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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-05
The St. Louis Times SAYS:

Mr.. Lamar, a native of the South, and
bred to a familiarity with Southern insti-
t%utiOus, has recently, on the Matthews
bill, voted with the bondbolders and
brokers Of Wall street. Upon what
metaphysical theories of right and
wrong, or what sense OF duty, be thus
voted against the wishes Of his people, il
10 hard to imagine. bat surely the people
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Thursday, March ?, 1878.

two certain lots Of land lying and being in
shelby county, Tenn, known and designated
g lots Nos. "a and IS Of Provinces sub
alylsloni country lots 30. 81 and 65. recorded
75, being situated on tho south side of Pro-
vine street, each lot having a front of so feet
by,a depth Of 10 feet to an alley. Equity of
redemption waived, Title believed to be
good, but sell and will convey as Trustee
only. GEO. ". WINCHESTER, Trustee.
JOHNSTON u FORp. AttOrnaFa. l6.h
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BishOp COurov.

New YoRK, February SIT is said
that Bishop Couroy, Of Ireland, who Wis
tied Canada as abbegate of the Holy
See, will remain in the United States in
that capacity.
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WASHINGTON, February 5.-For Ten.
nessee and the Ohio valley and lower
lake region, warmer, clear or partly
cloudy weather, %southerly winds and sta
tionary, followed by falling barometer.
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LEGAL.
Trustees Sale.

by VIRTUE of q deed Of trust to me exs-
y cuted by Sarah a. Provine widow on
the Hth day 81 July. 1877, to secure the
payment Of c%ertaia Indebtedness therein mem
tioned l will, at the request Of the beneficial
NJ lnereln, sell at public auction. to the
nIgnest plader for cash, at the southwest cor
ner OF Main and Madison streets, in the city
OF Memphis, Tenn, at u o'clock m, On
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M M H HIS
Tuesday Evening, Feb. 5, 1878

The subscription price Of the PUB
LILO LEDGER is IS per annum for
the Daily, and 50 per annSm for the
Weekly-PostGge free.
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MEETING
Mexican War Veterans.
ENGLISH ALE.
BUSINESS CHANCE.
Dissolution of Partnership.


THE copartne-ship heretofore existing be-
i tween VIM. Frank aad II. Bejach. under
day dissolved by mutual consent, Il. Bejach
retiring.
The business will be- continued at the old
stand, No. 2i9 Main street, under the same
firm name, nv WA. Frank. who assumes all
the liabilities of the old firm. and is alone
ton. WIN. FRANK,
II. BEJACH.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, February /, 1878. 1915
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors ant
indiscretiOns Of youth. nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc.. l will
send a receipt that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
By a missionary in South America. Send a
self-addressed envelope to tho Rev. JOSEPH
7. Imam, Station d, Bi5le House, NetO York
Ctp. So -xxvii-s5 eodkw
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4 OR POSTERS. SHOW BILLS, CARDS
Z Circulars, etc., soften up with the latest
style Of types and on superior paper Of any
desired color, goito the LEDGER Office and ct
anime gtooksandlprieos.
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GERMAN.AMERICAN
Building a. Loan AsaOCiaflOu

VNHIS Association has been in successful
4 operation for nearly two years. and has
recently issued a Third Series. The Associa-
ton has a large monthly income, giving supe-
rior advantages Tor borrowing in large or
small sums. The hooks are always open for
stock subscriptions at the Office Of the Secre-
rowing money can obtain HOMES at as small
il not SMALLER MONTHLY OUTLAY
THAN THEY PAY FOR RENT; and such
payments viii only last fol q number OF
years and leave the stockholders tho owners
Of their homes You can be your own land
lnstalments secure a perpetual homestead.
Next loan meeting Feb. IA, 1878. at ~ pm.
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B. AND |. ASSOCIATION.
WORKISGMEN'S

Building and Loan Association
OHR REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
1 Of this Association will be held on TUES
DAY evening next, February S, 1878, at TX
O'Clock, at their office. 2Ql Main street, for
payment Of dues and making loans. Fines
will be enforced for non-payment.
l LAGRILL, Pres't.
CHAH. T.. PATERSON, Sec'y. I2-I25
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suRoERY.
GOAL AND WOOD.
NOTICE.

