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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27
Thursday, August 80. 1877.

at the trent entrance Of the Court house, on
the west side of Main street, in Memphis,
Tennessee, between the hours Of IL a M. and
pm, sell at public cutlery to tho hiohest
bidaeI, for cash, tho following described real
estate, viz:
All the undivided right, title and interest
descended to VIM. B. Waldran as one of Tao
heirs at law Of his late father, Jesse 4. Wall
dram, deceased, which The said w. b. Wal
dram has or may have in and to the following
described lot, piece or parcel of land situatea
in tho county Of Shelby and State of Tonnes
sec, immediately east of and near tho city 81
Memphis, and bounded and described as fol-
lows; Beginning at the intersection OF Union
with kopewalk avenue; thence north with tho
east side of Ropowalk avenue ton chains and
torty-eight links 70 the intersection Of Rome
walk with Henry avenue; thence cast with
the south side OF Henry avenuesix chains and
eighteen links to a stake; thonco south ten
chains and forty-eight links to Union avenue;
thence west with tho north side Of Union ave-
nue. six chains and eighteen links TO the be-
ginningA containing about six and 4 half
acres. The title Is considered good. but I sell
and convey only as Trustee.
July q, 1877. iI-iSi
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present state or ahs,Garaen ofnaau


Prince de Ligne, countryman and co.
temporary Of Maria Theresa, wrote an es
say "On the Location OF the Earthly
paradise" and, after some reflections on
the hygienic influence OF different eli.
mates, calls attention to the fact thar
paradise traditions, in locating the gar.
den of Eden, differ only in regard 10
longitude, but not TO latitude. The lat
itude keeps always near the snow boun.
dairy, q line just south of the regions
where snow may fall but will not stay
on the ground. 1t passes through Thi.
bet, Cashmere, northern Persia aad Asia
Minor, and reaches the meridian Of En-
rope near the center of the Mediterra-
mean" The nations that celebrated
life as a festival have lived along this
line, and we may doubt if in the most
favored regions OF the new world, human
industry, with all the aids of modern
science, will ever reunite the opportuni.
ties OF happiness which nature once Law
ished on lands that now entail only mis-.
cry on their c~ultivators. All over Spain
and Portugal, southern Italy, Greece,
Turkey, Asia Minor, Persia, and west
ern Afsghanistan, and throughout Afri-
ca from Morocco to the valley of the
Nile, the aridity Of the soil makes the
struggle for existence so hard that to
the a majority of the inhabitants life
from a blessing has been converted into
a curse.
Southern Spain, from Gibraltar, to
the h~ead-waters of the Tagus, maintains
now only about onetenth of its former
population, Greece about one-twentieth.
As late as A. D. GO, o good while after
the rise Of the Mohammedan power, the
country now known as Tripoli and dis
tlnct from the Sahara only through the
elevation Of its mountains, was the seat
OF eighty. five Christian bishops and had
a population of 5000, 900 of which three
quarters Of one per cent are now leftI
The climate which, according to authen.
tic description, must once have resem.
bled that Of our southern AlleghaRies,
is now so nearly intolerable that even
the inhumanity Of an African despot
forbears to exact open.air labor from 9
A. NJ to . P. N Steamboats, that pass
near the Tripolitan coast in summer, on
their way from Genoa to Cairo, have to
keep up a continual shower of artificial
rain to save their deck-hands from be-
ing overcome by the furnace air that
breathes from the barren hills of the
opposite coast. The rivers of some of
these countries have shrunk to the size
Of some of their former tributaries. and
from Gibraltar to ~Samarcsnd the annual
rainfall has decreased till failure of
crops has become a Chronic complaint.
And all this change is due to the in
sane destruction of forests. The great
Caucasian s%ylvania that once adorned
the birth-land Of the white race from
the western Pyrenees to the foothills Of
the Himalayas has disappeared; of the
forest-area Of Italy aud Spain in the
days Of the elder Pliny, about two acres
in a hundred are left; in Greece, hardly
one. But even the n~akedness of the
most sterile tracts Of southern Europe
is exceeded by tue utter desolation OIL
the Ottoman provinces.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27
Rumors Of a strike.

