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Smyrna times., 1877-05-16
HER PARTING WORDS.

Yes, come again tomorrow night,
At half-past seven, or eight;
Come sooner than you did tonight,
But do not stay so late;
For people have so much to say
About your staying so,
And wonder what we talk about,
For three long hours or more.
Oh, dear! these simple. grabbed folks,
wonder if they know
How long it takes to say good night"
Whene'er you start to go.
1 do not think they ever loved
They'd have more patience then.
Good night; you really ought to go
It's more than half-past ten.
Another kiss; oh darling, don't;
never thought that you
Would be 50 fond of kissing-stop;
This really will not do.
You have sat the fire out as it is
am sure it is not right.
No, 1 am not scolding-here's your hat ;
My dearest love, good night.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

"The baby has got new tooth, but the
old lady is laid up with cold in the head"
remarked gentleman to defeated candi-
date. "What do 1 carer" was the reply.
"Well," said the gentleman, slowly, "before
the election you used to take me aside and
ask me how my family was coming on, and
I've been hunting you all over town to tell
you, and that's the way you talk to me.
But it don't make any difference, voted
for the other candidate anyhow"
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

There was flying marriage on the Union
Pacific Railroad week ago Saturday. A
San Francisco widower had been in cores
pondence with Leavenworth widow, to
whom he had been betrothed in his youth
and from whom he had been separated by
cast-iron fate. Her husband had had the
good grace to die betimes and his wife had
been equally considerate, and the surviving
partners, after an exchange of compliments
and regrets, resolved to console each other
permanently. The bride went on from the
East arrayed in brown travelling gown
and the bridegroom went on from the
West with pair of three-button black kid
gloves. They met at Sacramento. AtGalt
a minister got on the train and the restless
bridegroom whispered to the bride, "Why
not now? The coy lady blushed, but did
not say to him nay. The impulsive bride
groom dispatched the peanut boy for the
conductor and held brief consultation
with the minister. The loving pair clung
to the ends of the seats and to each other,
and the minister took his place in front OF
them and married them. In the excite.
ment Of the moment the lady released her
hold of the seat and was shot into the arms
of the conductor, who kissed her before
restoring her to her husband. Running
| time-40 miles an hour.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

The Washington Star notes that there is
already change in the aspect of society at
the National Capital. The men who give
big dinners are no longer in the ascendant,
but more modest people have a chance.
The Hayes family does not take kindly to
mere wealth and show, nor to people whose
principle merit is that they can eat and
drink long and deep.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

UNPLEASANT SURPRIsE.-It shocks a Wis
consin woman awfully, about a week after
she has read of her husbands destruction
by grasshoppers, to hear familiar step on
the stairs and his well-known voice asking,
Hammer, have you got them breeches of
mine patched yet?'
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

Many a man talks of what the country
owes him, whose services would be well
repaid by six feet in the corner of a
cemetery, and who would be overpaid if a
fve-cent sign was stuck up to keep people
off from the grass.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

The scientists are running down blue
glass at dreadful rate. Why don't they
take somebody of their size, let blue glass
alone, and tell us why nothing on earth
will keep cats tail from doubling in size
every time she gets mad, except cutting it
off close up to the cat.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

