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80, 600 Ttekegs at Five DOliaFs Each
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5022 Prizes amounting to.,...............sll l0(
Write for Circulars OF send orders 10
CHAS. I. HOWARD, New Orleans, La.
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"Qh-- -, III --,
you -! ! hope - My
-! OIL That - OH
Gle stood up and went on): I----l
Catch the -! Somebody -! I'll
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Insurance upon dwellings and first class
commercial risks taken at fair rates, and
losses paid Immediately upon adjustment.
3SS7Xxiv
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Ticket Office, 27s Main street.
w. j. ROSS, Spp't.
BARNEY NUGgEs, Ticket Ag't l0i,t
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Corn PenrI.

Lucy Hooper's Paris Letter in N. Y. Graphic. !
An immense sensation has been
created in the ranks Of gay Paris
that is, Of the club members and
the demi monde-by the announce.
ment that next week the contents
of Mile Cora Pearls costly hotel
on the Rue Chaillot are to be dis
posed of at auction-plate, furni.
ture, pictures, porcelain, etc. The
hotel itself she cannot sell, as she
only holds therein life interest.
After her death it will revert to the
heirs of a certain dignitary of the
late imperial court, who presented
her with this elegant dwelling in
the. days of her splendor.
Those days are past and over
now. First her horses were adver-
tised for sale-now her furniture
next | suppose will come her laces
and diamonds. There is question
of certain tea-service of solid gold
which is to be included in the sale.
and which will probably excite a
brisk competition. The wits Of
Paris are not alone in poking fun
at their former idol, now that she
Is old and faded, and out of fashion.
Witness this conversation, which
was reported in one of the leading
papers of Paris the day after the
announcement of the coming sale
care you going to Cora's sale?"
asked one lady Of another, as they
met on the boulevards. eyes" is
the reply; 81 should like to buy
back a piece of furniture which was
given to her by my great-grand-
father"
The career of this unduly cele-
brated woman has been a strange
one. Without beauty, without
brilliant wit, without any special
accomplishment beyond that Of sit
ting a horse well, she became a
power in the land, and for years she
reigned ondisputed queen of the
demi monde, and set the fashions
for respectable women. But /
think and trust that such a career
as hers is no longer possible, even
in Paris. The days Of such domi-
nation vanished with the dead en-
pire after Sedan. Whatever the
republic may be, it is at least out
wardly decent.
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ChOnp Girls.

A girl who makes herself too
cheap is one to be avoided. No
young man, not even the worst, ex-
cepting for a base purpose, wants
anything to do with a cheap young
lady. For a wife, none but fool
or rascal will approach such a wo-
man. Cheap jewelry nobody will
touch if he can, get any better.
Cheap girls are nothing but the
refuse; and young men know it,
and they will look in every other
direction for a lifelong friend and
companion before they will give a
glance at the pinchbeck stuff that
tinkles at every turn for fascinating
the eye of any that will look. You
think it quite the correct thing "
to talk loudly and coarsely, be bois.
ferrous and hoydenish in all public
places; to make yourself SO bold
and forward and commonplace,
everywhere, that people wonder il
you ever had a mother, Or home, Oh
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100000 for Only Ten.
READ THE LIST OF GIFTS.
Drawing Positively June 80, 1877
And Every Three Months Thereafter.

The present management empboiicallV Rotify
thc public that there ioiu be no postpOnement Of
hi, draioing as IS usual IN such enterprises, but
that Il pU positipelv and unequiUocallv take
place on The date named.
THIS. ne Second Drawing, ,oiR Be- conducted
lite the first to the fairness Of mach ,e foioioino
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. 1. M.
Major, Public PriAter State OF Kentucky /;
Hon. Thomas N. Lindsay, Pres't Farmers
Bank Of Ky.; Hon. Thomas c. Jones. Clerk
ofsupreme Court Of KY; Judge X. A. Thomp-
son, Pres dg Judge Franklin Co. Court; James
G Crockett, Clerk Frank County Court.
Remittanoos can be made by mail, express,
draft, postodice 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 g. W. BARROW & CO.,
Courier-Jo Journal Building. Louisville, Ky.
Send for Circular. 47-eod.l10.dEw
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GENTLEMAN JIM.
The Romance from a Mine Disaster
In the Laekawana Valley.
Cincinnati Times.l

