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held her, laughing IN my arms
\ blue eyed child, with curs ri gold.
She siroked my b0yish check and said:
II marry you when ! am old. :
We met again. Those pretty locks
Were combed and bound about her head
little schoolgirl, staid aud shy;
She must not romp with me- Sue SAID
few more years, and then found
y blooming maiden, sweet seventeen.
Few were he- words aud coy her looks;
And yet she loved me well, | weeu.
Long did WOO mid hope and fear;
My lady was not lightly won;
She hid her love, aud thought is shame:
Al last my welcome task was done
held her, blushing. IN nv arms;
And then my bashful prize told
How she bad promised long ago
She d marry me when she was old
The blissful days sped quickly on.
And had pledged her with a ring;
But all. so much too large i, proved,
My love was such Tiny thing
But yet she would not have it changed,
Though from her hand II oft would sir:
An evil omen, would say;
While she but laughed with Joyous lip.
left my darling for space
As nearer drew the wedding day.
- One little week, ! said land then
| never more need go away"
left her healthy. blooming bright,
The rosy color in her cheek
| came To find her wan aud white.
Alas. that fatal little week
On, fell Disease, now stay thy hand,
And leave me all love in life,
In vain ! cried; the touch of Death
Was on her, oh. my promised wife.
| held her, dying, in my arms:
The ring fell from her finger cold:
Weeping, took il, and she breathcd:
:" II marry you when am old
She knew not what she said, poor child:
Gone from her was bright Reasons ray
But still keep that ling, and wait
For an eternal wedding day.
Chambers Journal.
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SULPHUR FOR DIruTuERIA.-John 5.
Wiies, a surgeon of Thorncombe, Dorset,
writes to the London Tunes that, after two
cases of malignant diphtheria out of some
rine or ten he had been called To attend
had proved fatal, the mother of 4 sick child
showed him an extract from an Amer lean
paper concerning a practitioner who used
sulphur to cure the disease. Accordin gly
he used milk Of sulphur for infants and
flower of sulphur for older children and
adults, brought TO creamy consistence
with glyceriue. Dose-a teaspoonful or
more, according to age, three or four times
a day, swallowed slowly, and an applica
ton of the same To the uostrils with a
sponge. Result-hc did not lose case
there or elsewhere, and he succeeded in
saving life when the affection had almost
blocked the throat.
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The Times that Try Mans Soul.

When lie pops the question.
When his wife wants to talk aud he
doesn't.
When he writes to his best girl and has
t. wait two weeks for reply.
When hash is placed before him five sue
cessive mornings at his boarding house.
When he pokes his head through his last
clean shirt and finds no button on behind.
When he buys a new pair of shoes and
discovers two big nails sticking up in the
heels.
When he hurries around the corner and
holds his |. o. L.
When he takes his girl out and discovers
that he has left his pocket book at home in
his old trousers.
When he comes home early in the morn.
ing and his wife wants to hold little de-
batting society in the lower hall.
When lie goes home at night, finds a
house full of company, and his wife bliss
fully ignorant of the fact that dinner is not
ready.
When in his dreams he is standing upon
the verge of a precipice, and his wife sud-
denly minds him that he isn't, but that
he is jerking her banged hair all to
pieces.
When he dives down into the bottom OF
his trunk, jerks out what he supposes is a
clean pair of socks, but finds only an old
table napkin, with four white neckties. put
away for next Summer.
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THIS FALL
II you REQUIRE
ANY KIND OF
DRY GOODS,
BEFORE BUYING, WRITE FOR SAM.
PILES, WHICH WILL BE
CHEERFULLY FURNISHED.
,B-PRlCES THE LOWEST. -pa
HAMILTON EASTER 4 SONS,
BALTIMORE.
u New and improved first-class
SEWING MACHINES,
Twenty-Five Dollars and upwards.
Terms easy.
All kinds Of machines repaired.
JOHN WILKINSON,
Elkton, Nd.
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PLAIN TALK TO GIRL.-Your every-
day toilet is a part Of your character A
girl who looks like fury" or sloven in
the morning is not to be trusted, however
finely she may look in the evening. No
matter how humble your room may be,
there are eight things it should contains
mirror, soap, water, towel. comb, hair, nail
lcoNrINU8D ON FOURTH PA0Rl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-22

