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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10

GALVESTON, May l0.-Cotton steady. Mid
ding, 1915. Receipts, 2l2 bales; sales, COO;
stock. l7,l65.
EEW0RLEAEs, May l0.-Cotton strong. Mid
ding, l0A. Receipts, $40 bales; sales, 500.
NEW YoRK, May 10, l2.S5 p.m.-Cotten /,
quiet. with futures steadier.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10
Trustees Sale.

RY virtue Of a trust deed executed and de-
by Mrs. Sarah E. Norton ct al. to secure the
party therein mentioned, recorded in Book
lls, page l0i, Of the Registers office of Shelby
county, and by the request of the said bene-
hciary, default according to the terms of said
trust having beon made, l will, as said trustee,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10
Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE of q deed in trust executed to
D me on the 2lth day Of February, 1874, By
John T.. and Mary II, Hillsman, and recorded
Tenn, in Book No. 100, page 29S, / will on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10
STEAMBOATS,.
For Arkanana river.
For VIehsDurr.

For VIcksDurg.
Memphis and st. Louis Packet Co.-Anehor
Line, carrying the u. S. Msil-For Helena,
Arkopolis, GreenYille, Vicksburg, and way
landings, connecting at Arkopolil with the
railroad for Pine Bluff and at Vicksburg
with steamers for the Yazoo river and New
0rleans-Steamer
JOHN B. MAUDE, -
William Il. Blake. ........."..m master 1879
SUNDAY. May IL. at 10 am, ticksting
passengers and giving through bills lading to
Pine Bluff and all points on YaEoo river.
AID STORM,
sup't Mississippi River Elevator Co.
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LEDGER.
RAILROAD TINE TABLE.

MEMPHIS ANDLoUIsVILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10

A Newspaper in the fullest sense of the word,
at once adapted to the Merchant. the Me-
ehaaic. the Farmer, and everybody
DESTROYS Of keeping up with the
stirring news Of this live and
progressive age.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10

MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON R. R.
Arrives. Leaves.
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ny All communication should DO ad-
dressed to
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10
STEAMBOATS,.
FOR O~tncinnau.

Fol U~1ncIhhhus
Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Co. For
Louisville and Cincinnsti-The swift and
elegant passenger steamer
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-10

Ticket once. Isl MaiS street. corner of
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25
supposed Truths.

He who SURPRISES or subdues mankind
must look down on the hate of those be,
low.
we have no longer either friends or enc
miles,.
Dignity is expensive, and without
other good qualities is not particularly
profitable.
We must never remember the benefits
we have conferred, nor forget the favors
received.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle
words and resOlute actions his is neither
het nor timid.
Cities force growth, and make men
laxative and entertaining, but they also
make them artificial.
You had better learn to conquer your
own will than strive to obtain the mas
terry of that of others.
Friendship is the medicine for all mis-
fortunes, but ingratitude dries up the
fountain of goodness.
Make no more VOWS to perform this or
that it shows no great strength, and
makes thee ride behind myself
We every day sacrifice principles
which we esteem through fear of being
blamed by people whom we despise.
Man wastes his mornings in anticipat,
ing his afternoons, and wastes his after
moons in regretting his mornings.
. Never plead guilty to poverty. So
far as the world is concerned, you might
better admit that you are villain
Zsalous men are ever displaying to you
the strength of their belief, while judi
cious men are showing you the ground!
of it.
1t is curious that some learned ounces
because they can write nonsense in deaC
| languages, think themselves better thar
men who can talk sense in living ones.
It is the vice of the unlearned to sur
| pose that the knowledge of books is O
no account, and the vice of scholars t.
think there is no other knowledge worth
| having.
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WHO 4. ON The LORDS side ?

Men are supposed to know, or to be
able to find out, whether or not they are
on the Lords side. The question i'm plies
as much. There are various tests which
we crn apply that will settle the question
for us very soon.
Take it in matters of everyday life,
in business, in buying, selling, winning
the prizes of life, there is a side which
is "the Lords side" Do you ask,
What is it2 1t is the side of honesty
and integrity and truth the side that
gives a man an equivalent for his
money that has but one price for the
article at the same time that puts sixty
minutes into an hours work, and
sixteen ounces into the pound and thirty
six inches into the yard, and four
pecks into the bushel, and 100 cents into
= dollar; that doesn't put sand in sugar,
nor pease in coffee the side that is per-
pendicular against all the tricks and
sharp practices, the lies of utterance and
the lies of silence; a business which lays
its course like vessel along the meri-
dian of right, in the teeth of all winds,
and holds to it, blow they high or blow
they low; that is the side which God is
on, the Lords side"
Perhaps you have drought that the
purely religious; that the whole realm
of business and our worldly affairs gen.
orally lie quite outside his cognizance !;
that God comes into our families at the
hour of prayer, meets US in our closets,
goes with us to church, and then virtu-
ally retires from us. A greater mistake
could not possibly be made. God is
as much interested in your business as
in your worship, and he looks it
through with as keen an eye. You are
making character great deal faster in
your shop, and Office, and store, than you
do in church, because men usually put a
great deal more energy and life into
their business than they do into their
worship. All these powers whose exer-
else goes to make character, to determine
and decide destiny are put by most men
TO far higher tension in the places of
business than in the place of worship.
There is more sOul.saving and soul
losing done on those streets and in those
places where men congregate 10 do bust
ness, than in all our churches. That is
my belief.
The Lords side in our business affairs
is very definite and clear-cut side.--
I Rev. s. Graves.
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ear--the last member of the series i'm
plying the first.
Potato Planting.


