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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-26
NEMPAIs & LITTLE ROCKR.R.
hrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TIMECARD,

Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily..........5.30 pm. 1l.3O I'm.
Freight train daily lex.
Sunday) ).....,. ............f.U .U0 am. ~ p N
| Passengers going on this road will take
trains at the depot of the Louisville, Nash
Rille and Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argonta for
points on the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
knd Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
arkansas and Texas.
Pullman alsce Sleeping Cars on all night
trains.
| For tickets and information apply at Ticket
pmces q and 2S7 Main street. and at depot
foot Of Washington street, OF at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
br TO the undersigned.
II. A. WILLIAMS, Pass. Ag't Memphis.
NJ. s. JAY. q. ?. AVID t. Ag't, Little Rock
| WI y. SMITH, Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-26

But the State may grant fayors to
individuals that it can not lawfully
claim for itself. 1t is the duty OF
Christian men to set their faces as
a flint against the schemes OF repu-
diation that are springing up in
every direction. The man who is
not honest cannot claim any other
virtue, or hope to have the respect
of his fellow-men. And if all
honest men would openly combine
and speak out against all such pro-
jects the rogues would hide their
heads for shame.
--------S. -D-.v ---
DR. Bulls Baby Syrup is recommended
by all druggists as being a plrely veg.
etabl7 and reliable preparation for ba.
bies. Pricp 25e
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LOTTERY.

A aPLEEDTD OPPORTUNITY "a
a WIN A ORTUNEl-Fourth Grano
lay, October ID.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-26
A FashIonAbIe nystsry Explained.


The tightncss of a lady'S dress
the other day at a garden party won
from me such surprise and admira.
tion that an old dowager, whom |
have known since was a child,
chided me gently. "But it is most
surprising" | maintained; chow
can she get her dress on over-over
her other thing'?" "It is not diff
cult" replied my interlocutrix. 81
happened to be in the cloak room
with her just now; she was having
a stitch put in somewhere, and /
found that her 'other things con-
sisted in tight flannel Jersey ard
a pair Of tight wash.leather-you
know" And there the confidence
ended.
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louisville and Great Southern R.R

|l;4l p 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 for St..
Louis and Chicago, at Louisville for all
points North and East.
lao pm. Milan Accommodation - Daily
except Sunday
vile. and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or Information, amply at Ticket
phice, 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
|tfeet
JOHN 7. FLYNN, Sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent.
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lem, but his secret is still his own.
Don't Like the Law at All.
Richmond Temperance Advocated


Richmond Temperance Advocated
Now that the bell-punch is to
test the consumption Of liquor per
annum, the State will be at GUAM
dary to know the exact amount of
revenue due each year, as "there's
often a slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip" but at any rate
Wen ring, ring away,
From early morn till close Of day;
Then if by this scheme Virg' la don't
profit,
Wen attribute the sum total to Senator
Moffett
Yes, let us punch this public
debt, or the nation, out of exist
ence as early as possible, and we
are not puzzled to know which is
the most destructive, debt or
dissipation.
Virginians, this scheme is to put
your State, after which you are OF
the manner born, on foot-pickle it
with rum-preserye it as q me-
mento for her rising sons.
What constitutes a fourishing
State-wise and healthy popula-
ton, or barren, unabiding wilds?
If the population becomes dimin-
ished, then, to an alarming extent,
the facilities for improvement are
cut off.
Our State is now PROSTATE, to a
great degree, simply from the thin
ness Of the inhabitants of some of
the rural districts, which are in
many instances devoid Of a native
schoolmaster to teach the few scat
tering and almost uncivillized youth
that reside in that particular Wild
erness.
Talk about the late civil war
That lasted only four years, play
ing havoc with our State! Moth
lag, compared to this whisky war,
that has been in existence over
half century, and to-day almost
submerges our commonwealth as
well as the whole world.
During the coming cold and des-
perate winter numbers of fresides
will be made desolate and dreary
from the effects of this intemperate
taxation. Window-glass viii be
punched out; wearing apparel will
be fairly riddled by this punch, for
the punch system is only q contin.
uation of the awful vice of intem-
perance, in a speculative point OF
view.
The dial-plate or calculator of
this tax machine will score each
and every step taken by the drunk
ard toward his eternal home-give
the number Of drinks swallowed,
Would that there could be an at
tachment, that the State might
ascertain the number of good and
useful men destroyed per annum
by this eunningly-deyised contri-
vance and so-calIed public benefac-
tor.
Our street and County Court
day scenes throughout the State
give us a rough estimate of the
number of victims to intemperance,
but not the number of drinks it
requires to make finished drunk
ards; they go reeling from bar
room to bar-room, with the tops of
their hats punched out and their
clothing hanging on their bodies in
almost invisible shreds - all from
the effects Of over-taxation.
We suggest that our legislature
pass law TO the effect that every
grave, the work of intemperance,
from the date of the bell punch,
be decorated with the following in
scription: Rung to sleep by the
Mofett Bell Punch. Gave his life
for the State debt.
:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-26
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Weekly Public Ledger, !,

