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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20

COULDN'T REFoRM.-A young man, John
II. Christiancy the son of the Ex-senator,
was committed to the King county ine-
briates' home, on Saturday, by Justice
Bloom, of Brooklyn, under peculiar
lie went TO the justice in
the morning, giving his name as above,
and said he was n lawyer, and son oi
ex-senator Christiancy, declared that the
liking of strong drink had obtained such a
mastery over him that he was compelled
to ask the justice TO send him to the inc
briates' home until his taste could be
cured.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20

One day they happened to be talking
before Emile Auger about family
whose means had been materially dimin-
ished, but who had not therefore ceased to
live in most expensive manner. II
never heard of anything Of the sort" said
one of the company" they are ruined, and
yet they live in as stylish manner as
ever" "Oh, that is simple enough" said
Augier; formerly, from time to time they
paid some of their debts; now they pay
none. They have retrenched their credit
ors.''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20

How AN ELEPHANT WAS WEIGHED
An Inrian writer relates an interesting
anecdo,e concerning Shahlee, the father of
the first ruling prince of the Mahrattas of
Hindostan, who lived at about the begin
ming of the seventeenth century. On one
occasion certain high official made vow
that he would distribute to the poor the
weight of his own elephant in silver
money; but the great difficulty that at
first presented itself was the mode of as
certaining what his weight really was; and
all the learned and clever men of the
court seem to have endeavored in vain to
construct II machine of sufficient power to
weigh the elephant. At length it is said
that Shahiee came toward, and suggested
a plan. which was simple, and yet ingen-
ious in the highest degree lie caused the
unwieldly animal to be conducted along Il
stage, specially made for the purpose by
the water.side, into IL flat bottomed boat;
and, having marked on the boat the height
to which the water reached after the ele
phant had weighed it down, the later was
taken out and stones substituted in sutfi
cient quantity to load the boat to the same
line rhe stones were then taken to the
scales, and thus, to the amazcment OF the
court. was asccrtained the true weight of
The elephnnt.-FrOm Little F0tke Mtgtzine
for Narch
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20
To DETECT ADULrERArGoN IN COFFEE.

To DETECT ADULTERATIoN IN COFFEE.
Take a wineglass or tumblcr full Of
water, and gently drop a pinch Of the
ground coffee on the surface of the water,
without string or agitating; genuine
caffee will float for some time whilst Chi
cory or any other sweet, will soon
sink; and chicory, or caramel will
cause u yellowish or brown color to
ditfuse rapidly through the water while
pure coffee will give no sensible tint
under such circumstances, for con-
siderable length of time. Coffee mix
tures' or "cotfee improvers" should be
avoided They seldom consist of anything
but chicory and caramel (burnt sugar),
which, of course, deceive, by the rich.
dark infusion they give. French
coffee" so widely used at present, is
generally ground coffee, the beans of
which have been roasted with certain
amount of sugar, which, coating over the
bean, has retained more Of the original
aroma than in ordinary coffee, but this, e,
of course, at the expense of the reduced
percentage of coffee due to the presence
of the caramelized sugar.-Casselps Mug
dzine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20

The MIDNIGHT SUN.-The spectacle of
the sun shining at midnight, attracts many
foreigners to Swedish Lapland during
he month of June. For six weeks there
is scarcely any night in the north of
Sweden; the sun never SETS, and the soil,
constantly heated, produces, in month
aud half, barley and other crops. At
that time of the year the Laplanders pen
up their reindeers aud move their huts
toward the cultivated fields. Being very
they greet with Joy the arrival
of the tourists, who generally meet at
Mount Gallaware, l4S kilometres from
Luea. From that hill which is $50
metres high the beautiful spectacle of
the "midnight SUM- can be admired in
better conditions than from any other
place. The oath of June is the day selected
for the ascension it is the longest day in
the year the sun being twenty two hours
above the horizon. This year the Path
of June was not favored by fine weather,
and, owing to the cloudy sky, the sun
was not visible at midnight, but the fol-
lowing day travellers were well rewarded
for their trouble, the sun shining brightly
ut midnight.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20

