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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-03

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-03

BLUFF CITY LAUNDRY,
second street. Mort Of JeTersO,-
Hest Work in he City. 20
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-03

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Front street, IN 81
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6st CliARLEY JONES.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23
MYSTERIES.

Warm Gains of heaven o'erbrood the earth;
on scented sward my feet are pressed,
Spring brecZes make meiOdiou- mirth,
Yet silent awe pervades my breast.
To day by Nature am shown
Her marvellous elements alone.
iinger where the daisies throng,
With golden disc on supple stem,
And careless Of their beauty. long
To unveil the impulse guiding them
And wonderingly my soul receives
The resurr.ctioBs OF the leaves
! can not praise the emerald meads
Where pomp of 4engthening clover peers,
Nor that green radiance of the reeds
That cleaves the marsh with slender spears
Ny fev.rcnt heed alone give
The miracle that made them liyei
These blossoming trees whence odor floats,
The fulfilled rivulet's JOY intense,
The ecstatic triis from feathered Threats,
Pierce me with strange bewildermentsi
In all things lovely would guess
The mystery of their loyeliness
Eut while muse, the westering day
Drops from the horizons daInask air;
The pastoral distances turn gray;
New mystery drepens everywhere;
And high night brings, released from thrall,
The mighticst mystery of all
Edgar EGiroen, IA IOtah's Companion
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23
THE PIANO FLEND.

o. bark to the strains of the jingling piano
That float like the walls of gathering
Storm
Tinkle. ting tinlS from eight in the evening;
Rumble. DUN, dump, till past two in the
morn.
Arpcggios. staecato, andantc. tranquillo,
Con doiore, allegro. niXsumarouse-
All of IL fruit of the manipulation
OF music struck miss in neighboring
house.
Eve seen her by day. She's as fair as AN
angel,
With dsik, waving hair and eyes sparkling
bright,
But however angelic she is in the daytime,
The de vii possesses her soul in the night.
1.-THE Sweet ly and By with countless va
riati0ns.
1.-THE last Hose OF summerf' o. long fading
rose
sThe storm" by Blind Thomas, with hideous
thunder,
And other wild thunderings lnll my repose.
idolize music from bass drums to bagpipes;
ldrink in the strains of Apollo's sweet song
worship l.osstni, Beethoven, and Verdi;
For Auber and Weber painfully long;
But hear her maniacal interpretation
Dingle. dink, pinkle pink, grumble grum
grump,
Exquisite torture OF articulation
Toopey toop. pookey pook, plunkey plung
plumpi
s-Ne7r York SIM
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23
FAITH.

Fain would bold my lampo. life aloft
Like Wonder tower built high above the
rect,
steadfasi, though tempests rave or winds
blow soft,
Clear. though tine sky dissolve in tears of
grief.
For darkness passes; storms shall not abide.
A little patience and the fog Is past
After the sorrow OF the ebbing tide
The singing flood returns in Joy at last.
The night Is long and pain weighs heavily;
But God win hold His world above despair.
Look TO the east, where up the lucid sky
The morning climbs The day shall yet be
fair
--Ceiia Thayter in ScriJner for august.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23
Singular Addiction.

Last September j. J. Clutter, a young
man employed on the Pittsburg Division
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
suddenly lost his eyesight while dancing
at a moonlight picnic at Connellsville
He recovered his sight in day or two.
We now learn that Clutter, who is en-
ployed at the Edgar Thompson steel
works at Braddocks, has had another
similar but still more curious expert
ence. About a week ago he suddenly
became deaf and dumb, and the follow
ing morning he was deprived of the
sense of sight He received no attend
ance of medical character excepting
from local physicians. He complained
of weakness, but no other feelings of
illness, and was able to partake CT food
as freely as when in thorough health.
About s O'Clock last Sunday evening he
became repossessed of all the lost facul-
ties Just as suddenly and mysteriously
as he had lost them, having been deaf
and dumb forty-eight hours and blind
for thirty-six. After his restoration he
complained of nothing except weak
ness.-Cnmberla'ad (lNd.) Nens.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23
ANNA DICKINSON's STORIES.
Some Extracts from Her New Book.


