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up, and the closer you press the
girl, the higher estimate she will
place on your good taste, common
sense and experience.
kissing married ladies is a sepa-
rate branch of the art, and requires
constant practice. Where tender
ness and a little hesitation and
bashfulness, if well put on, will go
long way with a young girl, such
nonsense is not swallowed by a
married woman to any considerable
extent. Be warm, vigorous, and
hearty, and above all things be fire.
quent. One of the prime requisites
on such an occasion is quick ear
for the footstep in the hall, and a
nice calculation as to how long the
husband will take to reach the head
of the stairs. A house carpeted
with brussels requires eternal vigi-
lance, and some times rare presence
of mind. BY the time the worser
half of the family gets his hand on
the door-knob you must be seated
in far corner of the room intently
perusing the stock quotations. A
kiss can sometimes be snatched
when the husband is in the room,
but this requires an expert, and is
risky. Only the other day a mar
ried lady asked her husband to
wind up the clock, and a young
man in the room thought he saw a
golden opportunity, and went for
1t. If that clock hadn't had a mir
ror just below the face that young
man would have been all right, but
now he's going about with a black
eye and nose badly out Of joint.
This is one of the vicisitudes Of
kissing from mere impulse.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
MEMPHIS. TENN. THURSDAY EVENING. MAY l6 1875

years before extensive forest fires
have destroyed the original trees
and much down timberis the result.
Here they finish up the summer
tearing rotten logs to pieces for the
ants and grubS they can find, until
berries begin to ripen.
"The cry Of the bear varies ac-
cording to the circumstances which
occasion it. If in a trap, the adult
will make a grunt, squeal or coarse
noise, very loud and long; if call
ing their cubs from some distant
point where they have left them,
the sound is like the voice of wo-
man calling loudly, and if they are
merely giving notice to each other
while feeding or in company and
not far apart, they whistle quite
sharp and loud, and if suddenly
startled by man or beast, they usu-
ally make a loud snort, which is
like three or four coarse whistles
together"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
VOL. XVI.
to pain you-but will you tell me
why you never answered my let
ters p1

to pain you-but will you tell me
why you never answered my let
ters?"
"Neyer answered your letters,
Oh, Charlie!" Then she told him
all, without reserve, even to the
pleading that had SO hurt her
pride, and as she told it tears fell
from the eyes Of both.
81 can bear anything uow," she
said, "now, that | know you were
not FALSE" for he had written and
waited in vain, and now, looking in
her fair, sweet face, he knew there
was no room IN his heart for an
other. Leaving her he walked
gloomily up and down until the
first dawn came glimmering in.
AS one after another of the passen-
gers rose, he resumed his seat be-
side her. Do you know, my love,
you are more beautiful than an an
gel. / have always loved you and
| always shall, but, God help me
tomorrow is to be my wedding
day."
There were no tears in her eyes
now, but, with groan, she fell
senseless.
The day was far spent when help
came, provisions, and sleds that
could carry those who chose, while
Others would wait for a train, that
was even now approaching. She
was lying as she had lain all day,
her white face resting on a cushion,
her eyes closed and her hands fold
ed before her. "Helen," the voice
was very low, "the horses are ready;
shall | 60 with them or wait for
your" She looked at him as one
would look on the face of the
dead, and whispered, "go." lie
held her cold hand an instant, then
said hoarsely, "My love, farewell" {"
The pale lips breathed, rather than
spoke, " FAREWELL" and the loud
wind, shrieking through the open
door, walled farewell.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

