera troupe, who was rudely aroused
from her slumhers the other night in
the Gardner House, Chicago, when the
hotel was in danger of destruction.
Hastily rising from her couch she donned
her velvet cioak, as bcing at once the
most valuable and comfortable article of
apparel at hand. Then she started to
put on her stockings, but missing one of
them she was obliged to leave the task
half finished. Drawing on her slippers,
she fed into the hall and down to the
lower floor, where she waited with the
numerous other shivering females until
the fire was qucnched, when sue returned
to her apartment, her foot that had no
stocking on being sadly chilled. Greatly
to her astonishment she discovered
while leisurely disrobing that the stock
ing which she had supposed to be miss
ing was very carefully and neatly drawn
over its ate. And now the Gardner
House boarders are never tired Of
wondering audibly what has become of
that provoking stocking.