charming drama, will be presented in
a manner that will doubtless be highly
entertaining to the public. We be-
speak for them a liberal support.
At an election held last evening for
vestrymon of the Church of the Good
Shepherd, the following gentlemen
we're elected for the ensuing year: f.
j. Atwood, Fred Atwood, George T..
Bassett, John Cubbins, P. r. Freidel,
T. j. Graham, VIM. Hutton, w. r.
Kendall and DR.. S. j. Morrison.
This art exhibition continues at the
Greenlaw Opera House and attracts
the curious as well as those DESTROYS
of instruction. Last night scenes in
England were exhibited. Tonight
Italy is the subject to be pictured,
and tomorrow night Rome. A pic
ture of the lamented fever martyr of
1873, Matte Stephenson, has been
added to the collection, and it will
doubtless be a highly interesting fea-
ture elsewhere.
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A special dispatch to the New York
Sun, speaking Of Parole winning the
Newmarket handicap, says
The result took the Englishmen by
surprise. Some time before the race
they were betting forty to n against
Parole, but a group of Americans
backed up their favorite so that. the
rates, as printed above, rose to 100 to
10 against the horse.
Although this was not an important
race, it was the first of the season.
and shows that Parole has improved
by his trip across the ocean, and has
sustained the confidence placed in
him by his supporters here. One
prominent turfman in New York Sent
over a little venture to place on the
American horse before the race. and
his Investment will return him more
than tenfold.
There was great rejoicing among the
Americans at the track. They said
it augured well for the coming races
in which Mr.. Lorillard's stable is
entered.
The City and Suburban, to be run
at the EPSON Spring meeting, comes
first Of the list of the prominent
events in which any of the American
horses are engaged. 1t closed with
lob subscribers, and the distance is
one mile and a quarter, Parole is
among the nominations and the handi-
capper has assigned him IA pounds.
The latest betting at New Market
on Parole for the City and Suburban
is forty to me. The horse has been
backed to a large amount at these
odds. The race will be run on next
Tuesday, the 22d, Parole carrying ia
pounds. The distance is one mile and
a quarter.
Parole is also among the entries for
the famous Chester Cup, to be run for
on May Z.
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j. Parker, New Orleans, and Edgar
Murgrove, Liverpool, England, are
among the present visitors to our city.
DIR. Greenville Mcdowell arrived in
the city from New Orleans and Gal
weston to-day, and goes to Atlanta to
attend a medical convention.
Judge S. S. Savage, Frank Savage
and Mrs. Eliza Gartrell, of Ashland,
KY. arrived in Memphis yesterday,
and are the guests of Harlow Dow
and family on Alabama street.
Risk Levy, Texas; B. Riser, Mis-
sissippi c. w. Ransom, j. I. Har-
ris, j. +. Johnston, and A. L.
Greenaugh, Tennessee, were visitors
at the cotton exchange to-day.
Mr.. VIM. f. Wheeler and wife,
formerly Miss Alice Holmes, of New
port, KY, arrived by the steamer
Parker from the Ohio last evening.
They are a newly married couple, and
at the wedding ceremony a few days
since the bride was the recipient
among other gifts of a deed to a pleas
ant house and lot. in Newport AS
an evidence that the gift was worthily
bestowed upon a deserving pair il
may BE stated that Immediately upon
Mr.. Wheeler's arrival yesterday he
set to work looking after the freight
interests of the Ohio river packet
line, a duty he has for some months
past labored in with unremitting in
dustry. The young pair are receiving
many warm congratulations from
many friends.
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COurt-uouse Notes.

james f. Ligou and Miss Lou j..
Hampton were licensed to marry this
forenoon.
The Circuit Court, Judge Pierce,
had a small case before it at noon to-
day between j. II. Wray and james
Fairbanks.
The Chancery Court was to-day oc-
cupied with the case of Randolph,
jerks & Co. against the Merchants
National Bank.
John Stokes, who some time ago
stole a fine shotgun from Captain
William Forrest, is to have a hearing
before Esquire Quigley tomorrow.
There are now ninety-two prisoners
in the county jail, Of which but fifty
two are awaiting trial. This is set up
as proof against those who talk of
slow work in the Criminal Court, that
it is not so slow as they would have it
appear.
Mrs. Lena Werner, for receiving
stolen property, has been sentenced
in the Criminal Court to three years
in the penitentiary, The indictment
for larceny was nolle pressed this fore
noon. Fred Wheeler was on trial to-
day at noon charged with shaking off
his cotton after giving Day & Proudft
a deed of trust on it.
Henry Smith, a darky, who two
years since killed CLANCY Long, in
South Memphis, by striking her with
an ak and leaving the weapon buried
in her brain, is called for trial in the
Criminal Court this afternoon. Smith
was convicted and sentenced to be
hung at a former trial, but the Su-
preme Court remanded the case back
on a technically for a new trial. The
testimony against Smith is now sup
posed to be stronger than at the first
trial.
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Cincinnati Produce VTarkei.