THE undersigned have associated them
l. selves together feS the transaction of a
general COAL AND WOOD BUSINESS, un-
stocks Of Pittsburg and ST. eernard Coal will
be Kept on hand at all times, and purchasers,
at Wholesale or retail, can have their orders
promptly filled. 0aioe, Is Madison street.
9, j. BRYAN, Memphis.
O'NEIL * co Pittsburg, Pa.
ST. BERNARD COAL CO.,
February /, 1878. Darlington, Ky.
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Peoples Building COMPANY.

VNHE regular monthly meeting for loans,
4 etc.. will be held at the office Of Robinson
& Malone, 80 Madison etreet, TUESDAY
EVENING, FebFuary5th, at ~ o'clock.
on or before that day, at the Office of the Sec
rotary, No. 500 Main street.
w.. A. GOODMAN, Pres't.
8H. y. 9ooDLETT, Secretary. BI-1s5
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DIVIDEND.

OFFICE PHGEIx INSURANCE Col
MEMPHIS, TENN, January 8. 1873.
A I the regular meeting Of tho Board Of
"A Directors held to-day q divi lend of six
per cont. upon the capital stock Of this Com
pany was declared, and ordered credited on
the stock notes. II. M. NELLY, Pres't.
s. X. CLARKE, Sec'y. 112-l37
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TEXAS.

A RE you thinking Of going to TexasH Do
IA you want reliable information in regard
70 the Lone Star Slater Subscribe for tbe
FORT WORTH DEMOCRAT. brick Pome-
roy, in his " Big Trip" says lit has the rem
utation Of being the most lively and indnstTi-
Gus Of all the papers in the State.D Sub
scription price, ! year, 50; six months, 81.
ment. Address
DEMOCRAT, Fort Worth, Texas.
,lzl-9
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TAG PEACE CONFERENCE.

The Times st. Petersburg dispatch
says y a been assumed, until lately.
that England would interpose and be he
principal obstacle TO a satisfactory a.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
ROSes-Their Increase.

According to De Prouville, a French
writer, there were, in 1914, only 182
varieties of roses, and the advantage of
multiplication by seed is sufficiently
evinced by the fact that there are now
more than six thousand varieties, the
poorest of which are much better than
any which existed at that day. Among
the earliest cultivators of roses from the
seed were three Frenchmen-Dupont,
Vilmorin and Descemet The former
was the gardener of the Empress Joseph
inc. When the allied armies entered
Paris in 1915, the garden of Descemet
contained 10000 seeding roses, which
Vibert, in his anxiety to secure from de-
struction, succeeded in carrying to the
interior.
In England very little attention seems
at that time to have been paid to the
production of new varieties from seed,
and the English relied very much upon
the continent for their choice roses.
Now, however, they are abundantly re-
deeming their reputation, and many fine
varieties have been produced by the
English rose-growers, at the head of
whom stands Rivers, whose efforts are
seconded by Wood, Poul, Lane and
others. They are still, however, COM
PEELED to yield to the French cultivators,
for to these we are indebted for our fin
est roses for Lamarque, Solfaterre,
La Refine, Chromatella, the new white
Perpetuals, Souvenir de Malmaison and
others.
The varieties of roses became increas-
ingly great after the introduction of the
Bengals, Noisettes, Teas and Bourbons
all these classes producing readily
from seed, and IN endless variety. There
is willingness to cast asi the old for
the new, and however much we may re-
gret this disposition, for some old and
truly deserving favorites, we cannot feel
willing to denounce it, for it exhibits
gratifying evidence of desire for i'm
provement, and the existence Of spirit
of progress, which, dissatisfied with
things as they are, is continually striv-
ing after nearer approaches to perfec-
tion. .-NeD England Farmer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
Popular SuperstitiOns of the Turks.

