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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11
Il Will Cure a Common Cold

In few hours, not by drying it mp, but by re-
moving it from the system. TRY IT.
1t VIII C:jiEsa "a G:iroHic Cough, by
soothing the irriated parts, and strengthen
ing the system.
II WIZ Cure Consumption,
Even after al other remedies have failed. In
the earlier stages Of this disease il will effect
q speedy and certain cure; and in many ca
SEES OF advanced Consumption its effect has
| seemed almost miraculous, restoring to full
strength and perfect health those whom ply
sicians had given up as incurablc. TRY II.
IT WILL CURE CATARRH
More effectually than any other remedy. by
simply removing the cause. TRY IT.
IL will Care Bronchitis. by allayiug all
irritation OF the Throat. TRY II.
II will Cure Asst hna, aiiording immed-
late relief and perfect cure. TRY n.
It Will Cure liberated Sore Throat.
TasY III.
IT WILL CURE Loss of Voice, Night
Swe:,ts, ra"c.ic Fever, AND ALL Symp-
toms OF CGnsumptiOn. TRY IT.
For every affection of the Throat
and lungs it only needs trial to convince
the most skcptica! Of its wonderful curative
properties.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11

God is not ct loss to provide for
disembodiad spirits any mole than he
is at a loss how to make his fields
blossom in spring.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11
Errors of Youth.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay
and all the effects OF youthful indiscretior
will, for the sake of suffering humanity, send
free to all who need it. the recipe and drec-
ton for making The simple remedy by which
he was cured. Sufferers wishing to profit by
the advertisers experience can do so by ad-
dressing in perfect confidence. Tl79jm6i
JOHN b. OGDEN. AZ Cedar St., New York
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11

1t is easier to enrich ourselves
with a thousand virtues than to correct
ourselves of a single fault.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11

One BARRIERS shop in Springfield,
Mass, contains the notice: "No talk
ing with customer, unless he begins
the conversation.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11

"a Complete Pictorial History Of the
Times. "-"Thc best cheapest, and
most successful Family Paper in the
Union"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11

AS small print most tires the
eyes, so little affairs most disturb and
annoy us.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-11
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The advertiser, having been permanently
cured of that dread disease, Consumption, by
a simple remedy, IS anxious TO make known
to his fellow sufferers the means Of cure
To all who desire it, he will send Il copy of
prescription used, Gree Of charge), with the
directions for preparing aud using the same,
which they will find n SURE CURE for Con-
sumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, &c.
Parties wishing the prescription will please
address, Rev. f.. A. WILSON,
ls4lm6l 1914 Penn St., Williamsburgh, n.
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The Conn. Valley Insurance Agency
represents the largest and most reliable
Fire, Life and Accident lHsur-
aucc COlnDanipS

once companies
in the world. Among them are the Aetna,
Royal, L and J. G lobe Imperial, North Brit
ish, North America, Germania, Continental
and the leading Mutuals of Vermont and Mas
sachusetts, also, The Equitable Life of New
York and the Travellers Life and Accident
OF Hartford.
Responsible persons having large RISKS to
place will consult their interests by cores
ponding with this Agency.
Our principles of business are close scru-
tiny of Risks.
Rigid adherance to adequate rates, fair and
square settlement Of honest losses. Do not
fail to have YOUR Life and Property insured at
the Conn. Valley Insurance Agency.
l.. ID. SABINE, Agent.
I'D. ...t. ". Windsor, Vt.
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FOR TIE WHISPERS.
This elegant preparation May DC
relied on 10 change the color Of :Ne
beard from gray or an other TIL
desirable shade, TO brown or black,
at discretion. 1t is easily applied.
being i'll one preparation. and quick
~ and etlectllally produces Il per-
manent color, which will neither
rub nor wash Off.
Manufactured by f. P. HALL & CO.,
NASHUA, N. II.
n.ls ~ II r.rr-i... .nd nn.ir-- &, Nni;.ir..
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GOOD
ADVERTISING

S3,25O, 40 worth of space in various newspa-
pers distributed through thirty States, will be
sold for 800 cash. Accurate insertions guar
anteed. a list of the papers, giving daily and
weekly circulation and printed schedule of
rates, sent free on application TO GEO. T.
HOWELL d CO., Newspaper Advertising
Agents, No. IL Park Row, New York.
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Says Rutherford t. Packard
"rhe pot begins co bubble,
And il you'll just step down and out,
Twill save me lots of trouble
Says Packard to Rutherford,
"Since to q common tcther
We're hitched, if either goes, l think
We'd better go together
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Dr.. A. J. Flagg's
COUGH and MF}M@g{
SYRUP.
A Safe and Sure Remedy.