they looked at the captain. Then he said,
huskily:
"St down, my man I've got something
to tell YOU"
"She's left behind ?" said Connor.
"She sailed with us" said the captain.
"Where is she?' asked Connor.
The captain made no answer.
"My man." he said, "we all have our
trials. God sends them. Yes, Nora started
with u.s."
Connor said nothing. He was looking at
the captain now, white to the lips.
It's been a sickly season." said the
captain, "we had illness on board-the
cholera. You know that?''
81 didn't" said Connor; ~ can't read
they kept it from me-"
"We didn't want to frighten him." said
one man, in halfwhisper.
"You know how long we lay at quaran
tine?"
"The ship came in did that" said Con-
nor. "Did you say Nora went ashore?
ought to be lookin' for her, captain"
"Many died." went on the captain
"many children. When we were half way
here your boy was taken sick"-
"Jamesy," gasped Connor.
His mother watched him night and
day." said the captain, "and we did all we
could; but at last he died-only one o.
many. There were five buried that day
But it broke my heart to see the mother
looking upon the water. Its his father
think Of said she; hes longing to SEE
poor Jamesy.'"
Connor groaned.
keep up if you can," said the captain
al wish any one else had it to tell rather
than I. That night Nora was taken ill
very suddenly. She grew worse fast. Ii
the morning she called me to her. 'Tel
Connor l died thinking of him. she said
'and tell him to meet me- And, my gooC
man, God help you She never said any
thing more-in an hour she was gone"
Connor had risen. He stood up, tryin
to steady himself, looking at the captain
with his eyes as dry as two stones. The
he turned to his friends:
"l've got. my death boys" said he, ant
then dropped to the floor like log
. They raised him and bore him away.
an hour he was at home in the little be
which had been made ready for Nor;
!, weary with her long voyage. There, 9
=, last, he opened his eyes. Old Mr.. Baw
bent over him; he had been summoned b
: the news, and the room was full of Connor
fellow workmen.
"Better, Connor?" asked the old man.
"a dale" said Connor. ats aisy now
+, I'll be with her soon. And look y
masther, I've larnt one thing-God is gooc
He would not bring Nora over to me, bl
= He's taking me over to her and Jamesy-
over the river-don't you see it-and her
> standing on the other side-to WELDON
= me?'
. And with these words Connor stretche
out his arms. Perhaps he did see Nora
God only knows. And so he died.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

The Rev. Josiah Henson, the original
Tom of Uncle Toms Cabin" attended the
Monday meeting of Methodist ministers in
Boston last week. In one of his homely
and amusing speeches he congratulated the
elder brethren that they chad survived the
crush of matter and still stood
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

A man in an American rural settlement,
who has been an inveterate smoker for
twenty years has suddenly and permanent
ly given up the practice. He knocked the
ashes of his pipe into keg of blasting
powder.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

A Chicago man insists that he saw red
and black snake forty feet long, and as big
round as barrel of whiskey. We have no
doubt that he did, but he unquestionably
saw the barrel of whiskey before he saw the
snake
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

The season fast approaches when the
young man with finances to cover two plates
of ice cream, awaits breathlessly the answer
to, "Will you have cake?"
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

Brains may be better than riches, but it
comes mighty handy to have nickle to
pay ones fare on a street car. It's better
than having brains and going afoot.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

Gail Hamilton, in her forthcoming essay,
"What Think ye of Christ ?" says of the
Smith sisters of Glastonbury: GAN the
world has had its laugh at them, and there
is certainly something very droll in the
idea of two quiet gentlewomen at the head
of regiment of Jersey COWS making a
stand against the whole constituted United
States Government-almost as droll as it
was for handful of Boston folks to throw
overheard cargo of tea in the face of the
British empire a hundred years ago. But
it is not in the least droll, on the other
hand it seems to me altogether admirable,
that fifteen years ago, in the refined seclu-
sion of their country parsonage, for their
own interest and amusement, two sisters,
the daughters of an abscure, cultivated,
country clergymeu, should set about the
translation of the Old and New Testament"
1t is a curious coincidence that De Quincy
in his Literary "reminiscences tells of q
Miss Smith, daughter of an English colonel
who lived in the lake district, was mistress
ofFrench, Italian, Spanish, Latin, German,
Greek and Hebrew, and made a translation
of the Book of Job, which was, by biblical
critics, pronounced to be of the first rank.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

There are people to whom their neigh
boris things appear to be greater than their
own. This is observed more particularly
when they are borrowing a chew Of
tobacco.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

