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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-10

@The Man Of the 18TH OF May.
1851
"Gordon's March" by Professor Henry
Schoeller, Of Dalton, Ga, and dedicated
to General John B. Gordon, The Mar
Of the 18th Of May, 1864" is just received
from the enterptising publishers. This
brilliant march is worthy of its name and
author, and will soon be heard from thou
sands Of pianos through the South. Sold
by all music dealers, or send 4Oc to the
publishers, Ludden & Bates, Savannah,
Georgia.
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TnE gas office has removed TO the Ma
sonic Temple building, on Madison street
81
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FOR RENT.

OTORE and rooms, l6 Jefferson street, near
- Main;
TwO-st0ry, 5 room brick residences, Main:
Cottage cor. Huling and Main SITS;
Airy and new sleeping rooms;
Central basement, 282 Main;
Nice cottages near Shelby. on Huling;
Suit of Offices over b. N. Strattun's.
sO-9l W. A. WHBATLEl 81 Main st.
IN Planters Insurance Building, double and
i single Offices, suitable for lawyers or physi-
clans; and double and single bedrooms. All
well lighted and ventilated, and all modern
c0nvenienees. Apply at Office of Planters In.
surance Company, Al Madison n. ST.l5i
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REEDS Gilt Edge Tonic is a safe and
pleasant inyigorant for delicate females.
DIV
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A full limo Of ladies' and mems
Trunks and Travelling Bags.
shawl and Trunk Straps at
r. NJ. DRAKE a. CO.'S.
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REEDS Gilt Edge Tonic Is a wholesome
stimulant and its quality is guaranteed.
DIV
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A fine, fresh, black LOT Of
NO. 10 CIGARS,
) for 2Je.

REEDS Gilt Edge Tonic will cure the
worst case Of fever and ague. DIV
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HYDRANT Hose-vERY CHEAP.
lot Browne, 25S Second st.
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FOR SALE.

COTTAGE with 4 rooms and a hall; good
u ~eistern; fruit and grapes. Lot 25xlSO feet.
For sale cheap. Apply on premises, IS Cal
houn street, or to Captain Geo. Malone. l93
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A GOOD secondhand rockaway, cheap, for
"A cash or credit. Apply to
$3.50 MORGAN & CO, Second st.
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Kingston NDrines. Tenu.

You can save money on all Of
Watkins sp~ecialiies. sOi
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A STOCK Of groceries, fixtures, horse and
"A wagon. Good stand. al Beal 76-lOl
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"De Sand and SaWdusf Of Dis
WOrld,s

"Gen'lem, if you sec a pusson rush
in 'roun' dis world enyeloped in a
dimund pin an an ulster, am dat any
sign dat he pays taxes, rents a church
pew an brings his chil'en up in de
way dey should go?"
Brother Gardner looked down on
the sixty-four faces in the orchestra
chairs, but not a voice responded.
When you see a pussOn seated in a
sky-blue cutter, pushin' de lines over
a fast boss an lookin' outer his left
eye as if he had de bulge on de eo'ner
lots in town, am dat any sign dat a
single grocer would trus' him for a
box o sa'dines or a peck of carrots ?"
The Elder Toots heaved a deep sigh,
and huckleberry Jones silently
scratched his off leg just below the
knee.
When a man takes up fo' seats in
de kyar, pushes folks aroun' on de
market, elbows aroun' dc City Hall,
an gifts dc fust place at dc stamp win
dow in de p%ostofice, am dat emmy sign
dat when it came to de pull he'd give
half a dollars worth of wood to
keep an orfun asylum from fresin' to
death? Doan' you black folks cit
dust in yer eyes2 Oars a hoap of
sand and sawdust in dis woruld dat
passes for sugar to de man walkin' by,
but when you comes to de pinch de-
sugar amt dar. De sawdust bulres
up an de sand creeps out, an YOU am
dis'pinted an Disguised, Isb Kinder
hard to hay to cat cold turnip WHEN
you know dat de family next doah am
luxuriatin' on sweet cake an turkov
but if de turBip ain paid Cor YOU
needn't fear for your digestion. Icy.
peck dat de h'arafter am dc biggest
ling emmy of us hey got to work fur.
an ! tOle you, brudders, dat big seal
rings an pants cut twenty two Inches
across de kull am nQwhar alongside of
a kin word an honest heart.
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Amecdotes On Scapegrnce.