Many farmers have no potatoes to eat.
They gave out long ago. Every farmer
should raise an abundance, SO that they
may go on the table smoking hot two or
three times day. Now is the time TO
plant for the early crop, and the early
rose is good enough for that.
The late crop should be planted in
June, and enough should be planted to
last the family till the following June.
There is no secret in raising potatoes.
Select good soil, give it good blowing and
narrowing, and lay it off in burrows with
a one-hOrse pillow, and the burrows three
feet apart. Cut the potatoes to about
two eyes in each piece, drop the pieces
about foot apart, and turn the furrow
back. Just before the potato sprouts
push through the soil, go over the ground
with the Thomas smoothing harrow.
This will destroy all the weeds, and the
potatoes will come through and get the
start of the weeds. Now keep the ground
well cultivated and the weeds out till the
potatoes bloom, and you will have good
crop. If the potato bugs modest them,
pick eff the first crop of bugs and there
will not be much of a second crop to
pick off
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order ana Energy In Farming.

No man stands in greater need of both
order and energy than the farmer. Where
these remarkable powers come from NAV
be in erred from the following remarks
of DR.. Tyudall:
The order and energy of the universe l
hold to be inherent, snd not imposed
rom withOut--the expression of fixed
law, and not of arbitrary will exercised
by what Carlyle would call the Almighty
Cleckmaker. But the two conceptions
are not so much opposed to each other
after all. In one fundamental particular
they at all events agree. Thoy equally
imply the independence and harmonious
intercation of parts, and the subordina-
tion of the individual powers of the uni
versal organism to the working of the
whole Never were the harmony and in
terdependence Just referred to so clearly
recognized as now. Our insight regard
ing them Is not that vague and general
insight to which eur fathers had attained,
and which in early times was more fire.
quently affirmed by the synthetic poet
than by the scientific man. The inter
dependence of our day has become guam
tiative--ex pressible in numbers leading,
it must be added, directly into that in
exorsble reign of law which so many
gentle people regard with dread. In the
domain now under review the men OF
science had first to work their way from
darkness into twilight, and from twilight
into day. There is no solution OF con-
tinuity in science. 1t is not given to any
man, however endowed, to rise spon.
taueously into intellectual splendor
without the Parentage of antecedent
thought. Great discoveries grow. Here
as in other cases, we have first the seed
then the ear, then the full corn in the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25
An Acre of Silver.

One of the most remarkable mines in
California Gulch is in leads three feet in
thickness, the ore from which yields from
240 to go ounces of silver to the ton,
and lies like coal bank in stratifica-
ton of limestone, dropping about fifteen
degrees. Tive openings have been made
at points 600 feet apart, and sufficient
ore is in sight to make millions of the
" dollars of our daddies" The owners
have gone far enough to know that there
is full acre of the ore in one solid body,
and some conception may be formed of
the amazing richness of this discovery by
a brief calculation of it's dimensions. A
cubic foot weighs 40 pounds, and, as
the ore lies, twelve cubic feet make a
ton There are 43, $50 square feet in an
acre and the acre of ore, being three
feet in thickness, makes 1S0,6S0 cubic
feet, which, with twelve cubic feet to the
ton, makes 10, 900 tons, worth $3.50 per
ton, or the enormous value in the ag-
gregste of $2,700,000. The Crescent is
another mine worked like coal bed, the
ore lying horizontally in the large room
that hiss been opened, the Ioof being
held up by heavy timbers with very
stout caps and tugging poles. The ore
breasts from foot to three and four feet,
and occasionally very fine specimens OF
horn silver are found.-[[ Rocky Mountain
Tourist
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the crest to the bottom of the trough.
The outer end of the breakWater, where
the storm beats most violently, was built
of three courses of one-hundred-ton
stones laid on the rubble foundations /;
next above these were three courses of
large, fat stones, and upon this a mass
of concrete, built on the spot of cement
and rubble. The end of the breakwater
was thought to be as immovable as the
natural rock; yet the resident engineer
saw it slowly yield to the force of the
waves, and swing around into the less
troubled water inside the pier. 1t gave
way not in fragments but in one mass, as
if it was monoIith. The displaced
mass is estimated to weigh about 1850
tons.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25
Additional Particulars Of the Suffering
In China.