A Georgia man walked forty-four miles to
see his brother hung, and when the crimi-
nal turned out to be another man the
Georgian was disappointed.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

Better give the baby rattle. He can
get lots of fun out of revolver, but it is
apt to go off and hurt somebody. When
you see the baby in the back yard with
revolver, and a reporter looking over the
fence and whistling 81 hear an angel
Calling" it is well to go out and take the
weapon away from the infant.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

In New York, if young man cheats at
croquet, the young ladies caress the fange
of his ear with mallet.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

A Methodist minister being recently
asked if he had moved to his new appoint
ment, said, eyes, but it is disappoint-
ment.n
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

The easiest and best way to expand the
chest is to have a good large heart in it. 1t
saves the cost of gymnastics.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

First irate female: "'I'd hate to be in
your shoesr-Second ditto: "You couldn't
get in themr'
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

| What word is there of FIVE letters that
taking away two leaves one? Stone.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

Eight new starch factories in Maine, and
Hayes still wears paper collars.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

Gov. Hampton is grived because some
South Carolina school trustees are unable to
read or write.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

Here are a few extracts from Don
Quixote:
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire |
or sharp word at a distance; neither
does the one burn nor the other wound
those that come not too close to them.
The absent feel and hear every ill.
Selfpraise depreciates.
The dead to the bier; the living to good
cheer.
Virtue is always more prosecuted by the
wicked than beloved by the righteous.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
The wittiest person in comedy is he
who plays the fool
We are all as God made us, and often
times great deal worse.
1t is easy to undertake, but more difficult
to finish a thing.
BY the streets of "By and By" one arrives
at the house of Never"
Between the ayes" and the "No" of a
woman l would not undertake to thrust
the point of a pin.
Other mems pains are easily borne.
A bad cloak often covers good drinker.
Pray devoutly and hammer on stoutly.
When a thing is once begun it is almost
| finished.
Lay bridge of silver for flying enemy
The jest that gives pain is no jest.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16
WHOLE NO. l,l5O.

| WISH | WERE RICH.-"I wish l were
rich, I would buy everything" cried
Charlie.
"The sun, moon, and stars ?" inquired
William.
"No; everything could be got with
money"
"That's not happiness" said William.
"Get your hat, Charlie, and come with
me to Mr.. Morrisons,' said the father.
"Oh please not, papa, he is such a disa-
greeable, miserable old man, with his cross
looks and gouty foot, hobbling about and
groaning."
81 think you would like to live with
him" said his father.
81 papa? l would rather live down in a
coal pit
"With him you could have all that would
be bought with money"
81 recant; see it won't do" said the
boy. "Health cannot be bought with
money"
"Nor good temper, nor friendship, nor
life," said William.
"Above ALL" added their papa, "the
favor of God cannot be bought with money
Be content with as much Of it as God gives,
and seek to use it Alright"
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

SOMETHING ABOUT NEwsPAPERs-.Tha
the Americans are a reading people is
manifested by the statistics of the News
paper Press of the country, as given in the
Newspaper Directory for 1877, just issued
by S. NJ. Petengill g. Co., the well-known
Advertising Agents of New York, Boston
and Philadelphia. There are reported in
it the names, character political, ag
ricultural, religious, medical, etc.) and
names Of publishers of no less than 795
dailies, 79 weeklies, 125 semi-weeklies, l22
semi-monthlies, III monthlies, 16 bi-month-
lies and 60 quarterlies, published in the
United States and the British American
Provinces. The Directory shows the num-
Der of each of these editions which are pub
lished in each State, Territory or Province.
The book contains 376 pages, and en-
braces an immense amount of valuable in
formation, showing great labor and care
in its collection and preparation. 1t gives
all necessary facts for an advertiser to know
about 1914 separte publications, while it is
also interesting and valuable for the general
reader, the student of American periodical
literature, and the observer of American
institutions. The book is sold at the low
price of $l00 per copy.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-16