washington Special to St. Louis Republican

Washington Special to st. Louis Republican. ]
A letter just received by Representa-
tive Schleicher from a prominent citizen
of Corlns Christi, Texas, contains the
following reliable statements regarding
the recent terrible, outrageous murders
committed in Webb, Duval and surround
log counties by Mexicans in the garb of
Indians:
Il have lived in the counties of San
Patricia, Live Oak and Nueces for thirty
years, and have been through all the
troubles of the frontier. have never
seen such slsughiers. Tbs took little
boys from seven to twelve years old and
two men on horseback would hold them
up by their bands while the third would
take out their entrsils. This was seen
by women and meA who we're hid in the
brush, and we found the bodies as it was
told US in the manner stated The killed
amounted to about twenty five men and
fifteen children, from seven to fourteen
years old. This raid was made to get
horses for the Mexican army, and am
told by good authority that all the raiders
receive is the money they can get With
other valuables and 81 head for all the
horses they bring safe over the Rio
Grande. / think they must have crossed
over between 500 and 600 head OF saddle
horses. There were about forty-6ve of
the raiders atogethor-about twenly.six
in the party that did the killing, about
ten in the one that was below San Diego,
and eight or ten in the one that crossed
above Eagle Pass When | say 5O) or
GOO head of horses l mean the number
that were taken by the party that did
the killing. The party that crossed the
Rie Grande below RIO Graude City had
about l50 head OF horses. do not know
how many horses they crossed above
Eagle Pass Now, how is it that the
United States, as great govern ment as
it is, will allow such work to 20 ou2 1t
looks like such people should be blotted
out Of existence. They should not be
allowed to live. We have the power to
stop this raidiug, aud why not do it at
onee2 | say, demaud these men to be
turned over in ten days. and in case Of
a failure, send troops over and get them
and take the whole country"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
REDUCED TO EATING DIRT.
An American Missionary DeseFip
liOn OF the Famine In China.

ton oil the Famine In China.
The Rev. S. Wells Williams, in letter
dated February 10, says:
This day was the worst Of all | saw
abundant proofs of men eating clay or
stones, and bought three stone cakes.
The stone is the same as our soft stone
pencils. 1t is reduced to dust and mixed
with millRt huskC, in different proper.
tions, and then baked. 1t does not look
bad, but tastes like what it is--dust. The
dead seem to day to number more than
on any previous day, for there were
twenty-nine in eighteen miles along the
road, and the circumstances we're more
frigbtful. In one valley the road branch
ed into two, and my servant took one
while took the other-one each side the
stream. On his road, the servant saw q
woman lying in ditch after being rob
bed of all she had, and still moving,
though unconscious of any one passing
by. Further or we saw a mans head
cut clean from his body--a cruel mur.
derer s deed. We saw also among the
dead some wounded heads, bat not done
by the wolves, dogs or birds. The dogs
barked aud howled at US when we drove
them off from the dead. Many of the
corpses seen when we we're going had
disappeared, but their places were more
then supplied by others
" To these details of what / saw
give you briefer account OF what
have heard. Some men coming from
Sichum, on their way to Peking, said
that along the whole way they saw dead
bodies here and there. Snow had fallen
in Honap province a foot deep, and
about eight inches in Shansi to the west
aud northwest, and none further north
in that province. In all that region west
Of this the cold had been unusual. The
soft stone is sold at from two to FIVE mills
a pound, and bark from FIVE to seven
mills per pound for food. The roots of
sweet flags are dug, but they cause the
face to swell Grain is three or four
times the usual price, aud turnips and
cabbage FIVE or six times Flour is seven,
eight and nine mills per ounce. In every
city passed through the report was
twenty, thirty or forty dying daily At
Ping.yang ten great pits had been filled,
and two carts we're daily employed in
carting the dead One inn.keeper told
us that one Of his customers reported
having counted 270 dead on the road 10
three days journey. Whole families,
old aud young, die in their houses and
lie there unburied. In one district 0
third of the population are dead, and
the people maintain that in many town,
fully onehalf have persisted, and they
know villages where formerly dwelt 300
400 and even 800 people, of whom no
@ore than 100 now remain"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
POSTOFFICE CURIOSITLES.
The Strange Uses 10 which the
Mail bags are Put.