From the New York Heraldl
Those persons who imagine Miss Anna
Dickinson TO be a hard, sour, and morose
person, need only read her dragged
Register, To be entirely converted from
that idea. "a Ragged Register" as its
name implies, is simply the off-hand
Jottings Of the authors experience as a
lecturer, collected and gathered together
in q modest little volume. Miss Dick
inson is so full of her life work that it is
not surprising that even in running
along this ragged edge she stops
once in while 10 emphasize her views
and theories. Not objectionably, how
ever, for the book is brimful of fun from
the first page to the last, SO that one in
reading it feels that lecturer meets
more queer people and has more anus
ing experience than any other person in
the world. Not always amusing at the
time, however, as in the case of the ram
pant president of 2 certain lecture asso-
citation who wanted her TO lecture in his
town. She could not do it and meet her
other engagements, and she told him so
quite plainly. But he would not be put
off. He told her that by taking The 5
O'Clock q m. train she could do it. After
a hard nights work a O'Clock train is
moi pleasing prospect, and she declin-
ed the honor. an be under your win
dow al half-past sharp" replied he,
Notwithstanding her expressed deter
mination. And he was as good as his
word. 1t was pouring rain, but he
came and banged away as though the
front door was fort and he battering-
ram. While he was banging an indig-
nant family servant came into Miss
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23

The San Francisco Aha California
says there is prospect of an excite
ment in olive raising in that State. In
small way olives have for long time
been produced there, but within few
years past MIR. Cooper has gone into
the business of raising olive trees on
considerable scale and with marked sue
cess. He has now 5000 trees, produc-
ing yearly an average of 20 gallons of
berries, which produce an average Of
nearly three gallons Of oil. Trees 10
years old in good soil will average so
gallons of berries, and the oil yield of
mature orchard may be set down as 200
gallons to the acre, netting the owner
not less than $500 to the acre. This oil,
it is claimed, is much superior to that
imported from Southern Europe, which
is in general use. As the olive will grow
on clay or rock soil, without cultivation
or irrigation, the hillsides that are now
worthless, and the poor soils generally,
may be made with this plant to bear
valuable crops for their owners.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23
Secretary Thompson's Humble Begin.
ming.

ming.
The man who discovered r. ".
Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, lives
in Bedford. His name is Alexander
Donahue.
"Tell me how 'Dick' Thompson
came to break into Indiana?" said to
this patrician last evening.
81 was down to Louisville buying
goods, in 1881, think it was," replied
Mr.. Donahue, sand while there 1 was
introduced to a young fellow by the
name of Thompson. He was q dapper
little person, who did not look to be
more than IS years old. He told me he
came from Virginia, and asked me if
there was any 'opening' in or about
Bedford, sad asked him if he could
teach school. He said he didn't know;
he could try. He didn't suppose the
higher branches were taught. l told
him no, and Thompson said he would
go with me. We started the same af-
ternoon, Thompson borrowing horse
to make the trip. On reaching Bedford
he was given a school, and at the close
of the term my employer, afterwards
my father-in-law, took him into the
store and gave him clerkship. He and
slept together, over on that counter
there for year and a half. We
would make up our beds by spreading
bolt or two of cloth from the shelves
out on the counter, placing another
roll under our heads for pillows, and
lying with our feet together. Dick
and l used to have occasional kicking
bees when our feet got tangled up, but
there was nothin' vicious in it. He pick
ed up a copy of the statutes somewhere
soon after entering the store and began
reading it carefully. Dick, you know,
never forgets any thing he reads, and
in little while he knew the laws of In
diana, as they then existed, by heart.
"One day fellow came into the store
in state of mind. He was involved in
a scrape, and the only lawyers in town
had been retained on the opposite side.
Thompson volunteered to defend the
man, and to the surprise of every body
cleared him. His conduct of the case
and exposition of the law excited the
wonder and admiration of the inhab-
itants, and after that every body want
ed shat little Thompson'-as they used
to call him-when they got into trou-
Bile. In few months he was obliged to
give up his position in the store and de-
vote his whole time to the legal business
that piled upon him. His talents and
devotion to the law attracted the atten-
ton of Judge Dewey of Charleston, who
loaned him books with which to finish
his course of readings. In three or four
months he was regularly admitted to the
bar, and from that time it was smooth
sailing. He lived in Bedford u or IA
years, during which time we sent him
to Congress two terms. At the expira-
ton of the second term he moved to
Terre Haute. Cor. Indianapolis jour =
nal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23

