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Russian Homes in the Northwest.

A correspondent says: I have seen q
young Russian couple newly arrived on
their claim. working like beavers in the
fine autumn weather to build their hum
BILE home. They had bought a COW, a
yoke of oxen, a wagon, provisions, some
boards, doors and windows, and a pillow
at Yankton, Dakota, on their arrival
from Russia; then hauled the load to
their claim and lived in their wagon till
the house was built. Peter selects a
house-site by a low swale where the tall
grass shows the rich black soil below;
cuts the turf off ali area of twenty feet
square with Ills pillow, and removes it;
digs a water hole near by, then Jokes
his o1en to the wagon and goes around
on the higher swel1s gathering boulders
of convenient size for the walls. Mean.
while, Katrina is not idle. She throws
pals of water on the bare turhess spot,
cuts armfuls of long tough grass to
scatter over it, then leads her COW by the
rope around and around and across it
till their feet have made a mass of thick
deep mud. Fresh quantities of water
are added, and grass enough to give
tenacity to the mass. Then Peter, as
stone-mason, and Katrina as his
tender" lay up the walls of stone and
mortar, thick and solid enough to with
stand the storms of the next ten years.
roof, door and windows are added, and
their warn cottage has cost them next
to nothing. J,'..l, &c.,.
But how about their fuel? Prairie
grass again comes to the rescue. When
q Russian family prepares for cold
weather, they provide a large supply of
the coarse, rank growth Of the swales.
But this would be a wretched sort of
fuel to burn loosely in a common stove.
It needs a Russian stove and special
preparation for burning. Peter. and
Katrina do not buy an iron cook stove.
They build in the center of their house
a large sort of stove, oven, and range
combined, of the same stone work and
mud mortar as before described. This
edifce, in the house of a large family,
is about six or eight feet square, and
is fearfully and wonderfully made. It
has several compartments. The fire.
box, where the grass is burned, is
capacious, and twice q day is stuffed
With grass, twisted into compact twists.
Very little air being supplied, it burns
slowly, and requires renewing at long
intervals; but. the stoue structure gives
out heat enough to warm. the house
abundantly. There are other compart-
ments in the stove for baking and
cooking, and on top of the whole is a
capital hot place to sleep in a cold
uight. Then when the wintry storms
lay an embargo on all teaming and
travel, the boys have only to 60 to the
convenient hay-ricks for an unfailing
supply of good fuel, which has cost
nothing but laber; and the cost in labor
has been far less to men and teams
than that Of cutting and hauling wood,
even when close at hand.
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uow IN Grow Cheerful.

Disease is in q great many perhaps the
majority-of instances the underlying canse
of mental depression. 1t will almost invaria-
bly be found for instance, that. hypochondriacs
are dyspeptic, bilious subjects, and all persons
who have had any experience Of such cases are
aware that sufferers from diseases Of the kid
news and bladder are especially subject to fits
OF dependency. The sure way to overcome
depression is to try q course Of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, a cheering cordial which is
peculiarly antagonistic to the g blues" as we'll
ns to the causes which produce them. This
popular and eficacious corrective OF q dis
ordered condition Of the system remedies the
most obstinate cases OF ! digestion, blllousness
and oonstioation, overcomes disorders Of the
urinary organs, purifes and enriohes the blood,
and restores vfeor to the body as well as elias
ticity to tho mind. ...... .
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Two Apnle.Trees.

1t happened thus on one green afternoon,
When harvest fields were waiting for their
moon,
And fruit was ripe and good,
That two amid the orchard grasses strayed
Whlo apricots and yellow peaches made
Bright stains on the warm wood.
And on a branch that hung right overhead
" golden apples grew, fecked through with
red
Grew perfect side by side.