Published every Tuesday at 81 per annum (in
advanced. Postage FREQ.
Communications upon subjects Of general
interest TO the public are at all times accept
able.
Reiactad manuscrirts 1r,t, ,,or he rat,,rnad
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-26
Christianity Against Reputation
st. Louis Christian AdyOoatel

st. Louis Christian Advocated
The Christian men of this coun.
try have offered to them fine op-
portunity to prove that Christianity
is more than mere profession of
faith in certain principles. Repu-
diation is becoming altogether too
popular. When political eonven-
tons put it into their platforms as
an element Of strength, as they are
now doing, it would seem that hon
esty at least is in danger of defeat.
We have become SO familiar with
bankruptcy that it appears a con-
venient way to pay public debts.
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RAn VoApa.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

tCHEDULE ON AND AFTER SEPT. 10,
D 1877:
Leaves. Arrives.
kuil and Express, daily~ll 60 pm 6.45p.m
bmerville accom- m'dat'n
daily lex. Sundayl....., 5.o0p.m SIS
'lue Twenty Mtnnt-s Faster than
City Giine.
SOmerVilIe train Will stop Rt reg
Tar and flag stations.
The al. 80 pm TrRtT makes the quick.
~ fini~ evec made TO Chattanooga, Knox
ille, Lynchburg, Washington, and the East
md will stop at All Regular Stations, aud at
flag Stations when tagged except Flag Sta
ions between COllisryille and Memphis.
Ticket office 25S Mnin HareeI and Depot
lem phis and Charleston railroad
JOHN A. GRANT,
Chief Engineer and General Sup't.
7. S. DAVANl.
ST Assistant General Passenger Agent
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Whole Tickets sI:5O Whole Ftchets
for St5i 100 fiekeIs, soc.
Chartered for Educational Institutions.
Under charter no postponement can ever
occur. All prizes paid in full. official list of
drawn numbers pu lished in n. Y Herald,
Y. Sun and Louisville Ceurier-Journal.
Circulars containing full partcu ars free.
Address SIMMONS N bICK lNSON.
Managers office, 70 Sd st., Louisville. Ky.
nB- Similar allotments on the 18th and last
days of every month during the year.
7.32dkw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-26
& TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of Schedule.
MnNrHIs. TENN., september /, lg77.

MEMPHIS. Tenn, September l, 1877.
IN AND AFTER MONDAY. SEPT. Sd,
y 1871, trains will run as follows:
Leave. Arrive.
Jew Orleans mail, daily 1900 pm. 1.l7 p.m
;ardis Ac IN dation. daily
Except sur day. lr.....aol1:9O am 800 IN
freight train, daily lex
cept Sunday l...............,6 Scam $500 p. m
226 NJ. BURKE, Sup't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-09-26

VtrglDta's New Devi0e for EnIRtE.
InR Her state ReveBu%-W What n
Leading Temperance journal Has
20 say About the New Year.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29

Book straps, cllmi-, aud bags, at osman s
napeman's.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29

When one has wcll-rotted stable dung, from
cows mostly, he need not look further for ma
nure for strawberries; and it should be applied
abundantly, in order to produce very large
crops. Frequently, very fine varieties of straw
berry plants are purchased and then no care
taken in their cultivation, no manure applied
the weeds are allowed to smother the plants
and they are left to grow in mass of matted
beds or rows; and if they do not yield the
same crop and the same sized berries that thu
nurseryman grows who sells the plants, he ant
his plants are denounced as humbugs. n,
one need expect to produce good fruit of any
kind without good cultivation, and on mos
soils there must be application of fertilizers
Ashes, leaChed or unleached-and all the com
mercial fertilizers that contain potash, art
good for strawberries. The following is high
~ recommended One part nitrate of pOtasl
(saltpeter); one do. Glaubcr salts; one do. sal
soda.
These are dissolved in barrel of water, ant
the water is applied to the plants once weel
in the spring, till the fruit sets. \ barrel o
water containing one pound each of the above
is sufficient for ten or twelve hundred squar,
feet of plants-RuTdl Men Yorker.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29
FARM AND GARDEN.