The Cough and Lung syrup
Is the remedy that during the past fifteen
ears has won for DIR. FLAGG an extended
reputation as SPECIALIST for THROAT
and LUNG Diseases. After 50 many years
trial it can be truthrully said that it has
NEVER FAILED, even in the WoEsT CASES.
1t is purely Vegetable, and its effect upon the
system is at once Soothing and Tonic.
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TERMS-$1.5O in aduance 4; after three
months 81 75; at The end Of The gear. $500.
RATES OFADVERTISING
One square, one inch, one ,ceek, $l.00
each additional toeea, 25
Business cards, 4 lines This tgpe,pe gear 500
The simple announcement Of marriages and
deaths inserted free.
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NURES HNOLDS,
| URES OUGHS,
! LURES , ATARRH,
UURES UONSUMPTION.

DIR. WIN. NJ. LADD, y leading Druggist of
Claremont, ccltiiics as follows:
For many years have known DR.. a. j.
Fiagg as successful practicing ply sician,
and can assure the public that his reprcsen-
tations relative to the Cough and Lung Syr-
up can be strictly relied upon. 1t has been
used in his extended practice with marvel
lous success, and know it to be all that he
claims for it.
WIN. NJ. LADD, NJ, ID.
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5uelzi1a e,.Ia z4a,.'sss Ivy.

Price, Cna Dollar
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
Sid Cooks Peabody Billiard
Room is pronounced first
class by all visitors. 33-t
The Ripley Tragedy.

7. NJ. Scott, jr., whS was shot by Mayor
Tarrant, of Ripley, Tenn, about two
weeks ago, in o street ARRAY, died last
Saturday. Tarrant, who was bailed at
the time, was to be tried Monday. A year
ago, when Scott was married, Tarrant
was one of his groomsmen, The diff
Guilty arose on account of Tarrant 6ning
SCOTS father for being tipsey and threat
eniug to put him on the street to work it
out, Young Scott, coming in at the mo.
ment, drew a pistol on Tarrant and
snapped it without effect Scott after.
ward wrote an apology, Tarrant re.
piled; mo apology necessary" and
Scott supposed it was settled. That eve
ming they met Oh the street, and Tsrrant
Shot Scott. The wife, who has a babe
only three or four weeks old, watched by
SCOTS bedside to the last, and it so pros
trated her that fears are entertained for
her life. It is a sad and unfortunate
affair. All the parties stood well, and
have hitherto been friends
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
Brides Am MsmphI. ana Moroeoo

Brides In Memphis and Morocco.
In Memphis we have spirit or ETHEREAL.
lied brides. but in Morocco they have
weighty ones. Throughout the empire
Of Morocco there are villages where the
elder members Of the adult population
follow Professionally the pursuit Of fat
tening young ladies for the matrimonial
market Of Barbary. The Moors, like the
Turks and most other Orientals, give a
decided preference to I" m~oonfaced T"
wives over lean ones, and are more so.
l%icitous as to the number of pounds
which their brides weigh than about the
stock Of accomplishments they possess.
A girl is put under the process of fatten-
ing when she is about twelve years Of
age. Her hands are tied behind her. and
she is seated on a carpet during so many
hours every day, while her papa" stands
over her with a "matraque," or big stick,
and her mother at times pops into her
mouth a ball Of "co~uscoussou," or stiff
maize porridge kneaded up with grease,
and just large enough to be swallowed
without the patient choking. If the un.
fortunate girl declines to be fed, she is
compelled; so that ere long the poor girl
resigns herself to the torture, and gulpS
down the boluses lest she should be
beaten,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
FIrsl PIcnic of thn Nennon,

The annual picnic of the German
Lutheran Sunday.school, which came OF
at Humboldt Park on Monday last, was
one of the p~leasantest fetes that has been
given in the city for years. During the
afternoon the little folks, the future
" kings and queens of society" enjoyed
themselves hugely, as they INDUCED in
all kinds of games and plays, which had
been gotten up for them by the mana
gers Of the picnic. At night a very
large crowd Of ladies' and gentlemen
visited the park and engaged in the
dance. The whirling walters were every.
where keeping time to sweet music. The
managers and committeeman were every.
where attending to the wants Of tbeir
guests. 1t was a very successful affair
and reflects the highest credit upon those
who had charge Of it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
Those Advising Citiuenn.