EDITOR LEDGER-Your recent an
nouncement was gratifying that the
unfortunate burning of Bohlen, Huse
& Co.'s ice house would not seriously
affect their business, and that they had
some 10000 tons of ice on barges and
near at hand. The hot weather will
soon be upon us, and no luxury is
more appreciated during the warm
season than is ice, and plenty of it,
and at such prices as will allow the
poor people as well as the rich to be
free consumers. The question is,
what price do the holders of the stock
propose to make the consumers pay
for it2 W. know that the people of
Memphis have in the last five years
paid Bohlen, Huse Il Co. a large for
tune in profits on ice. That prices of
that luxury have been higher at Mem
phis than at any other large town or
city on the Mississippi river is a well
known fact. The same is true as
compared with Nashville, Atlanta and
Macon, Ca, Montgomery, Ala, etc,
towns far in the interior and with long
railroad transportation. Why such is
the case is apparent. Some of them
have ice-making machines and manu-
facture a pure and good article of ice
at home, at a cost of four dollars per
ton or twenty cents per hundred
pounds. The same can be done
here. know parties in our
city who will undertake to
make and deliver pure clear ice at
works to be established at a central
point in this city at half a cent per
pound, with reasonable addition not
TO exceed one-fourth Of a cent for de-
livery by wagons. All that is necessary
to put the thing under way is for large
consumers to guarantee to take what
they consume at the price named for
three years. The extortionate prices
which VIC have heretofore been com
PEELED TO pay, except one year when
Frank Wait kept it down, is almost
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TIE CENTS Pc NE E X.
THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

Cotton shady.
New hair ornaments at Layigne's.
Patent ehurns at Sherwood & Cos.
Prize plume drill at the Bluff City
Grays armory tonight.
Thestrsvberry and ice cream season
s2ens out slowly but surely.
No rain yesterday, last night or to-
day any where in the Southwest.
Wire hower-stands door and window
screens made by Male q Lamb, florists
Nothing doing among cotton men
today at least nothing worth speak
Ing Of
The shady side Of the streets are
more desirable to-day than the sun
Shine.
Plenty Of coal is nov coming down
the Ohio river for this aud other
southern markets
Cold drinks, such as frozen punches
and vine frappees, are becoming popu.
laf aud seasonable.
Gusty breezes aud warm sunshine
t1'day. The dust Is also whiting
about in a lively manner.
Our local baseball clubs are work.
ing like beavers TO perfect themselves
in their fayorite exercise.
The arrival list at the hotels for the
past few days has Been scant. Every.
body busy with the crops.
That chaste aud thrilling drama
Loves Sacrafce at the Memphis
Thcater next Friday night.
For the first time in several weeks
the staple Of this region indicated
weakness yesterday and to-day.
Several dozen lawyers have gone 10
jackson to look at or attend The su.
premc Court now in session there.
The eolorod folks are to have a grand
picnic at Estiyal Park next FRIDAY
for the benefit Of the Garfield Orphan
Asylum.
The gas company have agreed Ia
light $40 city lamps and take care Of
them at the ten per cent. tax on cit,
property which is to be levied under
the law for the purpose. The autbori.
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A Loyal sIissour;an.

Newton KANSAS Bee.l
A man with a one-eyed horse. rugged
in a straw collar and dilapited, old
fashioned trace chains, rope lines, and
wagon to match, was seen in camp on
the banks of Sand creek last week.
He wore a coon-skin cap, brooches of
many %colors, the groundwork of which
was yellow butternut. He sported a
long, old-style rifle, and a "yailer' dog
guarded the property. The family
was all in character, but beyond the
knowledge of millinery to describe.
When asked if he was on his way to
Leadville, he said he had never "hearn
of the place" and when asked where
he was bound for, he said Back
home to old Missouri. | left there
just after the war, when the rebs had
everything their way, and went to
Texas. But t'other day | hearn a fell
Ter read in a paper that the thing was
all right again, and that the old boun-
ty on wolf skelps had been put back
again to So, and | thought | was sure
of a living anyhow" Who says there
is nc immigration to Missouri?
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DIR. A. l.. KIATBRO,
Office, n. Il. Cor. Union and Main.
Qgf


