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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-05

THE RFPoRT that the salaries of the fe-
male employees in the Interior Department
arc TO be reduced was a mistake. The law
fixes the number class, and salaries of en-
ployos, and consequently such a re IuctiOn
made
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11

are built entirely for this purpose.
1t is from this cause, namely, the
number of wood-buildings which
belong to one family, that the estab-
lishments of some half dozen peas
antry have the appearace of a good
sized English village. Wood is
used for almost everything. There
is not an article of domestic use,
which is not absolutely required to
be of iron, which is not made Of
fine larch which grows in the
mountains; such as milk-pans,
bowls, plates, dishes, etc, etc. 1t
follows as a sort of corollary upon
their universal application of this
useful material, that almost every
male among them is able to use the
tools. Good coopers and expert
carpenters about everywhere.
The term chalet is generally ap-
piled by travellers to every wood
building in Switzerland, although,
properly speaking, it belong only to
those wood huts which the noun
tain dairyman uses for the purpose
Of carrying on his manipulations
during the few months of summer.
In some of the cantons, as for in
stance in that of Berne, these
chalets are constructed Of frs which
have been merely squared with an
adze, and even sometimes of frs in
the rough. They are bound to-
gether at the ends, not with spikes
or nails, but by being notched and
dove tailed into one another. The
roof is constructed at rather
an obtuse angle for security, and
the shingles or wooden tiles
which cover it are as large as
our large states, and kept in their
places with wooden rods, on which
heavy stones are placed. When
you approach these novels in the
mountains, for many Of them de-
serve no better name, being neither
wind-tight nor water-tight, they
present most odd appearance, and
for all the world seem as if a shower
Of stones from the adjacent noun
tain had alighted upon them. Not
withstanding all their precautions,
very frequently not only their roofs
but also their rafters and sides are
broken up and dispersed to the
winds by the hurricanes which pre-.
vail in the mountains.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11
MEMPHIS. TENN. WEDNESDAY EVENING JULY II, 1871

in the popular favor, and the choc-
olate was commonly boiled with
sausages, and the whole mess eaten
with a spoon. The coffee in olden
times was probably very bad, and
even as late as John Randolph's
time there was ground for his i'm
mortal remark, " Waiter, if this is
tea, bring me coffee but if this is
coffee, bring me tea.p
In the time of the Revolution,
while the army was starving at
Valley Forge, the people in the
great cities were living in luxury
| and extravaganza and later when
the commerce Of the country was
pouring in wealth the style Of liv-
ing was incredibly luxurious. The
consequences Of this extrava-
gance were serious. For one thing
it broke up President Washington's
cabinet. Dinners did it. The sal
aries of the secretaries were all in
sufficient to keep up the style Of
living it was thought necessary.
This fact afforded the speaker an
opportunity for long disquisition
on Washington morality, which he
pronounced to be marvelously pure,
"Nine men out of ten, and ten
women out of ten," he said, "haye
observed the requirements of theil
positions"
Returning to the subject of food
he said that the art Of cooking was
often lost and utterly resolved into
the use Of the frying-pan. Mission.
aries had come over the sea to re.
store the high and simple cookery
Of our ancestors. One of the first
of these was Delmonico, whose
highest praise was that he cooked
good food without spelling it,
There had been various quaint gas
tronomic clubs that had done much
to preserve the traditions of cook,
cry. He then described some Of
the various forms of rustic sociablC
parties, such as knitting bees, cake
walks, calico parties, needle tie re,
ceptions, ETC., emitting, however,
all mention Of the barbecue-the
glorious and eyer-honored feast Of
the West and South for generations
back.
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AIpIne Villages.

At the outskirts Of every Swiss
village, and near the foot of the
mountain, there is generally a self
acting saving machine worked by
water power, for the purpose of
saving the larger trees into balk
and board. From the extent Of
the forests and the numbers Of trees
felled, there is often as much timber
stored as would build the village
anew, Notwithstanding the chalets
Of the peasantry in some Of the can
tons are very large. This, which at
first may appear unnecessary thrift,
is in reality only Il necessary pro-
vision, by -eason of the numerous
fires which occur to the chalets Of
an Alpine village. Their fuel is
moi, stored, like our own, in sacks
around the dwelling, but, in
consequence Of the abundance
Of the material, separate chalets
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robert Dale ovens marriage.