"They are for US, sweetheart love made them
With color Of thy cheeks and Of thy hair
Come, gather them, sweet BRIDE"
She stood on tiptoe in the pleasant place;
The swaying leaves made shadows on her face,
The apples touched her feet,
NOW this is mine, and this is thine, but we
Will make Of them a gracious memory
They are too fair to eat"
Then, half in loving earnest, half in mirth,
They hid the fruit within the rich, warm earth;
And year by year there grew
Two trees that made green shadows by their
door,
And bore Of golden apples wealthy store
Gold fruit fecked rosy through;
Two kindly trees, that when the children
played
In autumn nights within their scented shade
Would freely drop their store,
Or shed with lavish grace their sweetestf flowers
Upon our lovers in the %sp-ing-time hours,
Telling the old tale DER;
Two trees that always thought one couple fair,
One aged couple crowned with silver hair,
Who hold without q sigh
Sweet sessions, where clear Memory sat content,
Serenely satisfied with life spent,
And Immortality.
There are two graves beneath twoa pple-trees-
Two happy graves, made by the sweet spring
breeze
With apple blossoms white;
Tapped in cool grasses when June roses blow !;
In autumn's splendor, or in winters snow,
Always a peaceful sight.
-Harpers' Weekly.
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in view-and with many expressions of
regret, We bid farewell to u tiresome
uncle.
Now, Charles, send me no more
grumbling letters. My programme
must be carried out, and carried out
with much discretion, for besides the gift
I expect on my t~wenty-irst birthday I
shall receive, as you know, a large sum
of money when Uncle Maurice dies, be-
ing his only legal heir.
OF course some wretched institutions
for wretched people will come in for q
share, but I have every reason to hope
the greater portion of his wealth will be
mine.
You hint that he may marry again.
No fear of it. He adds extreme con-
stancy to his other humdrum virtues,
and has scarcely looked at another
woman, so friends tell me, since his wife
died, fifteen years ago.
Indeed, he himself told me one even
ing in an unwonted fit of confidence that
"his heart was buried in his Cecelia's
grave" or words to that effect. And
knowing that said heart is safely slowed
away under q tombstone, it is rare satls-
faction to me TO watch the young maids,
old maids and widows setting their caps
at him whenever they can get a chance,
which is very seldom, and to see him
walking the while sublimely Indifferent
among them, totally unconscious OF their
hopes and fears.
One Of the old maids, they say, is
really in love with him, and has been all
her life, since her childhood's days,
when he and she attended the village
school together.
In return for her early affection she
had the honor of being bridesmaid to
her successful rival, and I fear her
later devotion will meet with no return
at all.
She is a Quakeress-Ruth Wilson by
name-one OF those timid, ~low-voiced,
dark-haired, self-sacriicing women, with
eyes like a COW, that women of the world
cannot tolerate.
7 must saw that che has never shown in
the slightest way the feeling ascribed
to her in my presence.
True. she came here when Uncle
Maurice was so sick last summer, and
nursed him through the delirious part
of his fever (and I wa very glad to have
her do it, as I was terribly afraid of in
fection), but that goes for nothing, as
she is fond of playing the part of a sister
of charity, and is oftener found at the
bedside Of some very i'll or dying person
than In her own ri%diculously snug little
cottage.
However, I was careful to have her 60
before uncle became conscious, and have
taken care ever since that he never
should find out she was here. Not that
I think there is any more danger in that
quarter than any, other, for Uncle
Maurice, when they meet, which is only
on the childrens' tea and cake days,
seems scarcely aware of her presence.
But, as I said before, in cases like
this, one can hardly be too careful.
Uncle believes firmly that to the IN
ceasing care and untiring watchfulness
OF his devoted neice he owes his life.
May he continue in that belief!
And now goodbye. Destroy tins
letter as soon as read and rely implicitly
on the Judgment and constancy Of
Your own LUCILLE.