The Romance from a Mine Disaster
In the Laekawana Valley.
Cincinnati Times.l
In the "Diamond" shaft there
was no steadier, harder worker than
Jim Gardiner. What he did with
his money was long a mystery-he
had no wife, no family, no expen.
siye habits, no relatives that any
one knew of, and yet no savings
bank account. 1t was learned later
that all but the little needed for his
daily wants went for charity-found
its way quietly, unobtrusively, into
the huts of women and children
whose husbands and fathers had
gone down in the crush of falling
timbers or come forth black and
crisp from the scorching fire. damp.
There was something about Gar
diner that suggested former life
of a higher grade. He talked lit
tie, but that little was in words well
chosen, and of choice dialect. His
dress was as rough as the toughest.
but he carried it as a man who had
been used to face the world smil-
ingly. They called him "Gentle-
man Jim in the mines, but they
all liked him as a man who ALWAYS
played fair and asked no odds.
In the accidento Of last April, when
the roof of a part Of the mine fell
in, Gardiner was killed. 1t ap-
pearlng in the evidence that there
were a few seconds, during the
crack Of timbers, before the roof
fairly came down, and in that brief
time, in those few beats of the
pulse, "Gentleman jim" caught
two boys with his lion-like strength,
and tossed them cleay out of the
fatal chamber into the safe main
alley. Then he went down with the
roof.
When his body was recovered the
next day, they found him with his
right hand thrust inside his vest
and claSping tight little pocket
book. There was nothing IN it
save a card, on which was fastened,
with drop of sealing wax on the
stem, all that remained of a rose
bud and two geranium leaves. Un-
derneath was written, in woman's
hand, Marie-Toute a toi-June
4, 1867" Just below was written,
in a mans hand, "June, 1S70--all
withered, except the thorn"
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Curious Certificate of a Servants
Character


The following certificate of SER
wants character is taken from the
Springfield Miss Federal Spy,
1877:
Elizabeth Langley, the bearer
hereof, came into my sarvice on the
10th of January, 1856, and con-
tinued with me till the 3Oth of
May, 1898, and during all that
time was as honest as the day is
long. She is a clean woman, & one
Of the best cooks going. 1t would
do your heart good to taste one Of
her raggoos and frickseeses-I never
seed any of your men cooks that
was fit to hold a candle to her-she
beats 'em all to pieces. She makes
a Solomon Grundy fit to- be sarved
up to the Princess Royal, and her
soqpe a la rain is most monstrously
fine. She has, however, a trifing
failing (very few Of us are parfect),
she likes coriell now and then,
but never disguises herself with
licker in a morning. Whilst she
is sweating and stewing over the
fire, a drap would not be amiss; but
she sometimes swallows ounces in
stead Of drains, and begins to stare
like a stuck pig before she has sent
the dinner up to table. Except the
immoderate use of strong lickers, |
have nothing to lay to her charge !;
and that, you know; she may easily
break herself of.
"The worst of it is she is too purt
when she is in her cups, and swears
she is as sober as a judge, when she
is perhaps as drunk as an alder
man. Il have nothing to allege
against her, except that she is CON
tinually examining her nostrils with
Scotch snuff, particularly when
hanging her head over a, made dish,
etc, and it is difficult to determine
whether the nose or the dish re-
ceiyes the larger portion of the
pungent powder. If you can over
look these triAes, you will find Betty
a very valuable sarvant. She has
no followers, except two or three
young fellows, whom she calls
cousins. ! would not have parted
with her on any consideration, but
l have lately missed several articles,
and my suspicious have lately fallen
upon the cook; God knows whether
they are properly fonnded-she may
be perfectly innocent; but when a
sarvant spends more upon her tip
pie than her whole wages come to,
money must be raised somehow tc
pay for it. If you think proper to
hire Betty, | hope and believe she
will turn out very honest and sober
MATILDA ALLwRIGHT."
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HE AND SEE.

v. WHITBTORE,
Publisher and Proprietor
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TOO MUCH GOLD LACE.