Thanks are cordially rendered to Mrs.
Sarah C~hamberlin, Misses Tillie Weaver,
Annie and Ella Walsh, Della Winters
and Mrs. O'Connor, Of Mason, Tenn, for
their success in getting up the supper for
the enjoyment of the guests last night, on
the occasion Of the ball given at No.
20 Main street, for the benefit of the
widow Of the late Frank Riley, en-
gineer on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, lately killed while at his post Of
duty. Thanks are also rendered to Mcssrs.
VIM. Smoot and John Hopkins, for their
efforts in making the affair an entire sue
cess. Mrs. Chamberlin and Miss Victoria
Sambucetti we're voted handsome cakes
during the evening. The entire affair
passed oil to the enjoyment Of a large
crowd. JAMES CHAMBERLAIN,
JoHE BRAcKES,
LOUIS SAMBUCETTI.
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at the Museum, No. 800 Main street, yes
terday resulted in a victory for Major
L%ittlednger. The major, who is about
thirty inches high, made his first mile in
thirteen minutes, ana the extra half mile
in fourteen minutes, making the distance
of Il mile and a half in twenty-seven
minutes, and winning the race. The tur-
tie man, who is twenty-seven inches high,
was beaten about 800 yards. Another
walking match Of a mile and a half will
take place tonight at 8 o'clock between
the major and a grown young man from
Louisville, the young man giving him
one-third the distance.
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Police Items.

DIR. Porter sat in judgment an hour
and a alfthis morning and listened
to the untangling of twenty-eight
cases.
John Beatty is in trouble on a
charge Of carrying concealed weapons.
Two men were run in this forenoon
for running wagons without license.
Four plain DRINKS were let off
without fines by the leniency of DIR.
Porter to-day. One booty fellow went
to sleep on the sidewalk, and yet he
was kindly admonished before being
told to go and sin no more.
A chasm of divided thought prevails
between the beer dealers, restaurant
keepers, ETC., and the city authorities.
They persist in selling on the Sabbath,
are arrested and fined, and appeal
their cases to higher courts, with a
vim.
Joe Glenwald, Robert Minis and
James Williams, a trio of cotton pill
fering mackerels, were arrested and
sent to the station-hOuse this forenoon.
They all ran like turkeys, were hard
to catch and proclaimed their inno-
cence vigorously.
Frank Hoyt, for interfering with a
boat loading contract and trying to
prevent work, was fined s. this fore
noon by DR.. Porter. f. Duncan, a
clerk, hit Dave Lipman, a merchant,
on Beal street, and this morning Dun
a paid s. for the sport. This is the
only poor little V DR.. Porter's ex-
chequer received to-day.
A very drunk and very rough char
acter, name unknown, was charged by
G. Berton with larceny. lie acted
very ugly and tried to lick the officer
who had him in tow, receiving a club
tap over the head as a quieter. VIXEN
taken into the station house he was
very timber and very bloody. The
officer was very tired and very warm.
Henry Quentel was fined $50 by
Judge Porter this forenoon for doing
business without license. Charles
Quentel went through the same re-
hearsal with a like result. Both APP
pealed. Otto Zimmerman was up for
the same offense and had his case CON
tinued. Twenty persons were before
the Police Court for having no license.
Those who reformed by getting the
proper papers were released.
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unbearable, and it is time people
were making some move to protect
themselves. No class of consumers
should have to pay over one cent per
pound for good ice delivered at their
residences or places Of business. At
that price the net profit to importers
IS larger than is reasonable, or perhaps
than any other business in this city
pays. OLD CITIZEN.
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An. estimable Louisville young man.
who teaches a class in Sunday-sehooi
and occupies a prominent position in n
choir, had a fancy for the maiden who
sings alto. The last time he called ON
her he found her, with her father and
mother, entertaining the minister.
C%oneealing his disappointment with az
much grace as he could command. he
joined the digni6ed circle and main
tanned his share of the conversation
very creditably, considering the unto.
ward circumstances. The minister.
who has been something of a traveller
in his time, turned the talk TO his
hobst and was revealing in a orgeou
description of his favorite country
Brazil, when the small boy of the
family y, who was buildinga block church
on the floor, spoke up: ma. has
sister Floy ever travelled any?" "No
child, no-you mustn't speak when
Others are talking" "Then, when
was a-lyin' under the sofy Sunday
night, and sister and Mr.. John come
in from church and was a-sittin in the
big rockin' cheer, how come her 70 saw ~
that the incest land she ever was IN
was hapland?'-[Co urie journal.
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The following papers have been re-
corded by the county register since
yesterday Mrs. Il. II. and G. p.
Brooks, deed w. w. Canada to s.
Harper, warranty deed 5. j. Wynnc
and j. S. Cathran to T. 4. Fleming,
mortgage and quit claim Il. l.. and
j. b. Pool to Mr.. B. Fleming, trust
deed; w. j. Chase to Betsy Caldwell,
quit claim W. X. Wilson and wife to
Mary e. Bowman, deed Il. Garrett
to G. j. Bedford, trust deed.
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A Lion LOosa.