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m. n..,IIotfp1 pumu COMPANY. D.,

Tho OscillatinG Pump Company:
Fairbanks & co. are the sole and exclusive
agents OF the Sluthour Pump, owned ana man
aged by the Oscillating Pump Company. They
are the simplest and ystthe most efficient hand
pumps ever invented, their excellence being
fully attested by the fact that at the Centennial
and wherever exhibited, eitherin this country
or. in Europe. the first premiums have been
awarded to the company for hand pumps, ship
pumps, force pumps and. fire pumps: The
smallest Of these pumps we observed worked by
depth Of twelve feet, forced it through q hose
$50 feet long, and threw it with great force 100
feet. Water can be raised from wells at a
depth Of forty feet with perfect ease. They
have been adopted by the Government in many
public. works, and are coming into general use,
supplanting all other hand purnps.-&. Louis
Daily Journal, Oct. 6, 1877. s- 1t"""+.
These pumps are sold at all warehouses OF
the ,Messrs. Fairbanks, the celebrated scale
manufacturers. .~..s--:r ,rfI-"r. .'.l
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A dispatch from Havana says that the Span
ish forces have made prisoners of thepresident
Of the Cuban republic, Don Tomas Estrada,
and several members Of the insurgent chamber
Of representatives.
Over two hundred miners were entombed in
a colliery at High Blantyre, Scotland, by an
explosion OF coal gas, and q large number Of
bodies were recovered IN a f~earfully mangled
condition v
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Mr.. Cheerybles propped his six
months-old boy up in a high chair, and
then looking admiringly at the growing
youngster, asked his wife what was the
difference between the Indian chief now
in Canada and their youngest offspring.
OF course Mrs. Cheerybles 'gave it up"
and the proud father exclaimed, Zone
is Sitting Bull and the other is sitting
bully. Mrs. Cheerybles tainted.
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A Wonderful Echo.

Our last visit in Milan, writes a cor
respondent, was to the Villa Simonetti,
a huge old palace in a plantation about
two miles beyond the city gates, now let
out as a tenement house, and swarming
with w~asherwomen and their broods.
You climb ~toilsomely into the fourth
story, and are ushered into a small room
facing an angle of the lofty flat walls
which surrounded the courtyard on three
sides, the fourth side being open to the
level plain beyond. A woman takes up
a great trumpet, shaped like a fog-horn,
and proceeded to yell, shrek and grumble
through it a number of sharp and fiat
notes, and a marvellous echo comes back
from the opposite angle, and plays along
the sides of the walls, repeating and
thrilling the sounds I cannot tell how
many times, now in plaintive musical
strains, now in singular cadences, nowin
rollicking, guffawing, e1uberant jocu-
Lularity.
Then the damsel-who lives by the
fees that the echo brings her in, like
Eliphaz, the Temanite, "flling her
stomach with the east wind"-took down
an old musket, and loadirg it with great
Formally, tremendously banded it to
your correspondent to fire, but not
knowing whether it would kick or burst,
the offer was politely declined, and, like
another Moll Pitcher or Maid of Sara
gossa, S she fred it out of the window
herself against the opposing angle with
the most astonishing effect, the discharge
echoing and re-eohoing, first like the
file firing Of accompany of infantry, then
like the applause in theatre, and fainter,
until it, died away Like the ticking of a
clock, and expired in a sound like the
faint humming of insects. She SAYS it
repeated ninety times. She might just
as well have made it the even hundred,
for I tried to verifyther statement by
actual count, but had to. give it up in
despair. One might appropriately call
this talking wall a "sermon in stones. "
It is said to be the most remarkable echo
in the world, and I can well believe it.
o. s IL - : 2
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A father inquiries Of his son whether
he can construe Homer, if he understands
Horace, and can taste Virgil; but seldom
does he ask, or examine. or teink
whether he can restrain his passions,
whether he is grateful, generous,
humane, compassionate, just and beneSo-
lent.
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The elegant company from Dun's Broad
way Theater, New York city, are playing to
q succession Of crowded houses in New York
State and Canada. In the hands OF this
talented organization the play Of Pink Domi-
noes has made q decided hit, and il spoken
of as q masterly performance. q, .,,sf -., b.
