davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

Persons loaring torn for the season, and Sam
ner frareliers, can hare TIE DAILY TRIBUNE
matted 10 them, postpaid, for 81 per month, the
address icing changed as often as desired.
New-York tribune., 1879-06-04
Bnslness NoIloes.


"ALDERNEY BRAND
Puy alvavs CoSDENsFD MIX
COCOAINE sOftens the hair when harsh and
dry. and soothes the irritated scalp skn
How TO BUY UMBRELLAS by mail is clearly
explained the little pamphlet issued by Isaac smith
INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, nervous prOstra-
ton and Of general debility particularly resulting
pulmonary complaints. relieved bv taking MlAsAASs
PETCNZfp Tonic the preparation OF beef contain
PrOpfieOrs Fifth Avenue HOte Binding, and 6taye cor
Ssth-st. also la2 Th'mts-st, Ncwrort, X l.
WmBORs Con LIVER OH AND LIME.-Tbe
great popularity ~ This safe and ehcaciOI
attributable 10 IT'S intrinsic worth In the Of
coughs colds asthma bronchitis whooping cough scrofuou
al has 10 superior
equal Let neglect the early symptoms oi olseaSe
rhest iunos Manuf'd by 4 B. WHBOR Chem
lsl. E0sion. sold by an druggists.
Now READY!
Three New Novels for 20 cents
TRIBUNE NOVEL EXTRA NO. lS
contains
Three Dia,r,nt and Complete Stories Of English Lne
under the general title Of
THmE WIVES.
By the wen known and popular Auth0rOf
"Lolos and Ladies'"
Sent by mai Oh receipt Of price
Aesrcss THE TRIBUNE,
New-York.
New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

faces towards home. but 1t is not probable
that they will take any part in It,
New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

The ann1lncnt of Blanqui's election by
vote of c7c to 33 is a great political victory
New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

A correspondent gives picturesque descrip-
ton, OF another page, of the universal leisure
of Southern city, where all the sunshine is
utilized by absorption, and hurry and worry
seem TO be unknown.
New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

The Greenback party of Maine nOmnates
its last years candidate for Governor, and
places him on platform which denounces
the sale of the four per cent bonds as "a
fraud on the people. Fortunately, the
people who own the bonds, and the people
whose votes are sought by the Greenbackers,
arc one and the same, and the nature of the
fraud will be justly appreciated.
New-York tribune., 1879-06-04

Another Democrat looms up in Congress
who is blessed with a vigorous vocabulary. 1t
is General Joe' Johnston, who assures his
Democratic colleagues that the President would
brush through their Army bill restrictions as
"easily as a bull would march through a cob
"Webr
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

ed their fayorite dance, which consists
of initiating tho noise Of q chain pass
ing over a pulley, the regular motions
OF the feet representing the motions
OF the man who turns the wheel of
the crane, and the time kept BY clap
ping the hands. We had missed the
hght-hearted courtesy of other Japan
ese towns, where no man seems ever
rude to his neighbor, where common
porters will salute each other with an
air of perfect breeding, and where a
cabman helps his weaker fellow up a
stiff bit of hill, and is repaid by a
charming thank you. But shop
keepers were as busy with their
small wares; the children toddled about
as happily, sisters carrying brothers as
big al themselves, and every one
Of them with q shaver head, on which
the hair grew in four black tufts, the
forehead, the crown, and above each
ear; their fathers laughed at them as
they few dragon flies like kites, tying
a light thread round the body of the
unfortunate insect SO as to let it up or
down the woman walked about paint
ed and powdered like their own dolls
peasants came in from the country
matched from head to foot in a mantle
of straw against some passing shower
broad umbrellas leach stamped with
the owners name) lay out in the street
to dry, and the sun streamed through
their oiled paper of every shade of
brown and paper wares we're vended
of every kind, parasols and overcoats
and carriage aprons, fans and Irvine,
and paper (and not canvass paintings,
and ocket-handkerchiefs of (which, as
a lady uses one, she throws it away,
and anxious people chewed paper
prayers well in their mouths, and spat
them at their god.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