New York Tribune
The story of Mr.. Owens marriage
is a remarkable one. His wiie's
maiden name was Mary Jane Robin
son. They were married in New
York, April 18th, 1882. No one
performed any ceremony; simply a
contract was drawn up by Mr..
Owen, which Miss Robinson and he
both signed in the presence of both
friends and witnesses. 1t said
eve contract a legal marriage,
not because we deem the ceremony
necessary to us, or useful in a
rational state of public opinion to
society, but because if we became
companions without a legal cere-
mony, we should either be COM
PEELED to a series of disslmulations
which we both dislike, or be per-
petually exposed to annoyances
originating in a public opinion
which is powerful, though unen-
lightened, and whose power, though
we do not fear or respect it, we do
not perceive the utility of unneces-
sary braying. We desire a tranquil
life in so far as it can be obtained
without sacrifice of principle.
y The ceremony, too, involves
not the necessity of making prom
ises regarding that over which we
have no contrOl-the state of human
affections in the distant future nor
of repeating forms which we deem
offensive, inasmuch us they outrage
the principles of human liberty and
equality by comforting rights and
imposing duties unequally on the
sexes. + + OF the unjust
rights which in virtue of this cere-
mony an. iniquitous law tacitly gives
me over the person and property of
another, | cannot legally, but l can
morally, divest myself. And |
hereby distinctly and emphatically
declare that consider myself, and
earnestly desire to be considered by
others as utterly divested, now and
during the rest of my life, of any
such rights, and barbarous relics of
a feudal and despotic system, soon
destined, in the onward course of
improvement, to be wholly swept
away, and the existence of which is
a tacit insult to the good sense and
good feeling Of the present COM
paratiyely civilized age"
This covenant was kept with re-
ligious fidelity until the last. Mrs.
Owen died in August, 1871. GAIL !
grief which ccnyulses the features"
says Ruskin, 9" is ignoble." Robert
Dale Owen, who had deeply loved |
his wife for forty years, had the
heart to conduct the funeral services
at her grave. He said on that oc-
casion:
81 do not believe - and here l !
speak also for her whose departure |
from among us we mourn to-day
| do not believe more firmly in these !
trees that spread their shade over
us, in this hill on which we stand, |
in those Sepulchral monuments
which we see around us here, than
| do that human life, once granted, |
perishes never moro x She
believed, as l believe, that the one
life succeeds the other without in
terval, save brief transition slum-
ber, it may be of a few hours only.
= - Again, ! believe, as
she did, in the meeting and recog-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11

Ebe Late NAVAL kiRnt la the Pacific.
A London newspaper, referring
to the battle between Peruvian
ship of war and two British frigates,
the details of which were subse-
quently printed in the Times, says:
The recent engagement between
the reble Peruvian ship Huascar
and the two British frigates Shah
and Amethyst illustrates an i'm
portant failing in the designs OF
modern war-ships. The two Brit
ish frigates had acombined tonnage
about three times that of the rebel
Peruvian, and a combined indi.
Gated horsepower about six times
greater, yet they did not run the
Huascar down because they we're
uninproved with rams for that pur-
pose. The two British vessels car
ried twenty times the number OF
guns, or five times the gross weight
of ordnance, but they could not
pound the Peruvian into mince-
meat, for not one of the British
guns was capable of piercing the
sides Of the Huascar. The British
vessels carried we'll disciplined
crews, numbering five times as
many men as the rebels, yet they
could not blow the Huascar into
the skies, because the torpe-
does which would have done
so were in store on the other
side of the globe, and, in
the end, the little Huascar was not
compelled to strike her rebel flag to
the British ships, but effected her
escape from them. True, she sub
sequently surrendered to her own
countrymen, so that the presump-
ton is that the offensive weapons of
SO superior British force were not
entirely innocuous. OF course, a
very simple explanation of this
anomaly will be forthcoming, The
British ships were designed to en-,
counter sister vessels, and not Ito
fight ships of another class. The
armament of the British ships is
intended to contend against wooden
vessels, and was not, therefore, de-
yised for doing harm to vessels with
thicker sides than their own, and
no provision whatever was made for
the contingency of their attacking
small armored gunboats like the
Huascar. We hope, however, that
the lesson already learned with ref
erence to gunboats will now be
applied to frigates, coryettes and
sloops, and that these vessels will
be given at least a chance for life
when they are unable to run away
from rebel Peruvian armored boats.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11
MEMPHIS 4 LITTLE ROCK R.R.
ShrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TIME CARD;

Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, dsily.......o5 SOp.m. 1lSO Op,m.
Freight train leaves Hope
field daily(ex undayl7 80 an, 520P m.
Passengers going on this road will take
willie and Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argenta fer
points on the title Rock and Fort Smith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railr,ad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
Pullman alacc sleeping Cara on all night
trains.
For tickets and information fpply at Ticket
offices q. and 2s7 Ma street and at. depot
foot of WushiuAt0n street. or at Louisville,
Nashville ana Great Southern railroad depot,
or to the undersgntd
X. A. VILLA MS. Pass Az Memphis.
M STAY q P.a.dT. Ag't, Little Rock.
w. Il. SMITH. Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
I0l4
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Louisville and Great Southern R.R

Tll:41p pm. Right Express Connects at Milan
for st. Louis and Chicago, at Mckenzie fol
Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and the
Southeast. at Guthrie for HoPkinsville, Hen
derson and Evansville, at Louisville for all
points North and East
lilo pm. Day Express Connects fer st.
Louis and Chicago, at Louisville for all
points North and East.
4.4O pm. Milan Accommodation = Daily
except Sunday,
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
Vile, aud on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or Information. apply at Ticket
Office. 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
street
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
@Q1 4
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11
AnecdO te of General John q. Breek-
inridge.

AnecdO te of General John q. Breck-
inTidge.
Richmond (Ky) Register
A few evenings since some gem
tlemen were in conversation upon
the character of the late General
John g. Breckenridge, and how
the Democracy Of Madison county
were bound to and how many Of
them almost worshipped him. A
lawyer then related an anecdote
going TO prove the fact. lie said
shortly after the battle Of Shiloh a
client came into his office, deposit
ing two bushel-baskets which had
contained some spring chickens,
and asked the news. "Nothing, |
believe" replied the lawyer. "Why,
haven't we had some late fighting
down about Shiloh ?" eyes. y
"Well, how did we (rebels) come
out?" "'rhe rebels got the advan-
tage the first day, but the next day
the Yankees were re-enforced and
whipped the rebels" "That amt
the way we her'n it down our way
" Well, how did you hear it down
your way?" "Well, we her'n that
they fit two days in and two days
ont, and along late in the evening
Of the second day came John G,
Breckenridge, and he jist asked fer
the privilege of the field fer fifteen
minutes, and they do say he slew a
hundred thousand Of 'em!"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11
FIFTY CTS. PER BOTTLE.

THIS Is THE CHEAPEST AND MOST
i delightful purgative before the public. Is
sparkling as glass Of soda water. Far supc-
rIor to sickening pills. 1t is held in high re-
pute by physicians and surgeons for the
speedy cure of constipation, biliousness,
torpid liver. dyspepsia, loss of appetite,
sick headache, kidney affections, etc.
For these who lead sedentary or closely
confined life, and become Of a cOnstipated
habit. it acts like charm. 1t is specially
prepared for the masses; is put up in large
bottles and sold by all druggists at SOC. No
family, no mother, no one travelling, no close
student, no sewing girl should fail to use it.
Sold by all Wholesale and retail druggists.
j. p. DR0MG00LE & Co., PrOp'rs.
s7-xxv-7 Louisville, kentucky.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11

milton of friends in heaven. While
we mourn here below, there are
joyful reunions above"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-11
MISSISSIPPI g. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of schedule.
MEMPHIS. TENN, May II. 1877.