Mail bags are Put.
Some person having no fear of
the law nor regard for his fellow
man before his eyes, sent a loaded
pistol through the mail, which, be-
ing discovered in the st. Louis
postofiice yesterday, was stopped in
transit and possible accident pre-
vented. Such a man ought to be
killed-at least that is what the
people who handle the mails think.
Another sends to some reptile
loving friend a live horned frog
from Texas, which, being impa-
tient in his matchbox prison, and
possibly objecting to the odor Of
sulphur left by the matches, en-
ploys his time in scratching noisily
to get out How he has escaped
with his life in the rough handling
of the mail bags is wonderful; but
having survived the perilS of the
road, froggy stops in St. Louis, and
will be sent out to the fair grounds
to join "Zoo."
Another drops into the mail two
packages of shoes for W. N. Raines
& Son, no other address, and ex-
poets the postofiice officials to know
by intuition where they are to be
sent. Had they been addressed to
the President of the United State:
or to the queen of England, they
would have been forwarded, not
withstanding the defect in address
but Raines & Son have not yet at,
tanned worldwide reputation, and
their shoes will soon be landed al
the dead letter Office at Washington
Then comes the lady (the hand
writing shows that it is a lady this
time), who writes to her friend al
"Excentric, Mo-" Now this ad.
dress "stumped" the superintendent
of mails for a moment, for there is
no such poStofice is the United
States, but he soon rallied and
found himself equal to the occasion
by sending the letter to Peculiar,
Mo-, where, it has since been dis.
covered, it belongs.
The sender of the dead snakes, in
case he should see this, is informed
that by the time his snakes reached
the st. Louis Office they we're in
such condition that soon a ten.
foot pole would have been the only
thing which could have touched
them. Snakes of any kind are not
allowed in the st. Louis postofice.
And SO it goes-loaded firearms
and snakes, gun.cartridges and tar
antulas, percussioncaps and bottles
of oil, contraband samples and
sharp-pointed instruments continue
to be mailed only to find their way
to the dead-letter Office or to the
rubbish heap, as the case may be.
Among other misdirected and
contraband packages yesterday was
a box Of iron washers with thirty
three cents postage on them and no
address whatever; also a box of per-
cuSSion caps and a pair of eye
glasses, which had become broken
and in a condition liable to MAIN a
mail handler.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
Cents per Week
NO66

The supervising inspector general has
issued instructions to all the consular
officers of the United States in regard to
the contagious diseases act just passed
by congress The consular officers for
the United States are requested to put
themselves into communication With the
health authorities Of their respective
stations and from the information oh.
tanned from such authorities or from
other trustworthy sources, when no
legally constituted health authorities
exist, to prepare and transmit by the
mails to the surgeon general of the
United States marine hospital service at
Washington weekly reports of the sp
pearance, progress or termination Of
cholera, yellow fever. small pox, or ty-
phus occurring in their respective local..
ties, with any other facts that may be
used in preventing the spread of epi.
denies.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
Requisites for a sport.
Eureka Republican,

AuAShd htpubiAVdHsl
An individual having proclaimed him.
self blooded gambler in Main street
saloon this mernipg, he called upon
himself the following, to show that be
lied.
Charles Pryor-You get up too early
in the morning for good gambler;
these hard times you ought to sleep all
day aud save board, and stay up all
night and save lodgings.
Purdy-Your belt is not broad enough,
nor has not enough holes in it to pinch
up tight to keep your bowels from squeal.
ing.
Dick Guiberson-Your teeth are too
good, and you mastcate your food too
mach, and do not allow it to stay long
enodgb on your stomach for one Of the
bloods
Gus Hintz Your legs are not hollow,
and consequently cannot stow away any
reserves wuen you get half,
Nat Furst-You do not know how to
treat workingman with due respect.
Maxey-Your girl is too far away.
The individual--Geutlsmen, | believe
l will 90 down to the Consolidated and
ask for a job.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
A Curious Dream.
Argosy.l