Yankee Hill, a famous actor in
the first half of the present century
used TO tell.an amusing story (Which
Mr.. j. Matthews retells in his article
on The American Stage in Scribner's
for july Of the early days of the
theater in this country. Hill Snce
" showed to use a professional
phrase, in a town in the western part
Of New York, whore no theatrical
performance had ever been given. He
found the audience assembled, with
the women seated on one side Of the
hall, the men on the other, exactly as
they were used to sit at church and
throughout the play the most solemn
silence was observed. They were
attentive, but they gave no evidence
of approval or %displeasure (; there
was no applause, no laughter there
was not even a smile all was solemn
stiffness. Hill did his utmost to
break the ice; he did everything a
clever comedian could do, but in vain.
He flung himself against their rigid
ity it was no use. The audience
were evidently on its best behavior,
and the curtain came down at last
amid a silence oppressive and almost
melancholy. After the play, Hill,
worn out by his extra exertion and
mortified at his want of success, was
passing through a public room of his
hotel, when he was stopped by a tall
c%Ountryman with the remark
Say mister | was into the play
tonight"
Were you2' said Hill, you must
have been greatly entertained"
We'll, | wasl | tell you what it
is, now, my mouth was all sore are
straining to keep my face straight.
And if it hadn't been for the women,
I'd a-laughed right out in meetin'."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
He Kept his Word.


. fNTH NNTFTE
Sons time ago a citizen of this
place was very i'll. He fell into a
stupor. which lasted three or four
days. He was carefully watched by
his wife and one or two ladies from
the neighborhood. One afternoon
the attending physician said he could
not live through the day, aud the sor-
rowing wife, with a view to having
everything in readiness for the end,
had a consultation with her friends as
to the arrangements for the funeral.
The conversation was held at the he'd
side of the dying man, and in a short
time all the details we're arranged eE-
cept tho names Of those who should
be asked to DO pail bearers. Three
or four young gentlemen had been Sc
lected, when the wife said, in sobbing
tones suitable to the occasion, How
would Mr.. So-and-so do y" ooh,
he would do nicely" echoed the
chorus Of friends Hes SUCH 2 nice
young man.
There wal a sudden movement un-
der the coverings of the bed, and the
dying husband slowly raised himself
on one elbow, rubbed his eyes and
said, in a weak voice, "No, he won't
Do. 1 Amt going "a have that fellow
for one of NY pail bearers The
ladies we're astonished at this revival
Of the sick man, but the wife laid him
back gently on the pillows and said,
sOothipgly Never mind, dear don |
worry. This is a matter that need not
trouble you. II Is sad duty which
we will have to perform after you are
gone" "No, it isn't said the hus.
band, Grossly, That fellow isn't 60
ing 10 be Que Of my pail bearers. |
don't like him aud meyer did and if
you are going to have him IN gel
veil, see II I don't" Again he fell
back in the bed and became uncon--
scious, but in a few hours there came
a change for the better. To-day he
walks the streets as hale and hearty as
any man.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
Christine Nelson's Childhood.

hqAdoh IrutA.l
saw the other day In a newspaper
o fancy sketch Of the early life of
Christine Nilsson. Here is the reali-
ty: On a remote estate in Sweden
lived a Baron Leheusen, whose wife
was very musical. On these Swedish
estates the peasants were, until within
a few years. practically serfs, and are
called Bunde and Torpare. The Rupde
have ab9qt. thirty or forty acres, and
have TO peFtotm certain obligations to
their landlords, such as tilling his
ground with their horses or oxen, etc.
The Torpare are cottagers with a small
plot Of ground, for which they have to
pay a certain amount of dagswerke or
days work each week. Their food Is
obtained from the vegetables on these
plots, and hem about two shillings
per week for the labors Of their free
days. Missions father was a TaTpare
Of Baron hehegsep, and the little
OhrlsHae used to run about barefoot
ed, with q short petticoat on, full
Of holes, coming down 10 her knees.
baroness tehegsen ono day heard her
singing one Of the old Swedish ditties,
which have been handed down from
generation to generation among the
Bundle and the Torpare. The baroness
was struck with the sweetness of her
voice, and ordered her to come to the
chateau there she gave her some ele-
mentary lessons in Singing, aud then
aent her TO Paris, whore she was placed
under the tuition of a French profess
sor. After several years of assiduous
study, she made her debut before the
Parisians-if l remember rightly
the Theater Lyrique. With the FIRST
money that she earned, she built up
tAe cottage of her old father, the Tor
pare, and made him comfortable, and
he is now a well-to-do peasant,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
WHAT cox THINKS.
An lntervlsw with the COlOred Person
who SufoCated Mrs. Hull.

