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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
IEow 70 Choose a lpuclnr.

The Detroit Lancet gives the fol-
lowing rules for choosing a doctor.
They are worth bordering by every
doctor and patient
Avoid o mean man for you may be
sure he will be a mean doctor, just as
certain as he would make a mean
husband.
Avoid a dishonest man; he will not
be honest With yen as Your physician.
Shun the doctor that you buy TO
help you out of a scrape-a good doc
tor cannot be bought.
Avoid the untidy, coarse, blunder-
ing, fellow for the man who is clumsy
in hitehlng his horse you may be su q
is not handy at midwifery or surgery.
Avoid the doctor who hatters you
and humors your appetites.
hT"id the empty blow-horn who
boasts of his numerous cases and tells
you Of seeing forty or City patients a
day, while he spends two hours to
convince you Of the fact. Put him
down as a fool.
To be a good doctor, one must first
be a man in the true sense of the
word.
Heshould be a moral man, honest
in bis dealings.
He must have good sense or he can.
not be a good doctor.
He should be strictly temperate.
No one should trust his life in the
hands Of an Incorporate doctor.
1t is a good sign if he tells you how
to keep well.
1t is a good sign if the members of
his own family respect him.
1t is a good sign if his children like
him.
1t Is a good sign if he il neat and
handy in making pills and folding
powders.
1t is a good sign fhe is still a stu.
dent, and keeps posted in all the latest
improvements known to the profess
sion for alternating human suffering.
1t is another good sign" if he is
posted in sanitary matters, and knows
how to prevent as well as how to cure
diseases.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
"NIGGERs."
A Republican Newspaper on the Word
"COlOred."

Lomars Iowa scntinel.I
The ridiculous fancy Of ~niggers fol
the word 'colored," is one of the
strangest phenomena of the times.
You may kick a niger from New
Orleans to st, Paul and back if you
only call him a "colored gentleman.
There is nothing on earth will rifle
a niger quicker, or more efectually.
than to call him a niger.
The literary niggers are the worst
of all.
We get several niger newspaper:
In exchange, and the fellows talk
about
Colored papers!
The darby editors are talking about
holding a convention Of
Qolored papers!
Just think of It'll
Colored papers
And we read about
Colored bands,
Colored schools,
COlored votes, and all kinds of col
ored things,
Meaning at the same time niger
papers, niger bands, etc.
If Sambo, after getting his eve
teeth cut, had insisted on calling him
self a negro, all right.
But he is nearly as much ashamed.
or at least he gets as mad when called
a negro as when dubbed a niger.
He must be colOred or nothing,
though the word is meaningless.
Colors vary from that of a frozen
pumpkin to that of a brindle steer;
And a colored individual may
be any tint from a yaller dog to a
black snake.
Negroes, Mullattoes, Quadroons
and Octoroons are specific and we'll
known names that mean something.
Niger as a generic name is short.
expressive and sOciable.
There Is an aroma of hail fellow
well-met, and even tenderness in the
despised word,
Niger,
That Is dlssipated by the Flora
MeFlimsey affeetation ''colored."
How many millions of US in our
youth have been touched with the
song
There was an old niger, and his
name was Uncle Ned"
And mourned over the good uncle's
departure p
The word niger is immortalized in
a thousand songs that awaken kindly
and tender thoughts of the darby.
The plaintiye melodies dwell in our
ears,
And the niger lives on their sym
pathetic strains.
|, If we were black We would insist on
being called a niger.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

them said he would like to say when
he went home to the East that he had
shot an Indian. The other dared him
to shoot this one. lie drew a revolver
and shot him. The Indian was an
Omaha. Oh, | tell you if he had been
a Sioux or q Cheyenne you would have
heard from it. But we knew we would
gain nothing, aud nothing was done.
| propose that you white people treat
us on a platform Of plain honesty, and
let US be citizens. We now are farm
crs, and are doing well. We want TO
stay there, and want assurance that
We can live like other farmers. We
have deposed the chiefs, and want to
be just Ike any other citizens Of the
State.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

London Times: The demand for
iron for the United States is a remark
able Instance of a difference in cost
overcoming an oxorbitaut tariff, and
shows how much the people Of the
American Union are content to tax
themselves for the benefit of the iron
masters Of Pennsylvania.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

