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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-07

charge of murder. They were tried
before an examining court Tuesday
and acquitted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-07
STEAMBOATS,.
Special Notice.

THE steamer HATTIENOW-
i LAND will make one or k<a9S-Ah-
two trips for the steamer JOsies9E&<
Harry while she is repairing her shaft. The
officers and crew Of the Harry will take charge
Of the Hattie Rowland. She leaves this
SATURDAY. evening. MILF HARRY.
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An the supreme Court OF TenneS-
see, ut jackson.

ct al. O
N pursuance Of the decree pronounced in
this cause by the Supreme Court Of Ten
nessee, az Jackson, on the 2lst day of Anil.
loih ! Will offer for saletO the highest bidder'
~ 'front.' OF the COURTHOUSE Of Shelby county,
in the city of Memphis, on
Wednesday, nth Day Of June. 1879.
the real estate mentioned and descr;hsd IN
said decree as folloyst
Lying and eeIRg IN the county of Shelby.
ae W Sea1S eI tennessee, in range 7, section 3,
OIL NE RieVenth. surveyors district, being
psgl 0I entry 1893 in the name of Edwin WieLe
man, for 5000 acres, and bounded as follows.
beglnning At nm elm ON the east side az \ IN
1901 alley IN the W0gt boundary OF a 9O0.anre
tract Of land p0YeAased by George L. Holmes
Of John X, Rogers and Jesse fsler; thence
south Ao9Aains and Is links TO stake; thence
souihR west Is chains and 81 links In stake
IN the center of the Memphis and 6erman-
t9wn. turnpike road; thence with the cepter
OF SAID road south 67he east Is chains and 50
links; thence lI14o east 81 chains and IS Links
70 a STAKE with black and red oak pointer.
SsenGe west chains and 80 links 70 tbs be-
glnnlng, excepting and excluding thereifom
the l4{9 acres conveyed by J, @. johnson and
wlie, llakie 4, johnson. TO George W. Fisher
by Deed dated August Is, 1885, and Registered
IN the registers office Of Shelby county, Ten
neSsee, IN Book 81 part LIST, pages 900 and SO3.
Terms Of Sale-Said property viii be sold on
a credit Of seven 70 months With interest.
purchaser TO execute note, with improved
security, for the purchase money, and n lien
retained on the land 20 secure the paymont az
ne purchase money. Equity Of redemption
Jackson, Tenn, NAV o. 1879.
JOHN II; FREEMAN, Clerk
ESrEs JAcKs0N, Solicitor. Ti-ea
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-07

RY virtue Of the powers conferred mon
- Egbert Woodbridge and his successors in
office, as Trustee, by a deed of trust made by
> T., castles and Louisa A Castles, dated
March 10, 1874 aud recorded In Deed Book,
No. 100, page S2g, in the Registers office of
county, ia secure the payment of a
Indebtedness fully described therein,
default having been made in the terms and
conditions thereof, the undersigned successor
in office to the said i. Woodbridge, as Trus.
tee, will sell Mt 10 o'oiock n a,
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NIonday. LuIY z. s

at the southwest corner qf Main and Madi.
son streets, in Meuphi8, 4enheSsee, at public
auction, 70 ths AlsNest bidder, for cash, the
iolloHlgs Inscribed real estate, situated in
shelby county, Tennessee, to-wit:
Beginning at the southwest corner Of Tgez-
eyant and Shelby streets; %runniaz thence
south with Shelby street o. feaN thence west
wardly, at right angles With Shelby street, 100
feet, thence aorthwardly, parallel with
shelby street, % feet to Trezevant street, snd
thence with Irrelevant street eastwcrify 100
feet to the beginning-being the north bhlf of
II. Pearne. ~
All right % redemption. etc, expressly
waived In said trust deed. Title believed to
tee. AMOS WOODRUFF Trustoo
j. W. Hampton, Attorney. S0 10a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-07