The rumor was circulated by a well.
known citizen on yesterday hat the Off
GERS Of the street railroad are on a strike
for higher wages, $1,000 per nnnum bt
ing regarded as not sufficient to support
either of them, or furnish the actual
necessaries Of life. 1t is also rumored
that the three proprietary officers will
resign and take positions as drivers,
whose pay has been cut down from sixty
to forty dollars per month, and who work
eighteen hours per day,
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uentleman's Magazlne.l
This young person is a plump, ROSY.
checked, black-eyed, glossy haired crea.
ture, kind hearted and affe~ctionate.
adorably cbildlike, profoundly ignorant,
and grossly immoral-when she has the
chance of INDUCING in immortality
simply because she has never been
taught what morals mean. She has
been trained exclusively with one view
and with ene purpose, that of being q
pretty animal and serving the sensual.
lty Of her lord. She (being all woman.
ly) would Ike to show her pretty face
and figure in public, to go TO operas.
plays, and balls, and to talk innoceutly
with other men besides her brutally zeal
Gus spouse; but the grand Turk shuts
Leila, Gulnsre, or Aloha up in a harem,
surrounds her With a Gordon of negro
slaves and familiar monsters, and when
she goea abroad constrains her to dis
guise herself in q square-cut cloak, hid.
eously baggy trousers, and a shroud like
veil. The last poor little woman is art.
lul enough to conceal into the most
transparent Of screens; but she cannot
rid herself Of her bedquilt.like looking
cloak, and her bolster.case looking pan.
falcons. Except on occasions of pecu.
liar iestivlty the nearest male relatives
she possesses are excluded from the
harem, the very windows of which Ire
grated and laticed so as to conceal her
from the view Of the outside world. The
European familiarized with the idea OF
the natural equality of the sexes land, /
may add, with the general moral superi.
GRITTY OF the women over mem, looks
with anger, mingled with compassion, on
the situation Of the Turkish women. In
a great many instances, however, the
Turkish women-the khanoum at least
or grande dame at least-is not, it must
in common justice be admitted, a person
very much materially to be pitied. She
eau receive and mingle, 10 an unlimited
extent in the company OF her own sex.
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Chartered oct. 1, 1871
new SERIES. NO BACK DUES.

II. A MAN SAYS TO HIS TENANT
l. that if ne will pay him three or four del.
lars more por month than he has been in the
habit OF paying, at the expiration of eight or
nine years he Would give hin a deed of the
property, the tenant would be most likely to
accept the offer. This is the principle upon
which these Associations work."
In order to meet the demand Of many MP
%plicants, this Association has decided to issue
Quarterly Series OF atOck. Our sub
s~cription book for the Fourth Series, dating
on the LIST day Of July, inst, is now open.
The Series will be- limited, and our friends arc
requested to hand in their subscriptions at
once TO the Secretary at the Office Of tho As
ISOLATION, No. 2Jl Main street, up stairs, who
will be in attendance during business hours to
give all desired information as to the work.
iAgs Of the Association.
This Association is commended TO the work.
ingmen of Memphis particularly. Its history,
It's success, its present prominent rank in the
financial and business circles of tho city, its
good work in the past and its bright prospect
Tor better work in the future mark Il as a
prominent example of what the pluck, perse-
yerance, stability and frugRity of the work.
lngmen OF Memphis can achieve
Our quarterly issuance Of new stock opens
up an Opportunity To all classes to avail them
selves. Of the benefits which attach to this
Association by reason o: experience.
achieved succesR ard Il low ratio Of
working expenses.
l.. JAGRILL, President.
CHAs. ". PATERSON, Secretary. 126-l51
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27
VINO Is MOSES FUTILE :
The Ring Game Played at Louisville
BY a Man Claiming 10 be an Ex-
MCMILLAN.

The Ring Game Played az Louisville
by a Man Claiming 20 be an Tx.
Memphian.
The Louisville Evening News of the
oath instant states that the examination
Of Moses futile upon the charge Of be.
ing a suspected felon, developed in the
city court, yesterday morning, all OF the
extraordinary points in the ring game
which, though an old dodge in the more
advanced Eastern cities, is comparatively
new in Louisville. The bogus ring ma.
uipulator provides himself with about a
score of gold rings, has initials traced
in them and is ready for bust.
ness. He loiters about the city
where crowds may be found, and
when be selects his intended victim,
who is generally a comfortable looking
farmer o. a green boy, assumes a hurried,
business-like %demeanor, and walks in
front. Presently be will suddenly stoop
and appear to pick up something. He
calls his victims attention then to a
heavy plain gold ring, apparently worth
$40 to $l5, and slludes to it as the ring
the nan has Just seer him find. He
carelessly refers to it as a valuable ring,
but unfortunately property for which he
has no use.
He never wears jewelry. Substantial
business men never do, etc. Then he
makes the discovery that it has its own
er's initials in ii, and will undoubtedly
be advertised. He then proposes to let
the ready dupe have it for a mere song
say a couple of dollars, which the pur-
chaser can recover as a reward in case
it is advertised. 1t appears a good, safe
bargain, and is generally successful. Ii
is q paying business, too, as the valua.
BILE ring cost 81 so per dozen. futile
had Witnesses to prove a good character
here and at his former home in Memphis,
where he was onee a school trustee, buI
was very judiciously held in 5000 fol
six months. This should be a warning
TO all school trustees who are tempted "a
fool with rings and such things.
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consumption Can be Cnrsa.