New York SUM-
How much money did you get by
the robbery, altogether" the reporter
asked.
well, l got S23 80 in money, $50
on the cluster ring in New York bella
pawned it for mel, 81 so for the cameo
set and the long chain from Sternberg,
$40 for the solitaire ring from Cohen
about $50, that's all"
And how much have you got now2"
"Oh, l amt got any money now"
What do you think will be done
with your"
suppose they'll hang me- said
the prisoner in his usual tone Of voice.
DO you think so ?"
Yes" replied the murderer, 81
s'pose so. | know what de law says.
1t says | took a life and de penalty is
death. | wouldn't be believed if l
said to de law that 1 didn't mean to
kill her-that | wouldn't hurt her
for anything. The law says | shall be
hung and suppose | will. l don't
want to die that way. | don't see
how viii be able to stand it. l never
could stand such things. When | was
in the army | was detailed three
times to witness executions-all of
them hangings. | didn't see them"
You turned your head away"
mo, sab | simply didn't go. Twice
| was very severely punished for not
'beying orders, but | couldn't stand
the sight, and nothing could make me.
| couldn't never bear seeing any one
in pain-never. | never hurt an in
sect purpOsely,"
You were arrested coming out of
church, where you heard a powerful
sermon on hell. Did that impress
you in such a tanner that you felt it
better TO confess 2"
No, | don't slider that the sermon
pressed on me at all. You don't seem
to remember that | go to church al
ways | always have. My pastor will
be 'stonished when he hears of this.
No, that sermon didn't seem to worry
me. I'm used to EN-. But did you
know about my dream? l call it a
dream. | don't know what it vast
was a kind of feeling, | guess
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
From YESTERDAYS Second Rditlon.l
LATEST BY CABLE.
Irish Opposition to the Uni
versity Bill.
Threatened Assassination of the
King Of Belgium
If He Signs a Bill Limiting Powers
Of the Clergy.
The American BOnaparte Patterson
Snokan If for fha Sucnasslou.
The Race for the July Cup.

MADRID, July 2.-In reference to
the agitation against protective duties
in consequence of the dearness of
bread, the minister Of finance in
formed the cortes that the condition of
the wheat crop was not such as to
require any modification of law on
the subject of cereals, but the minis
ter of public works proposed to reduce
transportation.
GENEVA, July 2.-The merchant
society of Zurich, speaking on behalf
Of the cotton trade in which the Swiss
have 400, 600, 900 francs invested, very
strongly ~deprecates the protective
measures, and states that in conse-
quence of the increase of the German
duties on English cotton yarn the i'm
portant trade in mixed silk and cotton
goods which the town of Crefeld, in
Rheinish Russia, have hitherto mo-
nopolized, will pass to Zurich.
LONDON, July 1.-The Irish mem
bers of the house of commons are by
no means disposed to accept Lord
Cairns university bill. Some char
acterize the bill as an insult to the
country"
The race for the July cup o.day at
Newmarket was Won by PhGnix; Out
of Bounds, second Trappist, third.
Hack Thorpe was the favorite.
The Etaile Beige states that on Sun
day last a placard was posted on the
wall of the royal palace of Lacken,
threatening the King with death if he
ratified the bill passed by the Belgium
parliament depriving the clergy of the
control of elementary education.
The bank of Bombay has reduced
its interest and discount rates from 8
to Z per cent.
PARIS, July2.-The Steele says that
numerous groups of Bonapartists have
some idea of bringing forward Jerome
Bonaparte Patterson, the American,
as a pretender to the Napoleonic sue
cession.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

gers are amongst the most notable,
and are certainly not the least admi-
rable, Of American characteristics.
In one of the newspaper offices at
which l called the door of the re-
porter's rooms hears the inscription,
" Don't knock-waltz in" which
struck me as an amusing form of in
vitation. More striking, if not so
amusing, is a little trait which l OBJ
served in the reporters room Of the
Chronicle, the leading paper of San
Francisco. A skull is nailed up
against one of the desks, with a long
black pigtail wound round it, while
underneath is written in large letters f.:
This is Wong LII, who did not like
an item about himself. and was rash
enough to say So" Might not some
similar warning be put up in the
offices of our English newspapers for
the benefit of the bores who daily in
wade them to request hat their
names be left out from the police
report or other black list2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
JournaIIsm in San FraneIsoO.