Recent letters from Pekin furnish
details of the extremity to which the
people in that part of China are reduced
by the want of food. The missionaries
there and in Tientsin had given them
selves to the work of relieving the
distress according as the funds furnished
enabled them to do so, and out of their
own means had contributed 628 taels
(S872) to aid. Other foreigners in the
legation made up 81 .2l5 more, part of
which has been sent to Shansi to be
distributed by the Rev. Messrs. Richards,
Turner and their associates English
missionaries) living in Tai Tuen, the
provincial capital The first of these
writes as follows;
believe the suffering here is far more
terrible than it was in India last year.
People sell their lards, pull down their
houses to get little for their timber;
sell their wives and daughters eat roots,
carrion, clay and refuse, to prolong their
lives. And if this was not enough to
move ones pity, the sight of men, wo-
men, and little children, lying helpless
on the roadside, or if dead, torn by dogs
and magpies, ought to do so. Even
cases are currently reported and believed,
where the children are being boiled and
CdLCHs 4u0 COlQ has DG6n unusually
severe, and no coal can be purchased by
these families. The people, one might
say, are dying like flies. They have
only yellow earth mixed with leaves of
various kinds of trees left with which to
prolong their lives for few days. The
wild fruits are collected before they
are ripe, and the stalks of the sorghum
are all that are left them; even
water has failed in places, making it
necessary for the sufferers to seek it
at distance of half days journey.
The future is appalling, for in many
places the want of rain will prevent the
ground from producing, and the people
have consumed very much of the grain
for seed before sowing time. l have been
out in the country for a week to visit
the suffering villages in this vicinity. In
one village one~haf were reported dead
or sold, and although this was not strictly
correct, l know of one family in which
only two remained out of sixteen
Smaller families had disappeared. In
some cases the dead could not be buried,
through the weakness of the living. /
divided some of my money to help in
burying them. No grain has been sown
in many places, and therefore, there
will, lear, bs six months or more before
a crop can be looked for. Grain is al
ready four times the usual rates, and the
exchange of silver for copper cash is less
than usual
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25
A New Railroad Pass.

A new style of railroad pass has just
been patented by railroad man which IL
something of novelty. The idea is To
provide pass which can be used byno
save the person to whom it Is issued, and
the pass seems to meet the requirement.
Around the pass proper is q margin, with
description which, by the use of
punch, may be made to fit anybody.
After the word "age" appear series of
figures out of which the person issuing
the pass punches the figures correspond
ing with the age of the one to whom the
pass is issued. Then after the head
''shape" follow the words 'sslim,' y " me-
dunn" STOUT" ;scorpulent. y After
"color Of hair" come the designations
black, f" IS brown" gray" Z light, 4"
"auburn . After {" color of eyes" come
black" !" brown" gray" ''blue,"
hazel !" and after g beard the terms
"none," full, "side," chin, -
e moustache." Thus, supposing the man
to whom the pass is issued be a dark.
slim man, with black eyes and beard Ia
Napoleon, the issuer of the pass would
punch the word &c slim - under " snaps, -
q black " under "eyes" and I" hair"
"mous tache" and chin +" under
beard" The pass could then be trans
ferred only to man CHANGING to answer
lust the above description. The idea is
certainly a novel one Indianapolis
Sentinel.
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the Hnusa-

MAKE a paste of soft soap and emery
for polishing steel.
DIP candle-wicks into spirits of tur-
pentine and then dry before using.
OLD paint-pails and cans may be thor
oughly cleaned with strong, not lye.
A SMALL quantity of turpentine added
to stove backing will make the stove
easier to polish.
A BOTTLE of faxseed oil, chalk and
vinegar mixed to the consistency of
cream, should be kept in every house for
burns, scalds, etc.
Sponge CAKE.-One cup of sugar /;
three eggs; one cup of -four; one half
teaspOonlul of soda dissolved in two
tablespoonfuls of cream-of-tartar.
To MAKE Doors WATER PROOF. -
Four parts mutton tallow to one part
resin-mutton tallOw alone is excellent
--put on the tallow after the boots are
blackened with common blacking.
JELLY CAKE.-Two eggs; one cup of
sugar butter, the size of walnut; two
thirds of a cup of butter. milk and one
half teaspoOnful of soda three cups of
-four; flavor to taste. Bake in layers.
GINGER BREAD One pint OF molas-
ses; one cup of sugar one cup of butter I;
four eggs; six cups OF -four one pint of
butter milk; two tablespoonfuls of gin
ger; four eggs; six cups of -four; one
pint of butter.milk; two tablespoonful
of cinnamon two teaspoOniuls of soda.
CREAM FOR CAKE-One cup of sweet
milk put onehalf to boil, thicken the
other half with beaten egg and little
-four, and pour into the milk on the
stove, stirring constantly; let it boil up,
then remove from the fire, sweeten and
favor to taste.
To MAKE YEAsT-Boil one handful
of hops in two quarts water till strength
is exhausted; in the meantime CRATE
three good sized potatoes; pour on the
hop water, boiling hot, which forms a
starch add one-third cup OF salt and
two-thirds cup of sugar. one tablespoon
full of ginger; when milk warm stir in
one cup or less good yeast; set in warm
place to rise This yesst will keep longer
than any other have ever used.
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RELIGIOUS.
,-.,,.,. ,o.r CbrI,tInn union.