The market opened this morning
quiet and unchanged, with but little
disposition manifested on the part o.
sellers to operate. The following
we're last evenings closing
COTTON EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS..
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Bright.
Very warm.
Dull on the leyee for Saturday.
No departures at New Orleans yes
terday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-07

having been thoroughly repaired. The public
can rely on her remaing permanently ia
the trade, and that every attention will be
given 70 all and any business entrusted to her.
We respectfully solicit a fair share Of public
patronage. For fall particulars apply to
r. W. LIGHTBURNE, AGENT,
No. Monroe street. opp. Peabody Hotel.
~ $500
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ROB ROY,
VIII leave Memphis every TUESDAY,
THURSDAY and BATUR.
DAY nj 5 PIN.
IN FIRST.CLASS CONDITION,

This steamer is a home PACKET Ia every re-
spRoti .taYipE been purchased BY parties in
Memphis and the Bends. The ROB ROY is
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-07

At 10 O'Clock am, in front of the plantar.
Insurance Building, No. 80 Madison street. In
Momphis, Shelby county, sell at public auo.
fdoH 10 1ne highest bidder, for cash, the fol-
late city Of Memphis, in said county, to-V;t..
L9t number Eve in Mrs. Martha Aiston5s
Subdivision of lots near the southeast nornaS
q Lsqderdsle and jackson streets, said Iot
10, ? fronting 90 9O-lOO feet on the east side of
teet on the north line and II @.100 feet on
the south line to the eass 5oundary line ~
ssid lot, which is 20 feat in length. All right
o. redemption, etc., expressly waived. Tifls
oeleyed to be gs0d, but l sell and convey
AMOS WOODRUFF, Trustee.
j.. W, HAMPTON, Attorney. T.IEi
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Trustes% sale.

II virtue q. the powers conferred upon Ee-
Office as treasurer and trustee. by n deea az
trust made by. Frank s. YanHorn and Elisa
neth j., NanHOYn, his wife, dated Nav lS,
l9iS, and recorded in Book No. IS, page lSs''
OF the REGISTERS Office Of Shelby county, to
seGHr me payment Of a certain Indebtedness
oeen made in the terms snd conditions
hereof, the undersigned ssccessor to the said
d woodbridge es treasurer and trustee, will.
On Eafurazv T.uo NO g
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STEAMBOATS,.
Special Notice.

QY mutual agreement Of the NrsqS
ID undersigned, the steamer HsRAAS
HARD CASH Withdraws from seI-
the White river trade on May 2lst, and re-
sumes again on July 9ths the steamer JOSIE
HARRY withdraws on July 18th, and resumes
on August ooh, thus equally dividing the
dull season and giving each boat an opportu-
nifty 10 make necessary repairs.
STEAMER HARD CASH,
Il. c. Postal, master.
STRAMER JOSIE HARRY,
oil vi. X. Harry master,
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CONDITION OF TUE RIVERS.

Gs|NDlilON VI Iuh NV
The glyeg here rose 5 inches in the
past "A hours enairg 9t noon, and now
stands II feet above 10Y water
mark, At Cairo it rose 8 inches, viii
IL feet 2 inches on the gauge az
81. Louis the rise was / inch, with
10 feet = inches on the gauge; at
Pittsburg the rise was l6 inches, with
3 feet 4 inches on the gauge at Gin
%cinnati it declined 4 inches, Vita .
feet 10 inches on the gauge at
Louisville 2 inches, with 6 feet in
the canal at Egqpsville it is falling,
with s feet on the gauge. Cumber-
land river rose 10 inches at Nashville.
with3 feet 6 inches on the gauge. Ar
kansas river is rising at Little Rock,
with 4 feet 5 inches on the gauge.
White river is falling, with a good
stage Of water from Jacksonport to the
mouth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-07
FOR RIvERToN,
Zine.

Memphis and Riverton Tti-weekly Packet
For Helena, Friar's Point, Laconia, Coneor-
dig, Terrege, and all way laadiRgs The
elegant sid9 wheel steamer
Hznrs
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v INTELLIGENCE.
noATs LEAVING nan -.

ARRIVED.
Steamer Thomas Sherlock, Cincinnati,
John Dippold, New Orleans.
il, p. Rogers, Scanlan's Land &.
DEPARTED.
Steamer CoahomR, PgjRrs Point,
0sceola Belle, 0seeola.
e" John Dippold, st. Louis,
" Thomas Sherlock, New Orleaps.
IN PORT.
Cons Millar, fl. P. Rogers, Marlin
Speed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13
HE VERMONT PHdNIX BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY 1879.