Numbers OF citizens who visit the bluff
at the foot Of Madison street for the pur.
pose of watching the progress of the ex-
cavating work for custom house purposes
object to the way the work is being car
ried on. They offer valuable suggestions
to the men in charge of the work and
are astonished that their admonitions
and suggestions are not needed. Those
in charge Of the affair believe they know
their business and they have no time to
listen to or heed the advice Of every self.
elected engineer or contractor. To carry
out all the proposed improvements the
superintendent in charge would find that
life would be lar too short.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
Personal.
62eod

Mr.. Henry c. Myers, sheriff of Mar
shall county, Miss, is in the city, with
bis wife, visiting friends, and will remain
some days.
Mrs, Will L. Cameron, Of Linden
street, who has been seriously i'll for
some time, ID improving. and it is hoped
will 1901 be convalescent.
Rev. j. h. Bryson, of Columbia, S. c.,
is at the Peabody and will remain a few
days before proceeding on a trip to
Europe OF considerable duration. He
will be remembered by members of the
Army Of Tennessee.
Mrs. NJ. Josephine Williams, late of
Texas and for a time connected with the
press of that State, has been giving read
ings in the South recently and arrived
in Memphis a few days since. She is
pronounced a lady Of talent and culture.
Hon. S. S. Cox introduced her to the au.
dience at Little Rock in highly compli-
mentary terms. She will read at the
Memphis Club room next Tuesday and
Friday nights, p
Tom 0'Sullivsn, the well.known liquor
dealer and importer, is about to remove
from the corner Of Second and Washing.
ton to Main street, Immediately north of
Washington street, on the west side, he
having purchased a LOT Of ground, with a
two-story building thereon, for the sum
Of $1,000, or $l47.5o per front foot.
TON" intends fixing it up as q 6ne
saloon and liquor house for his Gus
toners and the general public, who wish
occasionally to take drinks of pure
liquors. 1t will be one OF the incest
saloons in the city, and will become a
popular place Of resort.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Brignoli succeeds Sankey in Boston.
Msllett is self-msde man, roof in.
cluded.
The rag-picker is the heir apparent of
the tramp.
The income of the Vienna Rothschild
is $75, 900 a day.
A reformer wants people to say station
instead Of day-po.
Napoleon ". denies tina. he recently
joined the Free Masons.
Grant will soon be steaming away from
the land of the brass band.
Wendell Phillips wont stop scolding
until his disposition freezes over.
The chronological Journal gives Vice
President Wheeler a good character.
The New York Sun forgets to mention
that Ohio has also the only ex.P president.
Dio Lewis has backslid to a liberal
diet, and forgotten that he has a stomach.
Penn hated tobacco, bu! the ring in
Philadelphia makes the rich Quakers
smoke.
The cable news has killed the PROPOSE.
ton to get up pronOuncing matches this
season.
DR.. Hammond has delivered a lecture
on sleep without saying a word about
snoring,
Miss Emma Abbott was almost morti.
fed tc death recently by having a tight
ness in her chest.
The Courier-Journa states that an
Alabama library has lost two thousand
volumes by worms-book-worms.
Misc Maud Stanley, a cousin OF Dean
Stanley, has been elected a guardian of
St. AIMS Soho, in London. Next.
Teombs wants the constitution Of Geor-
gia so amended that the State cannot
borrow money except for public defense.
Russia absorbs all the loose Christians
in Turkey, or at least regards them as
ex'creacents to be removed by the sword.
The decision in Ann ELIAS divorce
suit against Brigham Younp inoreases
the number of lady helpsi in Utah. -TNew
York Tribune.
The government claims $5O2, OeO of
Frank Leslie, and he says he owes only
$500. The lawyers like the appearance
of the controversy.
Mrs. Polk excluded round dances from
the White House, but it is pretty hard TO
keep the disappointed ofics-ssekers from
Waiting off in wrath.
Oakley Halls standing text for conso.
lation; The wise man foreseeth the
evil and hideth himself but the simple
stay at home and are punished"
A Baltimore paper asserts that The
carpet-baggers expelled from the South
are looking about to establish them.
selves in the organism of society"
The Mexican Presidents message savs
that his whole country is at peace, but
he doesn't explain what preparations
have been made to meet this novel crisis.
Puck, the new effort at an American
Punch, says, Zone or two choir Hirts
will do more toward making a revival "a
failure than ten regular, spear.tailed
devils"
A Bismarck scholarship in the Univer-
sity Of Dorpat, in Russio, exclusively
for the benefit of German students, has
been founded by Germans doing business
in st. Petersburg,
john Brougbam declares that the per.
vading dramatic current seems to be
flowing pretty close to the muddy side of
the stream John believes in honest
women for beroines.
Danbury Bailey opened bis lecture al
Bridgeport by remarking that Be had
seen so much about il or the posters and
in the papers, during the past week or
two. that he had come 10 have a feverish
desire to hear it himself aud was very
glad 10 hear he wal present.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
Amuaemeuta.