london Figaro
Business and curiosity led me to see
a good many Of the journalists Of San
Francisco, and gave me some insight
into journalistic life. Nothing can be
more different from English Journal.
ism than that Of America, and espe-
cially of California. Ia one or two
respects, the English pressmen might
taka q lesson from the Americans. but
on the whole the less we initiate them
the better. They are always sensa-
tiGDal and vulgar, often seqFrjlous and
insane. Good taste is unknown among
them, and so-cailed "~smaFtRess' is
everything, One great difference be-
tween an American and an Ennlish
newspaper lies in the preponderance
Of descriptive matter over reports
in the former. | found that in San
Francisco scarcely q single paper had
a regular short hand writer upon its
staff. Their reporters" we're merely
men with a good memory, a facile pen,
and plenty of impudence for the in
%teryiewing part Of the business. When
by any chance a verbatim report is
wanted, there are plenty of unattached
short hand writers about who are glad
enough to do it 'by the piece" More
over, comparatively little attention is
paid to leading NATTER The chief
man on a paper is not he who can
write q telling editorial, but he who
can Invent thTee-quarters of a column
of sensational headiggs on the short
est notice. While | was in san Fran
cisco a Chinaman was executed for
murder, and one of the leading papers
Of tkG city headed its report, in very
large type. bTbe Latest Moose" with
about half Q column gf sqb-headings
IN smaller type. Another paper which
saw IN the Eastern States headed
the report Of the misdemeanors of a
certain DIV. Edward Solillipg. "a
Bad Schilling." Indeed, there Is very
little distinction between serious and
comic papers in America-some Of
the serious papers being, in fact, inan-
iteig mpre comic than the comic ones.
The Ameticap editor is very differ
ent from his English eopfrere. The
editor Of a great English pape, 10 rs
unapproaobsble as royalty itself. 70
see him without on Introduction one
must call at the Office day atter day
for weeks, and when at last admitted
to the august presence, must expect a
brusque and not very genial reception.
The editor Of a great American paper
on the other hand, is hail -fellow-well.
met with all and sundry. The stranger
has merely to ask for him, and is al
once admitted to the sanctum. He /.
received With the UTMOST afability and
blandness, accommodated With a chair
and spittOon, and may, if be please
enjoy a quarter Of an hours friendly
and amusing chat with Jupiter omit,
mus maKimqs, who, very likely, with.
out %murmuEing, suspends his work Al
some article which, in England. woulC
be considered u iibelous distribe. bu-
is here called telling criticism.
Politeness and obligingness to stran
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
How He Won Her

Chicago TribuneI
4 designing young man recently
fell madly in love with a rich and
beautiful young girl, the daughter Of
wealthy parents 0n.the South Side, and
enltstl1g the sympathies of her near
est and dearest friend, resolved to
win her or dye his mustashe in the
attempt, even though she was, in
wealth and social position infinitely
his superior, Having deeply studied
the plan of his campaign, he obtained
an introduction to the young lady at
an evening entertainment, bowed TO
her colaly, and a moment afterwards
asked her to excuse him-he wanted
to finish q conversation with a gentle
man about the marks of a good bull
terrier. Then he did not go near her
again all evening, but from time To
time stole a glance at her, and when.
he left the house didn't say goodnight
to her, With every whalebone in her
trembling with indignation, the beau
tiful girl expressed a hope that IL ever
he ran for a judgeship he might
run 268,00Q behind his ticket,
and. when next day she saw her
land the young man's) oonidante said
that the young man was a sweet pill, a
nice duck, or words to that effect.
The ooniidante then replied, well, he
has pretty much the same opinion of
you" Has hep cried the beautiful
girl; its just like his impudenoe.
What did he say about me9-tell me,
now, do; not that il makes any differ
ence to nue., of course; still | am curl
Gus To know, Did he think | was
good looking?" "0h, he said you
were pretty fair, but that any one
could soc with half an eye that YOU
painted and that your hair was false"
The wretch" gasped the lovely girl,
III scratch him at the polls-I mean
scratch his eyes out if ever l get a
chance. Well, and what did you tell
him 7" "0h, | told him that he was
mistaken, and he said perhaps he was,
but anyway your intellectual gifts
were contemplate, that your CONVEX
sation was trivial and ungrammatical,
and your ideas commonplace where
they we're not ridiculous. He said
that under wise training you might
develop into a good seventh class wo-
man, but it would hardly pay him
to devote himself to such task, and so
he asked me to introduce him to Susie
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
Washington Items.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE coun-
terfeitersare preparing to circulate new
five and ten dollar notes tomorrow
afternoon.
Six hundred thousand dollars of
five per cent. refunding bonds Of the
District of Columbia have been taken
up at 5-1OO per cent. premium, and
fifteen thousand dollars at lie pra-
MUM. Five hundred thousand dol
lars remain.
Congress having adjourned without
action on the bill authorizing an al
lowance for leaking on export packages
Of alcohol between distilleries and she
port of export, an immediate %eollec-
ton is ordered.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