Nashua Telegraph
A correspondent of an English med
ical journal furnishes the following re
cipe as a new cure for consumption
Put a dozen whole Lemons in cold water
and boil until soft mot too soft, roll
and squeeze until all the juice is ex.
tracted, swesten the juice enough to be
palatable, then drink. Use as many as
y dozen q day. Should they cause q
pain or looseness of the bowels, lessen
the quantity and use five or six a day
until better, then begin to use a dozen
again. BY the time you have used five
or six dozen you will begin to gain
strength and have an appetite. OF
course as you get better you need not
use so many. Follow these directions
and we know that you will never regret
it if there is any help for you. Only
keep it up faithfully. We know Of two
cases where both Of the patients we're
given up by the physician, and we're in
the last stages.of consumption, yet both
we're cured by using lemons according
to the directions we have stated. One
lady in particular was bedridden aud
very low; had tried everything that
money could procure, but oil in vain,
when, to please a friend, she was finally
persuaded to use the lemons. She began
to use them in FEBRUARY, and in April
she weighed one hundred and forty
pounds. She is o we'll woman to-day,
and likely to live as long as any Of US,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27
A REJECTED POEM.
An Arkansas POstesa Elnds an Or,
gan I'm The Ledger.

An Arkansas POstesa EInds an Or.
gan I'm the ledger.
The wrappers of our country exchanges
often contain curious literary produc
lions written by correspondents, and
thrown by the editor into the waste bas.
ket for the purpose Of becoming wrappers
of papera sent to exchanges, The Prai
RE County Organ, an Arkansas journal,
last week came TO the LEDGER office en-
folded in a choice bit of poetry and
prose, the production Of a fair and con.
slant reader of the Organ; but the unpo.
etc editor cast it aside as unworthy Of
publication aud to do the ignoble work Of
becoming a wrapper for the Organ. Our
literary editor saved the gem from per.
diGon, and triumphan:ly gives it to the
world Of letters as a waif hat had beer
almost lost forever:
OUR PRAIRIES.
Let US sing our prairie s,beauty,
ROBBED in grt On, bedecked with flowers;
Sure i is a pleasant duty,
To thus pass away tho hours.
Our Creator.
To him alone,
Dor the wbite throne,
We bow and own,
None greater.
So we chant our lovely prairios,
With our splendid groves combining.
EOTmiLC many boauteONs areas,
All less favored land outshiAiog.
80 let US praise,
In thrilling lays,
All nature 8 ways
Astounding.
With highest zest.
Great natures best,
We claim our nest"
Surrounding.
juno II, 1ST7. G.. e. NJ.
lFor the 0rgan.l
Mr.. EDIToR-You printing people
prefer prose to poetry. All perfectly
proper, perhaps. Pardon the a%llitera
ton. But how a any one suppose the
minds of all the gay and young can be
confined to sober prose and leave Their
happier thoughts ~unsung2 1t surely
would be most absurd to think of such 4
wicked thing, when God allows the pretty
bird to tune its voice and freely sing,
Ii this will only pass for prose and in
your paper find a place, then | may hops
before | close, hat you will grant still
further space, for a few lines in different
formi in praise OF this, our lovely land
a land filed, too, with hearts that warm
and thrill to all that's good and grand
II this is printed as a friend, | hope
you will-well-a-ahem please two
extra copies send to your well wisher,
G. e. M.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27
A Scarcity Of Beaux at saratoga.