The Permanent international Exhibition
at Philadelphia, the outgrowth Of the cen
tennial exhibition, and occupying the main
building of that historal display, was
formally opened last Thursday. The event
was honored with the presence of Presi
dent Hayes and members Of his cabinet,
exPresident Grant, Gov. Hartranft and
various other persons Of prominence. The
attendance was estimated at $4,000. The
exhibition begins its career under encour-
aging auspices, and its purposes commend
it to success. Its gates will stand wide
open for the competitive display of the
productions of human talent, and will at
the same time Afford as its president in
dicated in his address, a school of object
lessons to the laborer, mechanic, farmer,
merchant and manufacturer, and a field of
study and improvement for scholars in
every branch of science.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-14

opened their doors to see what the
trouble was, but were glad to close
them again to keep out the bats.
Some Of the boarders desired to 90
down stairs, but every step was a
bat.roost, and they had to get out
upon the balconies. After much
hard work, which lasted nearly un-
til daylight, the animals were driven
or swept from the upper story down
into the basement where they were
gathered into heap, so far as pos
sible, and killed by the application
of boiling water. Those thus killed
numbered, by actual count, 760,
and the girls subsequently killed
four more in their room. The trap
was placed in a wash-tub filled with
water, and its occupants drowned.
There being considerable curiosity
to know how many bats a fve.gal-
lon measure could hold, they were
counted and amounted to 22S. The
slain, all told, filled four buckets.
Yesterday the opening in the cell
ing was plastered up and the trap
set again. Last evening it was
well filled, judging from the noise,
and is was estimated that there was
a right smart chance Of bats
about the house still"
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An Extraordinary nat mUut.

The Sacramento (Cal.) Union Of
a recent date says: "The large
double building on the north side
of NJ street, between Third and
Fourth, owned by E. Torrey, and
occupied as a clearinghouse, has
Of late appeared to be the head
quarters of an extraordinary num-
Der of bats, which managed to get
in between the ceiling and roof
through small apertures alongside
the water-spout. The vampires be-
came a great nuisance, and Mr..
Torrey concluded to make an effort
to get rid of them. With this end
in view he procured a five gallon
oil can, and arranged it something
like a rat-trap, so that the bats
might enter it readily, but could
not get out. A number Of small
holes were also punched in the can
to admit light The can was placed
in such a position as to completely
cover the opening through which
the animals passed in and out OF
the building. The result was that
a short time after dark it was filled
with the little pests, who made a
great scratching and squealing.
The remainder of the bats, finding
their usual place of exit stopped
up, looked about for another, aud
discovered a small hole in the
plastering of the ceiling. Through
this they made their way in great
numbers, and found themselves
prisoners in the sleeping apartment
of two young women. The latter
aroused from their slumberS by a
mysterious noise, and feeling their
faces famed by invisible wings,
became alarmed aud sprang
from the bed, but their feet
came down upon mass ol
squirming, scratching and biting
something's, while other something's
struck them in the face, and on the
head and body, chattering viciously,
and having a disagreeably cold and
damp feeling. 1t was not a pleas
ant situation by any means, and
the girls opened the door and has
tened into the hall, calling for as
sistance and closely followed by
their tormentors. Other occupant
Of the house, alarmed at the noise
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-14
MY NRIeHBoR.

" Love thou thy neighbor!' l am mute,
He lives across the way.
And plays upon the German flute
some twenty hours day,
On HIM do not waste my labor,
Nor even try to love my neighbor.
=" owe thou thy neighbOr" l am dumb,
She lives next door to me;
A single dame With years O'ercome;
Her age is forty-three.
Ali it were surely foolish labor
For me to try to love my neighbor.
Love thou thy neighbsrl" Heaven forefend
he hath of gold galore.
And at usurious rates doth lend
M small sums Of his store.
All! wherefore should | squander labor,
Or waste my love on such a neighbor.
Love thou thy neighbor" Nay. not so;
This were too much to ask;
Nv heart with love is all aglow,
But finds happier task.
All not in vain my heart hath sought her;
You see2 love my neighbours daughter.
New York Sun,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-14