For those who have an abundant supply OF
ice this may not be matter of much mo
ment but for poor people, who may rarely
use ice except in sickness, and to whom the
expense is not insignificant, the following
hints from an English source may be useful
"Cut a piece Of flannel, about nine inches
square, and secure it by ligature round the
mouth of an ordinary tumbler, so as to leave
a cup-shaped depression of flannel within the
tumbler to about half its depth. In the fan
mel cup so constructed pieces of ice may be
preserved many hours all the longer if a
piece of flannel from four to five inches
square be used as a loose cover to the ice-cup.
Cheap flannel, with comparatively open
meshes, is preferable, as the water easily
drains through it, and the ice is thus kept
quite dry. When good flannel with close tex
turo is employed a small hole must be made
in the bottom of the flannel cup; otherwise
it holds the water and facilitates the melting
of the ice, which is, nevertheless, preserved
much longer than in the naked cup or tum-
bier. In a tumbler containing flannel cup
made as above described, of cheap, open fan
mel at 1Od go cents yard, it took ten hours
and ten minutes TO dissolve two ounces of ice,
whereas, in naked cup, under the same con-
ditions, all the ice was gone in less than three
hours
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

WATERING HoRsEs. Water, so essential to
life and health, when injudiciously used,
proves fruitful source of mischief. When
icy cold, a copious draught taken by tagged,
hungry horse, often produces collie, and some.
times Inflammation of the bowels. To rene
dy this in some large establishments spent
steam is passed at intervals through the horse
troughs, keeping the water at a temperature
of about 10 or the horses are supplied from
buckets which have stood filed for some
hours i'll the stable, and thus the chill is taken
of But of even more importance than the
temperature of the fluid is the time of water
ing horses. Where animals have frequent
access to water, there is little risk of their
taking more than is good for them. 1t is
when the horse has been too long deprived of
water, and is thirsty and tired, that copious
libations are hurtful Particularly injurious
are they if he drinks greedily Immediately
after eating The imperfectly digested grain
is washed onward into the larger bowels, and
there is prone to excite that acute muco-en.
teritis which carries off so many carelessly
managed farm horses. A few swallows OF
water upon returning from work will do nc
horse harm, unless he is excessively over
heated and Frustrated. A little hay, or lonl
food which cannot be bolted, is then more
fitting than corn. A further supply of watei
may now be allowed, and the sharp edge OF
hunger and thirst being thus abated, thu
grain and chaf will be leisurely eaten. Hun
tiers and town horses subjected to long fast
or extra eXertions, on their return home, be
fore they are allowed either solid food or wa
ter, often receive quart of warm cruel. AT
ter long or hard day on the road or in tn
fields, a like consideration extended to farm
horses would often prevent attacks of acut
indigestion with its train of evils.-J0urnd
Of NAemistIu
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

BRDBUG ExTERMINAToRs.- There are many
better ways to destroy these insects than by
the use of corrosive sublimate, which is often
swallowed by mistake, producing death. One
of the best, safest and least offensive, is to
dissolve as much gum shellac in alcohol as
the alcohol will take remove all the furni-
ture aud bedding, carpets &c, from the in
tested room to a convenient location out
doors, at some distance from the house,
Then with paint brush treat every part of
the furniture where a bug or egg could lodge
with a good coat of shellac and alcohol, sat
with the floor and walls of the room. Brush
the mattresses, bedding and carpets with a
brush stiff enough to remove every possible
insect and egg from them. If the work is
done thoroughly in this way, it will not need
repeating until there is new colony.-C. in
Country Gentleman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13
Farm and Household.