Barker" IN. B.-Miss Susan Barker
is that beautiful young lady's pet
enemy. He did-did he2" said
that beautiful young lady well, Just
you bring him round on Sunday night
after church, and you'll see what I'll
doIto,him. "You won't throw yitriol
on him. or bolt his nomination, or
anything, will you y asked her land
the young man's) friend, and she said
that she would not, and when her
friend had gone she went aud looked
at herself in the glass and took a sol
emn oath on the big volume Of Long
fellow poems on the center table
that she would make that young man
fall in love with her and marry her
inside Of one calendar month. or else
so aud be a Trappist nun. Which is
precisely what hat cunning young
man is after. AS the poet says,
When a woman can't, she will, and
that's an end of it."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
Z. WHTrMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
SOC per month fOrlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER is 81 per annun-
postage free,
Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at soc per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing ~postOtice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

August Belmont was a Hebrew and
bis name when he arrived in New
York was Schonberg. Though he has
renowned the Jewish faith he yet
retains some Of the ancient customs.
His wife, who is a daughter Of Com
modore Perry, attends the Episcopal
church, but when death entered his
family he oheyed the old Hebrew GUS
tom Of closing his picture gallery for
a year. He Is three score and ten,
aud his wealth is estimated at a mil
lion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

We had not e any Tubing of
this much bathing people in tho open
street, nor that promisouous washing
Of their persons which appear in
travellers tales. Both have no doubt
occurred, but they are exceptional,
and may have been as little a mark OF
tho nation as the baths at Leukerbad
characterize the Swiss. Though we
had seen amos, they had not perform
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
Fosters XyaF Remlniscenees,

Ohieaga Vimes.l
At the next meeting Of the war vet
Grams of Ohio Charles Foster, as his
contribution to the precious memories
of the past, can display the yard-stick
and shears he used so valiantly upon
his customers during all the long four
years Of war,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

"This bread is sour" said Jones at
the table, recently. Yes" rejoined
Smith, tie o u bread, if we pay for
III" and the landlady looked relieved,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

If Grant don't favor the further i'm
migration Of the Chinese he will have
disappointed the viceroy. Johnny il
expected to join the hippodrome.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
HOs1On Fire.

BosToN, July 1.-The Rialto build
ing was damaged by fire to the amount
Of $4,000; insured.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
Democratic Nominations in Cal
ifOruia.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-The
Democrats of the Second congress
sional district this morning nominated
7. S. Clunie, of Sacramento, for con-
gress. The Third district nominated
G. S. Berry, of Suffer,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03

Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet,
is ia feeble health at Charleston, s. G.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
ADVERTISING AGENTS.
GEO. p.
ROWEI.L
co.

Newspaper Advertising Bureau.
For Ten Cents One hundred page
Pamphlet with Lists of News
papers and Advertising Rates.
For Ten Dollars: Four lines
inserted one week In Three
Hundred and Fifty Newspapers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-03
New Advertisements.
SUMNER TRAVEL.

If you journey for business, health or re-
creation TO the mountains, lakes, or shores,
protection of Accident Insurance in the
Travellers, Of Hartford. Any regular agent
will write a yearly or monthly policy in a few
minutes, or a ticket from one TO thirty days.
The cost is SO small that any one can afford it
who travels az all. Cash paid for accidental
injuries over 49, 900.