New York Suns Special Correspondence
Your trenchant leader relating
to extravaganza in the naval SER
vice caused indignation among
those whose selfish interests were
exposed, but gave pleasure to pa
triots everywhere. The fact that it
costs $32, 4S450 more for the pay of
the officers of a United States cor
vette than it does for the pay of
the skilled officials of an English
iron-clad frigate-which in an hour
could put hors de combat the con-
centrated American Navy was
startling, but not more so than the
waste of the peoples money, for
instance, which goes on at the Ma
val Academy year by year. This
institution is supposed to teach raw
lads the mysteries of theoretical
seamanship and the intricacies of
English grammar (which the result
shows is unsuccessfuD. It's curri-
culum embraces no instruction
which is of an industrial or civil
value, and its graduates are of no
use in this age of material progress.
Men from West Point conduct vast
engineering projects, survey the
continent, open the gates of COM
merce, and guard the frontier; in
this way some Of the cost of their
maintenance is returned to the
country. Not so the naval gradu-
ate. He is meant for a sailor; if
he is not good at that he is good for
nothing. The $25,OOO spent on
each lad who gets through Annap-
oils is SO much money thrown away,
as far as the good of the country is
concerned, and the high pay he
gets is spent in great part abroad.
We used to teach boys to be sailors
in the "battle and the breeze :"
now n new system has been discov-
cred, and we try to make sailor Of
him on dry land. AS well try to
learn a man practical farming at
sea.
In addition to the regular corps
of professors and others at Ann
apolis, costing in pay alone $50, 600
per annum, a number of naval Off
GERS are detailed at 100000 more,
and, to cap the climax, $4,000 is
spent on Salaries for engineers to
teach a class of young men how to
patch a boiler without taking of
their kid gloves, and 20 wear gold
lace and epaulettes with dignity in
the fre-room Of war ship. AS a
consequence it has been found ne
cessary to employ machinists, each
at a salary of 5000 per annum, to
do work which ought properly to
be done by the engineers them
selves.
1t has been stated by the Hon.
II. L. Dawes in congress-while he
was chairman Of the committee on
appropriations in the house-that
the United States navy cost three
or four times more per man than
the British navy, and he asked why
it was. 1t is plain to see. We have
on the navy list l16 officers with Z
rank corresponding to general Off
Ger, and a number Of captains, com
manders, lieutenant commanders
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anything to do. So be it. You
will probably be taken for what you
are worth, and one of these years,
if you do not make worse than a
shipwreck of yourself, you will be-
gin to wonder where the charms
are that once you thought yourself
possessed of, and what evil spirit
could have SO befooled you. Go on,
but remember, cheap girls attract
nobody but fools and rascals.
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A NOVELETTE, WITH NOTHING IN IT.