NOR of similar kind attached.
This fact does not seem to have
been suspected before the diagnosis
made during his last illness. The
left kidney was contracted. There
was a cyst in his liver. The heart
was fatty. The walls of the aorta
were nearly penetrated by several
alterations. His ribs were as soft
as cartilage, so that they could be
easily cut with scissors. But trifes
like these did not at all affect his
general health. He was at last
brought down with a congestion Of
the lungs, contracted by exposure
in storm. From that complaint
he was slowly recovering, when an
abscess formed in his thigh. Three
operations were performed for the
relief of the abscess, and thirty
two ounces Of fluid were withdrawn;
this proved too much of a drain
upon his system, and he died of
asthenia, i.e., general debility. As
he was a soldier of the First Napo-
leon, be might have quoted that
generals famous remark about the
Peninsular War: "That ulcer in
my extremities ate out my life" f"
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MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
MEMPHIS. TENN, May 70. 1877.

NN AND AFTER SUNDAY. MAY 18th,
- 1877, trains viii run as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily 800 pm. 1850 pm
Freight and Ac'In dation,.
6S.t Si'' '''''Oi Nj. BURKE, Sup't.
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READ THE LIST OF GIFTS.
Drawing Positively June 80, 1877
And Every Three Months Thereafter.

Tho present management enlphdticdlly notify
The public that there loiH be no pOstpoaement Of
tbs dr0ioing, as Is usual IA such enterprises, but
that Il ,cW positiUely and Haequiuocaliy take
place on he ddfe named.
THIS, he Second Dralcing, ,ciH be conducted
Ike hefrst, 10 the fdirRess Of lChich the toloeing
named gentlemen haze testified:
Hon. ALVIN Duvall, late Chief Justice Sup.
Court of Ky. James @. Dudley, Chm Board
Of School Trustees; Grant Green, Cashier
Farmers Bank of Kentucky; Hon. S. l. NJ.
Major, Public PriAter State OF Kentucky /;
Hon, Thomas NJ Lindsay, Pres't Farmers
BaAk Of kg.; Hon. Thomas G. Jones. Clerk
ofoupreme Court of KY; Judge X. A. Thomp-
son, Pres dg Judge Franklin Co. Couft; James
G: Crockett, Clerk Frank County Court.
Remittances can be made by mail, express,
draft, posioiice order or registered letter,
made payable to G, W. Barrow & Co.
Tickets paid promptly and without discount.
Reliable agents wanted.
Address all communications and orders for
tickets TO q. ". BARROW 4 CO.,
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People who attain extreme old
age have usually q certain tough
ness of constitution which tri-
umphs over injuries that weaker
natures cannot survive. The au-
topsy Of the late Captain Lahrbush,
whose age has been stated at Iii
years and twenty-five days, furnish
es new and remarkable evidence on
this point. For sixty-one years he
had been an opium eater; at the
age of ninety his daily dose of gum,
or crude opium, was estimated at
ninety grains (Troy); but the ply
sician who attended him shortly
before his death represents the old
mans daily allowance as only half
that quantity. Captain Lahrbush
had a full allowance of the ills that
flesh is heir to, but seems to have
been strangely unconscious of them,
He had no symptoms of renal dis
ease, and yet his right kidney was
gone entirely, its place being occu-
pied land considerably more than
occupied) by a tumor the size Of a
child's head, with a smaller tu-
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Weekly Public Ledger,

Published every Tuesday at 50 per annum lin
aeyance). Postage free.
Communications upon subjects Of general
able.
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I Circulars, etc., gotten up with the latest
style Of types and on sgpe,ior paper ei any
desired color, go.to tho Ledger, once.and OF
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Louisville GaId Great Southern R.R

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