Foreign Notes.
While a travelling menaperio voc
recently holding its exhibition fo was :
few days at LIE Mans, Sarthe, n snDerS
hon escaped from its cage throur6 tbo
negligence of an attendant. TbSe o ,Go
NAL paced up and down the tent on;at-
Ilyy, but naturally excited great alarm
The proprietor Of the collection ' had I
luminous idea, that of satisfyip~ o'' Nv
appetite Of the king of beasts ~ n omo
vent HIM from doing any mischief and
accordingly threw to his majesty anu NV
abundant supply of raw meat. T5o
plan succeeded admirably. for the lon
after gorging himself with an nnn ,,V
any ample meal, walked quietly bocL
INTO hlS cage and went to sleen 0f
course ne was at once secured. but %
soon as the occurrence became Knows ~o
inc municipal authorities ordered tLo
menagorle to be removed from t tbo
town without delay. run the
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Gives Them Time.

In the railroad cases before the
United States Court, Judge Ham
mond has allowed until the first Mon
day in August for the defendants to file
their answers. These cases are known
IS the c. S. Stephens suits VS.. the
Memphis and Ohio, the Mississippi
Central and the Mississippi and Ten
nessee railroads, to determine the liza
ability Of the roads for bonds Endorsed
by Tennessee and issued for the bene-
fit of the roads, but which bonds the
State was some years ago paid for,
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GALVESTON, April 22.-Cotton is
weak middling, lie. Receipts, 769
bales. Stock, 1S,409 bales.
New ORLEANS, April %, 11:3O am.
Cotton dull middling, lie. Re-
ceipts, 2788 bales. Sales, 1900 bales.
Stock, 1909 bales.
LIVERPOOL, April %, 1:30 pm
Cotton opened this morning dull and
I'd lower: Uplands, Gid; Orleans, 6
5-16d. Estimated sales 5000 bales ;
for export, 1000 bales. Receipts, 30
600 bales; American, $500. Futures
opened partially Id cheaper; after
wards recovered now frmer, with
more buyers at previous prices, as fol-
lows: Deliveries for April and May, g.,
67-32@6 3-16d; May and june, 81, 6
5-32@6 3-16d; June and July, 6 3-16
@6 7-32d; July and August, 6 5-1666
9-32d; September and October, Sgd.
Cincinnati Produce Market.
CINCINNATI, April 22.-Flour is
dull. Grain quiet and unchanged.
Whisky firm, at $1.01. Pork quiet
and unchanged. Lard steady, offer
ings light. Bulk meats and bacon
steady and unchanged.
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NEW YORK, April Y, l2;3O pm
Cotton closed last evening unsettled,
at a decline during the day of 5-16c (;
opened this morning weak and nomi-
nal now quiet as follows: Ordinary,
9 13-16c good ordinary, 10 1l-16c low
middling, II 3-16c; middling, lie;
good middling, 115c; middling fair,
l24c; fair, 1910. Futures closed yes
terday from Y to 30 points lower
than on Saturday, and irregular,
with sales Of $4,000 bales opened
this morning steadier now steady,
at 3 to 6 points below last evening,
90 Enllnrrn nnE,nrnr G.. =
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ReelGOOt Lake Perch,
Lake Erie Salmon.
III. SEESSEL. SIR, d son,
45t Cor. Second and Jefferson.

500 Reward for any foul cistern
that we cannot purify in five days with
our Improved Water Elevator. GEo.
RtBsH & Co, 46and AZ Charleston av. RAG
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KirlEIand's great success just
received = combination shirt -
open back and open front in one;
Kirkland's adjustable sleeve;
Kirklant's everlasting shirt. 451
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Type for sale.

A font Of 500 pounds long primer, in
good condition, with all necessary " sorts;
used about one year; suitable for a country
Office. For sale cheap by Immediate
application to this office. 89-f
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Soda Water and COnfectiOnerieS,
HeinPich's, 37O Main. I23t

0~MNIBusEs will u from the curve on
fernando road to CALVARY CEMETERY
every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon.
tIs-52
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liz the LEDGER job Office can be found
competent, skillful and tasteful printers.
who can give entire satisfaction in the
display Of any job printing. 128t