The interpretations of dreams gives
rise to much cogitation, and furnishes a
frequent topic of conversation for Turks,
men and women. Fire means sudden
news, as water forecasts journey. A
person who has reputation for explain-
ing dreams finds ready welcome every
where in the East. The Evil Eye is
feared by all classes. 1t is to divert
harmful admiration from her own beau
ty to her ornaments that Turkish bride
decks herself with diamonds pasted on
chin, cheeks and forehead; for this that
she shrouds her face with glittering
veil of thin, copper-colored strips of tin
foil; for this that she sits under the aSk5
"a festooned canopy of artificial green
boughs, with punches of dyed feathers
and shining metal balls completing the
decorations. It is for this that every
Turkish baby has its little muslin skull
cap, adorned with a medallion of pearls.
And if you happen to say "Ne guzeL
tchoudjo1k :" what a pretty child y
you are instantly asked to spit in its face
mischief of your words.
Divination is often made at holy
wells, by observing the surface of the
water. At Eyoub, the sacred quarter Of
Stamboul, near the mosque where the
sultans are girt with the sword of Os-
man, in lieu of coronation, is famous
well. It is to be found in the back
garden of a poor, tumbled-dc wn house
belonging to the Khodja who takes
charge of it. It is an ordinary round
we'll, about yard in diameter. A low
coping stone runs round it, over which
the votaries at Dame Fortunes shrine
stoop low, to catch, if they may, some
image in the depths below vouchsafed
for their enlightenment. ALI Mussul-
men, before looking in, reverently hide
and stroke their faces with their open
hands, and as is their manner in praying
for some favor. - Belgravia Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
Miss Lee and a Naples Landlord.

A letter from Naples to the Columbia
Is. o. Register says Miss Mary Custis
Lee, daughter of General Robert Lee,
arrived here few days ago, in company
with some lady friends from Malta, who
registered at the Hotel Royal des Etran-
gers. 1t appears that during the night
of the 9Th the mosquito bar around the
bed ignited accidentally from candle
which Miss Lee had lighted. In few
moments the flames spread and caught
the lace curtains, and the room was soon
enveloped in flames, which Miss Lee
heroically endeavored to suppress, but
without success, and fearing that the
hotel might be burned she gave the
alarm of fire, which soon was heard by
some gentlemen who were occupying
rooms on the same floor, when ex-Judge
Samuel W. Melton and Mr.. A. W.
Clark, of Columbia, s. c., were the first
who came to the rescue of Miss Lee,
and succeeding in saving her money and
valuable iewelry from the flames. The
morning following the fire Miss Lee ex-
pressed her Willingness to pay all dam
ages, though the fire had occurred from
accident. The proprietor, taking ad-
vantage of the lady, demanded 1900
francs, which was preposterous and
enormous charge of the damage. The
friends of Miss Lee at once demurred to
this charge. The American consul, Mr..
Duncan, at this place was exceedingly
kind and protested against the payment
of any such sum. The proprietor, now
being foiled in his disgraceful effort to
overcharge for damage occurring from
accident, became insolvent and spoke in
manner which reflected upon Miss
Lee. The insult was quickly resented.
Mr.. Clark, of Columbia, s. O., struck
him over the head with an umbrella. In
few moments the proprietor was sur
rounded by number of Italians, who
were clerks, walters and attaches of the
hotel, but they were met by Judge Mel.
ton, Colonel John T. Sloan, Jr., Mr..
D. A. P. Jordan, of South Carolina,
and DIR. I. B. Roberts, of Georgia, who,
by their courage and determination,
caused them to stampede and call foi
the police. A large crowd soon assem-.
bled about the hotel. The proprietor
was denounced by Colonel Sloan for his
conduct toward Miss Lee, and chal.
lenged him to go into the garden and
answer for the same with swords or pis.
tolls, which the proprietor declined tc
accept 1t would be well for Americans
to avoid this hotel when coming tc
Naples.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
A Mathematical Prodigy

Gilbert Miller, lad nine years old,
living at Keokuk, Iowa, has recently
exhibited most remarkable powers in
mathematics, being able to give answers
to difficult problems with scarcely any
hesitation. He is strong hearty boy,
not overly fond of school, and differs
only in this one respect from other
children of his age. His parents are
averse to any display of precocity and
will not allow him to be questioned.
But enough has already been elected to
show his wonderful faculty. He prob.
ably inherits this gift from his father,
Prof. Miller, of the Keokuk Mercantile
College, who has long made specially
of rapid commercial calculations.
We here present few examples given
recently to the lad as a test. The
answers were forthcoming at once, with
out any apparent effort:
Cube IA. Answer-405, 228.
Multiply 1876 by 7,117. Answer
70,287, ,492.
Divide 67s,e32 by 1923. Answer
2,O69.
How many times will clock tick in q
year of 1861 days? Answer-31, ,557,
600.
Find the fifteenth term of a geometri-
cal progression-first term five, ratio
three. Answer-23, 914, ,S45.
These results were found to be exactly
correct. Other questions involving diff.
cult fractions we're also given and an
swered, but we cannot represent them in
type. = Birmingham (Lowa) Enter
11niSe
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
Words OF Wisdom.