MEMPHIS THEATER.-To-night will b.
given the benefit rendered to Treasures
Gray and the "ushers." The entertain
ment will include a number of interest
ing specially acts. The New Orleans
Serensders will appear, as will also thu
following artists: Byron Davis, ETH
opian comedian; Ward and Byrd, SOM
and dance artists; Lee R~utledge, ageC
darby impersonator; G. Batter, soprano
vocalist; Thomas j.. Flack, tenor vocal
ist; John S. Peacock, bssso vocalist; E
l.. Stimis, banjo player; Mr.. 7. H
Slaughter, interlocutor and general art
iSt, late of Caroline Richings.B Bernard
English opera company. Professot
Snyder's brass band and orchestra viii
furnish the music. The entertainment
will be humorous and enjoyable, and vii
no doubt be witnessed by a large audi
enoe.
FANCHoE. - Friday night next Mist
Lewellyn, an accomplished young lady,
will make her debut at the Memphis
Theater as "Fsnchon in a drama oil
that name, which is we'll known to oul
theater goers who have seen Miss Maggie
Mitchell play the title role. Miss Lew
ellyn, as "Fanchon," will be supported
by the following amateurs: "Landry
B~arbesud." Sam I. Carnes; Father
Bsrbeaud," Avery Lamb; "Didier,'
Louis Frierson; Mother Fsdet," Mrs.
Rose P. Thompson; ."Msdelou," Miss
Jennie Hunter; Mother B~arbeaud, u
Miss Jeanette Long. At the close o.
the drama Miss Jennie Hunter will re.
cite the Spanish Duel" Reserved seats
can be secured at Hollenbergs.
SPRITUALIsM EXPOSED Next Monday
and Tuesday nights Professor Cooke will
appear at the Memphis Theater and will
expose the mediumistic and spirit bride
business. The Boston Herald, in a col
una report, says:
The performances Of this gentleman
and assistants are simply immense.
Nothing approaching to them has ever
been seen here before. Other exposures
sink into simple insignifcance beside
them. They are-what they should be-
convincing to all fair.minded people,
and any one not besotted with supersti
ton cannot fail to be cured by them OIL
all faith in or respect for physical mani
festations. Professor Cooke is doing a
grand work, and he is doing it SO thor.
oughly that society must be under last.
ing obligations to him. Everybody
should see him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09

shoes, the property Of the sick man. he
will have to walk to Presidents Island
w~ofkhouse on account Of the unchIistian
act.
Last Sunday night a white COW, three
years old, either strsyed or was stolen
from William Conway. a fireman at the
Adams street engine house. BE can i'll
afford to lose the COW, yet he will pay a
reward for its return. he resides on
Georgia street, back Of the ST. Agnes
academy.
This morning Deputy Sheriff McGown
placed in the county Jail a negro named
Ed Stevens, whom he arrested at Raleigh
last night on the charge Of numbering an
old negro man named.H Harry Wynn, near
COvington, Upton county, on the 9th
Of March last. Stevens killed him with
a shotgun.
An egg within an egg, both Of perfect
formation, laid by q hen OF the period, is
in the possession Of Mr.. 0atman, a grocer,
on the orner Of Greenlaw and Fifth
streets. The hen deserves a vote OF
thanks for this successful effort to reduce
the price of eggs by increasing the sup.
ply and thereby bearing the market.
At A o'clock this morning an alarm oil
fire was sounded from the No 2 engine
house, caused by a steamboat bell sound
ing a FIRE alarm. Oar river friends
should avoid ringing their bells in this
manner as it causes a general commo.
tion throughout the city. We need a fire
alarm telegraph system to regulate all
this.
1t is not generally known that the his
torical fig leaf, which became popu
larized as fashionable clothing in the
Garden Of Eden, turns cut to heve been
the large leaf of the banana tree, which
is peculiarly adapted on account of itt
size as a covering for the body, at least
so it is pat down in the Talmud OF the
Turks.
At the Criminal Court to-day D L
Gillespie alias D. G. Gill alias Sauuels
a Court street lottery dealer, is on tria
on indictment for perjury. tits charged
that when a witness before the granC
jury he testified that he knew nothing o
any sales of lottery tickets at the Office
on Court street, whes in fact such sale
had been made there and to his knowl
edge.
John W. Brady, who had been a guart
at the Presidents Island workhouse, VIII,
figures in a divorce suit al the CHANGER,
Court, and who also attempted suicid,
not long since by leapiBg overheard from
the steamer Thompson Dean, near Osce
ola, Arkansas, was on last evening ar
rested by the police on the charge o
stealing a trunk and contents from
friend, who was also a ~workhouse guard
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
THE CITY.
MEMPE1KS:
Wednesday Evening, May o, 1877.
LEDGER LINES.