Cetewayo's demeanor at the time Of
his capture is said to be very quiet.
More than once he was moved to
tears. His only entreaty was that he
might remain at Zululand DO with
me as you please!' he exclaimed
treat me as you like, place me in the
humblest capacity, but let me live and
die in my own land"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

Miss La Flesche, a daughter of
White Eagle, head chief of the
Omaha Indians, in a talk recently with
a newspaper man said Of the Indian
question
You hear but ono side. We have
no newspapers to tell our story. / tell
you the soldiers do things with the
prisoners or the dead as horrible as
any Indian could think of. Then you
people are almost always the aggres.
sors. Ill tell you a case | know of:
Two young white men met an Indian
with a basket Of potatoes, One OF
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

An old breastplate of the pattern
worn by the Puritan fathers more than
two hundred years ago, was discovered
recently by Mr.. B. j. Cole in the ac-
cumulations of old iron at the Cole
Manufacturing Company's shops at
Lake Village, N. H. 1t weighs
about twenty-five pounds.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

Says the Utica Herald ut is a
fact to which due weight must be
given that Mr.. Cornell may run ten,
twenty, even thirty thousand votes be-
hind his ticket, and be elected, while
the rest Of the State ticket is elected.
Such a victory would be no victory at
nllh
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

Mr.. G. j.. Holyoke, the English re-
former, says that Washington is the
most beautiful of American cities.
He says that Gladstone will probably
succeed Beaconsfeld, and hat where
a few years ago ten Englishmen were
republicans from sympathy, there are
now thousands who are such from
conviction.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

The water in the Delaware river is
50 low that Jacob Y. Booz has quietly
driven his wagon across where once
the famous Washington stood in front
Of a boat and pushed the ice-bergs
away.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

The river here declined 4 inch
from noon yesterday to noon to-day.
and now stands 2 feet 5 inches aboys
extreme low water mark. At Cairo
the decline was | inch, with / feet on
the gauge at st. Louis it is station
airy, with s feet 3 inches on the gauge ;
at Pittsburg it is on a stand, with 3
inches on the gauge at Cincinnati it
declined | inch, with 3 feet | inch on
the gauge at Louisville l inch, with
2 feet II inches in the canal. Cum
berland river is falling, with Is inches
on the shoals, Arkansas river is still
on the decline, with no water for nav
igation. White river is in fair navi-
cable order.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

Teamsters along the ella river, Ar
izona, complain OF the large herds Of
wild camels that have Of late taken
possession Of the main road, to the
CONSERVATION Of horses and mules.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
COTTON EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS.
fgtandard International Classification

The visible supply Of cotton, in
GLIDING all now in European ports,
ahoat for Europe, and stocks in the
ports of America on the first instant,
was ] ,531, 945 bales, an increase over
last year at the same time Of 9l,O57
bales, and With the year before of So,
224 hales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

Mr.. w. r. Balch, the Boston Jour
palist who captured Chastine Cox, is
soon to assume the managing editor
ship Of the Philadelphia Press,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
Special Notice.

DI mutual agreement Of the
~ undersigned, the steamer k@5iE4~Ak
HARD CASH withdraws from sSeE
the mite river trade on May 2lst, and re.
Snmes again on July 9th; the steamer JOSIE
HAkRf withdraws on July 18th, and resumes
on august 10Th, thus equally dividing the
nifty to make necessary repairs.
STEAMER HARD CASH,
~. {. POSTAL, master.
-. STEAMER JOSIE HARRY.
OFT NJ. X. Harry, master.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
LOTTERY,
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY

This Institution was regularly ineorporated
by the legislature Of the State for Educational
and Charitable purposes, in 1865, for the
term Of Twenty-Five Years, to which
contract tho inviolable faith Of the State is
pledged with a capital Of 81 200, 600, to which
Its grand Single Number Distribution will
take place monthly on the second Tuesday.
1T NEVER sCALEs OR POsTPONRs. Look at the
following distribution;
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
RIvER 1NTELIIeEHCE
BoArs LEAVING rms DAY