washington Capitol.I
George HI. Butler, when very drunk,
applied to the genial John Chamber
lain for a small loan. This, of course,
John refused.
John said George, solemnly, 81
shall, like the government, be driven
to a forced loan" and, slipping a small
mantel clock in the pocket of his
ulster, he added, Times money,
John times money"
Again, when his uncle, the eminent
Massachusetts, statesman, was lectur-
ing him on his evil conduct, and to
enforce his precepts said that a cele-
brated physician had informed him
that he (George) was threatened with
~softening of the brain, and added,
What would you do, nephew, if that
calamity were to come to you?p2
George looked up with a drunken
gravity and replied, "Do, do? Why,
damn it, uncle, I'd be qualified to
write leading editorials for the New
York Herald"
The uncle found a more f%orlorn.
hope before him than the goyernorship
of Massachusetts,.
Are you this way every day, sir 2"
demanded the police justice, trying on.
the Roman grandeur of that dirty
locality.
Every day T. repeated George, in
%dignantly, every day! Why, you old
duffer, do you take me for a million
aire?"
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Chicago Times Lettcr.l
1t is a most dark and unlovely sea-
son in France, the winter. The houses
were never built with an idea of
warmth. The old fashioned crate was
a furnace compared to the aggravating
bit Of a heater supplied in living
rooms. In the first place, the chin
ney is limited by the necessity of
having perhaps a dozen hues enter the
same vent at the top. The crate in
the chamber, as a consequence, is
about as large as the half of a small
Washbowl. The mantel extends far
into the room, and no matter how well
the handful of coal which the crate
holds may burn, the miserable occu-
pant is torpid, in all parts of the body,
save that he or she can bend into the
arch before the delusiyc crate. But,
even il the CRATE were large, it is so
built that all the heatascends through
the Aues. Though this were not the
case, the coal is SO soft and unsub-
stantial-a poor species of bitumi-
nous-that it would be impossible
to extract warmth from it. As a
matter Of fact, it costs an Amer
lean or English visitor in Paris
more for fuel than for food to keep
anything like comfortable. How,
then, you will ask, do the French, who
are SO frugal, Keep warm? They
DON'T A FIRE in a French drawing
room is a rare thing; in a French
an unknown thing. To see
the fire of the ordinary French recep-
is to freeze to the marrow
for the feeble CLEAN of the few smoI-
Goals simply reminds the con-
gealing flesh and curdling blood of
what might be. No, the average
Frenchman has too keen an apprecia-
tion of the value of money to-as he
or she says-to throw it in the fire"
by heating rooms. When very cold,
the bed is always a refuge, if one is
not at work, and ifone is at work, one
the cold, is the way the French
economist would answer you, for it is
what he does.
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NAPOLEON HILL. N FONTAINE. JpT,ONp u,I,
HILL FONTAINE & co.
Cotton Factors
AND WHOLESALE GROCERs,
298 Front Street, Memphis.
NAPOLEON HILL.

prisoner came to the knowledge of the
governor of the province. The gov
ernor caused the man, cage and all, to
be brought to the government town.
and invited the tyrannical iron-master
to dinner. After the dinner was over
the governor sent for a quail in a
wooden cage, and offered to sell it to his
guest for 10000 roubles. The offer be-
ing treated as a joke, the governor said
he had a more valuable bird to sell, and
told us servant to bring it in. Fold
ing doors flew open, and the iron cage
with its miserable captive was set
down before the astonished guest.
f" Now said the governor, g what do
you think Of that for a quail ? But
this is a very expensive bird; | want
10000 roubles for him" "All right"
said the alarmed proprietor, 81 will
buy this one; send him down to my
works without the cage, and your
messenger shall bring back the
amount" The matter was thus pleas
antly settled, and the company ad-
in undisturbed harmony to
their coffee. tris o
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The Dlscovery of Matchcs.