prayer for Christian Union
"That they all may be oAe."-JoHN' xVii;Zl'
That precious gift. ny parting prayer,
Tinat we may all be one,
Bls,st savior, help US nov to share.
And breathe SHY viii be done
One home above to faith appears
One path BIZ millions trodi
One Cross lights up this vale OF tears
To all the saints Of God.
With those that gazed from Tabor's height
Let love unite our thEong;
NAV 'Jesus only" hu our sight,
And echo in our song.
Our pains and tolls and conflicts here.
Zen Jordan rolling past,
VIII be as dreanIs when Dressing near
The Throne we meet 81 last.
Fade earthly shrifes and affairs fair,
And names and temples DID,.
IT, Lord, Thou wilt but claim us there,
And count US insThy fold.
Reign in our hearts. Thou Lamb DIvinel
And make us one In 1heo.
Bring us with all the host OF Thine,
Thy glorious face TO see.
-[John W. CorsOn, in N. Y. Evening Post.
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Power of the Waves.

Those who have never lived on a stormy
coast, nor been TO sea, can form no ade-
quate idea of the Effect that can be pro.
dueed by the impact of succession of
waves, or of a single wave, What has
happened at Wick, on the extreme
northern coast of Scotland. where q
breakwater has been building for some
years past, may give an idea of what is
meant by wave power. 1t was found
that stones of ten tons weight were q
pebbles to the waves, which have been
measured to be here forty>two feet from
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25
The ssressges Discovery of the Age

The Siress.es Discovery of the Age
is DR.. Tobias celebrated Venetian Imminent
80 years before the public, and warranted to cure
DiarThea, Dysentery. Collie, and Spasms, taken in
ternally and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Sore
Threats, Cuts Bruises, Old Sorcs and Pains in the
Limits, Back and Chest, externally, 1t has never
Jailed. family will ever be without it after onoe
giving it a fair trial. Price, 20 cts. DR.. TOBIAS
VENETIAN HORSE LINN En- I, in Pint Bottles
at Oae Dollar is warranted superior to any other
No PAY, for the cure of Collie, Cuts, Bruises. Old
sOres, etc. Sold by all Druggists Dept 40 Park
flaCe, New York.
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THE general demand for HOME SroM-
ACH BITTERs, and its adaptability to so many
sicknesses, cOmpels US to speak in the high
est terms of its value as a blood purifier,
and cure for dyspepsia and female disor-
ders. Prepared by the Home Bitters Co St.
Iouis No
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25
If You Have Never

Used DoOLEY's YEAST POWDER, get
package the next time you buy baking pow
der, and test it. After few trials, we are
confident you will give it the preference over
all others 1t is absolutely pure; every pack
age is strictly full weight, and it never fails
in making rolls, bread, biscuits, cake, corn
bread waff1es, mullins, and all similar articles,
deliciously light, good, and wholesome.
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whvHe wouIdo,. sEarry Her.

''Marry her! by Georgel would if 1t
wasn't for her COMPOUNDED nose"
HNose Ha, ha I What's the matter with her
nose? Is it too short. too long, or crooked
which? You're too fastidious, young man. A
woman may be a charming wife and hsve
any of these deformities.
at isn't any of them, old fellow. The fact
IS like Kitty-like to look at her and talk
with her-but any closer relationship eoul d
not endure. Her nose is too o-d-o r-o-u-s r.
Unfortunate Kitties should use DR.. Sags's
Catarrh Remedy, the wonderful disinfecting
properties of which instantly sweeten the
breath, destroying all offensive odor. To its
mild, soothing, and healing effects the most
lnyeterate cases of cstarrh promptly yield.
Sold by druggists
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-04-25

WORTH KNOWING One thirty five
cent bottle OF Johnson,s Anodyne Liniment
will effectually cure bronchitis, infiammatory
sore throat, sore lungs, bleeding at the lungs,
chronic hoarseness, hacking cough. whoop-
ing cough and lame stomach.