BoArs LEAVING THIS Az.
Now Orleans, Laura Davis. ..-.....5 p. m
Friar's Point, C0ahOma. pm
New Orleans, Golden Cily.-....-.. .....~.-5 pm
ARRIVED.
Steamer Colorado, st. Louis.
Osceoll Belle, Osceola.
Paris q. Brown, New Orleans.
DEPARTED.
Steamer John 4. Scudder, New Orleans.
George w. Cheek, Friar's Point.
Colorado, st. Louis.
B~atesyille, st. Francis river.
Exchange, mouthof White rivei
Paris G. Brown, st. Louis.
IN PORT.
Marlin Sneed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
PUBLICATION.
WIDE AWAKE
FOR 1879.
A Pictorial Magazine for Young Folks.
ELLA FARMER, Editor,
ELLA FARMER, Editor,


II is conceded on all sides that Messrs. D.
lished what they set their hearts upon a few
years ago, viz; TO make a magazine absolutely
pure IN its influence, unrivalled in rs liternry
merit, beautiful artigtieally, and then to fur.
nIsh at q price 50 low that people could
tIord to take il. THREE JOLLY SERIALS.
The DOgberry Bunch,
A Story Of Seven Merry Children, who faced
the world Tor themselves, out always hanrins
in a bunch" BY MARY HARTwELL CATgFP.
8OOD' Proiusely illustrated by MARY A. LATE.
Royal LOwrle's Last Year at St. Olaye's.
A Jolly story of American School Boy Life.
by MAGNus MRRRIWEsyHRR, author of ga
General Misunderstanding" illustrated BY
Miss L. d. HUMPHREY.
Don QuixOte, Jr.
The Adventures of Sir Miltiades Petcrkip
Paul on his steed "~Doughnuts." BY JOIN
bROWNJoHN. A funny story written expressly
for the Little Boys of America. illustrated
with comic pictures by l.. HOPKINS.
Our American Artist.
First Series.l Psper l., Wa. H. BEARD.
With Portraits, Studio Interiors, and Engrav.
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The most attractive attempt yet made 10
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Funny DOuble-page Illustrated
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|. The Mince Pie Prince, By Kirk Moproe
Illustrated by L. Hopkins.
Some Novel Schools.
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White Mrs. John Lilie.) ~
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Bright Short Stories and Poems,
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Letters from the Children, ~
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All with lots of pictures from tho hast art.
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only 500 q year, free Of postage. Send
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BOSTON.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

Mrs. Harriet Reooher Stoves son
Charles has engaged TO supply the
Congregational pulpit at Milton, N.
Il. for a year.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05

The market opened this morning
with very little confidence manifested
among buyers, while factors generally
appeared willing to accept prevailing
quotations. Sales yesterday were 14OO
bales divided, to spinners $50; to ex-
porters, 425 the market closing
steady at unchanged prices as fol-
lows:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
CAPITAL PRIZE. 100000.
APPROXIMATION PRIZES .
ISL Prizes, amounting {, slio, 40

-
.nr- n -
iO' FrlAes' amountins to-~-~~~.~...SllO 400
Responsible corresponding agents wanted AZ
al points TO whom liberal compensation viii
Application for rates 10 clubs should only be
made TO the home Office in New Orleans.
Write, clearly stating full address, for fur
ther information, or send orders By express on
mail addressed only to
NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
Pc. Box 692, New Orleans. La.
or same at No. S19 Broadway, New Nork.
Or TO d.. L. GILLESPIE,
No, 6 West Court street, Memphis Tenn.
The particular attention of tho public a
called TO the fact that the entire number oftho
tickets for each monthly drawing Is sold, aud
consequently All the prizes IN each drawing
are sold and drawn and paid. This Is not the
cae9with any other company.
All our Grand Extraordinary pTawinfs are
undor the supervision aud ranapmfnt' 81
A. EARLY, Hwu te
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
CONDITIONS.

Marlin Speed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-05
The DOgberry Bunch,

A Story Of Seven Merry Children, who faced
The world for thaIaselyeS, out always hanging
IN a bunch Ky MARY HARTwELL CATER.
BURY.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-23