Every good groom knows that sound oats
and beans and peas, in due proportion and at
least year old are the very best food tor a
galloping horse-the only food on which it is
possible 10 ret the very best condition out OF
a race horse or "A hunter. 1t also has recently
become known that horses do slow work and
get fat--indced, too fat-on maize Qndian
corn which is frequently one-third cheaper
than the best oats, In the east, horses are fed
on barley, and it is a popular idea with Eng
lish officers who have lived in Persia and Sy-
ria. that the change of food from barley to oats,
often, when imported, produces blindness in
Arabian horses Now, although no man I'M
derstands better, or so well, how to get blood
horses into galloping condition as English
grooms, they do not, and few OF their masters
do, know why oats and beans are the best food
for putting muscular flesh on horse. The
agricultural chemist steps in here, makes the
matter very plain and shows that, If you want
pace Indian corn, though nOminally cheaper,
is not cheap at all. When we feed a bullock,
II sheep or pig for sale, after it has past the
store stage, we want to make it fat as quickly
and chcaply as possible. But with horse for
work, the object is give him muscle-in COM
mon language, hard flesh. There are times
when it is profitable to make horse fat--as,
for instance, when he is going up for sale.
For this purpose an addition of about pound
and Il half of oil cake to his ordinary food has
"a good effect 1t is especially useful when
the horse has been close clipped or singed, is
in Il low condition. 1t helps on the change to
the new coat by making him fat horse in
a low condition changes his coat slowly.
When from any cause there is difficulty in
getting supply of the best oats, and excellent
mixture may be made of crushed maize and
beans, in the proportion Of two-thirds maize
and one of Deans, which exactly afford the pro
portions of llesh-forming and fatfoming food
Bran is a very valuable food in stable, for re
ducing the inflammatory effect of oats an(
beans. Made into mashes, it has cooling
and laxative effect; but used in excess, espe
cially in II dry state, it is apt to form stony Sc
cretions in the bowels of the horse. Stones
produced from the excessive use OF bran have
been taken out of horses after DEATH weighing
many pounds,-London Lire Stock Journal
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Facts Worth Remembering.

One thousand shingles laid four inches to
She weather will cover over one hundred square
feet of surface, and five pounds of single nails
will fasten them on.
Onefifth more siding and flooring is needed
than the number of square feet of surface to
be covered, because of the lap in the siding
and matching of the floor.
One thousand laths will cover 20 yards OF
surface, and II pounds of lath nails will nail
them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, 1G bushels OF
sand, and one bushel of hair will make enough
mortar to plaster 100 square yards
A cord OF stone, 3 bushels of lime, and a
cubic yard of sand will lay 100 cubic feet OF
wall.
Five courses of brick will lay one foot in
height on a chimney, 3 bricks in a course will
make fiue inches wide and twenty inches
long. and eight bricks in a course will make
tiue eight inces in width and sixteen inches
il length.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29
Saved by "a Cat.

Some time ago the wife of Mr.. Alfred Davis
who was drowned with his two sons last Fri
day evening in NansemOnd river was confin-
cd to her room with protracted sickness, and
such was the poverty of the poor man that he
was unable to procure the necessary nourish-
ment for her. Indeed, as Mrs. Davis related
the case, the wants Of the family must have
been of the severest and most trying nature,
the family subsisting for several weeks on po-
tatoes and salt alone. During the sad indspo-
,ition of Mrs. Davis and her pressing want for
delicate food, a common house cat went into
the field and caught a young hare and brought
it to the house. Mr.. Davis took the hare and
made it into soup for his suffering wife, which
caused rapid improvement in her condition.
The day following the same cat again set out
on its mission of charity, and succeeded in
catching a partridge, which was likewise
brought to the house and delivered as was the
hare And thus it was, through the instru-
mentality of this cat, the life of this uniortu-
nate lady was saved from absolute starvation.
The facts of the above can be substantiated as
correct, and are given as related by Mr.. Davis
in person.-Svf0W Vd) Herald
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29