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Woudor Urou Wonder.

- Wonder Uron Wonder. ~"
Given away-a strange, mysterious and most
extraordinary book entitled 1.-THE Book OF Won
ders." Containing, with numerous curious
pictorial illustrations, the mysteries Of the
heavens and earth, natural and supernatural,
oddities, Whimsical, strangs curiosiies, witches
and witchcraft, dreams, superstNiohs, absurd
ties, fabulous enchantment, etc. In order
that all may see this curious book, the pub.
fishers have resolved to give it away TO all that
desire to see It. Address by postal card
+. Gleason & Co, 1888 Washington Street,
Rnston. Mass. - -.
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A few years ago no one would have thought
that more than q hundred hours instruction
in music could have been afforded for els ;
yet this is just what more than 10000 pupils
have secured at the New England Conservatory
of Music. with its seyenty-ive eminent Pro
fessors. Full information may be occurred by
addressing DIR. F.. Touriee, Boston.
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He that judgeth without knowledge is a fool
and wisdom is not in him. You can'get knowl-
edge Of the $50 Five Ton Wagon Scale: sold
on trial. freight prepaid, by sending to Jones,
OF B%inghamton, Binghamton, N. Y, for free
p:ice list.
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There Is no Excuse for Poor bread, -
biscuits or rolls if Dooley's' Yeast Powder is
used. A trial will convince you that it is the
best, healthiest and cheapest baking powder. ,
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The Chinese demand tribute from Siam, and
q war between the two countries il imminent.
A rebellion in Japan has been overthrown,
and the cholera there is no longer q subject OF
danger.
The obelisk, which was abandoned at sea by
the steamer Olga, was recovered by another
English vessel and towed into . Spanish port.
A Spanish force in Cuba surprised = body of
thirty insurgents, killing fifteen, among whom
were MachIdo, president OF the Cuban cham
bers, and Larr1a, the Cuban secretary OF war.
A new c,ttle disease that broke ont in Russia
destroyed thousands of animals.
A fire. supposed to be Of ~incendiary origin,
broke out in q woodshed at Portland, q suberb
Of st. John, N. B., aud spread with such
rapidity that it swept away everything in its
track for blocks, destroying $50 wooden houses
a"d rendering 1900 people homeless. or these
700 had been sufferers by the great fire last
June. A number Of persons were killed and
injured and great distress and suffering pre-
vailed.
Kars in Asia Minor has been completely
invested by the Russians.
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Positively Cured !

When. death WAS hourly expected from C9nsqmps
was experimenting, he accidentally made . preparation
Of INDIAN HEMP which cured his =, only shir nn: ap 70
pay expenses. Hemp also cures nightsweat, nausea at
The stomach, and Will break 2 fresh c9ld in tSsnsyt,oar
Street, Philadelphia. raining this paper.
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Sold by Druggists.
That wonderful bilious remedy, Quirk's Irish
Tea. It costs only rs cts. . package. .."i"'
Patentees and inventors should read adver-
tisement Of Edison Bros. 10 another column.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-27
Arre.. 81 suspeetea Muraereru.

Detectives Pryde and McCuns last
night suceeededin arresting two negroes,
whom the officers believe committed the
murder Of Mr.. 7. W. Mead on Second
street, near Beal, last Sunday night by
striking him on the head with q brick
bat. The men were locked up at the
station.house, and will have a hearing in
due course Of time. This afternoon at J
o'clock Mr.. Billy Montgomery, who was
arrested Sunday night on suspicion, will
appear before the recorder, when the
case Of the warrant sworn out against
him will be fully investigated. There is
ne doubt but what be will be houorably
discharged, and the result will prove that
q grave mistake has been made by some.
body in having him arrested. He courts
the fullest investigation and insists upon
it, and 40 do his counsel and friends.