There is II lad in Missouri who has no
ears, having been born into this noisy
world without any external appendages of
that sort. He has not even an orltice on
the side of his head, yet hears well
enough through the mouth
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20

Resolution-By Senator Gle d, that in accordance
with the request of the House JOINT resolution rea
tion to JOINT assembly be returned to the House
adopted
Eeports-FrOm com. on Judiciary, in favor of s. l.
An act relating to court expenses third reading order
ed tomorrow morning, Tins bill repeals the present
law requiring oath to be taken by the person espe
cially authorized t. serve process
From com. finance, in favor OF s. g. act author.
izug the village of st Johnsbury to refund its bonds
etc. read the third time and passed.
PetitOn-Preferred by senator Dunton by request,
signed By Alex ClOgstOn and others, asking for the
passage of bill taxing the owners OF quarries and
mineral properties per cent of the roy
atty " from such property; to com on grand list
The Senate then adjourned
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-20

E,liu. OF Scriptures and prayer by the chaplain
] |ru,. II Yesterday resd and approved. ~
'l4ta lu.t cum of hve senators and seven represe
n'. ue apponted as sneGinl standinE dim com for
revision oi laws Of the state, submitted BY the com
.lrr- aud all matters rel iting thereto, and that
.I..s .spm. hc authorized to employ clerk, who shall
me shwe Pan rs , methoetT tht ,b ,.t,or os o ~,
r..- lar4hle Importance. and before the House took
'.-..-, plan. H. not prepared to vote upon it
r.t. ,.i moved To lay 1t upon the table, which was
Introduced and referred BY Mr. Prinde of
''.-.i'tr, to pay lr Man blank sum Tor captnr-
u.-..aa Fluukett, convicted OF larceny; to com on
ur smith of St Johnshury, to pay Nathan NJ
+ ..r. -au a sum in payment for capturing John Ra
r.. aud Jhn sullivan, convicted of grand larceny;
H Mr. chase Of Jay to amend sec, 81 Of chap ll3, =
eruudlug woodpeckers fron the restraining proyis-
~ ur Potter OF Pownal,, bill to amend sec. of
sG ~ 5 PrTYi&ffs ta all nrPreea6y Pefs66h
ryi-lGus If this ael to com On jndiGiiary .,,
a1i6' 6 sse It's bonds at at per cent to the
sfa.utHf S2olW for twenty jears t9r the purpose OF
lhr speaker announced the appointment of the fol-
loving standiug CONS:
14 the insane Nessrs. Allen Of Hartford, Adams of
d. sutuu smith Of Painhed, Kidder of Wardsboro,
j l.yIunat II ,rdwck searles of HiEhgatt aud lows
a- "a .ruads -Nessrs. Rogers of wheelock. Palmer
et jericho. or.utt Of RoIbury,, Smith of Monkton,
i-4,. Irmp.pton ot Glover and Merrfeld of Newfane.
ua <raru s.. Ngssrs Jones Of waitsheld, Rankin
o' MH'nH. Blair ut Barnet, DAVIS OF Barnard, Walker
ars Fos'ar q f36rewsbury Back of coYentry, y v
ta.t Haven, Bingham of Cornwall and Hurst of Isle
burn Of Springfield, wieTof Randolph, simpson Of
M@INr NJ C" hr2rEInT od dTacy, y, Of hart East
SH'. :" Nrw'rE, r,qd 4i Lunen9ur9h, Curtis Of
ra south Nero.
Ha .auu- ues-rs Leayens Of Berkshire, Hawley Of
en- ~mi'h Of k2GiklnLham, Denny benny of Of North I
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-12
PRETTY GIRL Ar t
How Grandfather AckIey Repri-
manded the Rising Generation.