Many years ago the Rev. Mr.. n.
held a small living in the widest
part Of West Somerset. The parish
church stood on bleak hillside,
and Mr.. NJ, who was bachelor,
lodged in the farmhouse close to it.
Among his flock there was no one
in whom the clergyman took more
interest than in Mary, the pretty
daughter Of the farmer, his land
lord. When Mary was about twen-
ty, Mr.. N. was much troubled by
finding she had formed an attach
ment with Jack Townsend, the
cleverest workman and the most
worthless fellow on the farm.
One autumn night the clergyman
dreamt that Mary stood at his bed
side and cried out in an imploring
voice, "Come out on to the hill
side" The impression left on his
mind on waking was so distinct
that, if he had not known his door
was locked, so that no one could
enter the room, he would have
thought Mary must have in reality
been there. Feeling, however, sure
that it was only dream he com
posed himself once more to sleep,
Gut scarcely had he closed his eyes
when Mary was again there, calling
to him to come out on the hillside.
Seven several times he tried to sleep,
and seven times the phantom came
back, always with the same cry. At
length, mastered by an almost ire.
sistible impulse, he rose, dressed
himself, and wentouton the hill. He
walked some distance, but could
see nothing except the heather
bells waving in the moonlight !;
could hear nothing but u distant
sheep-bell tinkling softly, and the
stream warbling below the valley.
He was just going back, when
suddenly a small cry reached him,
seeming to come from a neighbor-
ing combe. Hurrylug in that d.
rection, he saw at the bottom of
the combe two figures, those of
man and a woman, apparently
struggling with each other. AS he
drew near, the man ran away and
the woman fell to the ground.
When he came up he found it was
Mary. She had only tainted, ana
he soon brought her to herself.
Then by degrees she confessed to
him that her lover had persuaded
her to meet him that night in the
combe, bringing with her a small
sum of money which she had saved
from early childhood by laying by
little gifts of friends and rela-
tions, and which according to
custom common among her class
in that day, she had kept in an old
stocking instead of in the bank.
Townsend had promised to elope
with her, and marry her, and as
she loved him, and her father would
not allow the match, she had con-
sented to go. But when he met
her, Townsend, instead of going
away with her, had tried to rob her
of her money. She had resisted,
and struggled with him, and just
then the clergyman had come up
and the villain had run away. Af-
ter that night Mr., N. was a be-
lever in the providential nature of
dreams.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

A Vermont clergyman, who used to
live in Louisiana, tells this story OF a
former parisbioner Of his the somewhat
notorious J. Madison Wells: One day
Wells said to him, "Mr -, should
come and hear you preach oitener, but
every time | come YOU preach funeral
sermon, and do not like to be attacked
in that way every time | attend church.
To this the reply was: Major, you are
so seldom at church that could not
know when to prepare sermon per.
sonal to your case, aud that relieves me
from your accusation. But the truth is,
Major, it would be hard Tor a clergyman
TO preach a sermon against anything for
bidden in the decalogue, and not make a
sermon that you might think was intend.
ed for you personally"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
The Art kissing.

We find the following worldly
and trappy article in the Portland
Sunday Times, a paper which is
deemed the best authority in the
State on the subject discussed:
Never kiss a young girl if she
don't want you to. The main in
gredient that makes kissing endur-
able is a willingness on the part of
the female. If it deepens into
anxiety so much the better. When
a girl claws mans hair and
scratches his face drop her at once.
She is destitute of good taste and
natural affection, and the sooner
you make love to her sister the bet
ter. AS long as a girl don't claw,
and yell, and struggle like a pan.
ther it is perfectly safe to continue
prospecting, Get o little behind
her, pass the right arm around the
waist in front, take her hand, and
if you don't know what to do next,
go associate with the boys in the
First ward. If you are beginning
to teach a shy young girl who has,
heretofore, only been kissed by
her brothers and father, touch your
lips gently to ber forehead. She
will take this for an exhibition of
profound respect. When that posi-
tion has been gained, working the
way down to the lips is as natural
and easy as the course Of a dog
sliding down wood-hume. Never
sit down to kiss; it looks awkward
in case anybody islooking, and
seems awkward, anyhow. Stand
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

1t seems that Colonel Ingersoll, :"
says the Washington Post has a patent
on bis plan Of destroying hell and sbak.
ing confidence in Christianity. He has
beguna a suit in the United States Court
against the Detroit Publishing Company
to restrain it from publishing bis lee.
lures, and for damages for having already
pabhshed an edition Of such lectures.
This company has published cheap
edition OF lugersolps most popular lee
lures, for which he claims a copyright.
Ordinary inhdels, in attacking the Chris.
tian religion, should proceed very care.
fully lest they trench upon the intel
lee'uA property Of Colonel Iugersoll,"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