Perhaps the want of care to fruit trees, es-
pecially to young apple and pear trees, is no.
where more noticeable than in neglect OF
proper pruning Young trees set in good sit
uations are left TO themselves, and in few
years have superabundance of wood, SO
much so, indeed, that they bear little or no
fruit at an age when they should be source
of profit or they have large an unbalanced
top which can only be put in proper shape
by saw and knife, to the injury of the tree.
And this could all be avoided by attention to
summer pruning, often without the use of
pruning tools, in the early period of the
growth of the trees. 1t is not unfrequently
the case that one finds healthy, well-grown
fruit trees that have been kept in shape Who'll
" by the use of the thumb and finger, brush
ing of the buds here, and shortening in or
removing the branches there, having been
the only pruning the trees have received.
When trees have been left to grow as they
have pleased for a number of years, and then
are taken in hand with saw and pruning knife,
it is not an easy matter to make good shaped
trees of them, while the severe cutting of of
the large branches often gives the tree such
shock as it is a long time in recovering from.
Now the better mode, in fact the only true
way, is to summer prune gently, while the
tree is young, and then keep it within easy
control, and make of it Just such a tree as you
wish sharp pocket-knfe is better than
the thumb and finger, and is the only prun-
ing implement ever needed. Clip of the ends
of the side shoots, and where two are inclin-
ed to grow near together or in the same di-
rection, or to cross each other in such way
that they would interfere with one another
when they become large, and in this way
shape the top of the tree at will. This short
ening of the shoots also checks the sap, and
by this means fruit buds are developed,
whereas without it the branches would only
grow leaves for long time. The earlier fruit
fulness of the tree is therefore induced, and
profit sooner obtained. Not only this, the
leading shoots make a vigorous growth, and
are better able to withstand the cold of win
ter, than where from an excess of woody
growth full development is not attained.
This delightful work of summer pruning
for it is delightful, it is not labor, but pas
time, making one acquainted with his trees,
which he learns to love-should be kept in
hand constantly through the season, and the
top of the tree shaped at will.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

ENGLISH vs. AMERICAN FARMING. The last
number Of the London Economist gives an
interesting and, rs it would seem, very care
full comparison between farming in England
and farming in America. In England, one
acre yields on au average thirty bushels of
wheat, while in America it yields on an aver
age only thirteen. The American farmer
must, consequently, cultivate two and half
acres in order to produce the same quantity
of wheat as the English farmer raises on one
acre. How is it, then, the paper asks, that
the American farmer can, nevertheless, not
only compete with the English farmer, but
even beat him in his own market The an
swer which first presents itself TO this ques-
ton is the enormous difference of rent in
England and America but this difference is,
as the paper shows, nearly, if not altogether
obliterated by the cost of transportation from
the Western fields to the English market.
The real advantage which the American far
mer has over the English lies in the cheap
ness of the cultivation. While the American
soil needs little, if any manure at all i'll order
to yield an average harvest year after year,
the English farmer must apply heavy guam
tity Of costly artificial manure TO the soil ev-
cry year, if he simply expects to have an av-
crago yield, and similar cheapness reap
pears nearly at every point of the cultivation,
excepting, perhaps, only that of labor. In
the settlements along the Red river in North
ern Minnesota pillow may be run through
the soft, alluvial soil for more than fifty miles
| in n straight line without encountering n
stone, n tree, or a hill, Il feature to which
England docs not offer the faintest approach.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

IRRIGATING STRAWBERRIES. We have fire.
quently had occasion to speak of the increas-
ed size of strawberries when supplied with an
abundance of water, and every cultivator has
observed their superiority in showery wealth
err. We have seen lately an account of the
mode by which a bed was irrigated with liq-
uid manure mixed with the water of a small
stream, through channels cut around the bed.
This was continued for some weeks, or until
the berries began to ripen, when the liquid
manure was shut off and the clear water only
used The ripening was some days earlier
than ON an adjacent bed not irrigated, and the
berries were SO much larger as to sell at a
higher price. The product was at the rate of
about 28O bushels per acre.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

A Coon LAwN.-No greater fallacy exists
than the idea that spading is better than
blowing of an equal depth. No filth can be
better than that given by the pillow, followed
by frequent and continued applications of
the harrow. Leveling with the spade can
then be executed in the most perfect manner
and the finishing touch can be given by a
light oross-plowing and narrowing. Seed
should be always literally applied and in
stead of the various lawn grass mixtures, we
believe in the use of simple red-top seed, to-
gether with very little white clover and
when it is thus applied during quiet hours
of the day, that it may fall evenly, two or
three years should suffice to grow thick,
velyety turf. Weeds are great enemies of
good turf, and every lawn should be kept as
free from these pests as a flower garden,
The employment of good artificial fertilizers
greatly helps to secure permanent freedom
from weeds, since foul seeds cannot very
well Turk in them.-ScribHer for June.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