N. Y. Evening Telegram.
Grandfather Ackley, of the yil>
lage Of Watkins, New York, had
rather a novel experience recently
while crying off" a vendue in the
town of Hector, near Reynoldsville.
After disposing of the articles on the
sale list, there was a lull in business,
and the crowd was getting impatient
waiting for Grandfather" to come
down." or rather to announce the
close Of the sale, when a pretty,
plump, rosy girl asked him to offer
her to the highest bidder. Grand
father being of a modest, retiring
disposition, seemed reluctant, but the
girl insisted, so he proceeded to cry"
her off, The first bid was offered by
\ timid young man with a pianissimo
voice, who weakly offered seventy-six
dollars, a bald headed man went
him fifty better" and the bidding
went along lively until $1,000 was Of
fered. At this juncture the girls
father went a thousand better" and
grandfather" looked the crowd Of
young men over, and raising himself
up in a digniied way, proceeded to ad-
dress them in the following manner;
"Gertlemen, | am surprised, nay
more, deeply mortified, to think that
you should let such a prize slip
through your hands for such a paltry
sum. Why, do you know that this
young lady would, if married, get up
in the morning and make a fire, with
out Earring the floor enough to wake
her lord and master up, and further
more. if l were as young as some Of
you, l would swim the whole length OF
Seneca lake, climb a liberty pole,
throw the pole away, and climb up
fifty feet further, rather than lose the
opportunity you fellows have" 1t is
needless to say the assemblage roared
with laughter.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-12
A Very Previous BetrolhaI.

Elmira Free Press.i
A very pretty and romantic obser-
vance took place in this city recently
that reads more like a page from the
life of the fifteenth century than OF
the ninteenth. Two young couples
were married within a few months Of
each other and from families that had
been very intimate. In January last
a boy was born to one Of them, and be
was welcomed as heartily as though
he had been a prince of a reigning
house. Last month a girl babe APP
peared to the other young couple. 1t
fell cut precisely as all concerned
could have wished, as if they had or
dered it. One evening last month the
mother of the boy visited the mother
of the girl, taking her child with her.
Most of the members Of both families
were also present. OF course what
followed was accompanied with more
or less laughter and merry making,
but with all there was an underlying
of seriousness that could not be hid
den. The mother of the boy took q
rather diminutive but costly ring
from a cross and placed it on the
finger of the girl child, scarcely a
month old, solemnly engaged her son
to the child, the matter to be ratified
and consumated in future. The in
t%ention was very pleasing all around.
1t will be curious to those who know
of the circumstances to watch what
the coming years will bring forth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-12
Arkansas City and Fort Smith
Railroad,
Little Rock Gazette.l

Little Rock Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, May 4.--The con.
tract for the completion, within two
years, o the road from Arkansas City,
across the Indian Territory to Fort
Smith, the terminus Of roads from
Memphis, has been signed by the
president OF the Atchison, Topeka g.
Santa Fe, in Boston, and forwarded to
this city. The execution Of the cOn-
tract, of course, depends upon the
passage Of the bill before congress,
giving the government assent to the
measure.
The completion of this road means
simply the extension of the Little
Rock & Fort Smith into the great
grain region of the extreme north
west. 1t means a great benefit both
to that region and to south Arkansas,
Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. 1t
also means the speedy construction of
a road from southwest Missouri to
Fort Smith, in order that southwest
Missouri shall not be surrounded and
driven out of the southern market by
Kansas.
The construction of one railroad
often necessitates the building of
another. The people Of Missouri
have been content to supinely rest
upon their railroad connection with
st. Louis for their connection with
the south. When the Kansas road is
built to Fl. Smith, as it inevitably will
be, the round about route Of the
Missourians, by the way of It. Louis,
will cease to serve them. The whole
region of country lying between the
Mississippi river and the Rocky noun
tains and north Of Texas, will find its
natural outlet to the world by the way
of the Eads %jetties at the mouth of
the Mississippi river. That section of
the great northwest that finds the
shortest, quickest and cheapest route
to New Orleans will, therefore, be-
come the most prosperous. 1t is this
fact that if forcing Kansas, and will
force all west Missouri, to seek con.
nection with the Fort Smith and Lit
tie Rock railroad.
Fort Smith is destined to become a
a great railroad center, and therefore,
a great city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-12