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ton; and as the three control over a
moiety Of the stock aud combine to elect
each other to the big Offices, the reduc-
ton could not be accomplished under
the rule of one versus two.
Tom Jones, the negro porter who was
arrested yesterday morning on the charge
of burglary and stealing cigars from the
store Of Mcdonald & Woodwork, Front
street, was committed to jail by Esquire
Qaigley this morning. The detectives
recovered some 1900 cigars from the
thief.
The LEDGER is fighting the street car
monopoly in behalf Of the people. The
Collier bill has become a law, and the
legal fare OF the street car monopoly is
FIVE cents, which, if the jOlting over the
rough tracks is taken into consideration
is exactly four and three.fourth cents
too much.
Street railroad stock ia the hands Of
the stockholders outside of the " trio "
who own over a moiety Of it, aud who
form the ring, can be bought for a mere
cong on the streets. The outside stock
holders do not get any dividends, the big
profits of the road being eaten up in big
salaries paid by a few men TO each other
as officers.
Some persons have taken down and
burned up the fence which erst sur
rounded the little plat of ground called
a park, which is situated in North Mem
phis on Main street, opposite the Louis
vile depot. The trees and shrubbery
have been destroyed or removed and now
it is a vacant, barren.looking lot-a goat,
hog ard COW pasture for the neighbor-
hood.
Last Sunday night DR.. White preached
at Calvary church on the subject rs the
Young Man Ssf4f' He depicted in
foFciblo language the wiles thrown
around the young man By the evil woman.
and cited the example Of Joseph as one
worthy OF being followed By The young
men Of our day. A sermon Oh the more
important question, rs the Young
Woman Safer from the evil. eyed young
man. would be In order.
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MEMPHIS TREATIES - To. rortew
night the w~ell-knonn comedian. John
E. Ovens, will commence an ueaee
msnt at the theater and viii be support
ed BY q specially organized comedy com.
paoy. BJron's comedy entitled Our
Boys will De prodyeed with Mr.. Owens
as Perkyn M~idlleWiek," and Miss
hinette Thompson as May Melrose."
and Mise Emma Marklsy as "Viglet
Mslrsse tour girI,l the other charac.
iers by the msm5ers of the troupe. The
synopsis of the play indicates three acts
as follows: at tie Butterman's; Our
Boys Arrival from Abroad; At the Ba.
r%onet's; Oar Boys and Girls Made Con-
trary to ORDERS; Oar Boys in Distress;
Our Girls TO The Rescue. The comedy
has he'd a h'ga run in New York and
other cities, bat has never been produced
here. On Thursday night Richard
Briusley Sheridsn's great comedy, The
Rivals, will be the attraction. with Mr..
Owens as Bob Acres" On Friday
night the Victims and Scion Single
will be presented, which will probably
be repeated at the Saturday matinee, and
on Saturday night Married Life will
close the engagementof Mr.. Owens and
company. Reserved seats for any night
during the engagement, as we'll as for the
matinee, can be secured at Holleubergs
music store.
Coles CIRcUs Next Monlay the big
circus and %menagerie, known as the
Geological and Equestrian Exposition,
will camp on the bluff for two days. The
price Of admission viii be soc. for adults
aud Csc. for children. The circus at.
fractions will include a fine orchestra, a
stud Of thoroughbred Arabian horses and
ponies, performing elephants, lions,
camels, tigers, stays, monkeys, dogs,
mules, goats and other animals, besides
a large nunber Of male and female
riders, acrobats, gymnasts and specially
performers, comprising the very best
agistes that could be found on the con.
tinent. Tie geological departments are
filled with animals Of all kinds from
nearly ell portions of the globe, and
marine mosters, rare ard curious, from
almost every sea and ocean. All the
costumes are brilliant and new; the stock
is all 10 fine condition, and the perform.
ance will give the most unboundsd salts.
faclier to all.