It 10 said that the reason the
crime Of bignmy 10 of % rare 90
currence in Hungary 10 that ocee
on q time Q man who was oonxaoer
ed was sentenced by the eoart -
live for two years with both Wv
The punishment wss consoles
very cruel, bot It had To assns9
eject.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-23

ers, peeping surreptitiously through
the window at the walters.
"Miss Philippa!r
She started slightly.
"Oh, Mr.. Mortimer! l am not
doing wrong attn Ir
He smiled as he drew her arm
through his.
"But why are you not dancing
inside'r
81 preferred not tonight"
Little Philippa," said Mr.. Nor.
timer, standing still under the sha
dow of q dropping elm, you are
equivocating now; and, as it hap
pens, know the truth"
81 don't understand you," said
Philippe.
amy valet is in love with Elise
Dupre. She has told him all about
your deed of kindly charity and he
has told mel"
eyes, said Philippa, in q low
tone. "My Uncle gave me money
for a dress; but ! preferred helping
Elise to going to the ball.
"You told your aunt you were
going as Cinderella
"How do you knOwi But that
isn't strictly true,' laughed Philip
pa. 81 was to be Cinderella. And
so | am!7
"Then, Philippa, if you are to bt
Cinderella, will you let me be the
Princefn
"Mr. Mortimer"
"Sweetest, l have been looking
all my life for just such pure, no
bile. hearted girl said Mortimer
land now that have found her,
shall not willingly let her go.7
ado you mean
81 mean, love, that ! want yor
for my wife"
Mr.. Dale could hardly credit BIZ
own ears, the next day, when Hugo
Mortimer formally requested of hin
the hand Of his youngest niece II
marriage, and Mrs. Dale lifted be
hands and eyes to the ceiling.
ITO think that it should be Phil
ippa, after ALT" said she.
AS for "Undine' and "Sappho,
they swallowed their modification
aud congratulated the little brow
gypsy as cordially as possible.
CATER ALL" said shrewd Uncl
Dale, "Philippa invested her bnr
= dred dollars the best Of any
3 your
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-23

Noticing an article in your peper
containing an account Of the hrst
eating of the tomato in this country,
l desire to correct your correspon-
dent "Seaweed." In 1898, and sev.
eral years subsequently, Capt.
Phineas Eldridge resided on Cafpen.
ten street, west Of Fourth street,
Philadelphia. During 1766 .
Frenchman named Nicalo left Ban
Domingo with his family, consisting
Of Q wife and two children, and ocoa-
pied the adjoining property. He
brought with him several varieties
of vegetable seed, which were plant
ed, and after q lapse Of time grew
and bore fruit. Among them was
a tomato, which he drsssed - .
salad; and which was relished by
Mr.. Eldridge's family. The neigh.
bors procured the seed and raised
them as an ornament, having IL
impression that they were poisonoaA'
Tomatoes we're used 10 New Orieaoa
as an article of food In 1872; they
! were sold in Philadelphia markell
as early a. ls29.-l Boston 1nsss
cript.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-23

The Albany Law Journal finds
in Halls History of Eastern Yer
mont sOme account OF the laws
which were in force a hundred years
ago. They are as follows: "Bur.
glary was punished with branding
with a b on the forehead aud nail
ing one of the Offenders ears to a
post and cutting it of, and whip.
ping; for the second offense there
was the like branding and mailing
and cutting of of the other ear; for
the third offense the punishment
was death, the offender being deem
ed ''incorrigible." Counterfeiting
was punished by cutting of the Of
tenders right ear, branding with
the letter G and perpetual inpris.
onment. Perjury was punished by
a fine of go and imprisonment for
six months, but if the offender could
not pay the fine he was let of by
sitting in the pillory two hours, and
having both ears nailed and cut of.
Wilfuf lying, TO public prejudice or
private injury, or deceiving or abus.
ing the people with false news OF
reports, was punished by fine, sit
ting in the stocks and whipping
the punishment being increased
with each repetition Of the offense
except that in no case WAS the mum
Der of stripes to exceed the number
thirty-nine. Theft was punished b.
compelling three.fold restitution, by
fine and by a sort of temporary
slavery, the prosecutor being EN-
powered to dispose of the offendel
in service to any subject OF thu
State for such time "a he should b'
assigned to the prosecutor by tn
court. Unreasonable night walk
ing-tbat is to say after nine o'clOcl
was prohibited, AS was also tn
converting Of persons, guardians o
masters, after that untimely hour
Tavern hunters were punished b.
posting their names at the door @
j. every tavern, and prohibiting tn
!. tavern keeper from supplying Their
. with anything in the way Of stron
" drink. No clamorous discoursei
j., shouting, hallooing. screaming, ruI
u ming, riding, dancing, Jumping
, swimming or blowing horns va
tolerated on the Lords day. Lii
!" tening outside Of the meeiing-honl
]; during the time of public worshi
d was not permitted. Secular NEE
:, Jugs of any number Of persons,
J" the streets or elsewhere, on Satu
, day or Monday evening, were e
!, hidden, under penalty of Ane
,. stocks.'
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-23
CINDER leila.