dress Tor crossing the mountains on
horseback consisted of soft felt hat,
loose coat, skirt to the knees, Turkish
trousers, wooden stockings, and stout
shoes. Thus arrayed, she bestrode her
horse like man, Notwithstanding the
sneers of lady who joined their party,
and in an audible whisper told her COM
panions to "look at that vulgar crea-
ture." The "vulgar creature" from
her comfortable and secure seat, looked
at the long skirts and twisted bodies of
the other ladies, and, thinking of the y
hours ride over the mountains, said to
herself, "Look at those idiots!"
Sitting alone on the platform, Miss
Dickinson has often had hard work to
keep from laughing at the manner of
her introduction by pompous Chairmen
of a lecturing committee. One presid-
ing officer in New England, instead of
Introducing her, offered up prayer of
q minutes duration, in which he inter-
ceded with the Throne of Grace in Miss
Dickinson's behalf. A Western Chair
man, with an eye toward Congress,
spoke of her reputation as a lecturer.
" In fact" said he, wherever the En-
glish language is spoken, wherever the
American Stars and Stripes wave, her
name is like household words. Listen
to her, then, and l know-yes, fellow
citizens, l know you will listen to her,
since she always addresses herself to
the poor, the manned, the halt, and the
blind. You will listen to her, since she
always addresses herself to the ignorant,
the downtrodden, and the oppressed OF
every color, cline, and tongue.
Audiences are thus cleverly described
by Miss Dickinson:
"Some audiences are stone. You
strike against them and rebound-an-
gered by their hardness. Some are
sponge-absorb, and absorb, and ab-
sorb, and give nothing back, till you
feel as though you had enjoyed six
hours of the Turkish bath and then been
put under an exhausted receiver-and
some are like champagne, or vigorous
tea. or clear cognac, or aggressive
coffee, or whatever it may be that the
most quickly and enchantingly stimu-
lstes your brain and nerve"
In Chicago she met that jewel of a
girl, Kate Field" and they compared
notes. Miss Field is described as swift
ty, pungent, concise of speech, abrupt
OF manner. hating shams with royal
hatred. With beautiful brown eyes
that penetrate deep, while they reveal
depths, and firm mouth" there at
this time she met Bret Harte on his way
East, and she found him satisfying"
He said "rare things in clear, rich
voice." and laughed "mellow sort of
laugh" that was yet not gay" In San
Francisco she spoke very boldly against
the treatment of the Chinese by the
hoodlums. The audience Kissed her
threateningly.. But she told them she
had experienced too much Kissing, egg
throwing, and bullet-fring during her
political lecturing in the East to be
scared by Sc trifle of goose-breath in
the West" and asked them if they would
kindly do all their Kissing at once and
let her 90 on with the lecture. This
touched their sense of humor, and she
had no more trouble.
S)--
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23
-Baking.powder Biscuits:

-DdkIHS.pUWueT DIsCuIlS. out
quarts OF flour, 3 even tablespoonful OF
baking-powder and little salt togeth-
err. Mix in tablespoonful of butter or
lard, or, better, half of each, and stir in
nearly quart of sweet milk, carefully,
so as to get just enough. Knead as lit
tie as possible, roll out, cut into bis
cults, and bake in q quick oven. Little
kneading and quick baking are essen
tial.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23

Archery suits are made of pale blue
bunting, and trimmed with rows of
curled wool braid, either white or dark
blue.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23

George Claget, while engaged in
digging 8 well near Caledonia, o., was
killed by fire-damp.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23