Without celebrating the many strong points
IA favor of tall-plowng, a few of the more
prominent benefits may be briefly stated as
follows
/. August and September is good time to
turn over bound.out sod land, and manure and
resced it at once to grass, obtaininga crop OF
hay the following year.
2 October and November is an excellent
time to break u sod land for planting the fol-
lowing spring.
3 The weather is then cool and bracing,
and the team strong and hearty for the work
while the weather in the spring is more relax.
ing and team less able; and spring work being
always hurr, ing, it saves time to despatch as
much of the blowing as possible during the
previous autumn.
4. Sod land broken up late in autumn will
be quite free from growing grass the following
spring the roots of the late overturned sward
being so generally killed by the Immediately
succeeding winter that not much grass will
start in the spring
s. The frosts of winter disintegrate the
Iplowed land, so that it readily crumblcs in fine
particles in the spring, and a deep, mellow
seed-bed is easily made. The chemical change:
and notifications resulting from atmospheric
action during the winter, develop latent fertil
ity in the upturned burrows, which, together
with the mellowing influences, materially in
crease the crop.
g. Most kind of insects are either wholly
destroyed, or their depredations materially
checked. by late fall plowing especially thu
common white grub, and the cut worm.
| T. Corn stubble land may be plowed lat'
In fall, and thus be already for very early sow
ing in the spring, thereby going far to insure
a good catch of grass the roots of the new
seeding getting hold well, or being well estab
lished before the droughts Of summer come
! on.
8. Most land in New England needs deep
er blowing than has generally been practiced
Where the subsoil is fine grained and unctu
Gus, and close, or where there is hard pan o
good quality, deep blowing may be at once re
sorted TO with decided advantage. Where tn,
subsoil is poorer, the blowing may still be al
vantageously deepened by degrees, say an incl
at each new breaking up, BUT in by far ma
iority Of cases, deep blowing may be practicec
at Once,-indeed, it may be the rue, with safe
ty, while shallow blowing may be the creep
ten. Plow, say nine, ten, eleven or twelve
inches in November. The subsol turned W
will grow several shades darker by spring
The !rosts and atmospheric influences of win
ter will mellow the soil, the inorganic element.
and all latent fertility will be made more ac
tive for benefting the crop. In spring, spread
the manure and pillow it in, or otherwise work
it j, or mingle it with the soil to the deptl
say four inches or little more or less, anC
you nave the very best attainable condition
/ for r'alizing food crops, Deeper blowing may
thu, be practiccd than would at all times b,
sal %: eXpedient if the blowing is delayed til
spg.Ig.-.NdSs. Plopghmaa.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29

In the hall of the Episcopal Palace Of Feter-
borough there is preserved under Il glass the
shell of large tortoise, which appears to have
been double "centennaran." Beside the
shell, there lies the following description OF
this remarkable animal: "The Peterborough
Tortoise" at is well ascertained that this
tortoise must have lived about 220 years.
Bishop Parsons had remembered it for more
than sixty years, and had not recognized in it
any visible change Bishop Marsh Tin whose
time it ded) was the seventh who had worn
the inter during its sojourn here. Its shell
was perforated Gas is SEEM in order to attach il
to a tree to keep it from, or rather to limit its
ravages, among the Strawberries, OF which 1t
was excessively fond. 1t ate all kinds of fruit
and sometimes pint of goosebcrries at a time,
but it made the greatest havoc among the
Strawberries. 1t knew the gardeners well Got
whom it had seen many, and would always
keep near them when they were gathering
fruit, etc. 1t could bear almost any weight
sometimes as much as eighteen stone was laid
upon its back About October it used to bury
itself, in particular spot of the garden, at the
depth of one or two feet, according to the seve-
rity of the approaching season, where would
remain without food until the following April,
when it would uEa.I emerge from its hiding.
place
place Peterb0 trough, March, 1912.
"The Bishops ,.~ring whose time it lived
were:
/. John Thoma3, i147-1757.
,. Richard T.. rick, 1857.
3. Robert Lamb, 1864
4. John Hinchcliffe, 1863.
;. Spencer MADAM, 1794.
6. John ParsoH-. 1913.
:. Herbert M.@h, !Sl9-iS39 "-.Hontrea!
Witness.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29