London Society,"
The story of this discovery has been
told by Mr.. Holden himself in the
house of commons before a select com
mittee appointed to inquire into the
workings of the patent laws. We can
not do better, therefore, than give il
in his own words: II began as an
inventor on a very small scale" said
Mr.. Holden in the course of his evi-
denoe. For what | know, | was the
first inventor of lucifer matches but
it was the result ola happy thought.
In the morning | used to get up at 4
clock in order to pursue my studies,
and | used at that time the flint and
steel, in the use ofwhich | found very
great Inconvenience. | gave lectures
in chemistry at the time at a very
large academy. Of course Iknew, as
other chemists did, the explosive ma
terial that was necessary in order to
produce instantaneous light but it
was very difficult to obtain a light on
wood by that explosive material, and
the idea occurred to me to put under
the explosive mixture sulphur. |
did that and published it in
my next lecture, and showed it. There
was a young man in the room whose
father was a chemist in London, and
he Immediately wrote to his father
about it, and shortly afterwards luci-
fer matches were issued to the world.
| believe that was the first occasion
that we had the present lucifer match,
and it was one of those inventions
that some people think ought not to
be protected by a patent. | think
that if all inventions were like that.
or if we could distinguish one from
the other, the principle might hold
good. IF all inventions were seer
tanned and carried out into practice
with as much facility as in this cas
no one would perhaps think of taking
out a patent. | was urged to 90 and
take out a patent Immediately but |
thought it was so small a matter. and
it cost me so little labor, that | did
not think it proper to go and get a
patent, otherwise / have no doubt it
would have been very profitable
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TI,e lran yYith a GInss Ere.

Rocky Mountain News.
As a train on the Kansas Pacific
pulled away from Sixteenth street
depot, a few mornings since, a tall,
angular specimen of humanity took a
seat opposite a lady passenger, and to
all appearances was ~intently engaged
in studying her face. At first the lady
treated the rudeness with good-na-
tured Indifference. But at last it be-
gan to tell on her nerves. 1t was a
peculiar and astonishing piece Of
impertinenoo, He apparently had the
faculty Of looking two ways at once.
One of his eyes was restless, excited
and royed in all directions. The other
fixed and stony fastened on her with
undertaking sstare, She turned her
head away but it intercepted her Wis
ion. She tried to hide behind paper,
but she felt that cruel eye piercing
through the screen, and creeping with
a stony look all over her features. 1t
seemed to be picking them up one by
one and examining them with care.
The thing became uncomfortable and
she cried out to him Rercely, "Sir,
why do you look at me 50 persistent
lyY
Me, madam, why bless my soul, |
haven't been looking at you"
You have, sir-for a half hour or
more your eye has been absolutely
riyeted upon my face"
| beg your pardon, madam, but it's
this eye, is it notY lifting his finger
to his left optic.
Yes, sir, its that eye
well, madam, hat eye won't do
you any harm. II generally looks any
way it pleases-it gives me a good deal
of trouble. A great many complain
Of it. At first / thought they were
making fun of me, but I've found out
differently now. I've been knocked
down two or three times for the i'm
p%ertinonce Ut that eye. / would leave
it out altogether, but for the looks Of
the thing. It's a glass eye, madam,
only a glass eye. ! hope you'll excuse
it. But, upon my soul, I'm not sur
prised that even a glass eye should
feel interested n 20 lretty a woman
and he brought his other eye to bear
upon her in undisguised admiration.
Tho l2dy laughingly accepted the
explanation, and the rest Of the Jour
ney was passed very pleasantly to both
Of them
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Now from grave to gay. But ] do
not think 1t is very gay for poor Nine.
La Chapelle, the heroine walkist. She
is badly used up but determined 10
win, and | believe she will. She has
only about sixty more hours to walk,
and | judge by the time this is in type
she will have completed her wonderful
task and pocketed a good many hun
dreds Of dollars. Success to her.
Hold (on) McDuf" did not win
this morning. McDuff, charged with
bigamy, was expected to appear at the
armory, but he skipped out and left
his bondsmcn to settle the matter.
And still Michael fails to show up.
Safe blowers John Halpin, Joseph
Slater and AL. Betor, will soon be en-
route to Joliet %penitentiary.
Lambs iron foundry, an extensive
institution Of Northwest Chicago,
made a big blaze last night. Three
hundred men are out of employment
thereby to-day. However, as it was
fully insured it will soon be in opera
ton again.
A valentine caused tho little un-
|pleasantness this time between Mary
Schultz and Catherine Taylor. 1t was
a regular Donnybrook fair row. Both
combatants are are under two hundred
dollar bonds to control their angry
passions for six months.
Business very dullaand employment
scarce. Weather again fine.
NAYR.
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THE SoCIErYsoF FRIENDS.
The Great Longevity Of It's Members In
Great Britain.