"Reaiiy it's quite a riddle, when
one comes to think of it,' said Mrs.
Dale, putting the tips of her ringed
fingers meditatively together. Jean
nette ia a charming girl, with
most taking way with her. Fun
sure there can be no doubt about
her marrying satisfactorily. And
Marian's music is an excellent card
to play. But when one comes to
Philippa-'
"An odd little gypsy, isn't shes"
said Mr.. Dale. "Decidedly imprac'
ticable, | should think
"Neither pretty, accomplished
nor womanly!7 sighed Mrs. Dale,
gloomily.
Mrs. BARREL Dale had no children
of her own, and she knew the social
position which any middle-aged
matron gains when she is surround.
ed by pretty girls. So Mrs. Darrell
had invited her brothers daughters
from Hemlock Hollow, in the Cats
kill Mountains, to spend the sum
mer at Niagara Falls with her.
81 dare say said she, confden'
TALLY, to her sister.in.law, the far.
mers wife, "they'll he married well
before the season is over; and, in
any event, the experience VIII be
worth a deal to them
And honest Mrs. Humphrles took
all her ten years savings out OF
the Hemlock Hollow Bank, to equip
the three girls suitably tor their
summer campaign.
Jeanette took to Waiting and
the German as naturally as If she
had been born TO them; Marian
slipped as gracefully into a literary
and musical groove; but poor little
Philippa seemed to fit nowhere
She was shy and silent in the ball
room, struck unaccOuntabiy mute
when she ought to be laxative, ant
seemed to want to prefer the woods
beside the great cataract. when al
the world tiocked to the ballroom
of the Clifton House OF the Inter
national.
"Because, Aunt Theo," said hon
est Philippa, ~ never know wha
to say to the gentlemen when the.
ask me to dance"
"But, my dear child,' said Mrs
Dale, "that's not the way to &c
into society,""
81 don't think | care 40 yer
much about society, Aunt Theo,
said heretical Philipra.
"Then you'll never get marie
in the world" said Aunt Theo, l
an accent of despair.
> But even Philippa was rouse
into interest when the cards cam
= out for the grand fancy masquerad
bali at the International Hotel, an
Mr.. Dale gave each of his nieces
hundred dollar bill, to enable the
d to appear suitably for the occasion
81 shall personate 'Undine,'" sal
. Jeanette, thinking how we'll 81
would look in sea. green Grape, cry
a. tai fringes and water lilies. =.
in "And / shall be 'Sappho,'' CRIT
out Marian.
"Capital,r said Mrs. Dale. "AI
you Philippaf .,,
81 don't know yet" said Philip
d. contracting her black eyeoro"
lie .Mr. Mortimer says | ought to
n n. as gipsy.' M
DC ne "Then, my dear said Mrs. "a
- "be a gypsy, By all means. II MI
" timer Is good enough to express,
tn opinion, it shouldn't be neglected
d. And both Marian and Jeanne
We looked q little jealous, for the III
Hugo Mortimer, from Montreal, v
- the lion ct Niagara Falls just tn
and his gracious notice was enou
to insure the lucky recipient a TN
place In the ranks Of fashion.
"When did he say that, Pns
as demanded Jeanette, jerking
md the ribbons of her sash.
va "Oh, yesterday, when we v
" over on Coat Island"
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-23
MINDEN HOTEL.

THE travelling pnblic and regular board
era will find this house as comfortable
and we'll supplied as the resources and con
ditiou of the country will permit. The
charges are very reasonable. The stage
stand is kept at this Hotel.
have also attached to my hotel new
and CONNEXIONS Stable, well supplied with
nroyepder and water and good ostier a.
wavs on hand TO attend to stock.
The travelling public VIII do well to give
me a call. A. D. hbiNoo'
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-23
Dr. SILAS TURNER,
DR.. .. r.. RICHARDSON,

uAvING resumed the practice OF Med'-
III cine offers his services to the citizens
Of Claiborne parish, in the various branches
Of his profession. ,s,
Ofice at the Drug Store Of Joe Shelton
Aug. ~, 1877. is