Fingered silk net gloves are in in
creasing popularity.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
The London City Fathers.
New Quarterly Magazine.l


The Aldermen have very little power
over the city purse, except in connection
with the Common Councilnen a. COM
Moments of the Court of Common Coun-
ell. But the lavishness of that court Is
ample in all senses. The Lord Mayor is
voted an annual sum of 10000 free of
income tax, to maintain his position, and,
in addition to this, he has his robes
voted to him, and has the Mansion
House, free. of rent, to live in. A few
Lord Mayors recently, in their liberal
ity, have supplemented this allowance
out of their own private means, but
many have made profit out OF the husi'
ness. For it must not be supposed that
the great feasts given by the corporation
come out of this. Within the last few
years the corporation has expended the
following sums in grand entertainment s:
1S72-Banquets to the Sultan and to the
King of the Belgians, 930, ,525; banquet
to the Viceroy of Egypt, over e 600
entertainment to the Shah of Persia
f15, 1851; thanksgiving ceremonies, fl3,
600. l874--Banquet to the Gar OF Rus
sia, Els, 262; unveiling of Prince Con
sorts statue 1891. ,1875-Presentatior
plate to Duke of Edinburgh, $4,000
visit of the Common Council to Eppins
Forest, 92,574; international muncipa
entertainment, f12,349; cost to freedom
to Prince Leopold, FL l,743. 1S77-Ban
quet to the Prince of Wales on his re
turn from India, over e33,000. And al
this is expended out of public funds be
longing really to the rate-payers of Lon
don, in order that a few obscure CITY
people may elbow Royalty and obtail
titles of dignity, which have lost al
their dignity from the very fact tha
they are obtained by such means.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
SPURGEON.
The Brother OF the Famous London
Preacher Before the Baptist Min.
New York Star.]

New York Star.l
In their rooms yesterday the Baptist
ministers received the Rev. James l..
Spurgeon, coworker and assistant of the
great Spurgeon in the Baptist Metro
politan Tabernacle, in London. On mo-
ton of the Rev. DIR. Elder, the discussion
of the question appointed for the day was
postponed. The DR.. Elder introduced
Mr.. Spurgeon to Moderator Brouner, and
Moderator Brouner delivered speech Of
welcome. In reply, Mr., Spurgeon said
that he took pride in being the brother
of his brother of the Tabernacle. He
couldn't help being Surgeons brother-
he was born 50. Laughter. His broth
er was called Mr.. Spurgeon in London
and he (the speaker) was addressed as
Mr.. James Spurgeon, by way OF distinc-
ton.
When his brother was President then
the speaker was Vice President. When
two men sit astride horse one must sit
in front; that was his brothers place.
Laughter. The hind man must hold
upon the horse the man who rides in
front, and, besides, he must guide the
horse. This is a wonderful country. Mr..
Spurgeon continued. He had been here
week and had found out all about it.
| Laughter The speaker was at the
Capitol the other day, he said, and saw
the picture of Burgoyne's defeat at Sara
toga. He had the honor of marrying
Burgoyne's granddaughter. The Ameri'
cans had received himself very warmly,
but he confessed that they received his
wife's grandfather even more warmly
Laughter The Moderator had spoken
of his father having been minister. Tho
family came originally from Holland
when Duke Alva was prosecuting the
Church.
In England his ancestors were
Quakers, and we'll did he remember hi,
grandfather, a non-conformist minister
He wore a broad brimmed hat, turneC
up all around in Quaker style, broad
tailed coat, silk stockings, and bis
=, buckled shoes. When S4 years of age
the speakers grandfather was asked tC
preach one Sunday morning, because thu
speakers brother, now Of the Tabernacle
had not come in time for service. The
old gentleman had just given ont the
text. "By grace are ye saved, and that
not by faith, but by the grace of Goe
which abideth in you," when the grand
son entered. 81 know that Sermon" ht
said, cts a good one--let him 60 on
The sermon was good one, and it wa
given with fire and effect. Then the ap
pointed preacher began his sermon. Ii
the middle OF it he came to treat OF
Christian experience. "Hold on!' the
old gentleman interrupted, 'I've hac
more of that kind of experience thar
you" and the aged clergyman again ad
dressed the congregation.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
StOneyVall JacksOn's Daughter.