A Quaker thus writes to the
London Pail Mall Gazette:
The question of the greater lon
gevity of the Society of Friends than
that Of the population in which they
are placed is one of considerable inter-
est, and the citation of some figures
throwing additional light on it NAV
be useful. In addition to the annual
tabular statements of the incOmings
by. births and outgoings by death.
valuable facts may be gathered from
the working of the assurance company
which exists for assuring the lives of
Friends and those connected with
them. A short time ago an elaborate
table was drawn up from all available
sources, from which the deduction
was made that the mean future life
time Tor expectation of life) at birth
was in the ease of a male Friend about
1874 years, the mean among the gen
eral public being 40.36. In the case
Of females the difference was not
quite so ~large-that of the Friend be-
ing 1872 and that of the general pub
lie 42.16. But the average life of the
QuakerS is above that of the mean
value, it having varied in recent years
from slightly over 81 years to So years.
A summary and analysis of the age
at death of members who have
died, for more than thirty years.
show that ont of 943 deaths there
were l63 Of persons under the age of
30 at death, pa of persons who died
between 30 and 60, 5l7 whose decease
occurred between the ages of 60 and
80, and 80 who died at the age of 80.
or above, three being reputed cente-
narians. All attainable facts prove
that there is a greater longevity among
the Quakers than other persons but
there is room for very great specula-
ton as to its causes and as to the
probabilities of its continuance. 1t
is far from generally known (the
writer adds that the decline in num-
bers in the Society of Friends has
been for many years arrested, and a
comparatively rapid rate of growth
has been experienced. In 1864 the
number of members in Great Britain
was 1875; ans for some years hat
number was not increased by more
than half a dozen or so yearly, and
that even was an improvement ON the
decrease that had been known for
some years previously. In the decade
ending with 1868 there was no addi-
ton to the number of MEMBERSHIP
deaths outnumbering the births, and
the incoming by other methods barely
supplying the deficiency. In the de-
cade ending with 1878 the death-rat
has still been higher than the births,
but the influx of members has more
than counter balanced the loss and
thus the total number of members is
raised to about l4,600-the increase
having been the most marked during
the later years.
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NBOss,, Wives

The boss wife is the wife who thinks
she rules and doesn't; the baby wife
Is tho wife who governs and doesn't
know It, And men like to be governed
by babies, not bosses.
a fact.
Nothing demOralizes a man so effec-
tually as to discover that he has mar
red Somebody Drawer and stronger
than himself
A baby wife never lets him discover
il, Il is enough for her if everybody
else knows Il,
Men have a strange fondness for
weak women-that is, women who ap-
pear to be weak.
They desire to be protectors and
champions before they are ,oa years
old NQth,as is so aggrayating to the
urehin as to appear to be ruled by a
woman.
As a rule, this is the fellow that Is
inevitably ruled by one without ever
knowing IL, and he is always a mascu-
line fellow. Mark that.
Your effeminate fellow rebels
against womanly influence, and houn-
ders about it in a most distressing
thraldom, and never is ruled by a
woman or anything else.
The one r~edeeming trait in all boss
wives is the woman in them. | never
cav a boss vito who didn't have femi-
nine spells, Some of them retire to
their rooms once in three or four
weeks, stop up the key-hole, and have
q. good cry before the glass. Then
they come out refreshed and ready foI
business again.
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A strange story is that of Charles
Gilbert, who has served fourteen years
Of life sentence for the murder of
Henry Caldwell, of New Britain,
Conn.,, in 1874. Gilbert says the crime
was committed by his father, Jonathan
Gilbert, and a man named Parsons.
with the object of plundering Caldwell
OF 500 and that he, Gilbert, allowed
himself to be convicted to save his
parent, The father has since died
and Parsons committed ssicide. 1t is
claimed, however, that both the elder
Gilbert and Parsons made confessions
generating young Gilbert. Should
the convict's story prove true, his de-
votiOn to his parent has exceeded any
thing recently imagined by writer's of
romance.
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Oh! bitter Is ny cup;
How ever could / DO 20
A Great German Enyv ward.