Tf 1850 ~ @oNihhC o.
Work on the custom house site con-
tinues to progress.
Tie Shelby County Circuit Court has
adjourned over to Saturday next.
AT the thester tonight the benefit of
Treasurer Gray aud 'ushers" will take
place.
Mule.BOr Barrett says he intends 10
burst the LEDGER if he has to %squander
two barrels of nickels to do it.
The rage for picnics does not seem to
break loose or become an epidemic this
year as on former vernal seasons.
Decoration day will soon appear, and
will be duly celebrated at Elmweod over
the graves Of the Confederate dead.
This afternoon a trot will come off at
the tr%otting park between Jack Conn
and Gallena's mare for a purse OF $50.
lat the Chancery Court to-day a di.
vorce bill was fled by Thomas ]. Horn
against Alice Horn on the charge of
drunkenness, abusive language, etc.
People residing in the suburbs of the
city complain of the bloodthirstiuess of
the mosquitoes. AS yet the mosquitoes
have not taken possession of the city.
The Chicks" are drilling nightly pre-
paratory to the contest with the Porter
Rifles. The Rifles are doing likewise with
a view to a contest with the Chicks"
The habit of %scooping in all flowers
that ovsrhaug sidewalks, and as far as
the arm can reach into an adjoining gar
den, is not exclusively confined 10 the
male sex.
An exposure of the tricks of "medi-
ums" with reference to spirit brides"
materializations generally, etc, will be
given by a professor OF the black art at
Jus iucdtCE ntAI h6tk,
Tomorrow morning the County Court
committee will meet and act upon the
proposed transfer Of the Raleigh railroad
to the Holly Springs, Brownsville and
Cairo Railroad Company.
The present European war and the
hope that England will have to engage
in it has created no little stir in Fenian
circles, whose motto is, "England's ad.
versity is Ireland's opportunity"
Next Friday evening Fanchon will be
presented at the thester, with Miss Grace
Lewellyn in the title role and supported
by several amateurs, including members
Of tho C~hickasaw Guards dramatic corps.
The Paducah and Memphis railroad
has been sold to Il. W. Smithers, John
7. Edmonds and Charles ]. Canada,
trustees, for $l05, 900. This road is 1863
miles long, and has a capital stock of
3 1000, 900 aud a funded debt OF 81, 54O,-
900.
Mayor Flippin having gone to Browns
vile, to be absent for several days,
President John Cochran, Of the board Of
aldermen, is acting as mayor pro tenn.
Alderman Cochran is by far the best
looking head of the commune that has
ever been in Memphis,
This morning Parson Brown, pastor of
a colored church at Raleigh, was lodged in
the county Jail on the charge Of steal.
ing a pair OF shoes yesterday, at Raleigh,
from a gentleman who was on u visit to
the springs for health. The parson was
moying the invalid from one house to
another and took q fancy to q pair Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-09
Attend treasurer and ush.
ers' benefit 60. night.
SAD Fate Of Car Nicho,an

Prince Luborniski was q Russian gen
tlemaN, who was formerly a page to the
Emperor Nicholas, and who has written
many lively sketches of Russian charac
ter. In one of these he related how tn,
Gear sickened and died Of grief when he
heard that he could not procure any
more Of Sol. Peritz's celebrated Cole
Dust cigars; but had he been made aware
that Memphis was overlooking with Cole
Dust, no telling but what it might hayi
saved his life.