Of late years hotel society at
Saratoga seems always the same.
The pater familiases, old, gray
haired, with long frock coat fresh
from the tailor, gold-headed cane
and high, white hat; the seeming
ly youthful and adipose wife the
inevitable and often innumerable
jaunty daughters, this year with
immensely yellow, black-lined hats,
cooked up on one side, 50 tightly
bound up-tho daughters, not the
hats-as to make their hitching
walk resemble that of fettered hens,
and blazing all over with cream
colored ribbons and roses-they are
all here, as usual. The very last
fashionable thing for the aforesaid
young lady to do when the piazzas
of the great hotel are full of guests
and visitors from the smaller houses
lolling in their chairs, is to start
and amble along in front, suddenly
give her head a toss over her left
shoulder, as if expecting some one,
proceed a few steps further, stop,
look down in a rejecting manner,
then turn and go back as fast as
her pull-back viii permit, looking
as busy and as distracted as if she
had two minutes to pay a note at
bank. Here and there, but lawful
ly scarce" as the young ladies say,
turns mp a beau, or, more correctly
speaking, a young man, who plays
billiards, smokes cigars, drinks mint
juleps, and drives u fast horse.
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Ladies' Ice Cream ParIOr nj
BarIee's, 32S Main st. lit
Health OF Memphis.

The Sanitarian, the organ Of the Med.
ico'Legal Society, for August, gives the
mortality of the leading cities Of the
United States for the month Of June; the
mortality per 1000 inhabitants annually,
from all causes, and certain special
causes. The mortality Of Memphis was
o. 4, being less than Paterson, N. ] ;
Knoxville, Tenn Nashville, Tenn;
Mobile, Ala Richmond, Va and Bal.
timore, Nd. The mortality of Nashville
vas 81 So Of Knoxville. % OF.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27

THIS is THE CHEAPEST AND MOST
4 delightful purgative before the public. Is
sparkling as n glass Of soda water. Far sumo
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,
heartburn, collie, sour stomach, natulency
sick headache, kidney affections, etc.
For those who load a sedentary or closely
confined life, and become Of n constipaied
habit, u acts like q charm. 1t is specially
prepared for the mssses; is put up in largo
bottles and sold by all druggists at SOC. No
family, no mother, no one travelling, no close
student. no sew ng-girl should fail to use it.
Sold by all Wholesale aud retail druggists.
J.P. DROMG0OLE n Co., Prop'rs.
6L-xxY-I Louisville, kentucky.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27
THE i
MEMPHIS.
Friday Evening, JaIy ~, 1877.

Tho PHbIIe Ledger nc Five Gents.
The PUBLIC LEDGER will be supplied
on all trains and at all stations on the
following railways, at FIVE CENTS per
copy, by the agents Of the Southern
Railway News Company, viz:
Memphis and Louisville railway.
Memphis and Little Rock railway.
South and North Alabama railway.
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railway.
Memphis and Charleston railway.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE AND PADUCAH
AND MEMPHIS RAILWAYS.
Mr.. John Epperson, or employees, will
supply the PUBLIC LEDGER at five cents
on the above named railways.
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Sid Cooks Peabody Billiard
Room IL pronounced first
class by all visitors. 33-t
Tho Flood

Has subsidized. Raleigh rallies againl
The bridge on the New Raleigh road is
thoroughly completed, The distance is
short, only eight miles, shade all the way
and no toll to pay. Come out and see
Aunt Mary; she is looking for You every
day. Rates are low. Conveyance at
Bartlett will bring You straight through.
Come and see Aunt Mary whatever you
do. LOOT
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u-nfortunntn Aaoident.

Yesterday morning Mr.. Thomas B
Dufin, of Taylor & Dufin, Front street,
met with o serious accident on North
Court street, ~dislocating his left ankle
and breaking his leg between the ankle
and the knee. He was winding his watch
at the time, aud while in the act Of step
ping upon the Court Square pavement,
opposite the Southern Express office, he
slipped and fell. Mr.. Dufin was taken
to his room in the Express building, and
medical attendance was at once sum
moned. Last night Mr.. Dulin was rest.
ing easy. He will have to remain in his
room for several weeks, much to the re.
greet OF his friends.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-27
LIST OF PRIZES.

6g72 Cash Prizes, amounting to."....s.sS $4,000
Whole Tickets. $40; Halves, IS; Quarters,
$50; II Tickets, sl0O; 3SH Tickets, $50; 66A
Tickets, $500.
draft. postoiico order or registered letter,
made payable to G. ". Barrow X Co.
All communications connected with the dis
tribution, or orders for tickets, and anPlica-
tions of agents TO sell tickets, should DO adj
dressed to O.. W. BARROW q CO.,
Louisville, KY,
OrNo. 6 West Court street. Memphis, Tenn.
Remember Aug. 80. No time for delay.
d6wll6-l5T
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Police Court.