All the buildings and works con.
nected with the German naval barbor
at kiel are now completed. with the
exceptions Of four workshops. two
magazines and the Dwelling houses OF
two officials. OF the two lager ba.
sins, the one distinguished as the shin
building basin is 225 yards long and
225 yards wide; whila the other. the
iitting-opt basin, is 225 yards wide and
BIO feet long, with a depth Of water of
81 feet, attordipg ample space for the
simultaneous equipment Qf seven of
the largest iron-clads Of tie Ger
man navy. The timber intended for
ship-building purposes is kept under
water in a separate basin, this having
been found by experience to be the
best way of preserving and seasoning
It. On the three principal Sins the
largest men.of-war can be constructed
while a neBbcr Of smaller Sins are
provided for Che building Of smaller
vessels and for executing repairs. Be.
sides these, there are four dry docks.
The larger workshops, magazines and
ether buildings are all grouped round
the slips, docks and basins, and the
whole establishment covers an area
go yards deep and 1900 yards long,
which is surrounded on the land side
by a substantial wall,
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G;revy's Common Sense.

Paris letter.
The elevation of NJ. Grevy to the
highest Office of the State is one which,
if it does not give pleasure, must in
spire confidence in men of all parties,
no matter how reactionary they may
be. 1t is impossible not to respect a
man who in the long course of an
eyentful public life, which he hogan
when as a boy of seventeen he took a
barricado in the revolution Of 1e"n
has heen guilty of no inoon.
political conduct unworthy Of a man m
Oh 9'gn ~enaFao'.cr. If he is cold, stern,
shS mTassiye, he is upright, we'll
balanced and judicial, and these DUAL
lties arc too rare among the impulsive
politicians of France not to rem
der their possessOr a man of
the utmost value. No man in
France has had more parliament
tary experience, no one has a moro
intimate knowledge of the men and of
the shades of party which compose
the chamber over which he presided
for so many years. Without possess
ing either the talent or the eloauence
of NJ. Dufaure, M. Grevy in many re-
spects resembles him in character.
The government may become some
what bourgeois, but at all events it
will no longer be military. The ego
tism and vanity of Theirs and the
dense stupidity Of the marshal will be
relieved by the respectable common
sense of M. Grevy, who, if | am not
much mistaken, will make a far better
president than either of his predeces-
s0rs.
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There ire some superstitions that
never die out. Belief in the divining
power Of a key placed on a bible is
still common among the humber
classes from one end Of England to
the other. A fortnight ago a married
woman in the borough Of Ludlow
complained that wkil6 she was carry
ing a pail Qf water through the
open street one of her neighbors
stopped her and accused her Of
having stolen a sheet. 1t seems
that the lady who had lost the
sheet FNs5rted to the very ancient
and supernatural test of the " bible
and the key in order to discover the
guilty person, Armed with a copy of
the Scriptures aud a key she per-
%ambulated Ludlow, turning the key
on tho book near several houses ; q
and it was alleged that when she
came to the compliments house, the
key, with much alacrity, began Of its
own yolition to turn, The owner of
the lost sheet then uttered the com
%Blainant's name aloud, w%hereupon
the bible turned completely round
and fell out Of her hands. II was
explained to the bench that the mode
Of operation was to place the key over
the open bibles at the words, Whittier
thou goest l will go" ruth i, 16), the
fingers Of the person making the in
%vestigation being so disposed as 10
form a cross. The person suspected
Of dishonesty was then named aloud,
and il he or she we're roally the
guilty person, the key should forth
with begin 10 jump about on the OPEN
page.
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at the same time, towing the dis, bled
craft. The pipes for the election Of
the water are fixed in a direction
parallel to the keel, and when at work
IN no way interfere with the action of
the rudder, simply moving the vessel
on its course by the resistance the
water elected meets with from the
great mass of the surrounding sea.
The invention is said to be that of an
American engineer, and the steamer
is said to have already made ten knots
an hour. The peculiar utility Of this
boat, if it answers expectations, is for
river work, and after the trials at
Marseilles, it will be again assayed on
the Rhone.
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A Gunsmirh,s Erpcrlments.

San Francisco Chroniclo.l
made some experiments 10 test the
effects Of gunpowdor upon a paste
board frame (shown to the jury COW
cred with two shirts, BY shooting
through them AZ different distances.
| found that a shot fired with tho muz-
zle Of the revolver held close up to it,
ignited the outside shirt and burned d
hole through it and the under ahirt.
Shots at eight and ten inches burned
the cloth Of the outside shirt, but not
the under one, and other shots az six
and ten feet showed no powder marks
whatever on either shirt,