MEMPHIS, TENN, May IL. 1877.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, MAY 18th
~ 1877, trains will run as follows:
Leave. Arrive.
"ew Orleans mail, daily 800 pm. l:3O pm
Freight and Ac'm' dation,.
daily Except Sunday ..:6;na am 30 N
6S-t N. BURKE, Sup't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-12
Friday, May IS, 1877,

in legal hours, in front of the courthouse,
Memphis, Tenn, proceed to sell to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following described prop
erty, tO-Wit:
The four-seventh interest Of 7. L. Giles in
a tract Of land situated and being in the
county of Shelby. State of Tennessee. in he
Fourth civil district. bounded as follows:
Beginning at a stake from which south 100 east
10 links TO q hickory marked Il ID, the same
being Geo. DOheriy's northwest corner nf his
$500 acre grant, No. "a, which is the southwest
corner Of j. B, Nickerson's tract; thence
north with said Doheity's line 1890 chains 10
a stake; thence east with his line Is chains 10
asstakei thence north 6 chains to a mulberry
and other pointers; thence east I chains;
thence north 8 chains TO a stake; thence east
LIS chains to a stake; thence south & 10
chains; thence west i.50 chains; thence 1870
chains; thence east 3 chains; thence south =
chains; thence north 50o west, 36.7 6 chains 10
the beginning, containing 90 acres more or
less W VI
Levied on as the propertt Of defendant.
Ihos; Il. Giles, to satisfy said judgment, in
terest and costs.
Memphis, April 2s. 1877,
G l.. ANDERSON,
Sheriff of Shelby County.
Jarnigaan u Frayser, Attorneys for plaintiff.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-12

color than men do. Red is a favorite
color with all nations Of the world.
AS distant from yellow and white
as it is from blue or black, it occu-
pies a central position among the
primary colors, and in it the morn
ing and evening meet, and are
united. The expression Of blue is
one of purity. 1t may be suitable
in its light shade for the dress of
an innocent maiden, and in its dark
for romantic affections and evening
thoughts. Is seems, in this latter
case to indicate a mind which is
beginning to withdraw itself from
the realities of life and to incline to
solitude, mystery and silence. There
is something slightly acid in orange
color, just as there is in the fruit
from which it derives its name.
Green can only awaken gentle and
amiable thoughts, membranes
gracious as those of spring and
other promises of nature; green
gives repose to the mind, as it does
to the sight. 1t is only when COM
bined with black that green be-
comes symbolical of sadness.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-12
chlneae Account Of an EcIlpse.


cit was one of those peerless
moonlight nights (Feb. 2S) when
the entire landscape seems bathed
in a flood of a silver, and the waters
of the H~uang-pu hammered
g~loriously in rays undimmed by
the faintest Aeck of cloud. The
sky was cloudless, and so bright
that only the largest stars were
visible. The moon entered the
penumbra or partial shadow at
thirty-nine minutes after midnight;
and as she became immersed in the
shadow the light became lessened,
and by the time she was half i'm
mersed the eclipsed portion APP
peared Of a red color, except at the
edge of the shadow, where it was
of a greenish hue. The stars now
began to appear, and when the
whole moon was in the shadow the
heavens were as profusely spangled
as on a clear moonless night. For
an hour and a half the entire orb
was obscured, and the faintest sus-
picion of brilliancy was all that was
left, ~encircling the now hidden
satellite like a fringe of fairy light.
The effect on the landscape was
most peculiar the light was there,
but robbed of its intensity, every
thing looked strange, and just as
though the moon had tainted"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-12

Anna Dickinson aud Andrew John.