she were a veritable queen. Her life
is a life of perpetual excitement and
uninterrupted intrigue, protrayed with
an intensely graphic delineatiou which
is almost terrible to realize. Zola's
purpose is, as he himself says, to paint
this class of women as they exist in
real life, and any n who reads the
work, will not hesitate to declare that
he has attained a full measure Of sue
cess in his attempt. Although the
work deals with vice in all its hideous
reality, Mana throws no glamour over
self-indulgence, mol lends the least
charm to natures essentially false and
corrupt. The writer's object is to
make vice repulsive, believing that
thereby it will lose the attrsctiveness
which has been impaired to it BY GER
tain writer's Of q less realistic school.
Though Mana is a continuation Of
L'Assommoir, it in no way resembles
the latter in its field of action, for the
scene is laid among a totally diff
erent class Of people. Only in
the method of treatment does it
resemble its predecessor, for we find
the same powerful and lifelike define
atoms of character, the same finished
execution, and the same marvellous
command Of language which charac-
terize all OF Zola's works. Undoubt.
edly this work is destined to rank as
high in popularity as any of the au
thor's previous productions, which is
certainly saying a great deal. Mana"
has created a great sensation abroad,
and has been hailed blythe press, both
of London and Paris, as the literary
event Of years, over two hundred
thousand copies Of Mana and
"L'Assommoir" having been sold in
France. 1t is complete in one vol
ume, price IS cents, and will be found
for sale by all booksellers and news
agents, and on all railroad trains, or
copies oft will be sent to any one, to
any place, at once, on remitting price
in a letter to the publishers, 7. B.
Peterson Il Brothers, Philadelphia.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-12
Trustees sale.

Under and by virtue Of a certain deed Of
trust made to me as trustee BY James
Alexander and his wife, Clara Alexander,
duly recorded in the Registers Office ofshelby
county, Tenn, in book No. ll5, page 64i, to
secure a certain indebtedness and interest
therein mentioned, default having been made
IN the payment thereof. l shall, in pursuance
Of said trust deed, on
Saturday, June 5Ih, 1850,
in front of $50 Front street, at IL o'clock, in
the Taxing District of Shelby county, Tenn,
proceed to sell, at public auction, for cash, a
part OF lot No. 8, in the sub-division Q fiotNo.
Y in block AZ. South Memphis, said lot being
NO. 3, being Bledsoe's sub division Of lot No.
II in said block 40, and the part thereby con-
veyed being the part which fronts on the west
side of Aliens avenue, having a front Of 81
feet and a depth of ITO feet, said lot being "a
feet front by ITO deep.
The right Of equity Of redemption is ex-
pressly waived, but l sell only as trustee.
"a rs r.. L. WARMER.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-12
A SIckoning Sight.

Little Rock Democrat, 10th: This
forenoon several small boys found half
a barrel Of cider, old, strong and sour,
behind a Main street store. They
took some of it in, and it tasted much
better than none. In a short while
the news Of the Find" had spread,
and the crowd Of revealers increased.
In less than half an hour this temper
ance drink began taking effect and
on the ground could be seen the
bodies Of the young inebriates. Off
Ger Clay carried several Of them home.
and this afternoon there are numerous
mothers about the city dosing theii
p%recociOus offspring with copioui
draughts Of sweet milk.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-12
What Memphis is Doing.
vieksburg Herald, sth.l

NicksDurg Herald, 9Th
Our sister city Memphis has profit
ed by her terrible lessons of the last
two years. DR.. Kelley, who has been
on duty there during the past winter,
in connection with the sanitary work,
speaks in the highest terms Of the
energy, good sense and ability the
Memphians have displayed. He says
though the city is 'all tore up with
the paving and sewering operations,
and looks untidy and disorderly on
the surface, that she is cleaning up
down where it tells. The outrageous
prigy system is practically abolished,
and with it a most fruitful source of
disease and death from soil. pollution.
The new sewer system, Of which about
twenty miles is completed, is 4 pro-
nounced success, and the sub.soi
drainage is relieving the city OF the
excess Of moisture which has hitherto
mady its streets impossible much OF
the year and increased It's death rate.
We congratulate the Bluff city, and
commend her example to our own
community,