There is coming to be a recognized money
value to the ornamental planting and decora-
ton of grounds, which it would be well for
every owner of a small or large place to
well consider at this season. However little
taste u man may have for the beautiful in ma
ture, he will certainly pay more for house,
the grounds of which are set out with Orna-
mental trees, Towering shrubs and flowers,
than he will for one which possesses none of
these adornments Every owner of grounds
of small or large extent, who is building a
place for his own use, or for possible sale,
will find it more pleasant to live in, and to
bring a higher price in the market, if atten-
ton has been paid to these matters. Beauty
in landscape decoration of the farm or the
village plat always pays.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

We are constantly having paraded before
us the great extent of some of the Western
farms and what they produce, as well rs the
force necessary to carry the years operations
successfully through. The statements are all
very fine, making the profits very large, and
the owners millonaires; yet we all know
how many of these farms have bankrupted
the propri, tors within the last five years.
The truth is, it is difficult to successfully con-
duct five thousand to twenty thousand acres
OF land in mixed husbandry. They require
too many experienced Oyerseers as well rs the
ordinary farm hands, involving vast amount
of cNpcnse whereas, were these enormous
expans,s of land devoted expressly to graz
ing cattle, or even in raising corn, the cost of
production would be reduced one-half, and
the products would of course be at least so
much greater. - GeI'mdRtOtrH Telegraph.
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A Baltimore florist sends the Boston Jour
nal of Chemistry the following formula for
liquid manure for flowers. The materials
may be had at any blacksmith shop
Put one bushel of the clippings from horses
hoofs into barrel, and fill it up with water.
Let it stand for a week, when it is ready for
use. Apply it with watering-pot. All bed
ding plants can be watered with this liquid
every other day, if they are pot-bound; re-
ported plants should be watered once week
until they have plenty of working roots to
take up the manure. 1t will also be found
excellent for hard-wooded plants if used once
or twice week. Two or three weeks after
the plants have been watered with the ma
nure, the foliage generally changes from
green to u golden yellow, moving from the
stem down to the point of the leaf, which,
however lasts only for few weeks, when it
changes to dark glossy green. Plants un-
der this watering grow very strong the flow
ers are very large and bright in color. Plants
thus treated can be kept in very small pots
for long time without being transplanted.
This is especially advantageous to the market
gardener, who can sell his plants in three OIL
four inch pots, while he would have to shift
them into five and six inch if he used ricl
soil alone. Flowers watered with this Liquid
manure will bring twenty-five per cent. more
than otherwise; besides, being in small pots
they are lighter, can be packed closer, ant
are easier to be handled. The fertilizer il
not stimulant, but plant food, and plant
that are watered with it, if planted out will
continue growing and keep in good growth
which cannot be said of guano. 1t is as pow
erful as guano, as quick in action, and NOR
lasting.
1t will not do the slightest harm to the 70
liage; most other liquid manures spoil tn
foliage when they come in contact with it
1t forms no crust on the pots or soil. 1t
cheaper than any other good fertilizer whic
is used in liquid form. The chips need b
renewed or replaced only twice a year, Will
the water can be withdrawn every day.
filed barrel last October, using all the We
ter it holds every day; and l shall not find
necessary to renew the chips before May Q
June. When liquid guano is used too stron
it will cause the plants to drop all their leaves
This liquid manure will not, even if use
once or twice day for a short time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-13

LAYERING THE GRAPE.-If a cane of last
years growth is SO situated that il can be
brought to the ground and buried, layers can
be easily made Open trench about six or
eight inches deep and peg such a cane along
the bottom of it; when the buds start and
make few inches of growth, put little earth
in the trench, and as these shoots grow, pinch
of their lower leaves and gradually fill the
trench. BY next fall each shoot win be well
rooted giving as many vines as there were
shoots. -Americdh Agricultulist.