The great are only great because we
are on our knees.
After crosses and losses men grow
humber and wiser.
All who know their own minds know
not their own hearts.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant,
who finds peace in his home.
The praises of others may be of use in
teaching us not what we are but what
we should be.
Do nothing in thy passion; why wilt
thou put out upon the sea while the
storm is raging.
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by standing
in our own light.
A man may say thing twice if he
says it better the second time than he
was able the first.
Good counsels observed are chains to
grace, which, neglected prove halters to
strangle undutiful children.
Our passions are like convulsive fits,
which, though they make us stronger
for the time, leave us the weaker ever
after.
Health is the only riches that a man
ought to set value on; for without it
all men are poor, let their estates be
what they will.
Whatever you would not wish your
neighbor to do to you do it not unto him.
This is the whole law; the rest is mere
exposition of it.
"The goodness which struggles and
battles and goes down deep and scars
high, is the stuff of which heroism is
made, by which the world is salted and
kept pure. 1t is the seed which bears
fruit in martyrs and makes men nobler
than their nature-and demi-gods and
the prophets of better time"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
President PoIk,s Cocktails.

Judge Carpenter, of California, tells
this anecdote of James X. Polk's term
of the Presidency: Polk was temper
ate but not abstinent man, of very regu-
lar habits. He rose early at the White
House, and had his servant bring, pune
tually, very large cocktail in tall
glass, of which he drank just one-half
and left the other half for his return
from his morning walk. On this walk
he required the company of Marshall
Polk, bis nephew. Young Polk was
also fond of cocktail, though his uncle
did not know it and would not counte-
nance it. However, they would hardly
have left the house on the daily occa-
sion, when Marshall, pretending to have
forgotten something, would slip back
and drink nearly all the remaining half
of the cocktail and pour in some water.
After returning from the walk, President
Polk repaired to his chamber in brown
political study, and seizing the tumbler
gulped down the water and sediment,
and then exclaimed: "Paugh J" This
continued with regularity, and the cheat
was never found out. Polk now lies be-
fore his dwelling in Nashville, inferred
in his yard, and Marshall Polk has not
been heard from since the beginning OF
the war,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
PRICE 5 CENTS.
Items OF Interest.

"Green pears Young married folks.
A lazy cook.-One that critters
away her time.
Rome has 365 churches-a church for
every day in the year.
A leading physician says heat is the
sole cause of cholera infantum.
"Yon can't do that again, said pig
to boy who had cut off his tail.
Why are good resolutions like fainting
ladies because they want carryingo out.
A boy says that when he eats water
melon his mouth feels as if it we're in
swimming.
Leprosy has made its appearance in
the United States on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts.
Why is philanthropist like an old
horse I? Because he always stops at the
sound of woe.
Two or three centuries ago there were
nundred hospitals rVI iOFsO-- - no
land and Scotland.
"Here is your writ of attachment"
said town clerk, as he handed lover
a marriage license.
"Maria, I'm almost discouraged.
How many times have told L you not to
say tater, but pertater ?"
Monday dabbled in stock operations;
Tuesday owned millions, by all calculations;
Wednesday my Fifth-Avenue palace began;
| Thursday drove out spanking bay spanj
| Friday gave magnificent ball;
And Saturday " smashed" with nothing at all.
Many young mans fate has been
adversely settled by his persisting in
walking his sweetheart down shady
side streets when she expected to be
taken to an ice-cream saloon.
The barber is an independent chap,
and, like all strapping big fellows, can
always hold his hone.-AIta California.
Great fellow, though, for getting into
scrapes. philadelphia Bulletin.
Says the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser: lightning getteth over
good deal of ground in very short space
of time" But we'll back an American
youth against the field when he fops out
of the water without stopping to comb
his hair, and legs it along the bank with
policeman two lengths behind
Rochester Union.
The greatest eel-pond in America is on
the farm of James N. Wells, in the town
of Riverhead, Mass 1t covers five
acres, and is now SO full of eels that they
can be raked out with garden rake.
Two years ago Mr.. Wells put 1000
dozen of eels into the pond, intending to
have them undlsturbed/for five years.
They have increased to millions. They
are fed regularly every third day on
"horse feet, peculiar shell-ish. The
eels know when they are to be fed, and
the stroke of Mr.. Wells whip against
his wagon calls thousands of them up to
dinner, although anyone else may pound
away all day without any effect. One of
these shell fish, fasteled to strong cord
and thrown into the water, may be drawn
out in few minutes with hundreds of
eels clinging to it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
"But the barns burning up." said