NoN hLhIIh WITH NOIHlNG IN IT.
He was barely two-and-twenty,
She was only seventeen;
He Of bu ding hopes had plenty,
She was graceful as qusen.
lie had ordinary features,
An unusual affair,
She, the daintiest of creatures,
Was possessed Of golden hair.
He beheld her and was captured,
She admired his manly style;
De professed himself Onraptured
In very little while,
She responded to him shyly,
Love she hardly knew as yet,
For Ban Cupid's very willy
In the way he spreads his net
He full often vent to WOO her,
Several times within a week,
And would whisper gently TO ber
These soft nothinRs lovers speak.
She would hearken to him gladly
Just as maidens always do;
Re declared he loved her madly,
Which was very likely true.
He along the lane was straying,
An occurrence undersigned.
She was there engaged ia maying
Quite promiscuOusly, mindl
While Apollo, in his splendor,
Tinted every golden tress.
He exclaimed in accents tender,
BE my bride" and she said, "Yes l''
-lLendon Dispatch
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and lieutenants sufficient for the
greatest navy in the world. In our
navy there is an officer for every
five men; in the British, on officer
to every forty. Every vessel in the
United States navy costs an aver
age annually of $13S, ,944, and in
the English navy $69,5O0. Every
ton in the tonnage of the American
navy costs $15, lilo per annum, and
in the British S7266. To keep our
navy aAoat, to keep it in repair,
costs $500 a man; in the English,
$50 to maintain it at the standard,
and this while the very existence OF
the kingdom depends on an over
powering navy, while the republic
could well defend itself against the
world with few ships for harbor
defense. We have two commodores
for every ship at sea, and five-sev.
enths of the pay OF the navy goes
to the officers. This is why it costs
three or four times as much to sup.
port our navy as it does for Eng.
land to rule the seas with her pow.
erful fleets Of iron. .clads.
Wages, expenditures of every
kind throughout the whole coun.
try, are in state of reduction
Thousands of strong men cannot
get work at any price. The neces
sites, the absolute necessities of 8
large portion of the people cry fol
economy. The army was reduced
why not the navy? Only few
years ago captains aud first lieuten
ants and majors, many of whom
had been general officers in the
volunteers, and led their'commands
in action, whose long and faithful
services entitled them to the great.
est consideration, were mustered
out OF service, while the navy was
hardly disturbed, although it is q
fact, which a reference to the nava
register viii justify, that very few
of the line officers, even of the cor.
responding rank Of. army major
ever heard the booming of hos
tile cannon, but were, while YET
lads, after the conclusion of peace,
and all danger was over, promoted
rapidly to high rank and large pay
Let the grades of lieutenant com,
mander and ensign, established
during the war, be abolished, and
those officers given the next lower
title and rank, for sooner or later
we must return to ante. bellum
times, and now is the proper time
Let the simplicity and frugality ol
the system which produced a Nc.
Donough, and Truxton, and Por.
ter, and Farragut, and a host oi
gallant heroes who gave to the
navy renown and glory, be restored
and the Annapolis school be closed
forever. The ostenstation and ex
travagance Of the present must give
way, and the crowd of officers who
can show no useful record, anC
those who are unfit for the service
be gently but firmly mustered out
and finally cut down to a proper
basis the present excessive pay.
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LoR POSTERS, SHOW BILLS, CARDS
Y Circulars, etc., Cotton up with tho latest
ftyle Of types and on superior paper Of any
desired color, go,to the Ledger, otilcoani 90
amine btock.aId,prices.
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Mildness conquers-and hence it is
that the gentle yet positive influence Of
Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup overcomes so
quickly the disorders of babyhood.
Price 25c.
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Louisville and Great Southern R.R

10;S0p. m Night Express Connects at Milan
for St. Louis and Chicago, at Mckenzie for
Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and the
Southeast, atGuthrie for Hopkinsville, Hem
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 aRd East.
4:40 pm. Milan Accommodation - Daily
except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Cars on either train to Louis
Vile, and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or Information, apply at Ticket
Office. 267 Main, Northwest corner Madison
JOHN t. FLYNN, Sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
31-t
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MEMPHIS & LITTLE ROCK R.R,
ShrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas,
TIME OARDi

TIME CARDi
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train. daily...........5.9O 30 pm. lO.lo pm
Freight train leaves Hope
field daily(ex. sunday)7. 80 am. 5.20p m.
Passengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville, Nash
VILE and Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argenta FER
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad fer points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texas.
Pullman alaoe Sleeping Cars on all night
trains.
Offices 2Ts and 2S7 Man street, and at depot
foot Of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
or to the undersigned
X. A. WILLIAMS. Pass. Ag't, Memphis.
M.S.JAY u. P. az d 4. Ag't, Little Rock.
W. E. SMITH, Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
l2At
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MISSISSIPPI q TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
MErpH1s. TENN, May l2. 1877.

nN AND AFTER SUNDAY. MAY 18th,
~ 1877, trains will ruH as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily .~3:OO pm. 1880
Freight and Ac dation,
ST. M. BURKE, Sup't.
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
Weekly Public Ledger,

Published every Tuesday at 81 per annum lin
advance). Postage free.
Communications upon subjects of general
able.
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A Rev Field sport.