Anna DICKINSON aud Andrew John.
SON..
Boston Letter to the Detroit Free Press.l
Apparently Miss Anna has the
hydraulic pressure of Job Trotter
or Brother Sherman when other
arguments fail. l remember, some
ten or eleven years ago, when Presi-
dent Johnson was here, he visited
the Scholarship, then one of Boston's
lions, and, like other guests, in
scribed his name on the visitors
book. Shortly after came Anna
Dickinson, and while registering
her own, took the cool liberty of
drawing her pen through the name
Of the President of the United
States. The captain, on discovering
the impertinent performance, with
out making allowance for the fact
that Mr.. Johnson's politics were not
approved by Miss Dickinson, had
her name at once crossed out, and a
marginal note inserted explaining
why. Tradition says that the fu-
turc queen of tragedy wept pain
fully upon learning of this sun
manly outrage" Judge Russell,
who was then collector of the port
and a patron of the Scholarship,
cruelty refused to have the captain
hanged at the yard-arm. But mark
how leaden-footed justice surely
oyertakes the evil-door. Judge
Russell lived to become minister to
Venezuela, to have a free fight with
President Guzman Blanco, and to
come home a few week ago a
blighted being and a candidate foI
a European appointment. The
captain was subsequently trans.
ferred to New York and experienced
promotion. The Scholarship is sold
Andrew johnson is dead. And
Boston, which allowed the outrage
to pass without a resolution or ever
a letter from Wendell Phillips, liei
to-day a helpless victim before q
Wagner festival. How easily.
throughout all, the wise observer
can trace "a mighty maize, but mol
without a plan"-as the Centennia
poet observed of the Kansas corn
stalk.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-12
Trustees Sale.

an MONDAY, 1fTH DAY OF JUNE, 1877,
" in front of the court house door, on Main
strest. within legal hours, / will sell for cash,
to the highest bidder, the following described
property
Lot IS and the south part Of lot 81, in John
S. Claybrook's division, containing four acres,
Beginning on the north side of Henry street,
l75 feet east Of the southeast corner of lot t6;
thence north, parallel with tho east line OF
lot t6, 7 chains to a stake us feet south So
east from the northeast corner Of lot Sc;
Their &c south So east s 50 chains Cess us feet
to the west side Of Post and Rail avenue
thence south 7 chains to the southeast corner
Of lot 55j thence north So west with the north
side Of Henry street $50 chains Cess IT'S feet
to the beginning.
This sale is made by virtue of a trust deed
executed to me by John B kicardi and Ann
Ricardi, and recorded in the Registers office,
shelby county, Book IS, page $50, to which
reference is mado. Equity Of redemption.
all dover and homestead rights waived.
This May 10, 1877.
6l-SS 6. A. HANSON, Trustee.
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Aitachment Notice.

No. b57-Before j. S. Galloway, j. P. for
Shelby county. Tenn.-E. S. Kroud6t VS..
G.. A.. Robinson.
IN THIS CAUSE AN ATTAOHMENrHAV-
j ing been sued out under section 1856 of the
Code Of Tennessee, and returned levied by
garnisbment upon the property Of the defend
ant, and affidavit having been made that de-
PENDANT is indebted to plaintiff in the sum OF
$780, due by notes. that the claim is just,
and that defendant Is a nonresident Of the
State o~fTennessee. or Is about to remove or has
removed himself OF property from the State;
II is therefore ordered that said defendant
make his personal appearance before, me on
the l4th day Of June, 1877, ut 10 o'clock am,
at my Office, No. 279H Main street, Memphis,
Tenn, and defend said attachment suit with
in the time prescribed by law, or the same
will be- proceeded with ex'parte; and that a
copy Of this order DO published once a week
for four consecutive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This the 9th day Of May, 1871.
J. s. GALLAWAY. j. p.
b. b. Barnes, Attorney. 6O-66-72-7S
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Attachment Notice.

No. 56-Before j. S. Galloway, j. ?. for
Shelby county, Tenn.-E. S. Proud6t VS.. G.
G. Robinson
IN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACnMENTHAV-
4 ing been sued out under section 34s5 Of the
Code Of Tennessee, and returned levied by
garnishment upon the property Of the defend
ant. and affidavit having heen made that the
defendant is Justly indebted to the plaintiff in
the sum Of 1896. "A, due by note, and that the
defendant is a nonresident Of the State Of
Tennessee, or is about to remove, or has re-
moved himself or property from the State (;
it is therefore ordered that said defend
ant make his personal appearances before
O'CLOCK cb am snS ii al my wy Office. SSTHg%S NAN s Z. IN IN
the city of Memphis, Tenn, and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed by
law, or the same will be proceeded with OK
parte; and that a copy Of this order DO pub
lished once a week for four consecutive weeks
in the Public Ledger.
This 9th day of May, 1877.
j. S. GALLOWAY. j.. P.
B. 3. Barnes. Attorney. go 66-72 ~