Dub tne Darn B burning up, SAID
the squire.
$50 is he," doggedly returned the
rufiian; "and sarved him right, for
getting me into sech scrape as this"
Some profanity there was; but the
dogs we're taken of, and the man was
tied up.
"Oh, Gil, come into the house." were
the pleasant words that came to the
young mans ears, as hestood looking at
the tramp he had shot.
"Not till your father asks me-" was
the half-haughty response.
"Don't be fool, Gil M Jrse, Just be.
cause l am" growled the old man. "Do
as Milly tells you, now and hereafter.
Go right in. Well take care of things
for We for while; but / reckon it'll all
be yourn one of these days"
And so Gilbert Morse did not go back
to the hostlery that night, and when, a
few months later, at the trial of the cap.
tured tramp, he was asked, "Are you in
any manner oennAe.sd With Squire Van
Vleeck ?" he manfully lyresponded:
He is my father.in-law."
But nothing more was seen of the big
tramp, not relic of him, until they re-
built the great barn the following spring.
w o. StoddGrd, in Hartford Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
Presidential Summer Resorts.

A Washington letter says: Presi.
dents John Quincy Adams, Jeffer-
son, Madison and Monroe used to GO
to their respective rural homes for an
"outing" during the heated term. An
drew Jackson went down the Potomac
to the ''rip-raps," fort on the edge OF
the ocean, or rather in it, which was
begun in his day and has never yet been
finished. Polk, Fillmore and Pierce
hired summer residences on Georgetown
heights. Buchanan occupied as sum-
mer residence a house at the Soldiers
Home, and his example has been follow
ed in turn by Lincoln, johnson, Grant
and Hayes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
A Piece Of Impudence.

Professor johnson, of Middletown
University, was one day lecturing before
the students on mineralogy. He had
before him quite a number of speci-
mems of various sorts to illustrate his
subject.
A roguish student, for sport, slyly
slipped a piece of brick among the
stones. The professor was taking up
the stones, one after another, and nam
ing them.
"This,' said he, sis piece of gran
lite; this is piece of feldspar," etc.
Presently he came to the brickbat.
Without betrayjng any surprise, or even
changing his tone of voice:
"This," he said, holding it mp, sis
piece of impudence. "
There was a shout of laughter, and
the student concluded that he had made
little by that trick.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23
To-Day and Tomorrow.

To-Day and To- Morrow.
When thou art by,
know not why,
love thee, but love thee not SO deeply;
But when thou'rt gone,
And I'm alone,
marvel that held thee then so chsaply.
Thy smile and talk,
Thy glance, thy walk,
In vain regret picture and remember
As well l might
Recall the light
or June amid the darkness OF December.
All, cruel fate
That all too late
We learn the golden value OF our pleasure
That it must go
Before we know
How passing sweet it was to have our treasure
Preverse are we,
Too blind to see
that idle memories only lead to sorrow.
Enjoy to-day,
While yet you may;
Why wat until to-day becomes tomorrow?
Edmund Whitehead Ho,USon.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23

He stood barefooted on the seashore
in the moonlight and turned his poetic
ear to catch what the wild waves were
saying, but when wandering crab ap-
propriated one of his toes for tooth
pick, he keeled over and let out the
other nine in a shadow dance that just
made the gods scream.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23

A young woman residing in the neigh
borhood of Headley, in England, recent
ly arose in her sleep, and, taking a car
wing knife from the kitchen, proceeded
to the fowl house, where she cut off the
heads of six fine cocks and hens. She
afterwards slaughtered five pet rahhits
and rnrrnd M her somna III hnlistic ex-
ploits by mortally stabbing a favorite
donkey.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23

LID. Atchison, who fell distance of
200 feet from the trapeze bar of his bal
loon at Elmwood, H., being killed IN
stantly, was a veteran eronaut and aero
bat, having replaced Donaldson with
Barnum's show. Some five years ago,
while exhibiting in Kentucky, his bal
loon burst at an elevation of 1900 feet,
but he clung to the pieces and escaped
with his life, though he was badly in
jured.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-08-23

Herr Strousberg. the European ex-
railroad king, has offered his creditors
three cents on a dollar. Their claims
amounting TO $16, 100000.