The Recorder disposed of IKE follow
ing docket this morning; J.. A. Busby
drunk and disorderly, fine So; Philip
Donnelly, drunk and disorderly, fine So
j., 7. Hillsmsn, not laying sidewalk, case
continued for trial; W. B. Kirk, drunk
fine $40.
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Strangers, 60 10 COnVerse's
billiard parlOrs, 81 =. Court at.


will never mar the teeth that are brushed
daily with od,riierous SOZ0DONT. Ii
lends a floral fragrance to the breath as
well as protects the teeth from %corresion
and decomposition. cod
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ICE COLD BEER.
Coolest saloon in the city.
l.. WOELLER,
of Main and GayOsO
TNT

The type, material and workmen Of
the LEDGER job Office are as good as the
best, and hence we guarantee first class
work and full satisfaction to our patrons.
1871
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LEGAL.

hinder AND BY VIRTUE OF ATRUSr
deed executed to me as Trustee. by VIM
u. Waldran, on the 2Sth day Of January, 1870,
and recorded in tho Registers Office Of Shelby
county, Tennessee, in Book No. "A, page 2Of.
to pay the indebtedness secured thereby, and
under the instructions Of the beneficiary, 1
will, on
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murder in mardeman county.

Murder I'm HRrdeman county.
The Bolivar (Tenn Bulletin of the
Goth inst. says:
One Of the most terrible murders we
ever heard of was committed in the
Eighteenth district OF this county on Sun
day night. We gathered the following
particulars Of the affair: An old gentle
man by the name of A. 0. Shields was
waylaid on that light as he was return
ing from a neighbours by his step.son,
Avis Phillips and William Burrass. The
assassins fred at him, the shot taking
effect in the left arm. Mr.. Shields ran
towards q house near by, pursued by the
two men. After running two or three
hundred yards he climbed oysr a fence
into q tobacco patch, and here the blood !
deed was consummated. They first stab.
bed him forty-seven times, and then fin.
ishsd the iendish work by knocking out
his brains with an ak The cries of Mr..
Shields aroused a lady aud boy who
lived near, and they ran out aud wit.
messed the last, scene in the bloody
ira ledy. Burrass and Phillips threat.
ened them with death if they ever told on
them, tut they Immediately gave the
alarm and Monday evening Phillips was
arrested by a party of citizens, brought
to town by Constable Huddleston ant
lodged in Jail. Burrass has not yet beer
arrested. The cause of this murder was
a family quarrel, Phillips accusing
Shields Of mistreating his mother. Al
inquest was held on the body of Shield;
by Esquire j. c. jackson, and q verdict
rendered in accordance with the facts
stated above.
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NOTICE

VNHOSE OWING THE ESTATE OF THE
4 late Mrs. e. 0'CsnnOr formerly Mira
aeogheganl will come forward and soltle'
All to whom said estate is indebted will ne
their claims with tho undersigned within the
timo required by law or tho same will bo
barred. This July 81, 1877.
25-l2s THOMAS KELLY. Executor,
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day when the king, told of the death
OF Amelia, threw up his clasped
hands and cried; at is too much.
This was caused by my poor Anne
LA" and so parted in agony from
his reason.-[Noah Brooks, in st.
Nicholas.
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KAHN & FREIBERG

In the LEDGER job office can be fouD,
competent, skillful and tasteful printers,
who can give entire satisfaction in the
display Of any job Of printing. 1887
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FoR an Alligator cook stove or house
furnishing goods go to
ll4t JONI B. FoRD's, l23 Poplar st.
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$4,000 Cash in Prizes.
FARMERS & DR0vERs BANK, Louisville. Ky,
Treasurer.

NTTTTWTUTf
Tho public are re, poctfully notified that in
the former company, and not wishing to make
n scaled or fractional drawing, the manage
ment have made q sbert postponement Of
sixty days. While regret Ing to'ask the in.
diligence Of their patrons even for this short
period, it is OF their account that this post
ponement Is made, as many have expressed
their wishes that this drawing should be a full
one.
Tho company Is pleasad to announce that
tho courts Of kentucky have decided that the
charter under which their tistributions take
place is Legal Beyond QUbsiION.
being most encouraging. the management
omphaticai y state That this drawing will
positively take plnce en- August Both, or
MONEY WILL BE REFUNDED In FULL.
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WANTED.

A GOOD COOK, white or colored, to cook
"A for a I'm I'll family in the country. In
quire at .h.s Ofito. l2j I9