Mr.. Daniel Drew may be seen fire..
quently sitting on a sofa in the hall Of
the St. james Hotel Though a bank.
rupt, he does not look like an unhappy
man without the means Of subsistence.
BE is noted in the Methodist church as
a fervent exhorter, and started in life as
a cattle droyer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

The editor who hos recently visited
the New England States says that Meth.
er at Yale nor Harvard did he see any
colored students, nor was the African
brother visible in the churches of the
white people, nor could he trace the ex.
istence Of any celored statesmen in the
six New England legislatures.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

The will of W. S. O'Brien leaves SlO5,.
600 to charitable institutions, $3OO,OOO to
each of seven nieces asd nephews, aud
the remainder, about 50 800, ,OOC. is divi-
ded equally between his two sisters.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

John Whildin, out at Nevada City en-.
tered bar.room, drew his pop" and
said, I'D like to kill somebody, or get
killed myself" He was accommodated
and sIeeps beneath the aasies.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16

JAMES R MILLER, sJCAMPJ
JOHN NJ RhURKE, GEO II kASsFTT
TINS RHETT. THOMAS FLENING.
d D. NEhhY, d STEWART
LULAPPi i Il B0UGLASS,
JUN g0HN NSON, WILLIAM MILLER,
J I PETIT, JOHN No BR00KS
] NJ CREWS, MALSUP, VIII NEGS0N,
Executive Board of Shelby county.
S J CAMP, Secretary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
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eIess z: y. y1OKBsY, Augusta. Maine. HSo. A0-
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SssNSlNH anos-Retail priee ssi0 III.
WSShir AT bargains, Daniel p. BEATTY
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funPtlon' ASH your druggist for n Cireu-
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
THURSDAY. JUNE 1a, lS7s

az II o CLOCK, Tor Inc purpose OF NOMINATING
candidates for the following ofices:a AZ -
Judge Of the Chancery Court.
Judge Of the Circuit Court.
Judge Of the Criminal Court.
Judge Of the Probats and Circuit Court
(Bartlett).
Attorney General of Criminal Court.
Attorney q eneral of Bartlett Court.
Sheriff Of Shelby county.
Trustee Of Shelley county.
Register Of Shelby county.
Clerk Of County Court.
Clerk of Criminal Court.
Clerk Of Circuit Court.
Clerk Of Circuit Court (Bartlett).
As preliminary to the assembling of said
convention the Executive Board, conforming
to the usage Of the party in that respect, rec
Ommend and request that primary election
be held in the eighteen Civil districts of the
county and the Ten Wards of the city, on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-16
TO THE
CITIZENS or SHELBY COUNTY.
OFFICE or THE Executive BoARD,
.DEMOCR TIC And CONSERVATIVE PARTY,
MEMPHIS, May II, 1878.

NHE Executive Board of the Executive
i Committee Of the Democratic and Conser-
vative party OF Shelby county, hereby call
convention. to meet in the city of Memphis.
at the Exposition Building, on
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-11-23
4 Wonan's Logic.

q" 1t is useless to take medicine. l shall
feel better tomorrow. Besides, need the
moncy to get that lovely new hat. Nv old
one is such fright, and people will look
more at my bonnet than they will at my face.
! will wait till feel worse before | spend
any money for medicine" The new bonnet
Us purchased and fifty other feminine aeccs-
-SqricS in the form orribbons, laces, brooches.
etc. Meanwhile the ladys face becomes
every day paler and thinner, and her body
weaker until disease has gained so firm a
foothold in her system, that the most
thorough, and oitimcs long and tedious.
course of treatment is necessary torestore her
to health. Ladies, attend TO your health be-
fore you ever think Of apparel. A fresh,
blooming face in a plain bonnet is much
handsomer and far more attractive to Your
gentlemen friends, than a plain-worn, dis
eased face in the most elaborate and elerant
hat your miliner could devise DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription is everywhere acknow-
edged TO he the standard remedy for female
complaints and wclLucscs. Ii is sold by
druggists.