A new and fashionable diversion
is becoming popular in Baltimore
among young ladies and gentlemen
fond of horseback riding. 1t is
called "hare and hounds" and is
played every Saturday. A young
gentleman and a young lady well
mounted are chosen to represent
the hares, and all the rest play the
hounds. The brace Of hares are
given fifteen minutes start, and
have satchels of white paper cut in
small pieces with which they are
expected to mark their course. The
ride is sometimes FIVE miles and
back, by roads and lanes, and the
first couple that oyertake the hares
have the privilege Of playing that
part in the next performance.
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we could quell the puolic clsmor by hsv-
ing it drawn like truck from place to
place. Such is the Inconsistency OF the
present public demands.
The idea of central location OF
the Capital in West Virginia, is simply
absurd, The history OF West Virginia,
snd the various changes of the location
Of its Capital, has proved one OF the
strsngest known to the world. 1t has
been pulled here and there by the derna-
goguos and ppiltairn OF this land. |
cannot agrao with these parties. And
right here ma about to mako some
statements on this simple question, to
which
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CONSULTATION FREE.
COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTION.
COUNTY CoMMssIoNERs OFFICE, /

JULY 81. lNiIs ]
The following Commissioners OF Elec-
ton, duly appointed by the Board OF Com
miSs!oners, July ., 1877, are hereby notified
TO assemble AZ their respective voting pre-
ciuctS, on the morning Of August !, 1877,
and open their respective polls ut O'Clock
\. M. and close the same at 81 o'clock y.
m, and to COndu I the said election In &C
cord ,uce with the laws rs pc" acts OF tue
LEGISLATURE OF West Virginia, chapters D
and 81, sections and 2, passed February
q apd ., 1877:
For Washington D.Strict-H. W. Phil
lips, Michael Edwards, ia mes Roberts.
For Clay DiStrict-JOhn Hewcll, OthO
W. Helskel, John Ii. Hall
For Centre Dstrict-Th0mas II. Reed,
C'laS. iiugeI, John Noegler.
For Ritchia DISTRICT. Thompson,
TnpS. McCTeady, JohH W. Waite.
FOR RIchland District Precinct No. l
John w. McCOllOch, AlonZ j. McCOlloch,
VIM. North. Precinct No. James &. Nc
Cord, Philip Reilly, John b. Lyle.
For Madison Distritt-John q. Smith,
Chas. Lukens, Geo. X. Wheat.
For Union Dislrict-John II. Downs,
Casper He'll, James Launder.
For Webster District-JAmes VI. Todd,
stephen Clark, q. q. MuIdock.
rur ,riadelphia Dislrtct-Precinct No. !
... -. : kinSOu, ID. NJ. Thornburgh, j. r.
-...rn. Precinct No 2-P. VI. Hand rsOn,
Wesley Robinson, sam II. Oldham. Pre-
clnct No 3-Jos. l.. Bedillion, John Piar,
ISac Blanchard.
For Liberty District-Precincl No. ii.
u. whitman, Vim. Castor, Isaac Davis.
Precinct No. 81. b. Morgan, Philip
Young, Vincent Nanment r. Precinct No.
john Howard, J. II. Montgomery, Jas.
Test: CHAs H. DEITERS,
jy3lt Clerk Board of Commissioners.
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,nANY WHO ARE SUFFERING

from the effects OF the warm weather ana
are debilitated, are advised by physicians
To take moderate amounts oil whisky wv
or three times during The day. IN HUE
while those who adopt this advice re,
uuently increase the numher OF "dflhks
and in time become confirmed ineoriates:
A beverage which will not create thirst
for iutox eating liquors, and which Is IN :
tended especially tor the benefit OF deDlli-
tated persons, W hether at home or aoIoao.
Is DIR. Schencks Sea Weed Tonic; con,
tanning the juices of many medicinai
herbs, transportation doesnot create ~, ah
appetite for the intoxicating cup. Inc
nourishiug and the liie-supportins pro-
perties of many valuable natural proiuc-
lions contained in il and well known 70
medical men have q most strengthening
influence. A single bottle OF the rome
will demonstrate its valuable qualiIles.
For debility arising from sickness, over
exertion or from any cause Whatever,
wineg assful of Sea Weed Tonic taken
after meals will strengthen the stomach
create sn appetite tor wholesome foou' 10
ali who are about leaving their homes, we
desire TO say that the excellent enects o
DIR. Schenck's ~ asonable remedies, sea
Weed Tonic, and Mandrake PITS, are par
ticularly evident when taken by thost
who are injuriously affected by chang,
of water and diet No PEI son should ieaNt
home without taking supply OF thest
safeguards along. For sale by al Drug
gistS.