When the Jackson statue was unveiled
in Richmond some years ago, after the
PROFESSIONS and the oratory, Governor
Kemper brought forward upon the plat
form slender little girl and addressing
the great crowd of the old Confederate
soldiers, said: Comrades, let me pre-
sent to you the daughter of Stonewall
Jackson" Somehow the tears sprang to
every eye at the sight of this delicate
child of their resistless leader. There
was no cheering but every face showed a
deep emotion. Ever since that time a
tender and poetic interest has clung to
this little lady and there are many thou
sands who care to know of her well-being.
She has recently arrived in this city,
under the care of her mother, who never
loses sight of her, and who brings her
here to school. She has been entered at
the Southern Home School, 1877 and 199
North Charles street, Mrs. w. NJ. Cary
and Mrs, John Pegram, Principals
They are at present staying with Mrs
Hugh Lee, at ll8 st. Paul street. Miss
Julia Jackson is about sixteen years old
tall, slender and graceful. She is 9
blonde, with fresh color and fair hair
Her eyes are of exquisite clear gray
large and expressive. Her manners are
gentle, but not shy or reserved. There
is not any marked resemblance to her il
lustrious father, and she seems hardly
conscious of the distinction that she en-
Joys, and of the romantic interest tina
she carries with her.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
Wllfc Slaves.

A Constantiniople letter in the Paris
Temps gives some interesting details on
the slave trade in Turkey. The hundreds
of girls who form part of the harem are,
he AYERS, mostly Circassian slaves. The
household of every Turk who is at all well
off, be he a pacha, hey, Or plain effendi
is stocked with certain number of these
slaves. They are generally supplied y
Circassian families settled in the Empire.
Tie parents, when they have daughters
at all well favored, bring them up care
fully with a view TO their being sold.
Touts go about the provinces every year,
Just rs horse-dealers travel in the horse
BREEDING regions of England, France, and
Hungary, and buy the girls from their
parents, They are brought to Constanti-
nople, and there quartered until finally
disposed of in houses in the Turkish
capital. Some of those houses are in
Tophaneh, on the Bosphorus, and in the
quarters of the Sultan Mehemet and the
Averto Bazaar. Though they are not sold
publicly, there is no concealment about
the transaction. The terms of the sale
are set down in a contract registered by
the chief courts, which contract provides
for tn rights of the buyer in the event O.
his purchase not being equal to the war
ranty, or of the slave making her escape
The contract authorizes the purchaser
when tired of his bargain, to sell both tn
mother and her child, and it appears tina
this occurs daily.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-19
The Compiler of the Col den Legend.
IRlackwoOd's Maoazine1

BlackWOOQs Magazine.
These medieval revolutionists as prin-
ters) undoubtedly originated great va
riety of industries which employ a vast
number of brains and hands. Authors,
publishers and critics; machine-makers,
printers, compositors, "readers," news
paper boys, &c, are indebted to them fo>
their daily bread. But we cannot with
hold tribute of regret to one occupation
which they cut up root and branch. We
refer to those pious and painstaking ar
fists who made a labor of love of the
transcription and the illumination of the
sacred manuscripts and missals; who car
red the freshness of the fields, the bloom
of the wild flowers, the plumage of the
birds and the tints of the insects, into
the grim seclusion of their cloistered
cells.
One of the fraternity was the Domini-
clan De Voragine, the original compiler
of the Golden Legend" one of the
stories in which has been so gracefully
modernized by Longfellow. Our read
ers will remember our humble peasant
maiden offers her life for the redemption
of thatof Henry of Hoheneck. And none
of the truthful pictures in the legend are
more fascinating than that of the vener
able Father Pacifcus. We see him like
the sanity Fra Angelica, preparing him
self prayerfully for his task, reverentl.
transcribing the words of the evangelis
in simple awe of the terrible curse on tn
men who should take aught from tn
book Of the prophecy by dropping out