IL not easily earned IN these times bot
xI0 II II can be made In three months by any
II III one Of either ser. In any part OF the
UN II country, who IL willing TO work stead.
II u iy az the employ ment that furnish.
$ss per week Ia your town. You need he away
from home night ~ give whole time to
the work. only spare moments We have agents
who making over go per day. All ~ho~ engage
make money fast At the present time money cannot
made easily and rapidly at other business. u
nothing 10 try the business Terms and - OUTFIT
free. Addres. at once, u. HALLETT CO.. Portland.
Maize. lulflI 9mos
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29

OATMEAL BREAD-MiX with one quart OF
fresh oatmeal two quarts of water, and let II
stand over night. When ready to bake, add
one quart of fine Graham flower, half a cup OF
sugar, one teaspoonful of fine salt, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder thoroughly mixed
with flour: mix with spoon. No kneading
is required. Iftoo stiff, add water Bake in
a quick Oven.-Eatinq for STRENGTH.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-09-29

CurculiOs may be best fought by inclosing
the plum or other fruit tree infested-cherries
peaches, etc, with chicken yard fence, and
colOniZing flock of chickens within. Then
after the fruit is set, by slight shaking of tn,
trees early every morning, while the insect:
are still inactive, they will drop off and be
come an easy prey to their ready enemies be
Meath
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THE HORNETS NEST.

Mr.. Haves ia ranidlv earning n 6rs,
class reputation idr faIseness o1 tongns
and inconsistcncv Of conduet Tbs
crratic manner In which be IA execut.
ing that reform in ,hc civil service ~
which he bos nledrcd himsolr has bo ~
come n subieci of nnblic dcrision and
tho matter ,snow bceoming 30 oldtLal
the abundant sarcastic and bumorons
illusions TO II nced 70 have more ,bon
ordinary vigor 70 sove ,bem from an
atmosphere of s,a,encss Marshal p;,
kin, to whom Bn,lor wrote his charm.
ing letter. seems not 10 be n witless
fellow himself and in an in,erv;ew
with him had nj Nav Orleans. and re.
ported in the C;nc;npa,; Enm,;rer ha
comments unon NJ Uaves' necnI;ar
devotion to reform in a yery interest.
inc and forcible wav Mr. iIaves ,yill
not 90 10 sleen oycr ,he ex-msrsbo n "a
words nor does /, lool, 40 If hc was
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-27
EXIT MANY THINGS.

In Carlyle's picturesque and won,
deriul history of the French Revolu.
ton the closing figure is vision in
which the author pictures tho reign Of
imposturc, the breaking out of the
flames, one quack after another tum.
bling into thcm-Cagliostro, Louis the
King, his beautiful and heroic wife, lion.
hearted old De Launay, Robespierrc
Danton, Corday, Carrier-aIl perish.
ing, as impostures musfperish, sooner
or later, in world the God of which
is Truth.
What q vision for man like Car.
lyle on this day of our Lord in Amer.
lea. Into the flames kindlcd in No.
vember Cmsarism has gone, and cen.
tralization, and female sufIragism, and
Credit Mobilierism, and huge and
rampant array of other isms that gray.
itate backwards and forwards and con.
stantly between despotism and quack.
cry. Since 1861 there has been scarce.
ly a page turnedin the national history
that has not had written upon i
either "crime,n deceit "robbery. -
"shoddy," "petrolum," "Beechcrism, I"
"Glendenningery,"" ""Grie, ,""Cmsarism, ("
"brother-in.law-ism," "dishoncsty in
public life" dishonesty in business .
"in politics" society" religion" Into
the flames all these things have gone
with Cagliostro Coliax and the balance
of the Christian statesmen.
And the shams, too, what a world
OF them have gone like old Empedo.
oles to their political Rtna. Butler,
Patterson, Dawes, Bingham, Morton,
logan, Conkling, Dnrell, Howard,
Bullock, Holden, Kellogg, Busteed,
Pomeroy, Caldwell, Delahay, Scott,
Cameron, Moses, Dorsey, Brooks,
Clayton, Shepherd, Chandler, Pratt,
Banning, Richardson, Crcswcll--alI,
all have gone down in the awful up
heaval OF November, none being left
alive anywhere TO cry out as somc
even did TO Belshazzer, aflcr the in.
terpretation had been made Alright
30 King,livc forcverw